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  1. Re:Stack size on Will Intel Ship an x86-64bit Chip This Year? · · Score: 1

    The return address will grow to 64-bit but the parameters to your recursive routines need not be that big.

  2. "We are not any safer since Sadam was arrested" on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    Still at high (orange) alert.
    Ooops... I can't say that.

  3. Re:Widget Mania on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    The file_dialog_common() is composed to a bunch of widgets. It actually does quite a bit.
    (eg thumbnail view)
    Its really like a mini-applet.

  4. Re:Which desktop are they using in this image? on Spirit's First Mars Images · · Score: 1

    Doesn't NASA have the Not Invented Here Syndrome.
    So its probably a window manager they wrote.

  5. Re:Whitehat CD on What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD · · Score: 1

    >I think the buyers would find out real fast.

    You'd have to change your front company every so often. Just like the slimely spammers.

    >Better copy maybe 300,000 addresses from a real spam cd

    That would make your fake more real.
    But, er, it would actually make it read.
    I wouldn't be so impressed if a "whitehat"
    included my email in those 300K addresses.
    Better make them all fake/autogenerated so you
    aren't actually helping spammers.

    Alternately, you could make and sell a mail address harvesting program that looks like its
    working but only turns out fakes.

  6. Whitehat CD on What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How about this... some whitehat could make and market a CD of millions of mail addresses. But they'd all be fake except a few for monitoring, spamer tarpits and a few of abuse@ISP and the feds ;-)

    Besides cutting down spam you'd be tranfering month
    directly from the spammers to yourself.

  7. Re:The old business rules still apply, more than e on Likely Success of Internet-Related Business Models? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about Dell and Walmart. They don't do anything
    rare, unique, hard to duplicate or hard to substitute but they are huge successes. Why?

  8. Re:Shell scripting is great, even in Windows! on Unix Shell Programming, Third Edition · · Score: 1

    The best thing about shell scripts in Unix is that you can count on it working on pretty much any Unix/Linux if you are careful. If can't send a Windows user a shell script and say "run this".
    You gotta say: download things thing and run this.
    Not so nice.

  9. JPEG screenshot should be banned on Windows CE.NET Ported to Xbox · · Score: 1

    Isn't it time start using PNG?!

  10. Re:Quick summary on Make More Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, "Small ISVs should build apps, not platforms" because that would bother Microsoft. Their "ecosystem" means them doing whatever they like and ISVs as bottom feeders.

  11. Re:Software Company vs Restaurant on Make More Mistakes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure restaurants make money but look at the overhead: reno the space, professional kitchen applitances, rent in good area - thousands a month, if its small 5-10 staff, food - if you don't serve you have to throw it out everyday, etc.

    Software company overhead: one DSL line.

  12. Possible uses on Japanese Firms Create Home (Appliance) Network · · Score: 1

    I am very skeptical about this also.

    But one possible use would be for a single control by your door to put everything into power saving mode when you go away for a trip. Eg stove, turn off clock display, thermostat turn down.

    Notication from the fridge if there was a power outage (and how long) so you know food might be spoiled.

  13. Re:OT, I know on China, Russia, U.S. To Build 100MBps Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    Beautiful, kernel hacker, C++/Perl/Ruby/Python guru,
    seeks same in a man. ps: must be into marathon sex.

  14. Re:Me is (ugh!) Windows coder. on Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers · · Score: 1

    Windows:

    for (m_iCounter = 0; m_iCounter < m_iTheEnd; m_iCounter++)

    Unix:

    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)

  15. Re:That's a bit sad, in a way. on Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular · · Score: 1

    Don't most people agree that NT 4 was the first good OS Microsoft made. That was good enough for most things. Win2000 wasn't much better than NT4.

  16. Re:Direct link to trailer on Star Wreck Trailer · · Score: 3, Informative

    In case you don't have DivX
    all the other formats

  17. Re:Gives an entirely new reason to... on SCO Investor Changing the Deal · · Score: 1
    Despite its name -- the Royal Bank of Canada -- it has nothing to do with the government of Canada. No more than Citibank has anything to do with the government of the USA.


    If you don't like what this one Canadian-based bank is doing tell them:



    Customer Relations Centre
    RBC Financial Group
    P.O. Box 1, Royal Bank Plaza
    Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J5
    Telephone: 1-800-ROYAL(R) 4-0 (1 800 769-2540)
    Service in French: 1-800-ROYAL(R) 4-1 (1 800 769-2541)
    Fax: (416) 974-3561
    E-mail: custrel@rbc.com

  18. Re:No... on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Better to put the safe behind a painting than in front!

  19. Version mania on A Glimpse Into 3D future: DirectX Next Preview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have done some work with DirectX and the biggest problem I see is that new versions come out too quickly. Do you want your project to be totally tied to DirectX version N with you know N+1 will be out next year making your huge project obsolete or requiring a rewrite. For that reason SDL or OpenGL (an API that hardly changes) appeal to me. Who wants to build on shifting sands.

  20. Re:Trusted email? on Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use Yahoo mail and its very good.

    They have a pretty good spam catching service.
    It puts suspected spam in a "Bulk" folder. You can
    review this folder or just like it get purged after 30 days. Nice. You can also click on the "its not spam" / "this is spam" buttons to help them tune.

    They offer a SSL login and it was discuessed recently on Slashdot that they use the Javascriptcrypto library to calculate MD5's on the client side and send the digiest for seduvcity (maybe when you are not logging in with SSL).

    You can check your POP3/IMAP mailboxes. The resources come back color-coded.

    Good uptime. Always available.

    It's free. You can enought resources for reseaonable use. But you can buy more if you want.

    All this sounds exactly like a crypto-nerd and slashdotter would design a mail service. And this new thing is going to be opensourced!

  21. Re:Bill Gates once said... on The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing? · · Score: 1

    He also rewrote his "The Road Ahead" book when the wise one didn't "predict" the Internet in 1996!!!
    I understand it now says lots about it....humm.

  22. Register, Cleartype, newspeak on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    here's a Register article about this. It points out that the language they use is newspeak. Thanks for the "liberalisation", Microsoft.

  23. Re:Mozilla Question on After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn · · Score: 1

    I use Squid (proxy server) and it gives a nice customizable error page. Nothing like that dumb IE one.

  24. Re:I can see what the problem might be on Nanotechnology: Are Molecular Assemblers Possible? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try to make a C compiler out of C while you are at it. Oh yeah...Already done!

  25. Re:ELQ on Java Desktop System Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure she isn't a supermodel but she's probably better looking that most guys reading Slashdot.