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  1. Funny you should ask on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    I have an IBM Thinkpad T42. After upgrading just this past weekend, my sound doesn't work and I have strange display problems when coming back from suspend (I need to switch to a different virtual terminal, then back, in order to see the password box). I wish I hadn't upgraded so soon.

  2. Is it really that bad? on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm reading into it a bit too much, but I thought it made sense. I thought they intended the "Conquistador" shoe to be Vista, which, though initially perceived to be a poor fit, just needed some "breaking in" first (i.e. Vista Service Pack 1).

  3. Re:rots your brain as well on Some Soft Drinks May Damage Your DNA · · Score: 1

    From the Coke can I hold in front of me (it is the only of the above sodas I have in front of me at the moment), the ingredients are: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavors, Caffeine. Curiously missing is Sodium Benzoate. Unless it is one of the "Natural Flavors", or I am misunderstanding the ingredient list somehow. Can you please point out the "research" you did to get these figures? Thanks.

  4. Fried processor... on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    A few years ago I had an AMD K6II-400 processor that I figured would be fun to overclock. Unfortunately, when overclocking, I interpreted part of the motherboard manual upside-down and fried the processor. Thankfully, the store I bought it from had a nice warranty on it and I got a K6III-400 the next week (AMD had quit manufacturing K6II's at that point, if I remember correctly).

  5. Crappy? on ExtremeTech Reviews Google's Gmail Beta · · Score: 1

    "[keyboard shortcuts] even worked well with the crappy Epiphany browser in Gnome."

    Crappy? I've used Epiphany and I never considered it crappy. Have I just not used it enough to discover this apparent crappiness?

    Sorry if this seems off topic, but seriously, it's just a lightweight Mozilla, isn't it? The same Mozilla that the "beloved" Galeon is based on...?

  6. Re:I for one.... on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would be the single greatest Slashdot interview ever!

  7. What is he thinking?! on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    Up to this point, I could excuse Peter Jackson for his little foulups of the story. I sighed when they screwed up Faramir's character in The Two Towers, and I was also saddened by the lack of Ent scenes. But this is too much! I just finished reading the trilogy a month or so ago, and I was honestly looking so forward to the end of The Return of the King. The very end has a lot to do with Saruman, and is the highlight of the whole trilogy, IMHO. This is a severe disappointment. Peter Jackson is really starting to anger and confuse me as a LOTR fan!

  8. Cut and paste? on GNOME 2.0 Beta · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm assuming that there is no decent cut and paste in this release. That is the one feature that I *love* about Windows.

  9. Scary . . . on WinXP Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware of for Windows desktop systems," said Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response center.

    Does this remind anyone else of the history-altering society of the book 1984?

  10. Thank you. on Debian Freeze Process Begins · · Score: 1

    I'm honestly glad that there's still a Linux distribution out there that has a sane numbering system for their releases.

  11. Re:Maybe a little infalated.. on OpenBSD: 4 Years Exploit Free · · Score: 1

    Actually, the first release to have OpenSSH or "_any_ SSH" was OpenBSD 2.6.

    This errata will show that SSH was in there for this release.

  12. Re:What about... on Nautilus 1.0 Released Unto The World · · Score: 1

    Well, contrary to popular belief, they actually ARE still developing it, and it's starting to show some real promise. Although there is no release, you can check it out of CVS. See http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/ Also, you can read all about E 0.17 (upcoming release) on Raster's site http://www.rasterman.com/

  13. Re:Creationists won't care. on Human Genome Confirms Evolution · · Score: 1

    What about facts like the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Entropy ring a bell?

  14. Re:What about the good old RAM Drive? on Linux On Solid State Disk · · Score: 1

    Well, on reboot, everything on the ramdrive would be lost, wouldn't it?

  15. Why? on Microsoft Ties DRM Technology To Windows · · Score: 1

    I thought Windows already had 3d-hardware acceleration? Oh, wait . . .

  16. Re:Bad inodes with reiser/NFSv3 on ResierFS In Latest 2.4.1 Prepatches · · Score: 1

    I had the EXACT same problem, excpept that it had nothing todo with NFS. I just had a lockup one day, rebooted, and 3 files gave me that same problem. I switched everything back to ext2 . . .

  17. Tried it . . . on ResierFS In Latest 2.4.1 Prepatches · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I tried ReiserFS with woody back at kernel 2.4.0-test12. It's fast, and doesn't complain after lock-up. It all was working great until it locked up while playing quake3 a couple of times . . . then it started complaining about a couple of files that were corrupted or something. I didn't lose much, but I switched back to ext2 right away . . .

  18. hmm . . . on First Looks At XBox · · Score: 2

    Why is it assumed that every product to come from Microsoft is so awful? Microsoft may produce closed-source software, they're evil, blah blah blah, etc., but I still haven't seen a web-browser that works in linux that is as fast as Internet Explorer! I think we should face the fact that NOT EVERYTHING MICROSOFT MAKES IS JUNK. This could actually turn out to be a good system . . . who knows . . . we'll have to wait until we can ACTUALLY USE it before we decide it's a heap of junk . . .

  19. What? on Answers About Bastille Linux From Jon & Jay · · Score: 1

    "OpenBSD, as Jon points out, misses vulnerabilities, because their auditors are human and non-omniscient." and what, the Bastille guys are God-like and omniscient?

  20. Follow the link . . . on Hawking On Earth's Lifespan · · Score: 1

    http://www.heartland.org/studies/ieguide.htm#1

  21. Why? on Ask John Gildred About Indrema And Linux Gaming · · Score: 3

    Okay, we've got PS2, X-Box, and Nintendo Game Cube coming along. Why do we need another game console, even though it does run Linux? What advantage will this game console actually have over the others? As far as game consoles go, I'm not going to go buy one because it "runs linux" . . .

  22. gnome-apt on Red Hat 7.0 Coming On Monday · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've used gnome-apt for a while, and it works really great . . . hasn't crashed on me yet. It's great to see a good GUI for apt out there finally.