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  1. Re:Inevitable comment about bloat on Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux · · Score: 1

    Can you give me an example of something that is eye candy without serving as a visual cue?

    You've never heard of 3ddesk, have you?

  2. Re:DHCP? on Interview with Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1

    Get a grip, jesus christ. I'm giving valid criticism about broken default behavior in a ground-up installer. You're the one foaming at the mouth, not me.

    Maybe *I* know how to change the network config after the fact because I've been using debian for 8 years but guess what, not everyone will know how to do that, and the default behavior doesn't give you any obvious way override unless you're in "expert mode". I doubt a person new to Debian would consider themselves an "expert".

  3. Re:DHCP? on Interview with Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and what if you _don't want DHCP_ even if there's a DHCP server responding? It's just the wrong thing to do.

  4. DHCP? on Interview with Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wow, defaulting to DHCP without even asking seems like an awfully annoying idea to me :P

  5. Re:Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo Eyeing the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    They aren't even "vague rumors", it's true. The premise, the visuals, and the characters are all more-than-loosely based on Ridley Scott's Legend, with inspiration from the Chronicals of Narnia

  6. Re:A better bottom line on Microsoft Looking to Sell Slate Magazine · · Score: 2, Funny

    So they'll be giving up after Xbox 2 then?

  7. Re:Arizona on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1

    Well, I know of at least one Arizona tech company that's doing well and looking for new employees. Any quality mod_perl/HTML::Mason people out there looking for work in Sunny Tucson?

  8. Re:Mozilla 1.6 bypass instructions. on Online Publisher Blocks LinuxToday Referrals · · Score: 1

    Do YOU realize that http is a stateless protocol and that coding a login based codebase without cookies, a thing that ARE available in every browser used by more than 0.05% of the population, is a massive pain in the ass?

    To hell with the paranoid and the luddites, there's nothing wrong with cookies.

  9. Re:Mozilla 1.6 bypass instructions. on Online Publisher Blocks LinuxToday Referrals · · Score: 1

    "Cookies were neat until sites started requiring them in order to function properly."

    Do you realize, captain paranoia, that the very site you're posting to as a logged in user "requires cookies to function properly"?

  10. Re:may I be the first to say on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    In a related issue, Missouri is in the process of banning "sexy" billboards, while they have a large number of others spouting religious propaganda, which I find far more offensive

  11. Re:may I be the first to say on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good thing the FCC doesn't rule over the internet

  12. Re:I don't think I want this on Simon Phipps Looks At 'Looking Glass' · · Score: 1

    Imagine this desktop combined with a really well done version of Apple's "Expose" feature. THAT I could go for :)

  13. I just had lunch on SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With Alan Meckler, the CEO of Jupitermedia. His company recently put on the CDXPO conference where Darl gave a keynote speech. I asked Alan if he had attended that keynote, and he said that he had.

    I believe his quote was, "He's like a Nazi propagandist, trying to convince everyone that concentration camps are for the good of the country"

  14. Re:OK... good on Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    While its 'write-safe', the writes it can do is completely useless to most people.

    "The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find that some very small files (500 bytes or so) cannot be written to."

    Maybe using the windows NTFS driver this way will help provide enough debug info to complete this driver

  15. Re:Multiple Firewire drives? on Linux 2.6.0 Expected In Mid-December · · Score: 1

    I have a linux machine with 2 firewire pci cards in it with a total of 5 drives plugged in, working flawlessly.

    I suspect the issue is with your controller card driver, or the card itself. We're using Adaptec FireConnect 4300 cards with Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 chips on them in 2.4.18

  16. Re:Pfft. on Freedesktop.org on KDE/Gnome, New Goals · · Score: 0

    you're not very good with women are you?

  17. Re:Udev on Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test10 Released · · Score: 1

    That is not accurate. The maintainer is AWOL, but the replacing of devfs is a technical decision. It has lots of problems, some of which are design problems. udev CAN do everything devfs does, and better. Just about the only thing it's waiting on is complete sysfs support from all the drivers in 2.6.

  18. Security isn't something you "cook" on Linux Security Cookbook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure you can learn a few tricks about current versions of software, but that's no substitute for staying up to date and UNDERSTANDING the software you run, in addition to watching security related mailing lists and newsgroups.

    System administration isn't easy, that's why they make big dollars.

  19. Oh come on on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 1

    everyone knows that 24 is the highest number

  20. Why would they wait? on SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program · · Score: 1

    It's more likely than not that they'll lose, so it makes sense that they'd try to get as many companies as possible to give them money before they go away.

  21. I still can't figure out on EFF's Cindy Cohn Talks About Patriot Act II · · Score: 1, Funny

    What Natalie from The Facts of Life has to do with Patriot II

  22. Re:Then Microsoft must be guilty of GRAND TREASON on Open Source Enables Terrorist States · · Score: 1

    The obvious loophole is this:

    No jury in the US would ever convict Allchin of terrorism, treason, and espionage because Microsoft Is Capitalism And Capitalism Ist Gut(TM)

    However, he couldn't be found guilty of perjury either because he said "I *think* it would be a risk to national security", whereas he could say "Now, I believe otherwise"

  23. Right on Open Source Enables Terrorist States · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and Microsoft giving the source code to Windows to the Chinese government is a bake sale

  24. Re:Reading about them is such a tease on New Sony PVR/DVR and DVD Recorder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can do pretty well with a linux box and myth tv, although its not quite as feature-complete as tivo. A nice solution though :)

  25. Re:refresh rates on LCD Overtaking CRT · · Score: 1

    Samsung has a 12ms LCD that they're using for HDTV. That'd be a solid 83 Hz, and definitely good enough for anyone's needs.

    Here's hoping it makes its way into monitors soon :)