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  1. Re:Gimp on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1
    ^^ This. As an ex printer, a thousand times this.

    You have no business sending me CMYK images. I decide on the CMYK formula to use based on my press specs (which I sent you but you never read) and your ICC profile + RGB image.

    I might need to print your image on two different presses with two different dotgains (o hai there username), which would necessitate two different CMYK files from you in this case.

  2. Re:Maybe because Cisco still teaches IPv4? on Worldwide IPv6 Adoption: Where Do We Stand Today? · · Score: 1

    They have to teach IPv4, it's still under heavy use. Cisco CCIE used to test on Token Ring and FDDI for a few hundred years after they'd been long dead too.

  3. Re:pot meet kettle on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 1

    Bah, I'll take 'long long long long int' over that any day.

  4. Re:Perl versis c++ on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 1
    Certainly, what you say is true. Your response is well reasoned, and I appreciate that. I never said Perl itself was easy to learn, and I've only got one nitpick:

    C++, by its use of namespaces, avoids things like std::vector, std::string etc. being 'reserved words', but that doesn't change the fact that they're there to learn. Yes, Perl has a large number or reserved words compared to C et. al. but I've never felt that these are what makes Perl hard to learn.

    When I began learning C++ I initially felt it was easy to learn - only because I didn't realise how much of it I had yet to face. In reality it's actually a long road to becoming a good C++ programmer - equally true of Perl. I think my biggest disadvantage was learning C and becoming quite proficient in it long before I learned C++. I never did find a C++ book that starts out with "Okay, so you already know C, here are all the C things you need to forget about"

    I don't mean to criticise C++ at all (you won't have any trouble finding people who've gone to great lengths to do so) but I maintain that learning it well is not "easy" by any means.

  5. Re:Perl is expressive on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    Languages which are simple to learn (c++, for example)

    WHAT?

  6. Re:Why perl? on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's worth noting that Larry Wall won the IOCCC - twice. (I don't say this to support the GP's remark, more to attest to Larry Wall's awesomeness)

  7. Re:Web Server development on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your friend should look into revision control software and possibly getting the cat his own terminal. This way the cat's contributions can be easily tracked.

  8. Re:How long before... on Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Microsoft were not as flagrantly greedy and evil then as Apple are now.

  9. Re:Cost vs injury on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 1

    I've seen countdown timers on [...] some pedestrian crossings in [...] NZ, they are quite effective. No they're not. NZ pedestrians do not give a fuck, and are as good as cattle on the road.

  10. Re:It said using channel 2 would REDUCE interferen on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's an exploit of a loophole in /. moderation. Funny mods provide no 'karma'. The basic idea is mod the post up funny, and back down overrated. This can repeat without end with enough moderators, and the poster goes to full negative karma for just one post.

  11. Re:Underhanded was always more interesting on 21st IOCCC Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    It seems the results of the 2009 contest weren't even announced, which is a pity.

  12. Re:Classy on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    After that post, I really don't think you've got any justification to be talking about what "any fool can see" in your .sig. You really have no comprehension of what this even about.

  13. Re:The enemy among us. on US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge · · Score: 1

    He also used to be a little boy who threw a pebble through my lounge window. Rascal!

  14. Re:Pluto never was a planet on Is Pluto a Binary Planet? · · Score: 1

    I think what's probably more important to your son is not the semantics of what we do and do not classify as a planet, but what is actually out there.

  15. Re:Terminology? on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't in my opinion: if the 'leap' cascades to 'minute', why shouldn't it to hour, day, and so on. Every year with a leap second would be considered a 'leap year'. Bzzt.

  16. Re:FUD? on Leap Second Bug Causes Crashes · · Score: 2

    Have you read the source for /bin/sh ?

  17. Re:Missing keyboard on Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired · · Score: 1

    That's what we do at my place too. Even with laptops.

  18. Re:Christ... on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1
    The supplied disk utility supports wiping disks clean with your choice of one, seven or 35 passes. I'd be entirely confident disposing of my laptop after a single zero pass. Hopefully you would at least be satisfied with seven passes of random data.

    If you're the kind of person that won't be satisfied until the disk is removed and destroyed ... power to you.

  19. Yes on Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon · · Score: 1

    N/T

  20. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 2

    While you can't be extradited from NZ to US for copyright infringement, you can for "sodomy"

  21. Re:FreeBSD, Windows, and Android are working on IP on IPv6-Only Is Becoming Viable · · Score: 1

    Ultimately, all that really 'takes care of' is the contents of some text file called /etc/sysconfig/network

  22. Re:Easy! on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    Bonus points for getting trolled by a .sig line.

  23. Re:Digital journal? What's the problem? on Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital · · Score: 1

    Whoosh is for jokes that aren't noticed by respondents. It's not a way to tell people you're merely trolling and acting more ignorant that you are in reality.

  24. Re:I don't like digital-only periodical subs on Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital · · Score: 1

    And I hope not.

  25. Re:I don't Git it.... on The Rise of Git · · Score: 1

    No, working with Theodore Tso is hard to get right.