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  1. Dont call me Babe on Google Announces 'Google Movies' · · Score: 1

    I found Normal Google apparantly better than this movie operator. I think you can add more.

  2. X-Windows? on Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux · · Score: 1

    It is X Window, X or X Window System. Only to discredit it you have to intentionally use it as X-Windows.

  3. Bug in MSN Search Feedback on Inspecting MSN Search · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try to provide a Feedback. It does not proceed. I tried to provide MSN a Feedback about there is noway to get to the main page after searching. Pops up a Windows BOX containing Submission information and gives up. btw, I use Firefox and I bother not to check for the same on IE.

  4. Once u search you cannot return to main page on MSN Search Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    Once u search you cannot return to main page ( unless you press the back button of your browser), M$ is trying to create a lock-in by making ppl keep searching once they have begun.

  5. Re:Must Read on Geeks in Management? · · Score: 4, Funny

    First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful People", and NOT read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture. (*) This document does so not so much by answering the question, but by making it painfully obvious to the questioner that we don't have a clue to what the answer is. -Linus Benedict Torvalds

  6. Learn Programming in 10 years on Joel Gives College Advice For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Teach Yourself Programming in 10 years by Peter Norvig has always been the all time favorite. I think every budding programming to read it.


    -http://uthcode.sarovar.org

  7. Re:Spam vs False Positivies on Some Ways To Avoid Spam On Gmail · · Score: 1

    I wonder how no-body has observed this. As far I understand, Gmail seems to use Bayesian filter concept and the tendency of False Positives with Gmail is huge. I have a screenshot wherein a Y! groups with members only if the subject was like AMAZING! was classfied as SPAM. False Positives is one major concern with a good spam filter.

  8. Customers need choice on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Search for Democrary: Acooona vs Google

  9. Re:How did they choose? on Amazon's Best Computer Books of 2004 · · Score: 1

    Too many books in the stock. They just want them to sell them out.

  10. Software Monoculture? on The Lessons of Software Monoculture · · Score: 1
    Monoculture is the result of genuine needs. Technological diversity may be good, but it costs, in dollars and in effort.
    Well, I remember reading a comment on this by Bill joy
    Nature deals with breakdowns in a complex system with evolution, and a very important part of evolution is the extinction of particular species. It's a sort of backtracking mechanism that corrects an evolutionary mistake. The Internet is an ecology, so if you build a species on it that is vulnerable to a certain pathogen, it can very well undergo extinction. By the way, the species that go extinct tend to have limited genetic diversity. -Bill Joy
  11. Re:Is Firefox ready? on Firefox Seeks Full Page Ad in New York Times · · Score: 1

    Firefox is still gaining ground against IE. It may be better to wait a little longer and let Firefox muture a bit more before trying to convert the general masses with this type of advertising campaign. You are absolutely correct.I like and understand the concept of free software.Stumbled across this Marketing platform of SpreadFirefox.com and suceeeded in making few downloads. But for the users,who wanted a just a better browser and had no meaning for Free Software/OpenSource/Anti M$ism etc,Firefox was tried and found that someother lesser known browser which they discovered is equally good and FireFox did not stick for the timebeing atleast. FireFox came out due to its Quality. Just stick to it. Improve and Improvise upon it... Marketing is going to be just supplementary.

  12. Re:It would be more commendable . . . on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 1

    Diversity is infact good. A species dies when it becomes susceptible to certain kind of pathogen,and usually it is found to have limited genetic diversity.

  13. In contrast on Wikipedia != Authoritative? · · Score: 1

    Contrary to the article and links mentioned, I have found the editing is usually( and surprisingly) quick at Wikipedia. All its depends is the type of article you wish to edit. If you have edited an article about your great grandmother who once fed Hitler some russian bear at her German Inn,no one would bother to edit it. If the information is not appropriate, it will usually be deleted. But editing information about Computer Science! Gosh!try the experiement and come for a bet! There are new things which have come up, wherein Wikipedia is having Featured Article( you can have it via email as well), which is carefully assembled/edited by the wikipedian community collaboratively. Check out the community portal as how the collaboration usually takes place. Wikipedia is a very good source to get started on any topic you wish. If you dont find it there,google for it and would you believe links which are returned as Authoritative, unless otherwise they are from NEC Citeseer or uspto.gov!!! :)

