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  1. Fix the Colors! on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Mod me up if you hate the color scheme. Here's a fixed link using the "old" slashdot colors:

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/31/003721 0&tid=154&tid=128&tid=172

    (I sound like a broken record. I know that. But if it gets said enough times perhaps someone will notice and change something.)

  2. Fix the Colors! on Intel Delays Release of 4Ghz Chips · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mod me up if you hate the color scheme. Here's a fixed link using the "old" slashdot colors:

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/30/221520 9&tid=118&tid=137&tid=126

  3. Re:'Detecting a pulse' for those who don't have on on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, that and the guy you just checked screaming "OW! You just pinched me fucking ear!" will probably help as well.

  4. Goatse? on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles · · Score: 0

    [ And I'm proud to say I contributed to the goatse.cx article.]

    Take that, Britannica!

  5. Re:Linuxlookup.com on Playing Nice: Reviews of CrossOver Office, WineX 4 · · Score: 1

    Check out Drupal. It has a cache feature to help out in case of slashdottings.
    I have not RT'd the FA, but if you're stuff is PHP based, check out Phunami. I came across that one a few days ago and it looked pretty interesting... Caches pages depending on referer.

    Cheers!

  6. don't forget the other DA Mac quotes... on Fix a Troubled Mac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the man himself...

    I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."

    The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

    hehe. Enjoy.

  7. Video available?!? on Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the fuck are you gonna see in the video?

    <opening scene>
    box
    <queue the music>
    box with blinkinlights
    <musical creshendo>
    download done box on computer screen!
    <screen dissolve>
    bigass Cisco logo
    </closing scene>
    </music fades>
    call your local rep or 1-800-givemeyourfuckingbankaccount

  8. Jennifer Marcy on What To Wear On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Geek girl developing space suits. How hot is that?

    Man, i'd tap that radiation shielding if I had a chance ;)

  9. I would stop stealing them... on Microchips to Save Peru's Alpacas · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would stop stealing them if they stopped making them so goddammed cute!

  10. WTF? on The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you gave me a 100 mbit line, it would take me over 92 days to fill it up with porn. More if I slept.

    yeah, but if you looked closer, it's the same 6 gigs over and over again.

  11. Re:Cost? on Astronauts Get Tricoders (Almost) · · Score: 4, Informative

    according to this link it's 5.5K to send a pound up...

    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/upgrades/goa ls .html

    HP says the h5555 (close enough) weighs 7.29 oz

    these guys will convert shit

    http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert

    been up all night so im probably fulla shit but 7.2 oz is 0.45 pounds (bit less than 1/2 pound?)

    0.45 x 5,500 = $2475 a pop. not including SD card or swanky leatherette carrying case. or extended warranty, for that matter ;)

    Carry on!

  12. telework? on Work No Longer a Place but an Activity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do they mean "moving jobs offshore telework" or "americans on call 24 hours a day" telework?

    Either way it sounds hellish to me. I like my days off too much.

  13. flash hell on Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is it just me, but the over-the-top, gratuitous use of flash for building websites is utterly irritating?

    Yeah, cute little pointers and popups for photos and "extreme interactivity". Wee.

    I mean, isn't all theses new technologies supposed to make things look and work better? And what do we have here, a header constantly moving and irritating the piss outta me.

    Bleh.

    *shrug*

  14. OSX installer... on Plone 2.0: eWEEK Reviews, Raves About OS Software · · Score: 1

    is shit. the lsbom it installs has a non-standard "200pieces" markup at the beginning of every line in the BOM, messing up any scripts you may already have to remove things. I ended up using OSXPM (google for it) to clean things up.

    Remember to remove the folder in /Applications the new Plone user it creates and the Plone folder in /Library/StartupItems as well.

    *whew!*. that was ass. Not going to mess with it again.

  15. Volcano Experts? on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Colored markings on the street indicate the presence of volcano experts...

    Sweet jumpin' Jesus! The volcano 'experts' must have burned up and left little *poof* marks where they stood.

