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  1. Re:Hehehe. n00bz. on Developers Simulate Macintosh System 7 in Flash · · Score: 2, Funny

    And second is never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! HA HA HA HA! *thud*.

  2. Look at sources... on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The way I learned the most about LaTeX was by looking at the sources of all of the documents that came with it. Look at the AMS documents, for example. You can find all kinds of LaTeX source documents on the web as well.

    Then start creating your own documents, and trying out things. Search on google or groups.google if you are getting errors---someone else has run into them before you.

    Good luck!

  3. Re:PC has met motherboards on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1, Funny

    What exactly is this "kilogram" you speak of?

  4. Re:Heh on Linux Spreads its Wings · · Score: 1

    Well, we already have Toasters (no direct link, but search for FlyingToasters) on Linux. Might as well have it the other way around...

  5. Of Mice and Men... on Yoda The Mouse Turns 4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh sure, the mouse gets a reduction in insulin, and he's still going strong after twice his normal life span.

    And here, I don't produce insulin---found out I had Type I diabetes when I was 22---and do I get twice the life span? Heck no. I'll be lucky to make 50 at the rate I'm going.

    What's up with that? Damned mice.

  6. Re:It's been a long time... on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    Well, that would be useful if I used bookmarks. I don't---it means I'd have to go to the mouse. I use - to open a new browser tab (talking Mozilla and friends), start typing the URL, and finish with TAB completion. Easy and quick!

    When I open my browser, I hit:
    http://mail<TAB><ENTER><CTRL>-<T>http://sl<T AB><EN TER>

    (yes, I type the 'http://'; it's a habit---it annoys the crap out of me when someone opens a browser and types 'yahoo'; at least give the full address, people!)

    This gets me my mail in the first tab, and /. in the second.

  7. It's been a long time... on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I actually wouldn't have noticed if any of the toolbar icons had changed. Save is either CTRL-S or :wq, depending on whether or not I'm having a good day (:wq) or a bad day (CTRL-S). I can't remember the last time I did something with a tool bar. Even web browsing, the only feature I use from the bar is to type in URLs. Back, forward, refresh---all hotkeys.

    I'm sure they are important to some people, but I'm not going to see it.

  8. Mad respect?! on The Disposable Computer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I believe the word you are looking for is "props."

  9. Obvious... on WiFi Interference Problems in Urban Environments? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The answer, of course, is to sell your wireleess router on eBay, and start sucking bandwidth off of your neighbor's connection. The more people who do this in the building, up to a point, the less interferance you will have.

    Problem solved!

  10. Re:Cybersquatting? on UbiSoft Goof Lets Porn URL Into Rainbow Six · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not the same.

    The game advertised a URL, at that time not owned by anyone, in the game. As internet-oriented as we are today, this seems very irresponsible on their part, and I think got what was coming to them.

    If JK Rowling had said, `Get your class schedule on hogwarts.com' in a book, and then fail to register hogwarts.com, *that* would be closer.

    Reminds me of a King of the Hill episode where someone was making videos of Peggy's feet for a fetish site, and they mentioned peggysfeet.com (which is not owned by fox anymore, by the looks of it). But at the time of the episode, fox had an entire website up for Peggy's feet.

  11. One Solution... on An Animation Language for Renderman? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've been using POV-Ray for longer than the animation capibilities have been included in the scene file, and I got around it by using a script (Perl, shell, etc.) to create and render each scene files, or to have a main scene file which includes a file with the changed values, and have the script create that file and render the scene each time.

    You are still working with a single scene file, but everything is changed and automated by way of the script.

  12. Re:Scroll bar?!? on Eye-tracking Study Shows How Users Scan Web Pages · · Score: 1

    Or, keep the find-as-you-type setting the way it is, and start your text search with a '/' when you want to search for text as well as links.

  13. Problems... on New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw a few scenes in the first half that didn't involve people having sex. I thought those were extraneous, and could have been removed...

  14. Re:Coincidence? on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target? · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute... I see where this is going:

    SCO owns Linux. And Microsoft secretly controls SCO (until such time as they can publically announce it). When this happens, Microsoft will effectively own Linux! Brilliant!

    Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe this is what we have all been waiting for: Linux on the Desktop!

    At this point, all of the Linux-loving, Microsoft-loathing Slashdot crowd (no troll intended---I include myself in this group) will be utterly confused, claim that, in fact, BSD is *not* dying, and we will all figure out how to use ports...

  15. Re:$600 Million on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1

    When the cost of maintainence becomes greater than the cost of replacement.

  16. This is great! on Earthquakes Detectable From Space by GPS · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one have had a hard time in the past detecting the ground shaking under me here on the surface of the earth, what with the dishes rattling off the shelves and pictures falling off the walls and all. Now there is a way to know for certain!

  17. Re:A piano keyboard for input? on Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts · · Score: 1

    Not even a shell script. A little grep will do it. Although I did end up reformating it in the text box---hence the typo. The long list of words tripped the lameness filter...

  18. Re:A piano keyboard for input? on Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts · · Score: 1

    That should probably be 'decade' there in the middle, without that nasty double-comma. Dang text-input boxes...

  19. Re:A piano keyboard for input? on Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, according to /usr/dict/words on a Solaris machine, and skipping the one-letter words, you can create:

    abbe, abc, abed, accede, ace, ad, adage, add, , dded, age, babe, bad, bade, badge, bag, baggage, be, bead, bed, bee, beef, beg, cab, cabbage, cafe, cage, cede, cf, dab, dad, dead, deaf, , ecade, deed, deface, deed, deface, ebb, edge, efface, egg, facade, face, fad, fade, fag, fed, fee, feed, gab, gad, gaff, gaffe, gag, gage, gee

    You could write a thesis with those!

  20. It's my time! on Take Back Your Time! · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I'll take it back when my boss and the schedule say I can!

  21. Re:this shouldn't sound unusual on Home Stereo Equipment With Online Music Purchasing · · Score: 1

    Yep. Pretty soon it looks like it could happen.

    You can get these at Best Buy now even.

  22. Media Containers... on Better Media Container Formats? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, if they are CDs you don't really care about, you can store them on a CD spindle. Otherwise, the old 5 1/4" floppy containers work fairly well.

    You can also get some fairly nifty CD storage racks, like This one.

    Oh, wait... You were talking about... Never mind.

  23. That's a lot of power... on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    This seems to be giving a lot of power to the instructors and companies giving the training. Imagine a scenario where the PHB of a critical web server cluster were to go to IT training, "Sponsored by Microsoft."

    Now that the PHB has had his secret training, he thinks he knows how everything works, and tries to start a mass migration because of what was fed to him during his training.

    This is slightly scary...

  24. The next big step... on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    What I really want to know is, how long until I can climb into one of these things to keep Minmei's singing ass out of trouble?

    Although, with the state of communications, would it not be safer to keep the people controlling these things bunkered down in rooms somewhere? Therefore, the loss of the mecha does not mean the loss of the pilot.

  25. Unicycles! on Toys for Transport? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Especially if you've got some rough terrain to traverse, unicycles seem to be your best bet. Small, lightweight and rugged.

    Sure, your first day's commute to the train would take 8 hours, and end with you throwing your unicycle 8 feet up the road, dragging your bruised and bloody carcass up to it, giving it a swift kick, picking it up and throwing it again, but that's what learning how to ride a unicycle is all about.

    Disclaimer: There is no way in hell I would ever try this.