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Re:The Dark Lord of the Sith by rpozz · 2005-06-08 12:14 · Score: 4, Funny · on Microsoft's Slap at Samba

I have absolutely nothing better to do tonight.

http://img247.echo.cx/img247/1036/gateslord2rn.jpg

Re:The Dark Lord of the Sith by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-08 12:06 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft's Slap at Samba

Re:For the love of God. by new_confused_mind · 2005-06-04 20:58 · Score: 1 · on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite

That was till some nice folks decided to write a simple utility: NTSwitch

From the TXT:

Also, this is the pop-up Windows shows you after messing with the reg value: click

own3d! by GrendelT · 2005-06-02 19:22 · Score: 0 · on Morse Coders Beat SMSers

Avatar from the clip: pwn3d!

...and yeah, this is old news. HamSexy.com linked it the day of.

Proof Safari owns Firefox by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-02 09:34 · Score: -1, Troll · on Whose Burden is it to Recycle Computers?

Owned

Handy-dandy color key:
Red - Firefox can't render fonts.
Blue - Widgets are too 1995.
Green - No Cocoa spell-check. (And the spellcheck extension sucks)
Purple - Close tab button too far out of the way.
Yellow - Oversized toolbar/status bar
Aqua - Adblock just plain fails every once in a while. PithHelmet wins.

Oh, and Safari boots up faster, loads pages quicker, and takes up a hell of a lot less memory than FIrefox.

Poof that Safari is better than Firefox by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-01 15:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Europe Home to Majority of Zombies

Here

Handy-dandy color key:
Red - Firefox renders fonts like crap.
Blue - Ugly widgets.
Green - No Cocoa spell-check.
Purple - Close tab too far out of the way.
Yellow - Oversized, ugly toolbar.
Aqua - Adblock fails.

And it's faster, too!

6 Reasons Firefox is shit by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-01 14:01 · Score: -1, Troll · on Linux Geeks To Take Over World

Eat It

Handy-dandy color key:
Red - Firefox renders fonts like shit.
Blue - Shit widgets.
Green - No Cocoa spell-check.
Purple - Close tab button out of the way.
Yellow - Oversized shit
Aqua - Adblock fails

I see some truth in this poster by ian+rogers · 2005-06-01 09:39 · Score: 1 · on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes

This + this = Longhorn.

Oh well, I guess Apple asked for it.

Angry flower... by AyeRoxor! · 2005-05-31 08:06 · Score: 2, Funny · on Google Releases Earth to Beta

Google has released a beta of it's Google Earth software[...]

Submitter, please read this important memo.

//Is this really one of the most difficult aspects of the written English language?

Direct Links and text by AndyFewt · 2005-05-31 03:49 · Score: 2, Informative · on Zalman Showcase Massive P4 Heatsink

Well here are some direct link to the image on various mirrors: Corel Cache Image Shack

The article text:

Angry flower time... by AyeRoxor! · 2005-05-30 19:05 · Score: 1 · on Hiper Type-R Modular Blue Line 580W PSU Review

Read along as she determines the flexibilty this unit offers in it's modular construction

Please read this informative memo.

/this goes for you too, Cecil (37810)
//Is this really one of the most difficult aspects of the written English language?

Ultra Hi-Res Photo of proposed ID card by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-29 08:34 · Score: 0 · on HP Announces National Id System Built on .NET

http://img167.echo.cx/img167/2969/410nationalid0cj .jpg

Re:China: Smart != Number Doodling by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-28 19:48 · Score: 5, Funny · on Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas

http://img210.echo.cx/my.php?image=steps9gg.png Sorry, it just sprung to mind.

Re:middle-click by pomo+monster · 2005-05-27 11:41 · Score: 1 · on More Details on IE7 Tabs

Argh! Control's for contextual menus, actually, if you're into that kind of wacky thing. Also, the "Apple" key is what any self-respecting Mac user would call the "command" key.

This guy is a self-hating Mac user, but he still gets the girl. Just imagine if you were a self-respecting one.

Re:Lynx is safe by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-27 08:23 · Score: 3, Informative · on There Is No Safe Web Browser

This "Lynx" you speak of intruiges me. Before I switch from current browser, could you post some screenshots of Lynx in action?

Here you go!

http://img184.echo.cx/img184/7750/lynx026bk.jpg
http://img184.echo.cx/img184/3108/lynx013je.jpg

Re:Lynx is safe by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-27 08:23 · Score: 3, Informative · on There Is No Safe Web Browser

This "Lynx" you speak of intruiges me. Before I switch from current browser, could you post some screenshots of Lynx in action?

Here you go!

http://img184.echo.cx/img184/7750/lynx026bk.jpg
http://img184.echo.cx/img184/3108/lynx013je.jpg

Re:Can get better later by Snowsphere · 2005-05-26 08:25 · Score: 0 · on Smoke and Mirrors from Sony and Microsoft

It looks to me like you're just pushing your testicles up under the pubic mound but with all that fat it's hard to tell. Looking here it does seem like you're holding something in place. I call shenanigans.

Re:Sony has a point. by pnice · 2005-05-26 06:36 · Score: 1 · on Playstation 3 Not A Video Game Machine

Actually, Atari did announce a new console last December. Here is a link to the press release:
http://img219.echo.cx/img219/5600/atari7bd.jpg

Look at that and THEN try to call Sony an innovator.

In Sovereign Slashdot... by Zorilla · 2005-05-25 21:22 · Score: 0 · on CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame

RSS attacks itself!

