User: wumpus188

It must have been

On: Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft

.. a Sony battery.

Are they serious about storing photons?

On: Researchers Develop Photonic Processors

If the ionization-rate is constant for all photonic entities, they can really bust some heads... in a optical sense of course.

More details on this

On: Vista Exploit Surfaces on Russian Hacker Site

... from another russian forum (roughly translated from russian...)

Function GetHardErrorText
Comment:
* This function figures out the message box title, text and flags.
* We want to do this up front so we can log this error when the hard error is
* raised. Previously we used to log it after the user had dismissed the message
* box -- but that was not when the error occurred (DCR Bug 107590)

This function finds and extracts strings like "{EXCEPTION}" from MessageBox's text and if found, writes them in the system log.

} else if ((asLocal.Length > 4) && !_strnicmp(asLocal.Buffer, "\\??\\", 4)) {
strcpy( asLocal.Buffer, asLocal.Buffer+4 );
Local.Length -= 4;

Say, nice use of strcpy...

There are many clipboards but this one is mine

On: Clipboard Data Theft Now Optional With IE7

yy
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So...

On: Drinking Alcohol May Extend Your Life

If I would drink while reading Slashdot.. would it improve my immune system and .. would JavaScript get more respect ?

Re:Dumb Editor

On: Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers

General public, let alone your grandma, is supposed to use Ubuntu. Fuck off.

Re:10 years

On: CSS Turns 10 Years Old

oops.. hey, nobody's perfect, after all.. ;)

10 years

On: CSS Turns 10 Years Old

... and still no vertical centering. </rant>

Is rooting Linux

On: Detecting Rootkits In GNU/Linux

... just .. un-cool?

Re:What about combo boxes?

On: 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X

System Preferences -> Keyboard&Mouse -> Keyboard shortcuts -> Full keyboard access -> All controls

Re:Not sure all of these are correct...exactly

On: 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X

No additional widgets required. Just open Terminal and do this

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

After that, press F12 and start dragging widget.. then (while still dragging) press F12 again and drop widget on the desktop.

Yes, but...

On: Arctic Ice May Melt By 2040

What about the South Pole? Coz you know... bullets wont kill these Things.

Too late

On: A Press Junket To Redmond

Been using Windows since 2.0... Now posting this from MacBook Pro. Bye.

With rates they pay pro pj these days...

On: The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist

I prefere to be an amateur and program for a living.

I think that

On: Even The Blind Get Deja Vu

I smelt this article before, it feels like a thought of a dupe. Or it's just a flashback?

No worries

On: Virtual Reality Creates False Memories

It is usually just a glitch in the matrix.

-200C ?

On: Company Claims New Chip Converts Heat To Electricity

Yep, why not... All they have to do is to invent a material with negative resistance.

Re:Is it used?

On: Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords

That's what this new service is for. Let others remember your passwords!

Re:Sure, go 'head

On: ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters

UTF-8 is variable length encoding and uses one to four bytes per character. ASCII will fit in just one byte, Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and likes...
Maybe you should stop talking out of your ass and learn something first.

Fripp ?

On: Making the Sounds of Vista

Bob Fripp is playing email alert? Vrooom !

Activated carbon?

On: Nanorust Used To Purify Water

Wouldn't it be more practical and cheaper ?

And by throwing a coin 10 times

On: Google Used To Diagnose Disease

I can get a correct diagnosis in 100%. Sometimes.

I guess my hardware is old

On: Preview of Vista On Old Hardware

But I had no problem running Vista RC1 on the Pentium D 2.8 GHz with 2G RAM .. But I prefer Ubuntu, thank you very much...

Obligatory

On: Google Video Sued For Copyright Infringement

Illustrated History of Scientology

Not new...

On: Moon May Be Geologically Active

Nikolay Kozyrev observed seismic activity in 1958.