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  1. Re:for the new generation by Walrus99 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims

    Here are some German Language sites from a site I set up for a German class at my university. Most of the sites have other languages also. (Would link to it, but don't want to get slashdotted, so I just copied the code over.)

    German Language Web Sites

    leo.org German-English dictionary. Just enter a German or English word in the Search Term box. Note the 3 symbols following the word entered:Press the1stfor grammar information, the 2nd for definition and sample uses, the 3rd for spoken pronunciation.

    german.about.com Everything you ever wanted to know about the German language. Includes grammar and vocabulary guides.

    travlang.com Click on the German Flag for German words for travel, shopping, dining, directions, etc. Click on a word for pronunciation.

    webgerman.com A collection of links on the German language as well as comics, music, and games in German.

    freetranslantion.com Type or paste a word or phrase into the box for a free translation between languages by a computer. The computer translations are somewhat crude, but you can also pay for a human translation.

  2. Re:Unheimlich by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Universal Free Dictionary

    Unheimlich means Un-(not) heimlich(from heim=home, so maybe homey). Basically feeling not at home. Scary. Often also just "very", like scary big. Related: LEO entry. BTW, LEO is prolly the most comprehensive free German-English dic around

  3. Re:Very bad name! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Supporting Community Projects

    "Lulu" is the german word for "piss". A french company once tried to sell a perfume called "Lulu" in Germany, and for obvious reasons they failed horribly.

    No it's not. In baby-speak perhaps. Aside from the fact that I am german (though maybe a rather sheltered one), neither BabelFish nor LEO support your claim.

    (If you don't know the LEO dictionary, you should really give it a spin! Above link points to the english version.)

  4. Re:i agree .. by tony_gardner · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic

    I realise this is a bit offtopic, bit I moderated in the discussion on word frequency before I saw your post:

    I have to learn German. I need the 86,000 most-commonly used German words. This would give me a nice target of words to get to know in the process of learning it ...

    And since I'm also an English speaker in Germany I thought I'd note that typing "word"+"rank"+"german" into google returns plenty of sites including:
    http://german.about.com/library/blwfreq01.htm
    which only has the top 1000, but that's not a bad start.

    In all honesty, I find that the word frequency depends a lot on your environment. Are you speaking in a pub with a bunch of welders or are you reading scientific literature? You'd be much better off just keeping a little notebook and writing down words you see more than once.

    I also find that leo http://dict.leo.org/ is pretty good for a lot of stuff that doesn't make it into standard dictionaries.

    Good luck,

    Tony.

  5. Re: I need this for German. by doodlelogic · · Score: 1 · on Tracking The (English) Words We Use

    Leo: http://dict.leo.org/ is your friend!

  6. Re:Different directions by daniel23 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes

    I believe he meant "Bremsstrahlung" since "Brennstrahlung", although a possible noun, is not commonly used. dict.leo.org

  7. Re:Translation . . . by maxwell+demon · · Score: 1 · on City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration

    You probably meant: You insensitive Klumpen. :-)

  8. You know BOFH? by rufus0815 · · Score: 5, Funny · on Preventing/Resolving Interoffice Conflict?

    Have a look at this:

    BOFH - the original More BOFH

    :-) Great fun reading and you might get some sneaky ideas from it ... hehe

  9. Re:The Troll Polka: UPDATED by poopbot by LauraScudder · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis

    * Finally think I have goat sex written correctly in German. I think. Arschficken?

    Arschficken mit Ziegen really means assf*cking with goats. If you want goat sex, I'd got with Ziegegeschlecht (to coin a new compound word - why not, it's German afterall). Geschlecht seems to be the preferred equivalent to the english noun sex.

  10. Re:LEO? by Sneeka2 · · Score: 1 · on Blimps... In... Space...

    First thing that came to mind was LEO. I too wondered why they'd need a space blimp to transport stuff to them, but, oh well...

  11. original injunction by graf0z · · Score: 5, Informative · on Germany Muzzles SCO
    The settlement is based on this preliminary injunction from may 30 2003 containing - besides juristic framework - just one sentence:

    Der Antragsgegnerin wird [...] verboten, im geschaeftlichen Verkehr die Behauptung zu verbreiten, dass LINUX-Betriebssysteme unrechtmaessig erworbenes Eigentum von SCO UNIX beinhalten und/oder dass Endanwender, die LINUX einsetzen, fuer die damit verbundenen Schutzrechtsverletzungen der SCO Intellectual Properties haftbar gemacht werden koennen.

