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  1. Re:Faster Writing on Getting Things Done? · · Score: 1
    "if u cn rd ths u cn gt gd jb as a sctry."
    (Ad in Popular Mechanics, many years ago)

    Now either they're saying you can get a good job as a secretary or a sex toy--I'm not sure which.

  2. Re:what TFA didnt mention on Nursing Homes Go High-Tech · · Score: 1
    is whether it can trigger an alarm if a patient wonders offsite.

    And I wonder if your grammar-processor wandered off somewhere.

  3. Re:The French Version will include core temp senso on Nursing Homes Go High-Tech · · Score: 1
    Should prevent a couple thousand funerals.

    How? You mean if Granny's temp shows too high, you can phone her and tell her to:

    put on a tinfoil hat

    stop sunbathing in the road, get up off the pavement and go back inside

    wake up, take her head out of the oven, finish the cookies, and put her head in the freezer

    take a bath in icewater (hope she wakes up with both kidneys ;-)

    take a big Blue Squishy enema

    locate her will and write you in it?

  4. Re:Why's Parent "Funny?" (Win under Lin links) on Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE · · Score: 1
    specifically, Quicken, Photoshop, and 3D CAD (SolidWorks). I rely on those programs. Make Linux run them and I'll switch immediately.

    How about:

    Frank's Corner
    This website contains all the information you need to get Windows applications and games running on Linux using Wine. Popular applications: AutoCAD R14, Photoshop 7.0, ...

    CrossOver Office
    Allows you to run many popular office productivity software applications, such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project and Visio, graphics applications like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, ... Quicken, and Adobe Photoshop, and ... allows Windows Web browser plugins, such as QuickTime and Shockwave, directly on your Linux browser. No Windows Operating System license required; CrossOver is a complete replacement for your Windows OS as far as your applications are concerned. They note that Solidworks 2004 remains untested and they're looking for an advocate.

    NeTraverse Win4Lin Run your favorite Windows applications on the Linux operating system in the fastest Windows 95/98/ME environment available for Linux.

    I've only had experience with Crossover Office, starting about 3 years ago, when I absolutely had to get MS Office 97 working on a Linux box for a Master's thesis (OO.org 1.x and StarOffice 6.x both messed up on the document's footnotes and/or endnotes back then). I bought Crossover Office at LinuxWorld SF, and it worked fine, though I didn't try it with any other applications.

  5. Re:Ahhh... on DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' · · Score: 1
    Humor like that is why I I read /.org

    Shouldn't that be
    /..org?

  6. Re:Check out this on A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most Advanced Bots · · Score: 1
    Quotes from the article...

    This robot can ... bend over without falling, get on its hands and knees...
    Meanwhile, Kawada Industries will start renting HRP-2 as a humanoid robot R&D platform. ...
    It is anticipated that HRP-2s will greatly enhance humanoid robot technology research activities.
    * Cantilevered crotch joint structure allows for a walk in confined area

    Add a little RealDoll(tm) skin on top, and "You've Got a Programmable Date!"

  7. Re:CMU has had an autonomous robot for almost a de on A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most Advanced Bots · · Score: 1
    I remember bumping into him/her numerous times in wean hall.

    Was it good for you? Hope there were no surveillance cameras about...;-)

  8. Re:Palm Desktop worth a look (Outline, not To-Do?) on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 1
    I think you're asking for an outlining program, not necessarily a to-do list. I used a shareware app many years ago under MS-DOS called PC-Outline. It lets you do sub-[{sub-}]entries, numbered/lettered/roman numerals, promote/demote entries, collapse, etc. I used it for many, many years. You'd have to run it under FreeDOS, Wine or DOS-Emu, though.

    I found some Linux outliners at 1st Spot Linux (scroll to the bottom of the page) You'll see Java Outline Editor, Think, Thoughtstream: News, Thoughttracker, Tkoutline, VIM Outliner, and Yank.
    Good Luck!

  9. Re:Radiation? on Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations · · Score: 1
    That keeps it inside the Van Allen Belt, which do the majority of radiation shielding for us.

    Just make sure it doesn't get near the Irwin Allen belt, or we'll have an Inflatable Inferno on our hands.

  10. Re:quick! on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1
    Hmmm. Though I report them, I still get about a dozen "new" spams a week in my Yahoo! account, including the e-mail equivalent of a ping (no body, no subject, random from-name) to see if my e-mail address is spam-worthy.

    I wish I could send a huge electric shock back through the wires to the spammers' keyboards.

  11. Re:Cool. More spam on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1
    ...and elderly Amish women pics.

    Damn! You get all the good pR0n spam...

    Then again, you may need the penis enlargement spams after seeing those pictures... ;-)

  12. Mailing AOL CDs! on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1
    Now AOL can e-mail their CDs to Yahoo and Gmail users, instead of snail-mailing {flat metal tins | plastic boxes | jewel cases | cardboard envelopes}.

