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  1. Re:It Sounds Nice on What to Expect From Qt 4 · · Score: 1

    And how do you add the feature of reducing the memory footprint and so on?

  2. Re:Near-Miss on Too Much Tech Diminishes Work Relationships? · · Score: 1

    "who believes that users are a fucking plague of idiots set loose in Biblical proportions upon my otherwise Utopian computer networks."

    Reminds me of Maltilda... when Miss Trunchball said that kids were a plague on a school, and that school would be much nicer without them :)

  3. Re:RTFM on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    I wrote a patch for tar to auto detect compression, but it got rejected.

    So I have started to rewrite all the tools - once and for all fix it all

  4. Re:Also ... on Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you meant "buy windows apps and run it under linux" right?

    Just incase you did mean what you said - wine doesn't need a copy of windows installed.

  5. Re:A sense of Aesthetics. on What's Missing from Free Software? · · Score: 1

    oh come - you can probably pull a quote to disprove anything. I would still stick to that the majority of programmers respect artists (as long as they are good artists - a bad web designer can leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth)

  6. Re:A sense of Aesthetics. on What's Missing from Free Software? · · Score: 1

    I've never met any programmer that looks down on the graphic design community. And I doubt visa-versa.

    However, in art, people don't _want_ other people modifying their art/music - and most of them hate the very thought of it.
    It's this difference that can cause problems.

  7. Re:What I always wondered on OpenGL 1.5 · · Score: 1

    OpenSceneGraph can use sdl btw - a rather powerful combination too

  8. Re:The easy way isn't always popular on Blocking MSN Messenger? · · Score: 2, Funny

    punish anyone that doesn't use sametime ;)

  9. Re:The easy way isn't always popular on Blocking MSN Messenger? · · Score: 1

    They could go through a sametime server - that provides logging and support for msn.

  10. Re:We've come a long way baby on White House Obfuscates Email · · Score: 1

    He was being ironic.

    (I hope I used that word correctly)

  11. Re:Openoffice.org? on Panther's TextEdit to Open MS Word Files · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hmm, well you can start openoffice and have it running as a server.

    Then your java apps (or python or whatever) can just talk to it via java objects (or whatever).

    Makes it trivial to create word doc's.

    In a day I made a web page where you could type in a web url or upload a word document, and it would create and return a pdf.

  12. Hue on Graphics Tricks from the Command Line · · Score: 1

    I used to this to change the hue of a load of pictures.

    I broke a picture of a map down into all the edges (roads) and then changed the images into various different hues.

    Now in a web page, you can see the roads change colour :)

  13. Re:So 100,000 rich mac users like Itunes,this prov on Evaluating a System for Selling and Delivering MP3s? · · Score: 1

    You had a bad childhood right?

  14. Re:Great! on OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1

    yeah okay - pay me for a weeks work and I'll do it, or money back :)

  15. Re:Great! on OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't know whether you can or not....but..

    I know this is probably unacceptable for this situation, but you can quite easily write java code that communicates with openoffice. I did this in a day to convert word documents to pdf's, and manipulate them. An added bonus I got for free was to also convert from a webpage to a pdf.

    It's neat to watch it :)

  16. Re:Who says any of that is fun? on Gaming Site Reviews.. Real Life? · · Score: 1

    You know, you don't _have_ to drink alchol!

    I know - surprising huh.

    so you work 8 hours. That still gives you 4-5 hours a night to do stuff.

    And if you don't drink, you can go out both saturday and sunday! And if you are adventurous, friday night too!

  17. Re:Let the Servers Burn!!! on Installing Halon Fire Supression System at Home? · · Score: 1

    > You've got insurance? Then let em burn

    I agree. The collection from the life insurance will be enough to retire on if you have the average 1 wife and 2 kids.

  18. Re:Try Water on Installing Halon Fire Supression System at Home? · · Score: 1

    I was wondering - do you put sprinklers in the kitchen? And what about electrical/chemical fires?

    I remember something about pure water (with no contamanents) is not conductive. Is this true? Could you filter the filter somehow enough to make it better on electrical fires?

  19. Re:And the other 9%? on Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit · · Score: 1

    damn, I was hoping to see a matrix-parady with sco shooting bullets, and tux dodgying them.

  20. Re:license violation on Random Humor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um that doesn't mean you can get hold of a copy for that reason tho. You would have to download it for educational purposes, then once you have it, change your mind, and laugh at it.

  21. Re:South Park episode display classic irony on Isn't It Ironic? · · Score: 1

    I had always imagined it to be like a short disc, so it would lie flat on the tounge, so the cheeks are to the side of it.

  22. Re:Perl 6 is a mistake. on First Perl 6 Book is Out · · Score: 1

    um, regex's aren't nfa's. nfa's can do, for example, make sure a string has the same number of opening ('s and )'s.

    so you'd have:

    String -> '(' String ')' | ...

    try doing that with a regex

  23. Re:Oog have big dick! on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    can't they put the loader on a cd along with linux and run that?

  24. Re:What a bunch... on Microsoft Lays Off 34 Japanese Xbox Employees · · Score: 1

    It's still disturbing :P

  25. Re:What a bunch... on Microsoft Lays Off 34 Japanese Xbox Employees · · Score: 1

    dude, your sig is disturbing.

    And hard to be sure you don't mean it in a racist way.