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  1. Re:May not be the case as much any more. on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem isn't the hardware, it's the drivers. I know at least some root kits will install themselves as a driver in order to get at the kernel's internals.

  2. Re:FreeCycle and computer/metal recycling. on What Should I Do With My Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    I've recently taken an old computer, loaded it up with Xubuntu and some free games (GCompris, Childsplay, Tuxpaint, etc) and donated it to a local preschool. Get the kids away from Windows early!

  3. Re:Looks interesting on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 1

    It's obviously an abbreviation for "snow owl", which is represented on the extension's icon. Probably it will be officially named SnowOwl if it ever leaves Mozilla Labs.

    That said, it looks to become a very nice RSS reader. Hopefully it will lead to improvements for both Firefox and Thunderbird.

  4. Re:I thought dd had an upper limit? on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    I've never run into a limit, and I'm pretty sure I've done more than 2GB in the past.

  5. Re:Great... on IBM Pushing Microsoft-Free Desktops · · Score: 1

    It is built off the Eclipse application framework, meaning everything that makes Eclipse a desktop application, minus the parts that make it an IDE. Theoretically, that also means that it can integrate OSGi modules and Eclipse plugins.

    Incorporating a CVS or Subversion plugin to your XML-based document editor can be very useful.

  6. Re:Two Passwords? on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    You don't even have to remove the drive unless there is a BIOS password. Boot from a CD or USB drive, dd /dev/hda to a file on a USB drive, and shut-down. If the drive isn't encrypted, you can just copy of the files you're interested in, takes even less time.

  7. Re:Two Levels of Passwords? on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    I'd bet money that it was the WindowsXP login and a password-protected Access database.

  8. Re:I have a solution.... on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: 1

    If a hack of the client will allow cheating on the server, then I say their server software allows cheating.

  9. Re:Internets... on Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls · · Score: 1

    BTW, far better to get naked at a sorority party.

    It's far better for the other people at the sorority party to be naked, unless you just like the sight of yourself, in which case the sorority seems unnecessary.

  10. Re:Internets... on Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls · · Score: 1

    That's not a problem with internet privacy, though, which was the only aspect I was trying to make a point about.

    The things you do at a party are public to anybody attending the party, so if you don't want your friends posting pictures of you drunk and naked on the internet (or anywhere else), either don't be drunk and naked in front of your friends, or get more trustworthy friends.

  11. Re:I have a solution.... on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about Blizzard just fixes their software not not allow cheating?

  12. Re:Internets... on Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one has any privacy left anymore

    Privacy starts at home, kids. If you don't want a future employer seeing pictures of you drunk and naked at a frat party, don't put them on the internet!

    Seriously, the biggest privacy problem we have these days is people thinking that everything is private unless they explicitly make it public, but reality doesn't work that way. Nobody goes walking down the street naked, then claims their privacy was violated when people looked at them. Well, the internet is no different. If you want something on the internet kept private, you have to make it private, otherwise it's public.

  13. Re:Words on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1

    Ogg and Vorbis names of characters in Terry Pratchett novels.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld

    I'm not sure where Theora originated.

  14. Re:Where's the money? on Red Hat Bets Big On Cloud Target · · Score: 1

    If the cloud runs Linux, than your access point to the cloud will likely run Linux as well. Thus, Red Hat gets support contracts with both the cloud's host, and with the cloud's clients. Probably they will make better profit off the cloud's clients.

  15. Re:You forgot #5: hardware compatibility on Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON · · Score: 1

    I've actually been seeing Linux listed as a compatible operating system on more and more hardware lately.

  16. Re:Voltage Spikes on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is a standard practice in Florida home having varisters system installed in the electrical panel?

    It's not.

  17. Re:Reaching corollary on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're not quite as disconnected as kitten adoption.

    The more people that use a non-Windows OS, the less of a monopoly Windows has on the ecosystem, and that will make application developers think about portability and compatibility, which will make more software and services available on Linux.

  18. Re:"Magic 10%" on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 2, Funny

    The other 90% is perspiration, or something to that effect.

  19. Re:I've been wondering.. on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 1

    I think he meant a way to run OSX applications in Linux, not a way to run Windows apps in OSX.

  20. Re:So, would cell help with. . . on Toshiba Launches First Cell-based Laptop · · Score: 1

    At that point you'd probably be better off with a couple of FPGAs.

  21. Re:Does Terra-Soft pay Slashdot? on Toshiba Launches First Cell-based Laptop · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, Slashdot has been giving Ubuntu nearly enough coverage!

  22. Re:I was about to order one on First North American OpenMoko/FreeRunners Arrive · · Score: 5, Funny

    is there anything Emacs can't do?

    It's missing a good text editor.

  23. Re:Easy... on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 1

    NTFS3G driver supports read/write on NTFS.

  24. Re:Easy... on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 5, Funny

    Butterflies!!!

  25. Re:Does anybody else see a problem with this? on Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME · · Score: 1

    Why is it so hard to provide a Firefox version upgrade on these major Linux distros? Mandriva seemed to suggest that lots of other software counted on having either Gecko or XULRunner at version 2.

    It may also be a case of the opposite, that Firefox 3 requires upgrades to too many other libraries, like cairo, that Mandriva is shipping older versions of.