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  1. WTF n00bs? on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 1

    I can just imagine that in a thought bubble above his head in a nearest-neighbor extrapolated 8-pixel high font.

    lol. :-} ::snerk::

  2. Smart forms... not for doing input checks on Mouse Gestures in Javascript · · Score: 1

    (your server MUST check input, forget about doing that in javascript).

    No, the best uses I've seen help with the flow between form elements when you Tab/Shift-Tab, focus/blur, etc... bring up hidden layers when you click a checkbox, bring the focus to a field when you mouse over a region but haven't started typing.

    I love those little nicities. Perfect use of the DOM and event handling in ecmascript.

  3. lynx is too resource intensive on Debian Project Servers Compromised · · Score: 1


    $ curl -sI http://intranet/ | grep Server
    Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1

  4. it takes less time to hit the bloodstream on Debian Project Servers Compromised · · Score: 1

    karma burn...::inhales deepy::
    mmmm now that's smooth flavor.

  5. Not if you don't know what you are looking for... on Bill Joy on Linux and Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    (why else would you use ls?... because if you did know what you were looking for you'd be using find)

  6. I can't fucking believe this crap. I'm outta here. on AT&T Sues PayPal and eBay for Patent Infringement · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tell the Indians they can deal with this bullshit. I'm going to grow Alpalcas or something.

  7. There shouldn't be a problem here. on Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora' · · Score: 1

    1) Fedora isn't anything they're pitching to customers. So it doesn't need to compete in the marketplace, so there's no reason why they need to make sure the name isn't confusing. (No one would mistake "Fedora" RHL for any other product bearing it's name... it's an OPERATING SYSTEM for crying out loud)

    2) FEDORA is an academic project, and it's called "Fedora PROJECT", no just Fedora.
    The people who know what Fedora is in that sense would be directly interested in the project, and could not possibly connect it to RedHat.

    You won't accidentally stumble onto the Fedora PROJECT and attempt to install it over Windows.
    Not happening. :-)
    I really don't see how anyone can object to either party using the name other than just being pricks.

  8. (slightly ot...) on Bill Joy on Linux and Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    And it's weird, because ls isn't really that useful anyway. It doesn't actually "list" files that match a pattern, the shell does that for you.

    ls just prints out information about the files.
    It's only when you turn on recursion that it starts to make more sense, but even then, you could just get a lot of stuff that scrolls all the way up that you don't want to wade through.

    For that kind of thing, a graphical interface is ideal.

    "find" and -printf are TONS more useful in that respect.
    It's gotten to the point that I hardly ever use ls anymore, just shell completetion and "echo".

  9. I used those electronic voting machines... on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 3, Informative

    and they worked fine.

    The election lady got all patronizing with me, like I didn't understand how to use a touch screen. I was done voting before I could tell her to shut the hell up.

    I was kind of annoyed by the lack of curtains though.

    (well, it's no so bad since the LCDs are difficult to read from the side, and the ballots are randomly generated so you can't tell who others are voting for by "finger location")

    And even if the "x" disappeared, the user gets a chance to review the votes that will be cast near the end of the session, and the front and back arrows allow you to revisit and modify your choices for each race.
    Just fix it! What's the chance it'll disappear again? (Sounds like a UI bug... only happens periodically according to election officials).

    I hope by next year they update the firmware or something. Erratic behavior during something as constrained as a poll is unacceptable. JUST USE A FUCKING WEB BROWSER AND CSS IF YOU CAN'T DESIGN A GUI.

  10. FYI, you CAN do that. on NDIS Wrapper For Wireless LAN Cards Under GPL · · Score: 1

    The drivers are in fact portable across all 2.4 versions. However, you have to compile the kernel without versioning (which no distro does that I know of by default), which sort of defeats the purpose of that.
    You'd have to build it yourself, then you can play with knives.
    But then, it's probably safer if people can't force load older drivers...sometimes a bugfix the changes the semantics of some kernel function or depricates one, even if all the other APIs are the same.
    The driver shouldn't still be using it otherwise the security hole still exists.

    I mean, NVidia has the right idea. They compile the resource management hooks from source, but the core is a static object linked in which has all the proprietary logic.

    Broadcom should be doing the same thing... keeping their radio tweaking code inside an object with all the register numbers hidden so we can't jam police radios or something.

  11. It was called I20. Intel really liked the idea. on NDIS Wrapper For Wireless LAN Cards Under GPL · · Score: 1

    And it died... Two years ago. Lots of talk and no work.

  12. tsk. blue-haired albino on What Might UserLinux Look Like? · · Score: 1

    beat that, bitch.

