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  1. Re:Future Problems..... on Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux · · Score: 1

    We're even then, thanks to your .sig!

  2. Re:No compatibility problems? on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    specifically:
            * .odt for word processing (text) documents
            * .ods for spreadsheets
            * .odp for presentations
            * .odg for graphics
            * .odf for formulae, mathematical equations

  3. Re:No compatibility problems? on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 3, Informative

    >Not earlier. Unless my memory is failing me, .sxw was the default file type until not long ago.

    Two major versions and 3 years ago

  4. Re:Future Problems..... on Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux · · Score: 1

    USB 1.1: Low-Speed and Full-Speed

    USB 2.0: High-Speed

    USB 3.0: Super-Speed

    USB 3.11: USB-for-Workgroups-Speed

  5. Re:Will 2009 be the year of the Linux Desktop? on Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs? · · Score: 1

    2007 was it

  6. Re:Obviously sign of jumping to conclusions on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    Now I'm depressed. Everyone should know those things before 7th grade.

  7. Re:Obviously sign of jumping to conclusions on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    *of

  8. Re:Obviously sign of jumping to conclusions on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    No need to use that kind language!

  9. Re:Behind the times? on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 1

    It would be an excellent date format if only it used the 4 digit year.

  10. Re:Pfft. on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 1

    There is one. It is called Mozilla. Or SeaMonkey, if you are the Mozilla Foundation.

  11. Re:Hooray! on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 1

    >ran on Windows 3.1 and was written by a company later bought by AOL

    The only browser I know that fits that description is Netscape.

    Are you trying to tell me that Netscape 4 or earlier had tabs?

  12. Re:aren't there only 4 engines? on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 1

    no, he just about nailed it.

  13. Re:aren't there only 4 engines? on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 1

    No, KDE4 is still KHTML. There has been talk about doing that, but the khtml devs are really stubborn.

  14. Re:Supporting the freedom for my hardware to not w on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    To you it may have no value by itself.
    Others may feel differently.

  15. Re:Supporting the freedom for my hardware to not w on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    >Youtube does not require flash it works with libswfdec and I think gnash too.

    YouTube does require Flash; it does not require Adobe Flash Player.

  16. Re:Supporting the freedom for my hardware to not w on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    >Despite the HTML5 effort, YouTube still requires Flash.

    Because HTML5 is still very young and implementations of the video tag are even younger, and only in beta or alpha products.

  17. Re:Missing the point on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    It is the principle of the thing.

  18. Re:Supporting the freedom for my hardware to not w on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    Nvidia has been the worst choice for a while now.
    Intel drivers are the best, followed by AMD/ATI, although in that case, you currently have to carefully choose which card to get.

  19. Re:Supporting the freedom for my hardware to not w on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    You don't think the transistor designs in any current commercial chip are open source do you?

    Yes, I do think so.

    The UltraSPARC T1 and T2 are Open Source.

    http://www.opensparc.net/about.html

  20. Re:Slashdot on Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki · · Score: 1

    >Bring back OMG PONIES!!!!!1!!1

    It would certainly be an improvement!

  21. Re:Slashdot ? on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, following this link [1] will fix the front page, but not the user page. Credit to AKAImBatman

    [1] http://slashdot.org/index.pl?usebeta=0

  22. Re:Slashdot ? on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    It is the future if we do not yell loud enough.

    I must say I have some very mixed feeling about your use of Dawkins.

  23. Re:Slashdot on Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

    Although that fixes that problem (until/unless they make the beta the main version), the user pages are still rubbish.

  24. Re:Dear gods, what's happened to our Slashdot? on November Indie Game Round-Up · · Score: 1

    It seems that one of these changes also broke the RSS feed of friend's journals.

    I had to remember the /my/amigos URL to eventually find a way to access all the journals complaining about the change.

  25. Re:Dear god, fix the frontpage on November Indie Game Round-Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please!
    If I wanted to see just the headline and the number of comments, I would be on Fark.