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  1. 1 billion on A Number For Everything · · Score: 1

    Is only one thousand millions in US.

  2. 1998 ! on Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    Read the period. It's 3 years ago.

  3. Re:libjpeg DLL problem on Linux Descending into DLL Hell? · · Score: 1

    Why not use Image Magick 5.28 ?

  4. Re:Why not... on Red Hat: Who Needs Netscape? · · Score: 1

    In the "Holly War" of QT/KDE i've never understood why it was ok to bundle Nestcape (I don't recall Mosaic was free at the time, but any way it was a binary) and not KDE. What was the difference ?

  5. yeah, will someone hack it to run win2000 ? on Linux TV · · Score: 1

    : )

  6. Re:One word... on Alternatives To .DOC As Standard WP Format? · · Score: 1

    PS is not very editable, but excelent to archive documents (PDF).

  7. sold out in two hours here... on PlayStation 2 Launched In Europe · · Score: 1

    ...from all hiper-markets in portugal too. Kids gonna have a great christmas.

  8. Re:Exactly! They did not accomplish their objectiv on Unmanned (But Armed) Aircraft Experiments In 2001 · · Score: 1

    The mission objective was the snatch-and-grab of one of Aidid's lieutenants, and they successfully achieved their objective. A thowsand killings, twenty losses, to capture ONE miserable liutenant ? What's wrong with this world ?

  9. Re:Before OpenOffice was slashdotted... on StarOffice Source Released · · Score: 1
    Actually, StarOffice's browser really isn't anything in and of itself. On *NIX, it uses the Netscape 4.x engine; on Win*, it uses IE.

    Are you sure ? I use a light version of windows 98 without IE (98lite) and I know I dont't have the IE DLL's on my system but Staroffice 5.1 browser stil works. How does it uses IE then ? And why is it so slow nad pathetic rendering html ?

  10. Re:free beer on Linux In Africa: Free, But So Far Scarce · · Score: 1

    probably the only time I ever agreed with you, and it's marked flamebait ? Strange world.

  11. Re:Of course! How silly of me! on Linux In Africa: Free, But So Far Scarce · · Score: 1

    You forgot corruption- There's plenty of resoureces in africa, only in the wrong hands.

  12. Re:Not really... on Napster Usage Quadruples · · Score: 1
    2) Demographics. There is a larger population increase for teens and such. (Generation Y, don't ya love being labeled?) This generation has lots of money and loves music.

    What will happen after the generation Z ? Is the end of the world as we know it ?

  13. Re:Qt might be why Gnome won on KDE Developer on the GNOME Foundation · · Score: 1

    QT is european, KDE is mostly developed by europeans. That's just it, not the licenses.

  14. Re:Horse and Buggy on Ogg Vorbis - The Free Alternative To MP3 · · Score: 1
    It's not about storage, it's about bandwidth.

    It's about speed. Encoding speed. Only when it get's to te speed of lame (not to mention gogo) people will consider switching. Afterall wavelets were already used in image (Corel) and we are still using jpeg for low res archiving. OggVorbis is still to damn slow to be useful to anyone but developpers.

  15. Re:... on Happy Birthday, KDE · · Score: 1

    Was KDE released before GNOME?
    I found it first at least, but I think it is a few months older
    And were there any alpha/beta versions before 1.0?
    I remember using some pre1 stuff and the it came gnome which I tried too and eventually stick with kde. Nothing against gnome I just didn't like the gtk1 (and the terrible gtk 1.1).

  16. Re:Deneba did it, but ... on How Is Wine Doing These Days? · · Score: 1

    ... i never found their diff for the winelib modifications they made (some were very usefull in window managing) Aren't they supposed to release them by the GPL ?

  17. Re:This will fail on Programmers Will Debut Free MP3 Alternative · · Score: 1

    God how wrong can one be. Wan't complete pirate albuns ? Don't look for mp3 and dig trough banners, warez and quotas. Have a look for vqf groups and see for yourself.

  18. software bundled with scanners on From Paper To PDF? · · Score: 1

    I've seen at least 2 HP scanners that came with a PDF driver, just print as you would do to a normal printer. And it wasn't an option, it was a default feature.

  19. Re:Eggs on webpages on Easter Eggs in Open Source? · · Score: 1

    You can always try to talk to bub from everybody's friend JP of AntiOnline
    Try "my tits are hard" for example and you'll get "Where am I supposed to take it too? would you trust me with it? "
    If you want to call him gay put it after a some technical keyword

  20. Is it he planes or the ground stations ? on Cell Phone Usage on Airplanes == Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    All electronic devices create interference, but I thought that problems in using a cell phone were caused by a system that get's confused by a ambiguosus position in relation more than one close ground stations. Live and Learn. And the smoking restriction wasn't caused by the reduction of costs in air conditionina, no, it was the the wealth of costumers.

  21. what is the value of a distro on Linux Mergers? · · Score: 1

    Realy, what is the value of choosing beetwen a RedHat, a Mandrake, a debian or a slackware?
    What does the user get in a certain distro that linux doesn't offer anyway. A magic bash script that will get his wonder soundcard beeping right out of the box ? Are there any relevant innovation beetween them ?
    For how long does a linux user stay faithful to his choosen type of distribution, pkg, tgz,rpm or whatever he feels better ?
    He will corrupt it anyaway sooner or later, by upgrading or evenn compiling source code, fixing the init scripts for the oerfect suite of their particular needs
    I think the desirable linux user doesn't know much about what's the distro of his needs, but he feels free to modifying, mixing and overlapping different visions of what linux should be.
    Don't get me wrong, a good distro is a kick in the ass to start the designing of our own system, responding to one's specific needs, but is not the end of the story. Linux installs are more permanent than windows, meaning that one can keep a linux install working for more than a year, while a windows install will such a load of problems that most of people will prefer reinstallin it.
    By the that time a regular desktop linux system will be os transfigurated thar hardly will correspond to his origin, leaving the question of what system are you running unanswered, except an humble and true reply that it's linux, somekind of it anyway,
    So will those entities merge with one another, creating mainstream liunxes ? Probably they will, but a new load of independent distros will follow, for reasons such as "I don't like this default window manager"
    Debian and slackware will stay, there will be a distro focusing in the US, another one on Europe, and a lot of them targeting all the other countries adn languages. Guess what, they all be linux after all

  22. Re:Virus hackers becoming Microsoft'ed? on Gnutella VBS Worm · · Score: 1

    Remember the ones that used to corrupt the FAT table? Now THOSE were VIRUSES.
    I collect virus since the dos 3.3 days. I recall that most of the virus that corrupted FAT were te bad written ones or the bad modified rewrites.
    And of course the infamous DoubleSpace from DOS 6. THAT was great in the loss of data.

  23. Re:CODE... on Gnutella VBS Worm · · Score: 1

    You got to love these open source worms/virus, whatever. Will it be GPLed ?

  24. Anyone tried this 602Pro Pc Suite ? on Is The Microsoft-Free Office Possible? · · Score: 1

    Found this office clone sometime ago and was curious how good it was:
    pc602pro
    It claims file format compatibility up to MSO2000, the same applications, much smaller space required and 1/4 cost. OK, it runs on windows, but I think it's still on topic...

  25. What's the big dial ? on Costa Rica Offers Free Internet Access · · Score: 1

    In Portugal every ISP has a free access fot those who don't care too much about speed or phone rates. There are at least 3 free providers (that I recall, probably more). None is from the government, all of them are from private groups competing in the communications market. None is ADD supported either.