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  1. Don't cry to me on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 1

    Hate to say it, but I'm not sorry for any of you whatsoever. If 70% of Americans support Bush on Iraq, than I have to believe that 70% of you feel the same way, and that is what I am truly sorry for. If just 1% more of you weren't so fucked up that you didn't vote for GWB in the first place, you think you'd be as fucked as you are now? I used to live in the US up until 1 year ago. Unlike you, I actually did something about it (read used to live ...)

    Hmmm, election year coming up you know. I wonder how people in a democracy go about changing their government? Oh, I guess you wouldn't know about that.

  2. The ironing is delicious on "Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What should we make of the fact that the Unix Tree is located on the same site as a plagiarism detector?

  3. Great summary on Romancing The Rosetta Stone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know, it's not really a summary when you just delete half the article.

  4. gnuplot + perl on Drawing Graphs on Your Browser? · · Score: 1

    I'm looking to do this too, and I think I've decided on using perl and gnuplot. You can write the output of a gnuplot to a jpg file quite easily using a few lines like:

    set terminal jpeg size 480,300
    set output "/tmp/plot.jpg"
    plot " awk ' { print $6 } ' /tmp/data.dat" smooth unique
    replot

    The $6 corresponds to plotting the 6th column of data in the file /tmp/data.dat

    Incorporate these lines into a perl script, and there you go, a jpg image saved as the file /tmp/plot.jpg. Now just put this plot into the html. While I haven't done this yet, it was the easiest/cheapest way I could think of.

  5. Re:Corel on Corel Ousted From Public Life? · · Score: 1

    Here, here. Wordperfect has, and always will my word processor of choice. I however think the problem with Corel and Wordperfect was that they were simply too good at the time. I still use WordPerfect 8 for both Windows and Linux and find both versions so much easier to use than Word ever will be. It's unfortunate, but because they are so good, I have had no reason to pay Corel for their software in a number of years.