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  1. Re:And people are worried about banana republics? on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for once, am finally glad our government is addressing this alien hegemony.

  2. Re:bad for everybody on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about it. I'm sure Don Rumsfeld will either work out some agreement, or our guys and gals at the weapons labs will come up with some spiffy new technology to mysteriously make all of the EU-GPS satellites malfunction in the theatre of operations.

  3. Re:Sounds like a boon for innovation on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    After all, what will the U.S. military use if those much ballyhooed Russian GPS "jammers" become widespread

    They'll use JDAMs to take them out.

  4. Re:6, 6.1, 7? on Netscape 7.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    Yea, but 0.6 was based on the branch that Netscape was following. The trunk branched for 0.6 specifically for Netscape.

  5. Re:That funky graph on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    I'm actually interested in finding some kind of CVS graph program that would generate a picture like this from CVS data.

    You could easily do this with a perl or tcl script to format the data, and then feed it off to gnuplot to create the graph. It probaly wouldn't be that difficult.

  6. in space... on In Space, No One Knows You Read Vogue · · Score: 1

    I guess a supermodel wouldn't need a wonderbra :)

  7. Re:Season continuity from Fox to SciFi: Anyone kno on Farscape & Stargate SG-1 New Seasons Tonight · · Score: 2, Informative

    You'll just be skipping season 5. The second part to the episode you mention is called Enemies, and is quite good.

    One thing you might want to do is watch the season 5 opener, as you'll understand a lot more about what's going on in season 5 (but still not quite. You'd probaly need to watch 3 or 4 season 5 episodes to know exactly what is going on and the progression of the Earth and others vs. Goa'uld plot). Episodes can be found in some newsgroups if you want to download them.

    Check out this link if you want to know spoilers for season 5:
    http://www.gateworld.net/s5/index.shtml

    Overall, I'm really looking foward to season 6 on sci-fi.

  8. Re:Why Mozilla is better than Netscape... on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    Yea, you can enable it by adding this to your prefs.js:
    user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load ", true);

    There's another popup pref that'll stop popups that still manage to get around the above pref:
    user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 1000);

    These will work in Netscape 7.

  9. Re:anyone know ware i can get a tivo on Tivo 3.0 'Firebolt' Hits the Wild · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yea, tivo is moving over to the Series II platform. The new boxes are at some best buys right now, and I think all of them should have it within a week or so. You can also buy the series II tivos (the 40 hour at&t one, or the 60 hour one) from http://www.tivo.com

  10. Re:Hrm.... Beggars cant be choosers, I know. on Mozilla Branches For 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    Yea, Blizzard is doing this atm. Here is the tracking bug:
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92033

    I'm not sure how far he's gotten though.

  11. Re:An English stance on Globalism Post 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Yea, the only problem with this is there is something called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). All countries that have signed this treaty have stated that they will fully defend any member nation in the event of an attack. Also, keep in mind that other countries benefit more from this than the US in many ways. The US military is much more powerful than any military of the NATO allies, if not all of them combined. NATO allies know the US will back them up, with powerful US military capability, if one member nation requires help. Other nation involvement in Operation Enduring Freedom add to our capability, and also perform a vital military function of giving member nations expierence in the field, with the minimal expense of resources.

    The Kyoto agreement has nothing to do with this, and you are attempting to interject a specific politial ideal onto a situation that is cut and dry. Honoring the NATO treaty is way more important than Kyoto.

  12. Re:An English stance on Globalism Post 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Yea, except when the CIA, FBI, and the intelligence agencies of other partner nations managed to foil a terrorist plot to blow up the financial section in London. The attacks on 9/11 was a wake up call, to be on alert for future terrorist operations and stop them before they can happen - and they aren't limited to the US mainland. It is highly likely that if it weren't for the large amount of resources that are going after the terrorist orginizations, then you, and the rest of England, would expierence first hand what it's like to be attacked.

  13. Re:Ahem... the Browser War's on All Fronts on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 1

    dhtml should be much faster soon, but i'm not sure if the patch is going to make it for 1.0.

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291 15

  14. Re:Too bad they didn't do this for the SR71.. on Planning For 80-Year Old B-52s · · Score: 1
    U2 and the SR71: the 'skunkworks' of Lockheed, run by Kelly Johnson.

    Yea, Kelly Johnson was one of those old great aircraft designers. He didn't make an aircraft until it "looked right". Also, he was very mad when Ben Rich showed him the F-117 prototype. I highly reccomend checking out the book Skunk Works.

  15. Re:syndicated Stargate new season: Sept 11 on Best Sci Fi Currently On Television? · · Score: 1

    Apparently, the cast has been told that they have been renewed for a 6th season. MGM just hasn't made a formal announcement, and it is not known if season 6 will be on Showtime.

