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  1. Re:EMI testing is a bitch. on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1

    We just spent $10K+ ... to mitigate the costs of having an outside lab...

    What would have been the cost to have an outside lab do the testing?

    it's a big burden for small manufacturers.

    Agreed - I know how small business can be, but it's a bigger burden on the community at large to do anything else.

    Current FCC/CE regs ... [are] a bit onerous IMHO.

    What makes them onerous it the cost of complying. A better solution than a "this probably passes" statement is better access to testing labs for small businesses. Something like a Business Assistance Grant for small businesses in the electronics sector. Maybe take it up with your local governing authorities. Or see if (as someone else suggested) you can use the fact that you've grown beyond the infancy stage, you can persuade your local industry association to set up some sort of program.

    Or there's an opportunity for some enterprising engineers to set up a "FCC regs compliance testing" company, priced below what it costs internally, and sweep up all the small-business testing jobs in your state...

  2. Re:You're almost there... on Pretty Printing From An XML File? · · Score: 1

    Never mind - my goof...

    While W3C has not made HTML a standard, the ISO and IEC apparently have standardised "a refinement of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) Recommendation for HTML 4.0 ... Documents which conform to this International Standard also conform to the strict DTD provided by the W3C Recommendation for HTML 4.01."

  3. you're obviously not a software engineer... on New NetBSD Port, NetBSD/Iyonix · · Score: 3, Funny
  4. Re:Money vs. Amateurs --- Guess who wins on FCC Approves BPL Despite Interference Concerns · · Score: 1

    given that the powerlines are cut, surely you have a bigger problem than "the internet's down"??? Assuming that you can even tell that it's down...

    What happens in the situation where one of the BPL boxes goes kaput due to ill weather (or as someone else suggested, bulletholes)? How is this different from the lines getting cut by a tree or ice?

  5. Re:Ones not made by Microsoft on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is _NOTHING_ in Canberra... :-)

    Honestly though, Canberra is a very small town, so if you are expecting to see "Australia" while you're there, there's not much. Your best bet is to look here or here for things to do there.

    Otherwise bear in mind that it's about 200 miles to Sydney, 400 miles to Melbourne or 800 miles to Brisbane, where the real stuff happens...

    What kind of things do you like to see when travelling?

    Canberra LUG here, Wollongong LUG seems offline at the moment.

  6. Re:You're almost there... on Pretty Printing From An XML File? · · Score: 1
    Really? The W3C seems to disagree with you. (Note the title of the document: "HTML 4.01 Specification".)

    So? lots of things have specifications... In fact as I read it, it says:
    HTML 4.01 Specification

    W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999
    then
    This specification defines ... the publishing language of ....
    HTML 4 is an SGML application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language
    ... endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation.
    W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment.
    and from chapter 2:
    HTML has been extended in a number of ways. The Web depends on Web page authors and vendors sharing the same conventions for HTML.


    But I agree on the rest...
  7. Re:Nice on Just BASIC 1.0 Beta 2 Released · · Score: 1
    And what would procedures and functions be if not subroutines?

    (Note: many flavours of BASIC have functions in addition to subs these days...)

    You recall a BASIC without FOR? MBASIC in DOS 3.3 had FOR loops. Possibly WHILE too, but I can't be sure of it...

    And then there's
    Oh TrueBASIC, what became of you?


    I guess IHBT...
  8. Re:I like GNOME... on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    Especially when Patrick is (almost) synonymous with Slack-x86, David with Slack-Sparc, and Chris with Slack-Alpha...

    That's really something more like three one-man distro's with a common codebase and shared brandname...

  9. Re:As long as it's such an unessential.. on MySQL Uses Microsoft's Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Wow, hey, you're right...

    Configure was originally written by Raymond Chen...

    Interesting....

  10. Re:Is Linux "unix"? on Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike · · Score: 1

    I wondered too... It took a fair bit of poking around on the Open Group's site to find this:
    http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/Brandfees.htm

    It seems that "Linux" cannot get certified... or at least, not easily.

    The tests themself are mostly available free - but the certification costs around $4000 + percentage of revenue.

