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  1. Virtual Machines on How Do You Test Your Web Pages? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Get yourself a copy of VMWare or Virtual PC, or something cheaper. Boot a Knoppix CD image, and test away. Konq and Mozilla are right there. Also test opera, but you can do that on whatever platform you want.

    I also reccomend testing with stylesheets turned off, if you're using them, to make sure your site degrades gracefully in browsers with no stylesheet support.

  2. Re:Host-Based Auth on Rapid Authentication Systems? · · Score: 1

    I just thought of this after posting, but maybe kerberos is a possibility, although I'm not very familiar with it..

  3. Host-Based Auth on Rapid Authentication Systems? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Depending on your network setup, host-based auth might be best. You could assign a specific IP address based on a DHCP Client-ID and have the web app look up the client's address in a table to determine if it's allowed automatic access (ie, to jump straight to an authorized state), or otherwise to prompt for a username/password, and thereby set the authorized state.

  4. Re:Snipped... on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Obligatory Big Lebowski quote:
    Those nihilists are gonna cut my dick off, man!
  5. Re:A particularly distressing example... on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not so true, because Prime Intellect (And all of the Intellect series AIs, for that matter) were written with the Three Laws at their core. It's said in the second chapter that if the three laws were somehow removed from its Global Association Table which defined it as the sum of its experiences, it would cease to function.

    The Three Laws are at the center of the story, and it's a very similar tale to most of Asimov's fiction: a warning about the usually unintended consequences of the Three Laws.

  6. Re:My beef with nautilus and why it doesn't matter on Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus · · Score: 1
    Uh, right click or control click on the file and select "Get Info" you can there change what app to open with, you can even change it for all apps of that file type. You don't need resedit, just some OS literacy.

    Actually, I think he was referring to Classic MacOS, in which case this is true. You weren't allowed to change file associations until OS X.

  7. Are you retarded? on Is Finding Security Holes a Good Idea? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If no one fixes the holes, someone's going to find them, and exploit them. That's all there is to it.

  8. Re:Surprise, surprise... on Russia, China World's Biggest Spammers · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the rest of you, but I tend to get most of my spam via SMTP.

    So why not quit using such an easily exploitable method of mail transport? Hell, the entire concept is older than me. We should be thinking about something like djb's Internet Mail 2000, in which the SENDER of the message is responsible for making the message available to recipients; only message notifications are delivered, which puts the cost of transmitting spam on the spammer, for once.

    Email must evolve or it will die.

  9. Re:How about a new set off 'On Demand' products? on OpenGL in PHP · · Score: 1

    I think the fine gentlemen at Jerkcity would take offense to that statement. ;)

  10. Re:Yes... PLEASE... on Webmasters Pounce On Wiki Sandboxes · · Score: 1

    Ha. I think if you set up an email address for correspondence with spammers, it's just going to get spammed into a crater.

  11. Re:*Innovate or DIE!* on Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are you talking about? 1080 was released on the n64!

  12. Re:Why not ad-hoc on Temporary Wireless Service For An Outdoors Event? · · Score: 1

    because he's going to be in the friggin woods!

    (+insightful)

  13. Re:'This is like...nothing.' on McBride At A Loss For Words · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well that's just like... Your OPINION, man...

  14. Re:Project Project? on Will Novell Adopt The LTSP Project? · · Score: 1

    Everyone around here always says NIC Card

  15. Re:conditions apply on Third Largest Supercomputer... at Weta Digital · · Score: 1
    So how long long until my wristwatch can render the entire Lord of the Rings in the time it would take to watch?


    Oh, about a week or so according to original post.
  16. Re:Yes, the motto of the new world is... on The Politics of the Video Game · · Score: 1

    You've been served. Now it's on.

  17. Re:Slashdot Valedictory on Turn Your PC into a 'Moblogger' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    doubleplusgoodduckquack, but somehow i think he unbellyfeels ingsoc.

  18. I sense a disturbance in the force... on Google Files for IPO · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... As if a million investors cried out in simultaneous orgasm,

  19. Re:Really bad examples to pick... on Universal 3D File Format In The Works · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Almost forgot SOAP... Considring present company, this is not surprising.

  20. Re:Really bad examples to pick... on Universal 3D File Format In The Works · · Score: 2, Insightful

    XML

  21. Try Consulting on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    If you're not part of the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem.

  22. Re:Court of Appeal Decision on Sex.com Settles Case Against VeriSign · · Score: 1
    $ HEAD http://access.adobe.com/<b>perl/convertPDF.pl</b>? url=...

    200 OK
    Connection: close
    Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:42:08 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.20
    Content-Type: text/html
    Client-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:50:31 GMT
    Client-Peer: 192.150.13.144:80
    Client-Response-Num: 1

    I knew you could do this with perl, but of all the websites in the world to use perl to do so, on a unix server even, I would expect this the least from Adobe, creator of PDF.

  23. Reminds me of... on Linux Spreads its Wings · · Score: 1

    This Demotivator... Hehe.

  24. Re:Duh! on Many Internet Users Happy With Dial-Up · · Score: 1

    As a sometimes mail-sysadmin, I think it'd be nice to have a hook in the mail pipeline that examines attachments and re-encodes the images to a managable size, especially when people send 30mb scanned TIFF files which would be 400k simply saving as JPEG instead.

  25. Free Software means more Computers and more food on Linux Advocacy in Ethiopia: A Traveller's Journal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is not yet a single post here which does NOT say something along the lines of "who cares about software, these people need to eat/drink/quit starving to death". Screw your thinking caps on, people.

    I'd like to remind everyone that legitimate copies of Windows and Office cost real money, in addition to money that must be spent on the HARDWARE used to educate Ethiopian IT students.

    Cutting proprietary software out of the equation means IT workers in developing countries can spend LESS money on software and MORE money on hardware, which increases the availability of hands-on learning tools for these people.