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  1. Outdated newsticker?? on RSS/RDF/Atom Aggregation in KDE 3.4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, of course it's outdated!! If they'd only called it KNewstiKker right off the bat, we wouldn't need this new fancy app..

  2. Re:Format is open, but is it used? on Why OpenOffice.org? Open Document Formats · · Score: 1

    After unzipping the sxw...

    vi

    emacs

    nano

    notepad

    textpad

    etc......

  3. Re:"knowing everything" on Judge Petitioned To Unseal SCO-IBM Court Records · · Score: 1

    When will you people stop thinking of it as "MY tax dollars", and think that you, as an individual should be able to decide what every penny is spent on? Taxes are a "membership fee" that you pay to be part of society, and in return you get to vote on how government conducts it's business on a broader level. Don't like it? Fine, cancel your membership, and go somewhere else..

  4. Re:An early snag on Point and Click Linux · · Score: 1

    Win XP also generates a "unique id" of sorts to identify your system. Changing certain things, like the partionsize could be hosing this as well. VMWare has solved this problem, and offers to "recalculate" the unique id for you.

  5. Re:And unfortunately, a site that won't load today on The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum · · Score: 2, Informative
  6. Re:What's with these laws? on New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing · · Score: 1

    What's the problem? If anyone downloading my files wants my email, they're free to ask me for it...
    Just ahh, eh... email me, and Ill send it right over..

  7. Re:Why 10 days? on Savvis Grudgingly Get Savvy About Spam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because that's how long it would take savvis to set up savvis2.net, or spamfriendlyisp.net, or something similar, move some servers around, send a "Don't use savvis.net/login anymore, use savvis2.net/login" email to all their "premium" customers, and LOUDLY proclaim that savvis.net has taken extreme measures in the battle against spam, and is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  8. Re:I'm betting on Longhorn security on Odds-on Science · · Score: 0

    You forget that the bets only go to 2010 ,,,,,

  9. Re:i would love 2 GB on World's Fastest Flash Memory Card? · · Score: 0

    I have a Zaurus SL-5500 w/ a CF wifi card running the OpenZaurus/Opie firmware, and I can say it's pretty damn solid for me. I'm currently in the process of turning it into a "Universal" remote for my HTPC also running Linux, and at some point try doing VOIP, etc, etc on it in addition to other "traditional" PDA functions.

  10. My buddy Simon delivers .. on Internet Grocery Shopping Slowly Gaining Ground · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We use Simon Delivers fairly regularly, and for us it's a nice way to cut down on grocery shopping trips . It's a bit more expensive than the big grocery chains, but if there's one thing I hate, it's sloshing through the "big box" grocery stores.
    Throw in an occasional trip to Sams Club (non-free reg required) to stock up on bulk staples, or a trip to the local farmers market and co-op and the hateful trips to the "big grocery" chains are all but eliminated :-)

  11. Re:Microsoft Borked on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 0
    One of the funniest things about this whole issue was when Opera released a version of their browser that "translated" the MSN page into "Sveedish Chef" (bork, bork), just to show that two could play the "alternate versions of content" game.

    Here's their press release about it:
    http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/02/14/

  12. Re:Oh. c'mon now... on Junkie Loves His Spam · · Score: 0

    A simple Google search reveals what looks like his phone listing ....

  13. Re:Google? on US Government Upgrades RAM · · Score: 0
    What makes you think that they're ONLY going to search government databases? :-)

    Ohh, that's what their TELLING us they're doing...

  14. Re:Automatic Testing- on Behind the Scenes in Kernel Development · · Score: 0

    JUnit does a nice job of presenting "visually" pleasing results if you want it to. I usually use it in combo with Ant (if the JUnit test fails, don't deploy/check in/etc)

    Haven't looked at the c++ port CppUnit, but I'm sure it's results can be presented just as pretty. :-)

  15. Re:wtf is an HTML executable? on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 0

    First paragraph of this link ( HTA Overview):

    The power to build HTML Applications (HTAs) brings Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 5 to the fore as a viable Microsoft Windows(R) development platform. HTAs are full-fledged applications. These applications are trusted and display only the menus, icons, toolbars, and title information that the Web developer creates. In short, HTAs pack all the power of Internet Explorer?its object model, performance, rendering power, protocol support, and channel-download technology without enforcing the strict security model and user interface of the browser.

    Gotta love it...

  16. Re:Compensation for What? on "DVD-Jon" Demands Compensation · · Score: 0

    how much do you want to bet? :-))

    (Remember: Never go in against a Sicilian and/or a Norwegian when death is on the line! And of course, Never get involved in a land war in Asia)

  17. Re:Compensation for What? on "DVD-Jon" Demands Compensation · · Score: 0

    Unfortunetly for DVD-Jon, they don't sell Mountain Dew in Norway...

