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  1. Re:Code format on Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective · · Score: 1

    I'm coding for maybe 10 years so I'm a newbie in your eyes. Still I find it better readable to have the braces in the same line with if and else.

    And 1600x1200 will never fit on my 12inch Powerbook. But that's the size that fits in my backpack nicely. Thus I still have only 50 lines on my screen and I don't want these 50 lines filled with lines with a single brace.

    b4n

  2. Re:Can't you turn this off on Linux? on Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net · · Score: 1

    Mac OS X has the exact same option which should do the same thing.

    b4n

  3. Re:Google on Flash Developers Fear Spectre of Spyware · · Score: 1
    Ok clicked the wrong button. See this posting for what it should look like:

    The biggest advantage of SVG is that you can mix it with your HTML. So asume we have an oval-tag in SVG you could do something like
    <h1><svg:oval>My heading</svg:oval></h1>
    and get some graphic. But it's still readable by your browser, which doesn't support SVG (it'd just show a normal text heading).

    The Adobe viewer does not support this and AFAIK they're not planing to support it. That's why I'm still waiting for a browser with SVG out of the box.

    b4n
  4. Re:Google on Flash Developers Fear Spectre of Spyware · · Score: 1

    The biggest advantage of SVG is that you can mix it with your HTML. So asume we have an oval-tag in SVG you could do something like

    My heading

    and get some graphic. But it's still readable by your browser, which doesn't support SVG (it'd just show a normal text heading).

    The Adobe viewer does not support this and AFAIK they're not planing to support it. That's why I'm still waiting for a browser with SVG out of the box.

    b4n

  5. Re:Whats really impressive on Google's Technology Explored · · Score: 1

    No and it's easy to find out. Take the URI http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: www.google.com/+google&hl=en&start=1 and change the path to robots.txt -> http://64.233.161.104/robots.txt

    You see /search is not allowed for spiders. That's why google won't index its index.

    b4n

  6. Re:I suggest on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    At least in Austria we do order a quarter liter or a half liter of something. I.e. "a viertal wein" or something "aufgspritzt auf a halbe" which means 1/4 l of something mixed with 1/4 l water.

    b4n

  7. Re:Considering it's been 30 years... on EFF Joins Fight Against Apple Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    No! I am Deep Throat.

  8. Exhibition was a year ago on A Model Railroad That Computes · · Score: 1

    Living in Vienna I find it sad to be informed a year after it was exhibit. But monochrom always have some crazy/nice ideas and some of them can be seen in the Museumsquartier (u-bahn station: Volksgarten). Visit it if while you're in Vienna.

    b4n

  9. Re:Offer Void on pre-2000 MS operating systems. on MS Employee Calls for No More Passwords · · Score: 1

    I had this problem in school some years ago. We had to change our passphrase every month so I just added a digit. That digit was the fifteenth character. I couldn't get in anymore.

    I had to go to our sysadmin to change the password. He asked me if I forgot it. I told him I didn't but NT4 won't let me in. He called me stupid for using such a long password. He used his health insurance number (10 digits in Austria) BTW.

    b4n

  10. Re:"I have several German friends who are..." on Hardware Reuse Contest Entries Revealed · · Score: 1

    AFAIK most people in Germany or Austria never really liked the Nazis or racism. The difference is, now we can say it.

    What I don't unterstand is why germans always say "you know Hitler was from Austria". Yeah. So what? If you think about it it doesn't matter and doesn't make Germany better or Austria worse.

    b4n

  11. Re:GNUstep demo on Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Very nice. Watch the demo and did the same in Xcode and it worked exactly the same. Now I made my first Cococa App =) thanks.

    b4n

  12. Re:Why I'm A Bastard on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 1

    I'm a little bit late with my answer ...

    When I'm in a public place I like to have a job in the background running loading the picture of goatse via wget (redirected to /dev/null). For all the sniffers around.

    b4n

  13. Re:What is wrong with subversion? on OpenBSD Project Will Release OpenCVS · · Score: 1

    ...rsync on berkeley DBs is pretty
    much unsupported, ...


    BDB is just the backend Subversion uses. If you want to transmit your repository or do a backup or whatever it would be much better to use a dumpfile. 'svnadmin dump' creates dumpfiles and 'svnadmin load' imports dumpfiles.

    b4n

  14. Re:Yay on Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    The obvious one is copyright protection, since it makes exact copying difficult.

