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  1. Re:User experience on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 1

    iSync doesn't support the Zaurus sync protocol.

  2. Re:User experience on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 1

    In my point of view, the new AlBook is a NeXT-laptop in colour. Same but improved OS, efficient hardware.

  3. User experience on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Let's make it short.
    ever since I switch to Jaguar (My Panther box is somewhere between Cork (IE) and .CH) , I have been able to :
    • Inline view any of the online-available movie trailers in my browser
    • User quality music software (Reason, Logic...)
    • Use Interface Builder
    • Standby/Resume an easy way
    • Use Excel, thus discover that Microsoft API may suck but what they develop for the Mac is quality stuff
    • Use Illustrator, Flash MX...
    • Not losing time configuring my computer No need to : it definitely pleases me the way it goes
    • Use my smartmedia/pcmcia adapter without going through 20 kernel/pcmcia-cs modules recompilations (it stopped being recognized around linux2.2.18)


    What I could do on Linux and still can do on OSX:
    • code in perl
    • (ab)use the command line
    • develop, test and cross-compile software for my Zaurus


    What I still cannot do (I used to be able to do it under Linux) :
    • Synchronize my Zaurus to the Address Book and the Datebook


    So my point is not to troll (only people who disagree but won't argue might say so) but just to express the following : Linux is cool, nice, may even be optimized but my current powerbook is way faster than the P3/600 Linux laptop I had before switching (I don't care about existing models). I also benefit from many quality software and from a very cool development environement.
    Finally, I won't step back because I just enjoy typing this on the sexiest computer I ever owned (I also own an Acorn RiscPC, a NeXTstation, a Bebox, a P4 PC, a Zaurus and a Sinclair ZX81).
  4. "which kills 100% of animals it infects" on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    I was about to ask how many it infects, but I RTFA-ed.
    So the answer is :
    The new virus kills all mice even if they have been given antiviral drugs as well as a vaccine that would normally protect them.
    i.e. : it kills them all.

    (BTW: Tompox has nothing to do with this virus.)

  5. "moniker" on A Gator By Any Other Name · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    distance the company from a moniker
    No offence here but what is a "moniker" ?
    Has it something to do with "Simoniker" ?

  6. Re:Interesting on Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo? · · Score: 1

    how about a new smiley : "8f" which is the hex value of your oct 217 ?

  7. Re:so ? on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 1

    I am afraid they'll rather endorse these. :/

  8. Re:Sigs?!? Did I Wake Up in 1994 Again? on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1
  9. so ? on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 1, Funny

    2 stories ago, we wished Microsoft would be punished for firing a blogger, no we wish they'd stop being sued by Eolas...
    Thanks Slashdot, but I'm confused, now.

  10. Is /. a Kro subsidiary ? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bill Gates fires the blogger, /. closes his blog.

  11. Re:Sigs?!? Did I Wake Up in 1994 Again? on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you want to be professional, you may also ignore such aspects of your contact's appearance in order to focus on his offers and opportunities.
    If you had to work for me and you'd have refused a decent offer because of such considerations, I'd have fired you :
    Sigs are for people who like them, other may just ignore them.

  12. Re:Radio still rules in .CH on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention : in .CH, we pay for the radio.
    So, unless you listen to a privately owned radio, you won't hear ads.

  13. Re:!shocking on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1

    So what ?
    In other words he could mean : "we enforce the right to vote efficiently" because in his context, he might have some reserves about the current voting situation...
    Why should his sig be seen as a rebellion while this may be a progress-triggering motto ?

  14. Re:How biased is that?! on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1

    Leave it to this user to notify him, then ;-)

  15. !shocking on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Particularly shocking is the line: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal."

    This line belongs to a .sig, why is this shocking ?
    This is taken out of context.

  16. Radio still rules in .CH on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 1

    I guess the subject is quite US centric.
    Here, inSwitzerland, we get many quality programs, independant music, unusual jazz or classical music.
    Decent objective news...
    So it is quite obvious we agree to stick to this medium because of the fantastic experience we get : various unheard songs, news...
    So, hey : it is not because US radio sucks (not a flame, just a deduction after the question itself) that it should suck anywhere else.

  17. Re:Nice...but... on Dell DJ: Yet Another MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    What kind of space available are we talking about with that bitrate?
    More than enough for a footing, unless you plan to run as long as Forrest Gump

  18. Re:Excuse me, on Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office · · Score: 1

    A human using Dreamweaver in HTML mode will improve his efficiency because of the auto-completion possibilities (sorta like a GUI equivalent of BASH tab-termination)...

  19. Re:Can we please stop the FX branding theme? on Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX · · Score: 1

    Hmmm th FX-702P was issued 4 years before that movie, "STUD" ;-)

  20. Re:Can we please stop the FX branding theme? on Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX · · Score: 1

    Mhhhh the CASIO FX-4000P, FX-702P...

  21. Re:Can we please stop the FX branding theme? on Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX · · Score: 1

    Will the 3DFX come back, then ?

  22. Re:Market on SuSE Going For Red Hat's Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    "United" Linux I do not think so :
    The four partner companies in UnitedLinux LLC - Conectiva, the SCO Group, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux -- continue to support products powered by UnitedLinux Version 1.0 and customers deploying these products.
    No mention about Red Hat...

  23. Scratch ? on MIT's New Music Sharing Network · · Score: 5, Funny

    The high-tech D.J. can select, rewind or fast-forward the songs via an Internet-based control panel.

    Can he do it fast enough to reproduce the vinyl scratch effect ?

  24. Re:So...AI toilet paper? on Circuits Everywhere · · Score: 1

    If this just consists of some integrated circuit, then whether it "thinks" or not is not that important, you'll be wiped the same way...
    Now, if this also has some mechanical abilities, then I'd for sure rather use something else (check for chapter 1.XIII)...

  25. Re:So... on Circuits Everywhere · · Score: 1

    I do not understand why the aove got modded as a troll, it might be only one neologism long but it is by far the most obvious (hence insightful) comment this story could get...

    The only other consequence I could imagine would be to couple this technology with AI, then I'd guess we could get some self-expanding hardware machine...