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  1. Re:My campus is all security, no openness. on Openness and Security on Campus · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but did anybody else read these with a southern accent?

  2. Re:Windows 98 on A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053 · · Score: 1

    Well, I do not know about everything else your experiencing, but to speed up your XP menus (and believe me, I do) search your registry via regedit and find the key "MenuShowDelay" change it from its default 400 (ms) to a more reasonable 50 (ms). Voila.

  3. Re:Agree Strongly. on NSA Releases Updated SELinux · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Have you ever applied to work with either? I have. It's a lot easier to get a job at the NSA than it is at Microsoft, ESPECIALLY if you ignore security requirements, as you say.

  4. xcode my friend... on PowerBook Performance for Java Development? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The powerbook is perfect for java development or any development for that matter, why? Directly from http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html:
    Working Fast

    The distributed build feature leads Xcode's performance technology lineup. Using Rendezvous, Xcode can farm out your project's compilation to idle desktop machines or even an Xserve build farm, drastically reducing compile time. Enabling near-instant turnaround for bug fixes, Xcode's Fix and Continue feature lets developers change code while the app continues to run.

    Rendezvous, hard to spell, a pleasure to use.

  5. umm..... on Confessions of a Mac OS X User · · Score: 3, Funny

    tap. tap. tap.
    click. click. click. ......
    mmm......

    no.

  6. Re:I am going to sue these people. on O'Reilly Interview with the Plone Founders · · Score: 2, Funny

    I too read Plone as phone. Consequently, the headline to me read, "O'Reilly Interview with the Phone Flounders". I got a laugh.

  7. Re:Privatization on NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think this is about privatization. I think this is about the NSA being overloaded with more important things to worry about. Such as the "War on Inanimate Objects", namely, Terrorism. For instance, look at their new hires figures jump from roughly 100/yr, to over 1000. They are busy, they are upgrading, and they are worrying about processing the loads of new data from monitoring an exponentially higher amount of data then they were accustomed to only a few years ago.

  8. Re:Lot's of sales... No profit... on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Troll?

    I mean, sure good analysis and point about bandwidth. But hey, iTunes music store is as much about exposure for Apple and selling iPods etc, as it is about profit.

  9. Update changes icons but not associations on Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update, Take Two · · Score: 1

    Did anybody else have this problem? My .docs arent with word anymore, my .txt's are with GoLive 6 and my pdf's finally show adobe. Though none of the original associations changes...

  10. Pretty Interesting... on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Especially the last part of the article:

    "If there's any lesson from this experience, it is not to use software developed in China or hire Chinese computer programmers, because you're running the risk of having the software you use implanted with the Trojan-horse program"

    on the heels of this report, regarding China's intentions of developing their own OS:
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1 52525 2

  11. Re:SCO vs. Navy on US Navy buys Apple as Linux Platform · · Score: 1

    Thanks for making me laugh, I have the last exam of my collegiate career in an hour and a half.

    And I'm reading slashdot...

  12. An Interesting Subject on Is Louder Better? · · Score: 1

    Maybe others would agree, or perhaps some of you may want to see so for yourselves, but I've always thought that Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream was the best mastered album I've ever heard. The Bass levels are perfect, absolutely perfect.

  13. I wanna post but, on Addicted to Information? · · Score: 1

    Godamn I gotta read that article! BRB!

  14. Thats great but... on HP To Sell PCs With Mandrake 9.1 · · Score: 1

    It doesnt seem you can actually configure a machine with Mandrake 9.1 on it. The customize screen does not allow you to change the OS from Windows. Am I deaf, dumb or blind?

  15. Re:Benchmarking Across Platforms on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly, Does anybody remember watching the Adobe Photoshop Demo? Unless Adobe did some secretive optimizations for the G5 (which is unlikely as they have not yet released the optimizations for the G4/OS 10.2), then its hard to scoff at the fact that the new G5 did it twice as fast as the Intel Chip. Also, umm a little something called...PCI-X, serial ATA, hypertransport, 8GB RAM, DVD-Burning, among other shite, standard!

    C'mon now.

    Fuck SPEC benchmarks. How could you trust them unless you did it yourself?

  16. Oops, Forgot one... on Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked · · Score: 1

    0
    G5
    NSA
    32352234626326355860.00
    4235232223626 236626252350960.00
    USA/2003

  17. Apple Store Slashdotted? on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 1

    thats all..just wondering.

    freaks.

  18. Re:Not on TechTV on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 1

    From Tech TV's Site:

    "About TechTV's owner
    Vulcan, the investment and project management organization founded by Paul G. Allen, first invested in TechTV in November 1998, purchasing one-third interest in the cable channel and website from founder Ziff-Davis. One year later, in November 1999, Vulcan purchased the remaining two-thirds in a transaction that closed on January 21, 2000. "

    Paul G. Allen, name sounds painfully familiar...

  19. Pardon my french, on The Downward Spiral of Music Retailing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But fuck them. Fuck them in their ears, just as we get fucked in the ears listening to the shitty music they put into the machine. Fuck their silly equations implying what music we "must" like. The stuff in these "speciality" stores is the crap that plagues today's radio stations. I Live in one of the most culturally diverse areas of the US, the New York Metro area, and most of the radio stations here are owned by the same company, and most of them play the same garbage. Do they think we want to listen to a bunch of whiney, scrawny white kids with tatoos or a bunch of illiterate hip hop artists talking about clubs, cars, guns and bitches? I certainly dont, and none of my friends do either. Maybe thats why album sales are down? Maybe its also the 18 dollar sticker adorning the cd's. Have i illegally downloaded music? yes. would i if i felt i had a viable alternative? no. Being morally bankrupt as they are ripping off the consumers, i hope they go financially bankrupt as well.

  20. Pinch my nips and call me Daisy on Microsoft Kills Off Mac IE, Blames Safari · · Score: 1

    But isnt it possible that MS made a crappy ass browser, i.e., IE for Mac in attempts to coarce Mac users to PC's. After all, web browsing probably is in the upper 25% of all computer usage, and if users weren't getting a good internet on Mac experience they'd consider switching. And perhaps now they realize that their garbage code is to difficult and time consuming to fix to compete in an arena that never had competition before (before safari came).

  21. On Performance... on Intel 800 MHz FSB Processor Family Review · · Score: 1

    Well, with the recent slashdot article [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/14222 43&mode=nested&tid=137] explaining how useless CAS Latencies are in concerts to memory bandwidth, increasing the FSB and CPU to Memory Latency is not a good thing, its a great thing. Intel has my money!

  22. The truth is... on Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes · · Score: 2, Informative

    there are a million ways around this, though assumingly unbeknownst to most mac users.

  23. Perhaps they should add... on Ebay Negative Feedback Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 5, Informative

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  24. Re:Godamnit! on Looking at Longhorn · · Score: 1

    You couldn't pay me the 140 i dished out for OEM XP Pro to use linux. I do however also use OS X equally much, and suffice it is to say, I also would not trade OS X at cost for a linux distribution. For my uses, free OS's in general BLOW. I dont want to configure anything, and still be left with the most unintuitive, redundant, crashing mess that is linux.

  25. Godamnit! on Looking at Longhorn · · Score: 1

    I just bought a legit copy of XP!