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  1. multiarch future? on Previewing Dapper And Edgy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From TFA, on possible Eft features:
    ". . .a first flirt with multiarch (multiple architecture) support for true mixed 32-bit and 64-bit computing on AMD64. . ."

    I sure hope this happens; then I can finally switch back to 64-bit mode. I know about the chroot and all that fanciness but it's too much of a hassle.

  2. Re:Funny you should ask. on Sysadmins - What's in Your MOTD? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Slighty modified for lameness circumvention. (Lameness circumvention for proper posts is considered fair use and is allowed under the LMCA).

    $ cat /etc/motd

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNAUTHORIZED USERS WILL BE KILLED AND EATEN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Unauthorized access prohibited; all access and activities not explicitly
    authorized by [ i ] motion design are unauthorized. All activities are
    monitored and logged. There is no privacy on this system. Unauthorized
    access and activities or any criminal activity will be reported to
    appropriate authorities.

  3. Re:Differences on EiffelStudio Goes Open · · Score: 2, Funny

    ". . .the biggest thing Eiffel has going for it is raw speed."

    Wikipedia's entry gives the secret to this raw speed:

    "Eiffel is generally closely connected to C: three of the four Eiffel compilers output no object or machine code, but only C source code as an intermediate language, to submit to a C compiler, for optimizing and portability."

  4. Re:Nice idea, but... on Movie Downloads to Coincide with DVD release · · Score: 1

    It doesn't really matter as they're reaping huge profits regardless. I think the correct way to put it would be, "Eliminate the physical media costs and start reaping HUGER profits."

    I'm not entirely sure on even that statement since their packaging costs can't be *that* much and bandwidth isn't free. Anyone know what the cost to print a DVD and box is, and how much 4-8GB of bandwidth is (assuming they give anywhere close to DVD-quality, which I doubt now that I think about it)?

  5. Re:Rails is Great on Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1 · · Score: 1

    And add the required title tag to your pages. I'm not asking for full standards zealot level compliance, just a title tag; it's important.

  6. Pointless on In2TV Goes Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    AOL and Warner Bros. have launched In2TV, the first broadband television network, . . .

    I thought BotTorrent was the first broadband television network?

  7. Re:What they mean to say is.... on UK Government Confiscates Firefox CDs · · Score: 1

    Actually, it most probably is. Rpms are compressed (using bzip2, AFAIR). And even if it's the windows version of Firefox, it's installer file is most likely a self-extracting compressed file.

    The Windows installer uses 7-Zip since bug 244026.

  8. Re:Program Naming on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    Gnome (it's not an acronym, mmmkay?)

    And here I always thought it stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment.

  9. Re:Software or hardware? on Best Method for Automated CD Ripping? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That Baxter, while exactly what is being asked for, is ~$800 and only works with their proprietary ripping software. The Powerfile route looks a little better, but preliminary research has me a little bit worried about its scriptability.

  10. Re:Well on Best Method for Automated CD Ripping? · · Score: 1

    That discussion was about ripping services, and really wasn't that great a discussion IMO.

    I looked into those services and couldn't find anything cheaper than ~$1/disc. For the 1500 or so discs my friends and I have, that is way too expensive to be worthwhile. The submitter has the right idea with loading up a 200+ jukebox/changer a couple of times and I'm researching that now.

  11. Re:Mod parent WRONG on Essential PHP Security · · Score: 1

    Hint: the funny bit is where it directly execs unescaped user input.

    But to answer your questions anyway,

    What is setting an HTML form action to a directory supposed to do?
    I dunno, I typed this in 5 seconds for a /. comment.

    Also, doesn't the input tag require a type attribute?
    Input defaults to type="text".

    Does your browser handle "post" as opposed to "POST" properly?
    The form you typed in to post that comment has "post" instead of "POST".

    Have you tried escaping the inner quotes on the third line?
    Escaping the inner quotes would end up executing echo \'Your name is...., which is not valid.

