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  1. Re:Don't get too enthusiastic now... on Toshiba to Demo New Fuel Cell MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    I saw another refill method on a motorola 'prototype' (just some mockup i think), where the methanol would be stored in a pen cartridge, you know, the one that are pierced when inserted.

    I think you could still get some methanol on your finger but that would be as rare as getting ink on your fingers when doing refills for your pen. As far as i can remember, it was a very clean operation (I'm not using refillable ink pens anymore these days)

  2. And about the review on Best Software Writing I · · Score: 1

    Why
    The manager benefits from the book because she
    and
    The developer benefits because many of the issues covered can affect him ??

    Is that sexism?

  3. Re:I keep the latest build sources :) on Firefox Hits 80,000,000 Downloads · · Score: 1

    easy work, I have an ftp server.

    Wow! You da man!

    (Apologies for the interstitial ad)

  4. Re:Shooting yourself in the foot. on EU Closer To Rejecting Software Patents · · Score: 1

    More importantly will this help raise awareness for alternatives (GNU/Linux & Apple)?
    No. Why should it? I can't really follow you there...


    This "meme" comes from a slashdot story where the poster asked this question out of the blue...

  5. Re:Obligatory Star Trek IV Quote... on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it a Mac in the movie, making this non sequitor? [/pendantic]

    If you want to be pedantic (not 'pendantic') then it is 'non sequitur', not 'non sequitor'!! :)

  6. Re:so which is it ? on EU Rapporteur Publishes Software Patent · · Score: 1

    Minitel wasn't better than the web but it was a nice *free* subsitute in the 80's.
    It was slow (300bauds/1200bauds) but was available anywhere in France.
    It provided mainly yellowpages (for free) and other tele-services (per minute billing) for your car or health insurance, exam registration and results etc. and of course x-rated chat rooms...

  7. Re:Not quite the same... on DIY High-Quality XGA Projector for ~$300 · · Score: 1

    Yes the overhead projector's bulbs are cheaper but according to several sites, they seem to only last 50 hours vs several thousands for the multimedia projectors' bulbs.

    All in all, it seems that the price per hour remains very high...

  8. Re:You're guessing? on Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images [updated] · · Score: 1

    Yes exactly, that's why the USA shouldn't have meddled with Iraq's affairs...

  9. Re:networks on Frame Dragging by Earth Reconfirmed · · Score: 1

    I think the link in your sig will not attract many /.ers... Come on... HotTubGirl?
    Tubgirl is a click repellent word around here...

  10. Re:nonsense on Replacing TCP? · · Score: 4, Funny

    TCP != IP...

    Duuude, you can't compare TCP to IP, they're different units! You have to divide them (TCP/IP)!

  11. Re:An important security sidenote on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 1

    Maybe Netscape too, but MSIE is based on Mosaic.

    Check the 'About' page...

  12. Re:Damn! on Hurricane Threatens Shuttle Program · · Score: 1

    It really wasn't untill WW II that we earned the respect of Europe sense we almost single handled destroyed the Germans.

    Duuuude... what about USSR? And UK? They are the "almost" part of your sentence??

    If so, I have a quote to which I agree:
    I don't think someone knows there American history very well

    ... and I could add English to the skills they lack ;-)

  13. Re:Cost millions?? on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yeah...

    But does anyone remember the story about the Chevrolet Nova?


    ...and post it here... AGAIN? :)

  14. Re:Democracy.. on Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Doesn't your elections in USA have two turns/ballots? (I don't-know-the-correct-term)

    Many countries does this way so that people can vote for the party they like in the 1st turn/ballot and for the lesser of the two evils that stay in the 2nd turn/ballot...

    Isn't this the right way??

  15. Re:Alternative solution on Freecache · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course, you'll probably have to view the result in IE, as the mozilla project hasn't quite worked out .mht yet, I don't think.

    What?? .mht is mail html! Is an HTML mail with all the page content in it! Even Netscape 4 can read it!

  16. Re:Does does it print twice? on Advanced Unix Programming, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    Ok the grandparent post IS explaining it, I was just... reading it with a closed mind...

    The printf IS indeed executed only ONCE, it's the stdio buffer containing the first printf's string that's duplicated by the fork...

    Please forget me and my post...

  17. Re:Does does it print twice? on Advanced Unix Programming, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    That doesn't explain me why the printf is executed twice whereas it sits BEFORE the fork?

    Isn't the forked process supposed to begin its execution just after the fork() call???
    If so, there should be only ONE "Start of test"...

    Can anyone tell me what's happening?

  18. Admin scripts on On Situated Software - Designing For The Few? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Everybody doing a little admin on his linux box does exactly this...

    My scripts are very specialised and wouldn't be as useful to somebody else but they serve my purpose very well.

    Their limited scale is an advantage since I don't have to respect interface compatibility between versions, etc.

    This really eases the "upgrade" process when you think of a new super functionality-that-unfortunately-breaks-a-lot-of-t hings,
    It's my sole responsability and I am not blocked by others that would have different uses of the scripts and would not care about the functionality (but would care about the incompatibility!)

  19. Re:How is this a 'culture'? on A Peek At Script Kiddie Culture · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the script kiddies described in the article seems quite technical (not just "I winnuke you lolol") since they seem to discover vulnerabilities way before everyone else (Cf Article).

    I don't want to start another hacker/cracker flamewar but I think we should reserve the term script kiddies to people who effectively do nothing more than running other people's malicious scripts.
    We need to find another term for describing these immature, yet skilled, adolescents that discover vulnerabilities by themselves in order to higher their social rank. (Cf article where they talk about '0day servers' with newly found vulnerabilities ready for kiddies' next war)

  20. Re:OMFG ROTFLMAO ROR! on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 1

    Being funny doesn't give any karma... see the slashdot FAQ for more info

  21. Re:Imperial measurements rock... on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    BaaaAAAaaad examples...
    Consider these:
    "They simply know that this board is supposed to be 1/4 the length of that one and that one is 24m so this one should be 6 meters.

    So... For example your a builder w/ a board that is 7.3152 feet long and you want a board 1/4 the size of that one... How long do you cut it?"

    You do not prove anything by choosing round vs not-round values...

  22. Re:umm yeah.. no on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    Just an addendum: Websites registration a la NYTimes are still there despite general discontent... I don't think that users protesting and sending e-mails will change anything if a website can keep 90% of its audience and make profits...

  23. Re:umm yeah.. no on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, you and your "Mozilla based Linux distro of choice" who really beg to differ will really see a "please upgrade your browser to see this page" notice...

    Since you/we are not the main audience, I think you/we will be left off by those sites...

  24. Re:Per app. firewall? How? on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1

    It's a at-least-three-year-old feature...

    In the beginning, only ZoneAlarm had it but now every windows firewall does it.

    The answer is the same than "How does linux know where the connection are coming from when you do a netstat -apn?"... it HAS to have something to do with the fact that the OS knows everything it is doing.

    See, it's not magic!

  25. Re:I've got it on Where Is The Broadband? · · Score: 1

    I think he was talking about ISDN+satellite, because satellite links are one-way (for a home user with a small dish).
    So that would make something like 1M/128K...