User: MikkoApo

Caption: *Iron Fists of Fury*

On: SEC Investigating SCO?

I can see the manga strip already :)

There's also the IEC standard

On: Your Hard Drive Lies to You

There's an IEC standard that adds a "bi" postfix to the SI prefixes for specifying binary multiples of a quantity. Kibi for 1024, mebi for 1.048 576 and so on. More info available from the wikipedia article.

How to trigger the update

On: Firefox Updated to 1.0.4

Menu > Tools > Options > Advanced > Software Update > Click Check Now

Not very easily accessible, but at least its there :)

AutoHotkey is excellent

On: Automation in the Workplace?

At home I use the free tool called AutoHotkey which automates most mouse & keyboard actions to a script. Uses its own language so you can easily improve the recorded script yourself. You can also compile the macro scripts to executables. On top of that the source code is downloadable. Very sweet tool indeed.

At work automation isn't that well known, but I'll probably try to improve things next summer. Once I had to learn & teach the graphic designers how to use photoshop's batch functions. We had to convert 700 images from hi-quality to web quality and they were going to do it by hand. It took about 15 minutes with a script.

Good observation

On: IBM Gives SCO the Works

The summary missed one "s" from TFA: "produced in electronic form on CDs".

800/0.7=1142 CDS

warez.slashdot.org too

On: The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker

Ftp on warez.slashdot.org used to have all the 0-day warez, but nowdays they just serve dupes of old stuff

Re:Some java way to do Ajax easily ?.

On: Apache Beehive Buzz and Pollinate eclipse plug-in

I think JSON-RPC-Java existed before the term Ajax had surfaced to /. or anywhere else.

At work...

On: Google Adds Search History Feature

A fellow worker asked me for help. I started up the browser, went to google and managed to press "m" when the browser helpfully suggested "miss sweden nude". Well, at least I wasn't his wife :)

I did this as a summer intern back in '95 :)

On: Ride Along With a Real Verizon Wireless Tester

My assignment was to test how well the network handled peak hours in the busiest areas around the city's center. My equipment was a laptop equipped with testing software and a mobile phone. I was supposed to sit in bars (the boss marked the places very specifically) and take notes on how each test went.

The test took place in the middle of the summer, during probably the hottest two weeks of the whole season and the whole city was totally empty, dead, void of people. People went to the beach, parks and on vacation while I was testing the "peak hours". Most of the tests completed without any errors so it wasn't a really succesful assignment unless you count the nice tan I got from it :)

My cd/vinyl audio backup system will be about 2TB

On: Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End

I'm planning on creating one partition on a RAID 5 or 6 system. All the files will be stored as uncompressed WAVs. On top of the RAID partition I'll write/use a virtual device driver that allows compression & decompression on the fly with FLAC or similar open algorithm.

Is that just during the call?

On: Reuters On Telephone Cultures

Somehow the figure seems a little small, remembering all those cell phones which are currently on, waiting for a call and depleting their batteries.

JSON is an implementation

On: Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax

AJAX is just a hype name these guys made up for a set of technologies.

It's dead Jim (the site)

On: Arcade Kit Seller Applies for MAME Trademark [updated]

Directory Listing Denied

This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

RAID is not a good storage solution

On: NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity

... unless you also make backups. A good jolt of electricity can fry all the HDs at once and without backups the data will be lost.

Almost there

On: The CSS Anthology

a.blue, span.blue, div#back {
color: blue;
}