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  1. It's written in Perl !!!! Wouhou on Pizza From the Command Line · · Score: 0

    It's written in Perl !!!! Would you like some Perl topping on your Pizza? Maybe with some Parrot topping too? With Pepperonni and Cheeze? Any Pepper?

  2. Re:Checks, Governing circuits, etc. on Nonlinear Neural Nets Smooth Wi-Fi Packets · · Score: 0

    Nah, don't worry it's only 10 nodes...
    times everyone cellphones/laptop/wifi card in china, japan, europe, north america,
    roughly just 10 billions nodes efficiently connected wireless (wifi),
    but hey an army of stupid ants can't be that intelligent...

    Oh wait that's how my brain works! *shrug* =(

    I just want to tell you that my cellphone tries to... $!@#$!@ no carrier.

  3. Are you sure it's not an April Fool joke? on MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE · · Score: 0

    "He began his new role April 1, Microsoft said Tuesday. " Are you sure it's not an April Fool joke?

  4. Re:Obviously... on OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright Violations · · Score: 0

    Windows 2.1 ? Maybe Windows 3.1 or 3.0 or 2.0 or 1.0 ? You mean Linux stoled code from MS-DOS? Of course it did!!! just type `dosemu` :-) See that's a proof now pay your bill to SCO!

  5. Re:It doesn't have to be this way... on The Average PC is Infested with Spyware · · Score: 0



    AdAware, Spybot, F-prot, AVG and Antivir.

    Seems like there's no software to catch them all, each have a sublist of what can be infested.

    The good news is that all of them are easy to keep up to date and FREE.

    Most people are confident that their lovely anti-virus
    telling them "no virus found" is enough.

    But most of the time, you can have 4 out of 5 Anti-virus up to date saying everything is fine
    and the 5th one still finds some crapt on your lovely Windows.

  6. Minato Video links - No registration on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power · · Score: 0


    These videos were taken by one of our staff on Friday, March 5, 2004, with a Canon A80 camera.

    While not of professional quality, they give a good idea of how the motors are constructed and how they work.

    (We recommand that you use Quicktime to see the movies. You can download it here for free.)

    MinatoFanb:
    A video of a 1 watt fan in operation.
    (AVI: 18.5MB)

    MinatoCPUFanb:
    A video of a tiny CPU cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 21.8MB)

    MinatoPCFanb:
    A video of a standard sized PC cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 19.9MB)

    MinatoCarAirconb:
    A video of a prototype Toyota Corolla airconditioning fan, with a secondary generator attached.
    (AVI: 32.1MB)


    Enjoy!

  7. Re:Paper Eh? on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 0

    Grandma where did you put my backups?

    What do you mean by backups!?

    Oh and by the way, I cleaned up your dirty desk!

    Grandma that's *NOT* Scott Towel!

  8. Re:So right but so wrong on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 0

    "
    I don't think the people working on it take to kindly to "OMG IT WONT READ OVER 2GB MAKE IT WORK",
    and they'll probably tell you to sit down, shut up and do it yourself, its not like you paid for it.
    "


    That's true, most people do it in spare time, but not always. Some people are paid by companies to write OSS.
    Some people are asked to be 'adopted' or 'sponsored' like in some KDE projects.

    That's why systems like PayPal/SourceForge are there...

    Another thing is that if many people complains about the same issue in 'a creative manner' (no RANT please),
    a normal programmer who created the source code should care somehow to some extend since its his baby
    and normally you want to some limit...
    please other peoples too.

    So, more people find it useful and more people 'join in' to increase the quality/features.

    So, you don't end up being the only coder on board...

    I think one thing that should be done more often is peer-review.

    Ask another project to review your code/interface/UI and vice-versa.

    That could be a creative way of fixing things in a more gentle manner.


    Just my 2 cents.


  9. Re:Yes. on Slow Down the Security Patch Cycle? · · Score: 0

    What his needed is a KDE applet or equivalent
    Gnome program that bugs the user every week,
    to update software on his machine.

    Like Antivir or Spybot on Windows or anyother "smart" antivirus...
    That's quite efficient method of doing things.
    You just cannot forget it.

    Basically,
    it connects to a mirror
    check the version,
    if lower download it (wget),
    check MD5 sum,
    ask for root password,
    install a binary patch...
    Case close.


    Why people have to "figure out" there's a patch/exploit out there,
    try to apply the patch,
    doesn't work RPM dependancy hell or similar,
    try to compile from source, incompatible glibc...
    Just donwload a statically linked binary files or all dynamicaly linked binary files.


    Patching a kernel or a running deamon is in the same category... hell.

    It should be as easy as: 'apachectl graceful'

    'kernelctl graceful' anyone?

    Just my 2cents.


  10. Re:Chant the mantra, brethren on XML Support In Office 2003 Isn't For Everyone · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one here who use Word 2000 HTML web format with CSS to have "portable" word document. The word document generated -IS- readable by human, more than that it works on any browser supporting CSS: Netscape, IE, Opera. What would prevent OpenOffice, StarOffice to translate such HTML with the subfolder for images, media and similar into OpenOffice XML data? BTW, if you don't have graphics (BMP, GIF, JPG) just text layout and tables, then the HTML saving generates just one file. Why should Office 2003 would be any different. In fact, if they would use MIME or email like encoding to embed BMP/GIF/JPG images and sound inside the document, what would prevent you from reading it? As far as I'm concern you can already translate all your DOC/XLS files into HTML and still make them fully backward editable in Office 2000. Of course the CSS entry looks like .xl2819216 { }, a hash number which is ligible and comprehensible, still no bright encoder can know that this was for your special table header format for a group meeting subject header, but if you manually edit it you could specify as such easily and simplify it, but it's not even needed. Simply, search and replace .xl2819216 with .GroupMeetingSubjectHeader Still even with hash value, you can still read what the CSS looks like easily, think of it like a pointer thing. If you have HTML you can translate it to XHTML using scripts, from XHTML you can have a valid XML document, why people complain about Office 2000 propritary format? You could write a simple VB program to take a huge hard drive filled of Office document and translate them into HTML.

  11. First Post 2pm EST on Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue · · Score: -1, Redundant

    first post!

  12. Re:Good but not great. MS support on Red Hat Announces Enterprise Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, when our IIS server broke, we had problems with different incompatible version of Windows 2000 Server, Professional, etc different version of IIS. The guy from Microsoft charged 600$/hr for the senior tech plus 400$/hr for a junior tech, all this because my stupid boss dislike Apache. Long life to stupid ASP pages. grrrrr