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  1. Re:Home usage only on Rendezvous, Microsoft And Apple · · Score: 1

    Actually, it doesn't nearly even begin to saturate any network. At home we have two iBooks both running OS 10.23 so they're running rendevouz as well.

    I was running etherreal to investigate some odd VPN problem i was having for about two hours on my pc, and I noticed about a total of 12 packets from Rendeavouz.

    That sounds pretty low-bandwidth if you ask me.

  2. Re:What about this one? on Microsoft Next Generation Shell · · Score: 3, Informative

    I too discovered this, and then learned from one of the Win32 programmers at work that this has been available in the NT command line since 3.51, it's just turned off by default. You have to turn it on via the registry.

  3. word a day? on Good Samaritans Choose Linux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    did anyone else notice that good samaritan is actually TWO words? how is that the WORD of the day? (singular)

  4. Re:not just UltraDNS - others too on DOS Attacks On DNS Provider · · Score: 2

    in other words, you mean a DDoS.

    being the the first D in that means "Distributed."

    so it's a Distributed Denial of Service attack.

  5. Re:Reasons for surcharges on Add-Ons Add Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    yeah, so instead you pay ludascrisly high property taxes. even if you rent. the amount of the rent goes up when the house costs more to own.

    plus. you live in new hampshire. 'nuff said.

  6. Re:Not impressed on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 3, Informative

    if i'm not mistaken you can edit the SPAM rule in mac os 10.2 mail and add additional properities to it's rules.

    the default is "if not in address book and it's SPAM" send to SPAM folder.

    you should be able to add a properity to that rule that says

    "if not in address book and FROM: doesn't contiain XYX.COM and it's SPAM" send to SPAM folder

    you just add the properities before the SPAM one.

  7. Re:Who Needs a Whole NEW Microsoft OS? on Longhorn Server Scrapped · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't know, though. I changed my systems over to Red Hat, and keep up with the errata, and amuse myself by opening a sessions and typing in "uptime"

    Now, while I'm a mac os 10.2 user, I do have a computer running linux and another running nt 4.0sp6 at my desk.

    the redhat computer and the windows computer have both been up for over 5 months without crashing, and both do about the same amount of work.

    the trick? i don't run programs that I know are going to be problematic. i don't run IE.

  8. Re:Simple mouse Gesture on Browse All You Want At Work · · Score: 2

    actually, it was
    up-down-up-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-b-a-st ar t
    well, for most of you losers out there.

    i was all about
    up-down-up-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-b -a-sele ct-start

  9. os x speeds on Is Mac OS X Slow? · · Score: 2

    i have a 400mhz G4 at work with 384mb ram and a 500 mHz ibook at home with 192 mb of ram. now that i'm running jaguar (10.1 had some slowness on my ibook) EVERYTHING is super fast with the exception of MOZILLA chimera is still too unpolished to use (i'm a web developer) so i need to use netscape (ie on the mac is a just a nest of javascript bugs). please please please mozilla...make this wonderful browser (which i am using right now) work faster in os x somehow!

  10. Re:Swapping Values Without Using a Temporary Varia on The Python Cookbook · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    pyhton isn't special because it can do crap like that. you can do that in basic. or c. or ada. or assembly. whatever.

    b = a + b;
    a = b - a;
    b = b - a;

    there's a few ways to solve this problem, and using white-space agnostic languages to boot.

  11. not all meta tags on Declaring The Death of Metatags · · Score: 4, Informative

    they're only talking about the KEYWORD one.

    the description tag is still used to display a blurb about your site in many search engines.

    and then there's the always-fun meta refresh tag.

  12. i'll only use it on eSuds · · Score: 2

    if i can control it via SOAP

  13. Re:Disable JavaScript for Happiness on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 2

    actually, we create a lot of functionality based on the DOM and JavaScript -- also, thanks to the absolute crappiness of the Netscape 4 CSS engine, most of the sites i work do a detect for netscape 4 to give them a very dumbed-down, vanilla stylesheet since many of our styles (all CSS1-valid W3C syntax mind you) cause netscape 4 to acutally crash.

  14. Re:Apple.... on Should "B" be the Same as "b"? · · Score: 2

    acutally, it is semi-case senstive. iu'm using an HFS+ partition with my own compiled version of bash, and in the shell its case sensitive, but otherwise not.

  15. whine whine whine on Amazon Offers Discounted Mac OS X 10.2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why is it such a big deal to have to pay for an upgrade to your software.

    no one gets all up in arms when microsoft charges for the next version of windows, why this? is it because, unlike microsoft, they didn't change the revision number enough, but chose to call it 10.2 instead of 11 (as ms probably would have called it).

    it's a brand new version of the os with thousands of programmer hours put into it, yeah, it's not open source or free or anything, but give me a unix with a useable graphical interface that i don't have to mess around with to get it to display fonts correctly or recomplile my kernel or the windowing system to support my graphics card and i'll gladly pay for it too.

    and yes, i use a mac. and yes i'm going to buy it.

