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  1. Re:thank you on Are Unix GUIs All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    If Slashdot stole it how come its still there, smarty pants...

  2. Nonsense on Are Unix GUIs All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    The command line *is* a different world from the GUI, it can be used as a toolset for constructing GUI tools. If you want to design a tool you sit down and design that tool, you don't graft on little doo-dads to a perfectly good command line tool.

    Anyway, most of the stuff I see on Advogato is crap, and they won't let me post there either. Bleah.

  3. Anti-aliasing is an ergonomics issue on Anti-Aliased GNOME and Mozilla · · Score: 2

    Its not salesmanship or first impressions. The benefits of anti-aliasing are just as real as higher resolution screens, higher refresh rate monitors, and ergonomic chairs.

  4. I would love to believe this... on Corel Chief On Corel, Open Source, .NET And Others · · Score: 1

    ...that there are many ways to make (serious) money with open source. I hope someone does it soon!

  5. This is so amazingly wrong on Violence's Niche In Cartoons · · Score: 1

    Little kids don't want to sit around with their parents and watch TV. They want to play with their friends. But when their friends aren't around and their parents are working they sometimes like to watch a TV program or two.

  6. How to gain 1st amendment protection for all code on Amicus Brief in DeCSS case · · Score: 1

    Someone should write a program that translates computer code into english, and another that translates it back. Simply distribute the english version!

    "Allocate a storage location named i.
    Place the number 3.1416 into i.
    For each integer between 1 and three do the following:..."

    Sort of like COBOL.

  7. My silent A/V Linux machine on Cooling Hardware With Microfans · · Score: 1

    I built a silent machine for my stereo, it was simple. Underclock a 600 MHz P3 to 400 MHz, remove the CPU fan, use a notebook hard drive and an Antec power supply with a thermally controlled fan. Voila!

  8. GO FIND THE GOOD TEACHERS on Who Were Your Best Teachers? · · Score: 2

    You don't have to just wait for a good teacher. Find out who they are and put yourself in their class! Bend the rules if you have to, get your parents to help if you're in grade school!

  9. 36 bits on PDP-10 Revival · · Score: 1

    The most interesting thing about the PDP-10 is its word size. What other machine has a word size divisable by three? It makes all those power of two cpus like PDP-8s and 11s and VAXes seem so dull...

  10. Remember when Linux first started? on Making Linux Booting Pretty · · Score: 1

    If you want to know why more users is a very good thing, recall how four or five years ago it was very tough to put together a decent Linux system at all. There was no incentive for manufacturers to release info for driver writers, and there was no incentive to release Linux versions of software packages. The situation is greatly (though not completely) changed today, largely because of what limited popularity Linux has achieved.

  11. I did CS because... on CS vs CIS · · Score: 1

    I was interested in CS. If you're not interested in CS by all means do something else.

  12. Re:Antialiased fonts requires toolkit support??? on XFree86 4.0.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Would you be able to give characters fractional pixel positions?

  13. Re:SAGE Salary Survey on Slashback: Plexion, Kernelism, Salaryness · · Score: 1

    Correction notwithstanding, you wouldn't have to pay to view your own data, you already know what your salary is!

  14. The end of Bladerunner on Dune Miniseries Airs Tonight · · Score: 1

    The happy ending of Bladerunner was demanded by the studio, Scott's original ending was much darker.

  15. I haven't noticed any marketing until today on Dune Miniseries Airs Tonight · · Score: 1

    Naturally, if you watch the Sci-fi channel you will see promotion. This is completely normal, nothing to worry about.

  16. Re:I have a bad feeling about this on Dune Miniseries Airs Tonight · · Score: 1

    The David Lynch move was painfully bad. I've watched it many times, and I can state this with authority. (Yes, I'm aware of the paradox of that statement. Its like watching a train wreck, you want to look away but you just can't.) I suspect much of it has to do with the massive shortening it seems to have undergone, but the use of voice overs is just painful. The ironic thing is that the voice overs are usually exactly repeating something someone else just said out loud!

  17. Flying is nothing new for Ken Thompson on Ken Thompson's Last Day At Bell Labs · · Score: 1

    He's been flying planes for as long as I can remember.

  18. What dimples really mean - its obvious on Florida Election Votes Certified · · Score: 1

    >On to the subject of the dimpled chad and all
    >that. There were ballots that were clearly
    >punched through for all other offices but
    >"dimpled" for president. Was this voter
    >incapable of punching the holes? I think n

    Obviously, because more people vote in the presidential races than the local races, the presidential holds on the voting device get jammed up with chad and prevent the vote from registering. The dimple is clearly proof of intent, what else could it be? Is there no one left here who is geeky enough to see these things?

  19. Linux is a big win when profit margins are thin on AOL/Transmeta/Gateway Internet Appliance Launch · · Score: 1

    With an internet appliance you can't afford to spend a dime more than you have to. They don't care if Linux is cool, just that its free and it works.

  20. Re:I will bet large sums... on AOL/Transmeta/Gateway Internet Appliance Launch · · Score: 1

    What if it is a modified file system only supported in their kernel? I've come across these when prying into Linux appliances. Combined with unsupported hardware it becomes pretty tough to crack...

  21. Moderate this up! on Intellectual Property Issues In College? · · Score: 1

    This is a very practical suggestion, typically there are far fewer restrictions on your implementation strategies when you are working at a University towards a degree. I would love to see the outcome if the university tried to fight this.

  22. One small comment about Nadar vote on And The Winner Is... Nobody! · · Score: 1

    The difference between Bush and Gore is far less than the Nadar vote in quite a few states, without a Nadar candidacy Gore would have won the electoral college by a wide margin even without Florida.

  23. Re:Don't forget the military vote. on And The Winner Is... Nobody! · · Score: 1

    Sure it has only been done a handful of times, but the popular candidate has only lost in the electoral college once. Interesting times.

  24. Re:Ug. Social Engineering! on The Full Nader Plus a Taste of Bush and Gore · · Score: 1

    Mathematically illiterate? Its mathematically illiterate to be unable to conceive of any function mapping income to buying power that isn't linear. Not coming down on one side or the other, but lets call a spade a spade.

  25. Lucent WaveLAN correction on Wireless LANs and Linux · · Score: 1

    I am running three Lucent WaveLANs in my house, and they do run under Linux, and at 11mbits too. Indeed, they are supported `out of the box' in Redhat 7.0, though you need to get their wireless tools package to configure them.