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  1. Disspell the confusion... on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    ... use the correct term: transclusion.

  2. Re:Independent music recommendation services? on EFF Releases Music DRM Guide · · Score: 4, Informative

    cdbaby has a useful genre/category/mood browser.

  3. Re:Integrated on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1

    apt-get install nscd

  4. Re:Going to die? on Lessig - Public Domain Dead in 35 Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    This isn't true as I understand it. An author can't do anything to prevent his heirs from relicensing his work. An author may also use his 35-year termination right to relicense a work.

  5. Re:Why code signing sucks. on Do You Code Sign? · · Score: 1

    I expect it's in the release notes.

    If you can't be arsed to read them then use Ubuntu (or wait for the next version of Debian); Apt 0.6 makes sure that the packages you install come from a trusted place.

  6. Re:The case on Blizzard/Vivendi 2, bnetd 0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fear not, consumer! It is only a matter of time before your outmoded laws are harmonised with those of America.

  7. Re:Multiple Zip Files on New Winzip in the Works · · Score: 1

    for file in *.zip; do unzip "$file"; done

  8. Re:Wake me... on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 1

    How is old Mac, and how are his boxes?

  9. Re:but what about the interface to it? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    What about using 'find' is 'manual'?

    If you sorted all the files by hand it would be manual.

    Just because you must do a bit of typing does not mean that the process is any more 'manual' than adding new conditions to a list of rules in a GUI.

    Your computer with Winfs isn't going to read your mind and predict that you want to see all of the lighthouse pictures you've taken from floria that don't have 16:9 aspect ratio.

  10. Re:but what about the interface to it? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    Better than what?

    You asked the question as if you thought such a task were impossible without WinFS. I merely proved you wrong.

    If the command line isn't your thing then use f-spot or iPhoto or whatever.

  11. Re:Actually... on Five Reasons Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    You obviously didn't try very hard. The Ubuntu installer allows you to resize an NTFS partition. I did it yesterday--shrank an NTFS partition from 60 to 40 gigs, freeing up 20 gigs for Ubuntu.

  12. Re:but what about the interface to it? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    find ~/Photos -name '*florida*'

  13. Re:but what about the interface to it? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    find ~/Photos -name '*lighthouse*' -and -not -name '*16:9*'

    Not really sure what you want to do with the second one, but I'll try:

    find ~/Photos -name '*camille*' -exec cp {} ~/montage \;

    If the command line isn't your thing then you can always use F-Spot or iPhoto.

  14. Re:Well a lot of those are easy on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    Your last one could be:

    find -gname administrator -exec file {} \; | grep blah

    or if you like MIME types:

    find -gname administrator -exec file --mime {} \; | grep application/x-blah

  15. Re:Point by point, most is wrong. on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    The specs for Flash are not open. They are not available if you want to use them to create a competing implementation of a flash player.

    The rest of your post leaves me scratching my head and wondering, WTF? You appear to live in some kind of alternate CRAZY universe where graphics card manufacturers make their web sites available only in flash, where flash is "essential" if one ever want to surf the web, and where web sites are somehow able to prevent one from downloading their content, though not "viewing" it, as if there HTTP features a distinction between the two actions.

  16. Re:i'm one of the first.... on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 2

    Ah, I see now. The Back button is only used by a small number of developers and power users?

  17. the documentation is useless for that purpose on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Documentation of the Flash file format is not freely available.
    "Pursuant to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of developing Products that output SWF."
    Those working on GPLFlash and others may not use the documentation.
  18. Re:Science gone amuck again on Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Cooking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > How many thousands of years have people lived off what the earth grows?

    We can not support 6.5 billion people using traditional faming methods. By 2020 we will have to support 8 billion...

  19. Re:Why is Linux so great? Please share your reason on 2.6.13 Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    You should have used my packages of VMWare. :p

  20. Re:One on The Player's Bill of Rights · · Score: 2, Informative

    One can also use the Spivak pronouns if one doesn't want to come off as sounding like a bit of a toff. :)

  21. Re:No grammar check is NOT a feature on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 1
    "... while Word would print something, but never close to what you actually saw on the screen?"
    Word already supports this feature. :)
  22. Re:-My- OpenOffice Experience on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 1

    Did you report your reproducable problem to their bug tracking system?

  23. Re:Who uses Office XP anymore? on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 1

    They can't call it "OpenOffice" because the name is already taken by another project.

  24. Re:true, true and irrelevant on Spyware Maker Indicted on Hacking Charges · · Score: 1
    "In my brain it always (raises the question as to|makes me wonder) whether the person heard the phrase used properly and is now repeating it in the improper way, or if they're just using the phrase because they think it sounds smart, in which case they sound twice as silly."
    The answer to your question is yes.
  25. Re:Get used to it on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1
    Perhaps you should read Apple's documentation on the subject.
    "Macintosh computers that use an Intel microprocessor do not use Open Firmware."
    Goodbye, happines... hello, BIOS...