Comment: Re:Any confirmation on this? (Score 1) 336
Comment: Re:Any confirmation on this? (Score 1) 336
Comment: I ate 500 fewer than I burned... (Score 1) 496
I subscribe to The Hacker's Diet, and don't bother to precisely track my intake. I track my weight, using an exponentially smoothed average, and calculate the difference to figure out how I'm doing on keeping my intake under control. I've found that simply recording my weight each day and watching the smoothed average is enough to make me change my behavior and start eating better.
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Comment: Re:Fail (Score 1) 794
Here's the wording from the bill:
No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Comment: DenyHosts (Score 1) 497
Great tool that pools the resources of multiple servers to proactively block IPs that are trying to brute-force the SSH port on any server in the pool:
http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
I use it, and it has Just Worked for years.
Comment: Re:Eh wouldn't surprise me... (Score 1) 451
That's slandering Lewinski, not Office.
Comment: Komodo IDE (Score 1) 193
I haven't tested it thoroughly, so I don't know how much of the VI command set it implements, but Komodo IDE has a 'vi' mode, and I believe it would fulfill your other requirements as well. (As a plus, it's fully cross platform, so you can use it everywhere)
Comment: Re:like...WHATever, dood... (Score 2, Informative) 378
... Um. Wow. Just wow.
See, I worked as a microsoft support tech for a while shortly after the release of Windows ME. A dark period in my career, I'll admit. But aside from a few nice troubleshooting tools (msconfig FTMFW), ME sucked beyond belief.
Troubleshooting Step 1: Reboot. If that solved the problem, we told the customer it was fixed, and to call back if it happened again. Really.
And at least once a day, I would determine that a machine was beyond recovery, and we would FFR it. (Fdisk, Format, Reinstall). And my experiences were pretty standard, from what I heard around me on the support floor. People who had transferred to the ME support team from 9X complained about how buggy and poorly designed ME was.
*shudders* So... no. ME was not the best of the 9x line. Arguably, 98SE was the best, although some people preferred 95.
Also, the article completely messes up the history of 2000 / 9X / ME. 2000 was
Comment: Re:what we use (Score 2, Funny) 428
What do you do to stop the octopi from stealing the coconuts to live in?
Comment: Re:Boson in time (Score 1) 691
Except the modifier 'either' implies XOR, not OR, so:
For A being false and B true
A XOR B = true
For A being true and B false
A XOR B = true
And for A being true and B true
A XOR B = false
Comment: Re:Too Easy... (Score 1) 490
The fulcrum is the axle.
Comment: Re:Too Easy... (Score 1) 490
Or as one giant lever that encircles the hub completely.
(I got the idea about the wheel == level thing from the podcast novel 'Death by Cliche'. Hilariously funny book. But I loved that insight.)
Comment: Re:Too Easy... (Score 1) 490
Interestingly, a wheel can be generalized as a series of levers (the spokes) that convert linear motion into radial motion.
Comment: Re:Jack Thompson is right: it's NOT spam. (Score 1) 319
Michael Waddoups should be put in jail. You do have a point here, but I'll go one better. He previously supported Jack's bill, but now because Jack is exercising his right of free speech, however annoyingly, Michael is not going to support the bill. This is not commercial, and it is only unsolicited in the sense that they did not expect it. But of all people lawmakers should be accepting input on pending legislation. Claiming this is SPAM is clearly abuse of the laws they made, and they should know better. Utah State Senate President should absolutely know better.
You're missing one key fact: This legislation is NOT pending! It was already passed and vetoed.