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  1. Re:HK has had safe water for decades... on China Planning For Sustainable Cities · · Score: 1

    Pool water is safe but I wouldn't drink it.

  2. Re:Let them release first, then we'll see on MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7 · · Score: 1

    Tilk's post and replies to it are about the TABLE MODEL and NOT THE BOX MODEL.

  3. Re:Let them release first, then we'll see on MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    On second though

    "Cells may span several rows or columns. (Although CSS2 doesn't define how the number of spanned rows or columns is determined, a user agent may have special knowledge about the source document; a future version of CSS may provide a way to express this knowledge in CSS syntax.)"

    Not having a colspan equivalent makes it pretty useless.

  4. Re:Let them release first, then we'll see on MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7 · · Score: 1

    That's super sweet! I was unware of that.

  5. Re:Nothing is wrong with C# on Stroustrup on the Future of C++ · · Score: 1

    I read about D a while back and i like most of it's changes/features but without a major backer I don't see it going anywhere.

  6. Re:I love when this happens on Zlib Security Flaw Could Cause Widespread Trouble · · Score: 1

    > Um, I'm sorry but plenty of progams that the Gentoo/BSD crowd use statically link to zlib, and thus, must be patched and rebuilt, thus meaning that the grandparent is correct.

    OK name a few then, and binary programs like ut2004 or mozilla-firefox-bin that aren't compiled from source don't count.

  7. Re:I love when this happens on Zlib Security Flaw Could Cause Widespread Trouble · · Score: 1

    that's because /usr/bin/firefox is a shell script. The real firefox binary is loacted somewhere like /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin.

    $ ldd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin | grep libz
    libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb76b4000)

  8. Re:I love when this happens on Zlib Security Flaw Could Cause Widespread Trouble · · Score: 1, Informative

    > Nothing more fun than firing off a couple apt-get upgrades in the morning while watching your bsd/gentoo friends sit around rebuilding

    What!!! The gentoo/bsd crowd wouldn't staticly link zlib. They would only need to rebuild one package. You sir, are full of crap.

  9. Re:Apples to Apples on Novell Linux Desktop 9 Vs. Redhat Enterprise WS? · · Score: 1

    Well when it seem like horrible marketing on thaeir part to call their offering that they would reccomend for work stations "Enterprise Server," furthermore after reading descriptions it seems like NLD is closer to RHEL WS than SLES is even if NLD is close to Red Hat Desktop as well, though they also have Suse Linux Pro in that market.

    And the main difference between RHD and RHEL WS seems to be suppoert for 2 CPUs, Itanium (a market failure), and 4gb of ram (I'm sure this limitation will disappear in a few years).

  10. Re:Apples to Apples on Novell Linux Desktop 9 Vs. Redhat Enterprise WS? · · Score: 1

    I probably would, toss in soem more ram and a nice video card and it's probably still cheaper than a lot of fancier brands. the line between desktop and workstations is a lot fuzzier than the line between workstation and server.

  11. Re:Apples to Apples on Novell Linux Desktop 9 Vs. Redhat Enterprise WS? · · Score: 1

    you do know that the WS stands for workstation?

  12. Re:More interesting... on Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0 · · Score: 1

    with the grandparent's mention of configure.bat that seems unlikely. And you may have issues compiling it with any form of g++ (mingw or otherwise) on windows due to c++ ABI fun. It would work as long as you don't try yo link any msvc++ compiled c++ libraries (platform level or otherwise).

  13. Re:More interesting... on Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0 · · Score: 1

    you can use bash from cygwin or msys to run configure

  14. Re:Don't be so melodramatic... on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 1

    Like indymedia, Malda doesn't keep IP logs

  15. Re:Nice job injecting opinion into your review. on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe in the future anyone to the right of michael more will be considered a bigoted prick.

    There was a time when it was generally considered that a pro-slavery opinion was a legitimate opinion.

    And maybe in the future they will laugh at the pro-choicers instead.

  16. Re:First impressions on Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta · · Score: 1

    s/command\ line/Intel/g | s/GUI/PPC/g | s/MS/Apple/g

  17. Re:duuh.......du.duuh......du..du..du. duuuuh on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    It is at eleven but it takes the power point an hour to load, hence ten

  18. Re:Who the hell is Jamie Zawinski on Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Real has better unix support than Apple's QuickTime or Microsoft's Windows Media

  19. Gnome Office on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    If you're really looking for fast you might want to try something like Gnome Office instead of OO.o. And yes Gnome Office has a windows port. From GOME Office AbiWord has a native Windows port (which is super speedy) and Gnumeric uses GTK+ and is therefore slightly slower.

  20. Re:So basically ... on 'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 Coming · · Score: 1

    If only Winamp would write winamp.ini in %APPDATA%, life would be good

  21. Re:no virus != apple. on Mac Install-Base Shown to Be 16% · · Score: 1

    > Unless you count tracking cookies, which affect all platforms.

    the tracking cookie issue is one of my greatest pet-peeves, i hate how anti-spyware tools claim that tracking cookies are critical spyware infestations

  22. Re:Why use fedora? on Redhat Spins Off Fedora Project · · Score: 1

    RPMs/SRPMs

    I was a former redhat user. It was so much easier to package and and re-package RPMs than it is to package ad repackage debs on my new debian baased distro (Ubuntu).

  23. finally on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    This will make sygwin sightly easier to use now they just need to hurry up and rename "Documents and Settings" and "program Files"

  24. Re:Why is this a bad things? on Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security? · · Score: 1

    > I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what other apps are dependent on firefox libraries?

    yelp is, gnome is in the process of phasing out their gtkhtml widget with gecko

    As well, some build epiphany/galeon against firefox. Firefox continues to make these necessary by not playing well on a multiuser system

  25. Re:Secrecy? on Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security? · · Score: 1

    There is plenty of time between the finalized X+0.0.1 code and the official release of it to work with the distros within the time table. Furhtermore it wouldn't be that hard to send out an impending security release notice to the distros as they are finalizing the release code.