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  1. Oh The Irony on Microsoft-Antitrust.gov Opens for Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh.

  2. Re:This is so true on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 3, Funny



    Must
    Consult
    Someone
    Else


  3. :: SIGH :: on KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 Finally on FTP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, and 3.1.3 finally finsihed compiling on my 233-MMX just yesterday...

    O-well...

  4. Re:What they lose on What The RIAA Gets Out Of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    The replacement job must be of the same wage, enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as be at the same location with the same people at the same desk with the same computer doing the same thing.


    Do I get a Red Swingline Stapler?

  5. Re:Mandrake on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 5, Informative

    As much as I like gentoo, it doesn't release packages immideatelly after they are released.

    nano -w /etc/make.conf

    Advanced Masking
    # ================
    #
    # Gentoo is using a new masking system to allow for easier stability testing
    # on packages. KEYWORDS are used in ebuilds to mask and unmask packages based
    # on the platform they are set for. A special form has been added that
    # indicates packages and revisions that are expected to work, but have not yet
    # been approved for the stable set. '~arch' is a superset of 'arch' which
    # includes the unstable, in testing, packages. Users of the 'x86' architecture
    # would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to enable unstable/testing packages.
    # '~ppc', '~sparc', '~sparc64' are the unstable KEYWORDS for their respective
    # platforms. DO NOT PUT ANYTHING BUT YOUR SPECIFIC ~ARCHITECTURE IN THE LIST.
    # IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF YOUR ARCH, OR THE IMPLICATIONS, DO NOT MODIFY THIS.
    #
    ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

    You'll get stuff a LOT faster. I've been using that "unstable branch" (if you will) for a year and a half or so with zero show-stopper problems on 5 or so machines. OK, OK, there's a bad realease from some developer from time to time, but Portage will down-grade it next emerge -u world if there's something really bonked with a package or ebuild.


  6. Re:Mandrake on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 1

    Oh... Thanx. I hadn't known that amount of detail about it all. Thanx for the heads up. :-)

  7. Re:Gnome development outpacing KDE? on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    KDE isnt doing much to their interface lately, although we can blame Xfree86 for not finishing up the SVG stuff, KDE is getting left in Gnomes dust right now.

    I would love to hear your rationale for saying that. How has Gnome surpassed KDE? How has KDE's interface grown stagnant? I agree with the SVG comment part, but that's not KDE's "fault" (not that it's anyones "fault", but...). I can be 100% honest when I say: There is nothing major not offered in KDE that makes me even think of it as growing stagnant, and certainly not with the 3.2 release in the works.

    (I'm not trying to start a war, there's good things about Gnome as well, I just prefer KDE and would like to hear why you feel that it's getting "left in Gnomes dust right now")

  8. Re:Still major usability issues... on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I normally have a great number of windows open. As most start their entry in the taskbar with the application name and then the content of the application I normally can't read which specific instance of an application that button means

    This is the great thing about multiple desktops. It took me a little while to get used to, but I can't stand going to a Win* machine and having only one desktop now after using "Linux" for 5 or 6 years.

    I usually use 4 desktops. 1 and 2 are my "working" desktops (work, web browsing, games, etc.). Desktop 3 I leave my mail app open (kmail). Desktop 4 I usually have Pan open or minimized, and also keep a few network monitoring apps open (etherape, ethereal, tailing /var/log/messages, things like that). This way it keeps my taskbar clutter to a minimum, but keeps everything just a click (or a CTRL+TAB) away at the same time. VERY handy!

  9. Re:Mandrake on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 2, Informative

    better yet,

    su
    emerge sync
    emerge world/gnome

    And you get gnome, all nicely compiled for your system, not a fucking 386 from nineteendicketytwo.



    Although I love Gentoo (I got my 1.4 CDs yesterday!!), You are so wrong about MDK. MDK is compiled for pentiums and up. You're thinking of Red Hat. It's compiled for a 386.

    Please think before you post.