    I try to translate, but beware my english (maybe someone can do a better job on this):

    [SCO Group GmbH] must not spread the assertion that linux operating systems contain unlawfully obtained property of SCO UNIX and/or that end users could get hold responsible for implicated intellectual property infringement implicated by using linux.

    Thanks to LEO

    /graf0z.

  12. Email as permanent record system... by bogusbrainbonus · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Correlation Between Stress and Technology?
    For me, email is my way of having a permanent record system. For me, that's very helpful. If someone tells me something random, and I know I probably won't remember, I have them email me, and then I have a permanent record of it (I never delete emails). Phone numbers, ideas, papers, it's all there. The search function in Mail (I use a Mac) seems to nail down what I am looking for pretty quick too.

    Also, totally unrelated, I've done two internships in Germany, and without this dictionary I would not have been able to figure out half the things I did. The forums there were very helpful too. So that's how technology has helped me, and I accept it, I am not a luddite. :>)

  13. Mr. Gehorsam by cyberm_acc · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator
    Mr Gehorsam said the world being created will not be a game but instead will be a "massively multi-user persistent environment" that will model real world physics as closely as possible.

    Gehorsam is German and means dutiful, obedient, submissive (taken from leo.org) So it's like calling the evil guy "Mr. Evil"

  14. Mirrors by DeadSea · · Score: 1, Redundant · on A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD
    From World Wide Web://theopencd.sunsite.dk/mirrors.php

    Please use one of the mirror sites below to download your copy of TheOpenCD (note: not all have v1.2 updates). The ISO and source tar are also available on BitTorrent. For more info on Bittorrent, click here, or click here for a BitTorrent client.

    Australia World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Jason Andrade and PlanetMirror.

    Austria World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Antonin Sprinzl and the Vienna University of Technology.

    Belgium World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Cedric Gavage and Skynet Belgacom.

    Brazil World Wide Web | Mirror courtesy of Aleck Zander and Universidade Estadual Paulista.

    Canada FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas Cort and Bishop's University.

    Finland FTP | Mirror courtesy of Harri Salminen and Funet.

    Germany 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Daniel Lang and Informatik der Technischen Universitt Mnchen.

    Germany 2 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Tom Rueger and the Universitt Bayreuth.

    Germany 3 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas List and SunSite Aachen.

    Germany 4 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Holger Weiss and Freie Universitt Berlin.

    UK World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Yang He and UK Mirror Service.

    USA 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of A. J. Wright and the The University of Tennessee.

    USA 2 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Sam Chessman and Tux.org

    USA 3 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Jason Holmes and the Pennsylvania State University.

    USA 4 World Wide

  15. Re:Sometimes there is pressure, I understand. by Lars+T. · · Score: 1 · on Writing in Space with a Cheap Ballpoint Pen

    Hint: Leo is your friend ;-)

  16. Re:We can only hope by presroi · · Score: 1 · on SCO Fined in Munich For Linux Claims

    argh. you were right.

    I asked my favourite dictionary for "wunsch" but i did not copy the result to the /. form. Shame on me.

  17. My translation by infolib · · Score: 1 · on Will Munich's Linux Desktops Be Running Windows?

    (Disclaimer: Neither German nor English is my 1st language. I recommend dict.leo.org)

    The quote is discussing the improved offer made by IBM/SuSE after Ballmers visit. It mentions where the new offer shaves off costs:

    Considerable savings were found since
    [...]
    based on its competences in questions of desktop migration The SuSE company was basically prepared to warrant significantly lower costs of PC-emulation (VMWare) through deployment of alternative emulation products or migration methods.[1]

    [1] Partially because of caution in calculations the client study had assumed that 80% of the desktops would have to be equipped with VMWare for a duration of 4-5 years.

    My interpretation: the 80% mentioned come from the orgiinal "client study". SuSE has said "We'll guarantee that you can save money by using win4lin/wine/whatever". The quote doesn't give the impression that VMWare would completely replace the Linux desktop. I'd rather bet that they'll be using it for legacy programs, but I'd have to read the client study to find out.

  18. the best english-german dictionary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Websites of Knowledge?

    online or otherwise,
    is LEO
    by the way

  19. i only know http://dict.LEO.org - very useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on A Computer Called LEO

    LEO
    try it for yourself.

    rulez

  20. Re:Advice for Nero Users by allolex · · Score: 3, Informative · on Knoppix 3.2 Available

    Many use Nero with no problems... many however do have problems.

