User: sfraggle

robot wars

On: Phototropic Solar-powered Robots

solar powered is all very well but its of little use however, unless it has a hardened steel pickaxe blade or a 500rpm circular saw.

dont feed the trolls

On: Cool Case

> more importantly has two giant sized blow holes

PLEASE dont encourage the trolls any more than is neccesary

pick n mix

On: GNOME 1.4 Beta 1 Is Out

I like gnome for the fact that there is an element of "pick and mix" to it - i run WindowMaker but have gnome installed and make good use of several of the tools that come with it. My only problem is with several programs which do things beyond what I need to do - such as the fact that gmc insists on popping up the gnome desktop every time I run it. Getting a full working desktop environment for Linux will will certainly be an important step, but the gnome developers need to remember people that make use of gnome tools without running the whole environment.

pong

On: Cross The Atlantic Ocean In 3 Days - By Ship

cross the atlantic in three days... sounds like my ping times :)

man and machine

On: GeoWorks Patents Wireless Web Browsers

Wireless communication device with markup language based man-machine interface man and machine - power extreme!

Re:The FUD is already flying

On: Ballmer Claims Linux Is Top Threat To MS

and its not the first time .... check this out

without killing anyone?

On: EMP Artillery Shells

destroy or disable electrical and electronic systems for miles around without killing anyone

what about people with heart pacemakers?

rooted

On: The Continuing End of SSH/SSL

SSH also does not protect the key beyond file permissions,

to get around the file permissions you would have to be root, and if you have root then surely you can just ttysnoop them anyway?

hmmm

On: Inferno Plugin for IE - An OS In Your Browser

so instead of integrating a browser into the os now, we're integrating an os into the browser?

kde "innovations"

On: Alpha-Blending On KDE

Am I the only one who thinks that this idea of icons that show the file contents is really stupid? Firstly, If I want to see whats in a file, i'll look at the filename or open it up. Secondly, it looks ugly. KDE has gone beyond the point of useless eye candy that slows your system down to useless ugly crap that slows your system down.

python

On: Microsoft Is Indoctrinating Children, Shouldn't We?

just as long as no well-meaning slashdot readers get in trouble for offering to "show kids their python"

tobacco corporations

On: Ex-Microsoft Employee On Unix Within The Empire

its just like the bigwigs at the top of tobacco corporations who dont smoke... I bet Bill Gates has a linux desktop :)

how do you type on one of these?

On: Linux on a Wrist Watch?

like the subject says: how _do_ you type on a watch. The picture showed a command shell and one of the linked articles mentioned a "touchscreen" but it doesnt mention how it actually works.