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  1. Re:Refresh is evil on Declaring The Death of Metatags · · Score: 1

    Webcams.

  2. Re:sure, i do. on Declaring The Death of Metatags · · Score: 2, Informative
  3. Re:Looks interesting on ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 9700 Pro · · Score: 1

    Have you tried a different monitor? X took 15 seconds to initialize my Voodoo3 on my old 15" monitor, but on my new 19" one it pops up instantly.

  4. Re:Recycle Bins - don't you just hate them? on Undelete In Linux · · Score: 1

    So alias rm to rm -i. Problem solved.

  5. Re:Just be sensible on When Do You Really Need a Lawyer? · · Score: 1
    which is a text-only client, so it is impossible to get any infection from an e-mail

    Actually, I believe that there have been some buffer overflows in pine. Fortunately, none of them were ever exploited, but It's possible a new one could be found.

  6. Re:The quantum leap... on Game Industry goes from Geek to Chic · · Score: 1

    There have been several "The Legend of Zelda"s, including those for Game Boy. The article, however, was probably referring to Zelda 64 or Zelda for GameCube.

  7. Re:Take a lesson from emacs here on Linux Kernel 3.0? · · Score: 1

    in my 2.4 setup screen. I believe they're talking about 2.5.

  8. Re:Linux: 2.6 vs. 3.0; What's In A Name? on Linux Kernel 3.0? · · Score: 2

    It does. STFU.

  9. Re:uhhh... on Linux Kernel 3.0? · · Score: 1

    Yes it was. Have you ever used Windows 3.1?

  10. Re:Problems on Tom's Hardware Review of Yamaha CRW F1 · · Score: 1
    you could buy a pack of 25-cent generic CDRs, print little pine trees and snowmen on them, and use them as Xmas ornaments.

    You could also buy a pack of 1-cent generic sheets of paper, print little pine trees and snowmen on them, and use them as Xmas ornaments.

  11. Re:multicast? on P2P Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    IP multicast only works if it's enabled on all routers between the server and the client. Since most routers don't support multicast, no one uses it. Since no one uses it, most routers don't support it. Catch-22.

  12. Re:A cheap Win2k box? on Windows 2000 Runs On Xbox Under Linux · · Score: 1

    It's a custom-made card somewhere between a GeForce 3 and 4. Since video cards themselves don't cost much to produce, most of their price is to recoup R&D costs. Since nVidia had already done the R&D on the GeForce 4 and was selling retail cards to pay for it, they could probably afford to cut a cheap deal with MS.

  13. Re:A cheap Win2k box? on Windows 2000 Runs On Xbox Under Linux · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind that the xbox has a GeForce4, and the Walmart machine has some kind of minor integrated graphics chip with 8mb of shared memory.

  14. Re:white trash... on AOL's new Linux PC · · Score: 1

    Get it off walmart.com.

  15. Re:LimeWire on Stealware: Kazaa et al Stealing Link Commissions · · Score: 1
    Limewire for Linux has no spyware, IIRC. I don't even know if anyone's bothered to write Linux spyware.

    Also, note that Limewire is open-source, and if you compile it form source, you won't get any spyware on any platform.

  16. Re:retarded on 37 Operating Systems, 1 PC · · Score: 1

    Syllable is a fork of AtheOS.

  17. Re:What? on RC5-64 Success · · Score: 1
    I believe the cracking was done using an educated guess of the pad. The pad was created by a woman picking billiard balls, and whoever cracked it (Rudy? I don't remember) found that her picks weren't completely random.

    One time pads are only uncrackable if your pads are completely random.

  18. Re:GHz Hunting on Intel Demos 4.7-GHz Pentium · · Score: 1

    Hyperthreading is one cpu on one chip, but it can emulate two, often for 10-15% speed gains in multithreaded applications.

  19. Re:mplayer/mencoder on Xiph.org Releases Theora Alpha One · · Score: 1

    mplayer installs fine for me with ./configure && fakeroot debian/rules binary && dpkg -i ../mplayer*deb.

  20. Re:Linux and AOL on LindowsOS Will Bundle AOL Client · · Score: 1

    AOL uses dial-up, with its own dialing software.

  21. Re:evolution on More on KDE Groupware · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the KDE equivalent will support Exchange?

  22. Re:Skinned Apps on Mozilla Jumps on 'Lean Browser' Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Most native widget sets can't fully support CSS2 properties (stuff like backgrounds on buttons, etc). That's one of the reasons Mozilla uses its own widget set.

  23. Re:RADEON 9700 on Graphics Memory Sizes Compared: How Much Is Enough? · · Score: 1

    You can get an OEM version for $320, and the retail box for $350.

  24. Re:Spelling... on Studies that Focus on the Benefits of Computer Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Just use dosemu.

  25. Re:Great news! on Running 100,000 Parallel Threads · · Score: 1

    No problem, just steal Google's RAM array.