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  1. Re:Save tabs? on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Session Saver extension will do what you want, I think.

  2. Re:Very obligatory Futurama on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    I always laugh at the centaur race, personally.

    *whip* Ow! *whip* Ow! *whip* Ow!

  3. Re:They neglect the important question on Olympic Medal Prediction Model · · Score: 1

    Cricket's another sport where the Ireland team is a composite North/Republic team. Of course, cricket isn't exactly big in Ireland...

  4. Re:Sweeeeeet. on Doom 3 Hardware Guide Debuts · · Score: 1

    Fine, then a MARQUEE tag will have to suffice.

  5. Re:What I really want to know.. on How Microsoft Could Embrace Linux · · Score: 1

    Or you could change screen savers.

  6. Re:how do you tell you're reading /.? on Oracle To Add R&D Centers In China · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad that my nightmares about algorithm analysis hadn't manifested themselves in reality, as I'd thought at first glance.

  7. As always, Bender is the voice of reason... on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    No one insults the turtles!

  8. Re:I have to question this.... on Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible Difference? · · Score: 1

    Infernal combustion, eh? That might outstrip Ed
    Begley Jr's electric motor as the most evil propulsion system ever conceived!

  9. Re:Well on Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism · · Score: 1

    Then we'd better start promoting Pornzilla to kids. Won't somebody think of the children?!

  10. Re:To the Moon, Alice on NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, because it took more than 20 years to go from the first sub-orbital flight to the moon the first time around.

    Wait...

  11. Re:Big Brother, anyone? on How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but the canary we sent in with him's dead.

  12. Re:I hate to be a pushover... on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm considering doin research on the 'how', 'why', and 'classification' of belly button lint. I'm sure there's a government funded grant in it. We REALLY NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS 'just in case' they are usefull in the future.

    Sadly, you've been beaten to it.

  13. Nuke Nuked on Fedora Core 2 Review · · Score: -1, Troll

    If the Slashdot effect can get another *Nuke site off the Net, then truly it is a great thing.

  14. Yes, because on Tocqueville Blames U.S. IT Troubles On Free Software · · Score: 1

    ...anyone using BMP images on the web is clearly in a perfect position to talk about technology-related matters.

    Still, I suspect someone over there's having a "tocque". *

    * Where "tocque" rhymes with "poke".

  15. Re:Rock solid stability on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The good people at Fedora Legacy are providing updated RPMs for RH 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0, and will be providing support for 9.0 when it's EOLed in a few days. They've been a bit sluggish getting update RPMs out recently due to download server problems, but the support's still there.

  16. Re:Now that is one sweet video on Powered Exoskeleton Legs · · Score: 0

    Well, thanks for spoiling it!

  17. Re:Linux compatibility with IF is excellent on Magic Words - Interactive Fiction in the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    While I agree that SCARE's parser is decidedly average, in fairness, it's not that much worse than ADRIFT's own mediocre parsing capabilities. I'm regularly annoyed by ADRIFT's inability to figure out things that most other engines could do easily.

    I think SCARE's major problem compared with ADRIFT (at least for me) is the fact that it doesn't have a command history. At some point, I'll finish off that GTK2 interface and release it, but until then, I guess we're stuck with it (or WINE).

  18. Re:Audio player XMMS on Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards Announced · · Score: 1

    Set the CD device and the directory you want the tracks to show up in using the CD Input Plugin Preferences, then go Open File and browse to that directory (/mnt/cdrom in my case, YMMV). You should have the tracks listed there.

  19. Re:EvilKarma! on Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    Having FreeBSD above Linux could cause flame wars, though. In order to avert any such problems, I'd suggest using something less emotional. Why not have vi as the highest karma entry and emacs as the lowest?

  20. Re:Australia is hardly a haven for freedom on Public CD Copying Machine in Australia · · Score: 1

    While I agree with you that the censorship and political correctness has gone a bit far here, I'd like to point out that there is no right to own guns here. It's a privilege, and frankly, I'm not all that upset that people can't buy or own powerful weapons.

  21. Re:more dns #'s on Some People @Home, Some Not @Home · · Score: 1

    You are so, so right. Y'know, given that the analogue networks were (almost) completely shut down a year or two ago. :P

  22. Re:What ELSE has come from Waikato? on ED-209 Patrols University · · Score: 1

    Remind me never to go near a computer there.

  23. Re:Point me to an alternative on Red Hat: Who Needs Netscape? · · Score: 1
    Konqueror.

    • JavaScript: check.
    • Java: check (apparently depends on JVM. I have it switched off).
    • Plugins: AFAIK, Konq supports any Netscape plugin. Note that I haven't tested this, though.
    • Launch: about 10 seconds on my box (P200), definitely not hundreds of debug messages :)
  24. Re:Mostly stable?? on Mozilla 0.9 Out · · Score: 1
    Not sure what you mean by an older computer, but I'm running a P200 (albeit one with 256 megs of RAM) and KDE 2.1.1 is running very nicely on this box... in fact, I'd say it feels quite a bit quicker than Gnome 1.2 (don't have 1.4 for a comparison) in use.

    My experience with Konq is quite different, too: I'd say it's comprehensively quicker and more stable than Netscape 4.7x, and Mozilla 0.8 and 0.8.1 are still a bit sluggish on this box. Looking forward to trying 0.9, though.

  25. Re:Units on Clockless Computing? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the all-important CowboyNeal. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't buy a computer with less than 50 giga-CowboyNeals of processing power.