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  1. Re:External Batty pack + VNC on Mac mini Sans Wires - Batteries Inside the Case · · Score: 1

    My G4 550 does this also, really annoying. I wish there were a software fix for it.

  2. Re:Is this like... on Google Web Accelerator · · Score: 1

    add to that

    * ...Whenever your computer sends cookies with browsing or prefetching page requests for unencrypted sites, we temporarily cache these cookies in order to improve performance

  3. Re:New name sucks on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    Damn good name. "Macrodobia", you should be in marketing.

    I will refer to the new company with it until the Spanish Inquisition shows up and puts my feet to the flame.

    I don't expect them, but realize that as soon as I smell burning toe-hair I will give in.
    My "gf" likes the toe-hair.
    Ok I don't have a gf, but if I did she'd like it, probably,
    and I wouldn't shave it if she didn't...
    .
    ok I would.

  4. Re:Stumpers on Jeopardy! Whiz Becomes Encarta Spokesman · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hamster out of popcorn, refill the hamper and re-boot for the changes to take effect"

  5. Re:Uhh on Associated Press Not Impressed By MyFi · · Score: 1

    get over it - A2D killed MiniDisc in North America.
    1x analog transfer poses as much of a consumer threat as a Dual-Casette High-Speed-Dub rig posed to CD-R's. One bonus point for satellite tho...

    Poor Howard Stern, how we loved ye.

  6. Re:Net services company??? on NeXTSTEP To Mac OS X · · Score: 5, Informative

    WebObjects is still alive and kicking, at my company we use it for all manner of things. It has become a real workhorse and continues to evolve capability-wise and mature in terms of stability. As a J2EE certified platform (last time I checked), the thing that I find most overlooked about the package is its built-in GUI a la Dreamweaver, it is, however, much more effective at visualizing/previewing dynamic pages with active data than the Macromedia product. If you are developing database-tied web sites with Java you owe it to yourself to check out Apple WebObjects. (It is not strictly tied to the Apple platform BTW) Of all the J2EE APIs I have used it is by far the most friendly, due to a code-quality pedigree inherited from NeXT and extensively re-factored ObjectiveC MVC structures. thanks Steve, et. al. (the built-in multi-schema load-balancer is a nice finishing touch ;) /* Can you tell your JVM controller to re-start (and pass off extant sessions to other instances) your application instances to account for what could (at any time) be(come) a buggy JVM by clicking on a check-box on an HTML config page? A non-elegant but eminently practical solution for inexplicable java memory leaks is built in to this package. I call Nice. Check it out. */ TTFN.

  7. Re: The opposite is already there on Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers · · Score: 1

    how will this, or any, proxy affect VPN connections? does the translator in 2.4 kernel know about ipv6?

  8. I think I will get it on Best of The Perl Journal · · Score: 1

    I always wanted a computer book ;-) this one seems like it would suit me. Then again I have blown more than a few Sunday mornings reading www.perlmonks.org

    Reading perl is almost as much fun as writing it. In it's more 'condensed' styles it is much more challenging (read: fun) to decode than java and the 'tmtowtdi' ethos sparks a lot of creative architectures.

    For me learning perl was/is more fun than any other language I have tried, those docs can be hilarious. They also help keep your spirits up during late night deadliners, I hope this book has some of that.

  9. [5,7,5] my sub-mission on Perl Haiku Poetry Contest · · Score: 1

    perls are like gems
    darwin can't make a mistake

    with perl we win

  10. longer not worse on Next Goals For The ESA · · Score: 0

    If the project costs are sufficiently reduced from a regular launch then I am all for it.

    Personally I want a mars rover launched every day for less than $1000, it would be the ultimate saviour of Radio Shack, just think, 4-wheeling on the red planet, all from the comfort of your living room!

    Yeehaw!

  11. what if... on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    ...they withheld the url of link you clicked on.

    Say they only provide it in the last 200 bytes of the advert.

    Then it is all-out war.

  12. It takes a nation of All-In-Wonders on Gaming Communities Cause Of TV Ratings Decline? · · Score: 1

    I get my tv from the 'net. People said to me 'you should check out "6 feet under"' so I *aza'd it, liked it and got them all. same for 'curb your enthusiasm'. I don't care if it is 'legal' under the DM whatever CA or whatnot but I can skip the commercials - who wouldn't take a pill to alleviate a pounding headache? The point is, as it has always been, "adapt or die" this applies to networks, rating agencies, music companies et al. This whole discussion could be FUD due to a simple failure to keep up with tracking different viewing mediums.

  13. Re:uhg on Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    ...maybe it will have some unintended benefits.

    Independent website builders must be rubbing their hands together in bank-worthy anticipation. Just imagine all of the sites that will need updating! The Microsoft work-around is to use an external javascript file to document.write the offending tags (apparently this is a 'loophole' in the patent?).

    It is given with plenty of notice so all those website builders who used Flash, applets or video on a client site (read: lots) can call up and say "oh, by the way your site needs updating..." before the apocalypse.

    3. Profit!!!

    Except for me, primarily a Flash developer who has over 400 static pages and dozens of dynamic apps to update :( - I guess I could call that job security...

  14. Re:Does this apply... on Free VoIP for Dartmouth Students · · Score: 1

    Yeah how long before P2P over VOIP?
    How could you tell the difference between pr0n and asking mom for more beer money?

  15. Re:space.. on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    They should've waited until the dualie could fit
    into the 1U Xserve format. Not only a better
    "node" but Apple could release the current desktop
    puppies to the people who NEED them...
    NOW!

    In Cluster Flagrante!

  16. Bayes with good interface on How Do You Organize Your Data? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to beta this thing by this company called Autonomy which would sort and sift all your (and everyone elses) cruft to assemble a list of relevant links (to your stuff and others) in response to your activities.

    IMO it did this in real-time, must have made for some impressive indices.

    Maybe this is the answer, open-source Autonomy. I am a mere perlmonks acolyte so I will leave it up to the real brains to figure it out ;-)

  17. Re:Wow... big heli for $700+ on DraganFly III Gyro-stabilized RC Helicopter · · Score: 1
    I have some questions:
    • What is the weight of your 'copter?
    • How long can it fly on a charge?
    • Do you think you could put a 'wee camera on it like the one in the story?
    My grandad built gas-powered model airplanes, he said helicopters were for... well, wussies (that w might have been a p, I can't quite recall ;) I, on the other hand like 'em just fine. Bet my cat would get it's act together if I got one for the apartment!
  18. Oh my... on Publishing Now Counts As Now · · Score: 1

    The 'courts' should keep a deceased judge in the closet to make decisions like this.
    No brain required,
    cheap as all get-out.

    --Can you live on beer alone? Join the experiment at httb://www.oooz.zyy/bud.cgi?day=???