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  1. Re:Huh... on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 1

    How do you "Google" for songs with no lyrics?

    But you can always try... Like one guy who asked on the forum: what is the name of that French song with accordeon which goes, "Tur-lu-tu-tu-tu"?

    (A: In Grid - Tu es foutu :))

  2. Moodlogic on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 1

    I used MoodLogic, and it was really good. Only thing is, you either have to pay for using it, or gain "points" by helping create "profiles" for music you have. But it works really, really well.

  3. Re:.bomb take II? on Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions · · Score: 1

    Not anymore, they've cut it down to more reasonable level (2 or 3 pages).

  4. Re:Are there any 32-bit-only OSes left worth menti on Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday · · Score: 1

    AFAIK there was never NT for Sparc, there were "only" Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC versions. There were plans to port it to SPARC, but I'm not sure they ever did it.

  5. Re:Chance for someone to karma whore... on AMD Dual-Core Performance Revealed · · Score: 1

    That is not true, unless you compare single-core 1xx serie with dual-core 8xx. Check the prices here:

    Entry level dual-core Opterons to be priced same as high-end single-core parts

    For example, if you compare best CPU's from 1xx series, dual-core Opteron 175 costs 57% more than single-core Opteron 152 ($999 vs. $637)

  6. Re:Any market for single-core-only rejects? on Behind the Closed Doors of AMD's Chip Production · · Score: 1

    Don't be so sure ;)

    "If you have a lot of money. this is a great board for gameing if you set it up right using to dual operations and full all the banks with 8 Gbs of pc 3200. Best board ever."

    Rich gamer,12/15/2004 2:07:24 PM

    (from a review of a TYAN Thunder K8SR Dual Opteron board on Newegg)

  7. Re:Motherboards on Behind the Closed Doors of AMD's Chip Production · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say "rebranded" (because they are not exactly the same), but "Intel" motherboards are/were definately manufactured by Asus, Foxconn, Wistron and other Taiwanese companies. For example, see:

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20 040702071453.html

    And btw, AMD *does* make their own chipsets, for use on server (Opteron and Athlon MP) boards:

    AMD-8000(TM) Series Chipset
    AMD-760(TM) MPX Chipset

  8. Re:WWW Destruction Partnership? on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    Photoshop : proprietary graphics design softwarenot really directly relevant to the WWW although it does, I believe produce proprietary image formats which might be used on the WWW

    Bull[expletive deleted]... Have you EVER, not used, but seen Photoshop? Yes, it uses it's own "proprietary" format, because, uh, Photoshop was like the first desktop graphics application ever, and there were no such things as "open image formats" back then in 1980's when it was written?

    But ever since there was "WWW", you could export images from Photoshop in JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP or whatever format you deem "open enough" for the web. Oh, please, point me to one "open" format that can keep multiple layers, masks, gradients, fonts, vector paths... ?

    And I won't comment rest of your post, but yes I have used Dreamweaver and yes it does and it can produce valid, standard (X)HTML code.

  9. Re:Only if you are an idiot. on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    If you are smart, you'll use Dreamweaver to quickly create prototype page, than hand-optimize it. Another HUGE advantage over any other WYSIWYG I've seen is that it DOES NOT ruin your hand-tweaked code.

    And Mozilla Composer creates valid code?!? That is certainly news for me.

  10. Re:Competition Regulations on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    Fireworks is more like direct ImageReady competition.

  11. Re:Consolidation on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    They'll drop Dreamweaver only if they are really, really, REALLY stupid... I can't prove it, but I'm sure much more people use DW than GoLive. Besides, Adobe has nothing like Dreamweaver + Contribute + Web Publishing System.

  12. Re:No mac mini update on New Mac System Specs · · Score: 1

    You mean something like this: Iwill ZPC 64 (Athlon 64, Nforce 3, Firewire, 6ch sound...), or maybe this: Iwill ZMAXdp -- Dual Opteron workstation in SFF case?

    Rough calculation shows that first one would cost about $750 (3.0Ghz CPU, 512MB DDR, 80GB 2.5" HDD, slim 8x DVD+-RW DL). Add 30-40$ for Bluetooth or WLAN dongle or MiniPCI card if you really need it... (or buy Logitech DiNovo Media Desktop and you'll get one for "free" ;))

  13. Re:on the other hand... on Should You Trust MAPS? · · Score: 1

    Oh, so running purely non-profit project like Distibuted Proofreaders Europe and paying for it from our own pocket is not enough, but we should consider paying even more? Just because of bunch of trigger-happy vigilantes? And who guarantees me that if I move to another data center, it won't be added tommorow to a blacklist because of some bizzare "incident"?