  18. In what way are your utilities being violated? on What is the Best Way to Handle a GPL Violation? · · Score: 1, Interesting
    I ask, because we have a very specific internal "utility" (mostly an Ant script + some code) that uses some of Ostermiller Utilies code for dealing with Excel's socalled CSV files.

    Given the fact that we are not making any improvements/changes to the code, it's not part of a "product" in any way and it's certainly not something we'd release, and that our use of the libraries are a minor part of a script that has a very specific use to us, would we still be considered in "violation of the GPL"?

    I am by no means and expert on the GPL, but I wouldn't think this would come close to being a violation. However, if the author has a problem with it, let me know and we'll stop using the code.

  19. Re:sounds like onion routing on MUTE: Simple, Private File Sharing · · Score: 0

    Except this isn't sitting on a server tacking on this warning to it's pages:

    NOTICE: All Department of Defense telecommunications and automated information systems and related equipment are for the communication, transmission, processing, and storage of U.S. Government information only. The systems and equipment are subject to authorized monitoring to ensure proper functioning, to protect against unauthorized use, and to verify the presence and performance of applicable security features. Such monitoring may result in the acquisition, recording, and analysis of all data being communicated, transmitted, processed, or stored in this system by a user. If monitoring reveals possible evidence of criminal activity, such evidence may be provided to law enforcement personnel. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring.

  20. Revenge on Omar the spammer on Another Worm Targets Anti-Spam Sites · · Score: 0

    Ok, I'm a bit reluctant to post this (someone may need to get a mirror going).
    It's about Omar, a spammer/scam artist caught in a "counter scam" that is amazingly well done (he's been named salesperson for a non-existant firm selling "Oilators", and is part of a trade group called "Industrial Machinists And Development International League Doing Oilators" or IMADILDO for short, and the poor fool is being sent all around Africa to meet with people like Mr. Genitali Herpesi). As of last Monday, he was in Abuja, Nigeria.

    Enjoy Omars Adventure

  21. Re:Using FreeBSD as a firewall on Installing A Secure FreeBSD Box · · Score: 0

    Troll troll troll... (Although I am impressed that the little punk managed to install OSX on a SE/30)

  22. Re:Long Auction - $320.69 on Testing The Right To Resell Downloaded Music · · Score: 0

    $320.69 6 days 7 hours left ......

  23. That's OURS! on New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways · · Score: 3, Funny

    HEY!!!
    SCO has the exclusive copyright on the multi-scrolling mouse. Prepared for exortion!!!!
    Oh, wait, is that you Mr. Gates? Sorry, we didn't mean to.. eh.. we just got a bit carried away, yes, we do remember, oh please let's still be friends.. it'll never, ever happen again.... sorry ....

  24. Re:Tags? on JSP and Tag Libraries for Web Development · · Score: 1
    It's very similar to a html tag, except that the server processes it insted of the browser. For example, the
    <h1>
    tag tells the browser that text within it should be large and bold, whereas some simple, made-up custom tags could be something like:
    <loopoverthis times="2">
    Hello <printsomething what="UserName"/>!
    </loopoverthis>

    The server will process the tags,perhaps outputting something like:
    Hello joe!Hello joe!
    or perhaps:
    Hello Guest!Hello Guest!

    The theory being that a webdesigner will like this better than writing:
    <%
    String username = (session.getAttribute("UserName") == null ? "Guest" : "" +session.getAttribute("UserName"));
    for(int i=0;i<2;i++){ %>
    Hello <%=username %>!
    <%}%>
    Of course, outputting "Hello joe!" twice is silly, but that decision is (usually) up to the designer.
    This really pays off when at some point, you for example would like to not store the username as a String in the session, but maybe put it in some other scope, or maybe you now have a User object in the session scope, so session.getAttribute("UserName") won't work. The developer can make these changes on the backend, and the designer would never need to know.
    Also, maybe the designer now realizes that is's dumb to show the output twice, but isn't comfortable modifying the "magic coding stuff" in the for loop, and therefore decides to ask you to do it, whereas with the custom tag he might be able to figure it out himself, leaving you to read slashdot in peace.

    All errors (if any) are made on purpose. Yes, I do have a reason why, and no I won't tell you what that reason might be.
  25. Re:Full text of release on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1

    Novell relatively recently bought a Java App server, SilverStream, and it's a piece of crap. Looks like that's what they are using..