  16. screw that *nix crap on Recommended Text Editors for Win32? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    honestly this is not a troll

    but on windows use something that is designed for windows and not ported as an afterthought.

    when i have to use a pc to edit (i mainly use bbedit on os x, which is by far and large the best editor i have EVER used) i use textedit

    yeah, it's shareware, but it's not disabled in anyway and the only shareware part is that once in a thousand saves you get a dialogue that says "register or not" and the not button isn't time delayed or any of that crap, you click "not now" and it shuts up like a good piece of software.

  17. Re:Version control system minimum requirements on Designing a New Version Control System? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly this sounds a lot like many of the features that perforce has (which I use at work too).

    Atomic commits -- if perforce can't process all your files in your changelist, it won't submit them. this means if one of hte files in your list is out-of-date with the server version (your revision number is lower than the one on the server, which means you have to resolve the merge) or if you've done something that perforce doesn't like with a file. you can't force it either.

    changelist and access control - perforce sets up "clients" which map it's depot on your local computer. you can create as many changelists as you need and as you check out files add them to various change lists, submit one changelist while you have others open, submit some files from a directory and keep others checked out

    web viewer/graphical diff - there's a web viewer and the windows version has a diff program.

    it does labelling, it supported on EVERYTHING thing (including Mac os pre-X via the Macintosh Programmers Workshop via the Command Line, and OS X via command line)

  18. large companies do care about cross-platform on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 2

    i work for the second largest portal site in their webhost division as a production engineer. i only use mozilla (since .9.1) to do my work and we have to test all of our pages in:

    IE 4.0 +
    Netscape 4.7
    Netscape 6.0+

    Everything, aside from DHTML tricks (of which we use VERY little) has to work in all browsers, including our CSS (simple CSS, no layout).

    We even test on WebTV for our flagship project.

  19. Re:Super Mario Brothers 3 on Nintendo Ressurecting Classic NES Games to the GBA · · Score: 3, Informative

    what the crap are you talking about. SMB3 was the last mario for the NES. The third generation gaming platform from Nintendo (barring GB, GBC, pGB, and GBA) is the n64.

  20. Re:oh yeah? on Macs Are Cheaper than PCs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    please show me where you can get the os for your homebuilt computer and a comparable number of applications (office suite, photo management software) with full firewire and USB support without having to reconfigure or recompile the kernel AND has a top-notch interface and my grandmother can use?

    also, show me where you can build g4-speed comptuer with a dual head nvidia card and 128mb of ram for $400, and i'll buy one from you.

  21. Re:Effects of technology on the tv industry on Judge Says Sonicblue Doesn't Have to Monitor · · Score: 2

    two words:

    product placement

    it's already used all over the place...i imagine if commericials go the way of the dodo, we'll see the t.v. shows become more of a commericial then they are.

  22. very interesting on Version Control with CVS on Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the article makes several references to using BASH and/or SH, yet, by default OS X doesn't include BASH (i had to compile and install it myself, and then figure out netinfo to get to be my default shell).

  23. Re:Mac OS 1.1 on Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing? · · Score: 2

    Actually, it's not postscript that does the display in OS X. It's display PDF. Display Postscript is what the NeXT used. Apple updated it for OS X switching to the open PDF formart by adobe.

  24. Re:OS X vs. Linux on Apple's Response to Microsoft: Unix Ads? · · Score: 2

    no bash, and no vim?

    not pre-installed.

    i'm not a programmer. i don't know c. but i do know how to compile and install software packages in unix (i learned it from linux).

    when i noticed bash and vim were missing (vi is there, but i prefer vim honestly), all i had to do was get the source tarballs, and do the normal:
    tar xvzf bashBLAH.tar.gz
    cd bashBLAH
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

    (vim is different, but the INSTALL and README files tell you waht to do).

    now i have vim and bash on my os x machine, i've got bash set to my default shell (netinfo is weird, but that's just because i'm not used to it).

  25. Re:not as easy as just writing mp3s to disk... on Apple iPod on Linux Project · · Score: 3, Informative

    the problem with them not showing up is not how they're stored, it has to do with the iTunes database.

    the iTunes database is a binary proprietory format from Apple that stores much the information that the ID3v2 tag in your MP3 stores. This allows iTunes and the iPod to sort through your mp3 files quicker and the such.

    In order for files copied into the iPod to show up on the playlist, they need to updated in the iTunes playlist stored on the iPod's harddrive.

    This would require someone to figure out how to parse the iTunes database format and update the database when the files are copied over, so you would need some sort of tool to do this automatically for you on Linux.