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  1. So what? on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 1

    Any attack made by against ASIO headquarters would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they've obtained.

  2. Re:Contradicting Statements. on Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    From the link: "Senator Conroy says anyone wanting uncensored access to the internet will have to opt out of the service."

  3. Workflow Patterns Site on Best Online Examples of Workflow Patterns? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've found this useful: http://is.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/

  4. Everything you need to know on Sony Announced Hybrid Digital Camera · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.dpreview.com/news/0512/05120603sonydscr 1review.asp

    Summary -- fantastic lens, but despite the large sensor inferior noise performance to entry level DSLRs.

  5. Re:3 monitors on Ultimate Software Developer Setup? · · Score: 1

    you never have to worry about getting that even-tanned look on your face

    So I could finally get a case for my Gibson?

  6. Buy 'Pragmatic Version Control using CVS' on CVS Server Administration Tips? · · Score: 1

    Get this book http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974 514004/104-4752216-1590345?v=glance

    It is very short but tells you 99% of what you need to know to use CVS.

    (as for all those \. ass-monkeys telling you to use Subversion -- sure, if your IDE of choice provides Subversion integaration to match its CVS integration. Eclipse (for example) doesn't.

  7. Re:Mac OSX Panther is not the worlds best OS on Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know what you mean by 'only the protege can access subwindows'. In OS X Command-Tab cycles applications and Command-Backquote cycles windows within the current application.

    I find mail fast enough. I'm not sure what you want from 'postfiltering' but I find the rules which let me place email from particular people or mailing lists into particular folders, or forward to my gmail account flexible enough to do anything I need.

    Search works in preview for me.

    Tom

  8. Re:PearPC on Apple Offers Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    Buy a 2nd hand G3 imac on ebay.

    You'll get decent performance for not much money.

  9. Re:In a Klingon economy on Moving Up the IT Ladder in a Poor Economy? · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Union economy kills you!

  10. Re:Poor move.. on Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook · · Score: 1
    As for my suggestion that a handle might be useful to carry 16 pounds, I agree a carrying case is better for long distances but if you are moving a relatively short distance like, say, one side of a large room to another, you aren't going to want to stuff it back in the carrying case for such a short time.

    Yes, I use the handle on my clamshell iBook like that all the time -- and it isn't very heavy.

    Tom
  11. Re:The one i hate most on Software Fashion · · Score: 1

    While I agree that Hungarian notation is stupid in most cases, it might make sense in Perl, where the same variable can hold a string or an integer.

    In your case, if that variable was meant to have a value in it which was always a valid number, indicating that fact in the name would be useful, because then code which clearly made the value in it non-numeric would look suspect.

  12. Re:Other side of computing: Linux running on G5 on Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers · · Score: 1

    The notebooks based on G5s are, in fact, portable UNIX workstations.

    No such thing, yet.

  13. Past tense of Shine is Shone on During Blackout, Ham Radio Shined · · Score: 2, Informative

    Damned illiterates :-)

  14. Re:Java is a DOG on Can .NET Really Scale? · · Score: 1

    typically 500 simultaneous sessions

    How many simultaneous requests?, i.e. at one moment in time how many threads are processiong HTTP requests?

    Tom

  15. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... on Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Had to say it :-)

  16. Re:An even more likely cause of the "speed" readin on Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction · · Score: 1

    To go from 60mph (claimed) to 144mph (recorded) the engine revs would need to almost double while the wheels were spinning.

    You'd need to have the throttle open and have the wheels off the ground for a while for that to happen, seems unlikely.

    Tom

  17. Re:Java is slow on Java Performance Urban Legends · · Score: 1

    instead of stomping a reference with a new object reference, you set it to "null" first

    That's an urban myth of its own. Unless something time consuming is going to happen before a reference goes out of scope there is no need to set it to null, just wait till its stack frame dissappears.

  18. It's not 'Spaceship Galileo' on Paul Allen Plans Sci-Fi Shrine in Seattle · · Score: 1

    It's 'Rocketship Galileo'. And it is a great book. (if not a Great Book)

    Tom

  19. Re:Languages for the Java VM... on The Future of Java? · · Score: 1

    "I believe that Simon Phipps and other Sun luminaries have greatly exaggerated the degree of language neutrality supported by the Java platform".

    It doesn't exist so it can't exist?

    Perhaps there is no *demand* for other languages generating JBC?

    How many of the languages available for .NET are really those languages, rather than versions tweaked for the .NET CLI?

    Tom

  20. Swing on Cross-Platform GUI Toolkits (Again)? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Swing is functional and cross-platform, free-beer, and widely understood.

  21. Re:which java where? on Struts Kick Start · · Score: 2

    1. Struts is a framework for writing web applications based on JSPs and servlets (Tapestry -- http://sf.net/projects/tapestry is way better) Struts (and Tapestry) can be used with any servlet engine.

    2. Tomcat and Jetty are servlet engines.

    3. EJBs are used for writing applications which *need* to be distributed or need to be buzzword compliant.

    4. dunno

    Tom

  22. Try Tapestry on Struts Kick Start · · Score: 2

    http://sf.net/projects/tapestry

    This is *much* nicer than struts/JSP. It makes producing reuseable components much easier, and abstracts servlets very nicely, while still allowing access to the bare meal if needed. And it has the best documentation of any OSS project I've seen!

    Tom

  23. Your title is *Wrong* on Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya · · Score: 1, Troll

    The genes did not jump anywhere. The plants were planted in the same field.

    Go work for Microsoft you fscking FUD merchant.

  24. Cricket on Boulevard of Broken .dreams · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Cricket is not a minor sport. Not compared to baseball, anyway.

    Tom

  25. My List on Best Computer Books For The Smart · · Score: 2

    General Books

    Bertrand Meyer: Object Oriented Software Construction
    Robert C. Martin: Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications using the Booch Method (this is useful for any OO programmer. You can read some good essays of Martin's at his company)
    Gamma et. al.: Design Patterns
    Martin Fowler: Refactoring
    Kent Beck: Extreme Programming Explained

    Java Books
    Any O'Reilly book for specific parts of the API
    Joshua Bloch: Effective Java

    Off Topic
    Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach -- still a must-read IMHO