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  1. Re:Install FFDShow on Viral Videos That Really Are Viral · · Score: 1

    What about ogg theora and x264 ? Without those, you are missing a) the most popular Free codec, and b) probably the best "Free" codec available today.

  2. Re:Simple MP3 player needed... on Windows Media Player 11 Released · · Score: 1

    xmms ?

  3. Re:What a coincidence on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    Depends on what theme/skin you are using. Besides, it actually serves a useful purpose, in that it allows a user to click-focus on the window without altering anything.

  4. What a coincidence on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1
    Possibly offtopic, but just to show there are nice looking apps for Linux: I just put up a new screenshot for LiVES on Freshmeat

    I think it looks very nice these days. Of course, being functional and stable is more important, but it doesn't hurt to look good too :-)

  5. No thanks on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Great, as if hard drives weren't slow enough already - here comes an extra level of slowness to add to the mix. I guess I'll be avoiding Seagate drives in the future.

    If I want to do encryption, I'll do it myself with a partition of my own choosing.

  6. Re:Wikipedia on Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? · · Score: 1
    And that's not even the obscure stuff like drug compounds, interactions, derivitives, etc., which I've found on Wikipedia wrong FAR more often than right, requiring the import of a whole book of an encyclopedia to really fix (not a minor typo, completely mistaken full articles).

    Can you give three examples of this ?

  7. Wikipedia on Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, you can edit a page into nonsense, but most pages are closely watched so such vandalism will be undone in short order.

    It seems to me that the only people who don't take wikipedia seriously are those who feel threatened by it. Employees of traditional encyclopedias and M$ shills who want to keep selling Encarta, and so on.

  8. Re:been around forever on Joanna Rutkowska Discusses VM Rootkits · · Score: 1

    Why would I want that ? My systems run just fine without "virtualisation", and often times I need to access the hardware directly.

  9. Re:It's obvious on Windows XP SP3 Postponed Until 2008 · · Score: 1

    Exactly my thoughts. Why bother patching XP, when they can simply force people to "upgrade" to Vista instead.

  10. Re:An Idea... on Securing a High School Windows XP Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    Why not ? It sounds a lot more interesting than doing daily re-installs of Windows XP.

  11. Re:On the up-side on EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers · · Score: 1

    It's more interesting that it comes up so soon after *Microsoft* starts their own video service. And right on the heels of an articles saying "only an idiot would buy YouTube", and "YouTube could be sued big time for (c) infringement".

  12. Re:On a serious note, .... on Human Species May Split In Two · · Score: 1

    What if you are smart and short, like me ?

    Your theory breaks down right there.

  13. In Kansas ? on Kansas Soil Yields Massive Meteorite · · Score: 1, Funny

    It can't have been a meteorite then - it must have been a "big rock that God buried there" :-)

  14. Re:Apples owns up to their mistake too! on iPods Come Complete With Windows Virus · · Score: 1
    As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.

    Therefore, we suggest everyone in the world switch to Linux or BSD.

  15. Re:wow! on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    gegl uses lib-babl, which allows creation of new colourspaces on the fly. So you can use any palette you like. Of course, CMYK is just for dead trees, for real colour work you would use 128bit RGBA float or CIE LAB.

  16. Re:Please... on Teleportation Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    That is true only if source and target are on the same physical volume. Otherwise the data will need to be copied then removed as per the original post.

  17. Doesn't seem to work too well on Google Unveils Code Search · · Score: 1

    I searched for some of my own code from sourceforge CVS, and it couldn't locate it.

  18. Re:The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 1

    ISTR they also hung a dead cow outside a shopping mall.

    I think they decided to take it down though when they realised the public health problems (cows stomachs tend to explode from fermentation after they're dead).

  19. Here you go... on The Next X Prize · · Score: 1

    AGGTACCCATGGTAAACCCGTGC...

    Can I please have my money now ?

  20. Re:Here's what I don't understand (spoiler)... on Doctor Who Makes Guinness Book of World Records · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that's why it is called a "time war" - because the loser would be wiped out of all time. However, the timelords and the daleks both lost, hence both races have been erased from time.

  21. Re:Here Here on Doctor Who Makes Guinness Book of World Records · · Score: 1
    And if you look at the entire Star Trek Franchise as a whole, it is "younger" than Doctor Who (40 years) but has almost 4 times as many episodes.

    See below, Doctor Who has had 723 episodes, I highly doubt there have been almost 3000 episodes of Star Trek.

  22. Re:Looks like the rider beat the horse on Copyright Axe To Fall On YouTube? · · Score: 1
    Or how about actually licensing the material they use?

    Not many people have a spare $million lying around.
    Then again, I actually buy both my music and my anime

    And you've never thought to mix them together ?

  23. What a coincidence on Only a 'Moron' Would Buy YouTube · · Score: 1

    Microsoft launches its own video site, and a week later we read scare stories about how YouTube is doomed.

  24. Re:Looks like the rider beat the horse on Copyright Axe To Fall On YouTube? · · Score: 1
    If every music video were available for download off some record company site, this would be a non-issue.

    Not so. Not by any means. There are many, many people who want to make their own music videos (see for example AMV). This is part of the ongoing battle between the read-only internet and the read/write internet, as explained eloquently by Professor Lessig.

  25. Re:Of Course! on Linux Desktop Ready, Says Mainstream Media · · Score: 1

    600 MHz ?? Are you kidding !? Of course KDE would crawl on an ancient piece of hardware like that. It's a modern GUI. They were coming out with faster machines 10 years ago ! The desktop machine I built myself 4 years ago (!) was 4 times faster than that ! The machines I am building now are dual core AMD64, running at 3.5GHz, about 20 times faster.

    Perhaps if you didn't spend so much on software and expensive Apple hardware, you could afford to upgrade your other machines every year or two. See, that's the other big advantage of running Linux !