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  1. Re:Looks Good on Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available · · Score: 1

    Bummer - ah well

  2. Looks Good on Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available · · Score: 1

    On Windows 2000;
    Pros:
    - Overall much faster, page seem to load and render much quicker
    - The forward/back feature works really well, pages snap up from history, no more waiting for them to load before the browser seeks to the history pos in the page
    - The DOM inspector loads much faster
    - I like the new icon much better
    - No crashes so far :)

    Cons:
    - Most of my extensions no longer work - to be expected though.
    - Nothing else so far

  3. Re:it's simple, but... on Just a Phone? · · Score: 1

    Bollocks - I like American bashing as much as the next Kiwi but that post was retarded:
    - Gratuitous reference to obese USAian's
    - Inaccurate, lots of skinny people have large hands that find small keypad difficult.
    - old, its been done to death
    - not funny

  4. Re:Wrong Way on Australia Trials Phone To IP Service · · Score: 1

    I disagree - for some reason people find phone numbers far easier to remember than email addresses, witness the number of people that try to email using a phone number for the address.

    Its odd but there you are, maybe its because phone numbers are unambiguous, numbers are numbers. Words have many different spellings, especially on the web :)

  5. Re:Do it again? on Serenity Trailer Out Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Brilliant series - I ordered the DVD on the strength of the raves on slashdot - no regrets.

    My wife and I rationed our episodes to one a evening, it was hard by it lasted that way !

  6. Re:1st Battlestar Galactica was Star Wars inspired on Lucas Confirms Star Wars spin-off TV series · · Score: 1

    Possibly, However I suspect they more resemble the 70's - worlds cheesist decade ever. Thankgod I was too young to make a proper tit of myself then - merely the eighties, where the tit potentional was much lower.

  7. Re:Wonks versus hacks on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1
    The point is that nobody political is being sent to this meeting


    Misstatement - nobody "kerry" political is being sent. Bush supporters are not being checked for.

  8. Re:Do it again? on Serenity Trailer Out Tuesday · · Score: 1

    You're in Australia and the series is currently running here.

  9. Re:true on Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists' · · Score: 1

    I said nothing of the sort, but thanks for putting words on my mouth.

    Look above - I spent *Months* working with them.

    Buggy, incomplete, missing features, irriatreivably wedded to the autoconf/make system. Those were the deal breakers.

  10. Re:true on Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists' · · Score: 1

    Indeed - I spent months trying to find linux IDEs that worked as well as Visual Studio and/or Delphi. Spent a long time working with KDevelop and Anjuta trying to make them work for em, I adjusted my working habits to match their and watched my productivty drop to near zero. I was just spening to much time working around their quirks.

    Back to VS and Delphi, I get far more done that way.

  11. Re:Logo Program on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 2, Informative

    2 & 3 - of course you have to be administrator to run updates.

  12. Re:What the heck? on Homemade Mecha Walks in Japan · · Score: 1

    Naahh, it look realistic to me - very good rendering if its not, notice the shadows ?

    Anyway - its not walking, its skating. *Lot* more feasible than walking.

  13. Re:Ah yes ... on Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released · · Score: 1

    Check out Firefly - that pretty much sums it up

  14. Thin edge of the wedge on Utah Governor Signs Net-Porn Bill · · Score: 1

    How long before sites with "biased" scientific information such as evolution are placed on the list

  15. Re:Been doing it for awhile on What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA? · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. I have no problem with law enforcement keeping DNA, so long as they are the only ones with access to it. That sort of thing is incredibly useful for solving crimes.

    I do have a problem with insurance companies et al keeping dna.

  16. Windows on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 1

    Mac is not a option, and I really really tried with Linux, but after 6 months I realised my development had dropped to practically nothing - I was spending all my time fighting half assed IDE's or debugging cryptic conf scripts etc.

    Switched back to windows, reinstalled VC 6.0 and Delphi, was back in action.

  17. Pathetic on KDE 3.4 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    KDE is my favourite desktop environment on Linux and they are only adding rich text clipboard support now !!

    I like linux & KDE - run a headless mandrake box as my home server, its great - but the crappy clipboard support in *ALL* linux apps/desktops is killing it on the desktop - its a deal breaker.

  18. oops - My Bad on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax · · Score: 1

    Been a while since I worked with that

  19. Re:Java app on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your're using a synchronous requests - Firefox/Mozilla have appalling performance on sync calls (10+ seconds). Its a interesting contrast with IE

  20. Re:The Cluetrain just left HP... on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 1
    I still have a loyal HP Laserjet 4L on my desk working after 11 years

    Me too ! no really, a old HP4L - 11 years, 3 countries, it just keeps ongoing. Once upon a time I would have sworn by HP but this chip crap has really put me off.

    The last laser we got is a Samsung ML1740, its been great. Bye bye HP I guess

  21. Re:Don't want to troll, but... where's the RAD? on Linux Application Development · · Score: 1

    No, none of those are even vaguely close to a rad environment.

    Where's the open source Delphi ? or even Visual Basic ?

    Actually there is a OS VB like environment, can't remeber its name offhand.

  22. Kate Winslet is Australian on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton · · Score: 1

    See above

  23. Re:Broken XML on Gmail Messages Are Vulnerable To Interception · · Score: 1

    Big fat duh ! the problem in question is in a RFC822 header, *not* XML

  24. Re:Uh, anyone remember physics? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Assuming the lasers in question are collimated, which requires some expensive and sophisticated, not to mention delicate optics.

  25. Re:Uh, anyone remember physics? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Coherence has nothing to do with it - the laser beam still spreads, and the inverse square law still applies.