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  1. Re:Comfortable paradigms on GUI Research - Is it Still Being Done? · · Score: 4

    But I don't really see anything new there. Okay...so enlightenment can look pretty, however, it is still the same thing - sliders, radio buttons, pushbuttons and little icons to close windows.

    Underneath, once I learn that the Whammy is actually the minimize button, we are back to the same old, same old.

    I don't think I'd call it refining as much as I'd call it dressing up.

  2. Does it run on anything other than Linux? on Berlin 0.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Can I put it on my HPUX or Solaris box?

    Then again, last time I asked this simple question, I was told that HPUX and Solaris is going away, and Linux will take over everything.

  3. Re:HP ScanJet 4P on Easter Eggs in Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember something like this. It sounded like a badly tuned radio.

  4. Re:And here's tons of information you should read. on Video Shrinks With MP4 · · Score: 1

    Although this use is not legal, it shows that Mpeg-4 is here and should quickly replace the current defacto standard.

    How is it not legal? Is there some issue with using the MPEG-4 codec for compression that is illegal?

    The illegal part is compressing video you don't have the rights to and re-distributing it. Unless you work for the MPAA, then thinking about doing it is illegal.

  5. Re:Take a tip from TMBG on The MP3 Troubles Continue · · Score: 1

    TMBG used to have a phone number you could call (in Brooklyn I think) that had an answering machine, and every day or week, there would be a new song on it...cost to you: phone call to Brooklyn.

    Great band.

  6. Re:techno-myths on The High Cost of Valley Living · · Score: 1

    Some do - I have two friends (that's it, no more :( :)

    Anyway, one lives in Athens, GA, and the other lives in MiddleofNowhere, GA, and they both work for a company based out of NY with no local office (about.com I think).

  7. Has anyone even tried napster? on At Last And At Length: Lars Speaks · · Score: 1

    I decided to give it a shot.

    I think of the 100 songs/tracks I tried to download, I got about 8 complete. Everything times out, can't connect to the other end, or the other end kills you off.

    It sucks. Perhaps what they saw was 1.4million attempts at downloading a Metallica song - probably by about 10 people having to try over and over.

  8. Geek Girls / Rob's Girlfriend? on Totally 31337 Quickies · · Score: 1

    No...I'm not trying to be rude/disrespectful to Rob's girlfriend... but after seeing the pictures of Stevie in Playboy, I remember the 98 ALE Expo in Atlanta there was a girl at the /. booth, who I believe was Rob's girlfriend.

    Not that I sat around and droolled and stared or anything odd, but as I remember, she was a helluva lot better looking in her average street clothes and having been in the booth all day than the blonde bimbo with the fake boobs could ever look.

    Why can't playboy understand that the girl-next-door/normal person look is infinitly more appealing than slut-o-the-week?

  9. Re:Hilarious! on MSIE's Cookies Are Public · · Score: 1

    OMG. I just can't help thinking 'This is the value of M$'s integration with the OS'

    This makes no sense. Even if it were not intergrated with the OS and was a freestanding app, this hole would still be present.

    I don't agree with the breakup, however, the open communicae between the OS and APPS would help.

  10. Re:Trade Secrets only as long as they're secret... on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, what's the big deal? If no one uses Microsoft's extensions, it's a non-issue.

    That's nice in a perfect world, but if you want Kerberos and MS Kerberos to work together, you're screwed.

  11. Re:Well... on Abit Violating The GPL? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever thought of going into advertising?

  12. Re:Trademarks were contextual ... on UNIX.com On eBay? · · Score: 1

    It depends on what it was being used for. NSI or whoever has already handled a few cases like this, where someone with a trademarked name was told they couldn't have whatever.com because the person who had it was actually using it (not squatting) and had nothing to do with what whatever.com was.

  13. Re:ReplayTV anyone? on CmdrTaco's Week with Tivo · · Score: 1

    Nope, and it costs $899. Tivo costs $699 and you can get a lifetime subscription for $200.

