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  1. Website design on Star Wars Prequels' Art Director Doug Chiang Talks · · Score: 2
    Mmmmm...black text on a dark grey background...that has to be one of the worst designed websites I've ever seen !!

    Well, at least I could read the 'printer friendly' version.

  2. Re:the original? on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 2
    Too bad your Oxonian friends don't have a Linux version yet...

  3. Re:M$ brainwashing the Schoolchileren on Fears About Microsoft Return, in Mexico · · Score: 1

    This guy needs hitting with a clue stick.

  4. Something else... on Fears About Microsoft Return, in Mexico · · Score: 2
    link

    ...Telefonons de Mexico (Telmex, Mexico largest private company) has a $100 million dollar joint venture with Microsoft to establish the hemisphere's largest Spanish language gateway to the Internet, providing electronic mail, voice services and commercial facilities. (www.telmex.net;www.microsoft.com) Telmex has also taken a 49% stake in the cable subsidiary of Televisa, Mexico's dominant media company. This will allow Televisa to use Telmex's fiber-optic cables to expand its subscription television service. In turn it would help Telmex move into video and data telephony. The Telmex-Televisa venture is expected to increase usage of Telmex's new 13,5000km fiber-optic network, enabling Televisa to send cable signals throughout the country. www.televisa.com...

  5. Re:Mentality on The Future of Ogg Vorbis · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Yup :-)

  6. Re:Mentality on The Future of Ogg Vorbis · · Score: 1
    How does MAD compare to mpg123 ? Is it much better ?

  7. Re:Uh huh... How about we help the artists instead on RIAA Wants Taxpayer-Funded IP Police · · Score: 1
    "Several artists have attempted to distribute music via MP3, but the RIAA has smacked them down for doing so."Interesting...I had not heard of this before - do you have a link ? WTF should the RIAA get involved if a band is not signed to a major record label ?

  8. Screen shot on Linux On a Used Cash Register · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Try this page

  9. Re:AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!! on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 1
    "I don't know what you mean ... 'his' is possessive"

    Precisely my point - 'its' is possesive as well - I was always taught that you don't put an apostrophe in 'his' (belonging to him), and neither do you in 'its' (belonging to it).

    'It's' (with apostrophe) should only be used as a contraction of 'it is'.

    Perhaps the rules are different in the US though, I don't know.

  10. Re:I dont see a problem here.... on Nanotechnology, US Government, and Secrecy · · Score: 2
    " First of all its not like any slashdotters are hacking nano in their basements here..."

    Mwaaahhaahaahaaa...that's what you think !!

    (Note to any .gov agencies who might be reading this: it was joke OK, a JOKE) !

  11. Re:AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!! on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 2
    So presumably you write "hi's" and "her's" as well ?

  12. Re:x86 only? on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 2
    If it's of any interest, Mandrake has just released 8.2 for PPC

  13. Mandrake too on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 1
    There are also rpms for Mandrake. The upgrade (kde 2->3) worked almost flawlessly for me.

    (I had to add /usr/lib/kde3 to my ld.so.conf and also add /opt/kde3/bin to my path).

  14. And in other news on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 2
    Bill was defending his company in court today, telling the world how great it was, and how it shouldn't be punished...

  15. Re:What's crashing Mozilla... on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 1

    Reported as bug 139266

  16. Seems to work OK now on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 1

    I also experienced mozilla hanging on this page, but the problem seems to have gone away now.

  17. Re:The unedited version on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 2
    Hmmm...I wonder why Bill particularly mentioned biotech ?

  18. Re:Who would want one? on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1
    Heh, I like your .sig, it gave me good laugh !

    Or maybe even a Beowulf Cluster of laughs :-)

  19. Ah, but the question is... on $24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 2
    ...will it run KDE or Gnome ???

  20. Re:They don't like GPL? Fine! on Microsoft And The GPL/LGPL · · Score: 1
    Well then, make a variant of the LGPL. AIUI, LGPL software can be linked with non-free software.

  21. Re:20 years on AMD Takes Microsoft's Side in Antitrust Case · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What he means is, it would set MS back 20 years. The rest of the computer industry would probably flourish.

  22. Re:Poor Slashdotters on AMD Takes Microsoft's Side in Antitrust Case · · Score: 1
    Didn't you hear the news ? M$ are not releasing their API's (at least not if you use the GPL or LGPL).

  23. Re:no SVG thanks..why ? on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 2
    You might be interested in this: Mozilla SVG project

    I think there are builds that already support it.

  24. Re:More info on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 2
    I think mozilla is planned to have native SVG support. Here's a link to the mozilla SVG project.

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/

  25. Re:The figures they are not releasing on Goodbye Global Warming!...Hello Terraforming? · · Score: 2
    I like that idea. It could also help to wean the Middle Eastern countries off their dependancy on exporting oil. They could start charging other countries to clean up their carbon emissions.