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  1. Re:Am I the only one who doesn't get this? on Slashback: Retail, Preparedness, Games · · Score: 2

    I have an Inspiron 8k. The batteries are actually pretty damn small, considering the amount of life I get out of 'em.

  2. Re:emacs on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 2

    s/(eight)/$1 hundred/i;

    :)

  3. Re:OT: OSS profiling tools on Nautilus 1.0.5 Release · · Score: 2

    The standard profiling method is to build with -profile (I think) and run gprof on the profile data file running the executable generates.
    At least, that's how I seem to remember it.

  4. Re:Smalltalk 77, GEM on Five Years of KDE · · Score: 2

    I thought it was 'Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer.'

  5. Re:Good Thing Better on The Perl Journal Archive Back (and Online Too!) · · Score: 2

    Right you are. I stand corrected.

  6. Re:Good Thing Better on The Perl Journal Archive Back (and Online Too!) · · Score: 2

    It actually *is* an acronym...Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.

  7. Re:No more epic albums on Music Industry Forcing WMA standard? · · Score: 2

    and the price goes even higher.

  8. Re:LCD's for Gamers on Making LCD Displays Snappier · · Score: 2

    I'd say that price is still a more important factor; I play UT on my laptop (15" UXGA panel) all the time, and I don't have any blurring problems.

  9. Re:Nothing New on British Colleges Selling Screen Saver Ad Space · · Score: 2

    Third it.
    People don't seem to mind VOLUNTARILY showing ads, if they're for things they approve of.
    I don't get it.

  10. Re:Wow on Intel Announces Free Linux Compilers · · Score: 2

    Isn't obj-prelink somewhat GCC-specific?

  11. Re:It's not dead, it's resting. on Napster Clawing Back · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's pining for the fjords!

  12. Re:WinXP is just Windows 2000 SE! on World's First XP System Sold · · Score: 2

    Mmm-hmm.
    RPM hell was the driving force behind my switching from RedHat 5.9 to Debian potato long ago. :)
    Go with debian, apt/dpkg never seems to mess up like that for me.

  13. Re:Great but... on Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS For Now · · Score: 2

    Chilliware sells software that lets you run ASP on Linux.

  14. Re:WinXP is just Windows 2000 SE! on World's First XP System Sold · · Score: 2

    I've never had DLL hell in the three years I've been using Linux.
    (Debian unstable the entire time, from potato to woody to sid)
    (Not to be a knee-jerk linux zealot here; I never had DLL hell in the half a year I ran FreeBSD, either. :))
    For that matter, I've never had problems with DLL hell on my Win98 box, either. Just lucky, I guess...

  15. Re:There goes the neighborhood on World's First XP System Sold · · Score: 2

    Been listening to 2112 a bit much lately, have we? :)

    Seriously, though, I'm with you on that. I don't like using an OS that discourages me from messing with it.
    ...for that matter, I like being able to mess with all of my stuff.

  16. Re:Other thing of concern... on World's First XP System Sold · · Score: 2

    IBM laptops tend to have terrible graphics cards, among other issues.

  17. Re:I knew that Card had a use.... on Real-life Ornithopter to Take Flight? · · Score: 2

    Gah, beat me to it...

    Seriously, though, don't knock the psychological value of dropping an Ornithopter down. Your opponent will laugh so hard that he won't notice the killer combo you're setting up. :)

  18. Re:Size and the dial up dilemna on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready · · Score: 2

    Quick note: ISO9660 doesn't handle FSes of that size very well. UDF is the standard for DVD-ROMs, and I've seen CDs that use it as well.

  19. Am I the only one... on FEMA To Use Cell Phone Signals To Find Survivors · · Score: 2

    ...who reflexively twitched at the naming of FEMA?

    Too much Deus Ex, I guess...

  20. Re:That's great on NetBSD 1.5.2 Released · · Score: 2

    What about on my 89?
    :)

  21. Re:Most the video "cards" are intergrated on Notebook Upgrades: Hacking your Dell/Compaq/Toshiba · · Score: 2

    Er...what model are you talking about?

  22. Re:Most the video "cards" are intergrated on Notebook Upgrades: Hacking your Dell/Compaq/Toshiba · · Score: 2

    Already have one. :)
    I love my inspiron8k - 900MHz P3, GF2Go with 32M RAM, 15" UXGA display (native resolution 1600x1200) 320M RAM, 20G HD, dvd drive, two batteries (almost never use floppy, heh) - only thing I plan on changing in the near future is adding some more RAM and maybe a new HD. Great machine, even has a decent keyboard.

  23. Re:Most the video "cards" are intergrated on Notebook Upgrades: Hacking your Dell/Compaq/Toshiba · · Score: 2

    Heh, it's not just that...my old laptop, a model N30W from the now defunct Fountain Technologies, had a socketed card too.
    Dell sold those as the Inspiron 5000e, fwiw.

  24. Re:Most the video "cards" are intergrated on Notebook Upgrades: Hacking your Dell/Compaq/Toshiba · · Score: 2

    On my inspiron 8k, the video chip and stuff seem to be on a socketed card.

  25. Re:Myst, Riven, etc. on Creative Games sans Violence? · · Score: 2

    Er. I haven't played Exile yet.
    It arrives tomorrow, though.