The best way to get a molex out is to grip it lengthways with a pair of pliers and twist it side to side slightly. Second best is to lever it out with a screwdriver. Using your fingers should be a last resort.
The way most sites implement it, all AJAX does is offload the server's page-rendering load onto the user's CPU, because the developers are too lazy to write efficient server-side code.
There was a comment on that story a while back about the MJ death news slowing the entire web down, pointing out that Twitter crashed because some abysmally low number of requests per second overloaded it.
Cars won't end the world through an energy crisis, Web 2.0 developers will.
That's the part where it port scans your computer to see if you're running an open proxy. Apparently everyone's considered untrustworthy regardless of current karma or account age.
Are you... FUKING MAD? A whole desktop using a HTML engine to render the entire desktop? You know the nigthmare to create and respond to events using html and javascript? And the ridiculous performance against a normal window manager like KDE or the actual GNOME?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but KDE 3 has a fully functional Active Desktop clone. KDE4 has HTML+Javascript desktop applets. Its entire help system uses HTML, Qt4 uses CSS internally, the list goes on and on and on. Are you "fuking" retarded?
There, a client and server DoS attack using only CSS. It doesn't work any more, but it did back when I found out about it (at which point it had already been known for over a year and not fixed, and stayed that way until someone else found out "shell:" urls entered in Firefox got opened and executed by IE...)
WEP? Okay, I can understand that on a DS which is severely underpowered and can't afford the power consumption of doing heavy encryption in software. The OLPC is anything but underpowered here - the Geode has hardware AES, so it gets WPA practically for free. These people are idiots.
I check on review sites before buying hardware. Haven't been stung in a few years now.
Though I suppose the right thing to do would be checking with the manufacturer directly too, just to cause them the annoyance of having to tell their own potential customers their hardware sucks. If enough people do it (which will probably never happen) the message might get through.
How are the good folks in the UK not in the streets about all this?
Probably for the same reason US citizens haven't impeached Bush - they're too busy watching TV and complaining about their government to do anything. Just look at me, I'm wasting time whining about it on Slashdot.
VBR JPEG compression... I'd be surprised if that hasn't been done somewhere before (and slightly annoyed). The user controllable part is a nice touch though.
Ooh, we're playing the proprietary hardware driver game? OK, let's take turns naming consumer-grade hardware the other OS lacks drivers for. I'll start.
These assholes are like wannabe racers that do twice the speed limit and yell at everyone else for holding them up while thinking they own the road. Also they drive SUVs, so they should f off and die...was that good (bad) enough?
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The best way to get a molex out is to grip it lengthways with a pair of pliers and twist it side to side slightly. Second best is to lever it out with a screwdriver. Using your fingers should be a last resort.
The way most sites implement it, all AJAX does is offload the server's page-rendering load onto the user's CPU, because the developers are too lazy to write efficient server-side code.
There was a comment on that story a while back about the MJ death news slowing the entire web down, pointing out that Twitter crashed because some abysmally low number of requests per second overloaded it.
Cars won't end the world through an energy crisis, Web 2.0 developers will.
That's the part where it port scans your computer to see if you're running an open proxy. Apparently everyone's considered untrustworthy regardless of current karma or account age.
I guess this puts rest to the old theory that you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
Are you... FUKING MAD? A whole desktop using a HTML engine to render the entire desktop? You know the nigthmare to create and respond to events using html and javascript? And the ridiculous performance against a normal window manager like KDE or the actual GNOME?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but KDE 3 has a fully functional Active Desktop clone. KDE4 has HTML+Javascript desktop applets. Its entire help system uses HTML, Qt4 uses CSS internally, the list goes on and on and on. Are you "fuking" retarded?
* { background-image: url(telnet://some-innocent-site:80) }
There, a client and server DoS attack using only CSS. It doesn't work any more, but it did back when I found out about it (at which point it had already been known for over a year and not fixed, and stayed that way until someone else found out "shell:" urls entered in Firefox got opened and executed by IE...)
text-align: center doesn't work on block-level elements.
.outer { text-align: center } .outer > .inner { display: inline-block }
There. Now it does.
WEP? Okay, I can understand that on a DS which is severely underpowered and can't afford the power consumption of doing heavy encryption in software. The OLPC is anything but underpowered here - the Geode has hardware AES, so it gets WPA practically for free. These people are idiots.
Sounds familiar. I used to be able to reproducibly crash GTK apps just by throwing invalid unicode at them. 3 or 4 \x67890 characters were enough.
nu-Slashdot has FUBARed the CSS. It looks fine in the "old" layout.
I check on review sites before buying hardware. Haven't been stung in a few years now.
Though I suppose the right thing to do would be checking with the manufacturer directly too, just to cause them the annoyance of having to tell their own potential customers their hardware sucks. If enough people do it (which will probably never happen) the message might get through.
How are the good folks in the UK not in the streets about all this?
Probably for the same reason US citizens haven't impeached Bush - they're too busy watching TV and complaining about their government to do anything. Just look at me, I'm wasting time whining about it on Slashdot.
VBR JPEG compression... I'd be surprised if that hasn't been done somewhere before (and slightly annoyed). The user controllable part is a nice touch though.
The "sin" tax on those smokes must have been part of the new anti-smoking bill.
Wait... does that mean this is a sin tax error?
Why would you need pointing devices with a Z axis on a computer designed to only run XP Home?
What is this decimal? I've used mixed decimal/hexadecimal major/minor numbers in the past. Just because I can.
In the Mac camp, that smoke is from a bong.
Ooh, we're playing the proprietary hardware driver game? OK, let's take turns naming consumer-grade hardware the other OS lacks drivers for. I'll start.
Aureal Vortex AU8830.
If only people who are "qualified" to use a computer did so, we'd still be paying $3000 for Pentium I-era technology.
A lot like cars, then.
A word of warning: KDE (at least) has exactly the same stupid "feature".
When you put it that way, Google seem to be beating MS at their own game.
The simplest solutions are usually the most elegant.
And completely wrong. RTFA
(also: does anyone know why the site keeps eating my line breaks and random characters like that?)
These assholes are like wannabe racers that do twice the speed limit and yell at everyone else for holding them up while thinking they own the road. Also they drive SUVs, so they should f off and die. ..was that good (bad) enough?
That's not something the USA is in a position to say about any other developed country, really.