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  1. Built the world? on IRC as a World-Changing Medium · · Score: 1

    Chat rooms cannot "build the world" without the http. Why hasn't this news been published on IRC? Because IRC cannot "build the world". The same argument can be used like "the messenger that built the world": the X developer talked with Y developer over (insert IM program here). Therefore that built the world. The people on that channel could have done a mailing list all the same. There is still need for HTTP to make it known..

  2. Re:I'm sorry on Google DVRs and TV Advertising · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not the same as tracking cookies/browsers. You reinstall, you switch browsers, you clear the cookies, you change provider and lose tail, eventually.

    But Television...

  3. Re:Xen into kernel on Red Hat Wants Xen In Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Thank you, caseih, for the time spent explaining. Thanks MyHair for clarifying:).

    Now it makes more sense;)

  4. Re:800,000 English articles on Printing Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like printing the Internet!
    wget -R . > /dev/lp0

  5. Re:This makes sense. on Printing Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think you're after karma:p

    Then again.. it doesn't make sense. Even the CD versions make less sense than the live database.

    I mean.. if you cannot postback your comments and annotations, the why is it still called wikipedia ?!?
    You're jokin'..

  6. Re:Two birds, one stone on Red Hat Wants Xen In Linux Kernel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    no IT manager is going to take Xen over VMWare just yet (Unless cost is a BIG factor)
    With VM Player and vi you may get a free virtual machine.. see http://b100dian.lx.ro/wordpress/index.php?p=90

  7. Xen into kernel on Red Hat Wants Xen In Linux Kernel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What exactly does "virtualization technology included in the Linux kernel" means?
    That you can run virtual machines with that kernel? that that kernel can be hosted into a virtual machine?

    Or that you can install parallel kernels and run part of the ELF binaries on the other machine?..

  8. TLD? on mTLD to enforce Web standards in .mobi · · Score: 2, Informative

    you mean Exteded TLD, right?

  9. Re:Symbolic links? on Vista To Get Symlinks? · · Score: 5, Informative

    NTFS already had symlinks. Just that Explorer and cmd.exe didn't used the feature. But if created (with a third party tool) they are properly used.
    Also, FAT had initially a flag indicating that an object is not a file, nor a folder, but a symlink. Unfortunately, the attribute got later used as a "Long Filename Part no. X" flag... talk about bad design..

  10. Re:We already have Section 508 on MA Lawmakers Question Move to OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, MS Word itself doesn't implement IAccessible for the main document window (the interface is used by MS Narrator for example):
    "If you need to use text-to-speech functionality with Office programs, you may need to obtain a more robust, third-party Text-to-Speech program" - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/252435/EN-US/

  11. Re:The Meat... on TransGaming Releases Fast Software 3D Rendering · · Score: 1

    You can't - think about it:
    - Screenshots (reading video memory, instead of writing) are slower
    - Processing occurs inside that video memory. If you handle the "processing intructions" to the card, along with the textures, you wouldn't want to take back part of them just to execute your Host CPU Software procedure.

    And more, much more than this: pixel shaders - those are executed at the periphery of the output, wherefrom no one has read before..

  12. And the point is? on Pillows Dangerous for Your Health · · Score: 0, Troll

    Am I already dead?
    ..nope

    Then why the heck are they researching this kind of things?

    I am sure those scientists aren't using a pillow and all their informal discussions are "did you know that your pillow... (yadda yadda)...?".
    Oh, please...

  13. Re:What's changed is that a lot of people like it on 20th Anniversary of Windows · · Score: 1

    People don't go to Mc Donald's because they know someone in the vicinity that will help them to eat for free, while that's the case with OSes.

    Not for free.

    You still have to buy eggs and cheese et cetera from supermarket (paying the bandwidth to download the .iso's), read some cookbook (`man dish') and make the dish yourself (`make dish && sudo make install')

  14. Re:SuSe and Mandriva on Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Released · · Score: 1

    According to folklore, the term thunk was coined by the developers of the Algol-60 programming language, who realized late one night that the data type of parameters could be known with a little forethought by the compiler. That is, by the time the compiler processed the parameters, it had already thought of (thunked) the data types. (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/thunk.html)

    Is it that late at night for you to thunk that?:p

  15. Re:i hereby propose on 300 Years to Index the World's Information · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Google indexed it all in 6 days, and took a rest in the 7th...

  16. Re:Bloat? on Linux Gains Lossless File System · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually this is a journal filesystem, as opposed to journalized. That is, each file is a journal.

  17. Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear on Google & Sun Planning Web Office · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fear the allmighty M$:
    Microsoft will start bundling Windows with Internet Explorer!!

  18. Re:Blog blogblog! on Google & Sun Planning Web Office · · Score: 1

    Google has this "thing" that turns every joke into a software implementation..
    (bah.. in the year 2000 all people will have 2 GB.. of mail!! :laughter:)

  19. Re:Google Conquers all on Google & Sun Planning Web Office · · Score: 1

    ..free, by means of ad-powered-saved-documents..

  20. Re:I'd take a backup of my backup. on Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    You don't rewrite every possible bit of data, but if you're using FAT32, it's enough to rewrite FOUR bytes (the -redundant- amount of space left free on filesystem)

  21. Re:30 GB?!?!?! 250K oughta be enough for anyone! on 30Gigs Web Mail Launches Into Beta · · Score: 1

    2 Gigs? 30GB? who can fill that if your attachement size is limited?!?
    Seriously, just state "unlimited space" and make sure you adjust that attachement size by observing the daily increase of used space..
    Or: leave 2GB, but allow a 650Mb attachement! err.. wait, two

  22. Re:yup on Opera Reaches 1 Million Downloads Thanks To Google · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up please. I also met that kind of people..
    Valid for Office, Word, Windows, Pentium too:
    - I have a dual core Athlon yadda yadda
    - What kind of Pentium is that?

  23. Proposal on Name That Worm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Run all antiviruses on a machine.
    Exec the worm.
    Blitblt the screenshot into an OCR buffer.
    Compute the name of the worm

    extra step: see if all AVs fired: if not so, the naming can become "AV killer"

  24. Re:What? That doesn't add up. on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 1

    Windows didn't won beacause it was single: try today to build an application with runs on Windows95-WindowsXP (not to mention Windows 3 and Vista..)
    It did won because of software - but not other's but their own: Word, then Office etc.

  25. Java? on Free Web-Based Exception Reporting · · Score: 1

    TFA:Your programs can be written in C#/VB.NET, Java, VB6, Delphi, C++, or any other SOAP-enabled language

    I lack to see anything apart from .NET code.

    For .NET, we provide a compiled component (DLL file)

    ?!. Not even .NET.