FBI.gov hosted in the UK? by KhalidBoussouara · 2005-05-25 12:09 · Score: 1 · on Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents

I have the Flagfox extension installed and this shows where a website is hosted. This is based on the IP (using a database) and not the domain name so it is fairly accurate. This Screenshot of the FBI website shows it is hosted in the UK (see lower right part of screenshot for the country flag). American government websites are not usually hosted in the UK. So something isn't right.

Your tax dollars at work.. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-25 10:20 · Score: 0 · on Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents

.. helping Hollywood profits.

Notice how the whole thing is sold as protecting the latest Star Wars? Check the videoclip at ice.gov and note how they show someone watching A MOVIE TRAILER SHOWN ON TV and finding an ep3 WORKPRINT RELEASED BY A STARVING ARTIST.

http://img178.echo.cx/img178/8914/capture4bf.jpg

Also nice to see how the government produced clip is made to imply much higher video quality for the workprint by using a digital broadcast rip.

Re:OFF TOPIC: script by Bobsledboy · 2005-05-24 17:49 · Score: 1 · on Write Down Your Passwords

I took this for a previous post
http://img276.echo.cx/img276/2319/script6cp.jpg

Re:Sound Great by Bobsledboy · 2005-05-24 15:51 · Score: 1 · on Futurama May Strike Back (on DVD)

Pro-Logic has always seemed to work really well for me. :/

As an offside, I think maybe the script thing is there because of my tendency to bang out a short comment and submit quite quickly. =) Here's a picture. Its really annoying cause the c's and e's are quite similar.

my idea by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-24 12:33 · Score: 0 · on A Cheap and Portable Word Processor?

this is how I envision a portable word processor.
its foldable!
(made in paint)

http://img277.echo.cx/my.php?image=thejaymanswordp rocessor9bf.png

Avoid GNOME!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-24 09:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on IBM and Red Hat Offer College Prep

Hello people from Slashdot,

As a former GNOME Foundation member and six years contributor towards GNOME, the community, my own projects, that I can tell you that GNOME is being sold to the public as far more than it really is. The lack of knowledge and the aggressive marketing is, makes people blindly jump on GNOME.

GNOME is an architecture disaster, to say, only half of the things really work as it should, stuff not quite polished giving the user the feel of bad implementation. I wonder if you from Slashdot want to promote such a product to customers, companies or government without making yourself sound untrustable afterwards. You should really spent some time into the product GNOME itself and compare the things I mention here with a vanilla build of GNOME on your systems.

I always hear that GNOME is so polished, that GNOME is there to get work done, that it is a corporate desktop and so on. Not to mention that such sentences are scaring a lot of developers away it's also some sort of politics which went through no communication with other developers. It makes other developers look like outsiders. Since the corporate argument gives them the feeling that GNOME is lead by 'corporates' and big companies and right now it only looks like paid members of the community are doing the job because others have resigned.

Now for the facts of getting the work done. Has anyone ever tried getting serious work done with GNOME ? Ever tried to print the actual page from GPDF or EVINCE ? Or has anyone ever asked why GGV doesn't offer a print dialog ? Ever tried copying a full recursive subdirectory from FTP to the desktop using Nautilus without losing files ? Ever tried writing a circular letter with Abiword and trying to use Evolutions address book ? Ever tried drawing a computer related graph or UML graph using GNOME programms ? using DIA maybe ?

People should really spent some time looking at the whole thing, that GNOME is, each app, what it does, what it doesn't. And not just watch some movies or listen to mp3 files. That's not what business is supposed to do or want to do.

I now want to show you one visible aspect about GNOME, something that you can easily check up on your side, though it doesn't cover all the problems inside the architecture of GNOME such as broken gnome-vfs (which explains why Nautilus copies 0byte files from FTP to your computer) or other things. Well I don't want to make stuff sound more complicated for now but try throwing an eye on this this picture. Look closer to it. Now look again a bit closer to it.. No.. that's close enough..

This screenshot explains a lot to us. We don't care for the Toolbar structure nor do we care for the Menu structure. We only look at the appearance. Note that this is just one minor example of the overall problems that exists.

We see Toolbars with ICONS only, we see Toolbars with TEXT beneath the ICONS, we see Toolbars with mixed entries as ICONS and TEXT, we see Toolbars which have a drag handle, we see Menu with drag handle, we see Toolbars without drag handle we see Menu without drag handle.

Now what does us tell this ? It tells us that there is something wrong "why is this the case ?", it's because there are huge problems inside the architecture. We need to ask ourself what the aim of a desktop is ? The aim is to provide a set of bottom libraries (called a framework) for the developers, so they are able to create applications that feel coherent, look the same, work the same, behave the same as in a real environment.

Now we need to look a bit closer to it and we figure out that GNOME offers for historic reasons different ways to create Windows. Now imagine this, you are a user and you want for some reason ICONS only on your Toolbar or you want no images in the Menu. You go into the preferences section and select 'icons only' for Toolbars and 'no images' for Menus. After that you realize that 3/4 of the mostly GNOME centric applications

Re:Wait A Minute... by Celt · 2005-05-22 11:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on New NASA Budget Woes

Your sig:
Why doesn't Wikipedia have a Slashdot article? [wikipedia.org]

Wikipedia DOES have a slashdot entry.
don't believe me ?
see --> http://img212.echo.cx/img212/6633/slashdot8aj.png
Next time search properly before making your sig. :)

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