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  1. Re:So why no JVM in Mozilla? on Java Rocks On Linux · · Score: 1
    It looks like the wheels are finally in motion: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28461

    When java finally hits Mozilla, I'll wipe Netscape from my disk drive.

  2. Re:Scary thought... giant soldiers? on Australian Scientists Produce Giant Mutant Mice · · Score: 1
    Yikes, I was quickly mouse-scrolling and I though that said giant spiders. [shudder]

    Of course, giant spider bodyguards would be a tad bit more imposing than a giant human bodyguards...

  3. Re:We need to stop this "bit of fun" now on Australian Scientists Produce Giant Mutant Mice · · Score: 1
    Of course, you are assuming that there is a God to begin with; or that your particular God has the same Divine Plan as a genetic researcher's God.

    I think an ethics committe is a good idea, but keep the "religious minds" out of the whole deal becuase, quite frankly, I have a really hard time with people telling me I can or can't do something just because God says so. I can't put myself ethically under the thumb of a being(s) I can't see or hear and who only talks to certain people. If I were one of these scientists, I'd listen more closely to the person who says, "Hey we really shouldn't be breeding these super mice becuase quite frankly my cat is scared witless," rather than the person who says, "Super mice are a sin against God's Divine plan." (Whatever the hell that plan might be...)

    Besides, I've always wanted blue eyes... And a bushy tail... yeah... then the chicks would dig me...

  4. Oh please... on Australian Scientists Produce Giant Mutant Mice · · Score: 2
    People, this is no real accomplishment becuase, believe it or not, mice which are 30-40% bigger have been around since the beginning of history. They're called rats, okay?

    [Insert the obligatory one liner about now having to breed lager cats here.]

  5. Re:Straight Line Tutorial on What's Ahead For The GIMP? · · Score: 1

    The very fact that there needs to be a tutorial to draw a straight line, implies that there should be a tool (either in the toolbar or via menu) which has that functionality.

    Ob. Disclaimer: Microsoft free since '93. (94 actually, but the other way rhymes.)

  6. This may sound like a stupid questoin... on X11 Serial Killer? · · Score: 1

    I read the documentation and I'm wondering if you use the key combo to kill processes, does it do this regardless of the user? i.e. if I were to do this while logged in as david and do an 'alt-SysRq-l' will I be able to bring the machine down to its knees?

    David

  7. Re:What if.... on XFS to be released under the GPL · · Score: 1

    Well I imagine that the big tip off would be that Windows suddenly start working right...

  8. Re:Simple recompiles on Fragmentation in the Windows World · · Score: 1

    Well, when the binary only app doesn't work, I ldd the app and then download the libraries which it needs.