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  1. Re:Well, I hope... on Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update Available · · Score: 1
    Zoom in to about 800%, scroll the parens off screen vertically, then bring them back.

    Or just print the thing. It's a little bit transient, I admit, but I've found that (1) Acrobat views and prints the generated PDFs correctly and (2) my LaTeX distro is correctly installed; I've compared it with other known-good installations which make the exact same file.

  2. Well, I hope... on Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update Available · · Score: 2
    ...that they've fixed the NSPDFRep bug that made LaTeX documents print out incorrectly.

    If you've got LaTeX installed, you can test this with
    \documentclass{article}\usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document}$$\left(\dfrac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\right) $$\end{document}
    and see the broken parentheses under high magnifications.

  3. Re:Folding@Home on Mac OS X on Folding@Home Client's Performance Impact Measured · · Score: 2

    Well, of COURSE it uses 30 - 50% CPU time when the machine's idle! Heck, I'm running it right now and it's 'consuming' up to 90%...
    that I wouldn't have used anyway. Folding@Home will ONLY use time that the processor would have otherwise not used at all. Gaah, stupidity.

  4. Geez. on Large Scale Solid State Memory Storage? · · Score: 1
    Uhm, isn't 10**12 to 10**15 bytes rather a lot?

    *pulls out a calculator* Hmm, 10**12 bytes is approximately 931 TB.
    WHATEVER FOR?!

    And that's on the low end, too. Since you're ranging a couple orders of magnitude, you might be pushing the limits of recognized abbreviations. All in solid state, too? That could be costly.

  5. Another quote on The Boeing 727-200 Airplane Home · · Score: 2
    "In the event of a water landing you may be used as a floation device."

    Had to say it!

  6. Re:Whats the big problem with putting ogg everywhe on Ogg Support For iTunes · · Score: 1
    This is a repeat of previous comments, but:

    Apple didn't get a 'cut rate deal' on the iTunes encoder because they got paid.
    Apple got a good deal on the encoder taken from SoundJam MP, which was pretty good for its time but now is much worse than LAME. Use LAME, not iTunes!

  7. Re:Ya' know, there's one well-known Forth codebase on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 1

    FBMuck is available at http://www.belfry.com/fuzzball/. I've messed around with it a bit: workable, but most of the code is still in C. What I'd really be interested in would be a MUCK written entirely in Forth (except, perhaps, for the socket code).

  8. Re:Interesting on Antimatter Space Drive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But permanent magnets aren't strong enough. You need some very strong magnetic fields to confine antimatter, and permanent magnets just don't come anywhere close to what can be done with electromagnets.

  9. Math libraries on Use Perl to port Windows DLLs to Palm OS · · Score: 2

    In fact, I'm sure the Palm already has math libraries of some sort --- I've currently got MathLib on mine, though I don't know what IBM is trying to do. Perhaps something MathLib doesn't?

  10. And why? on Use Perl to port Windows DLLs to Palm OS · · Score: 4, Insightful
    When was the last time anybody needed to port a Windows DLL to PalmOS? I can't think of many libraries that would be used on both Windows and PalmOS --- the two have completely different interfaces and OS architectures, AFAIK.

    Somebody slap me if I'm wrong, though.

  11. Re:Good Enough? on ICANN Eliminates Karl Auerbach's Seat · · Score: 2, Informative
    > What prevents us from ignoring ICANN when we feel like it and doing our own thing?

    Nothing. Check out OpenNIC, one of several alternate roots for DNS.

  12. OT: Random missing on New Starcraft: Ghost Trailers · · Score: 1

    Random misses occur for low terrain to high terrain shots on all units.

  13. Adventure? on Flash Version of Adventure · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hall of the Mountain King
    You are in the hall of the mountain king, with passages off in all directions.

    A huge green fierce snake bars the way!

    ] OPEN CAGE

    (releasing the little bird)
    The little bird attacks the green snake, and in an astounding flurry drives the snake away.

