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  1. Re:uGh... on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, you have never actually written any wIndoze code have you?

    The problem is that many of the carefully chosen hUngarian prefixes in the wIndows API were defined way back when the X86 processor had long and short pointers, segments and a 16 bit accumulator. With the advent of 32 bit and 64 bit processors, these things became totally meaningless.

    #include <windows.h>

    int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hinst, HINSTANCE hinstPrev, LPSTR lpCmdLine, i
    nt nCmdShow)
    {
    DialogBox(hinst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_MAINDIALOG), NULL, (DLGPROC) DialogFunc);
    }

    static int InitializeApp(HWND hDlg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
    {
    }

    Especially these meaningless things:
    LPSTR lpCmdLine
    WPARAM wParam
    LPARAM lParam

    Carefully defined pRefixes for long's, words, ints, all became meaningless, since the architecture of the pRocessors changed and wIndows now runs on various machines from 16 to 64 bit. Clearly, mIcrosoft thought that the X86 pRocessor is going to be the be-all and and-all of computing and never expected their wIndows API to be used for 20 years.

    So, if you are really fAvouring hUngarian nOtation, think carefully wHether technology is going to stand still for the lIfetime of your pRoject...

  2. Re:fp on Slashback: IP Protection, ReligiousDocument, LiPS Savings · · Score: 1

    Sure, but which God? You got to be more specific.

  3. Mind ControBzzzzzotttt!!!... on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    Well, apparently, it was merely a weather balloon.

  4. uGh... on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    nUthinG wOrse tHan hUngArian nOtashioN. You only need to look at typical MS Windows code to understand why Hungarian notation is a really, really bad idea.

  5. Emacspeak and KDE3.4 on Slashback: IP Protection, ReligiousDocument, LiPS Savings · · Score: 1

    Well, UNIX/Linux has had Emacspeak for ages:
    http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

    and new versions of KDE also support the blind. Therefore, OOo need not support the blind directly - KDE provides that.

  6. Re:Lunar Dust on Lunar 'Lawnmower' Devised for Moon Colonists · · Score: 1

    Yeah and it isn't like the moon machinery would have air filters and carbureters either...

  7. Re:98% of MSFT Funded Studies Favor MSFT! on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    Even worse - MS even have to pay their developers to write Windows... Also, looking at the thousands of open positions at MS, programmers don't even want to work at MS no matter how much they pay them.

  8. Re:confused on Lunar 'Lawnmower' Devised for Moon Colonists · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, its not like there is this big yellow star out there irradiating the moon all the time huh? The moon is sterile, for a very obvious reason - it doesn't have an atmosphere or a magnetic field and the sun is a fscking continuous nuclear explosion...

  9. Re:I hope you get rooted like you deserve. on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, the machines have been perfectly secure for years on end - so how much more secure would they be if they were constantly upgraded? I suppose this guy runs a proper shop with decent network configuration and protection in place. The results speak for themselves.

  10. Deeper question on AIM Bots: Useful or Spam? · · Score: 1

    Why is anyone reading Sloshdat using AIM and not one of the Free versions?

  11. A super computer wall on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    must be really hard to penetrate... (Judging by yesterday's super computer thread).

  12. Nooooooo! on Australia Pushes Geothermal Energy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Massive use of geothermal energy will cause global cooling. That will cause the earth to shrink, sea levels will rise, the San Andreas fault will reverse direction and the global warming industry will be destroyed, together with all other non-intelligent human life on the planet...

  13. Re:LGPL on Sony Rootkit Allegedly Contains LGPL Software · · Score: 1

    Well, you don't have to use the LGPL or GPL code. You can write it yourself. Or you can buy it from someone else. That is the whole point - play the game honestly or go your own way.

    FIFO: Fit In or Fuck Off.

  14. ...and the fifth one? on Linux Claims 4 of the Top 5 Supercomputer Spots · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Looking further, it seems that the top ten all run some flavour of UNIX and seven of them run Linux.

  15. Re:70k new blogs a day with no content on Blog Software Smackdown · · Score: 1

    Yes, some artifical scientific paper generator was discussed on Sloshdat some time ago...

  16. Unless... on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    he did not have AIDS in the first place, this could be a useful discovery. He should donate a few litres of blood to study. Though on the other hand, there are too many people in the world - the last thing we need now is a cure for AIDS.

  17. Re:A bargain! on Continued Look at Global Open Source · · Score: 1

    Hmm, reminds me of the colonial days when South Africa was forced to import coal from the UK for its power stations, since the South African anthracite was not good enough quality...

  18. Hitchcock on Can Anthrax Be Controlled? · · Score: 1

    Think Vampire Bats... Amazonian, Giant, Vampire Bats, spreading rabies and anthrax... Too bad Alfred Hitchcock died.

  19. Re:Puppy on Taking Linux On The Road With Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Puppy Linux only consumes about 60MB of disk space, leaving 68MB free on a 128MB drive. It is so small, that if your machine has 128MB RAM or more, then it will load and run completely from RAM, making it screamingly fast.

    Go here and download it. Since it is so small, the best way to explain Puppy, is to try it:
    http://www.goosee.com/puppy/

  20. Re:Puppy on Taking Linux On The Road With Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    There is lots of space left, even on a 128MB device: http://www.goosee.com/puppy/

  21. Puppy on Taking Linux On The Road With Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    3GB??? What the heck? That is small, cheap and convenient nowadays?

    Puppy Linux runs off a 128MB USB memory stick. That is 24 times smaller and it also does everything you need and it boots about 10 times faster too.

  22. Doesn't work... on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 1

    Judging by the music on the radio and what my teenage son and his friends actually listen to, these evaluation programs don't work. It appears that the 1970-1985 style rock music is far more popular than the music pushed by the big labels.

  23. Re:Let's conduct an experiment... on Google Searches Used in Murder Trial? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, here you go, Google for "war 1812 whitehouse":
    http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/jd/16314.htm

  24. Re:Pick The Bad Cap And Be A Winner! on PCs Plagued by Bad Capacitors · · Score: 1

    Well, the failed caps are obviously distended or have brown goop coming out of them. You'll know when you see one - it doesn't take a wizard to spot one.

  25. Re:it's not that hard to fix on PCs Plagued by Bad Capacitors · · Score: 1

    Well, the previous cap blew up - pretty much anything you replace it with will be better and will last longer...

    I've had this issue on IBM and VIA mother boards. It seems to affect all makes of machines.