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  1. Re:If I hadn't already posted, I'd mod this funny! on Virtual Decentralized Networks: Linux's Organization · · Score: 1

    But how many of those end in -rbation?

  2. Re:If I hadn't already posted, I'd mod this funny! on Virtual Decentralized Networks: Linux's Organization · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Before I posted, I actually did check my rhyming program for words ending in -rbation besides "masturbation", and the only other result was "perturbation". I decided that that probably wasn't what you were searching for, though ... guess I was wrong. :-)

  3. Re: Slashcode comment preview bug? on Virtual Decentralized Networks: Linux's Organization · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I see the tab in the screenshot labeled "Google S...rbation". I think, "That's a little more than we needed to know".

  4. Re:PDF AVAILABLE on Low-cost Reconfigurable Computing (FPGA's) · · Score: 1

    It may not be his fault, but it's still redundant. Moderation is to improve the reader's experience, and we don't need to see 10 different comments with links to identical PDF files.

  5. Re:Sue them. on iTunes 2.0 Installer Deletes Hard Drives · · Score: 1
    It's a bug mistakenly left in a legitimate program. It doesn't do a check before it delivers its payload, aka:

    if harddrive.multiplepartiotions()
    rm -rf /

    The code, as an earlier poster stated, is like this, where some values of $1 and $2 could cause the shell to translate the command into rm -rf /:

    # if iTunes application currently exists, delete it
    if [ -e $2Applications/iTunes.app ] ; then
    rm -rf $2Applications/iTunes.app 2> /dev/null fi

    If an innocent mistake were a virus, Microsoft would have been sued out of existance already.

  6. Re:Pish-posh... operating system whippersnapper on UNIX hits the Big Three-Oh · · Score: 1

    There was no spoon. You just thought you were using it.

  7. Re:Star Office in the 80's on The Waning of the Overlapping Window Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    It did.

  8. Re:Star Office in the 80's on The Waning of the Overlapping Window Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    Not the same thing. The Star Office you're thinking of was developed by Star Division around 1996.

  9. Re:Ick! on The Waning of the Overlapping Window Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    Or you just disable popups.

  10. Re:The Full Changelog on Linux 2.2.20 is Out · · Score: 2, Informative

    There was a /. discussion on this a few weeks ago.

  11. Re:What about 2.2? on The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Especially since 0.01.x still has one. :-)

  12. Re:Alan Cox hijacked development on The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox · · Score: 2, Informative

    All Alan Cox did was to refrain from mentioning something in a changelog because he thought it would be illegal. It's like saying "I won't carry a concealed weapon because it's illegal". It may be your view that it shouldn't be illegal, but that doesn't mean you don't have to follow the law.

  13. Re:Uuh, I'm amazed! on InfoWorld says WinXP much slower than Win2K · · Score: 1

    Windows XP is faster than ME, its other predecessor.

  14. Re:Try it on grandma. on Linux Making Inroads, But Not At Windows' Expense · · Score: 1

    WTF is the problem with you moderators? An extremely new account number, a name like "OsamaBinLogin", and the typical troll "normal people can't understand Linux" and not one moderatoor has modded this down? I'm disgusted.

  15. Re:Try it on grandma. on Linux Making Inroads, But Not At Windows' Expense · · Score: 1

    For the record, there is no chdir command on UNIX. There's cd, which is even less intuitive.

  16. Re:Try it on grandma. on Linux Making Inroads, But Not At Windows' Expense · · Score: 1

    Or, you could run it on a $300 Duron box. Solaris runs on x86 machines.

  17. Re:Public Transcoder on Pixar Finally Offers Animated Shorts on Pixar.com · · Score: 1
    That sounds good, but I think it'd be too cpu and bandwidth expensive. Final Cut Pro on a 500Mhz G4 takes hours to convert Sorenson Quicktimes to other formats, and you'd need a really fast server to convert multiple movies at a decent speed.

    Also, these movies can't be converted using Quicktime Pro or any tools based on it because they have the no-save, no-copy attribute set.

  18. Re:oh yohoo, quicktime on Pixar Finally Offers Animated Shorts on Pixar.com · · Score: 3, Informative

    XMMS does have Quicktime support, but none of the Linux Quicktime players can play most Internet movies, because they use the proprietary Sorenson codec, of which there is no Linux port (except for the CodeWeavers plugin that uses Wine).

  19. Re:3do on Nintendo GameCube Clone Out In Japan · · Score: 1

    weren't there like 20 manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles? We all know what happened to that lame piece of hardware.

  20. Re:Slackware is below the horizon on Is Slackware Fading Away? · · Score: 1
    With a Debian source package, you get the metadata that allows you to build a Debian binary package that registers with apt. You can really fuck up your system if you have many programs on your computer that apt doesn't know about:

    $ apt-get install package
    Error: dependencies not met: package relies on another-package (which you have on your computer installed from source but apt doesn't know it's there).

  21. Re:Debian vs Slack for the 'unix-like' crown? on Is Slackware Fading Away? · · Score: 1

    If you want to build your apps locally, you should use Debian and apt-get source -b package.

  22. Re:Translated Version on The Guts Of An iPod · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because it's karma-whoring doesn't mean it's not useful. Posts like that one are modded up because they are useful, and whether or not they're karma whores is irrelevent.

  23. Translated Version on The Guts Of An iPod · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Those who can't read Japanese might want to look at this, translated by Babelfish.

  24. Re:Excited for Gnome 2.0 on Solaris 9 Will Be Updated WIth Gnome 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Gdkxft provides AA fonts on a Gnome 1.2 or 1.4 system.

  25. Re:Okay, here we goooo! on All Hallow's Eve · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you're smoking, but everyone else is using Easter Standard Time, as of last weekend.