    Oops, wrong Adventure.

  14. Re:Microsoft Palladium Nightmare Scenarios on RMS Urges Opposition to "Trusted Computing" · · Score: 1
    This is the same ActiveX that brought us controls to do wonderful things like, oh, shut down the computer. *grin*

    "Trusted computing" is a misnomer when you're talking about Microsoft.

  15. Re:get an autodownloader on Calling for Smaller Kernel Sources? · · Score: 1
    Or you can use wget.

    wget -c http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4. 19.tar.gz

    Poof -- no Windows required.

  16. Display sleep on Macintosh on Folding@Home Reports Success · · Score: 1
    Sure is. There's an "Energy Saver" control panel with an option to set display sleep time. When the given amount of time passes with no use (keyboard or mouse activity), the display turns off. Works on both the older CRT machines and newer LCD ones.

    Easy.

  17. Re:Figures... on Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 · · Score: 1
    D'oh!

    I'd just read a comment referring to Jobs and assumed --- rather wrongly --- that you were referring to him.

    Do call industry figures by their last names, OK? There are already two Steves out there.

  18. Re:Figures... on Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 · · Score: 1
    You do mean Bill, not Steve?

    Steve (Jobs) is the one supporting partial OSS for his operating system. Bill (Gates) is the one pushing OSS-is-evil.

  19. Re:Electron orbits on Use Linux to Reduce Your Power Bill · · Score: 0, Troll

    BS

  20. Ask them how it'll help you... on Questions for a Lecture on Microsoft's Palladium? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...as a general member of the computer-using public.

    The biggest question in my mind on Palladium is how it's supposed to help users. Why we're supposed to use it, instead of just keeping on using our old Palladium-free computers.

  21. Re:My experience with PGP on PGP 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Uh-huh. Very funny, nameless AC. You claim to have reconstructed 768+ bits of information from a couple kB of entropy WITHOUT A DEGREE IN NUMBER THEORY AND ACCESS TO A FEW SUPERCOMPUTERS?! Note that reconstructing a private key from the public key and an encrypted message is a nearly-impossible task unless the text of the message is already known exactly. FYI, there are literally about a kabillion possible keys for PGP, many MANY more possible messages, and not enough time to test all the possible keys --- or even some small subset of them --- before the universe collapses or dies of heat-death. And the comments about uses of encryption are bogus too. A perfectly good use for crypto is not to protect the message but to identify the sender --- arguably of more importance today than it has been in the past. Plain crypto is useful too: what if you're an employee of a large company discussing trade secrets? Sending messages around in plain text is a Bad Idea. Not to mention the cryptography you use when you do online banking or other e-commerce: shoving your credit card number around is a Bad Idea as well. -1 Troll/Flamebait/just-plain-old-WRONG.

  22. Re:Corporation? No IP on Copyrights/Patents are Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    YES. YES. YES. Only issue left to be resolved would be movies created by very large groups (corporations, specifically) which can't be ascribed to a single author. For this case, it might make sense to set a ceiling on the copyright: perhaps 30, 40, or so years NO MATTER who is left alive by then.

  23. Re:Checksums on CERT: Sendmail Distribution Contained Trojan Horse · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but note that the other child post is a *link*. Methinks "CmdrTaco" has discovered a bug.

  24. Re:About time on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 1

    I surf the net using links --- a close relative to lynx --- almost constantly. I really only open up the graphical browsers when I come across sites that just plain old *don't work* in links --- sites using Flash, Java[script], and other similar horrors. But most sites --- Slashdot included --- work just fine.

  25. Re:My client caught it, Strange symptoms on Bugbear Windows Virus Making the Rounds · · Score: 1

    From what you describe, that sounds like a Windows binary of some sort that got printed. The string "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" is a bit of a tip-off.

    It sounds as though Bugbear is sending itself out on the network, ignoring what sort of device it's sending itself to.

    Though it *would* be an interesting virus that infected networked printers...