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  1. Re:Not true! on MS writing Internet Explorer for Linux? · · Score: 1

    My experience: I've long preferred Netscape and use 4.5 on Linux and 4.6 on NT 4sp3. I get not-infrequent Netscape crashes on the NT, and on Linux often the whole app would close suddenly -- just disappear! Great during downloads. But haven't tried yet with my new RedHat 6.0 to see if the crashes will be fixed. On my work NT box, I've found both IE 4, and now 5, are noticeably faster in program startup and page downloading. And I think IE renders pages better, or in a less frustrating way. Guess I need to improve my HTML...damn pixels and alignment issues in Netscape! But I still tend to use Netscape. I prefer the interface and I loathe ActiveX components downloading to my computer. I don't like lots of things about the "Microsoft Way." In the meantime, on NT, I've downloaded Neoplanet's browser, both the standard release and the beta using the Mozilla engine. The official release uses the IE engine, but seems even faster in page downloads, and lightening-fast in opening the program (I could get a cup of coffee while Netscape opens--well, almost). Plus, the URL autocomplete is like Netscape's, not IE5's. Oh, and BTW, I never could get Opera to do Java applets, so I gave up on that. Anyway, despite all this, I'd probably not let IE touch my Linux. First, I doubt they'll release a Linux version, second, I think it will suck. You think MS really thinks it needs to get IE onto Linux desktops?

  2. Re:SqeezTruck, your (you're) a fool... on Yugoslav Internet Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    wtf??????? The United States' government only has authority over white people??? It's an all-white government with jurisdiction only over the same race?? bwa hahahahahahahaha!! You prove the other guy's point. SqeezTruck = fool.

  3. this is a joke on Grafitti Causes Paralysis? · · Score: 1

    read the bottom. Satire. Plus, a search of Johns Hopkins Medicine site shows no Miezkowsky in the Neurology/Neurosurgery/Neurosciences departments.

  4. Columbine shooting on Hope In The Hellmouth: Looking Ahead · · Score: 1

    So, the students have returned to school (but to Chatfield High), and this is how they handle things (from Washington Post, May 4): "Two students dressed in black were led out of an assembly, but not before they snatched their backpacks from teachers who had confiscated them." The powers that be in the schools still don't get it.

  5. Hey...I grew up in 70's and HATE the show on Katz v Taco: Futurama · · Score: 1

    What dreck. (IMHO :) An overused laugh track that gets belly laughs out of every sentence....and the episodes I saw didn't even remind me of the 70's.

  6. Was the social comentary needed? on Katz v Taco: Futurama · · Score: 1

    Groening has ALWAYS been irreverent in his work. You think he shouldn't make a suicide joke? Get over it.

  7. Best gag of the show on Katz v Taco: Futurama · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that was funny and easy to miss. My fave was when all 3 main characters were together, and Bender says, "this calls for a drink", procedes to pull 3 bottles out of his chest, and instead of handing out bottles, drinks them all himself!

  8. Does this violate Starbuck, the first mate? on Red Hat Releases Starbuck · · Score: 1

    Didn't read any classics in high school, eh? Starbuck is the first mate in the novel "Moby Dick", written long before the coffee chain popped up everywhere. I think Starbucks the coffee company might have a hard time if they wanted to get annoyed at RH over this.