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  1. Re:Royalty free license on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The question is will it be available for Linux like Acrobat is?

  2. Re:What ever happened to easy backups? on Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data Protection · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but IIRC you have to reboot the system and such with this backup program.

    Also, this program won't copy a 120gb partition to a 110gb partition either.

    There's no way to shrink data like that without taking up a lot of CPU.

  3. What ever happened to easy backups? on Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data Protection · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's wrong with:

    dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/hdh1/path/to/desired/backup/image/here.iso

    Oh, not available for Windows, so you'll have to buy a product instead. But isn't dd much easier than using a program that expires after 270 days.

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm /e valuation/faq.mspx
    Q. When does the DPM beta expire?
    A. The Data Protection Manager software expires 270 days after installation.

  4. Re:When will they2 on The Rocky TiVo-DirecTV Relationship · · Score: 0

    " Standardize on one format or another so we don't have to buy a new TiVo like device every 6-18 months?"

    Thats the whole point, and their whole business plan.

    1) User buys TiVo
    2) User buys TiVo again
    3) User buys TiVo yet again
    4) User buys TiVo again
    5) User buys TiVo another time
    6) User buys TiVo baby baby one more time
    7) MegaProfit

  5. Re:That's not news on Irish Movie Theatres Go Digital · · Score: 1

    What's really funny is that a friend of mine who knows one of the editors told me that they make about 15/hr for working at OSTG on ./.

    I can attest that if I only made that much to sit on a website and 'accept/deny' storys and get paid $15/hr for it, I sure as hell wouldn't make many mistakes ;-)

    Rate this flamebait if you must, I'm just stating how I think it's odd how you could have the easiest job in the world, get paid so much for it, and stilln make so many stakes WITHOUT getting fired for it to boot!

  6. Re:Geeks versus nerds on The Science Guy Returns · · Score: 2, Funny

    "And what was with the stupid ass skits? If you don't have talented children don't have them take up half the show!"

    I don't know about you! BUt I seriously hope we don't get to see children perform the skits on sex addiction.

  7. Re:Sounds like Radio Shack parts on Faulty Chips Might Just be 'Good Enough' · · Score: 1

    "I've only tracked about half of the speaker wire runs right now; but at this point I don't think it's practical to tackle thru rewiring. It's a mess above that ceiling..."

    Let alone the fact your probably inhaling asbestus fibers. Be careful man, you don't get paid enough for that.

  8. Re:dyes? on Autonomous Robot Finds Life in Atacama Desert · · Score: 1

    They plan on using iodine and a few other dyes.

    Iodine is known to be toxic.

  9. Re:Yeah on U.S. IT Infrastructure Highly Vulnerable · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bush has a website on Geocities and it was hacked so they're desperately looking for a more secure host!

  10. Re:tracking duplicates. tracking dupllicates on Tracking GPL Violators · · Score: 1

    I for one will definately join the project if someone uses my GPL code without following the terms of the GPL license.

    I have several products released under the GPL at my website

  11. 15 ways c/c++ is better than VB on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know that the parent _must_ be a joke, but I must indulge! ;-)

    1. VB has the option to enable or disable automatic integer overflows and array index bound checking. In some instances it might seem like a good thing to have these turned on, however, you don't always need to. Lets say for instance, it's all internal, meaning, you know the size of your array, pretty static environment, but it auto checks all this for you. That right there is 'OVERHEAD'! Because in a client for something, you might need to check these things, you might not, but better to check them manually than to needlessly do so automatically for instances when it's not necessary.

    2. VB forces a function to be Public (Program Wide) inorder to multi-thread it or even point to it (what limited pointer access VB does have). In C++ I can point to any function, sub routine, public/private/protected/virtual/static/extern, YOU NAME IT! Obviously you can't retrieve the location in RAM to something private from outside of a class without a property, but atleast I can point to a function within a class in C/C++!

