jcl

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  1. The uncertainly isn't a problem down south: our voting machine are designed to malfunction and be hacked. Premier (nee Diebold) made the news a few weeks ago when it was revealed that their voting machines had a button to erase their audit logs. Let me repeat that: the voting machines were designed to allow election officials to erase the logs that are used to verify that the machines are accurately recording votes. As a bonus, the button was placed next to the "save" button and the deletion operation doesn't require confirmation, so if the touch screen wasn't properly calibrated or your aim w
  2. Considering that every electronic voting machine in the world seems to be broken or rigged, I would lean toward printing out what will likely be the only evidence that you didn't vote for the candidate of the party that installed the machines. "They" being the people who would be manipulating the voting results.
  3. Viruses and worms are pretty much self-propagating by definition.
  4. jcl

    Sed Help

    You could use a command block and b in sed but... blech.
  5. jcl

    Sed Help

    Double-quote. Where did you find a system with bash and sed but not ed? How about ex?
  6. jcl

    Sed Help

    You have to quote the argument to sed. FWIW, I think it would be easier to use ed and a here-doc: ed $INFILE <<EOL /^<rdp_server/c <rdp_server client_audio="$AUDIO" color_depth="$COLOR" comment="$COMMENT" experience="$EXPERIENCE" gateway="$GATEWAY" geometry="$GEOMETRY" ip="$IP" submenu="$SUBMENU" title="$TITLE"/> . wq $OUTFILE EOL
  7. jcl

    Sed Help

    Drop the eval.
  8. Settings -> Export / Backup Bookmarks
  9. jcl

    Earth Hour

    We're on hydroelectricity so I couldn't care less
  10. jcl

    Earth Hour

    I think you got that backwards. I believe it's 8:30 PM Eastern time It's 20:30 local time.
  11. The commit charge measures pagefile usage. (Sort of.) It doesn't really matter unless it hits the limit.
  12. He was sentenced to prison for obstructing an investigation into a possible crime that he didn't commit. I'm not too happy about it, either. Not to mention that the person who actually revealed Plame's identity wasn't charged at all.
  13. Hmm. Xiti had it at a hair short of 20% in the UK last year. That might be inflated but I doubt it's that inflated. Firefox is definitely not the default browser on all Linux system. The distros that aren't 'consumer-oriented', -- e.g. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Arch -- generally don't have default browsers and I would expect the majority of KDE distros to default to Konqueror and at least a few GNOME distros to default to Epiphany. In fact, thinking about it, Ubuntu might be the only major distro that defaults to Firefox. There are very likely more browsers available on Linux than Windows.
  14. Firefox's market share is well above 9%. I think it's approaching 50% in parts of Europe.
  15. The list of allowed sites is the 'whitelist' I mentioned. It sounds like the main difference between Firefox and your pop-up blocker is that Firefox gives you the option of allowing a pop-up window to open without adding the site to the whitelist. Basically, you can disable the pop-up blocker for a single pop-up. Hrm. Annoying. It's closer to 1/9th with the window sizes and configurations I normally use. It could be less but I use most of the Firefox UI and I don't run Firefox anywhere near full screen anyway, so *shrug*
  16. I would suggest rooting around in their dumpsters for leftovers but you'd probably still end up overpaying.
  17. You can allow a site to open a window without adding the site to the pop-up whitelist. Firefox 3 hides everything in full screen mode. The tool bar and tab bar drop down when you throw the mouse at the top edge of the screen; the menu bar, bookmarks bar, and status bar appear to be inaccessible. (Bookmarks are still accessible via autocompletion in the location bar and you can add buttons for the major menu item (bookmarks, history, etc) to the tool bar.) Hey, I used a small window to keep the screen shot a reasonable size
  18. Adblock Plus Console2 DOM Inspector Download Statusbar Extension Developer Firebug Flashblock Greasemonkey HttpFox It's All Text! Long Titles Moonshine Moonlight Save Image in Folder Stylish User Agent Switcher Vimperator (but I don't use it) wpext (tiny extension I made for setting my wallpaper) XPather
  19. Screenshot of Firefox 3.1 without customization on Windows 7. It's probably a bit less... shiny on XP but otherwise this is what you should see with a fresh installation.
  20. Firefox asks permission before opening unrequested windows. F11.
  21. The extension is mentioned in the release notes and I think there's documentation on MSDN. It can't be uninstalled through Add-ons because it's installed for all users and Firefox, unsurprisingly, doesn't allow users to uninstall extensions for other users. The amusing thing is that the extension reduces the need for Firefox users to switch to IE.
  22. Article is fail. That would have been ironic if graphic designers could have used higher-performance graphics hardware. Until GPGPU came along there wasn't much you could do with GPUs. The Mac Pro is a workstation. The Gateway is a gaming rig. This is clearly going to be meaningful comparison. Sure, they're different processors, graphics cards, RAM, and HDDs, but that doesn't matter, right? The Mac Pro is probably faster in general... ... but the Gateway is better for games and boots Windows really fast! Winner: Gateway! The Mac Pro is potentially ~15% faster and costs ~15% more. What a