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  1. Re:Mmmmm on Sandia's Laptop Heatpipes Closer To Market · · Score: 1

    You can fry an egg on an Athlon XP.

  2. Re:Unlike other people, I tried this.... on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    Imagine the sweet jobs that'd open up if the government required all ISP's to hire staff to browse all the porn newsgroups deleting child porn.

  3. Re:The problem is... on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you can set Freenet to run over port 80 (or 443). That way they couldn't tell it from standard web/https traffic.

  4. Re:Hmm. Not helpful on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1

    I understand that G4s (and Athlons, to a lesser extent) are generally faster than a Pentium of the same clock speed. That's why it's sad when OSX on a computer with faster hardware is slower than WinXP.

  5. Re:Hmm. Not helpful on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1

    When OSX on a 1ghz G4 feels slower than WinXP on a 1ghz P3, you know OSX is slow, and it's not the hardware's fault.

  6. Re:I'll stick with real cartoons, thanks on A Photorealistic CGI TV Series Coming Real Soon Now · · Score: 1

    Not 3d, photorealistic CG.

  7. Re:Netcraft on Fooling NMAP for Whatever Reason · · Score: 1

    Nope. Netcraft simply returns the information given by the web server's headers, it does not actually attempt to probe the system's OS with TCP fingerprinting.

  8. Unfortunately on Live Vorbis Streams Over 802.11b From SXSW.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    The sound quality sorta sucks. It not vorbis's fault - I can't really hear artifacts. It's just the mics/equipment/soundcards they're using, I guess.

  9. Re:Definition of a good game... on Diablo II JavaScript Parser Automates D2 Gameplay · · Score: 1

    The halting problem?

  10. Re:Debian on Mozilla.org Launches Mozilla 1.3 · · Score: 1

    apt-get install mozilla-snapshot will get you a Mozilla 1.4a snapshot in Debian sid.

  11. Re:could be big on Linux Audio Developers Conference · · Score: 1

    If you have a decent sound card (SB Audigy, etc...) and are using ALSA drivers (I'm not sure about OSS), the sound card will do the mixing in hardware and you're set. If your card/drivers can't do hardware mixing, than you can install the aRts or esd soundservers to do software mixing, and put MOZILLA_DSP=auto in your ~/.mozillarc (on Debian anyway).

  12. Re:Common object model on KDE & Gnome Usability Engineers Interviewed · · Score: 2, Informative
    I've yet to see a Bonobo part implemented in C++, let alone any scripting language

    Gecko and AbiWord are both written in C++, and both are available as Bonobo components.

  13. Re: Age of Mythology on Root 101 - Concept of Root for Newbies · · Score: 1
    I guess you're right, but you could reinstall the OS with a blank password. That's not very subtle though. :-)

    And holy fucking shit, do the blockers block Google these days? I know they'd been restricting images/cache, but taking out the main google web search would just be crazy.

  14. Re: Age of Mythology on Root 101 - Concept of Root for Newbies · · Score: 1

    Only dedicated hackers would have a Windows install disk? :-). Besides, it doesn't take a lot of effort to search Google for "cgiproxy".

  15. Re: Age of Mythology on Root 101 - Concept of Root for Newbies · · Score: 1
    eventually he will figure out how to kill the blocking software

    It's not like blocking software isn't trivial to bypass even with a guest account.

  16. Re:Whole new meaning ... on Surgeon Says Face Transplants a Reality · · Score: 1

    You mean they do ass transplants now?

  17. Re:FP w/useful info on Surgeon Says Face Transplants a Reality · · Score: 1

    It's probably going unchanged because Mozilla autocorrects it to nytimes.com, while IE gives an error message.

  18. Re:so you are a canadian? on Intuit Sued Over Product Activation · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Writing to a congressperson with an opinion isn't a felony however, even if you're a little misleading about your citizenship.

  19. Re:Hmmmm on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  20. Re:Circumvention? on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 1

    You're completely missing the point. A subscriber couldn't just post the URL for a Future story because, if the slash coders are smart, regular users couldn't see it even with the URL.

  21. Re:Defining the percentage on What Percentage of Internet Traffic is Pr0n? · · Score: 1

    Anything that would be illegal if a kid instead of an adult was the actor/model.

  22. Re:Info on the kit from a user. on BlackRhino Linux Now Available for PlayStation 2 · · Score: 1

    No one's suggesting you use the PS2 as a computer. The idea is that it's an easy way to get developers familiar with the PS2 hardware and capabilities without having to sell them an entire dev kit.

  23. Re:They both have problems on Has GNOME Become LAME? · · Score: 1

    In gnome, an applet is a special program that runs in the panel, like a clock or network monitor. The xmms applet puts buttons in the panel to stop, start, skip tracks, and so on.

  24. Re:Question on licensing on Has GNOME Become LAME? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it'll be GPL'd and not LGPL'd. That means that it can't be used for software under a non-GPL license (including proprietary and BSD).

  25. Re:You have a choice! on Has GNOME Become LAME? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have a opaque unix command prompt than a translucent useless Windows command prompt.