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  1. Re:Don't go optical on Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? · · Score: 0

    Time Machine will delete the oldest backups when its disk is full, so if you're systematically deleting photos from your main HD, hoping that TM will indefinitely preserve them as they were when first backed up, this will eventually backfire.

    I believe TM was designed as an emergency solution / nice surprise for people who wouldn't go to the trouble of backing up anyway.

  2. Re:Learn your AVC's on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 0

    TextWrangler. Free, and full-featured. Join the herd. A clipboard manager is also useful for roll-your-own keyboard shortcuts for stripping formatting. I use PTHPasteboard PRO. Not free (it will let you use a limited feature set for free), but worth it.

  3. Re:This just in on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 0

    Hide your kids, hide your wife.

  4. Re:Windows Phone 7 is great on Windows Phone 7 Lacks Copy-and-Paste · · Score: 0

    Eh?

  5. Re:Where to find them? on Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine it's possible that the only thing that might cause any of these civilizations to be labelled "more advanced" could be something as simple as Apple on their planet rolling out new notebooks with a matte screen option and Firewire on the consumer models. Hey, I'd migrate.

  6. Re:Note to self on Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, that can be changed to Graphite via the Appearance preference pane. I'm just sayin'...

  7. Re:Spelling on Understanding OS X Kernel Internals · · Score: 1


    C'est "allot", monsieur.

  8. Re:Movie critics.... on The Story of Tron · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder if Plan 9 was intended to be comic. Compare to the trailer for the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, which seems clearly intended to be a spoof of the genre. There's not much difference in acting, plot, dialogue etc. If I didn't know better, someone could've told me that Plan 9 was a spoof of Cadavra and I'd have fallen for it. Bad spoof, but spoof nonetheless. Okay, you got me. I'm only posting so my sig can appear on-topic. :-D _______ slide

  9. Re:Bah. on Indestructible Super Mug To Save Humanity · · Score: 1


    Brilliant! I nearly choked. Thank you.

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  10. Re:Sorry... on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    Looks like you're quite right.

    IANAS (I Am Not A Scientist), so I'm just assuming that they've probably perfected (or at least, somewhat improved) on the original concept. Hard to tell, of course, if they can't produce actual photos of the finished article (although there is a diagram).

    Those Darrieus designs look like right hazards to avian navigation.


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  11. Re:Sorry... on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    But...but..

    (from TFA): While the various propeller designs now in use harness from 20 to 28% of the wind's power, with some newer designs edging to between 30% and 40%, Taylor says that TMA's design captures over 40% of the wind's power, all across the profile, from low- to very high-speed winds.


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  12. Derivative ideas... on William Gibson on The Age of The Remix · · Score: 1

    ...such as this Slashdot ID....

  13. Re:Wow on Searching by Image Instead of Keywords · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to see is cameras with CBIF built-in, tagging photos with relevant metadata, largely so that it need not be entered by hand.

    It's likely that an individual camera's database won't be that extensive, perhaps due to the lack of adequate storage space, but a hybrid system which also takes advantage of a constantly refined online database could further refine a camera's less-specific tags.

    Sort of like a CDDB for photos.

  14. Re:He'll be disappointed... on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Beautiful sig.

  15. Re:screen shot on Screen Cleaner Brightens Fading Displays · · Score: 1

    <Dell_dude>
    Duuuude...

    You've got, like, sixteen apps open at the same time!

    Aren't you afraid you're gonna...crash?
    </Dell_dude>

    :-)

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  16. Re:I'm trying... on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1



    Yo boom,

    Check out Path Finder for an option-loaded file browser that'll allow you to configure your directory tree in many useful ways, including a mixed column/list view that mimics/trumps Windows Explorer.

    T'ain't free though.


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  17. Re:Woah! on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1



    GoofOffice.

    I'd buy it.



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  18. Re:PDF no good for collaboration on Microsoft To Share Office Source Code · · Score: 1

    Adobe Illustrator (for single-page documents-versions 8 to 10 do a more predictable job than CS, IMH observation) and Adobe InDesign for multi-page documents. Huge overkill, but there you are. slide

  19. Re:on slashdot? on Why You Should Use XHTML · · Score: 1

    Grrrrr...

    That should read;

    "...along with the
    print "
    prefix and the..."


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  20. Re:on slashdot? on Why You Should Use XHTML · · Score: 1

    I modified a Perl search engine script I found at htmlgoodies.com to output perfectly valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, although the provided examples will output the most basic and invalid HTML.

    It was mostly a matter of escaping all of the quotation marks in any regular XHTML code, along with the
    print "<
    prefix and the
    \n";
    suffix for each line.

    The lines are seemingly only determined by how you want the page's source code to look after the page is rendered.

    (FYI, the htmlgoodies Perl search engine example needs to be modified to search deeper than the current folder and to find page titles in more than just uppercase).



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  21. Re:That's How Tycho got Gabe to Play NWN on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1


    "Able was I ..."

    Sorry. Couldn't resist :-)



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  22. Re:My First 10... on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1



    With all due respect, surely that was a joke...



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  23. Re:My First 10... on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 2, Informative



    Wow, that was the second on topic-post... :-)

    For myself, running OS X (Panther), it's:

    1. LaunchBar
    2. Default Folder
    3. ASM
    4. LiteSwitch (I use Adobe apps and don't want to learn new selection-tool-switching habits)
    5. FruitMenu
    6. WindowShade
    7. Little Snitch
    8. Net Monitor
    9. Eudora
    10. Mozilla


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  24. Re:This is a very bad trend-Good ol' days of free. on JPEG Patent Could Impact The Gimp · · Score: 1

    Actually, just try to get on a commercial airline flight carrying a knife nowadays.

    The times they are a-changin'.

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  25. Re:Heading off at the pass.... on Solar-Hydrogen Eco-House · · Score: 1



    I make no claim to know what's true, but here's a little of what I found on the subject.

    Addison Bain's working theory (RealPlayer link)

    An About.com article


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