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  1. Have one? Try MessagEaseOK! on What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy? · · Score: 1
    If you are using Tablet PC or other Microsoft Windows OS, MessagEase Onscreen Keyboard might be a good thing to try.

    (Apologies for some redundancy, but not many people know this exists and is available on the Windows platform.)

  2. Try MessagEaseOK on What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy? · · Score: 1
    If you haven't already, consider downloading/installing MessagEase Onscreen Keyboard. Should be much easier than doing QWERTY, assuming you take the time to learn the layout.

    I'm a MessagEase fan - use the STamp version on my Palm Tungsten T, but haven't used it a whole lot yet under Windows (I always have a keyboard around so far, and it's been a while since I broke my wrist and used Dasher for a few weeks).

  3. Wrong! GPL covers redistribution, not use on Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey Album · · Score: 1
    The GPL is a license to use copyrighted works.
    Dude, I think you're trying to understand/explain the GPL, but doing a bad job of it.

    Part 0 of the GPL says:

    Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
    If you're going to discuss what it says, it'd be really nice if you'd actually read it. OTOH, perhaps you're just an effective troll.
  4. Crossover: mini adapter on What Extras Should I Buy When Buying a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    In my last journal's comments I mentioned the UTP-7220. Much smaller than a full cable.

  5. Differences on Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits · · Score: 1
    I, too, have a TiVo (actually two). Some differences:
    • TiVo receivers are used for entertainment - something people should be able to live without. When companies tag important items - places you need to go, foods you need to eat - that can give them the knowledge to create an artificial scarcity or otherwise be covertly prejudicial against a small class.
    • You can firewall a TiVo off and check/verify/alter what it's sending. Not easy to do elsewhere.
    These are off the top of my head, there are perhaps more.
  6. No robotic arm required on Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    Just install the TiVo Web Project and use http gets to interact.

  7. Re:The Second one should be named..... on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 1

    Based on your subject line, I thought for sure you were going to name "unluckium".

  8. Re:I don't care what they call it. on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Whole article on one page on Introducing Linux to Joe Average · · Score: 1

    Or you could just look at the print edition - don't be fooled by
    <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('print.php?story=4764','' , 'scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=500,height=650 ')">

  10. Re:2 teams of 11 on Superbowling · · Score: 1
    European football, on the other hand, is played mostly with the feet, and sometime the head, but in most player's case, there isn't any difference, which is why it's called "foot"ball.

    Really? Do you have photos of these "players" in which you can't tell the difference between their head and their feet? Were they mutants at birth or just later engineered that way?

  11. Analogy still makes it bad on FTC vs. Open Relays, round 2 · · Score: 1
    Whether you like it or not, there's nothing that's wrong about having open relays. If I wish to leave my house door unlocked, it's not the business of the government to tell me I have to lock it. It may be irresponsible, but it's my right. Just the same, I have the right to have an open relay and not close it. They have no right to tell me how to run my server. I accept the consequences of how I run it.

    So when someone sets up shop in that unused attic/wing/crawlspace of yours and starts producing Methamphetamines or otherwise generates/disposes hazardous waste but out of your sight, I hope you enjoy the consequences.

  12. Re:I can't figure out... on Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual · · Score: 1
    English, with its 20 vowel sounds as opposed to the 5 of Hebrew

    I count six: short-o, long-a, short-e, long-e, long-o, long-u. In addition to those, my Hebrew school taught that a long-o followed by "yod" was rhymed with "boy".

  13. +1 Interesting? on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Hmm. 4 out of 5... that's 80%. But supposedly Microsoft has 90%+ of the market. So Microsoft just paid to run an ad urging over 10% of the market to leave them for Linux >:)

    This should've been moderated Funny; I mean, how likely is it that the fifth scenario occurs 20% of the time? Maybe it occurs 40% of the time!

