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  1. Re:use ZFS on Automated PDF File Integrity Checking? · · Score: 1

    Right... so learn BSD or lock your self into a proprietary operating system, and use an experimental filesystem (granted BSDs experimental is another mans rocks rock solid, but if you go the Mac route its not quite as safe).

  2. Re:Consider the do it yourself way... on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed] Wire is cheap, digging is free. vs wireless repeaters are not cheap, batteries for the repeaters are not free.

  3. Re:And yes, it runs on Linux... on Penny Arcade Releases Episodic PC Game · · Score: 1, Informative

    32 bit Linux apps run on Linux 64 anyway as long as either the dependencies are packaged (what happens with most games) or installed in 32 bit form (that comes down to your package manager, but most modern distros dont have problems with sorting this out)

  4. Re:PDF-- on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    (Yeah, I know about extracting text from a PDF. Call me insufficiently motivated.)

    yeah pdftotext , is so much effort. And if its not installed apt-get install pdftohtml, is not even worth thinking about.
  5. Re:I'll sum it up in a nutshell on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    One important point was the changes in his private life at the end of empire strikes back, his subsequent depression and everybody involved getting fed up of star wars. This lead the scrapping of the last trilogy and the decision to drop everything into ROTJ with a nice cute ending.

    So in summary, its women's fault that starwars episodes I,II,III suck!

  6. Re:Really badly written on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    ITs ok for a skim, but after reading a couple of pages here and there, i have to agree there is a lot of waffle, and repetition. Basically the whole thing repeats its self over and over and waffles. But on the whole inside the repetitive waffle there is some content worth reading.

  7. Re:533 pages? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    fireup kpdf (or any good pdf reader), and / your way to the interesting bits. I have no intention of reading 533 pages, but searching through for the word 'nine' is quite interesting, as would be 'father'. but perhaps im to messed up by wikipedia, to read anything in full and just read a bit until I get board then go to the next nugget of information on the 12 episodes of star wars.

  8. Re:Lucas was like Roddenberry, great ideas, but... on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Episode 3 is now Episode 2, except for the last 15 minutes or so. This should end when Kenobi leaves Whinykin, er, Anakin, truncated on the volcano. Ep3 picks up there and we spend the next 2 hours seeing the creation of Darth Vader and how he builds the Empire and WHY. Only knowing that can we truly appreciate him turning on the emperor in Ep6, and what it means for him to look on his son with is own eyes. Once the jedi are killed (which he does in the mascara at the jedi temple, perhaps more footage of that would be nice) and the senete are dismissed by the emperor, what else is there left to build?
  9. Re:Star Wars; breakable like Firefly on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    gibage FTW!

  10. Re:Cult of Lucas. I don't get it. on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Nice theory but not true, Vader wasn't placed as Lukes father until the 2nd version of Empire Strikes Back. Infact he only got 9 minutes of screentime in the original and if you dont know the story arc he just seams like another classic vilan (well expcept for previouslt being a good guy). Most of the cool bits in star wars were added to make it darker, and then taken away when episode I,II were made lighter. ( I think episode III is actually as good as the original 3, minus being ground breaking, and this is probably because it has to deal with darker themes )

  11. Re:Star Wars; breakable like Firefly on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Still, when you look at the remake of Episode IV, check out the stormtroopers who were added in on Tatooine. They really lose that 'used' feel. Not just that, check out the end of ROTJ where you see young Anikin instead of scared Anikin, that for me was the 2nd most disappointing edit to the original (1st being that stupid scene where they added stormtroopers).
  12. Re:Cult of Lucas. I don't get it. on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    But the BSOD was for CG! its just that back then using models was cheaper & better than CG.

  13. Re:nerd credentials? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    quick somebody call Microsoft I here they can get us fairly cheep.

  14. Re:By Hand on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    Its ok make sure you use a navajo code talker
    http://xkcd.com/257/

  15. Re:How about reprogramming it as a CPU? on Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders · · Score: 1

    Not the point. The processor is not designed for that. And....?
    was the xbox designed for linux?
    was the ipod designed for linux?
    was the toster designed for linux?

    Ok so i made the last one up, but my point stands just because it wasn't designed to run linux doesn't mean it cant.

  16. Re:Counter-proposal? on It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization · · Score: 1

    just witnessed a package in universe complain that Hardy didn't ship their latest version, even though it was basically a surprise release well after FeatureFreeze and a week or so before the FinalFreeze. Nevermind that their first cut at the release totally broke the program and they had to release a version bump a day later. Many upstreams are terrible at release management, and distributions are valuable because they do that work But his suggestion gets rid of that all together, once every release cycle of the distro they take whatever code they want from the upstreams and stick it in the distro. I suppose this will annoy some power hungry upstreams, but for a lot of other projects saves them the hastle of releasing so they can get on with coding.
  17. Re:That explains it... on It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization · · Score: 1

    In fairness the panel wont be finished till 4.2 at earliest, atm they're doing a lot of cool backend stuff. Atm its just small details they dont like giving you control over, i just hope it doesnt get to the point where somebody has to make fun-kde.

  18. Re:Embrace and Extend on Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - But Not OOXML · · Score: 1

    i think this simply wont work for a few reasons
    *Whereas previously there could extend formats and know the extensions would be used in business, most ODF extensions are going to be unneeded.
    *Starting on a level playing field means that any ms extensions will be fairly easy to reverse engineer
    *We wont fall for it again, after being tricked into proprietary formats before.
    *Patents arnt worth shit in europe and this move is intended to sway European governments to office as it supports ODF

  19. Re:Results for eggs on Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - But Not OOXML · · Score: 1

    The last big advantage of eggs over chairs is the range. While normal humans throw a chair up to 3 meter. An egg, however, can easily be thrown 5 to 10 meter. Even a standard geek is able to throw it without insuring him- or herself. True but if ballmer casts the developers spell, chairs gain +10 range and do twice the damage, which is already more than a standard egg.
  20. Re:Firefox 3 included (RHEL) on Novell, Red Hat Release Updated Distributions · · Score: 1

    or Firefox2 was really bad on linux.

  21. Re:if I was in charge of a FOSS project on It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization · · Score: 1

    Booting into on Kubuntu 8.10 ( KDE4.0 remix) a lot more reliable & easier, than e17 on hurd.

    Your point?

  22. Re:A lot of buzz on It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization · · Score: 1

    Hell KDE developers are even thinking like GNOME developers now:
    "Users are not designers"
    "Its not at least an option, its at most an option..."
    are not uncommon around KDE mailing lists

  23. Re:A lot of buzz on It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization · · Score: 1

    seriously, what sort of *nix system thinks you don't need a C compiler by default and makes you go looking for it in the repositories? I'm a python developer you insensitive clod!
  24. Re:Not necessarily any prior art on Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And nobody on this planet, apart from the us, gives a fuck about software patents. AFAIK, they arnt worth the paper they're written on in Europe.

  25. Re:It still won't work. on Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah but it means the viruses will be modular, and everybody knows modular is better.