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General Discussion / Re: Post your total time logged

« on: August 11, 2005, 11:13:30 pm »

x86: 1 days, 20 hours and 41 minutes.
vL: 5 days, 11 hours and 25 minutes.

[21:22:01] System uptime: 9 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes, and 33 seconds.
[21:22:01] Bot uptime: 3 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 12 seconds.
[21:22:09] zorm[x86]\Recorddata\Time Logged: 0 years, 76 days, 22 hours, 3 minutes, and 18 seconds

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General Discussion / Re: Mozilla goes corporate!

« on: August 07, 2005, 02:37:27 am »

You underestimate greedy American corporations. The fanbase doesn't mean much when there is a chance for money to be had. The other item of concern is how many patches and such come from outside people. They might be able to scheme up a way to relicense firefox or make it entirely closed source.

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General Discussion / Re: FCC To Require Backdoor Network Access for Feds

« on: August 07, 2005, 02:29:54 am »

I much prefer it this way, atleast they won't cut the wrong wire and kill my internet while trying to wiretap someone! Something that really isn't mentioned if this is a physical backdoor which I suspect it is or a software one like the EFF article hints at.

This is one of the things that is better for everyone. They are going to tap these services anyways, might as well as make it so the feds don't have a chance of messing up the network. There was a case in my town where the FBI wiretapped a spy's home. The problem was that they did it wrong and created a buzzing in the neighbors phone so they knew something was up.

Also about the Adobe guy, see http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,55864,00.asp. He tried to sell illegal software here. Also note the end of the article

"I didn't have any interest in being at a place where people were being arrested," says Atkinson, whose organization helps companies develop countermeasures to combat surveillance devices. He believes Sklyarov was "exceedingly stupid" in his conduct.

"It would be the equivalent of Osama bin Laden coming to the U.S. He'd have to be out of his mind to attend a conference here when he knows he's doing something illegal," Atkinson says.

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General Discussion / Re: Mozilla goes corporate!

« on: August 06, 2005, 03:58:53 am »

Its only a matter of time now until they decide to start selling Firefox. It doesn't matter if its open source or not, look at XChat for example.

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General Discussion / Re: Great Adventure (Six Flags)

« on: August 06, 2005, 03:57:17 am »

I dont wanna bring a camera cause it will fall out in a loop and explode.

Haha, I was watching the Xcelerator at Knotts Berry Farm and it got to the top of the hat and something went flying off one of the people on the ride. It was kinda funny.

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General Discussion / Re: IE7 To Fail Acid Test

« on: August 06, 2005, 03:55:27 am »

*notes that the only browsers which pass the test are for Macs*

This should say something about the ACID test and the overall impact on passing it. I personally think the whole 'standards' deal is a load of crap. Its never going to come to pass that everything will be standards complaint. People have written browser specific code for things like IE6 that aren't forewards compatible. As such Microsoft will get ripped a new one by half the people if they break these sites but the other half will give them hell if they don't.

Its a nice dream that someday you'll be able to write html that will display the same in all browsers. The biggest example that this is never going to happen is C/C++. Its been around for a long time and still suffers problems from compilers that break standards or have bugs, etc.

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General Discussion / Re: FS: 18k Yellow Gold Antique E. Howard Pocket Watch

« on: August 04, 2005, 02:20:59 am »

I think I can give you as much as.. $23.95 for it.

I'll give you $23.96 and my shiny coke can used to start fires for it!

It's up to $400 something last I saw, so unless you have a golden coke can...

Ok, Ill autograph the can so that when I'm famous it can be sold for a lot of money!

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Gaming / Re: VERY Bored

« on: August 04, 2005, 12:19:07 am »

$5 that guy lives in Canada. Canadians are weird like that. Play tetris, I always play tetris when im bored.

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Unix / Linux Discussion / Re: Linux on your iPod!

« on: August 04, 2005, 12:06:37 am »

The frontpage is outdated. If you read the forums over there you will see that it does infact have support for 4g ipods now.

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General Discussion / Re: FS: 18k Yellow Gold Antique E. Howard Pocket Watch

« on: August 04, 2005, 12:01:37 am »

I think I can give you as much as.. $23.95 for it.

I'll give you $23.96 and my shiny coke can used to start fires for it!

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Unix / Linux Discussion / Re: Linux on your iPod!

« on: July 31, 2005, 06:29:49 pm »

I actually did this awhile back and it was sort of a joke. It couldn't process mp3s fast enough so the quality wasn't there. It also didn't have a sleep function so battery drain happened insanely fast. They might have fixed these problems since then but back then it was like some sort of sick joke.

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iago's forum / Re: Saturday's weather

« on: July 31, 2005, 12:03:57 am »

As Quik said, where the hell are the pictures you bastard?!

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iago's forum / Re: Bugs

« on: July 31, 2005, 12:02:41 am »

Someone on another forum noted that Iowa/Illinois are full of bugs like this every year. Also im adding whereever the hell you were to the list of places im never going to visit.

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General Discussion / Re: IE7's Anti-Phishing

« on: July 28, 2005, 08:42:04 pm »

Sounds rather crappy, but then again most of us here aren't the average computer user and they may find the feature useful.

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General Discussion / Re: Microsoft fighting pirated copies of Windows

« on: July 28, 2005, 04:53:15 pm »

*yawns* http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28/microsoft_genuine_ad.html