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  1. Re:A perspective on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    It's the other way around, for example having file "h4x0r.html" sent with an "application/windows-exe" or whatever the MIME tye for tht is. IE will ask "Would you like to view 'h4x0r.html'?", but will run the program instead if you click yes.

  2. Re:OT: naming servers after LOTR caracters on The Hype of the Rings · · Score: 1

    Or maybe a -1, Plagerism.

  3. Re:Portals? on 2001 UCLA Internet Census · · Score: 1

    My portal only works with Galeon. :-)

  4. Re:How do they get traced ? on Four Kids Confess to Goner Worm · · Score: 1

    I believe the virus was written in Visual Basic Script, an interpeted language that doesn't have a compiler. A VBS file is simply an ASCII text file.

  5. Re:You cheap SOB. on Automated Ripping with CD Jukeboxes? · · Score: 2

    As a 13-year old, I would definately take $40 for a weekend's work. $40 is a lot to a kid, and most kids don't have that kind of opportunity very often.

  6. Re:So.... on LucasFilm Auctioning Star Wars Memorabilia · · Score: 1
    Donations are one thing, but buying something where part of the proceeds goes to a charity is something totally different. You benifit and the charities benifit.

    Which is exactly what's happening here. What's your problem with it?

  7. Re:Maybe too stuck in their ways... on Making Linux Look Harder Than It Is · · Score: 1

    Technically they aren't exactly the same thing, but for all practical purposes they are.

  8. Re:Easy to use, hard to administrate. on Making Linux Look Harder Than It Is · · Score: 1
    Perhaps there is some money to be made for a service that sends out a CD a quarter with new applications that are easily installed.

    Perhaps you want KRUD?

  9. Re:Maybe too stuck in their ways... on Making Linux Look Harder Than It Is · · Score: 1

    Explorer and IE are the SAME THING. That's what the whole MS antitrust suit is about. If you type a website into Explorer, it'll load the site. If you type "C:\" into IE, you'll see the C:\ directory. It's just like Konqueror, only MS confused everyone by having multiple shortcuts to the same program with different names.

  10. It'd be crippled on States Filing Alternate Remedy Proposal for MS Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1
    If MS was forced to make Office for Linux, I doubt they'd make a full featured version up to the quality of their Mac and Windows offerings. They'd probably do a quick and dirty WINE port with no attention to quality, just so they could say they did it.

    So no, I don't want Office for Linux. It'd be useless. Instead, they should be forced to open the document format, as some other posters have suggested, so that GNOME/K/Star/OpenOffice will be able to get good import filters.

  11. Re:Microsoft servers? on U.S. Department of Interior Ordered Offline · · Score: 1
    I see no mention of the operating/database that was compromised.

    The site indiantrust.org is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.

  12. Re:Rendering on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 1

    Doesn't render in Galeon for me.

  13. Re:Works in mine on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 1

    It doesn't render in Galeon 1.0 or Mozilla 0.9.6, both of which are extremely modern browsers.

  14. Re:nothing special here on Treó 10: Another Portable Mass Storage Device · · Score: 1

    Yes, but why couldn't they just use a higher quality encoder while retaining the same ease of use? And lame isn't that slow either.

  15. Re:nothing special here on Treó 10: Another Portable Mass Storage Device · · Score: 1

    How would producing a higher quality MP3 reduce the usefulness of the product to anyone?

  16. Re:I would post a longer response... on Fighting the Scourge of Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    With a half-decent video card, a p300 can play Diablo (II), Starcraft, and a lot of extremely addicting older games.

  17. Re:Like these rumored looks? on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I prefer this design.

  18. Re:What the hell are they thinking?!?!?!?! on Porting Debian to... Windows · · Score: 1

    If x86 chips are closed source, how come so many companies make them?

  19. Re:Outlook Competition? on Evolution 1.0 Released · · Score: 2

    apt-get install evolution

  20. Re:Great stuff! on The Evolution of Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yet another thing that the geek community could learn.

  21. Re:My Problem... on Uber Geeks Holiday Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, a good deal of male prostitues are gay. Maybe not the majority, but a higher percentage than in the average population.

  22. Re:My Problem... on Uber Geeks Holiday Gift Guide · · Score: 2

    How many healthy 13-year-old heterosexual male prostitues do you know? I thought so.

  23. Re:My Problem... on Uber Geeks Holiday Gift Guide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What kind of stuff do you want that costs $3000??!! I'm 13 and my wish list is only about $250 total including a GeForce3 (which I don't really think I'll get). You're expecting too much.

  24. Re:Why autoconf, automake and libtool fail on Why Switch a Big Software Project to autoconf? · · Score: 1

    Considering that GTK 2 doesn't have source compatibility with GTK 1.2 and you'd have to have two completely different versions of your app, I don't think that is a problem autoconf could solve.

  25. Re:Great... on Slashback: Regionalism, Rivalry, Zensur · · Score: 1

    A Java X Server? Cygwin may be slow, but I doubt it's that slow.