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  1. Re:Unresolved bugs. on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1

    I must disagree with the equation editor. It was a bit difficult to learn some of the advanced formatting syntax, but the fact that you can type text and have it formatted is brilliant. I can take notes in real time in math now, including long proofs, using the OO equation editor.

  2. Re:I see a business emerging! on Firmware Upgrades For Everything · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know it would save me an awful lot of time. Not that I mind helping out people out, but sometimes i feel its so simple they should just learn.

  3. Re:The name for this isn't MARKETING. on Toy Penguins and Male Egos Drove Linux Acceptance · · Score: 1

    type M-x woman in emacs.....

  4. Re:Andy Wharhol on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 1

    It's a CVS tag so its not addressed to someone.

  5. Re:Not a disease on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been diagnosed with ADD and have been presecribed Concerta to take as i choose. I don't use it often, but I found that in situations where i wouldn't normally focus, in particular lectures, I was able to focus and take notes as opposed to doing other more interesting things such as programming. While I don't know if ADD is a disease, i do know that I have trouble (lots of trouble) paying attention to things which do not interest me. When I take the medication, I find it much easier to conecntrate. I disagree with people who put this off as a side affect of today's society mostly because of the change that I notice. Is ADD overdiagnosed, maybe? But from my experience i think it exists.

    Also the test I was given consisted of pressing spacebar everytime a letter appeared on the screen, except when an X appeared. In that case i was supposed to do nothing. In analyzing the results with my psychatrist she said that by the pattern of response times based on noraml responses and responses just after an X there is a signficiant deviation from the normal population.

  6. Re:XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Insightful

    XFS is also the X font server.....

  7. Re:Importance of GPS, & questions on its Relia on Equine Speedometers · · Score: 1

    DGPS (differential gps) units run around $5,000 each. One is needed for a base staion, the other would go on the horse. The ones that I've seen weren't too small either.

  8. Re:I think your estimates are way too high on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 1

    That or compgeeks.com. I bought 4 athalon 900s with 128 mb ram, case, power supply, cheap video card and 6.7 gb HDs for about 125 each.

  9. Tinfoil hat on Earth's Magnetic Field Weakens 10 Percent · · Score: 1

    Finally, a use for my tinfoil hat.

  10. Re:High Specification PC's on Linux Goes to Mars · · Score: 1

    Hehe the high spec machines i saw were dual Xeon 3ghz with a 21in flat screen.

  11. Re:Full text: in case of slashdotting on Security Experts Doubt SCO's Claims of DoS · · Score: 1

    Its probably possible, but I would imagine it would take a lot more data (bigger pipes on the inside) as well as being easier to find the infected box (by router and such)

  12. Programming issues on The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing? · · Score: 1

    My pointer isn't null!! or Who would pass a string over 1000 characters?

  13. I assume they don't use network solutions on Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk · · Score: 1

    Whenever my domain is "about" to expire netSol sends me tons of crap, both email and snail mail. Granted about to expire means sending me junk now when my domain expires in april. Only because i did a two year contract and then stupidly waited until the last minute to renew am I not on a cheaper reseller.

  14. Re:No Receipts to Voters! on E-Voting Companies Answer Critics With ... Spin · · Score: 1

    Thats how it works. It prints a "reciept" that you review and stick in a box. Then the box can be used for recounts and you are sure that your reciept was put in the box. Then to manipulate the election you would need to both vote extra times and stuff the ballot box

  15. Stop identity theft? on Snail Mail As E-Mail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How would this stop identity theft. Unless you use TLS/SSL email is less secure than snail mail -- its not traveling across bare network wires.

  16. openBSD on CCIA Urges Dept. of Homeland Security to Avoid Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I suppose for a really secure server they could use openBSD. I am working on setting one up at home to play around on, but i've been reading that there hasn't been a remote exploit in many years. While usability is somewhat... lacking, its not impossible to configure and evidently very secure.

  17. Re:It's the first time.. on RPC DCOM Cleanup Worm Appears · · Score: 1

    You would have to make a car alarm that pumps the inverse of the sound thus cancelling it out:) Now that would be useful, seeing that car alarams tend to set on another off.

  18. Entrapment on Googling Your Way Into Hacking · · Score: 1

    Entrapment (in the states at least) is only for law officers not for end users so honeypotting isn't illegal.

  19. Re:Unsigned apps can't run on some installs on Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering · · Score: 2, Informative

    VBA:)! Add a VBA sciplet to your word document, and then do Shell "." If you email me, i have a dialect program, that edits some key registry enties for running programs and so on. Then you crash explorer (with ctrl+Ald+del) and you have bascially full access.

  20. Re:Feelings. Nothing more than feelings. on Roogle: RSS Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Trademarks only are supposed to apply to companies in the same line of buisness. Hence you can have Voodoo computer systems, and the former 3dfx Voodoo card. Being that Roogle and Google are both search engines, Roogle will have to change its name(as they suggest). It was probably a pet name for the project when the guy started it.

  21. Re:BULL!!!! on Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law · · Score: 1

    A gander is a goose, not a duck.

  22. 256 bit max keylength ?!?! on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1
    ...with a one million-bit key, which is unheard of in today's data security markets. Competing solutions offer a maximum of 256 bits.
    1024 bit RSA or AES anyone? I don't like an article that lies....
  23. Who it runs as on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1

    My host liquidweb, has a wrapper script that allows your cgi-bin to suid as you. Otherwise it runs as nobody. For instance, I want to have a cgi script that makes changes to my home dir, i can use their wrapper to give it access. In the same way I am sure I could set this up to give me a shell. However, I have an ssh account so it doesn't matter.

  24. They are missing the ~experts~ on UI design on KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft!! Look at the beauty of XP. MS Linux:)

  25. Detecting Radar on Pentagon and Wi-Fi Deal Reached · · Score: 1

    You probably don't need a souped up access point to detect radar. By nature of the system, active broadcasting, anyone with a RF meter can find it. Just set it to the proper frequency, and you are set.