    The Knoppix developers have some documentation on how to burn Knoppix CDs with Nero.

  21. Re:I don't know what you mean by "available" by Oliver+Aaltonen · · Score: 0 · on Knoppix 3.2 Available
    I tried the Purdue server and it seems to be swamped, I'm getting ~450KB/s from LEO.org in Germany though!

    Here's a link to the index: http://archiv.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/knopp ix/
    Here's a link to the English ISO: http://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/knoppix/ KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-03-28-EN.iso

  22. Re:I don't know what you mean by "available" by Oliver+Aaltonen · · Score: 0 · on Knoppix 3.2 Available
    I tried the Purdue server and it seems to be swamped, I'm getting ~450KB/s from LEO.org in Germany though!

    Here's a link to the index: http://archiv.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/knopp ix/
    Here's a link to the English ISO: http://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/knoppix/ KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-03-28-EN.iso

  23. Den Bock zum G�rtner gemacht ... by Tux2000 · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing

    German for "to set a fox to keep the geese" (thanks to dict.leo.org).

  24. mirrors by dotgod · · Score: 3, Informative · on Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta 1

    Australia

    ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
    Austria

    ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

    ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
    Belgium

    ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
    Costa Rica

    ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
    Czech Republic

    ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

    ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

    ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

    ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

    ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

    http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
    Denmark

    ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

    ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
    Estonia

    ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
    Finland

    ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
    France

    ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

    ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

    ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

    ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

    ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

    ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

    ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
    Germany

    ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

    ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

    ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

    ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

    ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

    ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

    ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

    ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

    ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

    ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

    ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

    ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

    ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

    ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

    ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

    ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
    Greece

    ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

    ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
    Hong Kong

    ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
    Hungary

    ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
    Ireland

    ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
    Italy

    ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

    ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
    Latvia

    ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
    Netherlands

    ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

    ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

    ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

    ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
    Poland

    ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

    ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
    Portugal

    ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

    ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
    Russia

    ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
    Singapore

    ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
    Slovakia

    ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
    Spain

    ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

    ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

    ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
    Sweden

    ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

    ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

    ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
    Switzerland

    ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

    ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
    Taiwan

    ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

    ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

    ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
    Turkey

    ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
    United Kingdom

    ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
    United States

    ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

    ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

    ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

    ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

    ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

    ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

    ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

    ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

    ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

    ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

    ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

    ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

    ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

    ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

    ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

    ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

    http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

  25. mirrors by country... by neo8750 · · Score: 4, Informative · on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About
    lets be nice to the main site! .at .au .be .bg .ca .ch .com/.net/.org/.edu .cz .de .dk .ee .es .fi .fr .gr .hk .hu .ie .il .jp .kr .no .pl .pt .ru .se .sg .sk .tw .uk
  26. Re:I'm not getting in one of those things by interiot · · Score: 2 · on Laser Beam Teleported

    Aye. RTFA. Entschuldigung.

  27. Re:Different places have different ideas by j7953 · · Score: 2 · on German State Alters DNS To Censor Web Sites [updated]
    Yes, but they do this for years now. It's not that every individual swastika has the right to appeal.

    They do have the right to appeal, they just don't make use of it because they'd lose anyway.

    I dunno nothin' about this attainder thingy (and my dictionary is no help), but I don't see where Art. 19 applies. Where is the individual case that is not allowed?

    Bill of Attainder = Parlamentsverurteilung in German (dict.leo.org translation, it's a very recommendable German - English dictionary btw). If the legislative passed a law that is meant to decide a single case, that would be called a bill of attainder.

    I'm aware of the fact that the Düsseldorf government did not pass a law, but still what they do is similar in effect, isn't it? You're right in that it might be compliant with the letter of the law, but I think that it violates at least the spirit of the constitution (as I interprete it, that is) by banning things without a court order and treating a whole domain as if it were a single publication, which it may or may not be.

  28. Re:Submarines? by freest · · Score: 1 · on Submersible Robot Diesel Recycles Its Exhaust

    Actually, that [navy.mil] you linked spells it both ways on the same page... "German Navy installed the first schnorkel snorkel)", but then futher down the page, "1,000 feet and included a schnorchel (snorkel)". A simple search on an online german dictionary however seems to favour Schnorchel over Schnorkel... because Schnorchel means snorkel [diving related] while Schnorkel is listed as something like twirl...

