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  1. Re:Great! on PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Does anyone think it's coincidence on Futuremark Replies to Nvidia's Claims · · Score: 1

    What's even stranger is that the quake3 and 3dmark2003 renamings even work using the opengl wrapper on an ATI card. So, if it's not Nvidia's drivers doing it, what is it?

  3. Re:Also worth considering: the Xbox on Playstation 2 Linux Cluster at NCSA · · Score: 1

    It's a 700+ Mhz Celeron, which is better than whatever the PS2 has (except maybe for the highly vectorized stuff that the Emotion Engine excels at).

  4. Re:Well. on Playstation 2 Linux Cluster at NCSA · · Score: 1

    It's called an Xbox.

  5. Re:Wearing it inside out on Shocking Clothing · · Score: 1
    the jacket can't be grabbed from a woman and used against her

    How would you plan to grab it?

  6. Re:9800 is a great card, is there a linux driver y on ATI vs. NVIDIA: ATI Steals the Show · · Score: 1

    The opensource drivers in XFree86 work with my 9700 PRO, I assume the 9800 would work too. If not, there's always the vesa driver :-).

  7. Re:Graphics Wars on ATI vs. NVIDIA: ATI Steals the Show · · Score: 1
    ATIs comparable card, the Radeon 9000, is completely powerless. The 5200 beats it hands down

    Really?

    The GeForce FX 5200 isn't as capable a performer as its feature list might suggest, but that doesn't mean cards based on the chip aren't worth picking up. At only $67 online, the GeForce FX 5200 is a few dollars cheaper than the Radeon 9000 Pro. For gamers, the Radeon 9000 Pro offers better and more consistent performance. However, for average consumers and business users, the GeForce FX 5200 offers better multimonitor software, more future-proof feature compatibility, and silent and reliable passive cooling. The GeForce FX 5200 is a great feature-rich card for anyone that's not looking for the best budget gaming option.

  8. Re:Now I'll wait to buy a Mac on PPC 970 Confirmed for Apple? · · Score: 1
    Switching is perhaps not considered a growth market

    Then why did they spend $$$ on switch ads?

  9. Re:In my CompSci class.. on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    Windows has a pool of a few hundred million beta testers. It's hard to beat that.

  10. Re:Why does Opera get so much play on Slashdot? on Opera Releases Version 7 For Linux · · Score: 1

    Conservative point of view as in "Let's get a guy famous for lying to save the president's ass [Ollie North] and have him cover the Iraq war"? That's not a conservative point of view, that's just moronic. Well actually, I guess it worked out pretty well for them, but it completely removes any semblence of impartial journalism from their reporting.

  11. Re:the purpuse of Debian stable is to be stable on GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    I was talking more about the GNOME release. In any case, it's well known Debian policy that the stable series is never changed within a release except for backports of bugfixes. I suspect that the version of KDE in Debian stable (2.2) has had a lot of backports from the various security holes found in KDE 3.x. As for Debian unstable (which is, of course, quite stable), it currently has KDE 3.1.1 and I assume it will get 3.1.2 soon. The only reason KDE was stagnant in Debian for a few months is that the gcc3 upgrade broke C++ binary compatibility and they wanted to get that worked out before plunging in a huge load of new incompatible C++ packages.

  12. Re:My one KDE feature request on GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    You don't have to use metacity with gnome 2.x, you know. Sawfish is infinitly superior and still retains the keyboard configurability of 1.x.

  13. Re:I had no idea.... on GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    They changed all the GNOME icons too, so I don't know what the KDE people are bitching about. Besides, the default look of KDE does not matter one bit, you can theme it however you want.

  14. Re:ATTENTION!!! on GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It wasn't amusing, it was just stupid. Everyone knows that the purpuse of Debian stable is to be stable, and therefore it does not carry development releases. Pointing that out every time a remotely-related thread comes around is utterly pointless.

  15. Re:Mozilla and Phoenix need this on Glade 2 Tutorial · · Score: 1

    Surely you know about Galeon and Epiphany?

  16. Re:MOD this up on Hacking the XBox · · Score: 1

    Of course you can give points back. You just did so, by posting here and cenceling your moderation.

  17. Re:nmap is easily fooled on Nmap Featured in The Matrix Reloaded · · Score: 1

    He's from Adequecy, what else would you expect?

  18. Re:This is a good thing. on Ogg Now An RFC · · Score: 1
    The day that Apple do idealistically put OGG support into Ipod, I will buy one.

    You might want to keep an eye on ipod Linux. It boots and can play OGG at about 80% realtime. When it's optimized and gets a decent GUI, it should be pretty sweet.

  19. Re:Now if only it had a decent name on Ogg Now An RFC · · Score: 1

    That was OOG.

  20. Re:Now that it's an RFC... on Ogg Now An RFC · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Hopefully on Ogg Now An RFC · · Score: 2, Informative

    EAC will work fine with Ogg, just download the encoder and point EAC to it. Alternately, you can use CDex or any number of other programs.

  22. Re:Instead... on Making Change · · Score: 1

    Only because they all end in ".97"

  23. Re:Low-resolution TV is an optimization on Doom III Trailer Debuts At E3 · · Score: 1

    John Carmack is not targeting the TNT2.

  24. Re:Idea for Gentoo compiles... on Gentoo/Opteron On The Way · · Score: 1

    The whole point of Gentoo is that the packages are optimized for your system. Since an s390 would have to cross-compile, that's not gonna happen. All you would get from this is a cumbersome, expensive version of Debian.

  25. Re:DB or not DB? on Real World Webserver Price vs. Performance Figures? · · Score: 1
    Something Postgres most definitely is not.

    How would you know, if you haven't touched it in three years?