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Everything inside the case? Boring! My 360 water cooling system is inside AND outside the case. And it keeps the fishies warm

have you found any decent skins for Opera on OSX? The nicest one I've found has variable tab length, which is annoying. (for example, if you go to a page with a long title, it takes up most of your tab bar. see this example.)

Not a deal breaker for most people, but the lack of good skins is enough to keep me using Safari+Saft (it looks very nice with Unified Aqua applied). Anyone have any ideas?

Of course, it works perfectly in Konqueror/Safari, the first browser to support Acid2. Besides, Acid2-related problems are all fixed on the Firefox "reflow" branch, so it'll be coming to a Firefox near you in the future.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/658/slashdotshiny fixv0012vy.png
http://slashdot.org/~Slashdot+Shinyfix/journal/137 115

If you read what someone has pointed out below:
Original text

It says that the reason it should not be studied is because it is the moment of Creation. Middle and end of the universe do not deal with the moment of Creation.

here is proof page 120 (middle of the first paragraph) sorry for replying to my own post :D

MSDN site works perfect in FF here... http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard 014ml.jpg 1.5.0.4

flickr should definitely change their policy for things like this.

I'm really not worried about China 'buying' us

I'm a little more worried regarding the treaty we have where we guarantee Taiwan's independance, and China will be in a position to militarily accomplish their goals in Taiwan.... probably in a decade or so...

I have a good theory why :) Like norton antivirus wasn't running at all?

http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=norton2cn .png

Yep, I took that screenshot and sent to Kaspersky.ru saying they should donate AV to Yahoo. I hope it reached Mr. Kaspersky somehow and they didn't ban me from mail servers.

That picture of Chris Crawford on the article was just so melodramatic. It reminded me of something. I just... I just couldn't help myself .

If you are looking for a cat that won't cause allergies: Get some hair clippers.

Yep, definately a YMMV situation, and as the breeder was careful to intone into our heads, no (non-engineered) cat with hair is truly allergy-free - even though she doesn't really bother me on a daily basis, if I do something like accidentally rubbing my eyes after touching her, I will have very itchy and painful eyes until I wash them out.

Slashdot's new layout fits right in with Vista.

Nobody seems to have linked it yet; so here it is.

NOTE: this comparison is solely for humor purposes, relying more on colors and other visual similarities than actual design; its intention is not to accuse either company.

I can't mod you up because I don't have any mod points, but I agree that I preferred the old one.

To keep this at least somewhat on topic, the table with the book information seems to have 0 margins/padding, making it a little ugly/difficult to read.

Hah! Yes, that was awesome.

LINK: http://slashdot.org/~Slashdot+Shinyfix/journal/136 930
PREVIEW: http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/658/slashdotshiny fixv0012vy.png

While Alex Bendiken's redesign of Slashdot is a very welcome change, not to
mention gorgeous, many Slashdotters have discovered deficiencies in the
resulting rendering. In particular, the usability of Slashdot's story
commenting has taken a beating. To ameliorate these "misfeatures", this CSS
file aims to do the following:

    1. Add visual cues to aid scanning through nested comments and replies.
    2. Move comment score back to the subject.
    3. Allow <i> and <em> within blockquotes.
    4. Adjust body text font and size.
    5. Set a fixed width for comments (e.g. 42 ems) to maintain readability
          with very wide browser windows. [DISABLED BY DEFAULT]

You can enable or disable these fixes, as desired, by commenting or
uncommenting the relevant CSS below.

NOTE: Currently, fix #2 only works in Safari (and perhaps Opera?).
Gecko-based browsers do not support "display: inline-block," which is used to
reposition the post score. If someone knows how to hack together an
equivalent for Firefox, please contribute!

INSTALLATION (SAFARI): Set this as the style sheet for slashdot.org with a
PithHelmet* rule or similar, or in Preferences > Advanced.
                              (* < http://www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHel met.php >)

INSTALLATION (FIREFOX): As if you need instructions.

LICENSE: The contents of this file are hereby released into the public
domain. Take that, Stallmanists.

Here's what it looks like in Konq 3.5.3

Look in the upper left corner, all the text from the left sid menus jumped to the top and is all overlayed on top of each other in an unreadable jumble. Not to mention, unusable..

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7/omfgx4818yv.j pg

> [...] station a college near-drop-out to shout "run, fat-ass!"

Although it might cost a little more, I'm sure this guy would be much more effective.

Has anyone tried double-clicking the left-hand sidebar headings? "Help", "Stories", etc? Watch the triangles!

Ok, while I still think his comment was taken out of context I fotoshoped him though :)

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8319/philharrison lobotomized5kt.jpg

"Captain Copyright? I remember that site! It was where a bunch of Farkers and SA Forum Goons downloaded a huge library of source images [captaincopyright.ca] for the funniest set Photoshop parodies ever!"

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7936/wav4ym.jpg
Look at the waves at the red arrows. Those are not normal wave shapes and I've never seen mp3 encoding do that. Why not put your message in those areas while everyone else tries to figure out what random numbers mean?

Here's the "Add Fonts" dialog from NT 3.1.
And for Vista.
For reference, Server 2003.