    Now I don't know about Linus himself, but there are a fair few companies (Redhat, SuSE, Debian) who would have to each shell out to sizeable chunks to be certified... Seems like a bit much to me...

  11. Re:OK, here's the obligatory on Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike · · Score: 1
    ummm.... perhaps
    boot: linux init=/bin/emacs
  12. Re:Biggest problem with Unix on Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike · · Score: 1

    Aren't enunuchs already fixed???!? :-)

  13. Re:normal trademark behavior on John Doerr Disclaims Rumored GBrowser · · Score: 1

    Well, between you, me and Brad Templeton, that's three of us...

  14. Re:Only 5? Pity... on NASA Quakesim Predicts 15 Out of 16 CA Quakes · · Score: 1
    wouldn't that have been 2 years ago?
    :-P
  15. Re:Kristopher Kubicki on Linux GPU Performance · · Score: 1

    I don't know that it's particularly QT-related, or odd - even the gimp windows shown on the top left of the KDE screenshot show the double-border.

    Then realize that the "extra" border is actually the border of the "tab" and is there for visually describing the edge of influence of the tab button.

    It seems pretty reasonable to me...

  16. Re:should read "Alternatives to..." on Redmondmag on Dumping IE · · Score: 1

    I use Mozilla, but this quicker variant seems to work for me... (I was using your algorithm until I tried this...)

    Visit page
    if (mis-rendered) {
    Reload(this->Page);
    }
    Read(this->Page);

  17. Re:What else is new? on Internet Censorship in Australia? · · Score: 1

    that's so close to true it's scary...

  18. Re:Low cost on Planning Phase Complete For Indian Moon Mission · · Score: 4, Informative
    From http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=Chandrayan to http://www.spacetoday.org/India/IndiaMoonFlights.h tml yields:
    The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) calls the Moon flight project Chandrayan Pratham, which has been translated as First Journey to the Moon or Moonshot One.

  19. Code Co-op on Distributed Development of Closed Source Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Reliable Software makes a product called "Code Co-op: Server-less Version Control", (free trial, then cheap licence per seat) designed exactly for distributed closed-source development, especially where there is no central server. (I have never used it, but I came across their site more than 5 years ago when looking for good windows programming info, which they still have - also cool scientific programming info.)

    That said, there's nothing you mentioned that you cannot do if you rent a *nix box and install alexandria, which powers sourceforge or Savane, which powers Gna.org, LCG Savannah and GNU/Non-GNU Savannah

  20. Re:I'd have to agree. on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Not parody on Lucasfilms Nixes Star Wars Live Screening · · Score: 1
    As a rule, they'll often look the other way if they aren't losing any money.
    I think this is the key to this disagreement.

    "Copyright holders look the other way unless money is being exchanged..." is clearly false - c.f. RIAA, MPAA, BSA, etc. However, the common factor in these cases it that all those organizations believe that they ARE losing money, even if money is not being exchanged.

    So you are _PROBABLY_ safe if you are not causing the copyright-holder to lose money - Fan websites rarely impede moneymaking activities, but warez sites often do.
  22. Re:Nah, need a different OS on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ditto... I HATE the look of fancy coloured documents on laptops.

    Too many pages of poo-brown and spew-green, which started as quite acceptable yellow and orange.

    Occassionally I have seen unusably bad colour-schemes - only to discover that they look fine when I switch over to a CRT.

    Posting this comment inspired me to check out the new IT colour scheme on the desktop - whoa, now I know why everyone was complaining...

  23. Re:finally! on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 1

    Oh, looks like you can if you use "folder view for ftp sites" but not if you use the regular view. Too bad that used to suck because it took twice as long to pull up as regular view. Guess what is the first option changed in my IE advanced settings...

  24. Re:finally! on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 1

    IE can upload ftp? I didn't know that... I'll have to check next time I'm in windows...

    Netscape 4.x and earlier could upload files. 6+ (Mozilla-based) couldn't.

    That's why you needed a dedicated client.

  25. Re:Weird, but cool! on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    Oh, of course - I knew that! :-)

    as to your last point, things we know aren't so can always be restated in the converse as things we know that are "not so". Then they fit into state 1.