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  1. OT[Re:First Prime Factorization Post] on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Just curious, did you create the throwaway account 2roll4life7 (900131) before creating 2*2*3*75011 (900132)?, Couldn't you just peek for the latest ID (923669 at time of writing)?

    BTW: why don't they use some kind of limit clause on those queries? It seems they load the entire table and then loop forward to the starteth row!?

  2. Re:Don't Panic ( not yet anyway... ) on Deadly Version of Bird Flu Found in Romania · · Score: 1
    According to Xinhua:
    The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the H5N1 bird flu strain is mutating into a new subtype which could be transmitted among humans
  3. Cyberlink on Software PVRs Becoming Tivo Killers · · Score: 1

    Cyberlink does the job but the interface is horrid. I have a DTB PCMCIA card in my notebook but unfortunately the arial wiring in my apartment doesn't seem to be able to handle the bandwidth of the HD signals, I can only the SD ones semi-reliably.

  4. Re:Great! on Nuna 3 wins World Solar Cup for the 3rd Time · · Score: 1
    Well, not only did the Dutch set a new record...the record they beat was their own! According to their official webpage, though, the Nuna 3 has a top speed of about 160 km/h!
    102.75 km/h was the average speed not the top speed, so yeah, it must've gone pretty darn fast.

    Go the Dutch!

  5. Re:VOIP callcenters on VoIP Going Wireless · · Score: 1

    I agree with the guy above me who also replied to parent. I'd prefer to speak to a monkey on a cellphone in a Starbucks than someone in a call centre.

  6. Re:Well.. on Google Code Jam 2005 Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Not only the Bush reference but if you look on the Windows XP timezone map (double click on the clock, select the timezone tab), Poland has become part of the Baltic sea! So Microsoft forgot Poland too.

  7. You missed: on A Useful Grammar Checker? · · Score: 1
    4. ...

    5. Profit!

  8. Re:Funny... on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Or they could use Dreamweaver which does a pretty good job of formatting code (except it stuffs around with xml-style pre-processing directives like php tags which you can easily fix with a regex search and replace)

  9. Re:Fortunately on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 1
    Is this what you mean with the fieldset?:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transition al.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title></title>
    <style type="text/css">
    <!--
    fieldset {
    -moz-border-radius: 5px;
    }
    legend {
    color: blue;
    }
    -->
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <form action=".">
    <fieldset>
    <legend>fieldset</legend>
    <input /><button>button</button>
    </fieldset>
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>
    I suggest not using blue for the legend tho'.

    Also I have managed to get scrollable table bodies working the same in ie && ff but it's pretty dirty.

  10. Re:I disagree. on Berners-Lee Says Internet Will Make Kids Creative · · Score: 1
    I would never let my children or grandchildren post at the GameFAQs forums without proper supervision.
    Surely if you have grandchildren then your children are old enough to use the Internet without supervision.

    :)
  11. Re:All over little ol' me! on Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware · · Score: 2, Funny
    Interesting, the analogy between trollop and wiki is fitting:

    Everyone puts their bit in.

  12. Balance... on How To Balance Life And Technology For Kids? · · Score: 1
    ...you said it yourself.

    My daughter's 3.23 and although I spend all day in front of a computer and her mother spends a bit of time working at the computer we also try to get out for a bushwalk or to play paddleball (0 wall) in the park every day or so (when we're all well enough -- recently the winter bugs have been messing with that routine). She likes her electronic toys but she also loves the bush and playing make-believe with whatever she finds there (and a few plastic dinosaurs).


    Regards

    Mike
  13. Re:quirksmode.org on Spring into HTML and CSS · · Score: 1

    I agree, PP Koch has definitely put in some hard work, quirksmode is a great resource.

  14. Re:OMG SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB on U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility · · Score: 1
    -20 lame, i know... someone had to say it though
    You're a poet and you didn't even realize
  15. OT;Re:Umm... on Cringley Thinks Apple & Intel Are Merging · · Score: 2, Funny

    What I find weird is that the dot replaces two Is. Doesn't that seem a bit pointless?

  16. Way OT on PalmOne to become Palm Again; PalmSource & Linux · · Score: 1

    Did you write the copy on http://www.fireyourfuckingboss.com/? Email me.

    Regards,

    Mike :)

  17. Re:Peeping Sam. on Sensor Webs Unwire Ecology · · Score: 1

    Come on, it's not like any of us are foraying into the woods with their girlfriend.

  18. Re:Using Tiger on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 1

    I believe that each monitor's buffer is processed independently so the algorithm used to render the contents of each can differ. I don't know what happens when windows span multiple buffers tho'.

  19. Re:Um, no. on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 1
    I wrote both a Java applet and an ActiveX control that did this but it was still a PITA to Post/save the data to the server.

    With the advent of native SVG this is going to be heaps easier to do - not in part because you can just submit the XML rather than stuffing around with your own vector format but you can also integrate SVG directly with your document rather than caging the vectors in a box.

  20. Re:Using Tiger on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 1

    If Compaq can get it right in the TC1000, Apple can get it right in the iTab.

  21. Re:I like it. on Red Hat/Apache Slower Than Windows Server 2003? · · Score: 1
    I was just posting off-the-cuff about a web server showdown earlier.

    Taking the replies into consideration and having thought about it some I think that a good metric would be to give the two teams a budget and let them buy their own hardware and hire sysadmins and developers.

    Give them a specification for a simple database driven content management system or a wiki or something like that and once it's up and running we give them a good Slashdotting.

    We can then basically compare $/page. Someone cleverer than me can come up with some formula that accounts for server responsiveness, the number of "pages" served, the average size of a page, downtime, etc. Obviously a well designed system will use less markup to produce the required result so higher KB/$ is not a good metric.

    I imagine the two of the competing technologies would be ASP.Net & MS SQL Server vs. PHP & MySQL but I don't see a reason to limit the competition to two teams or restrict the technologies they can use.

  22. Re:Just like the samba benchmark on Red Hat/Apache Slower Than Windows Server 2003? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What someone should do in these kind of tests is get an expert Windows team and an expert GNU/Linux team, identical servers and let them configure them as best as they can. That seems fair.

  23. Why would a carnivore evolve a herbivorous diet? on From Carnivore to Herbivore · · Score: 1

    I evolved a herbivorous diet from an omnivorous one. My wife says I'm missing out, but I'm happy being veg. and I have plenty of energy.

  24. demolition on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 1

    Is bendable concrete going to make it difficult to demolish structures built using it as the main material?

  25. Re:Well, funny and all but..... on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1
    But now you have people like me, and I'm sure I'm not in a minority here in Oz, who were brought up without discipline, responsibility and respect for our elders and who now have young children of their own.

    It may be hard to instill these qualities in children but it's a damn sight harder if your still playing catch-up yourself.