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  1. Re:A first! on Reverse-Engineering The Creative Nomad Jukebox · · Score: 1

    gee.. what about people that rip songs off of cd's they already bought? I cant believe this is a 3-Interesting

  2. Re:GAIM & Other protocols??? on Instant Messaging On Linux · · Score: 1

    because the company is called helix GNOME and gnomeicu uses gnome-libs. licq's best frontend uses qt. there is a good gtk/gnome frontend to licq, though the last time I tried it, it crashed a lot and was a bitch to compile correctly.

  3. Re:Why do I want IM? on Instant Messaging On Linux · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone use TALK? thats one of the first services I disable in inetd. Sometimes it takes a while for IRC servers to let you on if your IP doesnt resolve and there's always bans on IP's too. and there's also about 1000 IRC servers out there. And it's a pain to talk in 'real time' thru email. You old fuddy duddy's just don't get it by bashing Instant Messaging. We want instant gratification, NOW.

  4. Re:I can't stand Jabber... on Instant Messaging On Linux · · Score: 1

    you're wrong about GnomeICU. It has a gnome panel applet that flashes when you receive a message and has an option to automatically popup new messages

  5. Re:HelixCode Unfriendly to SlackWare... on Interview with Miguel de Icaza · · Score: 1
    from what i've read, theres no dependency checking on slackware pkg's so its more work to make pkgs for everyone who uses slackware. there's always alien'izing the rpms but you usually have some library version that's wrong.

    And I think Solaris and HPUX users are more likely to pay for Helix Gnome sot hats why they made native packages for those OS's

  6. Re:Benefits of Helix Code on Interview with Miguel de Icaza · · Score: 1
    no, GNOME just supports the tarball files, not any binary distributions, like rpm or deb.

    You can always compile the sources yourself to your liking. or take the risk on installing someone elses binaries

  7. Re:I'd like to tack on a rider to that bill... on HR 46: Wiretapping, Forfeiture, Crypto Penalties · · Score: 1

    did you notice they use that same democracy doesnt work joke twice?! (the bill to deport immigrants from springfield episode)

  8. Re:Forgot to mention... on What Would Happen To Linux If BeOS Were GPL'd? · · Score: 2

    theres 'find' and then there's 'locate'

  9. hmm on The Future Of The GUI? · · Score: 1

    I went to CompUSA the other day and looked at the new Macs and was totally confused with the Mac OS interface... go figure. Too much command line interface'ing does that to ya.

  10. Re:Mozilla requires 64MB of RAM? on Mozilla .6 Released · · Score: 1

    no, it's true.. M18 is a RAM hog and on my home p200mmx computer with 64mb of RAM it's just barely usable with menus appearing 2 seconds after I click them. At my computer at work though, with a 11/27 RPM nightly and 128mb of RAM, Celeron 500 it flies.

  11. hmm.. on BSD to Leapfrog Linux? · · Score: 1

    I dont know that many people using BSD, and if they are it's mostly for servers, not really for desktops. Minus all the OSX users, I think BSD probably has way less than half of the linux userbase.

  12. Well.. on Benchmarks for NICs? · · Score: 1
    I've been wondering the same thing lately, trying to do some benchmarks with two cheap NICs I got at CompUSA. One is a tulip chipset masquerading as a "Network Everywhere" card running on 2.4.0-test10 and another computer using a SMC card which uses the rtl8139 chipset on linux kernel 2.2.14.

    ftp'ing to the 2.4 linux computer gets me on average 2000kB/s while ftp'ing into the 2.2 linux computer gets me on average 1300kB/s.

    Something funny happened when nfs mounting a directory off the 2.4 linux computer onto the 2.2 one.. it froze the connection and got lots of WATCHDOG errors on the 2.4 kernel's logs and had to restart eth0. not sure if this is an NFS issue or the NIC's.

  13. Re:U-Force, ROB, and other useless accessories on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    the paddle 360 degree joystick was the NES Max and was specifically made for Nintendo's Ice Hockey game.

  14. Re:U-Force, ROB, and other useless accessories on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Mattel brought out the Power Glove.

  15. Re:NES-fueled Rage on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    One of the orangey colored mini bosses towards the end of Megaman 1 was TOO hard to beat. It had some eye thing and broke up and shifted itself to other side. I know you needed the electricity to kill him, but I never got past that! :(

  16. Re:FLASHING ON AND OFF-- on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    black and white? mine was always.. blue and black, flashing constantly. I always used some trick of clicking it up and down the cartridge inside the NES which worked most of the time :)

  17. Re:Oh Dear, Hemos. on Slashnet Forum Chat Log · · Score: 1

    I'm probably using and enjoying some of his tiles and graphics, but Jesus, that Poag guy is one ugly motherfucker.

  18. Re:What's really great here is that... on Turbolinux CEO Sees A One-Distribution Future · · Score: 1
    Why the fuck is this a troll? I accidently reloaded this page and saw it moderated to a 0 in 30 seconds of it being posted.

    It's true.. Slashdot, CmdrTaco, VALinux are Debian whores now and are bashing RedHat cause they want to look cool in front of their friends. Really childish of them all.