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  1. Re:In a word... on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    I know this is off topic but I was looking to buy a printer the other day and went to tons of websites to find one with Postscript since I know that works best with Linux/Unix. It was hard to find a cheap (under $1000) printer with Postscript. Suggestings?

  2. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    So what should write permission mean. That you can only write the file down to 5 bytes in size? But no less?!

  3. Re:NOT successful on Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy · · Score: 1
    from that article:

    "Air Force instead paid to launch a dummy payload and a pair of small research satellites."

    Our tax dollars at work.
  4. This doesn't seem like progress to me on Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about a new approach.

  5. apache2 is essential for Windows on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anybody still running Apache1 on Windows is nuts.
    Apache2 works way better on Windows.

  6. Re:Some parallels... on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    Didn't a metric vs. USA measure cause a rocket to crash? Maybe a few more boo-boos like that and we'll see the light.

  7. Re:GTK 2.6.0 = Mac OS 1994 on GTK 2.6.0 Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So its only ten years behind the best platform.
    Not too bad.

  8. Re:Varying levels of seriousness... on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh great, I'm looking forward to that.
    ***!!!Error you are using the standard libary!!!!***
    Switch to the much better Win32 API or we'll tell your boss you are using something portable.

  9. aol.CA on AOL Canada To Offer VoIP · · Score: 1

    Who outside the US would use a service with such a USA-centric name? I mean AOL Canada, AOL Europe, etc. I would think the name alone would turn off most non-Americans. Not because of anti-Bush or anything just because it *sounds* like you'll get tech support 9-5 EST, in English only, etc.

  10. Parrot on A .Net CPU · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm waiting for a Parrot chip.
    Now that would be exciting.

  11. mail address on With Linux Clusters, Seeing Is Believing · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are building cool Linux clusters but they can't be that smart. They have their mail addresses just sitting here on the site for spammers to harvest!

  12. I never loose files on Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 1

    If I want to search thru my mail I use my mail program. If I want an old document I'll know what directory its in. I hardly need every file on my machine in some giant database!

  13. Turn down the hot water heater on Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar? · · Score: 1

    Something many people don't think about...
    There is a themostat on the hot watter tank.
    Why would you want it hotter than you can touch!
    If you find the hotwater that comes out for your
    taps too hot turn down the heater.

  14. Re:Not a bad idea on Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar? · · Score: 1

    Do the electric companies really hate it.
    Maybe someday they won't need their own generatators
    and will just run transmission. Then they can be like banks who just play the spread. At a bank they lend out money and a way higher rate than they pay on savings accounts. Seems a like a sweet deal of the electric companies.

  15. Re:Inventor of the Internet? on Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World · · Score: 1
    Poor Al. He gets teased about than a has the election stolen. On the Internet he said:

    "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

    First, he didn't say "invent" and second its he did help its creation.
    Vincent Cert said:

    "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."


  16. How does it work on Google Suggest · · Score: 1

    I wonder how it works.
    Of course, it looks up the string as you enter a letter but beyond that I wonder.
    Javascript with search back end?

  17. rsync over NFS on NetBSD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Looks like rsync over NFS is one of the ways to download it. Pretty cool.

  18. who needs keys... on New Global Directory of OpenPGP Keys · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... just use fake PGP

  19. Centralization on New Global Directory of OpenPGP Keys · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The nice thing about PGP/GPG is that it is decentralized! You don't need to obtain a "certificate" from any big-bad central authority.
    But now this move centralizes things - yuck.
    If you want to send PGP mail to/from a friend,
    just mail public keys to each other.

  20. Re:crypto on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I got it working for Windows.
    Here's what I did:

    - Downloaded GPG for Windows and unziped in c:\Program Files\gpg
    - Used regedit to set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\PGP\HomeDir to c:\docs\keys
    - Imported my PGP settings:
    cd :\Program Files\gpg
    gpg --import < "c:\docs\PGP Keyrings\pubring.pkr"
    gpg --import < "c:\docs\PGP Keyrings\secring.skr"
    - Download Enigmail to c:\temporary
    - Installed with Thunderbird's Tools - Extensions
    - Restart Thunderbird
    - Back at Tools - Extensions set the path to gpg.exe
    - Send a test mail to myself
    - Sent a test mail to a friend

  21. crypto on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I Googled a bit but could not find the answer to this. I just want to send encrypted mail to/from my friends. I see the place to import a PKCS#12 file in Thunderbird. So how do I make that kind of file without signing up for a cert. I want a self-signed cert. Anybody have a recipe? TIA.

  22. Re:Bad urban design on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Yes, I can understand & be sympathetic. There are tons of people (most) who make different choices than me. Some choices by other people affect me more than others. If, say, somebody wants to wear some clothes I thing are ugly - that's fine with me - it doesn't cost me anything. I am not crazy about so much of my tax money going towards freeways but I guess I can live with it.

  23. Re:Bad urban design on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Actually, yeah. I could afford a big house in the suburbs but I selected a smaller house in the city for about the same price.

  24. Re:Bad urban design on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Why not have your program use up all available memory on the machine? Because small elegant (bloat-free) programs are nicer.

  25. Re:Free Advertisement? on Flickr Online Photo Service Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was my first thought too. He's an early user because he works for the company. Who else would keep track of the positive press they have received!