    I mean, this surely deserves blacklisting 500.000 domains:

    "added 2002-10-17; spam support - listwashing, refusal to remove spammers"
    "added 2002-10-17; spam support - see groups.google.ca/groups?selm=ur7uqu0mjfgd9k21tonfd b8eqkn1t2kea4%404ax.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain"
    " added 2003-06-21; called theplanet +1-214-782-7802 - abuse person never returned the call"
    "added 2003-06-28; called theplanet +1-214-782-7802 - told them about the SBL and SPEWS listings"
    "added 2004-04-25; hosting postfuture.com/pfweb/ on 64.5.35.0/24"
    "added 2004-11-20; spam support - hosting www.jackpotdoubler.com on 67.19.157.178"
    "added 2005-02-10; spam support - hosting www.epcparts.com on 69.56.229.198"
    "added 2005-02-26; spam support - hosting Arameda on 67.19.8.122"
    "added 2005-02-26; spam support - see www.projecthoneypot.org/board/read.php?f=8&i=38&t= 38"
    "added 2005-03-28; spam support - hosting www.quickinksonline.com on 69.56.216.70, with samples in nanas"

  14. Re:on the other hand... on Should You Trust MAPS? · · Score: 1

    Well, when you are running ISP with ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND IP addresses, I guess it is not so easy to know what each and every one of them does.

    You see, I'm very angry because we have a server at The Planet (running several non-profit projects, so price and quality they provides is really big issue).

    One of the local ISPs is very "proactive" on spam, so they use Openrbl. On Openrbl, of 28 different blacklists, ONE of them (some Fiveten) decided to blacklist ENTIRE The Planet, because of alleged spam support. Which consist of total 7 (seven) "incidents" in last 3 years.

    And mind you, The Planet currently hosts over 500.000 active domains...

  15. Re:Wait..... on Ruby On Rails Showdown with Java Spring/Hibernate · · Score: 1

    Hypotheticaly speaking, is there any reason you couldn't rewrite GD libraries in PHP itself, and then include them?

  16. Re:JFGI! on Windows XP X64 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    That is Athlon 64 3000+. This is Opteron:

    http://techreport.com/reviews/2003q3/opteron-146/i ndex.x?pg=1

    See the difference? Hint: there is no such thing as "Opteron 3000+".

  17. Re:Reminiscent of Hynix? on Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market · · Score: 1
    Maybe this whole Huawei thing will mean I can afford a good cell phone for less than $200 without signing up for some rediculously restrictive service plan.

    Move to Europe :) And you can have nice mobile for $100-150 including prepaid card (no subscription necessary), and you won't even pay for incoming calls.
  18. Re:Why just microsoft? on Opera Lays Down Acid2 Challenge · · Score: 1

    I can't answer your question but I can tell you that it is very seldom that I have to fire up another browser because Opera isn't rendering properly.

    As a paying Opera user, I'm sorry to say that I almost completely switched to Firefox, mainly because of problems with:

    1) GMail
    2) Yahoo! Mail / My Yahoo!
    3) Each and every wysiwyg HTML editor component (HTMLarea, TinyMCE...)

  19. Re:php: tired, Ruby on Rails: WIRED! on PHP 5 Power Programming · · Score: 1

    It does look very sweet... I'd like to know, how robust/scaleable it is compared to PHP? What are the major applications / web sites developed in Ruby on Rails?

    And is there anything remotely like PHP on Rails? :)

  20. Smarty on PHP 5 Power Programming · · Score: 1
    I would have liked to see some additional discussion and implementation of SMARTY in this chapter. SMARTY is a template engine with an ability to cache templates into PHP scripts which saves on overhead and contributes to speed and efficiency.

    But there would be no (or much less) overhead, and no slowdown if you didn't use Smarty :) Many people consider it too bloated. I prefer pure PHP templating engine like Savant: no need to reinvent the wheel (ie. PHP tags), no need to recompile templates, it is lightweight and fully PHP5 compliant.

    (Otherwise, nice review :))
  21. Re:What law has been violated? on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT · · Score: 1

    Well, their model *is* called "MX-575D/1075D".

  22. Re:Hell, I'd fire her ass on An Engineer's View of Carly Fiorina's Leadership · · Score: 1

    I applaud to whoever came to an idea that applet to control your printer (HP LJ1010) should use Apache Tomcat 4.0 and JRE (cca. 40MB).

  23. Re:exactly on Mozilla Chairman Speaks on Open Source/Microsoft · · Score: 1
    open source software is inherently more secure and any problems that do come up will be fixed quickly.

    Yeah, right. Tell that to people who had servers hacked or defaced lately thanks to phpBB, TikiWiki, AWStats...
  24. Re:What? on Mozilla Chairman Speaks on Open Source/Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I guess you've never seen State of The Art demo on Amiga? :)

  25. Re:I think people are missing the point on HP Sells Cheap FreeDOS PC in China · · Score: 1

    They come preinstalled with FreeDOS, so how hard exactly it is to keep an "original image" ?