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  1. Re:A few more updates they don't touch on on Windows Server 2003 Is A Small Step Forward · · Score: 1

    RH5.0 didn't, which was the original point (IIRC). 5.1 came with GNOME 0.13, 5.2 came with 0.20 and/or 0.30.

    IIRC - but 5.0 had _no_ GNOME whatsoever, definately. Gtk, maybe... ;-)

    I can still remember using GNOME on 5.1 - I couldn't get KDE to work properly, and I'm still using GNOME mostly because of that :-)

  2. Re:A few more updates they don't touch on on Windows Server 2003 Is A Small Step Forward · · Score: 1

    Yeah, RH5.0 -> 9.0 had very few visible changes.

    Except a desktop environment that wasn't just FVWM + a few clunky Tk-based tools, anti-aliasing, 3D support, a graphical installer, <insert random development since 1998 here>.

    Hell, 5.0 thought it was cool they had Netscape 4. I still have my boxed set with the "Includes Netscape 4.x" in my bedroom :-)

    Don't get me wrong, 5.0 was cool. But 9.0 is VERY visibly different.

    Yup, nobody would notice if you went from OS9 to OSX either. :-P

  3. Re:Some errors on X vs. XP.com Site Launched · · Score: 1

    Good god! I'm sure it wasn't in 10.2.1 (which came with my iBook). Yay! (Not that I was too upset, but cut-paste is kinda useful :) /me does the dance of joy

  4. Re:Some errors on X vs. XP.com Site Launched · · Score: 1

    What I've seen of XP's firewall is laughable. I've never seen more than on/off (maybe it's hidden in Computer Management?). OSX lets you add common or arbitrary ports and set allow/disallow. (eg. for allowing incoming gnutella connections).

    Instant sleep & wakeup? You must be lucky! All of my friend's who have laptops (running XP) go oooh-aeerrrr when i point out how quick my iBook resumes. (Not to mention the groovy button on the battery ;-)

    Network locations rock. I have three ("Automatic", one for work, one for a mate's work). Set proxy settings, dial-up settings, wireless settings, etc. for the 'location', and change between them in a click or two. Makes it a breeze to move between networks. (Also, my iBook is damn fast picking up DHCP, most Windows boxes I've seen only look ~ every 15 minutes, don't know if that's a "laptop" thing or what).

    I didn't know about Win-D, I'll have to check it out. (Though I miss Win-M and Win-Shift-M). And I'm yet to see anything remotely like iPhoto in XP...

    I've been using OSX for less than a month (I think). It rocks. (I use Win 95/98/2k at work, 98/XP/Linux at home, XP at friends' houses, and now OSX on my laptop. My preference for 'fav OS' now runs OSX/Linux/XP/98/95 ;-)

    Apache being 'outdated' doesn't really matter - it comes included and works out of the box (just click 'Web Sharing' in the 'Sharing' system prefs box) AND you can still get your 'free downloads' to get a newer version if you really care.

  5. Re:OmniWeb .. cookies. .. on Interview with Ken Case, CEO At Omni Group · · Score: 1

    In Galeon, once there is a full "row" of tabs (where you can see the *whole* title of each page) small left/right arrows appear at the rightmost side of the tabs. eg:
    [ slashdot ][ apple ][ more tabs]

    There isn't any reason this (or multi-row tabs?) couldn't be implemented in other browsers. I *love* tabbed browsing, personally :)

  6. Re:Perfect bad patent on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    1) Obvious?? I "invented" it by the time I was twelve! Except of course, I'd allowed for multiple angles to be hidden by having the cameras/emitters at different angles.

    (If only I'd had enough money to actually implement my plans... :-)

  7. Re:Strange things are happening ... on Xiph.org Releases Free Fixed-Point Vorbis Decoder · · Score: 1

    There was a fixed-point vorbis decoder aaages ago (May 2002) that does work on post beta4 files. (I used it today on some 1.0 files :)

    From the sounds of the email (to handhelds.org ipaq-list) it's mostly just a "port" of the floating-point version.

    IIRC there's a copy in the GPE CVS (gpe.handhelds.org).

    I can't vouch for it's "real" quality but I use it with about 3hrs of -1 quality files (on my iPAQ) and it sounds just fine through the headphones.

  8. Re:The reason my mom isn't using Linux.... on Moms Go Linux, And Other Windependence Winners · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall running one of them under wine some time ago; might be worth a shot :)

  9. Re:They don't know what they're getting into here on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    If they followed "proper" security conventions, things like the Halloween documents etc. etc. would never have been found outside MS.

    :-D

  10. Re:Legalise on NSI Changes the WHOIS Rules · · Score: 1

    >alias whois=`whois $* | tail -7`

    it would make more sense to pipe it to 'wc -l', then to tail -([wc -l]-[length of agreement]).
    or something. that may need multiple lookups then,tho
    i dunno how to do subtraction under sh tho;...