Comment Vim - even better with bcvi (Score 1) 271
I use gvim all day every day with the added convenience of bcvi for editing files on remote servers. Thanks Bram!
Cooking With Your USB Ports 188
tekgoblin writes "Wow, I would never have thought to try and cook food with the power that a standard USB port provides, but someone did. A standard port provides 5V of power, give or take a little. I am not even sure what it takes to heat a small hotplate, but I am sure it is more than 5V. It looks like the guy tied together around 30 USB cables powered by his PC to power this small hotplate. But believe it or not, it seems to have cooked the meat perfectly."
Comment Isn't the IIPA web site itself hosted on Apache? (Score 1) 650
It appears to me that the IIPA's own web site is hosted on the Open Source Apache web server. It's a little hard to tell because the Server header has been customised and there may be some sort of hardware loadbalancer in front of the server. Anyway the 404 page and the directory listings certainly look like Apache.
Comment Re:ACTA is a copyright/trademark law, not patents! (Score 2, Informative) 400
ACTA is a treaty on copyrights and trademarks, which are totally different than patents.
How can you possibly know what is contained in the ACTA treaty? While the actual contents remain secret (and they're likely to remain so until passed into law in the signatory countries) we have nothing to go on but leaked documents. Documents leaked already suggest the treaty aims to go well beyond simply protecting copyrights and trademarks. But of course all the countries involved in the negotiations already have laws to protect copyrights and trademarks so if the treaty didn't go beyond that there would be no reason for it to exist.
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