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  1. Re:Games on What Do You Do When CS Isn't Fun Any More? · · Score: 1

    When I read your comment, I thought that that sounded a lot like my school. Then I looked at your e-mail address and realized that it was my school ;)

    I'm just a lowly EE major that makes fun the of both the CS and IT majors.

  2. Re:Not entirely. on WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks · · Score: 1

    MSN displays in netscape 4.78 and lynx (that suprised me) but will not display in netscape 3.04.

  3. Re:Ok, on XOSL, an alternative to Lilo and Grub · · Score: 1

    Mandrake 8 and corel have a very pretty graphical interface to lilo.

    /boot/message is a binary file on my mandrake system. I have not done any more research about it, but I assume that is how they get a very nice, colorful, high resolution menu.

  4. Re:OS X seems to be Unix done right... on Ars Technica OS X 10.1 Review · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, have the icon only appear when there is something in the drive, that way you can spend 5 minutes trying to figure out where it put the damn icon.

  5. Re:mp3 on What Sounds Better, MP3 or Ogg? · · Score: 1

    I did just about the same thing and also thought that that the ogg files sounded tinny...

    Then I listened to the original CD and was amazed that it sounded much more like the ogg then the mp3.

  6. Re:SCSI: why? on The Ultimate Linux Box 2001 · · Score: 1

    There are at least 2 IDE cards that do hardware RAID. Adaptec AAA-UDMA and Promise Supertrak

    Anandtech did a review of 5 different RAID cards (3 software and 2 hardware) in June. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=14 91&p=1. The performance was disapointing (at least to me) but now you can't say that you haven't seen a IDE card do raid 5 in hardware ;)

  7. Re:Middle mouse button w/tabs on Mozilla 0.9.5 · · Score: 1

    If the pref is hidden, what good does it do us?

  8. Re:Definition of a stable kernel on Kernel 2.4.12 Released · · Score: 1

    redhat 7.2 will

  9. Re:Looking good on Mozilla 0.9.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Here are the appropriate lines from one of my webserver's logs with hits from Opera when it is identifying at Opera, Mozilla 5.0, Mozilla 4.76, Mozilla 3, and MSIE 5.0, respectivly:

    24.169.XXX.XXX - - [15/Sep/2001:10:43:14 -0700] GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 511 "-" "Opera/5.12 (Windows 2000; U) [en]"

    24.169.XXX.XXX - - [15/Sep/2001:10:43:44 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 511 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows 2000; U) Opera 5.12 [en]"

    24.169.XXX.XXX - - [15/Sep/2001:10:43:54 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 511 "-" "Mozilla/4.76 (Windows 2000; U) Opera 5.12 [en]"

    24.169.XXX.XXX - - [15/Sep/2001:10:44:03 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 511 "-" "Mozilla/3.0 (Windows 2000; U) Opera 5.12 [en]"

    24.169.XXX.XXX - - [15/Sep/2001:10:44:12 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 511 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 5.12 [en]"

    Note that in all cases, the string "Opera 5.12" appears.

  10. Re:bah, for windows users... on Windows XP: Prices, And One Reaction · · Score: 1

    They ran the tests again with RC1 and there was a 5 to 10% improvement in speed. Not great, but a little better.

  11. Re:*n?x version? no on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 1

    No, there isn't a *nix version of -turbo, since there isn't a *nix version of IE to compete with ;)