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  1. Re:How is this different from IE? on Roll Your Own Browser · · Score: 2

    One word: cross-platform! And open-source! Two words! Cross-platform and open-source! Free! Three words.. Who's next? :)

  2. Re:Not all that bad.... on Getting Help Building Your Computer · · Score: 2
    You probably do not have enough cool air flowing into your case. The fan works well enough, but if all it does is blowing hot air around then there is not much cooling it can do. Get a fan to blow cool air into the case at the bottom, and another fan to blow hot air out of the case somewhere higher up.

    Having a spare fan available is not a bad idea, 'though.

  3. Re:Why? on Build a Macintosh From Scratch · · Score: 2

    You do know that Ferrari is owned by Fiat, don't you? :)

  4. Irony? on When Users Attack · · Score: 4, Funny
    Below is the image in its original context on the page: www.jonnyguru.com/mishaps/

    "Thanks to Melmac over at TheTechBoard.com, the Mishaps section of jonnyGURU.com are(sic) being hosted on a faster server with moer(sic) space!"

  5. Re:I concur. on Taking MicroBSD for a Test Run · · Score: 3, Interesting

    (replay for lack of mod points) I fully agree with Bishop. I remember my first steps into OpenBSD as a fun learning experience. Not at all difficult, just make sure you read about disklabels.

  6. Obligatory BOFH comment on Crushing Experience · · Score: 2

    Crush the server? Hell, crush the lusers! "I guess you won't be needing that diskspace anymore, good that I didn't waste any tape on it..."

  7. Re:Vinyl/Vinile on Ripping Vinyl Via Your Scanner? · · Score: 2
    note: [sic] almost always conveys a sense of the writer thinking him or herself better and more intellegent than the source.

    Probably because the brain automatically reads it as "[sick]" :)

  8. Re:Power of Open Source (not flamebait or troll) on RIP: Leonard Zubkoff · · Score: 2

    Remember that P might stop working on W for other reasons then death. He might leave the company, he might retire. Companies need to plan for that possibility. In open source developing, someone else might pick up the project, because he needs the functionality. On the other hand, the project may be forgotten.

    Company M has to make sure that the continuity of W is guaranteed, either by current co-workers, or by contracting someone new to continu it. If they don't they will be out of business soon. This is one of the reasons that closed source software is more expensive then software hacked on by one single person. Businesses may keep "old" development tools, just because it may be easier to replace a no longer available employee by an experienced developer.

    I do not disagree with your assertion that information freedom is important, but your assumption that it is necessary for software to be open source to guarantee continuity in case of a dying developer is wrong, IMHO. What happens if the business itself goes belly-up is an entirely different matter ofcourse.

  9. Re:you can barely see it on Robotic Photographer · · Score: 2

    Ofcourse you can't see it, it has a Cloak of Invisibility!

  10. Re:Walnut-sized Nuclear Reactor on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 2

    The ones that didn't last very long were specially crafted, so they could be used as bribes on non-Foundation planets. Don't spread FUD on good old Foundation Technology! :)

  11. Re:that's wrong. on Holy Grail of Remote Controls · · Score: 2

    Either that, or you really hate your visitors.

  12. Fair use? on Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would it be fair use if you build these beast to store your backup of PIX OS on? It could be considered a very advanced backup medium, with a built-in functionality test ;)

  13. Re:So... what was the password? on If You Hack NBC, You Don't Get to Meet Tom Brokaw · · Score: 2

    Right! Matter of fact, my home network is better protected then our network at the office. Most windows boxes are not even patched. Anyone walking in with a laptop and some l33t sniffers would have a field day... But we haven't been burned yet, so there is no way to convince management that security could, no should be improved. Sigh..

  14. Re:After installation... on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Felipe already hinted at it: if you click the piemenu button, and keep it pressed without moving, some text appears explaining the icons. Consider them training wheels, you won't be needing them anymore soon for the gestures you use the most. They are helpfull for the options you use less often. The number that Felipe mentions appearantly controls the time it takes before the text items appear.

  15. Re:Preferences Bar doesn't work in Mozilla 1.1 on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    Works for me, NT4, SP6a, mozilla 1.1, installed using the full installer.

  16. Re:The IE skin is actually very good on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 2
    It is the smallest and, I think, fastest of the Moz skins.

    My favorite theme: Pinball.

  17. Re:After installation... on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 2
    I've tried the radial context menus, but after I left click and choose an option [...]

    There should be no need to leftclick any option in the piemenus. eg, to create a new tab, drag the right mouse button diagonally right and up, then drag up. Right button is the default to activate the piemenu, I've set it to middle button.

  18. Re:But Mozilla still has some weaknesses on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 3, Informative
    A theme that more closely matches the award winning Windows look-and-feel would also be helpful.

    A theme that more closely matches the award winning Windows look-and-feel. :)

  19. Re:After installation... on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    It depends. If 1.1 (or any build) is installed in an empty directory (as recommended in the release notes) I lose the xpi's en some settings, and the plugins. I need to copy them from the previous version. This is under windows, don't know how it behaves in other OS's. Everything that is in the profile is kept, ofcourse, like history, bookmarks, some prefs and cache.

  20. Re:themes on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 2

    Come on, it isn't Internet-"Windows has detected a mousemove, please reboot"-Explorer! No reboots necessary, just restart the browser. Or maybe that was what you meant to type.

  21. Re:Not complaining, but gave me two crash messages on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ctrl-pgup, and ctrl-pgdn under windows. ctrl-t for a new tab, ctrl-w to close one. Or use mouse gestures or piemenus.

  22. After installation... on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out the radial context menus or the mouse gestures. Look at edit->preferences->navigator->internet search, and edit->preferences->advanced->Scripts&Plugin s. And finally take a look at the preferences bar to quickly enable or disable certain options. These are always the first things I install with any new Mozilla, release or nightly.

  23. Re:This is interesting on Electric Armor · · Score: 2
    the US has spent over $110 million on it

    Probably on used disposable cameras. Cool nick btw, got mine from the same author :)

  24. Re:I would love to bring back on Going Back To The Past of the Internet · · Score: 1

    netmail (with the so cool "crashmail" flag allowing mail to be dropped right at the system it needed to go to)... echomail.. the great days of trying to understand the hudson message base.. sigh..

  25. Re:Waste of time on Pie-Menus in Mozilla · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I assume that you also have no use for mouse gestures. Because that is really what this is. It's mousegestures, with a GUI tool to help you remember which gesture does what. It is one of the greatest features that can be added to Mozilla, IMHO.