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  1. Re:At last! on Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code · · Score: 1

    What are you installing it on?

    On Fedora, you go to livna.org and install the package there (no CLI). Then you go to System->Administration->Software sources to check that Livna is on (no CLI). Then you go to System->Administration->Add/Remove Software, search for "nvidia" and install kmod-nvidia. It's marked as a "Metapackage which tracks in nvidia kernel module for newest kernel," which is fairly obtuse if you ask me, but... (no CLI).

    Yum's probably quicker, but it's no longer the only option. The GUI package management systems are serviceable if you're not sure what you're looking for.

  2. Re:Fuck this thread on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Oh, so I just log onto the Sun station, owned by some company in Germany, that's hosting my website, install Emacs, and I'm away. Yeah, really see that working.

  3. Re:Food for Thought on Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth · · Score: 1

    It was a shock to everyone when for the most part they couldn't be found.

    I know this is gloriously off-topic, but what? I wasn't shocked in the slightest. It certainly wasn't outside the range of probable scenarios.

  4. Re:First thing I do with every game I buy. . . on Game Distribution and the 'Idiocy' of DRM · · Score: 1

    Man, I bought a game, and the copy protection was so broken on it. The main bug was that the CD key was in such a stupid font that you couldn't be sure what half the letters were. I phoned up the company support and asked if I could either have another key, or be sent some literature on how to decode the letters. I even said they could email me the font. They just said I had to work it out for myself.

    So now I was presented with three choices: escalate the support to management, make a fuss, run up the phone bill even more, and maybe get somewhere; test each of the 36^x (where x is the number of unknown characters, anything from 5 to 10 of them) permutations until I hit the right one; crack that bitch.

    I only played it a few times after I cracked it, the game was a bit crap. But I learnt something that day: get the crack before you put the disk in the drive.

  5. Re:Erm... on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Or Patronymics!!

  6. Re:Erm... on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Mind your French on Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode · · Score: 1

    Delerium Tremens, your UID, is not correct French, either.

  8. Re:Title on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 1

    Science has known about radioactivity for only about 100 years. Over that short time span we observed radioactive decays to be occurring at a quite regular, apparently highly predictable rate. We assume (believe) therefore that this is a linear process, even over immense amounts of time, millions and even billions of years. This assumption of linearity underlies all models of radioactive dating.

    Uh... decay ain't linear. It's exponential, non-deterministic as well.

  9. Re:So Many Questions About This Section on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not on my internets. I have Flamebaits and Trolls auto modded up, so they'll always be +5 Trolls to me!

  10. Re:What Are You Talking About? on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 1

    Have you ever watched TV in other countries? If it's not reruns of old stuff from the US, It's knock-offs like [insert country here] Idol. Entertainment is bad on a global scale.

    American Idol is, itself, a knock-off. The original's called Pop Idol, and it runs/ran in the UK. Simon Cowell had at least five years of fun with us before he got to torture you.

  11. Re:Look at who his father is, then understand on Stephen Fry Helps GNU Celebrate 25th Birthday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That probably had something to do with it. He's also had some techie friends.

    The only reason one would be surprised is if one didn't know anything about him but the occasional comedy show on telly. He has written loads of columns on techie stuff. Here's a sample of the stuff he's writing currently. Seriously, this guy is one of us.

  12. Re:Clearly on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly this is simply meaning that Vista has stolen enough ideas from OS X to make even a make user endorse it.

    I didn't realise Jerry Seinfeld managed software builds...

  13. Re:Voluntary? Really? on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    Fascism is when government controls corporations.
    Corporatism is when corporations controls government.

    That's a nice sound bite. Here's another one for ya:

    "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- a Fascist.

    Corporatism is actually a scenario where the state acts as a mediator between labour and capital. There are different flavours.

    In Fascist Italy the state was the dominant player, as the representative bodies (e.g. trade organisations, unions) were institutionalised and so under control. Thus the Fascists' idea of the national will could be carried out.

    There is also a kind that's popular amongst some European states recently, whereby responses to economic issues are based on negotiations between the representative bodies. For example, in Italy during the 90s, pay negotiations were often done between the unions, employers' representatives and the government, largely to avoid strikes.

  14. Re:encryption on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    It was published in 1949, though. 8th of June.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

  15. Re:encryption on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    1984 was published in 1949 (and it was written by a socialist)

  16. Re:How about... on Inferring Personality From Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    You didn't use those n-million free trial CDs as coasters, like any sane human being?

  17. Re:Really? on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 1

    BASH does.

    $ cat > hello.sh
    #!bash
    echo "Hello, world!"
    ^D
    $ chmod a+x hello.sh
    $ ./hello.sh
    bash: ./test.sh: bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

  18. Re:"So what?" on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: 1

    NASA may have popularised Velcro, but did not invent it. Check this out.

  19. Re:tee-hee on Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted · · Score: 1

    The smart politician is corrupt, but always discrete about it.

    What, you mean he only ever dabbles in one form of corruption at a time?

  20. Re:Then we'd need to train a bunch of people... on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    Damn! I forgot that.

  21. Re:Chewing The Cud on Two-Episode Watchmen Series Set as a Prequel · · Score: 1

    And that's why I only ever read the King James Bible. Any translations from the original are an affront to Jesus.

  22. Re:Good on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    Oh, sorry, I somehow missed the bit about fixed points... Never mind...

  23. Re:Good on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    ((lambda (a) (a a)) (lambda (a) (a a)))

    Is there no equivalent of this in your typed lambda thingy?

  24. Re:Then we'd need to train a bunch of people... on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    Except, of course, that Ace is replaced by other Rimmers from parallel universes, not by his son. And when the Rimmer we know and love became Ace, that was probably the end of the chain, as by that point he was a hard-light hologram -- pretty much impossible to kill.

    Errr... yeah...

  25. Re:Me too... on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    The cartoon Arthur takes this concept to really disturbing levels.