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  1. Re:Firefox bookmark sync??? on A Preview of Opera 9.5 · · Score: 1

    I often have over 100 tabs open in Opera at any given time. Mostly due to laziness but that's neither here nor there.

  2. Re:Watch out! on Firefox Seeks Full Page Ad in New York Times · · Score: 2, Informative
  3. Re:Great on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can still modify the INI file and change all the various paths. It's just that now (assuming you chose to allow multiple profiles) the INI file is stored in Documents & Settings instead of under Program Files. Make sure hidden files are visible and search for opera6.ini and edit away.

  4. Re:Dear Comcast on Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse · · Score: 1
    I don't think you can simply refuse to provide any evidence that might incriminate yourself.
    They already have all the evidence they need. They're simply warning him that he's been caught red handed and that he shouldn't do it again. Next time, they *will* take further action, cutting him off at the very least. It doesn't really matter whether or not he thinks he did something wrong/illegal, the fact is that it *is* illegal (and certainly violates comcast's terms of service and acceptable use policies) and he has been caught.
  5. Re:Excellent on Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell it to the judge

  6. Re:Excellent on Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse · · Score: 1
    still stands if they are the ones who originated the torrent to collect IP's of people who d/l... this gota be unlikely though.
    100% wrong. Anyone can connect to a torrent and get a list of all IPs that are downloading or seeding it. How do you think bittorrent works?
  7. Re:why Jetty??? on Geronimo 1.0 Milestone Build M1 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just saw over on TSS that they are planning to support Tomcat alongside Jetty in the future.

  8. Re:why Jetty??? on Geronimo 1.0 Milestone Build M1 Released · · Score: 1

    My guess is because Tomcat is the official Servlet/JSP reference implementation while Jetty is a "real" impelementation, though that doesn't stop people from using Tomcat in production anyway.

  9. Re:Well, they could do one thing to help on 1,028,000 Digital Photographs · · Score: 1
    Do you know how long it takes save a PNG file? RAW and JPG need a LOT less CPU power and cycles compared to PNG. PNG just wouldn't work very well in a digital camera especially when you want to snap very quickly.

    RAW vs PNG is (IMO) like comparing, say, HuffyYUV and DIVX codecs for video. You can save the raw video stream much more quickly using the former than you can with the latter. Once you have that raw stream you can compress it very nicely later on in post.

  10. Re:KDE 3.2! on Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community Ready For Download · · Score: 1

    That quote shows his obvious bias towards XP and most likely all things Microsoft.

  11. Re:I read through the reviews... on Next Generation Mail Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    IMAP still has to store it's messages some how. Both mbox and maildir work with courier-imap. Not sure about others..

  12. Re:What will happen on Beyond An Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    Right, because when borland.com goes down all copies of their compilers *everywhere* immediately cease to exist! How's that for DRM?

  13. Don't worry on Amazon.com Pierces Reviewer Anonymity · · Score: 3, Funny

    It happened to Amazon Canada so only like 5 people saw it.

  14. Re:Deal on Joel Rants About Resumes · · Score: 1
    I've seen job requirements that required experience in products less than a week old (W2K3 Server)
    I especially love when they wan't 5 years experience in a rather new product. Especially one with the year it was released in its name. 5 years experience on Windows 2000? Sure, I got that.
  15. Re:eh? on MySQL 5.0.0 (Alpha) Released · · Score: 1

    How about no.

  16. Re:Commercial? on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 0

    I thought everyone knew that Wired.com *is* an Apple commercial..

  17. Re:Finally on Phillip Greenspun: Java == SUV · · Score: 1

    Look out for JSP2 which is going to add a lot of the nice, friendly features already seen in other templating engines like Velocity and FreeMarker. The big one is the new JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and it's included expression language which gives you easy access to objects using the familiar ${object} syntax. See chapter 16 here

  18. Re:We didn't know we were doing anything special.. on Code Generation in Action · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might want to check out XDoclet next time rather than write your own parser/generator. It's pretty widely used now and has lots of tags for many common uses like EJBs, Hibernate, web.xml generation for all the major appservers, etc. It's also integrated with Ant and it looks like Sun is going to be borrowing some ideas for use in Java 1.5+.

  19. Re:Google is Highly Accurate on Search Engine Learns From User Feedback · · Score: 1

    PS: Ever had a searchengine that won't lead you to the homepage of the manufacterer Quantum every time you search something about "quantum computing"? This one will, I hope, just like SubMe did...

    You got greedy when you threw that last bit in there. I just googled "quantum computing" and quantum.com isn't even in the first 250 results, if it's there at all.

    Unless I'm misunderstanding you and you actually want to see quantum.com in which case you're just setting yourself up to fail with that query.

  20. Re:I like it. on Search Engine Learns From User Feedback · · Score: 1
    By the way, Google has attempted to acheive this concept of human ranking by watching to see how long you stay at a page you clicked on. If they rank a page 1, and you click it, and immediately return to the search page, they penalize that page. So if even Google is trying the same abstract concept, it probably has a future on the web.

    They've gone one step further and implemented the exact same thing whittlebit is providing and it's been around a lot longer too. If you use IE, just install the Google Toolbar and enable the Voting buttons. From the toolbar help:

    Voting Buttons - You can vote for or against a page or search result by using these buttons. Click the happy or unhappy faces to tell Google that you like or dislike a particular page. These buttons also can be used to report especially good or bad results after searching with Google. Indicate satisfaction or dissatisfaction with your results by clicking the appropriate button while still on the search results page. This feature is in test mode for now, so you won't see any immediate effects by voting for or against a page.
  21. Re:What about JBoss? on Apache Launches a J2EE Project · · Score: 5, Informative

    For one thing, JBoss is under the LGPL and if I'm not mistaken Apache projects only use code released under the Apache Software License (ASL) or other suitably compatible license such as MPL or BSD.

    Secondly, a lot of people seem to have objections over how the JBoss Group (allegedly) runs its business. Enough so as to stop them from using the product.

  22. Re:Screw multimedia; how about software? on P2P Meets Push · · Score: 1

    I think the main advantage is that it would take a lot of pressure off the download servers. Can you imagine how much bandwith is used whenever a new version of KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, etc comes out?

  23. Re:KHTML can't be _that_ bad w/r/t cross-platform on Mozilla Project Hurt by Apple's Decision to use KH · · Score: 1

    Delete's the current word. Like control+backspace in Windows..

  24. Re:That will spell the end on Apple To Charge for Some iApps · · Score: 1
    This is something that was given away for free, and no mention was ever made that future updates may cost money. Of course the possibility was always there, but as they were only available with Macs, I'd guess most people assumed the cost was a part of the hardware.
    No mention was ever made that the product would continue to be updated, either. Of course the possibility was always there...
  25. Re:I have a high-res hitachi projector, true SXGA on Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1

    Most people want something thin (plasma) because they're short on space. How can they possibly have the room for front projection? I know I don't...