  14. Not necessarily... on Microsoft Agrees Settlement Over MikeRoweSoft.com · · Score: 1
    so bought him out with.. you guessed it, Microsoft freebie products. Now bad press turns into Microsoft product marketing. Those guys are brilliant in Redmond. Grrr...

    Have you checked eBay lately?

  15. Regarding "hints" on Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats · · Score: 1
    [0008] According to yet another aspect of the invention, hints are provided within the XML associated files providing applications that understand XML a shortcut to understanding some of the features provided by the word-processor. By using the hints, the applications do not have to know all of the specific details of the internal processing of the word-processor in order to recreate a feature.

    When I worked for Microsoft 15-13 years ago or so, I was taught that Microsoft Word for DOS had stored newer features in a format that could be stored/rendered by earlier versions (back to 1.0) but would render in newer versions as the actual feature.

    Just to make this grok'able, say that 1.0 didn't support tables, 2.0 did at one level, and 3.0 supported nesting. Rather than (or perhaps in addition to) 2.0/3.0 using some feature-specific tokenizing, 2.0 would perhaps use line-drawing characters to represent a table in a way that hadn't been expressed before, and 3.0 could perhaps use a different set of line-drawing characters for the nesting.

    Thus, files using newer features would be horribly bloated. And I think there was danger of tripping on documents that had coincidentally used ("collided with") what they planned to use before they actually implemented. They abandoned this when they went from WinWord 1.0 to WinWord 2.0, IIRC.

  16. Re:They can patent file formats now? on Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats · · Score: 1
    And they keep repeating time and time again that all is in 1 file. So just use 2 and you are safe... (IANAPL, of course)

    Heh, wouldn't that be great? Simply run it through a filter that splits it into two or more files, then process each of those.

  17. Re:I hope the RIAA wins. No Troll on Kazaa to Sue Movie, Record Companies · · Score: 1

    Nah, if they saw the writing on the wall, they'd settle before it'd have a chance to set a precedent.

  18. Re:Let's Face It on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1
    At this point Daryl will turn to Kevin and say "Well bro, that was a cool adventure, what do you want to do next? Hey maybe we can sell licenses to people who use smiley emoticons in their email - let's check out a copyright for that!"

    You can't get a copyrights for smileys; they're too short. But they can be trademarked.

  19. Re:Hailku defined? on Perl Haiku Poetry Contest · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other words, perhaps...

    Contest is a sham!
    They don't define a haiku!
    We're not mindreaders!

  20. Readability... on Perl Haiku Poetry Contest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Larry Wall's language
    is not obfuscatory.
    Just need more coffee.

  21. steaming? on A Glance At 24 Keyboards & Mice · · Score: 1
    I'm here at work typing on a Dell laptop keyboard which, frankly, is a steaming pile of crap.

    So... it feels mushy and smells bad (sure that isn't yourself?) but warms you up on a cold day?

  22. Re:Best Keyboard... on A Glance At 24 Keyboards & Mice · · Score: 1
    The question is, why don't all PS/2 ports have both data pins? I guess you could confuse your system with, say, two keyboards, because the system can't handle them separately. Thus I agree that USB would be a lot better.

    Actually, quite a few systems do have both data pins on both PS/2 ports; simply swap keyboard and mouse to test this. But I've never tried two keyboards or two mice.

  23. Re:jms on Usenet. on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    He was on CompuServe too. And in additon to writing, he directed several episodes.

  24. Re:Not tired of it yet on SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement · · Score: 1

    Not intended to be a troll, but why do people bother commenting that they don't like seeing SCO stories? I mean, if I don't like potato peelers, I don't hang out in the kitchen utensils aisle and reminding the customers of my beliefs.

    I...[gasp]...go somewhere else.

    Holy crap, that makes sense!

    I wonder if the principle applies to paper towels too...

  25. Out of curiosity... on OQO Ultra-Portable Impresses At CES · · Score: 1

    Is the default font used on it bigger than the 10px used on their website?

    (Sorry, just venting... my cell phone and Tungsten T use bigger fonts...)