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  1. Re:Config on X With No Mouse Cursor · · Score: 1

    I believe that's his point. He has no configured mouse (intetional) yet X still sticks a cursor in the center of the screen.

  2. Re:Not all terminal emulators were susceptible on Getting Hacked Through Your Terminal · · Score: 1

    This smells like a troll. The article said Eterm 0.9.1 and hanterm both were vurnerable iirc. It also said Eterm 0.9.2 had improved in the area, but that it should be given an award for being the most vulernerable. I'm kinda scared to use Eterm now.

  3. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow on Build Your Own Snow Gun · · Score: 1

    *cough*daily show*cough*

  4. Re:The Riddle Of My Plumbing Battery on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, I'm not saying that they necessarily used them for something "important", I'm just saying it probably wasn't as accidental as the grandparent implied, nor were they just "thrown away".

  5. Re:The Riddle Of My Plumbing Battery on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 2, Informative

    Somehow I don't think you read the article. While I'm not saying that they were or weren't batteries, if you would note that the article says that the containers were pottery, and had an iron / copper rod, in what might've been an electrolyte solution, I don't think that whatever it was was accidental. Also there's more than one of these "batteries."

  6. Re:win2k console? on SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole" · · Score: 1

    Easier way: Linux init=/bin/sh (do this at the lilo prompt) insta-root

  7. Re:I've never used BBEdit. on Bare Bones Releases TextWrangler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Famlirity. BBEdit is the defacto Mac text editor for coders, IIRC. its like asking what does windows have that Linux doesn't for 200 dollars. Hmm maybe I shouldn't have used that example :)

  8. Re:Lost dissertations on Psychologist Consoles Data Loss Victims · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I also had one girl come in who broke down and started sobbing uncontrollably when I told her her disk was a goner. She just started balling and didn't stop for five or ten minutes I had to shut the office door and try to comfort her (I was all of 18 at the time and had virtually no experience dealing with girls at all, much less crying ones) I had to stand there while she held on to me and cried for a bit. Sadly at this point I was still too much of an awkward geek-boy to take advantage of this opportunity, I probably could've gotten at least a date that weekend if I'd asked.

    Um, no offense but, you're an asshole.

    Mods, feel free to mod this as flamebait, it is, but its also honest.

  9. Re:Eye Opener on Reason on IP Protection and Creativity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    where are this man's funny mods?

  10. Re:Well, you know what they say on Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink · · Score: 1

    strings /dev/urandom

  11. Re:Easter Eggs on Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink · · Score: 1

    Right clicking on about: links and doing in a new tab works in galeon...::shrug::

  12. Re:First Post on my Birthday on Coldest Place in the Universe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahh posting to slashdot on his 21st birthday and getting FP. A true geek. I salute you.

  13. Re:Roll your own! on How Configurable Should a Desktop User Interface be? · · Score: 1

    That is such a good idea, a WM with a make menuconfig style configuration...and then the build process could be optimized for your choices...hmm

  14. Re:Did anyone else wince on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I should know better than to complain about the mods, sigh, but I am gonna do it anyway. This is offtopic how? Why do I care, its just slashdot karma.

  15. Did anyone else wince on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    everytime Jackman opened his mouth in Swordfish? its like they skimmed websites for words they didn't understand and strung them together in something not quite, but almsot completely not a sentence.

  16. Howard? on Creating Your Own CA · · Score: 1

    Are you there Howard?

    Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!

    All hail Discordia!

    Feh, sorry this was so lame, I couldn't think of anything really funny. I just couldn't resist after seeing the example names, locations, etc. he used.

  17. Re:Join us now and share the nostelga on Apple Posts Their X11 Source · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dunno, my TI-89 has a 68K proc...it would be really cool to get MacOS 7 on my calculator... :-P

  18. Re:One question: on Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I needed that.

  19. Re:Whoops on Is AIM Really a Bandwidth Hog? · · Score: 1

    Now, where do I pick up encrypted AIM?

    here or there.

  20. Re:u got a problem with formatting??? on Sony Combines Pocket Drive with 802.11 · · Score: 1

    Especially since it uses CIFS or NFS. There doesn't seem to be much of a point in making it FAT32.

  21. Re:Why only 17GB? on Sony Combines Pocket Drive with 802.11 · · Score: 1

    Come on this slashdot. The grandparent is probably on a C64 running Lunix with a 2400baud modem.

  22. Re:I don't agree on Rise of the 'Consumer' Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    Knoppix.

  23. Re:Installation on Rise of the 'Consumer' Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    "Sure, I like being able to hack around with the low level fundamentals, but I don't like being forced to"

    That was the most insightful statement I have ever read. I love messing around with stuff (I'm using BeOS right now cuz the /. article inspired me to try it) but I don't want to be forced to have to mess around with it. That's one of the things that bothers me about linux. Sometimes there just isn't a way around creating symlinks cause some program wants x to be in a certain place or having to fiddle with configure because the app hasn't quite made it to the apt repository yet. It's that kind of stuff that irks me.

  24. Re:The movie was so bad... on Rick Berman Doesn't Know Why Nemesis Tanked · · Score: 1

    Refer to STII::~Spock();

  25. Re:Tastes Like Rancid Tallow on Tampering with Taste Buds for Better Coffee? · · Score: 1

    I feel incredibly sorry that McDonalds fries were your benchmark. Just think you could selected a good steak fry to learn how to make or something, but no you had to go and pick McDonalds? DOn't get me wrong I like their fries, but I like for what they are, salt encrusted grease sticks with a dash of potato. They certainly aren't as good as "real" fries.