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  1. Re:Petrol? on New Speed Record For Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1

    It's a big world, son, and the English spread their variant of the langauge to most of it first.

  2. Re:According to Honda... on New Speed Record For Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1

    This one: commutercars.com does it in 4, for a mere $85,000. It also claims that it can legally lane split, being 5 inches slimmer than a Honda Goldwing (which requires Moses at the helm to pull off a decent whiteline maneuver)

  3. Re:Can be very glitchy on Intranets on New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name · · Score: 1

    Doh! I guess it would have helped if I'd RTFSummary. That's jacked.

  4. Re:Can be very glitchy on Intranets on New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name · · Score: 1

    Why would you type an internal DNS name into the google toolbar in the first place?

  5. Re:It's really not that much better than my soluti on iPod Your BMW Officially Launched · · Score: 1
    I did that for a little while but got so tired of the cables interfering with my shifting and radio station changing that I had to do something about it.

    There's also something to be said for not having an aftermarket headunit in many neighborhoods (especially in a convertible).

  6. Re:Stability on Rhythmbox Gets iPod Support · · Score: 1

    RB-0.6.5 w/ GST-0.7.3 dies a horrible screaming slow painful death with my 13K song archive on the same machine. It's a damned shame, too, because I loved RB dearly while rebuilding the collection after a drive failure.

  7. Re:Gnome the way to go? on GNOME in the Year of the Monkey · · Score: 1

    It was a godsend in getting Gnome 2 on my 8.1 system a year+ ago. Other than that, it just bundles in a bunch of bunch of gnome apps (& backend libraries) tweaked for look & feel that Pat doesn't include in 9.0, and gives you regular updates for all the gnomey goodness. It's not a revolutionary upgrade that'll bring KDE users over from the dark side... just a contantly evolving, functional and semi-glossy desktop.

  8. Re:unpaid internships on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    I owe A LOT to offering myself up as an unpaid intern. For the first 18 months after getting my BSCS in '01, I was still doing the same blue-collar, (skilled) manual labor that I did before and throughout college. During a slow period (where I was lucky if I could find work Thurs-Sun) I offered myself up as a 100% free part-time programmer on my local LUG mailing list. While I was looking for experience rather than pay from the (only!) company that took me up on the offer, two months (only 16 working days) later I was offered part-time paid and one week later I was offerred full-time paid.

    I shudder to think where I would be if I had taken the easy route and gotten a part-time coffehouse job like I had the previous years.

  9. Re:Price comparisons are irrelevant on Why iPod Mini is a smart move for Apple · · Score: 1

    $229 from here. Just pick a college, any college. No proof necessary.

  10. Re:use Pine. on 'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You · · Score: 1

    You have a short memory. This One from October didn't even require user intervention. You did upgrade, right?

  11. Re:The integration I'd like to see on GNOME/KDE Integration Gets A Few Boosts · · Score: 1
    Are there gtk+2 builds of Mozilla Seamonkey?

    It appears so. I got mine with Dropline Gnome for Slackware 9.0, but several of my coworkers use Fedora (which I believe also uses GTk'd Moz).

  12. Re:damned corkscrews! on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1
    I went for 2 years without remembering to buy a corkscrew.

    1. Put bottle in sink
    2. Stand back
    3. Plunge steak knife through cork. (Try not to stab hand)

    Cutting the cork in half will allow it to pour smoother for the first few glasses than just shoving it in, in my experience.

  13. Don't run SUID root! on Mplayer Revisited · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do not run SUID root if there is any other way to get the desired performance. From: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/339193 Severity: HIGH (if playing ASX streaming content) LOW (if playing only normal files) Description: A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer. A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header, and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code upon parsing that header. MPlayer versions affected: MPlayer 0.90pre series MPlayer 0.90rc series MPlayer 0.90 MPlayer 0.91 MPlayer 1.0pre1 MPlayer versions unaffected: MPlayer releases before 0.90pre1 MPlayer 0.92 MPlayer HEAD CVS Notification status: Developers were notified on 2003.09.24 Fix was commited into HEAD CVS at 2003.09.25 02:36:36 CEST MPlayer 0.92 (vuln-fix-only release) was released on 2003.09.25 12:00:00 CEST Patch availability: A patch is available for all vulnerable versions. Suggested upgrading methods: MPlayer 1.0pre1 users should upgrade to latest CVS MPlayer 0.91 (and below) users should upgrade to 0.92 OR latest CVS MPlayer 0.92 is available for download. -- Gabucino MPlayer Core Team

  14. Re:Pay One on Have You Personally Used an Honest Head Hunter? · · Score: 1
    Where? Who?

    After reading a book written by a counselor who placed new grads in a position for a pctg (paid by the hiree), I tried in vain to find someone who would take my money in exchange for placement assistance. What are they called in the Yellow Pages? Is there an industry-association webpage that directs you to these types of service providers? Fortunately, I'm not currently looking for work, but if you anyone has any pointers...mail me (remove the underscores)

  15. Re:Sign up for Giganews on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 1

    You are not required to use it to post, only to sign up. I've had the comcast/giganews combo for about three months and the only two messages in the mailbox are a welcome from Comcast and a confirmation from Giga.

  16. Re:HOLY FUCK on RIM Loses NTP Case, To Pay $53 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I hope that RIM loses the appeal and that it does bury the company, though I have no personal grudge against it.

    Then I hope that all of the corporations that have invested heavily in RIM's services will have to sit back and watch while their investment goes dark.

    Then I would like to see them create a fake grassroots movement or a political action committee that aims to reform the patent processes before it happens to them.

    Though I'm wary of large companies deciding the future of intellectual property law, I hope that they see that no-one wins in a nuclear arms race like this one where any yahoo with an idea can build the bomb that ... ahh, screw the metaphors.