    Of course, the solid waste hauling unions may sue AOL for the sudden reduction in trash volume...

  13. Multimedia spam = free pR0n? on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new multimedia pR0n overlords.
    (Or should that be overloads? ;-)

  14. My Yahoo Plus account... on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1
    now has a 2Gb limit (yay!), but they messed with the fonts and backgrounds and it's exceedingly difficult to read.

    Huge mailbox, tiny fonts, awful window contrast...hmmm. They need to work on it.

  15. Over the top... on What Sex is Your Robot? · · Score: 1

    I'd say that Anna Mae is "over the top", especially this one.

  16. Re:Here's the rub on California Grills Diebold Over E-Voting Foul-Ups · · Score: 1
    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

    And it seems Diebold has quite a lot of ass-fault to pave with...

  17. Combining touch and optical on California Grills Diebold Over E-Voting Foul-Ups · · Score: 1

    That's fine unless you vote for a candidate that oh, maybe Diebold is paid not to favor, then it automatically shreds the ballot when you hit "ACCEPT BALLOT"...oops! Sorry, just a little glitch.

  18. Re:A big problem... on Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate · · Score: 1
    The token is shaped like a key. This way, everybody knows that it's supposed to be protected, just like a key.

    Although one probably wouldn't want to be carrying the STU-III keys outside the building, let alone attach it to your house keyring to take it home with you. Mine had to be placed in a safe at the end of each day.

  19. Thwarting night-vision goggles? on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 1
    In addition to your regular equipment (eyeglass camera, Covert Wrist Watch Camera, or Covert Pager Camera and mini-DV recorder), don't forget your TEMPEST jacket and tinfoil hat (oops, I mean tinfoil hat) ;-).

    Hints for a better recording session:

    1. Bring along a camera strobe/flash unit, attached to telescoping rod.
    2. Wait for the lights to go out, then sneak to the back of the theater.
    3. Use strobe flash to temporarily blind night-gogglers in projection booth.
    4. Swear loudly, then remember to close own eyes next time.
    5. Gosub Step 3.
    6. ???
    7. Profit!

    p.s. For those longer movies, you might always duct-tape a military-style infrared flare (somewhat like those bright plastic Glo-Sticks that are used at raves, but IR) against the projection booth window. That'd make it really bright--just for the booth! hee hee hee...;-)

    Kids, don't try this at home. Void where prohibited. Professional driver on closed course. If you're caught, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. My thoughts are my own.

  20. Uh-Oh---now who's going to sue? on Lindows Changes Name to 'Linspire' · · Score: 1
    Notice that there are common characters in the names:

    wINdowS
    lINSpIre

    Perhaps the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service will be next in line to sue for name infringement...

  21. John the Ripper v.s. MD5 + shadow passwords? on Ongoing Linux/Solaris Compromise Epidemic · · Score: 1
    So the article mentioned crackers using John the Ripper to crack the /etc/passwd file; basically, just a matter of time, provided the average user can read the /etc/passwd file.

    But what about using shadow password files and MD5 passwords? Wouldn't these either significantly raise the amount of time it takes (if John the Ripper tool can even crack MD5 passwords) or simply block passwd file access to the average user?

  22. An AutoCAD Clone for Linux on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 5, Informative
    4.) Applications!

    If I could run AutoCAD on Linux, I would use it at work (for something other than a server).

    There is an AutoCAD clone for Linux. Here's a quote from my Linux user group list. (I haven't used it, so YMMV)...

    Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:07 +0100
    From: "BricsCad BackOffice" email-deleted
    Subject: BricsCAD goes Linux

    BricsCad, the market leader in low cost DWG CAD software, today announced the beta release of BricsCad for Linux. The product is based on the IntelliCAD kernel.

    BricCad for Linux is an "almost clone" of AutoCAD(r). BricsCad uses the exact same DWG drawing format as AutoCAD(r). Drawings made by BricsCad can be read by AutoCAD(r) and the other way round.

    BricsCad for Linux addresses the untapped group of individual and corporate professional CAD users in the LINUX community allowing them to use their operating system of choice without being locked out from the professional Engineering world and the DWG standard.

    The full press release can be found on their website(s):

    English version
    French version
    German version

    Interested beta-testers are invited to contact BricsCad at linux@bricscad.com

  23. Re:Do you really want to poke the bear? on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    If that URL didn't work for you (my cut & paste didn't), try a shortened version of the same Boston Globe article using TinyURL.

  24. Re:Patenting an RFC? on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy · · Score: 2, Funny
    And in other news, tomorrow, I'm patenting the misspelling of referrer in electronic comunication.

    And I'll patent your "comunication" misspellings.

  25. 2005=1995? on AOL Blocking Spammers' Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's that damn Y2K virus now showing up on posts *about* AOL again...;-)