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  1. The Secondhand market doesnt affect much at all. on Secondhand Games Stifle Innovation? · · Score: 1

    The secondhand market actually provides more sales of new games.

    When someone has finished playing a game they trade it in or sell it and typically use the money raised to buy a new game that they might not have been able to afford otherwise.

    This effectively cancels out the loss of sale when someone comes along and buys the used copy.

  2. Re:First Rant! on Secondhand Games Stifle Innovation? · · Score: 1

    Actually I just bought Metroid Prime secondhand because there was a new copy in any stores and I wanted to play it.

    I got Animal Crossing second hand because it was only AUD$20 and it was exactly the same as the new copy minus the memory card i didn't need.

  3. Re:Curious on Edubuntu - Linux For Young Human Beings! · · Score: 1

    try gtypist - text based but works well.

  4. Re:We can all breathe a bit easier on Chinese Eco-Cities · · Score: 1

    Australia is the worst polluter per capita out of the countries.
    Western Australia is the worst over all, putting out 0.2% of the greenhouse stuff with only about 2 million people or so.

    I live here and i can't even remember the specifics :P all of teh power plants are coal powered, lots of mining etc, very sparsely populated so not much public transport, 40 C days are not uncommon in summer, -5 C nights are not uncommon in winter.

  5. Re:Personal Opinion on KDE's future: Plasma & SimpleKDE · · Score: 1

    For debian based distros, install 'deborphan'

    It lists all packages no longer depended on by anything.

  6. Re:Safari now FAILS "Acid test" on Flurry of Security Patches · · Score: 5, Informative

    It only passes if you use a nightly. A shipped release has never passed the acid 2 test.

  7. It's very spiffy on Nokia Develops a New Browser on Apple WebKit · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been out for a while, i've been using gtk-webcore for the last two months on my Slackware box.
    you can get it from here and there's lots of other interesting tidbits of information on that site.

  8. Re:Does this mean - on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The latest powerbooks actually have a USB interface for keyboard and mouse. however you are correct, the ibooks, and all previous powerbooks used ADB.

  9. Re:Upgrade technique? on Mac OS X Tiger Released and Analyzed · · Score: 1

    I got this from a website I can't remember the link for.

    Basically, format and partition your external drive into one partition.

    Use disk utility's restore from image function and select the source as the dvd image and the destination as your external drive.

    Plug the external drive into your iMac and select is as the boot disk. reboot and apparently presto.

  10. Re:PIXAR Imaging Computer on Round 2 of Apple's Lost '1984' Series · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't happen to have the specs for that baby would you?

  11. Re:Dragonfly is the King of BSD SMP on Jeff Roberson Begins FreeBSD SMPng VFS Integration · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you want to give DragonFly another chance, I suggest you use NetBSD's pkgsrc instead of ports. It works perfectly for me.

  12. Re:Weird on Apple Explains How to Run X11 on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Did you check the X11 prefenences?

    Under the output tab, there is a checkbox for Full Screen... that is what you are trying to do right? :D

  13. Re:Free idea to HD manufacturers on Itty Bitty SCSI Hard Drive Arrives · · Score: 1

    I know this isn't *exactly* what you're talking about but this is close enough
    2x2.5" drives + a raid controller in the space of a 3.5" drive.
    english gizmodo.com link here

    These are laptop IDE drives though, so imagine them with the SCSI drives!

  14. Re:I can't help but object to Apple's culture on PowerBook Upgrade and Repair Guides · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does. I put a 10,000 rpm SATA Raptor drive in a mirrored door PowerMac G4 that was only ever designed for IDE drives, and by doing so cut many intensive disk operations times in half. My understanding of SATA-to-IDE interfacing extended directly to extra power, even on a Mac.

    I've been thinking about getting a SATA drive for my MDD as it's almost out of space. Would you be able to tell me which SATA controller you used?
    Thanks!

  15. Re:Please stop having cats. on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 1

    Wow they're gorgeous looking cats !

    Out of curiousity, what breed are they and what are their names?

  16. Re:Slow on my iBook 500 on Next Version of Virtual PC for Mac to Suck Less · · Score: 1

    On my dual 867MHz Powermac, Windows 2000 reports a 533MHz 686.

    Of course, I don't think VPC is slow at all, and I was quite impressed with it's performance.

    SuSe 9.1 Pro was reporting 466 Mhz 686.

  17. Re:Good news for Suse... on Novell to Help Port Applications to Linux · · Score: 1

    you mean this link? http://www.novell.com/community/linux/order.php i got my set a few months ago.

  18. Re:Explain something! on FreeBSD 5.3 on the Horizon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, 10.3 had bits of FreeBSD 5 in it according to Apple's page for it.

    And according to the tiger preview page it's based on FreeBSD 5.x - so that would probably be 5.2.1.

  19. Konqueror is KHTML not gecko on Browser Wars Mark II · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quote from article: "Beyond the Foundation are many other Mozilla-enabled browsers such as Konqueror and K-Meleon"

    I was under the impression that Konqueror used KHTML and not gecko...

  20. Re:US Army on Future Weapons of War in the Works · · Score: 1

    I don't know what version of SOCOM you were playing but that fscker "Boomer" often shoots me in the back!

  21. Re:I used Network Install a few days ago and... on Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    I just used the nightly installer disc last night and I found the partitioning to be a step backwards.

    I've used linux since red hat 5.2, been a debian guy from 2000, and dabbled in netbsd and freebsd. I've often switched distros and hence have done about 30 - 40 linux installs over the last 6 years.

    I know what partitions to use and where to put them, mount points etc, but to use an existing linux partition requires one to tell the installed the mount point should be /. It took me a minute to find that option in the new debian installer.

  22. Re:This looks like progress... on Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    Debian uses discover to handle auto detect and all the rest.

  23. Re:Anyone who intimately knows 5 on Perl's Extreme Makeover · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of an old army story told by who knows. The sarge overheard one guy calling his rifle a "gun", which is a no-no at this base. So he forced the soldier to run around the compound naked holding his rifle in his right hand and his dick in his left, and he had to repeat, "This is my rifle, and this is my gun. One is for shooting, and the other for fun".

    That's from Full Metal Jacket if I remember correctly...

  24. Re:Pretty easy to find... on Default AmigaOS4 Icon Set Revealed · · Score: 3, Funny

    you mean like this bouncing ball? :P

  25. Re:5 watts...Crazy on Jodrell Bank Telescope Gets No Signal From Beagle · · Score: 4, Informative

    from the Beagle2 site:

    Communication frequency:

    Forward (Earth - Mars): 437MHz

    Return (Mars - Earth) 401MHz