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  1. Re:Retro on Mac mini's New Friend · · Score: 1

    I like how its under-the-computer design resembles Mac hard drives of old.

    And Mac printers of old. The LaserWriter II was designed to look nice sitting atop a Mac II (or IIx or IIfx)

  2. Re:Good idea, but.... on Mac mini's New Friend · · Score: 1

    So mount it backwards.

  3. Re:Moving fast on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Was version 3 when they turned egcs into gcc?

  4. Re:*bump* on One Year Later - CUPS Admin Still Lacking? · · Score: 1

    2 inches deep? that's nothing compared to the stuff on raver boards. a full page is common.

  5. Re:Reference on One Year Later - CUPS Admin Still Lacking? · · Score: 1

    Crikey, is http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html too hard? The shortcut's even listed below the post a comment box.

  6. Re:Answer on One Year Later - CUPS Admin Still Lacking? · · Score: 0

    No, but I write printer drivers for a living, so I have a different angle.

  7. Re:FrankenDVD... on DVD Truce Between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD? · · Score: 1

    And? You've still left room in your lousy argument for all truly brilliant people to hold that misconception too.

    Franken* is the doctor's brand name. Remove the stick from your behind. If you miss it, there are more comfortable synthetic alternatives in a variety of colors.

  8. Re:In a word, Don't. on Brief Tutorial on Reverse Engineering Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Any company could walk in and plug a newsreader onto Outlook, and if they do it well I'll bet that company will make a boatload of cash.

    Why would anyone pay for a newsreader when Google Groups exists? I can't even imagine someone trying to set up a local NNTP server for anything.

  9. Re:Versus Expose? on Brief Tutorial on Reverse Engineering Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    (especially for terminals and spreadsheets).

    Well, typically the window title is listed when you mouse over the scaled version. You can set Terminal.app to set the window title to the currently running command including arguments.

    What would be perfect would be Expose with multiple desktops. In my example above, you'd then do task A on one desktop, task B on another desktop, and task C on a third. On each desktop, you'd use Expose to manage the several windows that are on that desktop.

    Nothing stopping you :)

  10. Re:Here, let me summarize the last 10 years: on Report on Last Decade of Online Advertising · · Score: 1

    The less places you can get a piece of information, the less useful and truthful that information is anyway.

    Buh?! How many times have myths, rumors, hearsay, and outright lies been mistaken for fact and propagated throughout the media?

  11. Re:Eh, not really breaking ground. on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    Only on slashdot is ignorance so rewarded.

    Oh, who am I kidding? It's not just on slashdot.

  12. Re:Too Late on Verizon's DSL Gets Naked · · Score: 1

    after taxes and fees that $5 turns into $15. not counting the one-time $30 setup fee.

  13. Re:Can of worms? on AOL Monitor Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old for Sex · · Score: 1

    do so many have multiple abortions?

    Stats please.

    aren't girls taught to keep the penny between their legs?

    Teaching this is ineffectual. Better to teach other methods of birth control.

  14. Re:I dunno about both. on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    well, what you do is this:
    1.) set up squid to listen on (port X)
    2.) set up the tunnel like so "ssh -L(port Y):remote.machine:(port X)"
    3.) Reconfigure the browser to use localhost:(port Y) as the proxy.

    Since you can tunnel, this should work as long as you can change browser settings. Since you're apparently capable of running an X server on the system, this shouldn't be hard.

  15. Re:Good! on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    1.) The water and shock waves created by such a blast would reach very far inland
    2.) The US government is seated on the east coast. Oops.

  16. Re:They have cracked strong hashes, huh? on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    Hey buddy, many of us are old enough to have beat Super Mario Brothers without savestates. Pansy.

  17. Re:I dunno about both. on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    Why not forward a single port and run a squid proxy on your remote machine? Much faster.

  18. Re:We Bear All on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    There's another use for the word "bear" that you may not be aware of

    probably not safe for work, or your eyes at all.

  19. Re:Derrrrrr.... on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 5, Informative

    they are pretty self-explanatory for user commands.

    if the setuid bit on a file is set, then any execution of that file is done with the privileges the file's owner (or group in the case of setguid).

    for example:

    $ chmod 4754 foo.sh
    $ ls -l foo.sh
    -rwsr-xr-- 1 root foousers 17 Apr 18 15:11 foo.sh

    Now anyone in wheel can run foo.sh with root privileges.

    $ chmod 2755 foo.sh
    $ ls -l foo.sh
    -rwxr-sr-x 1 root foousers 0 Apr 18 15:11 foo.sh

    Now anyone on the system can run foousers with the privileges of a foousers member.

  20. Re:Where have I been? on The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir · · Score: 1

    The downside is that the information is available prior to independent proofreading.

    There is also the problem that Wikipedia requires constant upkeep. It's not hard to change things back to the broken state if someone isn't watching.

  21. Re:Freehand on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    This naturally means that in another 5-10 years Adobe will end up purchasing Corel.

    Ha, I was hoping someone would say that.

  22. Freehand on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I keep wondering what's going to happen to Freehand. Adobe bought the original marketers of Freehand (Aldus, also the guys who made PageMaker) back in the day. Now they're buying the makers of FreeHand AGAIN.

  23. Re:Legal? on The Video Game Pianist · · Score: 1

    How can you assume this?

    I didn't. Notice the "if".

    Does whether or not preparing a derivative work is a fair use depend on whether or not the market is huge?

    No. I don't intend to make a judgment of any sort. Just trying to guess as to what Nintendo will do. I imagine that they would measure the cost of any bad PR of a lawsuit before proceding.

  24. Re:Legal? on The Video Game Pianist · · Score: 1

    The audiovisual works are not out of copyright, and the audiovisual works will not be out of copyright until after you have died.

    Sure, but if they aren't filed as separate copyrights, I doubt anyone would bother going after him. It's not as if there were a huge market in video game soundtracks. (at least not in the US)

  25. Re:Ninentdo Themes Choir on The Video Game Pianist · · Score: 1