    You mean like a screenshot? Oh that's easy. Even if you use flash. I think laws were made to protect copyright. This use of flash just makes it harder to use/see/read the page.

    b4n

  15. Re:Yay on Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Would you rather have lines of text that go all the way across your 1600x1200 monitor?

    A good webpage lets the user decied if he wants it or not. Even my parents know how to resize a window and thus are able to choose the best size. If your page already has a fixed size it cannot be made wider.

    b4n

  16. Re:Is it just me on How Tomcat Works · · Score: 1

    Ok I'm not going to argue about calling it strong or weak. There're different meanings ... However in the end it doesn't matter in the field of webapplications.

    But both, a continuosuly running script and exchaning data with the other scripts (or just have some data saved between the scripts) is very easy with stuff like shared memory.

    I don't see PHP being worse or better as Tomcat or other Java stuff. It just works different, but without problems.

    b4n

  17. Re:Is it just me on How Tomcat Works · · Score: 1

    You already got the answer to question 2.

    ad 3) I know it's hard to unterstand if you're thinking differently, but PHP is strongly typed. It's so strong it's changed by PHP itself to match the value.
    And the other think is we're using HTTP. PHP is written for Webapps. That's why it sees everything like HTTP or HTML: as string. Thus it doesn't matter if a number is in an int or a string. The only think that matters for your validation is that it only has digits in it (like with is_numeric()).

    ad 4) You mean ... like cron jobs?

    ad 1) Yeah that's still a thing worked on. SRM might really be a solution to it.

    See PHP is not standing still, but your arguments are. I don't see you working with PHP often enough to be able to argue.

    b4n

  18. Re:Auto-Coralize links!!! on Detailed Changes In Star Wars DVD Release w/Pics · · Score: 1

    I just took a look and all links that don't go to *.slashdot.org (and are not email links) go to http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/

    Can't check the dvdanswers.com link as it's too old already.

    b4n

  19. Re:Auto-Coralize links!!! on Detailed Changes In Star Wars DVD Release w/Pics · · Score: 1

    What about just using http://www.mirrordot.org/ ? It does the same for us, works behind a firewall and is designed just for slashdot. Ah and no one has to change a link. Let the others post and use Mirrordot to visit the pages.

    b4n

  20. PHP support coming too on Parrot 0.1.1 'Poicephalus' Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sterling Hughes and Thies Arntzen are working on getting PHP to parrot with their project Pint. They want some stuff in PHP and parrot would fit perfectly, but havin access to modules from perl or pythong is a nice extra bonus.

    b4n

  21. Re:I dream of a world without quicktime... on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 1

    A Windows Media Player for Mac OS X exists. I never had any problem playing an embedded video in firefox with WMP on my Powerbook. The URI is http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/soft ware/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx

    b4n

  22. IFPI in Austria is sueing too on UK Record Industry Sues 'Major Filesharers' · · Score: 1

    In todays news http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detai l&id=253146 is something about austrian IFPI sueing too. I talked to the IFPI on the phone about the situation. They only want to save the musicians he said. They're not interested in doing something against the copy control on audio CDs (so I could buy my songs in the next shop).

    He told me I could still buy music online. Like ... where? We have some OD2 solutions (win/IE/WMP only) and no iTunes shop around yet. So this i no option either.

    The only option is free downloads like FM4 soundpark (which they support). But why do I need IFPI or any other middle man then?

    He hang up before finishing the conversations. Seems like they're not interested in selling the records. If the really want to save the musicians and do something against copying CDs they should not release them. So no one can copy them. Be paranoid guys!

    b4n

  23. Re:Tip for auto-validating PHP generated XHTML on Web Standards Solutions · · Score: 1

    Using strpos() instead of stristr would even be better. It only returns an int (or bool in case of error) instead of a whole string. But if you want it to be case insensitive (I don't know a UA that sends the mime in upper-case, but who knows ...) you have to use stripos() which is only avaible in PHP5.

    b4n

  24. Re:Question on Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Who Mods this Interesting? Don't want to take your karma, but it's funny. It's not in the CHANGELOG ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.5/lynx2-8-5/CHANGES - it's just a joke for April Fools Day.

    b4n

  25. Re:Poor guy... on Cooking for Engineers · · Score: 1

    :8090 is not a good very good port. In my working place HTTP, POP3, IMAP, FTP and SSH are open. Everything else is closed. So if you change all links to a webserver on port 8090 you break it for me and many other people. If 80 wouldn't work I couldn't visit slashdot either, so why isn't the caching server running on 80?

    b4n