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  1. Re:Good riddance. on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 1

    But would you use Dreamweaver to build a template for these out of the box CMSs?

    I guess, given the 'html' produced by them, you might as well. Why polish a turd...

  2. Dreamweaver isn't a design tool... on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 1

    ...it's a web tool for designers.

    The best way to build a good website, IMHO as a freelance web developer, includes three roles and sets of tools:

    1. Designer - Design tools such as Photoshop, illustrator etc (not my role!)
    2. Front end developer - Photoshop (for slicing and dicing PSDs supplied by the designer), text editor (I'm using Geany at present) and lots of browsers.
    3. Serverside developer - text editor/IDE, shell access.

    Dreamweaver is good for people who fulfill role 1 but aren't accomplished in role two or three and want to build a website.

  3. Re:Is Dreamweaver good? on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean:

    blink {
    background:url(do/nasty/stuff.js) #FF00FF;
    }

  4. Misuse of terminology... on Flying Car Flies From London To Africa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Parajet might be the name of the company but they modified a paramotor, not a 'parajet'(it's propeller driven, not a jet engine) and rather than a parachute (as mentioned in the BBC article) I think they mean paraglider (it is designed to fly or glide, not to fall after all).

  5. Re:12470 volts on When Servers Explode · · Score: 1

    Do you live near a railway line? Preferably one with a 'live rail' rather than overhead cables.

  6. Pr0n star... on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 1

    Having the same name as a pr0n star, who is mainly known for her interests in water sports, I do sympathise with the OP.

    Starting your own web page would be a good idea, it certainly wouldn't hurt, as long as you don't have to waste too much time building/SEOing it. Hopefully there isn't much competition for the search term (your name) other than the offending article of course.

    If you succeed in geting above the line on Google then you have a good opportunity to impress your prospective employers before your interview.

  7. Knit picking but... on Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter · · Score: 1

    Assuming that our slashdot numbers are the primary key/id of the users table in the database, it would be impossible to have an ID of zero I'm afraid...

  8. Re:I don't understand the allure of eBooks... on Bookworm ePub Reader Gets Boost From O'Reilly · · Score: 1

    I love the dead tree variety of books as much as the next man, especially for anything I'm going to be reading for more than 30 seconds but while I'm working I always use an easily searched eBook version, preferably a CHM for code references.

  9. Re:80-20 rule on Website Security Without Breaking the Bank? · · Score: 1

    The site you build for a dentist doesn't need to be accessible to a kid sitting behind a computer in Brazil.

    Don't forget to allow all those poor British IP addresses access though...

  10. Re:What's an 'application' to a user? on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1
  11. Re:What's an 'application' to a user? on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1

    I don't know how Microsoft defines an app these days but with multi threaded browsers (like Google Chrome) is it not possible that each window/tab will count as an app?

  12. PHP? on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 1

    php -r 'echo date('r',1234567890)."\n";'

  13. Re:Look at Belgium on UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards · · Score: 5, Funny

    We could call it the OPPC project

  14. Re:Seriously? on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 1

    SPF can cause problems if your users are connecting to the internet via an ISP that likes to re-route all port 25 traffic through their own SMTP servers.

    The solution we used was to configure our SMTP servers to listen on another port (1025 for example) which wasn't being hijacked by the ISP.

    Other than that I find SPF works quite well, the amount of spam I receive through my SPF enabled accounts is probably 5% of what comes through my other accounts and it's the SPF email addresses that I'm using whenever I think my address may be displayed where it could be harvested...

  15. Escargot, not the best example... on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 1

    What you're wanting to do is like ordering escargot in a French restaurant and smothering them in ketchup.

    Of course escargot aren't that mush of a delicacy, the garlic sauce is there to cover up the taste of the snails (it does the same job as the ketchup) so I'd say a better analogy would be it's like ordering steak tartare "bien cuit".

  16. AdBlock userscripts? on Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta · · Score: 1

    Chrome now has greasemonkey so you could write a userscript to do the job of adblock.

    Seeing as adblock (and all firefox plugins) are basically 'interpreted' Javascript and XML I can't see it being much less efficient.

    I'm not sure if greasemonkey/userscripts can write to the file system to store filterset updates so you might have to update manually, but...

    Of course Google could build advertising into the GUI but then it would just be adware and nobody would use it.

  17. Re:SMS more expensive than Hubble on What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting · · Score: 1

    Okay, maybe not a couple of years ago:

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/12/1419204

    Sorry to double post btw.

  18. SMS more expensive than Hubble on What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting · · Score: 1

    I'm sure I remember reading a few years ago that sending an SMS costs you more per byte than receiving data from the Hubble telescope.

    That's including the cost of building it, deploying and repairing the telescope!

    Of course that was a few years ago so assuming that Hubble doesn't need any more repairs for a while it's getting even cheaper!!

  19. Re:Air/Flash License on iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux · · Score: 1

    Distributor shall not distribute any Adobe Runtime for use on any... ...internet appliance or other internet-connected device

    So basically any computer?

  20. Shark stories should NEVER be marked Idle. on Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No TRUE slashdot member would want to miss out on the opportunity to make shark/frikin laser beam jokes

  21. Re:n/t on Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial · · Score: 1

    The OS in question here however is most likely quite rigorously designed, and won't have a lot of the bloat that causes desktop OSs so many problems.

    Well, as long as it runs iTunes and Real Player, otherwise I'm not interested...

    *removes tongue from cheek*

  22. Re:I seriously don't understand... on Nuke Site Converted Into Green Data Center · · Score: 1

    You'd still have to re-supply the facility with replacement/upgrade parts (HDDs, power supplies etc) and someone would have to fit them. I suppose you could have an automated 'production line' to service the machines but that's just another expense!

  23. Re:I'm amazed on Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer · · Score: 1

    What about all the people who scored the same as you?

  24. Re:I seriously don't understand... on Nuke Site Converted Into Green Data Center · · Score: 1
    The inaccessibility would also add costs in terms of:
    1. Constructing the facility
    2. Supplying the facility (hardware, people, food etc)
    3. Paying employees enough to make them want to work in the coldest and most boring place in the world with little/no daylight for 12 months a year.
  25. You'd be amazed... on How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes · · Score: 1

    ...how the subterfuge and misinformation that China is employing on the internet these days influences our opinions.

    For example, did you know that Windows is actually a perfectly secure and stable operating system and that Linux was just invented by the Chinese propaganda mongers to weaken the US dominance in the OS business?