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  1. Re:greedy? on Saving the Net · · Score: 1

    "I got mine, who cares if they die? They didn't work hard enough." Personally, if you call that attitude "morality", I'm very sorry for your moral state.

  2. Overblown on NVidia Doesn't Play Nice With Half-Life 2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So am I the only one who thought the original headline/article sounded like "NVidia won't work with HL2"? No, it just can't use FSAA. Whoopty do. Certainly a downer for us NVidia users, but I'm thinking the game will be worth it anyway.

  3. Re:MSN hates shopping on Digging Holes in Google · · Score: 1

    The thing is, Yahoo, the previous king of the search engine, did the same thing. It's starting to look like a normal evolutionary step for search engines.

  4. Re:This is not about Bittorrent. on BitTorrent Community Running For Cover? · · Score: 1

    And it's not the same thing as Bittorrent either. Warez sites that happen to be using bittorrent are getting C&D's, which is hardly surprising.

  5. Re:Not Buying One Yet on DVD Burner Round-up · · Score: 1
    what media would I use to burn? + or -?

    What media can you get cheapest? Why is this a tough question?

  6. Re:Sharing.... on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1
    Using file sharing technology to violate copyright is no different from the behavior of the printers who were destroying the new intellectual age in the 17th and 18th century.

    Except that I, if I share files, am not making an easy buck.

  7. NFS? on How Do Your Machines Talk to Each Other? · · Score: 1
    MacOS X
    NFS and automount: MacOS X knows NFS V3 protocoll (client and server-site implementation, no lockd/statd NFS locking). The automounter has only minor functionality: only direct maps are supported (makes it difficult to implement SEPP).

    Win 98/XP
    DiskAccess Windows NFS Client

    Linux should be obvious.

  8. Re:Population Density on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. · · Score: 1
    As it stands, to do this in the average US city (compared to the average city in Japan) would be ten times more expensive.

    Ok, I'll sign up for 150 months at that price :-)

  9. Re:what a chump. on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1
    please, go write your own client, at least that will tie you up for the next few years so we dont have to read your imbicilic whineing anymore.

    What, too stupid to understand how to use the slashdot features to avoid having to read what I say, and too much of a coward to even say who you are? Definitely someone I feel obligated to please.

    I really fail to see how it's whining to say that Evolution has a pretty face already but doesn't fucking work, and Moz et. al. may work most of the time but their interfaces suck.

  10. Re:Learn XUL you fucking baby. on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1
    So change it. Christ, what a crybaby.

    I believe I mentioned I planned to write my own? Fuck learning a new language just to customize a browser that wants to be an email client. Like being able to customize mozilla is going to take me far professionally.

  11. Re:clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given that I was planning to work in Java anyway, that looks pretty cool, I'll check it out. Thanks! Bitching on slashdot DOES pay off!

  12. Re:clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1
    Yah, I'm a troll because I don't buy the magic Linux Mantras that open source is always better and GNOME is Ghodly. Sorry, but after having to fight with Nautilus for control of my own bloody desktop (what, you mean someone might want to avoid call the extra overhead of running a filemanager to run your desktop?), among other things, the only reason I like Gnome is because it's better than any of the alternatives on my Solaris box. Watching all the billions of processes spun off by Evolution which appear to be dealing with aspects of interfacing with Gnome, and only serve to make Evo even harder to deal with, I can't say I think it's overall a great thing.

    Now, if I went on about hairball open source code at length, maybe THAT would be a troll....

  13. Re:Try KMail on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, KMail under Solaris GNOME? KMail on my windows machine at home? Don't think so.

  14. Re:clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    My issues with Moz have nothing to do with the backend and everything to do with what's in my face.

  15. Re:clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    Yepper. Did you hear me say otherwise?

  16. Re:That's all this world needs. on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And where the hell did I say it was going to be open source? Or even released to anyone but me?

  17. Re:clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    The user interface looks like it wants to be a browser. Which it isn't. And shouldn't be. End of story. All the functionality in the world doesn't make up for an interface I can't stand.

  18. Re:clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall saying "cross platform"; leaving out windows is not an option to meet that criterion. On Solaris I am running GNOME, which isn't a problem. Getting Evolution to actually fskcing WORK is the problem.

  19. Re:Good luck... on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    First pass plans to be in Java (yah yah, don't go there) which has some nice libraries handling the grunt work. Or so I'm told, I haven't actually started on this project yet.

  20. Re:Better choices out there on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 2, Insightful
    part of the browser (lighter)

    I thought it just made the browser heavier. Seems pretty pointless to me; email isn't a web page, shouldn't be a web page, and the mozilla/netscape/whatever browser based email clients I've seen all suck.

  21. Re:meh on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    Until some wise guy decides you need an email server solution that doesn't let you use your own server-side filtering (this is work, I don't have a choice, why the software can't let me do procmail filtering seems to be just blinkered idiocy).

  22. Re:clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1, Informative
    If I'm going to write it myself, it's going to be cross platform, rather than dependant on the GNOME mess. I want an email client I can run on my wife's mac, my Solaris box, my Linux box, my PC. Evolution was only acceptable as an alternative to any such client that I like (no, I didn't like Mulberry much either), and was only used for work email on Solaris and sometimes Linux.

    Beyond that, I've always found that other people's code is almost always an enormous hairball that takes longer to understand than writing things myself. And just because I want to write my own email client doesn't mean I plan to actually release it to anyone....

  23. clothes? on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe they could make other things work right before worrying about the look and feel? Like the IMAP implementation? I just resolved today that I *am* going to get around to writing my own email client after the bloody thing stopped working with my IMAP INBOX for no apparent reason, and with no apparent fix in sight. And no, email clients by browser makers are not worth a damn so they're not an option either.

  24. Re:Dead but not forgotten on Funding for TIA All But Dead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's an interesting point. We were all wondering why they'd use such an obviously Illuminati inspired logo, but it would make sense for them to go "over the top" with something and someone specifically as a feint, with the real nasties coming in elsewhere.

  25. Re:Yeah thats why most Americans voted for Bush. on Howard Dean to Guest Blog for Lawrence Lessig · · Score: 1

    Bah, so much for preview. Pasted the wrong bit; that was meant to quote the "fruition of the liberal agenda" or whatever it was.