    Check out this article.

    Also, it appears the feature film based upon Sg-1 will film after season 6. It was origionally planned to begin filming in October.

  16. Re:Stargate SG-1 on Best Sci Fi Currently On Television? · · Score: 1

    O'Neill's glaze when Jackson and Carter go off on technical tangents, or his mindless repetition of something he obviously doesn't understand...

    I just loved how Jack described Cassandra's ability to lift the Chess pieces in the recent episode, "The Rite of Passage". That was hilarious!! Also, Amazon has a list of humorous quotes from season 1. Check it out.

    I have to agree that Sg-1 is the best sci-fi series on TV at the moment.

  17. Re:TT font problem with Galeon? on Galeon At A Glance · · Score: 1

    There's a bug in how Mozilla scales fonts on linux. I'm not sure if the fix has been checked in at the moment, though.

  18. Re:PG&E / California is more scam than Bruce lets on Slashback: Solidarity, Friction, Dreams · · Score: 1

    First is the recent power crisis, which is the result of flawed deregulation, which is (seen as) the result of PG&E lobbying.

    I used to be a PG&E shareholder(I sold my stock 2 years ago). Around 5 to 7 years ago, PG&E sent me a letter informing me of the proposal for deregulation and urged me to write my state senator and assembly representative to inform them of my opposition to the de-regulation efforts. I received at least 2 of these letters, and I wrote my state rep(being the good little shareholder that I am). From this, I don't see how PG&E wanted de-regulation. Why would they want me, the shareholder and person they are ultimately responsible to, to oppose de-regulation when, as you say, PG&E was "lobbying" for it?

    I believe the whole de-regulation issue was shoved down PG&E's throat by do-gooder politicians just aching for votes. The California plan is a disaster, but I see no reason why PG&E should be soly blamed for something they didn't even want.

  19. Re:Debian XF4/Nvidia on XFree 4.0 Moves into Woody · · Score: 1

    I'm running a GeForce DDR and don't have any of the problems you mention. I've played Q3, Solider of Fortune, etc. I've never had X lock up hard while playing a game, or testing my system using something like evas_test.

    When the drivers first came out there were some issues with the origional TNT, but I don't know if any specific ones still exist. Try going on #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net. The nvidia developers hang out there often.

  20. Re:DHCP on Mandrake 7.2 in Wal-Mart: A Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    redhat uses pump for dhcp, and I have had some problems with it not working. Just install the dhcpcd rpm from the cd, and change your network startup scripts to use dhcpcd instead of pump. Also, make sure you set it up to use @home's c-number setup so you can obtain an ip.

  21. Re:Sources? on Send Some Mo' Zilla · · Score: 2

    You want the source? then get it

    export CVSROOT=" :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot "

    cvs login

    cvs checkout mozilla/client.mk

    cd mozilla
    make -f client.mk checkout

  22. Re:using Hushmail? on Send Some Mo' Zilla · · Score: 1

    Does M18+Java not support https transactions in java?

    The java plugin for linux currently does not support https. I believe Sun/blackdown are working on the error. I recall this being mentioned in the release notes.

  23. Re:This was done already on Mozilla-KDE Integration · · Score: 1

    Not really. The old QT port done by TrollTech was done on the origional Mozilla.org codebase(the one released by Netscape and worked on for about 1/2 a year). So, considering how drastically different Mozilla is today, they probaly just started from scratch. Perhaps they are using the GtkMozEmbed, or the windows embed component for inspiration on writing a QT embedded widget.

  24. Re:Konqueror already rocks... on Mozilla-KDE Integration · · Score: 1

    Many people seem to not understand the full depth that Mozilla.org has gone to create mozilla. Mozilla is way more than a broswer now. It contains XPToolkit, Gecko, XPCOM, etc. All of this was developed from scratch. The Konqueror team only had to develop an HTML widget, javascript engine, and backwards compatibility with NS 4.X plugins. Creating a GUI from an existing widget set isn't all that diffucult and time consuming (Especially when you have great tools like Glade and KDevelope). But creating a whole new widget set that works on MANY platforms, and has consistant behavior on all of those platforms is time consuming.

    It took Microsoft 16 Months to come out with IE 5.5, and Mozilla.org started from scratch about 20 months ago(give or take a few months).

    I constantly see people on slashdot whining about how mozilla is way behind the times, and how they want "just a browser". Well, Mozilla is way more than a browser people, yet you continue to treat it like it's one.

  25. ipchains is the answer on GNOME, Security, Linux, and Cable Modems? · · Score: 1

    Just set up some tough rules for ipchains. Check out the following web site. It sets up a pretty good firewall which can be made to suit your needs.

    http://linux-firewall-too ls.com/linux/firewall/index.html