    P.S.
    Yes, I'm aware there's a 486 release of MDK (or at least used to be, anyway), but the "default" MDK distro is compiled for the 586.

  10. Re:Bacteria power! on Bacteria Powered Batteries · · Score: 2, Funny

    leave them in my kitchen for a few seconds

    Wouldn't any of our Computer Desks make for a better enviroment? I guess if you look at it that way, the battery would almost never die...

  11. Re:Trojan, or propaganda? on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 4, Funny

    By the time I typed this comment, the number had not changed, so I'm probably getting a cached copy. What did it show when you hit it?
    Timeout on server
    Connection was to www.taipeitimes.com at port 80


    heh :-)

  12. Personized News! on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yu made the remark yesterday morning during the weekly closed-door Cabinet meeting, in which Minister without Portfolio Tsai Ching-yen briefed Yu on the matter.

    I hadn't realized that I talked with China or Tiawan latley.

  13. Re:Blinded By Hate on Microsoft to Build High School in Philadelphia, PA · · Score: 1

    If afterwards the students bought MS products for themselves, so what, they are likely to anyway.

    Do you really think they are going to buy the CDs? THe MSDN (no key required) versions would most likley be the ones floating around the school. There's no ned to buy anything at that point. Even if the Admins did lock everything up in a safe somewhere, With this "technology" available to the kids (broad-band, nice machines, etc.), it's a snap to grab ISOs for whatever they want from the 'Net.

    Still, I see your point, if all these kids know is M$ stuff, then that's all they'll look for.

  14. Re:the thing i always want to know on Practical Unix & Internet Security · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sometimes people like to read, ph33r, offline.

    What's this "offline" thing you mention? I've never heard of it.

    What's their website?

  15. Re:Ever heard of OBD-III? on UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? · · Score: 1

    people can and do get tickets for 1mph over the limit in the US. It's crazy, but that doesn't seems to stop them.

    While you are right, that's not what the parent was saying. He was saying that the gauge in your car is not totally accurate. It may be reading that you're driving 55 you easily could be going faster, thus (in the case of a really anal officer or township or whatever), you could get a ticket for speeding while you had every intention of not speeding.

  16. Re:'Cause.. on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 2, Funny

    And guess what our primary source of hydrogen is right now: natural gas.

    Just eat at Chi-Chi's a lot. Problem solved.

  17. Re:Does anyone see IP issues inthe future? on Corel Goes Private · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    simply now an owned brand

    Isn't that a bit like RAW vs. Smackdown...

  18. Re:perl with RPM lovin' ? on Perl Modules as RPM Packages · · Score: 1

    'zat better?

    No. You didn't mention Gentoo or Debian.

  19. Re:Math on The Trilogy as One · · Score: 1

    Sorry... Sorry...
    pretend I never typed that...

  20. Math on The Trilogy as One · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The Trilogy as One"

    So where's the third DVD movie in a two movie DVD release? D'OH! Oh wait, it hasn't come out yet...

    boneheads...

  21. Re:Right... video game journalism on On Videogame Journalism · · Score: 1

    533?!? 7|-|3 73rr0r1575 0\/\/|\|z0r j00!!

  22. Re:Fluff piece? on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 1

    Grow up. Your questions are completely loaded so you would never get the interview. They are not "hard hitting" as you would like to believe. They are immature and counter-productive to dialogue.

    Loaded? Yea, I guess they are a bit, but the part you glossed over is it would indeed be REALLY damn interesting to here the answers...

  23. Re:Darl must be losing it... on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for Darl to go way out there and say aliens are assisting IBM with the case against SCO.

    IBM already deals a good bit with aluminum

    Hmmm... maybe there's something to this...

  24. Re:Finally!!! Conspiracy Theory! on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 1

    or I could be talking out of my a$$.

    So that means you dropped the $699?

  25. Re:Wrong film on Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly · · Score: 1

    "Aliens" was released as "Alien 2" in Japan.
    There is no plural form in Japananese, file company has renamed as "Alien 2".


    Oh, OK. Sorry. I don't know that...