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  1. Rounded title bars on CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Finally mathematically defined rounded title bars :-)

  2. Re:not quite correct on Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Tails are for wagging, and tales are to be told.

  3. Puff of icy projectile that broke the camera. on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    It's probably mist on the lens at the point where a small icy projectile perforated the lens and broke the camera.

  4. While my tape is somewhere out of reach of a tapedrive, the last five years of your RAID backups are being encrypted free of charge by some ransomware.

  5. Was windows 8 a regression on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 0

    The First time I saw windows 8 I did not like it for some reason, at first I thought it was because how "Square" everything was.
    Later I came to the conclusion that the reason I did not like it was because in a way it was a regression to the pre '95 icon based system.

  6. Re:15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 0, Informative

    Wrong if you edited the text file msdos.sys you could still boot into the DOS version running under windows 95. I even found ways of exiting windows 95 to DOS. Windows-NT/XP etc where the actual windowed osses microsoft made.
    In the beginning you could even add win32 libraries to windows 3.11 and run some windows 95 applications by tweaking their ini files.

  7. Re:Probably the way on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 0

    Wine is platform agnostic. I have used wine on PPC linux macs.

  8. Back to basics on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 0

    He whom develops the best building materials for 3D machines will prevail.

  9. Better wait for... on Linux 3.11 Features Fall Into Place With Merge Window · · Score: 0

    The linux for workgroups 32bit extension. Then you get the real power of the system.

  10. Re:Apple should hire him fast! on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 0

    Apple got it stricken from his record after hiring him.

  11. very fitting epitaph. on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 0

    Very fitting epitaph for the os for squares: "'Christmas gift for someone you hate.'"

  12. Looks like Linus' squirrel all over again. on 80,000lbs of Walnuts Purloined In Northern California · · Score: 0
  13. Re:all in all... on Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    Anyone think that apple made a conversion error when overlaying their data over a metric map ?

  14. Re:Buffing? on Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    While exercising all his phalanges
    on the round shaped fruit.
    The tight skinned ripe oranges
    slowly became hand peel able.

    Well you are right sorry for posting this. ;-P

  15. Quantifiablewe on The Sweet Mystery of Science · · Score: 1

    What we do not know is unquantifiable, however what we do know is quantifiable, so I would rather learn something we do know.
    What we do not know is what we do not know, how can we teach anyone that which we have no knowledge, after all we do not know it.

  16. Re:Punch cards on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 0

    And of course you can always manually create a new torrent file or movie by pricking in a couple of thousand punch cards.

  17. Re:Please read this on The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop · · Score: 0

    Correction it is a complete rethinking of the windows 3.0 program manager, which sets us back more then 22 years. Even worse the possibility of freely minimising and moving program groups was available which makes the windows 3.0 interface superior to the windows 8 interface.
    The windows 8 interface is simply a redesign of the the file manager icon view of the start-menu folders.
    Even worse they have done this very same thing to the start menu button, first by pasting a green start button on top later only to replace that with the current round windows "start" button which is still available in windows 8.

    To prove that windows 8 is an airbrushed windows 7 simply open the registry editor and change the value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer RPEnabled from 1 to 0 (zero).

    My conclusion:
    I think windows 8 will be worse than windows ME and Vista combined. Seeing that nobody is buying windows 8 phones which have the same interface as windows 8 for desktops I think windows 7 will probably coexist with wxp for some decennia to come. I doubt anyone will want to buy a new system with winnows 8 preinstalled.

  18. Re:Documentation? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 0

    Then again they might start to believe in the Lorax in stead of the nature it represents.

  19. Re:Documentation? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 0

    The Lorax comes to mind.

  20. Censoring on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 0

    From what I read, you want to restrict internet access to the sunday school classes. Are we talking censoring or actually only allowing sunday school pupils to connect? If you mean the latter, simply enable wpa or wpa2 security on sundays and only give the wpa/wpa2 password to students. If you mean the former I can and will not help you, for I think each is in his own right to have the freedom to inform oneself by anyway possible as to whether to believe or not to believe.

    axi.
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    I am an atheist but I believe in the right of religion even if it makes no sense to me,.

  21. Re:photovoltaics require silicon on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 0

    They never named photovoltaics. They are talking about solar heat pump systems.

    Photovoltaics are allmost allways forgotton because of the so-called low-return. While in germany big homeowners are making a killing selling energy back to the grid.

    The fact that they did not compare photovoltaics tells me that this "research" might be biased.

  22. the metadata is there to make sure you do not copy on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 0

    This way you can make sure you do not copy your file to people Microsoft or the government does not want you to copy files to.

    The file-system will check and see if the file that is being copied to it is allowed to be copied to it. And both file-systems check whether upon copy completion if the file in the original and/or source and/or destination storage device fs must become uncopyable, or whether it should be deleted after having been copied, even if you meant only to copy it.

    In show DRM for every file ever created....... With other words the back door for the DRM no one wants and the MPAA wants everyone to have/use/abide-by.

  23. Re:Who Knew? on What You Eat Affects Your Genes · · Score: 1

    I think that means you are the rib-eye, all we need to find is a capable and ruthless butcher...

  24. Re:My approach on Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say · · Score: 0

    you do not need a commercial device to use RAM as storage. All you need to do is add more ram to your conventional system and use a ramdisk driver ( under windows) or mount a file system as tmpfs (under linux). Just don't forget to back everything up once per half hour (less or more frequent according to power/system stability), and just before shutting down. Of course if you are compiling, and all you ar interested in is the binary, just save those and dump the rest.

    oth. if you are using ssds please if you have your home directory in it, put your firefox cache in tmpfs/ramdisk.

  25. I firehose colapsing style for stories on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 0

    Hi I really miss the possibility to use the firefose collapsing style for the stories page. I like headhunting slashdot articles, then opening up the heading I am interesting to read a bit more about it, before I decide to click on through.

    axi.
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