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  1. Powermarks and online bookmark managers on Most Usable Bookmark Managers? · · Score: 1

    Anybody use Powermarks from kaylon? What's interesting about this little program is that instead of using the default tree view for storing your bookmarks, you associate each BM with a few keywords. Makes searching and categorizing much easier, and it's very fast too. Unfortunately, it's only available on windows. Maybe there's a linux close out there... On the other hand, I'd like to hear for your experience with the few online bookmarks managers available. Which one's got the best/most important features?

  2. Re:number oddities on Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, if you use an uppercase OR, it will perform a boolean search. Otherwise, the search defaults to an AND, unless of course you're using doublequotes "like this" to search for a phrase.

  3. number oddities on Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's really odd is searching for a few words with OR, and noticing that adding words actually lowers the numbers of results obtained.

  4. control+enter for new tab (was:Don't use Mozilla) on Rolling Out Mozilla in an Organization? · · Score: 1

    If you set the focus on the address bar and type a url, hit control+enter (or maybe alt+enter), it will open in a new tab.

  5. Re:Knoppix on Debian-Installer Alpha Released · · Score: 2

    Same goes for yesterday's release of Knoppix, using kernel 2.4.20-xfs. Oh, and don't be fooled. Knoppix has been stuck at v3.1 for a while, but it keeps getting updated, around once a month. And if you ever decide to install to you hd, apt-get dist-upgrade is all you really need :)

  6. Best quote from the article. on IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology · · Score: 2
    Here's the best quote from the article:
    By 1998 developers "were trying just everything they could think of...there was a lot of touting that this AI is going to be the last AI you'll ever play," says Woodcock.
    Sure, if the AI is so terrible, chances are I won't try another one...
  7. Re:Visits to these Underground Stations on Ghost Stations of the London Underground · · Score: 2

    ...ath.cx is provided by dyndns.org service. So it can really be anything.

  8. Re:Where did Lelyveld say this? on Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney · · Score: 5, Funny

    Luckily for us, news.google is much better then a montly update. Try the same query with google's news engine, I promise you will find the phrase "where we are all artist/waiters." :)

    http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22where+we+ar e+all+artist%2Fwaiters.%22

    There, happy now?

  9. Re:processor intensive? on Ogg/Vorbis on Palm OS · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are two answers to your question. First, the new Palm OS v5 was designed to run on much more powerfull processors. Second, there was a problem for a while with ogg not having a integer only decoder algo. Lots of pdas aren't equipped with a floating point unit, so that was a real show stopper. Well, not anymore, since the integer version of the decoder is now also available with an open license.

  10. Re:Does anyone think... on British To Release UFO Files · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What? Now you don't trust governments? You watch too much television, or televiseur as the French would say.

  11. "Now" is a little exagerated on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    The articles mentions the bayesian filter being added to 1.3, and it's not completely enabled by default. Still, this is going to give the mozilla mail component a nice advantage, or some might say its slowly catching up :)

  12. Re:Why was it not under the GPL to begin with? on MAME To Become GPL? · · Score: 1

    Well duh! Everyone knows gpl software has less bugs! 8^/

  13. Re:Microsoft killing WinZip? on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1

    To disable XP's zip support, perform the following steps:

    1. Select Run from the Start menu and enter regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
    2. Click OK.
    3. Restart the computer.
    quoted from http://www.earthv.com/tips_detail.asp?TipID=50
  14. Re:zip & unzip everytime. on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1
    You don't really need anything more than "pkunzip filename.zip" anyway.
    It's not like you need lfn and other such oddities, right :)
  15. Re:Cool moment. on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1

    That's pretty funny that you remember it. I was the 'pkware dude'. PKWare is where I cut my teeth as a programmer, and where I learned everything I needed to know to start my own business (i.e. "cripes, if Phil can do it, I sure as hell can").

    [snip]

    There was a time around then that I could walk up to damn near any computer I saw and type 'pkunzip' and get a response...

    Are you telling us you had a backdoor programmed into pkunzip..? What does it do? Please tell :)
  16. no be source on PalmSource Talks About PalmOS 6.0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Steve Sakoman, the team's former leader at Be Inc, and now PalmSource's "chief products officer" has denied that Be code would be incorporated into the new OS. More likely, we suspect, the new OS will inherit some algorithms and architecture from BeOS.
    See, it says right there, _no_ be code in there. But who reads the articles, right?
  17. Re:Serious question on Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test! · · Score: 1

    traceroute warez.slashdot.com

  18. Re:Does look good. on Pioneer DVR-A05 Review · · Score: 1

    Whatever entrigant said...

  19. Re:Monty Python and the Holy Grail Sinking Castle on Damian Conway Publishes Exegesis 5 · · Score: 1

    I'm not familiar with this MP sketch, but reading your description, I was pretty sure the swamp was beeing filled with the remains of old castles. But this is a special bottomless swamp, that never fills up, or what? Otherwise, after the 5th or 6th castle, I'm pretty sure there'd be a good enough foundation to hold the next castle above the swamp, on top of the old castles... but like I said, I never saw the original sketch, and it's british.

  20. Re:203.62.158.32 on OpenSSH Package Trojaned · · Score: 1

    you mean single point floating arithmetic? Now see what you started with your weird humour!!?

  21. Re:Is this bad? on AT&T Broadband Introduces Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    http://hn.org offers a nice service to sync your domain name to your dynamic ip, and it's cheap too. And if you don't have your domain, well, there are 100 choices out there, like http://www.dyndns.org, etc.

  22. Re:GET A LIFE! on Hacker Survey · · Score: 1

    "Programming" isn't a religion, you know...

  23. Re:my cost on Hacker Survey · · Score: 1

    How I hate that expression: "playing on the computer" :(

  24. Re:Microstar labs AD converters... on Linux Support for Multi I/O Cards? · · Score: 1

    maybe you didn't get that bit about 64 channels...

  25. Re:GUIs and assumptions on GUIs for Everyone · · Score: 1

    I don't want to keep anyone from switching to gnu/linux, *bsd or os X, far from it. I'd just like to point out that there are a few options for windows users that want a different gui. You can trade file explorer for a bunch of options, like salamander. And you can change your shell, or desktop, and trade that start button for some fancy stuff: try geoshell, litestep, even blackbox/bluebox are now available. I'd recommend shellfront.org as a good alternative windows shell site, but it's all out of bandwidth for today :(

    And if you're tired of command.com/cmd.exe, give 4nt a try, you might like it.