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  1. Video Drivers. on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    Video drivers for linux continue to suck. The GUIs to configure the video drivers also continue to suck, especially when compared against the Windows equivalents. The CLI programs work, but are poorly documented at best.

    If I can't watch a movie after installing Linux, I'm not going to use it.

  2. Which side of the coin? on Cell Phones, Missing Persons, and Privacy · · Score: 1

    If you choose to go missing, then you obviously should be allowed to do so. Like anything else you do, you have to be responsible. Cancel your phone, your bank accounts, credit cards, and the like. Use cash to pay for everything for as long as you want to be missing. Leave a note, if you don't want people to think you've been "disappeared"

    If you go missing against your will, then the police have every right to search for you. But they cannot know if you choose to go away unless you tell them first.

  3. It isn't Apple that's killing Linux on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple has Microsoft Office, Linux doesn't; Apple has Adobe Creative Suite, Linux doesn't; Apple has easily accessed and easy to use service and support, Linux doesn't; Apple is driven by someone who has some understanding of end-user needs, Linux is not.


    So... Apple has some great software (and some not so great software) and is easy to use and Linux desktop distributions don't. How is that Apple's fault?

    Seems to me more like the lack of software, support, and easy-to-use interface are killing Linux on the desktop, not Apple.
  4. Re:one time at computer camp... on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My favourite (and only) dreamweaver vodoo: @@(' ')@@ is the magical incantation to lock an editable region in a nested template. And it isn't documented (correctly) anywhere in any Macromedia publication that I could find.

    Really. It actually is.

  5. Marketroid or real question? on Why Do You Block Ads? · · Score: 1

    I don't want to answer your question. Your phrasing is similar to marketing surveys.

    I don't want to provide you with answers that might help you get around the ad-blockers. I'm not going to answer questions that seem posed to make more effective ads.

  6. Re:Emacs and MarkDown on A Simple Note Taking Software - Which One? · · Score: 1

    I second outline mode in emacs. I've used it quite well in classes. Doesn't let you jot down drawings, but that's ok.

    The default keybindings kinda suck, but they can be easily changed.

  7. Prior Art? on Online Testing Patented · · Score: 1

    What about IQ tests? I took some online in 1996. And there's all that purity test sillyness.

    How do I determine if it is prior art? What do I do if it is?

    26% pure and counting.

  8. Jeeves... on Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room? · · Score: 1
    Then you can say that the butler did it.

    Nope. never mind. that's lame.