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  1. Re:In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    XP comes with a perfectly good command line ftp client, ported from BSD.

  2. Re:ARM is the new Intel on Intel Pushes Into Tablet Market, Pushes Away From Microsoft · · Score: 2

    What's weird is that Intel was in the ARM business for a while, before selling XScale to Marvell in 2006, just as it was taking off. Maybe the prices were getting too competitive.

  3. Re:informal poll on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 1

    Xubuntu at home (Windows-free), XP at work :c

  4. Re:I never trusted Monty in the first place on MariaDB 10 Released, Now With NoSQL Support · · Score: 1

    MySQL's had a strict mode since 2004 to reject invalid data. They didn't make it default until late 2012 though in 5.6.8, and I couldn't find what the MariaDB default is (short of downloading the source and looking). Even then, they only it in the default config file, so manual or distro-specific configs that omit the setting will fall back to the old truncation mode.

  5. Re:An example of why Beta is bad on Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone · · Score: 1

    All these people upset with digg v4 are just a vocal minority trying to ruin the experience for everyone else.

  6. Re:Cross browser? on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I never found Typescript's output to be that hard to read, since it preserves comments and changes the code very little apart from rewriting class definitions.

    You can enable source maps, which the Firefox/Chrome debuggers can use to show you the original code when debugging compiled code. And some minifiers like UglifyJS can transform source maps to continue working after minifying.

  7. Re:Office 365 on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 1

    I'd miss Calc's NLPSolver, but that's about it.

  8. Re:Applets only on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    The ones I get stuck with always seem to require Java 1.4.2, so any new breaking changes are irrelevant.

  9. Re:The real question is on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 1

    The software did its job. But they buy their maps from at least a dozen other companies and one of them made an easy mistake, like marking a private road as public. That's not quite the same as a wheel falling off.

  10. One more on the todo on John McAfee Triggers the Ultimate False Positive · · Score: 1

    I need to set up a dead man's switch that posts denials of my demise.

  11. Every update I redisable all the nvidia services, startup tasks, and shell extensions, breaking nothing of value.

  12. Re:Am I missing something? on Microsoft's Free AV App May Be a Non-Starter · · Score: 2, Informative

    For one, it creates lots of temporary files for every file it scans, trying to extract them like an archive whether they really are or not. That's why it scans so slowly, and will thrash your hard drive even if you're scanning files elsewhere, like over the network.

  13. Why XFS was never an option on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    Ext3's commit interval was one of its best features.

    Sure, it doesn't have to make guarantees when the app doesn't explicitly sync, but losing data 1% of the time in an outage is better than losing data 99% of those in those cases.

    Whenever I saw people complaining of losses in XFS that wouldn't have happened in ext3, the "doesn't have to guarantee unless synced" thing was brought up as an excuse.

  14. Screen resolution on Asus Eee Top All-In-One Touch Screen PC Tested · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since most reviews including this one assume that it's enough to just give the screen size in inches, as though readers are too clueless to care, I'll save you some searching. It's 1366x768.

  15. Time flies on Jurassic Web · · Score: 1

    I still have a big bag full of buttons and other freebies from the 1996 Comdex.

  16. People who ruin it for everyone on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    I highly disapprove of strip searching students (at least a female cop did it this time). But then you have kids like her lying and stashing things where the sun don't shine, who can only be caught by strip search.

    Expel her.

  17. vs alternatives on YouTube To Allow Self-Serve Ads For Major Media Players · · Score: 1

    I've known for months that they've been doing this, just because I've been getting email notices stating it.

    I prefer the ads to silent or removed videos or suspended accounts.

  18. Re:I wonder if the cd installer still sucks on FreeBSD 6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Good to hear.

  19. I wonder if the cd installer still sucks on FreeBSD 6.4 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is Disk 1. Please install Disk 2 and select OK to continue.
    This is Disk 2. Please install Disk 1 and select OK to continue.
    This is Disk 1. Please install Disk 2 and select OK to continue.
    This is Disk 2. Please install Disk 1 and select OK to continue.
    This is Disk 1. Please install Disk 2 and select OK to continue.
    This is Disk 2. Please install Disk 1 and select OK to continue.
    * repeat 50+ more times *

  20. Re:iPhone quality? on Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing · · Score: 5, Informative

    &fmt=18 gives you the h264 iphone video, also playable in the latest Flash 9.0 r115.
    &fmt=6 gives you the comparable quality but higher bitrate Flash video which works on older Flash players.

    And &fmt=17 gives you a crappy low bitrate very low resolution mpeg4 video for older/cheaper phones, but it isn't playable in Flash.

  21. Cannot delete file on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 1

    It is being used by another person or program.

    Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.

  22. That's insane on Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Almost everyone complaining has a 6 digit or shorter account number. They just f*cked their million oldest, most faithful users.

    Thankfully, my number is 7 digits.

  23. Dugg and buried on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    /.ed

  24. Not bad on Only 244 Genuine Windows Vista's Sold in China · · Score: 1

    That's 243 more copies than most.

  25. Pinyan Input Method on Google Faces Plagiarism Questions Over Chinese Software · · Score: 0, Troll

    I misread pinyin and just about lost it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Pinyan