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  1. Re:It is the most important open source project. on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 1

    Because I cannot. My computer runs ubuntu and mac os. The bosses' ones doesn't. I will not be the one who's gonna try that.

  2. Re:It is the most important open source project. on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 1

    Yes? Try ati drivers. Try wireless drivers. Try soundcard drivers. That's what I expected, being win7 and vista so close to each other. That's what I had NOT.

  3. Re:It is the most important open source project. on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any PC that is new enough to still be running its original power supply can run some incarnation of Windows 7.

    You forget the fact that windows 7 screwed with drivers severely. We have seven different generations of computers in my department bought through the last thee years (it were several smaller university departments that were joined together, that's the reason of so many purchases), from 3-year hp desktops to 6-month asus notebooks.

    NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM has all the drivers required for normal operation. You name it: 512mb radeon video cards which run with no 3d, no network, no wifi (my personal machine had 3 different wireless adapters tested, no go), on the portables not even the sound cards and webcams work! And they don't accept vista drivers either.

    Amazingly, on several of those machines, as a joke we tested mac os x hackintosh, just to see how it goes. And the hackintosh performed better out-of-box than windows 7. No need to say that ubuntu recognized everything from the start.

    So, we are still on windows XP and vista on the newer notebooks.

  4. Fonic on Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? · · Score: 1

    I bought one t-mobile usb stick, unblocked by the means of a swedish website that took me five euros, and used the fonic.de data plan. 2,50 euros a day, no data limit.

    Thing is, I didn't know the fonic beforehand, so I got the t-mobile, which cost 5 euros a day.

  5. They Killed the thing for good. on Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010 · · Score: 1

    Not exactly compatible peripherals among games, crappy and buggy implementations, absurd prices and bad playlists pretty much killed the genre. It's been downhill since after guitar hero 3/rock band 1.

    After guitar hero 3, new releases seems to be using the same (and bad) engine. It epicly fail to process the buttons and frets on the PS2, and drops framerate noticeably all the time on the wii. They chose impossible-to-accomplish-on-those-platform graphics over gameplay.

    All that and guitar hero aerosmith.

    By the way, DJ Hero? WTF? And wtf is Band Hero? Is guitar hero with drums? Is another thing? How is it different from guitar hero 5?

  6. Re:The first thing to come to my mind... on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    That depends. If they will be using CrossOver technology, the port to Linux is straightforward, provided you have the crossover runtime for Linux.

  7. Re:I'm so excited on Valve Announces Portal 2 · · Score: 1

    They ditched the dreadful IE components, in favor of linking their own compiled version of webkit (ie. don't need to have chrome/safari/konqueror installed). So things will improve.

  8. Re:I hate when that happens on California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere · · Score: 1

    Only in slashdot you see news that some a new lifeform "FORKS"

  9. Re:Hum. on The Surreal World of Chatroulette · · Score: 1

    I actually married with a girl I've found on fotolog.net six years ago.

    We divorced, and I had a two-year relationship with somenone I found at orkut.

    And I'll marry again with the first one.

    I find even more strange to find someone in a night club, a dance club, whatever, w, where you cannot see nor hear really much. How are ideas exchanged in those places?

  10. Can't slashdot be readable outside the little feud on Students Build 2752 MPG Hypermiling Vehicle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Using imperial units on the headline? Well, ok.

    But NOT using it on the news? Oh fuck.

    I still have not the faintest idea of what they've accomplished.

  11. Re:Ubuntu on Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    So you are telling me that you are using a linux distro for 16 years and still has no idea about how to fiddle with X config? I don't get that

  12. Yeah right on Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    For some reason, our Blue Gene runs suse. And for some VERY unknown reason, someone in tech support decided that our desktops would run suse too.. As suse has the option to run gnome, I didn't complain that much, as KDE sucks hard and it seems it's getting worse.

    That would be ok, it at least gnome worked on suse. It doesn't even associate .tar.gz files to anything! Let me tell about the rest.

    C'mon, suse was crap, bloated and weird by the time they ran into 7 cds. It didn't get better since then.

  13. Re:Doubly unreliable on iPhone's Liquid Sensors Can Be Triggered By Wintertime Use · · Score: 1

    He must be doing a very cold censorship.

  14. Re:Not Shortly After, if not already. on 2010 — the Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off HD Component Video · · Score: 1

    They just don't get it.

    Instead of making harder to pirate, why don't they make it easier to consume original content? That's what apple did with itunes, and it works!

  15. Re:More choices? wtf? on Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Gets Go-Ahead From EU, US DoJ · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to get excited with the fusion of tho crappy search engines? Wow, I never found THAT at perversius.com...

  16. Re:I am not a warranty expert, but... on Quality Concerns For Kingston microSD Cards · · Score: 1

    RTFA. He gave the thousands of chips back to them, and then went to the black market to find similar ones. He didn't even dissolved the problematic ones.

  17. Re:Slashdotted on Quality Concerns For Kingston microSD Cards · · Score: 1

    Just open http://www.bunniestudios.com/ and it will work.

  18. Re:This just in on Quality Concerns For Kingston microSD Cards · · Score: 1

    Most of the world's jeans were made by a single manufacturer, called Santista some years ago. Dunno how that changed with the chinese getting into this.

  19. Skype on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    I asked if her father would let us marry

    He accepted. She accepted.

    Biggest mistake of my life.

  20. Re:pardon me if I don't have much sympathy. on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is not entirely correct. The ones with less maneuver capability have right-of-way. And this means small sailboats several times.

  21. Re:reasons this may not catch on in the US on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Hey, when I'm drunk, I can't cause a death on the bike no way! Not even my own, as I tend to ride real slow then.

  22. Re:Microsoft still way behind. on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    Yes. I tried. And you made me waste my time with that crap again, now no chrome!

    I still cannot see messages' subjects. I still cannot select the messages right, and they still think I need viagra!

    I have to confirm about everything pretty much like vista. Don't they have an antivirus online? I would recommend them clamav.

  23. Re:Microsoft still way behind. on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I tried it after I got replied here.

    I don't have this windows live mail desktop client. I used it on the web. And I agree with the post from SpeZek. It got worse indeed. It is slow as hell, I can't find a way to use it with the keyboard, I can't mark several messages most of the time, as if I mistake a small checkbox, every other selected mail is lost.

    And:

    Oh my god, it's full of spam!

    It worse than yahoo and WAY worse than gmail.

    Tried it on firefox and safari, though.

  24. Re:Microsoft still way behind. on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean, hotmail (or windows live mail now, whatever it is called, it's the same one as 1995)? That crap slow as hell and that works poorly even on IE8?

  25. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Me too.

    []s,
    na40490@anon.penet.fi