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  1. Re:So to summarize on Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" · · Score: 1

    I recommend fire. Seriously, how are you supposed to burn an email? Print it out first? If the president is like any CEO, that's how he reads his email.
  2. Re:If you saw your friend again on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    This is a nonsense hypothetical argument. All that is missing is an automobile analogy. This situation is no different than if your friend died after hiding his car keys. The car now falls to his heirs, and they are asking a locksmith (and maybe some P.I.'s) to open the car door for them.
  3. Re:W3C on NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS · · Score: 1

    You could

    find . -name \*.html -exec sed -i -e "s/ \& / \& /g" {} \;
    since you can be sure that any " & " is an ampersand (or at least mangled markup anyway)

    Then grep -ri -A1 -B1 '&' . to manually scan through for &'s that look like they should be &'s (with context, although you would have been hard pressed to find recursive grep on systems in those days) Time consuming, yes, but far less than using vi/emacs/nano/pico on every file.

  4. Re:Ha, I'm doing just the opposite on MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    @&$@@^&$@& Why does /. still insist on HTML as the default? Hey, /., how does one post a correction without having to deal with "Slow down Cowboy!"? It's been minutes since I posted that unreadable HTML garbage I'm correcting.

    use reg.exe to alter
    "HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VIDEO{FOO_HHHHHHHHH}\0000\Default Settings.XResolution" and
    "HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VIDEO{FOO_HHHHHHHHH}\0000\Default Settings.YResolution"

    Note that FOO_HHHHHHHHH is a "random" string based on your video hardware, so you'll have to use reg.exe to list the keys in "HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\" first, then have your script do the editing.

    I had to do this once with psexec on a machine that natively became 320x240 (weirdest thing ever).

    Here's someone's batch file that reads and prints display settings ( surely can be modified to set instead ):
    http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/getresxp.txt

  5. Re:Ha, I'm doing just the opposite on MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    use reg.exe to alter "HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VIDEO{FOO_HHHHHHHHH}\0000\Default Settings.XResolution" and "HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VIDEO{FOO_HHHHHHHHH}\0000\Default Settings.YResolution" Note that FOO_HHHHHHHHH is a "random" string based on your video hardware, so you'll have to use reg.exe to list the keys in "HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\" first, then have your script do the editing. I had to do this once with psexec on a machine that natively became 320x240 (weirdest thing ever). Here's someone's batch file that reads and prints display settings ( surely can be modified to set instead ): http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/getresxp.txt

  6. Re:Strongly encourage? on Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    Why can't they just say that they won't even consider buying any hardware that doesn't have Linux drivers? Saying "strongly encourage" with other big companies in a public forum like this is the nice, business way of saying "There are already Intel wireless cards with good open source drivers, if broadcom doesn't get with the program, we'll dump them; but we're not naming names because we're playing nicey-nice... for now."
  7. Re:"Resistance is futile..." on MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed; I wonder how many times this app will randomly send a "kill -9 1"

  8. Re:So that means . . . on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised I thought of it; I don't normally listen to music. I blame 1980's pantyhose commercials.

  9. Re:Flaw on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Prosecutor: "Isn't it true sir, that you used the same operating system software as Hans Reiser?"
    Defense Counsel: "Objection!"
    Prosecutor: *louder* "And in fact, used Hans Reiser's Filesyst.."
    Defense Counsel: "Objection!"
    Judge: "Sustained. Counselor, we've discussed this in chambers earlier."
    Prosecutor: "Withdrawn." *Looks knowingly to the jury*
    Judge: "The jury is to disregard...

  10. Re:So that means . . . on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone should convince ZZ Top to make a new programming language called LEGS. [ducks] Only women would know how to use it.
  11. Re:Time for Apple to cede some control? on OQO Hacker Claims World's Smallest OS X Machine · · Score: 1

    Clones like this and the Psystar machine must have Jobs and the other control freaks at Apple screaming bloody murder right now. Indeed; the latest Mac & PC commercial shows Mac and PC in a therapy session together.

    The doctor says "PC, It's not your fault Vista isn't working quite right, your hardware and software come from different places."
    Mac: "Unlike my hardware and software which were made for each other. It's not your fault."
    PC: "It's not my fault"
    Dr: "Go with that"
    Pc: "It's not my fault, it's not my fault... It's Mac's fault"

    Seems Apple will be playing the Hardware/Software synergy more and more now.

  12. Re:Deadly force on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    Shooting someone means you're there, and you _could_ expect danger to your person. A spring-gun or poison trap is something used when you're not there.

  13. Re:Bespoke Software and Street Performer Protocol on Who Runs RIAA's Settlement Information Center? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those analogies have nothing to do with cars.

  14. Re:Deadly force on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You say that "Lethal traps are not a permissible form of defense". Impermissible by your fiat? Do you think that anyone cares? If an armed guard uses his weapon on a burglar, is that also impermissible by your assertion? No, impermissible by LAW, even in Texas. http://books.google.com/books?id=RtoPluLrG7kC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=%22shotgun+trap%22+law&source=web&ots=xK0Bk0RDjL&sig=rh_tx3hNWYV_-n_vAgPWq03LUE4&hl=en http://www.4lawschool.com/torts/kat.shtml

    It is well established principle of law that there is no privilege to use deadly force solely in defense of land or property unless there exists a threat to ones personal safety as well (Prosser on Torts, Third edition, pages 116-118).
  15. Re:Cheap cameras on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    Mine sit in a second-story window, So you'll get some good pictures of the top of the thief's baseball cap. Put your next camera(s) downstairs.
  16. Re:Fascinating on Mining the Cognitive Surplus · · Score: 1

    "What if nobody watched TV" is similar to "what if we didn't have any wars" [...] end of the TV era. Can you feel it coming? Just think what it might mean... The pessimist in me says that once people start having convictions and desires to do something again, we'll have a lot more war. TV ain't all bad; It's the _real_ opiate of the masses. Ever seen a Hollywood barroom brawl set in an opium den? It probably never escalated beyond two characters.
  17. Re:Stallman --- on Spam Is 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    If so, thanks, RMS. I've met some really nice women via online match-up sites. Unfortunately, they're all platonic friends... :-/

  18. Re:What's the draw? on Guillermo del Toro Will Direct "The Hobbit" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quenya and Sindarin, though very impressive [...], even with considerable circumlocution, could be used for few areas of daily human life. Then it's a good thing they were used in daily elven life.
  19. Re:Money on Guillermo del Toro Will Direct "The Hobbit" · · Score: 1

    Won't they be surprised when only 30% of the people who saw the Hobbit see its fake sequel?

  20. Re:uh oh on Predicting Human Errors From Brain Activity · · Score: 1
    PHB: "Programmer #1001011001, you were coding without your ECC-Helm plugged into your USB4 port."

    Jake: "My name is Jake; I'm a human being, not RAM. Those things don't work anyway; they just buzz when your mind gets creative."

    "You are hereby terminated. All your code is scrapped, and you will never code anywhere on the internet again. You've been branded as a No-hat."

    "WTF? You're making the biggest mistake of your life!"

    "Who's wearing the ECC-Helm here?"

  21. Re:And the Next Release Name is..... on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Incontinent Ibex

  22. Re:NEW? on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Why not 7.10 if you're really wanting to use something near-current?

  23. Re:Question is... on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, via KVM or Xen (among others)

  24. Re:I Want My First Personal Linux Machine on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    It's already there; you can limit how many kernels you want to keep. Always keep at least one update back (just so you're sure you can boot something).

  25. Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 2, Informative