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  1. Re:Mac users like many windows on Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe · · Score: 1

    Photoshop on a mac doesn't work like that, if you click on one of the photoshop windows all the related windows a brought to the front.

  2. Netcraft Apache stats on 850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder if this will hit the Apache usage stats at netcraft next month, or does RegisterFly use IIS for parked domains as well?

  3. Re:It's fragile, and about to break on US Opposes G8 Climate Proposals · · Score: 1

    Check out the documentary "Crude" here http://abc.net.au/science/crude/ it shows one possible link between CO2 and Climate change.

  4. Re:Earning value on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 2, Informative

    >Example, if you win a car worth $20k, you have to pay income tax on that $20k. Or if you win a >trip to outer space worth $200k, you have to pay taxes on that $200k.

    Just a note, not all countries require tax to be paid on winnings, We don't here in Australia.

  5. Re:Treat it like gambling on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Maybe in the US but here is Australia we don't pay tax on winnings or prizes. gota love Aus.

  6. Re:Download vs. Broadcast on Tokyo Demands YouTube Play Fair · · Score: 1

    Pretty much the same here in Australia

  7. Re:What I Say On My Billboard Is My Business on Tokyo Demands YouTube Play Fair · · Score: 1

    Tried running an online gambling site lately?

  8. Re:The US is HUGE smartass on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Sorry that should be Europe rather than EU

  9. Re:The US is HUGE smartass on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 1

    yes it is

    US:9,629,091 km
    EU:10,176,246 km

  10. DST in Australia on Linux Systems and the New DST · · Score: 1

    Australia went though this last year and as far as I know it went smoothly http://www.sbsusers.org/melbourne/alerts7.htm

  11. Re:Why does anyone need a DMCA? on New Zealand DMCA Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    Yes

  12. Re:Professionals on Microsoft Expression vs. Dreamweaver · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where did you get "Largest company on the planet" from http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/06f2k_The-Forb es-2000_Rank.html/ frobes has them at 55 and IBM at 23.

  13. Re:100% deployment rates? on 68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox · · Score: 1

    Same here we, had 3 UNIX Labs at my University in the 90's. Sadly they're all gone now.

  14. Re:iAlertU over a bluetooth mobile? on MacSaber Turns Your Macbook into a Lightsaber · · Score: 1

    The remote is IR not bluetooth

  15. Re:Related news on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1

    Well he was correct check out

    the diff and the notice

  16. What is this on Perens Launches 'OpenSourceParking' · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Slashdot "Old" news for nerds stuff that matters.

    I'm sure "nerds" would have got this news days ago

    from Linux Weekly news or others

  17. Re:1 reason vista will suck on Why Vista Won't Suck · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Sorry Zonk on No Same Sex Marriage In World of Warcraft? · · Score: 1

    I love double negatives :)

  19. Re:I'm so so clued up on this DRM stuff but on Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    What I was really asking is if the hardware would refuse to install the operation system because the install disc had not been signed by the hardware manufacturer

  20. I'm so so clued up on this DRM stuff but on Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Does it mean that one day I buy a new computer boot up my Ubuntu install disc and get an error saying "cannot install unsigned programme"?

    is this how it works?

  21. Re:Really? on KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets · · Score: 1

    Not my experience a lot of our SAN management devices and software use java. One version of the SAN fibre switches will only work with JRE 1.3 while the others will only work with 1.4. Navisphere only works with 1.4 and the EMC NAS will only work with Windows (even tried changing user-agent on linux/firefox to IE windows)

  22. Re:Will lead to ice age in Europe on Careful Where You Put That Tree · · Score: 1

    More like 8000 years ago and caused the last ice age in Europe

  23. Re:Regardless of which..... on What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    I would prefer if it was standards compliant and IE is the standard at the moment.
    Sure the w3c has recomendations but that doesn't make them the standard.

  24. Re:the poop factor... on Symantec Brings Complaint Against MS to EU · · Score: 1

    Doesn't EMC own Vmware?

  25. Re:what's the point? on SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha released · · Score: 1

    Here, here.