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  1. Re:Cus on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Standards that won't go away on Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters · · Score: 1
  3. Re:What the deuce? on Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released, Supports ODF Out of the Box · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They put out a new version of "the box" with each service pack, and you can create your own also, with slipstreaming.

  4. Re:It's in the Netherlands on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, because people often ask the question of people from New Zealand; yes there is an 'Old Zealand', and this is it.

  5. Re:Nugget alert on Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonsense. We all know a Dell Adama would have no networking.

  6. Re:Did they say it was to be based on GTK? on 2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    See the "this browser is not ready" start page:

    Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project. This is a build of Chromium. No versions of Google Chrome for Linux will exist until Google makes an official release.

  7. Re:You're right--convenience sucks on Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like a very uncomfortable place.

  8. Re:That was quick, but normal on WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test · · Score: 1

    640GB ought to be enough for anybody?

  9. Re:Why? They already have reams of feedback on Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use · · Score: 1

    Read the blog post. The goal is (in my interpretation) that usability researchers can ask specific questions like "How often do people click on this 10x10 square vs that 10x10 square", and if it's a ratio of 10:1, they can make the more common square bigger. Or ask how many tabs people have open at once, broken down into "new users" and "experienced users", and work on appropriate changes to the performance of the app. I understand it to mean Test Pilot allows researchers (extension authors, browser developers) to allow people to opt in to the tracking to answer their particular question.

    Like the Office 2007 ribbon or not, Microsoft collected a very large amount of data to make the decisions they made (go watch Jensen Harris's presentation) and this would be a similar way to ensure that data is available for Mozilla usability researchers.

    Plus, the people paid to hack on Labs aren't going to fix the administration/packaging bugs. It's not an either-or situation.

  10. Re:For the rest of us there is Hulu on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 1

    For the rest of you in the US, that is, who can already watch it live on television...

  11. Re:I've been using linux since the mid nineties. on The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users · · Score: 1

    Recursive acronym fail.

    Did you mean: mint is not terrific?

  12. Re:Single Instance Store? on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Wow, looks like a total wanker on Actor Matt Smith Will Be 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    What, you mean you don't want Andy Samberg playing the Doctor?

  14. Re:what happened to you, Austrailia? on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I think you're getting confused with New Zealand :)

  15. Re:Another interesting tidbit on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 2, Funny
  16. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    OK, you win :)

  17. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    Scroll down and read the the section from the 2004 license:

    If the individual software license is a desktop operating system (including Windows XP Media Center Edition), we grant you a nonexclusive right to distribute individual software licenses; provided that each one is distributed with either (a) a fully assembled computer system or (b) a nonperipheral computer hardware component. A "fully assembled computer system" means a computer system consisting of at least a central processing unit, a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case. A "nonperipheral computer hardware component" means a component that will be an integral part of the fully assembled computer system on which the individual software license will be installed.

    Several Microsoft documents make it clear that any component that is an integral part of the PC qualifies, including an internal connector for a hard drive or an external power cord. This online chat with members of Microsoft's System Builders group, from February 2005, is explicit on the subject:

    Q: [P]lease elaborate on what nonperipheral hardware is. The OEM site lists power supplies/cords as examples implying it is legal to sell with an internal P4 power adapter or external power supply cord.
    A: If you look at [the System Builder site] it states that a power code [sic] is and examples of non-peripheral hardware. ... Non-peripheral is something that is essential to the functioning of the PC - so a power cord would qualify.

    Keyboards and mice are almost textbook definitions of 'peripherals'. However, the left hand doesn't always know what the right hand is doing, and there's every chance that your rep quoted to you from a different license, or interpreted it differently, or was in a different section of the world, etc!

  18. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wondered about the legality of using a mouse as a component to buy an OEM operating system, so I did some research.

    Turns out prior to August 2005, you could buy a copy of an OEM operating system with an "essential, non-peripheral component" - so a mouse would not qualify, but an IEC power cable would.

    The changed rules renamed the licenses "system builder" and made them available to anyone building their own PC - including end users.

  19. Re:Have the bees gone too? on Acorns Disappear Across the Country · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Have a more open world view, moderators; the OP is referring to the arc linking all the episodes of series 4 of Doctor Who. It's the first thing I thought of when I read the post, and is also why the article is tagged 'badwolf' and 'starsgoingout'.

  20. BSOD network visualisation on Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Friends of mine at Waikato University have produced "BSOD", a network visualizer which shows packets flowing between your subnet and the Internet. It's great on a big TV.

  21. Re:a request on How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Obama for America" is (was?) the legal name of his Presidential campaign.

  22. Re:OE is a nice idea on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    I couldn't find the exact page I wanted (closest I came was their ending letter), but I believe the authors pretty much gave up because they couldn't get political backing for OE. They solved the technical issue (and built a better mousetrap), but could not convince the world to use it.

  23. Re:NOT GOOGLE on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 5, Informative

    He's a Google employee..

    (Standard 20% time disclaimer etc)

  24. OE is a nice idea on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    Opportunistic encryption was the original goal of the FreeS/WAN project. It was not realised, and the eventual forks (OpenSwan and strongSwan) are now aimed more at running IPSEC tunnels.

  25. Re:Ha! on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1