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  1. Re:Yes but No on Is Linux Dead? · · Score: 1

    Coca-cola is smaller than MS, yes. But GM brings in nearly 8 times the annual revenue of MS, so it's a tad bit bigger.

  2. Re:Link me, but don't frame me. on Blogspace vs. NPR · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, this throws the Microsoft PocketPC browser into an infinite loop.

  3. Re:can you say.. on A Web Browser in Your BIOS? · · Score: 1

    GNU/BIOS, by the author of the svelte EMACS.

  4. Re:Who cares? on Andreessen on the Browser Wars · · Score: 1

    Popup killing was my only reason for switching to Mozilla from IE. Now that I have AdShield, I'm once again not using Mozilla, again.

  5. John Markoff's article? on Open-Source Pioneers Make Bid for .org · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, I have a reflexive hatred for this guy. Am I knee-jerking here, or does anyone share that feeling?

  6. Re:Macrovision isn't a total solution anyway... on Harry Potter, Macrovision and Economics · · Score: 1

    It's time to declare the term "piracy" dead. Ahoy, matey, I nipped a rip of a buddy's copy of Pearl Harbor. Time to keelhaul me and make me walk the plank afterwards.

  7. Re:Math shouldn't be about rote memorization. on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's true, check this out.

  8. Re:Perl is not maintainable... on Writing CGI Applications with Perl · · Score: 1

    Especially in the regexp category, Perl's toolset exactly fits its problem area. Chainsaws are ugly too, but you never hear people bitch about that.

  9. Re:CGI isn't used much anymore... on Writing CGI Applications with Perl · · Score: 2, Informative

    PHP's lack of a requirement for variable declaration makes me consider it a toy language. I can understand providing automatic run-time variable declaration as a convenience, like strict-less Perl does, but not providing a strict option is a recipe for disaster. It's not doing me a favor to let me create bogus variables without so much as a warning.

    That and ridiculous scoping rules (having to import globals into local functions? Huh? Isn't that why I made them global to begin with?) lead me to deeply distrust it as a sturdy development platform.

  10. Re:Not as antagonistic as you might think on What's the Business Case for Microsoft and Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I write a ton of Perl here, too. It doesn't get the respect that C++ does, but boy does it get the job done.

  11. Re:Outlook at work, Evolution at home on Will Evolution Exchange Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Why migrate? They're probably using Outlook because they're using Exchange. Using any other client with Exchange is just, well, dumb. It's possible, but why give up the featureset?

  12. Re:It must be fun working in media on Viruses: More Hype than Danger? · · Score: 1

    Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

  13. Re:US:bombs vs. Japan: environment on Japan Builds World's Fastest Computer · · Score: 1

    Friendly fire happens. Get over it.

  14. Re:On a (somewhat) related topic... on Don't Hit That Back Button · · Score: 1

    +1 funny. Tagging for future reference.

  15. Re:Flash is bad. mmkay? on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1
    Not really. It's a UI tool that weighs heavily on the eye candy. However, it has a potent scripting back-end and can be used for some seriously useful projects that aren't really practical in any other medium.

    Froguts is a great example.

  16. Re:the best combo IMHO on Teaching Linux/Unix Basics to Microsoft Junkies? · · Score: 1

    Here's the regkey for it:

    REGEDIT4

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
    "CompletionChar"=dword:00000009

  17. Re:Lyrical passwords... on Crappy Passwords Very Common · · Score: 1

    We used to have a pseudo-underground tool to do this on Active Directory. Took about 20 seconds to blow the password stack and reset it to your original.

    Worked great until they implemented a 24 hr wait between password changes. Doh!

  18. Re:Java and Linux, so much unfulfilled promise on Sun Files Suit Against Microsoft for Anti-Trust Violations · · Score: 1

    If Java were the easiest, fastest way to accomplish a particular programming chore on the client, it would be king, JVM download or not. Does anyone remember how ICQ spread? Napster? None of these apps were held up the fact that someone had to first transfer bits.

  19. Re:Just as M$ likes.. on Microsoft Trial Wends Onward · · Score: 1

    Eh, so remove the icon from your desktop and go shop around. Or leave the icon and shop around. No one's forcing you to use anything. What's the problem?

  20. Good! on DoubleClick Gets Into Spam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doubleclick, to be in the business, will have to abide by the spam laws that states have already passed. This means Doubleclick will be one of the few groups I get spam from that actually add the ADV: prefix, which makes filtering them braindead easy.

  21. Re:How much do you wanna bet....... on Antimatter Atoms Captured · · Score: 1

    To the universal translator, everything is English.

  22. Re:Just in Case....Full Text on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even from 9x you're graced with telnet and cut and paste.

    telnet mail.domain.com 25
    HELO me.domain.com
    MAIL FROM: user@domain.com
    RCPT TO: recipient@otherdomain.com
    DATA
    Date:
    Subject:
    From:

    Hi! This is my message body.

    .

    There's that modicum of techical acumen he was talking about. Not that this guy isn't an arrogant cock.

  23. Re:Transparent building materials on Transparent Concrete · · Score: 1
    Research Frontiers is still working on a technology of this type using suspended particles sandwiched in a pane of glass that dim based on voltage. They've shown signs of doing great things over the years, but haven't yet made a dime.

    On the upside, if you trade their stock, you can truthfully boast that you buy and sell REFR.

  24. Re:Craig's article... on Security Community Reacts to Microsoft Announcement · · Score: 1

    Holy fuck you're brilliant. The proper syntax for an rm command. AC, have my baby!

  25. Re:OOP won't help, sorry... on Can OO Programming Solve Engineering Problems? · · Score: 1

    True, you can emulate a section of OOP with C, but you do not get the compiler-enforced scoping restrictions that make the technique useful, nor do you get the keyword semantics that support the paradigm. You can theoretically craft this with a custom preprocessor and macro-defined keywords, but why bother when the work has been done for you in oo-ready languages like C++ and Java?