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  1. Re:you can buy it.. but you can't play it on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 1

    Feel free to point out where I implied this...

  2. Re:Are any of you forgetting.. on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 1
  3. Re:you can buy it.. but you can't play it on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so you run a pirated copy of Windows XP, then? Or is it a "legitimate" volume install borrowed from work? :)

    Oh I suppose you could just be using Win2k.

  4. Re:This won't change their minds... on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    If you were watching a cat and it suddenly changed into a horse, would you start believing in evolution?

  5. Re:Do you know how to count words at all? on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    The only problem I have with using LaTeX is that there is seemingly no way to accuratly count words. I ended up with the following:

    alias texwc='dvi2tty report.dvi | sed "s/\. \.//g" | sed "s/ \. //g" | sed "s/ [A-Za-z]*-$//" | sed "s/.*_$//" | wc -w'

    Pretty nasty! The seds remove the junk that artificially inflates the word count the most, like page numbers, page headers and the table of contents. What I really need is something like:

    dvi2tty --for-screen report.dvi | wc

    where --for-screen makes dvi2tty format the output for a screen rather than for printing to a line printer. Ironically this would make it perform the function that its name matches! :)

  6. Re:Do you know how to count words at all? on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should pass your document through a program that converts the content to text first?

    cat blah.html | html2txt | wc
    cat blah.doc | deword | wc

    Ok, I made deword up, because I forgot the name of the program that makes a Word document in to text.

  7. Re:Tabbed browsing not important on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    Screenshots please? I could do with a laugh!

  8. Re:You don't say! on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Movie? I thought that thing was a documentary!

  9. Re:Stupid idea on Beat Spam Using Hashcash · · Score: 1

    $ dig +short txt sourceforge.net
    "v=spf1 mx a:mail.marblehorse.org a:sshgate.sourceforge.net a:smtp.vasoftware.com a:newcastle.devrandom.net -all"

    Problem solved.

  10. Re:Pre-installed on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Uninformed? I am speculating about possible future events, not trying to pretend that the "Set Program Access & Defaults" feature (which is shit, btw) doesn't exist.

  11. Re:Exclusion from Google Desktop search? on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Possibly they were referring to how GDS does not index your Firefox cache, history and bookmarks. Unless it does, and I didn't notice :)

  12. Re:Pre-installed on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Until Microsoft jacked up the price for anyone wishing to distribute a non-IE browser.

    Besides, come Windows update time, the user would be presented with the following:

    WARNING: Windows Update could not detect a secure browser on your system. Using an insecure browser may make you more vulnerable to hackers and viruses. Would you like to install a secure browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6) now? Cancel [OK]

  13. Re:iTunes Music Store still has some problems... on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    I guess Unixisms are rubbing off on Apple after all... :)

  14. Re:until someone discovered a bug that redirects.. on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    FF has a white list of sites that it will allow extensions and updates from. It will only accept updates.mozilla.org, unless the user tells it otherwise.

    Now of course, it doesn't require the use of SSL, so it would be possible to trick FF from downloading malware from another site, if the attacker can spoof DNS replies, or edit your hosts file.

  15. Re:Had to completely uninstall the Preview Release on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure I read it in the notes earlier today, before mozilla's site went down. :)

    On a related matter, I find it interesting that the notes for Windows say you must not try to install over a previous installation in a directory that you don't have permissions to write to, because it destroys that installation.

    How does that work exactly? You'd think even MS could get file system permissions correct... :)

  16. Re:Food for thought.. on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    God created himself, you heathen! BURN!! BURN!!!

  17. Re:Food for thought.. on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    How about, we teach them intelligent, critical thinking; to question all the "facts" they are presented with as THE TRUTH; to approach such questions from an impartial point of view.

    Oh wait, then no one would end up believing in Creationism, and the religious zealots who seem to make education board decisions today can't have that!

  18. Re:Food for thought.. on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    Lack of evidence?

  19. Re:New York Times Ad on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I got your results for you, right here...

  20. Re:Had to completely uninstall the Preview Release on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    One of the most prominent entries in the Release Notes states that you MUST NOT install the new Firefox over an old version. In fact, this has been true for as long as I remember. Just because it didn't cause problems vor you in the past doesn't mean that it will always work.

    In fact, it's probably best to create a new profile, the one I've lugged around since 0.4 has probably gotten a bit crufty. :)

  21. Re:Get a clue on California Takes A Last Swing At VoIP · · Score: 1

    Is there a verifiably secure method for exchanging the session key? If not, then the encryption[0] is worthless. This is what happens when you have around "AES-256" as a marketing feature instead of a security feature.

    [0] if it even works, since we don't have the source, we can't tell. :)

  22. Re:Reminds me of Autoexec.bat attacks on No-Click Phishing On The Way · · Score: 1

    He's just learning how to nurture the need for a business, from the masters!

  23. Re:Try it with NFS... on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 1

    Safe Shell Programming, lesson 2!

    set -o nounset

    OR

    set -u

    Will cause bash to complain that FOODIR was not set, rather than replacing it with nothing (""), and executing "rm -rf /*"

  24. Re:Try it with NFS... on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Save Shell Programming, Lesson 1!

    Use the -- argument to indicate that all following parameters are filenames, and are not to be parsed as options:

    rm -f -- *

  25. Re:The Democrats voted for it too on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 1

    Any representative who did not read the Act SHOULD NOT HAVE VOTED FOR IT. The Republicans and Democrats BOTH fucked you over here.