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  1. Debian Jr. on Learning Software for Toddlers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You might find something useful in the list of packages packaged by the Debian Jr. project.

  2. Re:How this happens on The Problem of Search Engines and "Sekrit" Data · · Score: 1

    Slashdot doesn't want these dynamically generated pages indexed, which is why they're blocked by robots.txt. The archived stories do have static html pages with normal URL's.

  3. Re:Driving down the price of GEForce 3.. on Nvidia Geforce 4 (NV25) Information · · Score: 1

    Stop complaining and go to Price Watch. You can get a GeForce3 TI for $137.

  4. Camera? on Net Connected Dream Inducer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Presumably if this thing can sense your movements, it's got a camera of some kind. Do you really want a net-connected camera pointing at your bed?

  5. Re:Here's McAfee's contact page on McAfee Will Ignore FBI Spyware · · Score: 1
    how do you know that they are telling you the truth?

    When you see a virus warning about Magic Latern upon opening an email from fbi.gov.

  6. Re:Some potential ways to protect oneself from Mag on McAfee Will Ignore FBI Spyware · · Score: 1
    There are a reasonable number of remote-root exploits for Linux

    Show me one remote root hole in the latest version of any commonly used Linux software.

  7. Re:Fucking Great on McAfee Will Ignore FBI Spyware · · Score: 2

    If I were the FBI, I'd sign the virus with a secret key to keep others from imitating it. All McAffee would have to do is to check the signature on the virus.

  8. Re:Fucking Great on McAfee Will Ignore FBI Spyware · · Score: 1

    I'd be very easy for me to make a SourceForge project that claims to be an awesome piece of software but which rm -rf's your hard drive when you install it. So yes, you are stupid if you don't look around first to see if you think you can trust the software author.

  9. Re:i have a question on KDE 2.2.1, On Win32/Cygwin · · Score: 1
    Running KDE in MS Windows (using the Qt framebuffer I assume) would require using the CPU to handle everything, which would slow down the system noticeably.

    There is no framebuffer in Windows. I believe the KDE port runs on the same GDI graphics layer as all other Windows apps.

  10. Re:I need this like I need colonic irrigation on Galeon 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    IE 5.5 renders it fine. So do Mozilla 0.9.5 and K-Meleon 0.6.

  11. Re:Net Ready on XBox Netplay Already · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The XBox is the whore of gaming consoles. It's a celeron processor with an nvidia video card. Whow, some great amazing technology that Microsoft gets to put their name on.

    And the GameCube has a PPC processor and an ATI video card. AFAIK, all modern consoles have parts not made by the company that sells them. The XBox is no different.

  12. Re:Easy! on GTK-- vs. QT · · Score: 4, Funny

    So Mozilla build 20012311 must be the best piece of software ever made!

  13. Re:Not fantastic on Debian Freeze Process Update · · Score: 1

    They're only to keep Apache, Mozilla, etc. out of the stable version, which most people don't use anyway. If they actually do remove these packages, people who want to use them will compile them themselves, find unofficial packages, or use packages from the testing/unstable trees.

  14. Re:Never happen. on Red Hat Proposes Alternative Settlement To MSFT · · Score: 1
    My understanding is most of those games work just fine under WINE.

    My understanding is that most of these games are for Macs and therefore don't run under Wine.

    Besides if this actually went through, you would probably be seeing some Educational Software Companies actually produce for Linux.

    Good point.

  15. Re:Never happen. on Red Hat Proposes Alternative Settlement To MSFT · · Score: 1
    Why so? Just about every software function available under Windows is also available under Linux.

    Linux doesn't have any of the cheesy educational games. Fractionoids, Math/Spell Dodger, Math Blaster, Classworks, etc. are't available for Linux. Now, in my opinion, almost all educational games are stupid and don't help kids learn. But the schols will still want them, and Linux will never be accepted in middle and elementary schools until it has better educational software (high schools are the exception, because Linux is very useful for CS classes).

  16. Re:Obligatory Microsoft Joke on Scientists build DNA based computer · · Score: 2

    Certainly it's more reliable than the Windows 3.1 calculator. :-)

  17. Re:Physical Security risks? on Scientists build DNA based computer · · Score: 1

    If your computers only have a 99.8% chance of correct password authentication, you've got more to worry about than just physical security.

  18. Re:Dear God on Scientists build DNA based computer · · Score: 1
    You should read Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead trilogy (the sequels to Ender's Game). It talks about this exact problem. As I recall, the solution in the books was to create a nonintelligent countervirus that latched onto the original virus and killed it.

    However, I don't think this should be a consideration. Do we worry about my Athlon and your Pentium IV plotting to take other the world? Is this any different?

  19. Re:Nice start, but... on Scientists build DNA based computer · · Score: 2

    Then your computer would be five times slower.

  20. Re:Happend To A Friend on Nintendo Game Cube Crashing? · · Score: 1, Troll
    50% of the machines

    4/10 is 40%, btw.

  21. Re:Modem/Ethernet? on Sega Drops Dreamcast Price To $50 · · Score: 1

    I have a $60 SMC Barricade for my DSL connection, it has an ethernet port and a serial port for an external 56k modem. I've never used it with a modem though, so I don't know how well it works.

  22. Re:Better and Better on Mozilla 0.9.6 Released · · Score: 1
    There are actually two ways to do it. You can say:

    user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");

    which disables all Javascript popups, or you can say:

    user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);

    which disables opening windows on page open and close.
    Both of these examples are from the excellent Mozilla Customization page.

  23. Re:Mozilla on Mozilla 0.9.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I have a P266 w/ 64MB of RAM and Mozilla is quite snappy on it. It takes about 30 seconds to start, but afterwards I don't notice any difference between it and my 766Mhz G4.

  24. Re:Bounty won't matter much. on Upping The Softmodem Code Bounty -- To $20,000 · · Score: 1

    I could easily bypass the rule too, by pushing the "redial" button every five minutes. Does this mean I have to be certified as a modem operator?

  25. Re:Replacing the Desktop methaphor on The Next Computer Interface · · Score: 1

    Here's a link to the psdoom site.