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  1. Re:Blindspot??? on Stealth Asteroid Misses Earth · · Score: 1

    Well you can't point a telescope towards the sun and expect to see something! You can only see Mercury(most of the time) after the sun has set.

  2. Perl on New Python/C# Bindings Expand KDE Languages · · Score: 2

    It needs a perl binding.

  3. Re:Huh? on Digging Deep for the Real Mars · · Score: 2, Informative

    The mob who made the stupid comments is not the CSA, but the group who made the drill. They don't really know much about space, they just know drilling into rock. So in this case the gaff is acceptable.

    David

  4. Re:What difference will it make? on Network Associates Gives Up Search for PGP Buyer · · Score: 2

    Well KMail handles it all beautifully. I generated my key once, an uploaded it to keyserver. Since then everything I do with GPG is handled by Kmail with no problems whatsoever. In fact in the new version of KMail, if it can find a key for the person you are emailing it will encrypt it by default.

    David

  5. Homebrew PVR? on TiVo Service Cost Rising · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Anyone know of any howtos for this? And how much is it likely to cost as compared to a standard PC. Thanks,

    David

  6. Umm on Designer Babies, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Steel is actually weaker than the material that makes up our bones.

  7. Re:Something scary... plus more lies and videotape on SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, didn't that work. Nobody has copys of DeCSS anymore do they? :-P

  8. Re:You can use Wine to do this on Windows Media Player in Linux · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I've never used codeweaver's stuff, and I've been running WMA 6.4 under wine CVS for over a year.

    David

  9. Umm on Windows Media Player in Linux · · Score: 2

    I've never used codeweavers wine, I only use the standard one, and I've had WMA 6.4 running for over a year now.

    David

  10. Re:Abiword and OpenOffice on Sun to Charge for Star Office 6.0 · · Score: 1

    I'd personally like to see KOffice become big. It has the potential, and just needs a few more professional features. I'd like to see a secure perl based scripting language built into the Koffice apps. If it had that it would be nearly perfect.

    David

  11. Re:Linux desktops sucks on Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    If you'd RTFM you'd find out that you use middle-click(or both click on two button mice) to cut and paste in X.

  12. Re:What about online Games on Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Well i went macromedia's website and downloaded shockwave player for linux, and it works fine in Netscape, Mozilla and konqueror.

  13. Re:kde the beast... on Coding with KParts · · Score: 1

    Will that be used in 3.0? Thanks

    David

  14. Cookies on Computing Pet Peeves? · · Score: 2

    Not so much a part of programming, but cookies on websites that have no legitimate reasons to use them annoys me a lot.

  15. This sounds fishy to me on Mars Society & 1000planets Team Up · · Score: 2

    No details for a start, on either web site. Any such initative would normally be announced at a press conference.

  16. Re:Alternatives on SourceForge Terms of Service Change, Users Unhappy · · Score: 1

    I'd like a peer to peer system that could do it to share bandwidth load. I though Freenet may have gone partly that way, but it's too slow and the anonymity bit completely stuffs it.

    David

  17. Re:Stop communicating in easily interceptable ways on Australia Spying On Its Own · · Score: 1

    We could always communicate using quantum entanglement!

  18. Re:What's good about 2.5 on 2.5.4 Kernel Out · · Score: 2

    A new scheduler that improves interactive performance+preemptible kernel and other improvements.

    This should make 2.5/2.6 "feel" much faster.

  19. New Scheduler on Preemptible Kernel Patch Accepted · · Score: 1

    The new scheduler and the preemptible patch should work together well. The new scheduler is designed to make interactive tasks seems snappier, so 2.5/2.6 should be a lot faster on interactive stuff.

  20. Re:05:42AM? on World's Longest Slinky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm, don't you know that you can schedule an article to appear on the main page at any time you want? I know because Chrisd showed us how at linux.conf.au last week. :-)

  21. Re:maybe if we stop answering it... on Tracking Spam to the Source · · Score: 1

    I use KMail which doesn't load URLs.

  22. Re:AFAICS on Security Hole in Morpheus · · Score: 1

    Ah okay. I could still get that using tcpdump or similiar though...

    Thanks,

    David

  23. Re:Lack of Natural Selection... on Is Evolution Over In Humans? · · Score: 1

    Stupid people do still get killed, but to really evolve quicker there needs to be more discrimination in breeding. Currently people don't use logic in breeding choices. If they did things could be better. :-)

  24. Re:giFT on Security Hole in Morpheus · · Score: 2

    Um where have you been? The giFT project is now developing an OpenFT network which is similiar to fasttrack, but fully open source. So soon they'll have their own network.

  25. Re:I pick Magneto on Robots vs. Humans And Other Security Issues · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's because Webster's isn't a French language dictionary. AFAIK it is french. Of course I could be wrong. :-)

    David