    3. Along the lines of #2, since VB only supports 'AddressOf' pointing to a function in the rare chance an API might use it, you can't use 'AddressOf' in your own code to 'CALLBACK' to a Sub/Function of your own program (keeping in mind 'AddressOf' only works on 'Module Public' Subs/Functions). There's indirect ways to 'CALLBACK' to a VB sub/function (SetWindowLong) and filtering wMsg(s) sent to that window. However, that requires API, and C/C++ supports 'CALLBACK's natively!

    4. VB forces all integers (however many bytes they are 1, 2, 4, possibly even 8 byte integers in .NET) all to be SIGNED. This doesn't matter if you're only using integers for (bitwise AND/OR/XOR/NOT) binary operators, but for alot of other instances, I'm sure you can think of several, UNSIGNED integers would be nice biggrin.gif.
    Example: Instead of saying If x 400 Then ... End If with a signed integer.
    I could simply do: if (x > 400) { ... } with an unsigned integer
    How/Why? Simple, normally the binary form of a negative number is 0x80 - 0xFF, or 0x8000 - 0xFFFF, or 0x80000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF. So when the number isn't signed, it's actually alot greater than the highest possible signed positive value.
    Example: signed 1 byte integer -128 50 rather than if x 50. Yes I'm aware you can toggle that sign bit, however, why bother if you don't have to in a better language blink.gif?
    Since C/C++ don't have built in bound checking on arrays, unsigned counters are very handy! If the lowest value is 0, and all arrays start with index 0, you can 'safely' assume the minimum bound index is 0, thus, you don't have to check your counter for being 'less than 0'. You only have to check 1 bound, the maximum, so your counter doesn't request an index 'out of bounds'.

    5. One thing I like about C/C++ is I can define a constant array, even by a custom struct or "User Defined Type" for you VB people. In VB the best you can do is make a string with a delimitive value like a comma "1,2,3,4,5" and once the program starts Split() it tongue.gif.
    FireBot mentioned you can use resources in VB! True, that you can, but you still have to use API to retrieve from a resource, and this is all about using only 'standalone' functionality of the languages (I know there are VB functions that retrieve resource information, but even they boil down to API).

    6. With C/C++ I can actually use REAL STRINGS! I have a choice of Unicode (2 bytes per character) or ANSI (1 byte per character). In VB it's strictly Unicode, and you have to use this annoying conversion method built into VB to convert Unicode into a "Byte Array". Can we say 'OVERHEAD' yet?

    7. There's several APIs VB cannot use, because it'll crash the VB IDE, such as Create Thread. Even if you follow the specs on using it, proper use still crashes the VB IDE...

  12. Re:Priorities on Kazaa Outed Over 'Trust Fund' for Red Cross · · Score: 1

    "At least here where I am, before performing this kind of actions better one should really better consult with criminal lawyers and be very carefull with it; One should be more worried with the penal consequences than with financial assets...."

    Like the guys from Enron? Like martha stewart?

    6 months in jail... peice of cake, you can't win them all.

    Corporate Bigheads always walk with the money, they always have.

  13. Re:Misleading... on Japanese Firms Claim 170Mb/s Service Via Powerline · · Score: 1

    "Means, depending on the architecture of the network and the locations of the end points the users could see as much as 10Mb/s of that each."

    10Mb/s down and up... or just down?

  14. Re:I'm just guessing, on AIM's New Terms Of Service · · Score: 1

    " So, not knowing all these things ( lets suppose ), I fire up GAIM.

    I see no messages telling me about this. ( or do I? )

    I innocently ( or so I think ) send messages."

    Just like the grandma who was sued because her little 8* year old grandchild was sharing tons of music on the net?

    Didn't seem to help lower her out-of-court settlement fee at all.

    * Not sure if the kid was eight or not, but he was young I think.

