Slashdot Mirror


User: notsoclever

notsoclever's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
257
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 257

  1. Re:Consistency, please on CSS for the LDP? · · Score: 1
    Generating a plain text file from CSS-enriched HTML is easy.
    lynx -dump myfile.html
  2. Re:What do you think? on How (and how well) do Wireless "Worldphones" Work? · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. Check the specs on every single phone T-Mobile offers - they use the GSM900 versions.

  3. Re:What do you think? on How (and how well) do Wireless "Worldphones" Work? · · Score: 1
    Not quite. USA has both GSM850 (AT&T and Cingular) and GSM900 (T-Mobile).

  4. Re:"Not likely?" on Monday's Planet Views Best Until 2036 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Well, I think that the amazingness of the view is because it's got five planetary-type bodies in view at once.

    I was just poking a little fun at how the original poster said it wasn't likely to happen again until 2036 since without any large amount of external force being applied to one of them, the probability of their orbits being affected beyond our current predictions of their orbital mechanics is effectively zero.

  5. "Not likely?" on Monday's Planet Views Best Until 2036 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd say it's pretty much certain that we won't see that configuration again until 2036, unless Jupiter is knocked out of orbit or something...

  6. Linux can do that on Apple to Add Free Screen Reader to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-alt-+ and - (the + and - keys on the number pad), assuming your X server is configured with multiple resolutions (which it usually is, at least in all of the distributions I've ever used).

  7. Re:uh on Apple to Add Free Screen Reader to Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    Properly written Windows programs (everything from MS that I have used) do not require the use of the mouse cursor for anything
    That sounds like an application issue, not an OS issue.

    OSX apps have full keyboard access by default as long as the developer uses standard widgets (and the user enables the shortcut key for activating the menu bar). Good apps also have shortcut keys for nearly everything. Additionally, as of OS X 10.3 the user can define shortcut keys for every menu item in Cocoa apps (though the interface for it is still a bit kludgy).

  8. Re:Why have a save icon? on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    'Kay. Never used Office.X, and even if I did I'd have probably just turned off the toolbar anyway. :)

  9. Why have a save icon? on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    None of the Macintosh apps I use have 'save' in the toolbar. For file saving, you can either do file:save, or you can do cmd-S. The only app I can think of which might have a save icon in its toolbar is Acrobat Reader, which IIRC is a 3.5" floppy which hasn't been pertinent on the Mac since 1998.

  10. Re:Um...no. on Epson's Female Printer · · Score: 1

    Or Bluetooth, which this printer supports as well.

  11. Re:/.ed on Epson's Female Printer · · Score: 1

    In the future, you might want to consider putting static content on static HTML pages.

  12. Dumb joke before I read the link on Debian Project Leader Candidates' Platforms Online · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's Brandon's platform, cussing out every new user who happens to ask any question about the distribution?

  13. Re:Downloading it now... on Mac OS X 10.3.3 Update Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really? My experience has been just the opposite - MacOS has had better SMB access for me than Windows! Though I've only tried connecting to Samba shares.

  14. Re:What's the other 37%? on Real Sues Baseball Over Windows Media · · Score: 1

    Nice theory, except that MPEG-4 (the only truly streaming MPEG) *is* Quicktime.

  15. Re:Pretty annoying on Microdrive Technology Rebounds Thanks to iPod Mini · · Score: 1

    The second one.

  16. You needed suction cups? on Atari 2600 Joystick To USB Adapter Announced · · Score: 3, Funny

    Were you born with only one hand or something?

  17. You sure? on Atari 2600 Joystick To USB Adapter Announced · · Score: 1

    What about Custer's Revenge?

  18. Re:Site died already. on The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Adding a ? doesn't do anything server-side, but it makes it so that your browser and/or proxy Must try to reload it. But then the URL with the ? will just get cached. I usually do things like ?sdjhfsdf or ?dshfakhfaiowe or whatever.

  19. Re:Windows iTunes a different story? on iPod Mini Sells Out · · Score: 4, Informative
    AIFFs can be tagged though. It's got a lot of rich metadata support, which all Apple tools make heavy use of; as a demonstration of this, take an AIFF file, then use iTunes to edit its information. YOu can remove the AIFF from the library and then load it back in, and it will still have the metadata.

    WAV is a subset of RIFF, which (being another IFF derivative) shares a lot more in common with AIFF than people realize, and so it might be able to do metadata also, but I don't think any tools actually support it, and most stuff working with .wavs that I've seen just seem to assume that you only have a single WAVE chunk in the file so they'd probably break horribly if you gave it anything more complex anyway.

  20. The nice thing about standards... on DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Of course, there are current standards, but most are incompatible
    The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

    Why does Fraunhofer think that their "standard" is going to get any more acceptance than any of the other options?

  21. Re:Mike on Quieting Your G5? · · Score: 1

    Wall bounces are easy to fix. Buy some cheap comforters and hang them on the walls, and maybe throw some pillows in the corners. It'll also improve the quality of the recordings since it won't have the wall bounces of whatever's being recorded, too.

  22. Re:Suggestion for "Mix Tape" on Creative Commons Moving Images Winners · · Score: 1

    Look into Freecache.

  23. Re:Now to get this kind of stuff out in the public on Creative Commons Moving Images Winners · · Score: 1

    It depends on how you interpret "non-commercial." I think that broadcasting it as a PSA wouldn't count as "commercial" since it's not being used for profit by the TV station; in my interpretation, "non-commercial" just means "not sold for money."

  24. Re:Warning to those who will enter on Play Blackjack with PHP · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's only if the player hasn't busted already. If the player busts, it's an automatic win for the house.

  25. Re:The most annoying thing on Greek Anti-Gaming Laws Still Being Enforced · · Score: 1
    the good is that a judge's vedrict is not a law (and really, if it is, how do you cancel it?)
    In America, the precedents set by judges don't create laws, but create interpretations of existing laws for new situations. Killing the law makes the precedent no longer valid for the basis of a judgement, and precedents aren't strongly-binding, they're just a guideline.

    If a judge disagrees with a precedent, they don't necessarily have to follow it.