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  1. Re:Damned if he does, damned if he doesnt... on Microsoft Targeting Indian Developers · · Score: 1

    I believe he's `humane', surely. Yes, he has the look of a `nice guy'. Sure.

    I also believe he's also a thief/monopolist/good businessman/etc. You know the stories about DOS, Mac, etc.

    So, every Gates Foundation donation I believe carries both sides of the Gates coin: its humane side, and its `dark' side.

    Let's be honest.

    Everything he does must be taken with a little bit of suspicion at least.

  2. Re:Time To Switch on Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Without re-ripping all your music, you can actually conserve audio quality by using XMMS (xmms.org) like this:

    1. Open an MP3 file in XMMS;
    2. Go to Preferences in XMMS (CTRL-P);
    3. Choose 'Disk Writer Plugin' as the output plugin;
    4. Close Preferences;
    5. Play the MP3 file in XMMS;
    6. Go to your home directory (or to wherever XMMS saved your file.wav);
    7. oggenc the WAV file generated by XMMS from the MP3 file.
    8. That's it.


    Of course, quality depends on the parameters to oggenc. You can use something like
    oggenc -q 7 file.wav -o file.ogg,
    assuming file.wav is the WAV generated by XMMS from file.mp3.

    Good luck.
  3. Send them back to Puerto Rico on The Plague of Frogs · · Score: 1

    Yes, in Puerto Rico they are an 'endangered species'.

  4. Re:About 'Encyclopedias'... on Slashback: Spolsky, Mandrake, Geography · · Score: 1

    I really don't care about demand paging, nor VM, nor you.

    It's about the user, stupid.

  5. About 'Encyclopedias'... on Slashback: Spolsky, Mandrake, Geography · · Score: 1

    It's OK to have a 'complete encyclopedia' at home, even if you use less than 1% of it...

    However, it makes no sense to need to open the whole set of encyclopedia books in order to read just one article...

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  6. Re:Stupid on Review: Not Another Teen Movie · · Score: 1

    Once a year, my girlfriend drags me to the "fine arts" theater's festival. I get to spend sixteen hours over three days watching "fine European cinema," known also as the worst crap ever to be inflicted on this pair of eyes.

    You see, your girlfriend is trying hard to 'Open Your Eyes', but no, you prefer to wonder up in those 'Vanilla Skies' of you.

    The plots are nothing that I can relate to, and I like to think I'm educated. The dialogue...well, I've gotta judge by the subtitles. I don't speak French or German. Apparently, Spanish, Latin, and a little Arabic make me an illiterate American. The acting tends to be, well...Sylvester Stallone could show more genuine emotion. While asleep.

    Possibly. But there ARE plots, not just 'special effects'.

    But we could still spend our money watching pretentious horseshit from pretentious Eurotrash, or at least we could spend it on stuff that people actually LIKE to watch.

    There you goe, Mr. Literate American, with your 'fine' words of wisdom.

    But don't get me wrong. If cowboys of alternative lifestyles eating pudding in French with subtitles is what excites you, it's a free country.

    Is it a 'Free Country'?? Free from what?

  7. Interestingly enough... on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 1

    When I change the ID String of Konqueror to

    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT 5.0"

    which means

    "Internet Explorer 4.01 on Windows 2000"

    MSN.com quickly becomes available to Konqueror.

    I wonder if IE 4.01 is ACTUALLY compliant with the W3C standards M$ claims are required....

  8. The Problem Here Is... on Nurturing Ideas Into Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    ...that you are supposed to apply the Bazaar mode only AFTER your project is "runnable and testable", according to ESR ( "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" ).

  9. try `wine winamp.exe` on Winamp Alpha for Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting


    try

    $ cd
    $ wine winamp.exe

    yep, it works perfectly well here (kernel 2.4.12).

    of course, i installed it in whine-blows first ( haven't tried installing in Linux using WINE ).

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