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  1. Re:Where's The Blog on Independence Day for Transformers Live Action · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about an Optimus Prime advice column?

    Ben

  2. Nothing to see here. on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you check the "also check adware" button, it will remove Claria. I've done this.

    It doesn't remove any kind of adware by default, Claria or no.

    Ben

  3. Mirror of Photos on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    I've set up a mirror for the ars technica photos, because I was unable to get to all of them without much trouble.

    That URL is: http://gamershomepage.com/arsphotos/

    I hope ars doesn't mind.

    Ben

  4. Re:IEEE 1394??? on Firewire Receives An Emmy · · Score: 1
    Apple to scoop up Emmy for FireWire

    Apple did create Firewire. The More about Firewire page has the following:

    IEEE 1394 was conceived by Apple Computer and then developed within the IEEE 1394 Working Group. The IEEE 1394 standard is a scalable, flexible, easy to use, low-cost digital interface that will integrate the worlds of consumer electronics and personal computers.


  5. Re:I think you mean RMS on JBuilder Foundation is Free - and for Linux · · Score: 1

    I actually didn't mean RMS. By starting the "Open Source" movement, I meant that ESR started the movement to all this software "Open Source" instead of free -- a semantic change, meant to reduce this kind of ambiguity.

  6. Great news, with one gripe on JBuilder Foundation is Free - and for Linux · · Score: 4

    It seems like Slashdot of all places should know better than to call something "free" without specifying whether they mean it in the beer sense, or the speech sense. I'm now seeing why ESR started the "Open Source" movement. I got all excited when I saw that Borland was releasing something "free" -- it's still great news, but I got my hopes up.

    A bit more on the subject at hand, I'm glad to see two huge Java announcements for linux in the last 2 days -- it's great news for Java developers. I intend to try out JBuilder as soon as I can

    Ben

  7. Re:His questions needs a different answer. on Recommended Hardware for Streaming MP3 Radio Stations? · · Score: 1

    If I read davidu's post correctly, by live he doesn't mean outgoing live, but rather incoming live music (like, say, a concert that he wants to broadcast over the internet). For that sort of live, one would have to buy hardware (AFAIK).

  8. Re:Bruce's style (not Roblimo's) on Interview: Ask Bruce Perens About Open Source Licensing · · Score: 1

    The article was written by Bruce, not Roblimo. Your criticism is still valid, but I just wanted to point that one out

  9. TiK is the casualty of this, and more articles on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging · · Score: 5
    The scariest (to me) thing to come out of this is that the TiK and TNT open source clients have disappeared from the AIM Web site. That alone doesn't make me feel very good about the new owners of mozilla. As much as I hate to say this, I think MS is right on this one.

    Also, geeknews.net has been keeping up pretty well on this.

    Here's a news.com article, too:

    Another interesting thing is that MS released a "fixed" build, which AOL then broke again. Round and round we go.

  10. Re:AirPort Tech info (encryption scheme) on Inexpensive 11megabit Wireless LAN · · Score: 3

    From http://www.apple.com/airport/faq2.html

    Q. What kind of security does AirPort provide?

    A. AirPort offers password access control and encryption to deliver security equivalent to that of a physical network cable. Users are required to enter a password to log on to the AirPort network--and, optionally, an additional password for access to any other computer on the network. When transmitting information, AirPort uses 40-bit encryption to scramble data, rendering it useless to eavesdroppers

  11. Re:70-110 megs? You just don't get it... on Mozilla M8 Released · · Score: 1

    Remember that a lot of IE is now "integrated" away, making it seem that much smaller. I would wager that there're a lot of files within the system that are only necessary for Internet Explorer

  12. Re:Score 1? on PetrOS - NT alternative? · · Score: 1
    The reason he was at one is that he has registered an account. ACs start at 0, and registered users start at 1. So nobody moderated him up.

    But he's down to negative one anyway (and that was a moderating point well spent).

  13. Re:Check out the other reviews on South Park The Movie · · Score: 1

    The answer to the question of what they do like is Mary Poppins. As far as I can see, it's the only movie to receive a 100 in their pseudoscientific rating system.

  14. Hard drives have advanced on Ask Slashdot: Breaking the Computing Bottleneck? · · Score: 1
    The "problem" with the way hard drives have developed is that most of the engineering resources have been dedicated to making drives:
    • large
    • cheap
    • reliable
    You can see this has been teremendously successful, and hard disk technology has been progressing extremely quickly. I don't think it's outside of "the revolution" at all. Speed has merely taken a back seat. This is why you see things like RAID, to bring higher speed to storage.
  15. Apple to use Debian packaging on Apple updates Darwin, releases OpenPlay · · Score: 1
    According to Stepwise, Apple has opted to use debs for Darwin. Between Corel and this, Debian should be making waves with the press, pretty soon.

    "The Debian packaging system has been adopted for the Darwin distribution, and should be fairly easily moved to Mac OS X Server if someone were inclined to try"

  16. Re:okay, I'm curious... dreamweaver on Ask Slashdot: Live Update Web Pages on Linux? · · Score: 1

    Dreamweaver, by Macromedia, is a surprisingly good
    wysiwyg html editor. The code it outputs is relatively clean, and the interface is pretty good. I still write it myself, but, were I going to use a tool, it would be Dreamweaver