  29. Re:Submarines? by freest · · Score: 1 · on Submersible Robot Diesel Recycles Its Exhaust

    Actually, that [navy.mil] you linked spells it both ways on the same page... "German Navy installed the first schnorkel snorkel)", but then futher down the page, "1,000 feet and included a schnorchel (snorkel)". A simple search on an online german dictionary however seems to favour Schnorchel over Schnorkel... because Schnorchel means snorkel [diving related] while Schnorkel is listed as something like twirl...

  30. best translation service I know (Re:Schadenfreude) by Hank+Chinaski · · Score: 3 · on Coder on the Cross
    is on dict.leo.org. According to them it's
    On this page you will find the developers and maintainers of the legendary LEO German/English Dictionary. In 1995 this Dictionary was founded by Achim Jung, a former student and scientific assistant of the Technical University of Munich. Since then it is online, available free of charge to every internet user world-wide. In the tradition of the pioneers of the Dictionary all members of the LEO Dictionary Team - supported by the diligent helpers - currently make big efforts to permanently improve and extend this service. So we can provide you (further on) the world's biggest and fastest help on English-German translations.
    HTH h.c.
  31. Re:Scorched Earth for Windows by Megahurts · · Score: 1 · on Scorched Island 3D

    I think genocide, written for dos about 5 years ago is the best of the 3d artillery games I've played.

    ---

  32. did anyone ever play... by Megahurts · · Score: 1 · on Scorched Island 3D
    I used to play a game called genocide several years ago that was much like the feature of this article.

    Go here and get genocide.zip. It's a lot of fun.

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  33. Re:I it should be "First we Take Berlin......." by charon.de · · Score: 1 · on Unbundling Windows Declared Legal in Germany

    He calm down...
    Don't know if leo.org is right with it's translation...Of course "slashdotish" is not my native language, as you could have seen from my post.
    The 98% are just what I regocnize, when I look around here in Germany. And of course has everyone on slashdot tonns of secret M$ Paper laying around. So please stop shouting or smoke something different.

    Michael

  34. Spellchecking by st.n. · · Score: 1 · on BeOS Boo-Boo: Violating The GPL -- Updated
    Spellchecking is for imagination impaired drones who wouldn't know poetry if a Dr. Seuss book fell off a shelf and fractured their skull.
    Granted that this signature is quite funny, but English is not my first language and sometimes I have to look up a word in the dictionary. Have you ever tried to look up a misspelled word? Try to guess what the correct spelling could be?

    [Sorry, but I know that this is offtopic. Moderate it down if you feel so.]

    - Stephan.
    --
    Carpe diem!
  35. Re:RMS, you darn hypocrite! by Stephan+Schulz · · Score: 1 · on GNU Releases Free Documentation License
    You can call Stallman a lot of lot of things, some of which I even might agree with (bone-headed comes to mind). However, he is about the least hypocritical person on this or any other known planet. While the FSF is selling the emacs manual (as well as emacs itself), it is freely available from this ftp site or any number of other GNU mirrors, and comes with the permission to copy and modify.

    Yes, you can I print verbatim copies of RMS's Emacs manual and sell it for less than the FSF charges for the original. However, RMS is of course free to sign or not sign any copy, depending on his fancy. In fact, what he did is quite common: Using your popularity to raise money for your favourite charity.

  36. Re:Out of touch? OpenStep Screenshot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mac OS X Desktop and GUI Design

    Has anyone here actually used OpenStep or NEXTSTEP? It's BEAUTIFUL without being gaudy. I love the idea of MacOS X, Quartz, and all sorts of 16-register SIMD on the PowerPC 7400"G4"'s AltiVec unit.... but that candy-coated Hello Kitty interface isn't for me. I'm sure the existing 2.5 Million iMac users would love it though. But for me, I'd like an alternative.

    Here's a screenshot of OpenStep 4.0. The shelf (bottom) is sort of messy in this screenshot and OS 4.2 has a nicer shelf look to it.
    http://peanuts.leo.org/faq-serve /bags/NS4.0-DR.jpg

  37. LEO Dictionary by Twinky · · Score: 1 · on Open Source Translation Dictionaries?

    The best English<->German Online Dictionary I know is at leo.org. I consider it open, because you can contribute to it and they promised to provide a download in future (when they finished the cleanup).

    They also have a list of other online dictionaries.

  38. LEO Dictionary by Twinky · · Score: 1 · on Open Source Translation Dictionaries?

    The best English<->German Online Dictionary I know is at leo.org. I consider it open, because you can contribute to it and they promised to provide a download in future (when they finished the cleanup).

    They also have a list of other online dictionaries.