  16. Article Text... on Make Your Own TRON Costume · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Server Error in '/.' Application.
    Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

    Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

    Source Error:

    Line 18:
    Line 19: ldr = MCP.GetDR("SELECT tsDocuments.*, Users.userLogin, Users.userFirstName, Users.userLastName, Users.userEmail FROM tsDocuments INNER JOIN Users ON tsDocuments.docCreator = Users.userID WHERE docID = " & lintID)
    Line 20: ldr.Read()
    Line 21:
    Line 22: 'Update User Location

    Source File: D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx Line: 20

    Stack Trace:

    [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
    ASP.article_aspx.Page_Load(Object Sender, EventArgs E) in D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx:20
    System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67
    System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
    System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731

    Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573

  17. Re:Some tips on optimization on Swap File Optimizations? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First troll I've laughed out loud at in a very long time. Good job!

  18. Re:Blame Games on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: 1

    Utter bullshit, man.

    there's hundreds of games out there for Mac, and dedicated development houses that cater *explicitly* to the Mac audience.

    If you will excuse me, going to go play some more Unreal Tournament 2004 on my Mac.

  19. My story, I guess. on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember the 0.97-pre-1 days quite well when Linux stunk on ice, boys and girls. I've use Linux and UN*X for quite some time, helped write training manuals during the dot-bomb days and have enjoyed the Linux and UN*X communities thoroughly.

    This year when it was time to upgrade to another computer, did I get a bitchin' dual processor rig with gobs of ram, all bone crushing speed and input jacks galore?

    No. I got a (nice, used) Quicksilver 867 with a Superdrive and an iBook to take with me on vacation. I can develop software, scripts and all sorts of goodies in the shell or just jump and start up a nice game of Q3A, or UT2004, or whatever. These pieces of hardware to the job that couldn't be done by others for ideological, historical, or monetary reasons and I'm glad that someone put unix on the desktop in a fashion that is easy to use and has plenty of future still in it.

    Unix has made it to the desktop, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for an excellent job, Apple.

    I'll be back to buy more sooner than later.

  20. Re:Costs on Brazil Takes Lead in All-Digital Cinema Projection · · Score: 1

    ...so if digital projection happens then I would expect to see a suitable reduction in costs.

    With all due respect, the words "like hell you will" spring immediately to mind.

    It's just another type of lock-in and the only people going to make bank off it is Microsoft and whomever they bought off to cook something like this up.

  21. Re:People, Places, Things on Trivial Barriers to Personal Linux Use? · · Score: 1

    post your email address and i'll send you a link to it.

    thanks!

  22. People, Places, Things on Trivial Barriers to Personal Linux Use? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess the subject ties all I really have to say in together nicely enough.

    I migrated my wife to Linux a few months ago, after some skips and jumps migrating her IE Favorites over (had to write my own script to migate them over. Ask for the source if you want it) I had to move her mail client from Kmail to Evolution.

    What a nightmare.

    Just coverting between maildir to MBOX formats were a pain, getting her people in her addressbook was another fight, and in the end I decided, there must be a better way.

    Anyone remember good old BeOS? In Be you had People... Every mail client used People as a master address book. It was clean, intelligent, and you didn't have to code up your own converter every time you wanted to switch mail clients. The same goes for Mail... The system saved mail on the hard drive in a specific place and format (Maildir, I think it really ended up being). All mail clients used it, and they all behaved well with it.
    And finally, the browser favorites were located in one place, installed a third party browser? No problem! They all read the favorites from the same place. Coolest part, if you had to backup, just a few folders to drag from the users directory and all the important stuff was backed up to cd.

    Here lately i've started working on a framework to unify People (address books) Places (Favorites) and Things (Mail) so that users can use any mail client they wish, with any browser, and everything stays (and, more importantly, keeps) updated, no matter what client one uses.

    Oh, well. Someone get in touch if you want to bring back some of the cooler aspacts of BeOS to the world of Linux. It's not going to get any easier until we make it so.

  23. spokesman? on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 1

    SecurityFocus asked four U.S. cable modem service providers if they protected their customers with the encryption option....a spokesman for Time Warner's Road Runner service didn't return repeated phone calls on the question.

    That would be a "no"

    Cool, I got a SB3100. I'm in like Flynn!

  24. fp! on Rochester Signs Napster Deal, Hosts P2P Panel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post after the site came back. w00!

  25. Re:Real Player on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sorry I'm ...bufferingbufferingbuffering...