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  1. xbox 360 warez already runs on 10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to some extent

  2. when will you go metric.. on Sony Releases Smallest VAIO Yet · · Score: 1

    .. so the rest of the world understands what you're talking about. You know, even the united federation of planets uses the metric system.

  3. Who is OTU ? on Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years · · Score: 1

    And what does he do in the past?

  4. drawing all over one line on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 1

    as soon as the source is opened, all error handling suddenly dissappears

  5. Typical c++ newbie view: on Where Should You Apply Various C++ Coding Practices? · · Score: 2

    "Look! I learned a new c++ feature today, there has to be some way I can jam this in somewhere in my project."
    Be careful! Don't do it just because it's possible, but for a reason. Focus on the project's task and not the language it is written in.
    Your code might end up like that abc rhyme "the lazy brown fox...", if you think your program will be more complete if every c++ language feature is used.

  6. Re:Let's just watch the swedish beauties :) on How to Build a Fad Website: AmIHotOrNot · · Score: 1

    did I forget about the adult version? sexy megapudding. :)

  7. Let's just watch the swedish beauties :) on How to Build a Fad Website: AmIHotOrNot · · Score: 1

    Here's the swedish version of the site: www.megapudding.com.

  8. FreeBSD/OpenBSD users on TV Tuner Cards For Unix? · · Score: 1

    Check out FxTV and the hauppage card.
    I guess not all of us here runs linux.

  9. Re:Not to be a bitch but.....Great README on Matrox Releases XFree86 4.0.1 Driver · · Score: 1

    I would really appreciate if you know of some place where I could get info on how to achieve
    accelerated 3d with my matrox g400.
    I compiled XFree 4.0.1 using the ports collection, since there were no binary packets for 4.0.1.

  10. Re:This is great but... on KDE 2.0 Beta 2 "Kleopatra" Now Available · · Score: 1

    It's all this Linuxification on the net and in the press that makes all newbies ask questions about "linuxprograms" like bash and emacs and kde in linux-newsgroups, when they could get better help in more general unix-newsgroups.
    It also makes BSD-newbies miss a lot of help since they probably skip a lot of linux talk when searching for information.
    When will companies, press (and sometimes /.) remove the keyword "linux" when it has nothing to do with it?

  11. Rumours says 1/2 size... on Video Shrinks With MP4 · · Score: 1

    ... or "double" quality.
    But that's just rumours then.

  12. Drivers is all we want on Windows Source Code Proposal Confirmed · · Score: 1

    The only thing that let's a windows installation remain on my harddisk is the existence of drivers for hardware I have. Those would really be interesting to see open sourced, so we can all port them to FreeBSD :) But they're probably not written by MS anyways, but by the hardware manufacturers, so I seem out of luck anyways.

  13. What Open Is on Windows Source Code Proposal Confirmed · · Score: 1

    By "Open", they mean they'll provide an ActiveX Control, DirectOS (formerly known as DOS), to include in your visual basic projects. Hence, you'll have complete direct access to the operating system.

  14. Re:Correction to correction to correction on Nvidia Releases Beta XFree86 4.0 Drivers · · Score: 1

    If you check out dri.sourceforge.net you'll see that it's all linux *sigh*.

  15. Correction to correction to correction on Nvidia Releases Beta XFree86 4.0 Drivers · · Score: 1

    Not even theoretically I think. DRI uses kernel modules on linux, and therefore need rewriting for BSD.

  16. Why not both? on No FreeBSD 3.5 On CD From WC/BSDI · · Score: 1

    Would it be an overwhelming cost to WC if they were to distribute 3.5 and 4.0 during a .0-transition? Hey, it's just cd's, they cost less than the delivery.

  17. Re:Doggie-2k on FreeBSD 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    No, It's a brand, but I wasn't expecting anything else but maybe (score 2 funny) :)

  18. Re:XFree86 4.0? (it's here) on FreeBSD 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Just do a pkg_add XFree86-4.0.tgz and it's yours :) (hopefully)

  19. Doggie-2k on FreeBSD 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If high version numbers were of any significance,
    win2k would be superior to anything :)
    Versioning has a useage in real OS's, another
    proof is the lack of multiple DLL's with different
    versions in windows, where as UN*X can differentiate the so's with respect to their filename. (libc.so.3)

  20. Re:Do we want these companies on Linux? on Inprise Director Resigns in Merger Protest · · Score: 1

    By promoting this closed source proprierty "RAD", you accept the possibility of losing everything, if say, w2k makes your application non-functioning, and inprise stops development of delphi and throws their source in the trash-can.

  21. Re:Delphi Anyone? on Inprise Director Resigns in Merger Protest · · Score: 1

    I was talking about QT and such, and QT is far more sofisticated than delphi. I would never see MFC, win32, or X programming as an alternative. Sure, I'd prefer Delphi to MFC, but that's because MFC sucks all the way to the M$-bank. Have you ever tried QT yourself?

  22. Re:Delphi Anyone? on Inprise Director Resigns in Merger Protest · · Score: 1

    How can a missing RAD alone keep someone off creating gui-applications?
    I think the word RAD is a buzzword. Sure, you can place out a button a few seconds faster in VB than QT, but how much time of the overall project-time does that account for? 2% ?
    (And then, VB and CB++4, (delphi?), don't have layoutmanagers for resolution independent widget-placement).
    I would like a poll on /. asking what's our preferred development environment, an IDE or "the usual collection" (emacs+gcc+gdb).

  23. Re:Delphi Anyone? on Inprise Director Resigns in Merger Protest · · Score: 1

    Dephi is a closed source proprierty IDE which Inprise has full controlling power over.
    There is no standardization commitee, no competitors. It was designed for Windows.
    I don't see how this application fits in in the
    free software community. The only reason I might
    understand is if your boss orders you to continue develop some windows program, and you could do it under unix, and then just recompile it under windows when it's complete.

  24. Re:PalmOS vs Epoc32 on OpenGL for Palm OS Environment · · Score: 1

    I use the PalmOS daily to, and it does what it's supposed to very well. But it's not very interesting technically. So, you might call a slimmed OS which does just what is needed to be done superior, but not as funny. I haven't used the epoc32 for more than 5mins, only read som tech-specs, and I can bet on that creating a realtime OS is harder than a singleprocess one.

  25. Why not Mesa? on OpenGL for Palm OS Environment · · Score: 1

    The homepage's roadmap talks about implementing gouraud shading etc. Wouldn't it be easier to port Mesa, which has already been ported to _lots_ of other platforms? What's the deal with re-implementing everything all over when it's just software?