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  1. Re:IBM's OS/2 code to help WINE? on Wine Now Has Big-Time Lawyers On Its Side · · Score: -1

    Probably because some of the code is still owned by Microsoft?

  2. Re:windows already has some on The Open-Source Detector · · Score: 0

    Yes. But can you imagine where we would be without BSD licensed code? First of all, projects like Mac OSX wouldn't be possible, and if you wanna get technical, neither would Linux in its current form. And Microsoft would have never had a decent TCP/IP stack...do you remember how horrible networking in Windows was in the old days? The computing world is better because of BSD licensed code, and it's the free nature of the license that allows that to happen.

  3. If history is any indication... on StarOffice 8 in July · · Score: 0

    ...then it'll probably be based off a pre-release of OOo 2. Remember Netscape 6 was based off one of the 0.6 versions of Mozilla, and Mozilla 1.0 became a point release for Netscape.

    Then again, from what I've heard (and I don't keep track of the OOo project like I should), 2.0 is supposed to be out around the June? timeframe. A month will be plenty of time for the Sun developers to rebrand it and work out a few of the bugs. Or who knows, maybe history will repeat itself and StarOffice won't really be ready until the 8.x releases.

  4. Re:Rugged individualists on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 0

    From an outsider's view, Gentoo was the bandwagon OS of two years ago. Before that, it was Debian, Slackware before that, last year it was Fedora and this year seems to be Ubuntu.

  5. Re:Actually ... on Streaming Audio 10 Years Old · · Score: 0

    RealOne Player is at least a few years old. Even on my FreeBSD box I have RealPlayer 10 installed.

  6. Re:I need to *gain* weight on Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought · · Score: 0

    It's called dehydration. Check your piss. Is it yellow? Then you're dehydrated. It isn't important to most people to stay constantly hydrated, but in his case, he's working out. Of course he's going to get dizzy from not having enough fluid.

  7. Re:The only reason why we're seeing 'high rates' on Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought · · Score: 0

    Go to Norway.

    No seriously.

  8. Re:Here's something to consider: on Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought · · Score: 0

    Okay, lets say you were 50-100 lbs overweight, but you put in at least 3-5 miles walking per day. Or even just standing still. All your muscles are working no matter what, such as your legs, supporting that weight (compare that to military training, they can at least drop that weight once they're done hiking).

    As someone who does conditioning marches on a somewhat regular basis, I have to disagree with you on that point. Forced marches are done with over a hundred pounds of weight at a 6 mph pace (which for the average person would be practically running) for sometimes more than twenty miles. The toll this puts on your body can last for days afterward. So while you can eventually 'drop that weight' you are still doing a lot more work than the fat guy who just walks around during the day.

  9. Re:Yeah, but which norway on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 0

    Kinda off-topic, but there's a town in Norway called "Hell" which many people like to take pictures of because of the snow, thus giving them proof that Hell has frozen over.

  10. Re:Where is the outrage? on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 0

    There is no preferential treatment, those of us that care are all using Seamonkey.

  11. Re:Another First on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 0

    Mustaine did Duke Nukem 3D, which came out months before Quake.

    Mustaine/Hetfield style riffing could be found in the original DOOM game (Killing is My Business/Master of Puppets).

    HTH.

  12. Shameless Plug on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Since we're on the topic of shameless plugs, I might as well link to DGuitar, a Guitar Pro style program written in Java. I use it on my FreeBSD system to read .gp3,.gp4 files. The project is only a few months old but already has the ability to read the files and play them in MIDI.

  13. Re:Firefox startup time... on Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 Released · · Score: 0

    1.8 is faster than Firefox.

    HTH, Joe.

  14. Re:justice? on Spammer Sentenced to 9 Years in Jail · · Score: 0

    My cousin robbed a bank, shot the owner, got into a high speed chase in excess of 100 mph, and when he was apprehended, was found with several thousand dollars of cocaine on him. He got fifteen months for it. This is, by the way, some thirty minutes away from the guy in the original article.

  15. It works! on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 0

    Okay, I'm a skeptic, but I tried it and it works!

    Me: What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

    Google: 42.

    Amazing.

  16. Re:Can we mark this story as "-1 Troll"? on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 0

    747s fly hundreds of times a year, and out of the thousands of planes in the fleet, there are only a handfull of crashes.

    The space shuttle, OTOH, is roughly averaging a crash every 50 flights.

    There's some common sense for ya.

  17. Airplane on Video Games On Demand Via Cable · · Score: 0

    I saw something like this on a Scandanavian Airlines flight. There were touch screens on the seat in front of you, and a remote control which, when turned sideways, resembled an old SNES controller. It was sort of slow, but great to play card games on.

  18. la masquerade on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 0

    Good choice in music.

  19. Re:Good news for GTK+ on Win32 on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are unofficial free Windows builds available here.

    It's such a shame that the official Windows builds cost money. Some of us can't change what OS we use.

  20. Re:nail in the coffin on Gaming in the Military · · Score: 1

    What kind of Marines raised you to say 'Hoo-ah' and not capitalize the 'm' in Marine?

  21. Re:MSN can try, but MSN will fail... on What's Next For Google? · · Score: 0

    Um, that works for any search engine. I've been using Google for at least four years, and am now giving the MSN Search Beta a legit chance. I set a Mozilla keyword 'msn' so that I can do a quick search in the URL bar, and everything's great. A little competition never hurt anything I suppose, and as long as I haven't lost anything in the process (in this case, search results), it's always good to try something new.

    Microsoft's really got a good search engine. I think the only real chance they have of overthrowing Google, however, is by making it the default engine in their browser, for the simple reason that it's a lot easier to type google.com as opposed to search.msn.com.

  22. Re:Licensing on Game Industry Not Bigger Than Hollywood · · Score: 0

    Add Dungeons and Dragons to that list.

  23. Re:Why is FireFox such a big deal? on NYTimes Reports on Firefox · · Score: 0

    I don't need the whole Mozilla suite and I'm not the only one. Firefox is customisable. It has twice as many extensions as Mozilla 1.7.x. on update.mozilla.org

    Okay, I'm looking right now. I'll admit that there are more extensions for Firefox than Mozilla. But many of these extensions exist only to provide functionality lost from the suite. Chatzilla? An FTP client? Javascript debugger? A lot of extensions are also available for the suite (Tab browser extensions, Cute Menus, View in IE, BlogThis, word definitions from what I remember off the top of my head), and I don't really care for useless extensions like an idiocy meter or something that helps me make eggs.

    It's just simple things like having a search box instead of using the address box that make the little differences that matter. And I can still use the address bar for a Google "I feel lucky" search. Mozilla does not understand ctrl+enter to add www. and .com.

    No, I just type in a word and the prefix/suffix is added automatically.

    If you use Firefox and want an email client that goes with it, get Thunderbird.

    Why run two programs when there's a program that does both? Morever, I can get new mail notifications in Mozilla with the mail client closed.

    If you need a chat client, it exists as an extension. If you need more configuration options, there are extensions too that allow to go further without having to do it manually in about:config.

    Installing an extension to change an option found in the rather archaic about:config interface is redundant. Especially when the suite provides a built in graphical interface to configure most of those options.

  24. kMeleon on NYTimes Reports on Firefox · · Score: 0

    http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net ;)

  25. Re:merge on Mozilla 1.7.5 Released · · Score: 0

    New features are added to the 1.8 trunk first and THEN ported back to Firefox and Thunderbird.

    HTH.