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  1. Re:Old = Secure? on Security Through Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    There was that /. article a while back about using a halted system as a firewall...

  2. Re:SVG support in 1.0 is claimed, but non-existent on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    SVG support is experimental and needs to be enabled at compile-time. Obviously, if you're using a non-SVG-enabled build (like the official ones), you're not gonna get SVG support.

  3. Re:Simple, idiot-proof 372 step install process... on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    Someone should really write a GUI front end to dpkg/rpm that pops up an InstallShield-like screen and installs a given package, prompting for any config options. This would be especially with debian and debconf-gtk.

  4. Re:C-Nut review is narrow minded on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    It seems fine in Galeon (using Gecko from RC3). The only small problem I can see is that the bottom cuts off a little bit of the shopping cart stuff, but it's still perfectly usable. Maybe there's something I'm missing. Is this how it's supposed to look?

  5. Re:Rant about Naming on QuickTime 6 Public Beta Available · · Score: 1

    How about .mpeg4?

  6. Re:Not flummory, marketing... wait... on QuickTime 6 Public Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  7. Re:I sent something into the contest. on Google Programming Contest Winner · · Score: 1
    Grrrrr! I can't play WMV files in Linux!

    Sure you can.

  8. Re:Wow! on XML Namespaces and How They Affect XPath and XSLT · · Score: 2

    Sounds like you're proposing to turn /. into kuro5hin.

  9. Re:Irony on EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club" · · Score: 1
    I seriously doubt the EFF actually bought a copy of Flash (which, by the way, doesn't cost $1,000). Most likely someone with way too much free time who already owned their own copy of Flash made this, and it didn't cost the EFF anything. And no, the "only right thing for them to do" is not to take it down. Having that animation on their site harms no one and there's no reason to take it down just because there are some fanatics out there who can't install a Flash player.

    And please tell us, what format would you have done this animation in? SVG has no audio support and isn't supported by any major browser (no, the rare svg-enabled Mozilla build does not count as a major browser). Java is bloated, slow, difficult to do animations with, and also somewhat proprietary. AVI and MPEG aren't at all suited for animation, and would result in huge file sizes and lower quality. There are no suitable open source formats available, so sometimes one must use a proprietary program.

  10. Re:Hypocrisy Alert! on EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club" · · Score: 1

    This is the EFF, not the FSF. As far as I know, the EFF does not have a vendetta against non-free software.

  11. Re:EMINEM hates us geeks on Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release · · Score: 1

    Don't feel bad. Eminem hates everyone else too.

  12. Re:Taco's strawman argument on Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release · · Score: 1

    His mom did bitchslap him, that's his entire problem.

  13. Re:You can steal it too, but good luck on Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release · · Score: 1

    I just downloaded the full album, fine quality 192kbps MP3, off giFT in about half an hour. So there.

  14. Re:No Google Toolbar... on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe it's only supported on IE, but you can get it for Mozilla.

  15. Re:Why Linux? on Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III · · Score: 1

    You can't "go to the beginning of a line" without a cursor, and web browsers don't have one. Unless you mean in text boxes, but that's not Galeon's problem, it's GTK. (GTK2 doesn't do anything on Ctrl-A though, I wonder why?)

  16. Re:umm... hold on a minute... on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    Looks fine in Galeon 1.2 (rendering with Mozilla 1.0RC2). I'd say it probably works in Netscape 7, if it works in Mozilla. You tried?

  17. Re:Why Linux? on Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III · · Score: 1
    For instance, Galeon uses Emacs keybindings, so ctrl-A means go to the beginning of the line, but other apps use Mac/Windows control sequences, so ctrl-A means "select all."

    How the hell do you "go to the beginning of the line" in a web browser? Ctrl-A in Galeon does exactly what you'd expect: Select All.

  18. Re:To Keep Score... on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Netscape 6 was based on Mozilla 0.6, and Netscape 6.2 is based on Mozilla 0.9.4. They're probably increasing the version number because:
    • Mozilla is too
    • Netscape 6.x sucked, and they want to show people this is a big improvement.
  19. Re:As a Web Designer... on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, that certain point was about two years ago, before Netscape 6. Where've you been?

  20. Re:Tabbed browsing? on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep, you're drunk. Tabbed browsing was added to Mozilla in (IIRC) the 0.9.7 release. It definitly wasn't 0.5, especially since there never was a Mozilla 0.5 release.

  21. Re:better idea.. on Pop-Under Ads Patented · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a red hole?

  22. Re:Virtual Desktops on Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity · · Score: 1

    It's pretty, written in GTK2 (and therefore has full AA and i18n), and is GNOME compatible.

  23. Re:not so bad? on Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    One of the aspects of a good troll is that it makes a few false statements for biters to correct. However, this one was a bit obvious...

  24. Re:The superior linux finance application. on Personal Finance Software for Unix? · · Score: 1

    When I first saw it, I thought of Starcraft.

  25. Re:Correction on The Universe in 4 Lines of Code? · · Score: 1

    I'm not compiling and testing this code, I'm just a bad C programmer writing quick code that looks like it should do what I want it do, because IT DOESN'T MATTER!