It stayed the same up to 2003 and has now changed a tiny bit; somebody took the time to add a little font preview box, but didn't bother to actually update the ancient file picker. Note that you have to enable the "classic menus" option to even reach this dialog box. The vista dialog is also much slower: the font preview box shows a progress bar while it loads the system font directory, whereas the one in 2003 seems to do the same thing instantly.

Here's the "Add Fonts" dialog from NT 3.1.
And for Vista.
For reference, Server 2003.

It stayed the same up to 2003 and has now changed a tiny bit; somebody took the time to add a little font preview box, but didn't bother to actually update the ancient file picker. Note that you have to enable the "classic menus" option to even reach this dialog box. The vista dialog is also much slower: the font preview box shows a progress bar while it loads the system font directory, whereas the one in 2003 seems to do the same thing instantly.

Here's the "Add Fonts" dialog from NT 3.1.
And for Vista.
For reference, Server 2003.

It stayed the same up to 2003 and has now changed a tiny bit; somebody took the time to add a little font preview box, but didn't bother to actually update the ancient file picker. Note that you have to enable the "classic menus" option to even reach this dialog box. The vista dialog is also much slower: the font preview box shows a progress bar while it loads the system font directory, whereas the one in 2003 seems to do the same thing instantly.

Go ahead and tell me that Jane Receptionist or Bob Architect is going to be using the iSCSI Initiator control panel applet or anything else that requires admin priv's on a daily basis. Go ahead. Tell me.

Of course they'll not be using iSCSI. But they may well want to delete a shortcut someday...

The article very reasonable explains to people that may not know how the whole experience with the security agent could be very annoying - but then at the end states that Microsoft is aware the expereince is not a good one currently and is seeking to improve that, probably in release candidate one. How is that not fair?

repeatedly hit the asshole in the head with a huge purple dildo.

This is ridiculous, why use language like "average person" "contemporary community standards" "morbid interest in violence" to define what is against the law? Oh wait, I know, so that they can ban as many games (and fine as many people) as possible, without setting any standards beforehand. A "good" law would just enforce the official ratings. And by "good" I mean "also unacceptable".

Everything about this article seems kind of strange. Better security is mostly a good thing, especially for an OS as traditionally as insecure as Windows, isn't it?

Disclaimer: I couldn't RTFA, because it wasn't accessible when I tried, but the issue is probably the same others have with Vista: dialog hell. While security has improved, usability has been slaughtered and every action takes a stupidly huge amount of efforts to perform, even trivial actions: I recently saw a page that showed it took no less than 7 steps to actually nuke a shortcut from your desktop... you can find the pic here... 5 comfirmation dialogs for a single shortcut is a bit much I think...

Security is good, until it comes in the way so much it just doesn't serve any purpose anymore.

I have been using Suse for years, back to the 7.x days and Linux in general even longer, I still have my factory original Redhat 3.1 CD. Yes, a single CDR..
( http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/7408/dscn20214w e.jpg ) I also have a Redhat 5.1 CDR too. Both these discs are fully functional and installable, circa 1994ish ?? I think..

  Anyway, Suse 10.1 SUCKS.. SUCKS with a capital SUCK.
  This weekend I will be downgrading it to 10.0 (I was not too thrilled with 10.0 but it's better than this crap)

  Unless you want a miserable hellish nightmare trying to install *other* apps stay away.
  The Zen thingy is a piece of crap. It won't let me install apt/synaptic which is what I have been using for a few years now.

  I am afraid that this will be my last hurrah with Suse. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn Gentoo. Before this year is out I plan to be dual booting OSX and Gentoo..

  Buh bye Suse, you f**ked it up.. It was fun though..

One thing someone pointed out to me is the "smart" installer. Go to yast and search for "smart" then install it. It's similar (but not the same) as apt/synaptic. It will at least let you get some of the basic packages installed, you also have to paste this into a console, 'smart channel --add http://divine160281.di.funpic.de/smart-channel.txt ' to give you access to third party packages.

But all in all, I'm very unhappy in general with Suse 10.1 and will be downgrading to 10.0 no matter what. And forget about bling-bling compiz, that's a freaking disaster. You like to torture yourself? Play with compiz. Guaranteed to crash more often that M$ winders..

Once they get compiz and Xgl debugged I'll be thrilled to play with it again but it's way to unstable for me. I need stability. I have no tolerance for buggy crap.

Browsing to the download page with Safari results in the site thinking I have Linux.

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Alright, obviously this means ISPs get more money.... That is fine, they argue they need it to spread the net to other people. However why is this money coming from content providers rather than

a) the users of the internet ... raise prices if you need money, kind of common practice for a long time b) The government, net benefits everyone and extending networks is expensive, this also makes sense

Now their choice of charging content providers causes a variety of problems

1) The less money you have, the less of a voice you have (This will basically remove all of the low budget companies from the net). - Quieting the voices of the poor has been shown to have reprecussions throughout history - A perfect market would have all businesses with equal footing, this gives an unneeded advantage to the big boys

2) This causes a VERY large problem for smaller ISPs, note that it is the few giants that are pushing this. The smaller ISPs will get gouged by the big boys, maybe they can't afford to pay AT&T which holds lets say Google. Without google the ISPs will be left on masse. Effectively the ISPs are charging the content providers, turning around and charging the customers for acess to this content (twice or more).

