User: datastew

But is he a

On: Alan Cox: The Battle for the Desktop

member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists?

Here he is, complete with red hat.

To CmdrTaco, hemos, et al.

On: Slashdot IRC Forum

<CmdrTaco>
We're part of VA, so we're tied more to them then I would like ;)
OSDN does really well IMHO.
I really don't know what happens.

Be careful, crew. Companies have a way of obscuring their business health/inner workings from their employees. (Think Enron)

The Scope of the Case

On: DOJ Argues in Favor of MS Settlement

Warden emphasized that Microsoft made many concessions, including a pledge to disclose client/server programming protocols--a move that went "far outside the case as tried," he said.

The thing that I am worried about is when the next case comes up against Microsoft, either, anti-trust, class action, or whatever, and they use this settlement as a shield or justification for their practices. The parties themselves seem to admit that the settlement touches things outside the scope of the case itself.

BTW: MS Slashdotted

On: How Well Does Windows Cluster?

Looks like Microsoft is busy being slashdotted.

Re:wrong on all (most) counts

On: Michi Henning on Computing Fallacies

also, the paperclip has NEVER interrupted me to tell me a joke. Document the allegation!

When I am on someone else's machine where the paperclip is still alive, and I tell it to go away, it always tries to have the last laugh by making some kind of lame animation joke before it disappears. I, like probably a lot of programmers, think in bursts. Waiting for the paperclip to do his 'cute' little trick is an interruption to my train of thought.

Re:I agree (age doesn't matter)

On: Dirty Dozen- The Most Dangerous Toys of 2001

The way I explain it to my kids is:
You can't say that choosing to put such things into your mind is going to force you to do anything, and you can't say that taking in such things has no effect. The best you can say is that every thing you take in _has an effect_.

S&H Trouble

On: Online e-Commerce Issues w/ PayPal?

I am the webmaster for a scrapbook artwork site.

PayPal has worked for us with one exception-
We use the shopping cart feature and need to differentiate between the "shipping" and "handling" charges for customer's orders. Their instructions indicate this is possible, but it doesn't work because their back-end database does not handle sessions properly. When I pointed this out to them, they replied via email that they were aware of the bug and a solution would be "coming soon." This was four months ago, so now my question is:

Is there anything else worthwhile out there, or do I have to roll up my sleeves and start java-scripting?