  15. Re:According to US Customs on DrinkOrDie Warez Trader to be Extradited to U.S. · · Score: 1

    "Also, I can see extradition for somethin glike murder or rape - but copyright infringement?!"

    According to the headlines, they seem to use extradition primarly for civil bs like this, rather than murder and rape.

    How often do you see headlines saying "Jeff Johnson has been extradited on rape and murder charges" compared to "A leader of a copyright infringement gang has been extradited"?

    Then again, it could be due to the fact that "murder" and "rape" doesn't yield as many readers in the newspaper as "a group of internet pirates and hackers trafficing illegal MPAA movies and hacking in to pointcheck.com and gaining 120,000 SS#'s and DL#'s"

    With media biases like that going on, you can't really tell what the ratio of these happenings are without doing the research yourself.

  16. Heres how they got hacked: on Consumers Data Stolen from LexisNexis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    jon_k@112[~]$ HEAD lexusnexus.com
    200 OK
    Cache-Control: private
    Connection: close
    Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:53:38 GMT
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

    Need I say more?

  17. Re:No, wait on Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules? · · Score: 1

    Bad link in TFA:

    Your search - cache:GU-0XTizecgJ:https://adwords.google.co.uk/su pport/bin/answer.py?answer=9653&topic=65 traffic estimate - did not match any documents.

  18. Re:was a change required? on Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with using Trustix or another Linux distribution for a task like this?

  19. Re:Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot? on Firefox-Based Netscape 8 Beta Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to find a linux version available...

    Leave it up to AOL to take something multi-platform and make it windows centric?

  20. Re:my response on Sun Storms Deplete Ozone, Too · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It's not ok from a human standpoint for the Earth to radically re-organize itself now.

    Really, we should do everything in our power to keep the Earth rather like it has been for the last 10000 years."

    Well, really, we can't do anything to stop the Earth from reacting to the enviroment from which it lives in (space.) The Earth is going to react according to the forces around it, and nothing can change that.

    It would be within our best interest for our genes to do some evolution to better suit us for our changing world. Species are going to die out on this planet as a result of the changing Earth, that is for sure. Hopefully some or most species will be able to adapt to the new enviroment that they won't.

    It's natural selection, but who picks? The Earth, who tells the Earth? The Universe. We can't change the Universe, so lets hope that we can change ourselves.

  21. Re:Good Move Microsoft!!!! on Microsoft to Disable Online Windows Activation · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the catcher is, you calling them to activate is technically a support call.

    I forget how I found it, but on a part of their site I read that support calls are 78 dollars for the initial call, and 2 dollars every minute your on the line with them.

    Seems like they've pulled that page though, since "site:microsoft.com support rates" on google doesn't return anything.

  22. Re:CowboyNeal... why even have the email link? on Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva · · Score: 1

    "
    So now we know they not only don't read their site, but they don't read email about their site. "

    Yeah, I'm currently in the process of being sued for releasing a trade secret accidently on a slashdot post by someone I supposibly got fired.

    The individual who got fired told me if I don't get the post off ./ he would sue be, now look... I'm going to end up in court.

    I must have E-Mailed every address tied to slashdot, the whois addresses, cowboyneals and all the editors personal E-Mails. I didn't even get one reply. I begged them, they never responded.

    Life fucking sucks...

  23. Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft on Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "What does it say about /. when the editors don't think their site is worth reading?"

    What's it say about the readers when they visit a site that they know the owners don't even care about.

    Says wonders on "we the people" :)

  24. Re:Class-action lawsuit, anyone? on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Me and my friend first looked at the netcraft, the IP never changed when the 'FILE SHARING IS WRONG' Page hosted by the mpaa came up.

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=lokito rr ent.com

    See? The ip addr's never changed.

  25. Re:Class-action lawsuit, anyone? on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, thats amazing, me and a friend on teamspeak when it first happened both bet it was probably a scam, and that we should do such a scam just like it...

    Turns out... we're right.

    Amazing, how gullable people are to scams these days.