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  1. yippee!! on Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives · · Score: 1

    I hope they finally support CDATA. Anybody know for sure? Until they do, I'll have to stick with Opera.

  2. Re:Time to burn karma on Transcript of Talk with Richard Stallman · · Score: 1

    a lot of the base libraries (glibc, etc) are also gnu. That really shouldn't be underestimated.

  3. Re:The other white meat. on Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    because government (whiny liberals in the northeast) won't let them drill their oil.

  4. Re:Ackthpt's Theorem on Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Prior to the 17th amendment, the senate was to act in the best interest of their respectives states, which would act as a counterpoint to the popularly-elected congress.

    Changing to direct election also changed them to be beholden to their constituents.

  5. i know! on Marketing Mozilla · · Score: 1

    firefox needs to advertise their rock stability. Wait, firefox crashes on me 2-3 times a day. Maybe they should spend their google millions making it more robust before they spend it on advertising.

    and why don't they support CDATA? Opera does.

  6. Re:Not much, anymore... on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 5, Informative

    system control panel -> advanced -> performance options -> advanced - > virtual memory.

    Set to no paging.

  7. interesting on Target Advertising Used to Censor NY Times Article · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe slashdot could license this technology to censor stories about Cringely and Dvorak?

  8. Re:Besides Red Hat on 9 Open Source Companies to Watch · · Score: 1

    He made his money from thawte (which was sold to verisign).

  9. Re:Besides Red Hat on 9 Open Source Companies to Watch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hardly open source based. Sourceforge is closed source. They won't release modifications they made to mysql. SLASH is open source, that's about it.

  10. WORKING print view on 9 Open Source Companies to Watch · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. roblimo on The NYT's OS-Restrictive Video Policies · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Roblimo has the distinction of being an even worse spokesman than ESR or RMS.

    He's like a child molesting uncle nobody wants to acknowledge. Except in this bizarro universe that is slashdot, he's idolized and revered.

  12. Re:Cardboard cutouts of CowboyNeal ! on HP Baited With Cutouts of Founders · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    you're gonna need a big piece of cardboard if you want a lifesize copy of his lard ass.

    On the plus side, you could probably use it to scare away crows. And everything else.

  13. Re:the turtle on Teaching Primary School Students Programming? · · Score: 1

    if you look past the turtle and graphics, logo is similar to lisp or scheme, and just as powerful. The UCB logo books demonstrate a pascal compiler written in logo, IIRC.

  14. Re:Interns and Cake Containers on Storage System for Thousands of CDs and DVDs? · · Score: 1

    A better solution would be to use a database, intermec printer, maybe a bar code scanner. Tie them together with an html front end to input/query/print labels and you're set.

  15. Re:GCJ on Building the JDK on Debian GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    Amen. MS = bad for having java with extensions.

    GNU = good for having java with extensions.

    If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

  16. Re:Publicly traded companies and their spam on Buy Low, Spam High · · Score: 1
    These are pink sheet stocks. They don't have any governing rules.
    Pink Sheets LLC is neither an NASD broker-dealer, nor registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; it is not a stock exchange, the companies listed do not need to fulfill any requirements. With the exception of a few foreign issuers, the companies quoted in the Pink Sheets tend to be closely held, extremely small and/or thinly traded. Most do not meet the minimum listing requirements for trading on a national securities exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Stock Market. Many of these companies do not file periodic reports or audited financial statements with the SEC, making it very difficult for investors to find reliable, unbiased information about those companies.
  17. Re:Wow on Buy Low, Spam High · · Score: 1

    per month? If my inbox is any indicator, some people are pumping 5 stocks/week.

    Everyday I receive up to a dozen near identical spam messages touting the same stock, using the same MO (nonsense literature combined with a graphic touting the stock. The name, size, and background color of the image varies, but the text is always the same).

  18. Re:More spam then! on Buy Low, Spam High · · Score: 1

    every stock spam I've seen is for pink sheet/penny stocks. You can't short them.

  19. Re:I may want one of these after all on Microsoft leaks Zune Details in FCC filing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wireless. More space than a nomad. Lame.

  20. not only that on ESR Says Linux Followers Should Compromise · · Score: 1

    but just last week he was Advocating Proprietary Software!!!!

  21. Re:Your expierience didn't pay off on Selecting Against Experience - Do Employers Know? · · Score: 1

    alloca can dynamically allocate memory from the stack (which might or might not count for your requirement). GCC has intrinsic support and can create variable sized arrays.

    void bleh(char *str) {
    if (str) {
    char copy[strlen(str)]; ... }
    }

    Anyhow, alloca dates back to BSD4.1 in the early 80s.

  22. Re:MySQL 5 on Pro MySQL · · Score: 1

    That's interesting. Nobody needs triggers or views, they're just syntactic sugar which makes development faster (and more consistent). I've often wondered if the MySQL speed advantage vs postgresql, et alia holds up if you can do 1 postgres query (and let the trigger update related tables to maintain referential integrity) or multiple mysql queries (doing it all manually).

  23. Re:Better than Illustrator and Freehand? QWZX on Update on Xara's OS Vector Graphics Project · · Score: 1

    the fact that they are resorting to an open source model is pretty good indicator that they failed commercially.

  24. Re:Better than Illustrator and Freehand? QWZX on Update on Xara's OS Vector Graphics Project · · Score: 1

    the fact that they failed commercially and are resorting to an open source model is pretty good indicator that nobody uses it.

  25. Re:help on Microsoft and Mozilla To Collaborate for Vista · · Score: 0, Troll

    Firefox 1.5.0.6 crashes on Windows XP. It crashes on Linux. It crashes everywhere.

    (Yes, it crashed when I tried to reply to your comment...)

    If you have a few spare days, compile Firefox with debug warnings enabled. Then run it from the commandline... then count the fatal errors that pile up before a window even shows up on screen. From what I understand, Vista is less tolerant of bad programming, buffer overflows, etc. Fixinf FF to work with Vista probably means fixing those problems they've been ignoring.