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  1. Re:The install sucks, but is that the point? on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 1

    There's an unofficial ISO floating around of Debian Woody with the PGI installer. Google for it.

  2. Re:Fix this on RandR Support on XFree86 4.3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cut and paste has been fixed for years. Buttons aren't X's problem. If you have a problem with the button focusing behavior of your desktop, file a bug report.

  3. Re:Use old tech... on Linux Backup With DVD Media? · · Score: 1

    For $4000 you could set up a terabyte RAID array and use it for backup.

  4. Re:GTK? GPL? on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Only if you own the copyright. As Netscape started the Mozilla project, is a primary developer, and requires each developer to assign them copyright, yes, they can do whatever they want with the licensing. No one else can.

  5. Re:GTK? GPL? on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    That's where the NPL comes in. Mozilla can be licensed under the terms of any of those four licenses (IIRC), and the NPL specifically gives Netscape the right to make commercial closed-source derivitives.

  6. Re:GTK? GPL? on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    It's the exact same license that Mozilla has been for the last year or two - quad-licensed under the GPL, MPL, NPL, and LGPL.

  7. Re:Link Pre-fetching is a baaad idea... on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I *think* it only fetches HTML files (that'd make sense). Even if I'm wrong, note that Mozilla prefaces user prefs directories with a random string (like "asd5Wk28/myusername/cache/"), which makes such hacks considerably difficult.

  8. Re:Link Pre-fetching is a baaad idea... on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Slashdot already restricts the HTML that you can enter, so prefetching goatse.cx (or any other page) wouldn't be possible.

  9. Re:Link prefetching on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's all in the preferences. Under "Tabbed browsing", select "Load links in background" and "Middle-click of links opens a new tab"

  10. Re:How much is adequate? on AMD Talks About Internal Benchmarks for Opterons · · Score: 1

    Netscape 3 ran quite usably on my old 486-66 with 16MB ram.

  11. Re:Let's see what happens on Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite · · Score: 1

    The kind of people that buy Gateways probably aren't going to know or care what their office suite is. They'll use it for typing the occasional letter to Grandma.

  12. Re:10.2 performance / memory on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 1

    Only if you bought a really expensive laptop. I have a $2000 desktop system from 1998, and it barely meets the minimum requirements.

  13. Re:Eminem on Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game · · Score: 1
    ID3 tags on p2p music have a tendancy to be wrong. A google search turns up those lyrics in about a thousand Ja Rule pages and no Eminem pages that I can see. If it actually is an Eminem ft/Tupac song, it's still not on any of Eminem's albums.

    Now, I'm not saying Eminem's songs are squeeky-clean, but they (at least the recent ones) don't have quite that level of violence.

  14. Re:Sun's plan SUCKS and here's why... on OpenOffice Beta for Jaguar/X11 Released · · Score: 1
    these pieces of poop

    This is slashdot. You can say "shit". You're not going to get in trouble.

  15. Re:Eminem on Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game · · Score: 1
    First of all, I believe Wal-Mart only sells edited versions of Parental Advisory albums.

    Second of all, those lyrics aren't Eminem - they're from a Ja Rule song called "Fuck You". If you'd ever listened to Eminem, you'd know that that's not the kind of thing he would say.

    Third of all, I completely agree that the *marts are being completely illogical and hypocritical.

  16. Re:Umm on Another iPod Competitor · · Score: 1

    People buying a $400 MP3 player can probably afford a $20 FireWire card.

  17. Re:hahaha! on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 2, Informative

    A PowerMac with dual 867Mhz G4, 4x72gb Ultra160 SCSI drives, a gig of RAM, Superdrive, and dual 17" flat-screen studio displays comes out to about $8000. A fair comparison would be really difficult without more information. However, I'll wager that your machine wasn't particuarly cheap either.

  18. Re:Soooo Fake... on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 1

    Actually, win2k pro costs $319, and winXP pro costs "only" $299. I find that rather odd.

  19. Re:I'm sticking with MS on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 2, Informative

    No it doesn't. Scroll down.

  20. Re:why so many mouse buttons? on Blender Is GPL · · Score: 1

    I meant in general, not just for graphics apps. After all, you probably wouldn't be doing anything "special" with the other hand in a 3D modeling package.

  21. Re:Already are 64 bit on IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003 · · Score: 1

    Well... they're not exactly marked toward consumers. That's what I meant, if not what I seaid.

  22. Re:Already are 64 bit on IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003 · · Score: 1

    The UltraSparc would be relevant how?

  23. Re:Already are 64 bit on IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003 · · Score: 1

    Those aren't 64 bit either. They're 32 bit, and IIRC Altivec is 128 bit.

  24. Re:FYI... on Blender Is GPL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just because someone makes an oft-quoted remark doesn't make it true.

  25. Re:why so many mouse buttons? on Blender Is GPL · · Score: 1

    Some people type with two hands.