  14. Fantastic! on Looking Glass Beta Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am not a Java Programmer (yet) and its just second time I was abt to use a Java Program on Linux.
    Just followed their instructions for getting the Looking Glass up and Running and Yo!. That was a Fantastic Experience. Check out my Snapshots captured using KSnapShot tool when the looking Glass was running over the TWM Window Manager. This was on a Dell Optiplex Gx260 having onboard Intel845 Video Card running Fedora Core2. When it really gets full fledged, believe me, all the desktops is going to be like playing a 3D game. Whole new features and a good extension to the present desktops. So Sun, I forgot what the business-men are saying, Kudos for your Technology!!!

  15. Re:Well You Know What They Say.... on Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery · · Score: 1

    Here, it goes..
    A doctor a day, keeps Apple on Bay. Get well Soon.Mr.Jobs.Our Sincere wishes.

  16. Re:My Fave Google Trick on Google: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    Just site:domainname seems to give the results what you mention. heck!***KISS***

  17. More scientific evidence on More Accusations of Scientific Abuse by the Bush Administration · · Score: 1

    More scientific evidence of the real bush is here
    Watchout you terminator!

  18. Re:This isn't Dell's doing on Is Dell Just Testing the Market? · · Score: 1

    Dells Blog here has more information on this.
    Clarifying Desktop Linux for Europe You may have seen news stories yesterday about Dell offering Linux on desktops in Europe. To clarify exactly what is being offered and by whom, this news article does a good job. We're always there to support the hardware we sell and at this time you can purchase an n-Series desktop system which will come with no factory installed OS (with a FreeDOS license and CD dropped in the box), but we are not currently factory installing Linux on desktops (with the exception of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Precision).

  19. Each time I refresh the Slashdot on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    I am getting a report on the new security vulnerablity of IE. Are you all facing the seeing the same behaviour?

  20. Feedback on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    M$ wants your Feedback about their New Search Engine here, but actually it is taking down all the points for the feedback right from here. So,here we go!
    Why should this be a preview?This is as good as their actual release!

  21. Have you Read ast's Computer Networks Book? on How Hard Is It To Write Your Own Search Engine? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Andrew.S.Tanenbuam's Book "Computer Networks" deals this topic in a very elementary and a very good way. Any person,who is wondered by the Search Engine,should read that book. In the Chaper dealing with Application Layer,ast describes the basic data structures which constitute a web-search engine. You could better look at the presentation here.

  22. Slow News day on India's Secret Army Of Online Ad 'Clickers' · · Score: -1, Troll

    I dont know how /. could select such a silly story to be published. These things are going from the days dotcom came up and do anyone of your personally know a person who has earned money just by clicking the ads. We hear about these things a lot and there is lot of "wanted Ad Clickers" mails come to everyones' mailboxes,but they are filtered along with the usual quota of spam. Publishing such a news, demands some Spam Filter to be run on /. or CmdrTaco or CowboyNeal postings.

  23. Dr. Kay's deep interest in children and education on Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award · · Score: 1

    Dr. Kay's deep interest in children and education led him to use Smalltalk as an early vehicle for teaching computing concepts at the elementary school level. Good amount of /. posts have a proof of it where few teachers said that squeak was used to teach young students. Thanks and Congratulations Dr.Kay.

  24. Re:Social implications of mass produced robots? on Ask the Robotic Psychiatrist · · Score: 1

    When the question of Mass Production has come, it needs to be observed that all the technologies of the past which have come to the mass production level had it's intial surge to that level from sex related things. Take for eg. Printing Press, Telephone and Internet (Prono). Will the same logic apply to the mass production of Robots as well? What will be the social implications if the same industry trend of Mass Production follows with a technology as Robots? How will be the 3 laws of RObots be fitting in this scenario?

  25. Re:1 Across : sudden, intuitive realization (8) on Those Eureka Moments · · Score: 1

    Epiphany: ~~thinking~~ ~~thinking~~ Somewhere I have heard this word. How could I have missed this. how did this fella got it. epiphany...epiphany... Hey, this is a GNOME Browser Right? ~~AHA~~