  12. Mod parent WRONG on Essential PHP Security · · Score: 2, Funny
    There's a wonderful utility that secures PHP. . .http://tomcat.apache.org/

    FYI to other readers of parent comment, that does nothing to help secure PHP or your PHP code. It won't even run my sample application below:
    <?php
    if (isset($_POST['name'])) {
        exec("echo 'your name is: '. $_POST['name']");
    }
    ?>
    <form action="./" method="post"><input name="name" /></form>
  13. Re:Also on Activision Responds to American Indian Boycott · · Score: 1

    Citation for that?

  14. Other games on Not Every Game is a Sequel · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are also spinoffs and prequels.

  15. Re:Drupal? on Taking the Sting Out of PHP 5 Programming · · Score: 1

    Ah crap, I didn't read the last two sentences of your post. Nevermind then, cheers on that.

  16. Re:Drupal? on Taking the Sting Out of PHP 5 Programming · · Score: 1

    Personally, I consider "www.example.com/node/123" to be an incredibly nasty URL. It's completely arbitrary and holds no semantics. Not knocking Drupal in particular, just that a lot of people seem to think that the lack of a question mark makes a URL "clean". If node 123 is a blog post about slashdot, it should be something like "www.example.com/blog/slashdot-dupes-article-ninet een-times". I have a homegrown framework that does stuff like this automatically; it's not that hard.

    My only experience with Drupal was working on downhillbattle.org a year or two ago. I'm sure the framework has progressed since then, but I remember the URLs were really annoying and the whole thing was really hard to work in for a site that wasn't a cookie-cutter CMS site.

  17. Re:Problems with the Moz and FF plugin interface: on Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem with Open Source software is that there is no one to say, "This bug MUST be fixed, before anything else is done." OO people work on what they want, and the less interesting stuff, like fixing someone else's bugs, doesn't get attention.

    It's called a realease blocker. At least in the Mozilla world, there are plenty of them for every major release that, err, block it from being released.

  18. Re:Water spectacular?! on Water Spectacular in Episode III? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would not hit it. Eyes are way too big and she has webbed hands and feet.

  19. Re:Flawed? on CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link · · Score: 1

    Yes, columns like that are super easy. The columns that *I* want, and I think will be supported in CSS3, are where you don't have to split up your markup manually into columns. It should be able to flow into a two or three column layout like a magazine would; where the new column could potentially be in the middle of a sentance to make them all the same height.

  20. Re:What a bunch... on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. Re:One sentence license: on Creative Commons In the News · · Score: 1

    Are you deliberately trying to misunderstand me or are you just dumb?

    Okay, I guess I did misunderstand what you meant. You don't have to be an ass about it.

    I really don't think that anyone would have much a leg to stand on over suing you over public domain code anyway. Maybe you should mention to CC if you think that their dedication leaves you open to too much potential litigation. They really respond well to feedback from what I've seen.

  22. Re:One sentence license: on Creative Commons In the News · · Score: 1

    If you place a work you don't own under a BSD license, you can still be sued for damages no matter what clauses it has against this because you didn't have rights to place it under any license in the first place.

  23. Re:Non-commercial elements of the Creative Commons on Creative Commons In the News · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One other thing that I don't like so much is that attribution is now included in every license. Granted, I mostly license my music under a solely attribution license. For other works, however, I might want to have the option of only NoDerivs.

    Also on the topic of over-restrictions, I've noticed that lots of people, especially when first getting into CC, pick the biggest combination of restrictions possible. This makes using their works more difficult than it should be and almost seems like they're saying they support CC, but they don't want to give you too much freedom.

  24. Re:One sentence license: on Creative Commons In the News · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any one can use this free of charge for anything, forever.

    What's so hard about that?

    They do have a Public Domain dedication. Even better.

  25. Re:no, not really.. on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1

    My Canon 10D's software has some abilities to do a remote capture, kind of like a web cam. It's so you can have your laptop attached to the camera and preview your pictures much easier than on the little LCD screen on the camera and check for correct white balance, exposure, etc.

    Unfortunately, my laptop runs MEPIS, and the software is Windows only. Might work with WINE but I haven't tried.