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  1. A quick cURL: on The Fabric of the Cosmos · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's one line, but the backslashes should take care of it, if your browser doesn't insert needless spaces:

    curl -f "http://a768.g.akamai.net/5/768/142/3f9e\
    9589/1a 1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a9198\
    5ea187bea5786f 362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb\
    6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb /nova_eu_30[12-14]c[01-\
    08]_mp4_300.mov" -O

  2. Re:Why pay $9.99/yr when you can pay less... on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 1

    Is that Go, Daddy or God-Addy? I'm slightly disturbed by the first possibility :P

  3. Re:Mozilla needs referrer circumvention! on Online Publisher Blocks LinuxToday Referrals · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Mozilla to the rescue on Online Publisher Blocks LinuxToday Referrals · · Score: 1

    It will only show BigJugs.com if there was an actual link on BigJugs.com to whatever site you went to next. Merely entering a new url or opening a bookmark will not send a referer header.

  5. Forgot a link for the lazy on Online Publisher Blocks LinuxToday Referrals · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Privoxy. It works on MacOS X, Windows, Linux, etc.

  6. Better yet, use Privoxy or something similar on Online Publisher Blocks LinuxToday Referrals · · Score: 1

    If you set +hide-referer{forge}, it will fake the referer header to look like you're coming from the own site you're navigating to. This will work with any site that I have seen, and has the added bonus of you being able to set up pages locally that links to various referer-sensitive sites.

  7. I'll elaborate a bit on the other reply. on Mac OS X 10.3.3 Update Released · · Score: 1

    I'll elaborate a bit on the other reply.

    The problem is likely that the pagefile has grown, or you have downloaded something, and the finder has yet to update the counter. Thus, if you empty your trash and it contains less trash than the free space has decreased, the result will be as you described.

    I routinely use either the CLI or, if I'm feeling false laziness, I create a folder, trash it, and empty the trash.

  8. Re:Perfect Example - ImageMagick on The Command Line - Best Newbie Interface? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Something like this (v. quickly done, so might not be exactly what you're doing)

  9. Re:Nearly-Headless-Nick or Peeves ? on Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's the only fun left to have when the beer vending machine in the cafeteria is run out & there's still a couple hours 'till the nearest bars open.

  10. Re:feelings??? right. on Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's just a temporary chemical imbalance. It'll pass. :)

  11. Re:Delca on Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can click the round bubbly icons to get text read to you. It sounds like it's prerecorded, though, as the text read and the text displayed is subtly different (there's a split infinitive in the sound that's fixed in the text, for example).

  12. Re:Nearly-Headless-Nick or Peeves ? on Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, I can imagine a lot of things. Here at the department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen there is a running prank called pyxling. It's basically making anagrams of the signs (which have those little lego-like letter bricks).

    I'd give examples, but they're in Danish, so no fun for the majority of you. Use your imagination :)

  13. Re:Flamebait on One more G4 for the PowerBook? · · Score: 1

    Ah. Thanks for the reply. I haven't used trackpads in a couple of years, so I honestly wouldn't know how either worked, heh. Also, I see we're both flamebaiters now. Woo!

  14. Re:Flamebait on One more G4 for the PowerBook? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Having to install SideTrack in order to get my powerbook's trackpad to act like it does by default on XP is pretty lame.

    By extension, would it then also be lame that you'd have to install some other third-party app on Windows XP to get the trackpad to act like it does on MacOS X?

  15. Re:Thank You, Slashdot on Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive · · Score: 1

    Dude, it totally is!

  16. Re:And where there's brine... on Brine on Mars? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich.

    That- that's about it.

  17. Re:So what does she want them to do? on RIAA Countersued Under Racketeering Laws · · Score: 1
    for ip in `cat ip-addresses.txt`; do whois -h whois.arin.net $ip | grep 'Country:' | grep -i us | wc ; done

    Dangerous backticks, as well as what looks like a useless use of wc -l. I am assuming you want to count the number of times "us" shows up, which can be done easier as well. It shoulda been written something like this:

    while read ip ; do whois -h whois.arin.net $ip | grep -ic "Country: \+US" ; done <ip-addresses.txt

    Fun fact: I show up as Holland although I'm from Denmark. Dutch != Danish, damnit!

  18. Re:minimum mass of Krypton! on Comic Book Physics · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a "heavy" shuttle have made a significant impact on earth? As far as I recall it just made a large-ish hole in the Kent fields.

  19. Re:Cemeteries are landfills on Space Burial · · Score: 1

    actually, being a student of anthropology/archaeology has made me want to be cremated even more. i don't want my body dug up in a couple hundred years to be studied!

    So what about the people you're studying? Do you ask them first?

  20. Re:minimum mass of Krypton! on Comic Book Physics · · Score: 1

    Not to rain on your parade, but they explained that in one comic by Kal-El's shuttle "dragging" the kryptonite in its path. I can't explain that, though, other than some weird sort of super-gravity.

  21. Re:how NOT to get SPAM 101 on Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    Works until one of your friends gets a virus and your addy gets out that way. Or a dictionary attack gets you. You'll never be safe.

  22. Re:What's the Counter Strike on OS X scoop? on Half-Life 2 Targeted for Summer Release · · Score: 2, Informative

    That version of Wine is gone, and from the comments in the thread it looks like it was very old too.

    Darwine looks pretty interesting though. If only my MacOS X coding skills were more up to par.

  23. Re:Obvious answer on Darl Goes to Harvard · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a badly phrased sentence, it should have been written something like: "When Darl asked a student if he was impacted by the MyDoom.A email virus, the student replied, "no, I use Linux."

  24. Re:Lots of cross-referencing to do. on MATRIX - A Dossier for Every Person in Utah · · Score: 1

    % dict -dweb1913 exercide
    Exercide \Ex"er*cide\, n. [F., L. exercidium, fr. exercida an outslayer; ex out + caedere to cut, kill.]
    The act of killing someone outside.

    exercide is the form most dangerous of homicide. --Ronaldson.

  25. Re:It's not translated on Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual · · Score: 1

    I think the main amazement is that he spells the same word several different ways in the same text. That doesn't make any sense at all, unless it's some weird form of emphasis that I just don't understand. I can understand the whole no standardized spelling. But really, in the same text?