    You figure it out.

  14. Never mind the player has serious issues... on MPAA Investigates Apex DVD Player · · Score: 1

    Just for all the people wanting to run out and buy one....

    This player has some serious issues with Dolby Digital output and dvd's that support seamless branching.

    Take a look at the Forums on nerd-out.com first!

    If you can stand it's many flaws/quirks, it is a kick-ass player.

    Plus it's fun to say screw you to the MPAA :)

  15. Re:Lets take this to the store.. on MPAA Investigates Apex DVD Player · · Score: 1

    If you disable Macrovision, you'll have a pure video signal that you can better test to make sure the player is putting out a decent signal.

  16. Re:Pay cash! on MPAA Investigates Apex DVD Player · · Score: 1

    The apex doesn't even have a registration card.

  17. Re:Disk Slashbox on IBM 75G Hard Drive Ready · · Score: 1

    Lets make it a combination box and put whichever intel/amd chip is currently on top of the pissing war.

  18. 4.77 all over again on 1-GHz Pentium III Due This Month · · Score: 1

    Wow...in a little bit my processer may be running a 4.77 again - at least Ghz not Mhz, however when they get there, the current windows release may make it feel like Mhz.

    And I remember replacing my 8088 with a NEC V20 because it was just a tiny bit faster (4.79 or so).

  19. Marist College on Experiences of Running Linux on a Mainframe · · Score: 1

    Wow...I went there...they've changed. When I started there in '89, the 3090 wasn't even on TCP/IP.

    Interesting thing about Marist is that IBM decided to take a small college (~5000 students) and give them $10 million in equipment to see what would happen. This amount was upped over the years, and you better believe IBM stood for I Bought Marist, but it was a good place to go.

    I'm glad to see that the relationship has continued between the school and IBM...still doing cool things there.

  20. Re:Why would RIAA be upset in the first place? on MP3.com Countersues RIAA · · Score: 2

    Did you read anything about the suits?

    RIAA is upset because mp3.com has a service where if you have a CD in your personal collection, you can "register" it with mp3.com, and then anywhere you go, you can login and listen to the mp3's that correspond with your CD from their servers.

    The RIAA is saying they are illegally distributing music that they have no right to this way.

    And part of it is probably because of the format and the fact that like you said, many files on mp3.com are by independants that the RIAA can not make any money off of.

  21. Re:Peter Norton @ LinuxOne on LinuxOne's "LinuxMac 0.9" Investigated · · Score: 1

    Uh..., on point #2.

    There have been a lot of people lynched in history, and I'm willing to bet a large portion of them were not of any African heritage.

    I fail to see how this is a troubling matter.

    Perhaps instead of roping up LinuxOne, we should run them through...however, I may take offense as a great deal of my potential ancient relavites have been run through in the past.

  22. Re:Why the same price? on Dell to sell laptops with Linux preinstalled · · Score: 1

    So what if it's GPL'ed. That doesn't stop me from charging $10,000 for it. So you're getting a discount :)

    Perhaps Dell is buying the dist from somewhere, complete with manuals and media to send you? Or support?

    Who knows. But until you know exactly what you are getting and what Dell is getting, bitching that Linux is free/Microsoft Tax is just being blind.

  23. Re:Open Hardware? on Open Source Job at Creative Labs · · Score: 1

    So what? All I saw was about 5 devices by 3 companies.

  24. Re:Not the first time.. on Open Source Job at Creative Labs · · Score: 1

    Again, how would this be different if it was modular or not? Or if it was open source or not?

  25. The program that ran past the end of the drum on Slashdot's Top 10 Hacks of all Time · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen it mentioned and don't know a good link for it, but I have heard this one from several sources.

    Something about the code for a program being put on a drum that the computer would read. One guy had code that did a jump that noone could figure out why it was doing that, but the code worked fine.

    Turns out, where the code needed to jump from one part to another was right where the end of the drum and beginning met, therefore it kinda just ran into the needed code.