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  1. Re:./ editors on KDE 3.3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Takes me 4 hours to compile the whole thing. Dual Athlon 2400

  2. Re:as i posted on site, on KDE: Breaking the Network Barrier · · Score: 1

    You don't think when an app uses KIO directly it doesn't download the file, do you? If so, you have much to learn about networking. Most protocols don't support random access...

  3. Re:as i posted on site, on KDE: Breaking the Network Barrier · · Score: 1

    You can do that from konqueror already. Just click on a file and it downloads it in the background, launches your app with it, and cleans it up when it's done.

  4. OMG on Star Wars DVD Set Previews/Reviews · · Score: 0

    I'm going to pee my pants! My life is now complete!!! I worship you George Lucas.

  5. Javascript! on Lightweight Scripting/Extension Languages? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ECMAScript/Javascript seems like a logical choice. it was made for just that - embedding. It's quite small to implement, and there are many opensource implementations out there already. It can be procedural or OO, and everyone knows how to use it if they've done some basic web work.

  6. Look on the bright side... on Canadians [Will] Pay Levy on MP3 Players - Updated · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're paying for it now, so copy as you like. Don't feel remorse. The government is just making it easy - now Canadians can download music and movies off the Internet instead of wasting time walking to a store. You think the recording industry would dare take you to court and lose when the judge learns that you paid them for it already? That court loss would open the floodgates!

    Use this stuff for legitimate reasons only? Go buy in the US. You have a right to do that.

  7. Oh, and by the way... on A Secure and Verifiable Voting System · · Score: 1, Funny

    patent pending
    patent pending
    patent pending

  8. Re:Thoughts on Putting Novell's SuSE Purchase In Perspective · · Score: 1

    Are they going to support KDE the way RedHat does?

  9. Better to be safe on Is Latex Still Worth Learning? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yeah man, it's still important. We don't have cures for all those diseases yet.

  10. Hombrew? on Homebrew Rackmount Watercooling · · Score: 5, Funny

    Argh I saw homebrew and excitedly clicked in because I thought it was a way to keep the PC cool while brewing your own beer. Boy was I surprised.

  11. Power supply did it to me on Why Does a Screen Re-Draw Make Noises? · · Score: 1

    I had this problem with my machine (athlon) and changing the power supply fixed it. I went to a higher quality PSU, with higher power output.

    I did notice this problem with a laptop I once owned that always occurred when it was in Windows, but never in Linux too, so I guess there are multiple causes for this problem. I never figured out the reason for it on my laptop.

  12. URL on Advocates Join to Promote Desktop Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.desktoplinuxconsortium.com/

    Not a whole lot of info posted there yet.

  13. Worm took our lots of cash registers in Canada on DDoS for Fun and Profit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Many stores, including Holt Renfrew, were unable to process credit card, credit, debit, or any other forms of electronic transactions today due to their central database being down. When will they learn?

  14. Movie Industry and Opensource? on Film Gimp Released For Mac OS X · · Score: 2

    Wonderful. The movie industry fights opensource at every turn (ever heard of a DVD), yet welcomes it with open arms in the back office where they actually create the often crappy pieces of work that they make their money off of.

    I wonder how good it is for the rest of us that they even use opensource. Do they let their own people view the movies on their workstations?

  15. Re:Hardware solution for this on Software to Buffer and Delay Audio Playback? · · Score: 2

    Which would be rather close to the number I provided. I used km, if you look more closely.

  16. Re:Simple... on Software to Buffer and Delay Audio Playback? · · Score: 2

    I think you have it backwards. The radio comes in before the satellite feed does.

  17. Hardware solution for this on Software to Buffer and Delay Audio Playback? · · Score: 5, Funny



    Get a spool of about 1,800,000 km of wire and use it to connect your speakers to the radio with carefully placed signal boosters/repeaters.
    YMMV

  18. Qt on wxWindows vs. MFC · · Score: 1

    Why not just use Qt? It's free, it works on all those platforms (well not OS/2 that I know of...). It's not free on Windows or MacOS however. I think Qt has a nicer API anyways.

  19. Some suggestions on Converting an Exchange Userbase to Unix? · · Score: 4, Informative

    KMail (part of KDE) can import Outlook address books and folders. I'm sure that Evolution can help you too, but I don't know if that runs on FreeBSD very well.

    You should be able to use PAM to do authentication to the Radius server. As for converting the users, you will probably have to write a script to do that. If there are tools to convert from unix to exchange, then I'm sure you can use those as a reference to do the inverse.

  20. Re:55% figure is wrong on Transmeta Unveils 256-bit Microprocessor Plans · · Score: 2

    Are these factors adjusted for currency fluctuations? Inflation? Economic instability? I could go on but it's not worth it. There are countless things to consider still. This is headline news, not in-depth analysis.

  21. 55% figure is wrong on Transmeta Unveils 256-bit Microprocessor Plans · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From the article:

    In the first quarter of the current fiscal year, 92 percent of Transmeta's net revenue came from Japan, a figure which is up from 55 percent in the year earlier.

    In other words, in the first quarter, 92% of their revenue was from Japan. Last year during the first quarter, 55% of their revenue was from Japan.

    That could mean anything, btw.

  22. Re:Another article on K-Parts on Creating KParts components · · Score: 5, Informative

    KParts far preceded Bonobo. There is no Corba in KDE. It uses DCOP over ICE. There is also an XML-RPC gateway.

  23. Re:These are all X browsers - what about fb? on Linux Web Browsers Reviewed · · Score: 2

    Konqueror has a version called konq-e which works with the qt-embedded system.

  24. Trains do this? on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like all the more reason to use a car instead! That way we can justify building more roads!

  25. The Math, The Plot on When IT and Bad Government Meet, Everyone Loses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "tax office employees have been entering the tax information in two personal computers."

    Ok. They said 6 months to re-enter the data. Two people, two computers. Let's say they earn $10/hr.

    6months *4 weeks/month * 40 hours/week * $10/hour * 2 employees
    = $19,200

    That's almost enough for two years of their service contract.

    PCs:
    $1000 each * 2 + misc expenses puts it over the top I think.

    The fact that these employees will be maintaining these PCs ad infinitum doesn't even need to be considered to show the stupidity. Not to mention the BSA audits, the MS support calls, the endless software licence upgrades, ...

    I think what we have here is the ever popular job security plot. We junk the good hardware and buy the bad hardware because we can maintain the bad hardware ourselves and thus we create ourself a job. With the good hardware, all we have to do all day is drink coffee and gossip. We're the first guys on the chopping block when costs have to be cut.

    I've seen this time and time again. Junk the $20,000 Unix server that runs the entire company and gets rebooted once a year, replacing it with a network of NT boxes which require 3 full time employees to maintain and crash weekly.

    Why don't people get fired for this?