3) Fragmentation of the internet. Currently the net is all in one big blob minus a few exceptions (Chinese not getting acess to some sites. Now, this would happen throught the net, ISPs would not be able to pay for ALL the content on the net (Imagine if each page was a penny). It would be much like TV... most of the time you get fox but only some people have MTV... and fewer still have Playboy or hustler. It would be the same idea... worsened still by things like search engines, they would be hella expensive so it's likely that an ISP would just pick one. I'm sure they could make a deal with say Yahoo for yahoo to pay them to host their search engine. This would kill choice on the internet.

In that case, they'd also have to change the way stories are written. Some of the stories currently on the front page would look horrible and be a pain to read if this part of Alex's design was retained.

I have just one serious complaint with the winner... The center column, which is the IMPORTANT part of the site, gets very, very badly smashed if your browser window isn't full screen-width, while the other 2 columns are full-width. Big mistake!

eg.: http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7969/slashdot0f r.png

Fix that one issue, and I won't complain much. It will be a big improvement over traditional /. and much better than the runner-up, IMHO.

Two minor things though, if anyone is interested:

Many others have already said it, and I agree... There's just too much whitespace around everything. The nav-bar and slashboxes at the sides are twice as tall now, for no good reason. Having 50% whitespace doesn't look good... Not at all.

Please make it a somewhat different color. The "dark-green into black" gradient is very hard on the eyes, and doesn't fit in with the white page anyhow. Either start from a much lighter green, or make it a gradient to white (or grey, or yellow, or anything else that is NOT BLACK!).

Hey, where's the rating!?

I wanted to post some screenshots (see last paragraph), but instead I'll write a few sentences about the game to make this post at least somewhat useful.

Boobies! Here's the attractive woman from the first scene. They have realistic shake physics, that's probably what Zonk meant by "fun with physics". There are some other fun aspects, like the warning signs which say "When all else fails, use crate" or com-stations (basically phone booths) where you can dial a number you see on ads.

Shooting stuff is, I'd say, quite satisfying, although there are only 3 weapons. A very accurate and powerful piston, a shotgun, and an assault rifle. They all have alternative fire which you often have to use to kill off tougher enemies. The ones at the beginning go down with a headshot, or a shotgun blast from a close distance will send body parts flying, so that's always fun to watch. Some heavily armored fuckers at the end require a good portion of the AR mag.

To the whole episodic concept, well I didn't find it too unreasonable. Not unlike HL2, it leaves the story hanging, but it's not much (if at all) shorter than Max Payne. Considering it's not full price, that's not very bad, although of course cheaper would be even better.

I have a screenshot gallery with over 60 shots in it, but I decided not to post it here for two reasons: 1) I host it on my DSL line 2) I wrote the gallery perl script myself, so it's probably quite dangerous. I'll try to get a static version online, though.

The text on the buttons looks a little cramped in Opera 9 beta 1. screenshot

Quite a difference, isn't it?

This is what I see... how much different is it with the correct images etc.? If not much different... then I can't imagine why it was picked over the runner up.

http://img290.imageshack.us/img290/8806/slashdotre designwinner3za.jpg

Fonts look like total ass

http://img68.imageshack.us/my.php?image=supermario wiiwithbox8rg.jpg

I was tired of the old amber screen too, but CGA was just not what I thought of when I thought of a "color monitor"

I mean look at this crap.

I grew up playing King's Quest and think he was just sunburned, or embarrased all the time.

once again the military claims to have "lost" an F-22 somewhere on the grounds of Andrews Airforce Base.

It's not really a big deal... But you do have to wait for it to rain! :)

Vista Beta 2 doesn't seem to work on my Motorola MPx200 either.

It's just a DivX AVI with a GVI extension. After you've loaded it in Google Video Player, look in your My Videos\Google Videos folder, and rename the file to AVI.

Then edit it however you normally edit AVIs.

Well, seeing as how the Windows:Get Ready page can't even display in Firefox (1.5.0.3) without a horizontal scroll bar on a 1280x1024 display it's obvious Microsoft is trying to get everybody to "upgrade" to their standards (IE 7 anyone?).

I hate to reply to a post twice, but just out of curiosity I tested my $5/month "T-Zones" connection on my PC. You can only use T-Zones through a proxy, so you're limmited to E-mail, HTTP and HTTPS. However, I was able to get 132 kbps down and 37 kbps upload speed. That's pretty good for a $5/month plan! Granted, it's kind of hack to use T-Zones like that, and it will probably be discontinued in the future. But even the $30/month internet plan is still about three times faster than a dialup connection (typically 45kbps).

Pipes are all the rage nowadays

Turn off the address bar and convert your page bar into your new address bar, like this... http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8710/untitled10 gg.jpg

It looks good in Firefox 1.5.0.3 under XP, but has at least one issue when viewed in Internet Explorer 7 beta 2: For some odd reason the search box on top of the page wanders from the right side to the left (see here .)