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  1. Re:Notepad.exe?? on An Interview with JRR Tolkien and Other Tomfoolery · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    junkbuster is my preciousssss.

  2. Why make it up? on An Interview with JRR Tolkien and Other Tomfoolery · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why bother faking an inteview with JRR?

    Plenty of people claim to know what he thinks about the file.

    Peter Jackson reckons he'd like it.
    JRR's biographer reckons he'd have ignored it.
    His son, Christopher Tolkien reckons he'd have hated it.

    So there you have it ....

  3. Corrupt graphics on XP on Uplink · · Score: 1

    The demo doesn't seem to work very well on Windows XP (Matrox graphics card).

    images are only half drawn and there must be some that aren't drawn at all ... minimising/restoring the window makes buttons appear and disappear.

    Oh well .... maybe I'll try a later build if/when one is released.

  4. Re:Bell Telephone Company on Verizon's Solution to Terrorism: Eliminate Verizon Competitors · · Score: 1

    How much are you willing to pay for this service?

  5. What are you translating? on Translating Free Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your small collection of HTML files???

    To be honest, it doesn't look like a very big task apart from the actual english->SomethingElse step. Cliff's comments are correct - but not relevent to what I see on your site. Step 1 is obviously a little note on your homepage asking for volunteers to do the translating.
    I'm sure for a few $$$ you could persuade some language students at the local college to help.

    I've been involved with the translation of an HTML based application - commericially and for an international company, so the translation bit was easy - and HTML is a pain to deal with.
    It was hard for the translators to distinguish between things that should be translated and things that shouldn't be because the content, the formatting and the scripting is so intertwined. The scripting problems were eased by going the traditional route of splitting localisable strings into a separate file and loading controls dynamically at run time. The solution to the rest was good QA.

  6. Re:uh..does anyone know if this requires reboot? on Uber-patch for Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    It does need a reboot.

  7. Re:Translation, please. on Webcasting and the DMCA · · Score: 1

    1) You can broadcast audio over the web with the same restrictions as broadcasting over radio.

    2) You can broadcast samples of works over the web

  8. Contradiction on Webcasting and the DMCA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    greasy, pudgy fingers wrapped around the throat of every artist, choking the life out of them.

    Y'ever notice how many artists set up independent studios and private record labels

    Which is it?

    IMO, it's closer to the former; there may be plenty of independent studios and labels producing excellent music but something is preventing them from getting wider exposure. It isn't lack of quality, so is it unfair competition from the bignames?

  9. Re:Soap on Apache XMLRPC 1.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Were you thinking of Axis?. It's still work in progress, because SOAP is too

  10. HR 2724 link on Webcasting and the DMCA · · Score: 4, Informative

    More permanent link to the Music Online Competition Act

    HR 2724.

  11. Re:Try using the GPL virusscanner on Sunset Clauses in Software · · Score: 1

    Then you too can be protected from 10 whole viruses!!

    Eicar-Test-Signatur
    Hybris.Gen
    Mid/Kakworm-Z
    Sircam
    TR.Happy99/SKA
    TR.IWorm.MTX
    VBS/HomePage
    W95/Hybris
    W95/Matrix
    W97M/Class
    Worm/BadTrans

    Where's Nimda? Where's Goner? Where's CodeRed?

  12. hhgttg on Consequences of a Solution to NP Complete Problems? · · Score: 1

    packets visiting every other point on the internet

    That would be infinite improbability powered internet.

  13. PVCS on Cross Platform Document Management Systems? · · Score: 1

    PVCS
    or any one of a million other source/document control systems.

  14. Re:Is FBI working together with the software compa on FBI Confirms Magic Lantern Existence · · Score: 1

    Publicly available debug symbols for Windows revealed that there is a constant in the code called NSAKey.

    There's plenty of speculation about this.

  15. Re:Anti-virus software on FBI Confirms Magic Lantern Existence · · Score: 1

    No, they didn't agree to that. That's the point.

    e.g. see this or this

  16. Re:Is FBI working together with the software compa on FBI Confirms Magic Lantern Existence · · Score: 1

    The "problem" with relying on security holes is that they tend to be discovered and published by third parties.

    If there is an intentional security hole in Windows then it's likely to be found by someone - and then what does MS do?

  17. Re:Virtual CD on Mounting .ISO's Into An NT File System? · · Score: 1

    You don't need a drive letter - create a mount point to the volume by volumename, not drive letter.

  18. Re:Virtual CD on Mounting .ISO's Into An NT File System? · · Score: 1

    Forgot to say ... once you've mounted the ISO, you set up a mount point to the directory you want to mount them under.

  19. Virtual CD on Mounting .ISO's Into An NT File System? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft have one - vcd.exe is the installer.

    2-10-2000 18:25 24,064 VCdControlTool.exe
    2-10-2000 18:05 11,296 VCdRom.sys


    I can't remember how I got it though - possibly the Windows XP beta program.

  20. Re:Overreaction from Michael. on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    If someone hacks into the server where my stock portfolio or my bank account details are then I've got more to worry about than someone getting a directory listing of c:\Pr0n

  21. Easy on Affordable Mag-Stripe Card Readers for Linux? · · Score: 1

    ebay.
    There's plenty that plug into a PS2 keyboard socket so they're O/S independent.

  22. Re:And in other news.... on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    All worms are viruses.

  23. Re:And in other news.... on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    How about the IBM christmas worm from 1987?
    Not quite literally email, but it spread by reading addresses from an address book.

  24. Overreaction from Michael. on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 4, Flamebait


    Michael says : "completely open any time you browse the web with IE. "
    Story says "who view a specially constructed Web page"

    Okay, the hole isn't good - and MS must fix it - but the article as posted by /. is wrong.

    Your computer is open if you stumble across a specially constructed site. If you browse /. the news, stock quotes etc. then you're prett much safe.

  25. Re:Just one question on The Hype of the Rings · · Score: 1, Informative

    He was a hobbit - Sauron had only just heard of them and didn't realise they were a threat.
    Secondly, Hobbits are somewhat resistant to the ring's power.