  13. And everytime I fire up Photoshop on What Might UserLinux Look Like? · · Score: 1

    I keep right clicking AND NOTHING USEFULL HAPPENS.

    Intuitive is a matter of past experience.

  14. No, the problem is that it's already solved... on What Might UserLinux Look Like? · · Score: 1

    the answer is postscript. Nearly everybody uses it or a bastardized dialect (whether you realize it or not). You create it, then get it to the machine with the network printer or print server (somehow). If there needs to be further translatation to a different printer language, you do it at the LAST possible moment (like right before sending it down the USB port, lets say).

    The problem is there are TONS of mutually incompatible ways and means to get your job from here to the printer that have developed over the years.

    We need to just stick with one. I vote for the easy-to-grasp IPP.

    How does Windows 2000 printer search work... is that an Active Directory variant of a LDAP search? Because that should become standardized too.

  15. Anti-slash "jihad" (ot) on What Might UserLinux Look Like? · · Score: 1

    They gain easy karma so they can take out their petty frustrations on slashdot at +2.

    Sigh.

  16. The benefits outweigh the costs. on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 1

    Comparing user-accessible 64-bit to an SUV is assinine. SUVs have large costs that are only justified if they are used to their full extent.

    AMD64s allow programmers to simplify memory management, access large integer datatypes easily, and potentially improve throughput. It's 32-bit compatible without bending-over backwards. They allow users a much less restricted upgrade path.
    All in chips that run cooler clock for clock.

    On the down side, the data cache might be used less effectively. And some OSs need a little bit of extra logic to keep 32-bit code and 64-bit seperate (mostly for performance reasons).

    That being said, you don't need AMD64, G5 or any of thatbut it's a really good idea

  17. Are you kidding me? on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 1

    I've got my Opteron at work (to cheap to buy one myself) and I am content.

    (no really, it kicks a large quantity of ass. At least 3700 furlongs)

  18. You're supposed to treat the upper 16-bits... on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 1

    as "reserved", and always set to zero.

    This will probably lead to a extension in later revisions of the chip with new paging schemes that enable the upper address bits, but not break compatibility with older software.

  19. *cough* paged *cough* on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're still limited to 4GB-(kernel prot.) per process.

  20. If it doesn't have a 256-bit wide adder or shifter on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 1

    ...it's NOT a 256-bit CPU.

    There's your litmus test. No more discussion.

  21. Same "kind" of idea, but different problem. on World's Oldest Puzzle Solved · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The four color problem is a lot different than this puzzle because you have to define your shapes (topological relationships) in addition to checking properties of "joining them up"

  22. Someone needs to host a "shitlist" on Attacking the Spammer Business Model · · Score: 1

    Imagine a slashdot-like site where concerned members "submit" links to spam/webbot/cc-phisher sites with a short description, and subscribers moderate them.

    If it gets enough mods, it gets inserted into an RDF feed.

    The same site publishes a series of simple scripts or libraries that download this RDF feed and use a variety of nasty tricks to the servers (real and virtual) them.

    By default, we could have the "use any remaining bandwidth to constantly download all images with bogus referrals" mode enabled in the downloads.

    Since most techie users are at the end of an assymetric fat pipe, why not put it to use? It's like Folding-at-home, only its used to combat spam or other nasty sites.

    I have written a number of scripts that do such things to a list of URLs. The next one of my list a resource-hoggeer that spawns a few tens of threads that open connections to the server, accept data slowly, then cut out halfway through the "Content-Length". With a handful of people running this, soon connection refused messages will be popping up. It'd be light on the bandwidth requirement too.

    (has anyone written a "hack" like this? I don't want to re-invent the wheel)

  23. Oracle 8 on Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison · · Score: 1

    took the cake vs. open source RDBMS' when it first came out.

    It is only in the last 3 years that pgsql has gotten Oracle-good, and MySQL/Firebird/Sybase brought in some recently opensourced techs to get feature complete.

    I'm 100% positive open source has been playing catchup in the RDBMS arena w.r.t. Oracle for, well, since forever.

  24. Don't forget call girls on Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison · · Score: 1

    to ride in the passenger seat.

  25. AFAIK HyperThreading did work... on Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison · · Score: 1

    you'd get 2x CPUs to schedule on, it's just that the kernel didn't know that not all the virtual CPUs are "created equal" (migrating one thread from one HT port to the other on the same physical chip is less useful than migrating it to a different chip if you are CPU bound, but it's a better choice if you are transferring a lot of data in and out of memory for cache coherency)