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  1. When this comes out... on Fiber-to-the-Home Internet, TV, Phone in One Box · · Score: 1

    in Australia, I'll be a grandfather, at the speed of Australia's uptake in anything network technology related, well one day someone will truely oust the Telstra monopoly in Australia.

  2. Re:Makes you wonder on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 1

    Well I guess I was always one of those few who tended to buy there time before buying another hard disk. I only recently bought a 60 GB, and i feel I won't buy another until Serial ATA is among us and strong.

  3. Its not 12! on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 1

    Its 10: "...a 4 channel ATA/133 RAID adapter (making for an unprecedented support of 10 ATA drives onboard)..."

  4. Makes you wonder on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 1

    What will the usefulness of 12 IDE ports be? Anyone who needs that much hard drives will be using SCSI, and its not Serial ATA, could anyone explain why this is useful to me?

  5. Re:I want non-realistic games damnit! on Is Realism Destroying Video Games? · · Score: 1

    half life? foo, what ever happened to the real deal death match, quake/quake3

  6. Re:RIT degree on Is Realism Destroying Video Games? · · Score: 1

    "he refuses to code the JavaScript to play well with IE as he claims it's "broken"" so very true, an example being eventlisteners, what's with them not sticking to a defined standard? they have it for a reason, i don't always want events to bubble! oh, and does he call it andysgi for a reason (sgi fetish perhaps, i know i have one :))?

  7. Re:Uses new compression standard on JPEG2000 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    "...and probably get Microsoft involved. They have lots of experience with data corruption." Got that one right.

  8. Re:Valgrind and memory leaks on KDE 3.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    Well thank you, I've learnt something; I didn't realise an undeclared inheritance was taken to be private. At any rate i would just like to mention I prefer to call it non copyable, with an underscore between words, but its your perogative to choose your own method.

  9. Re:Game Programming on ATI vs. NVIDIA: The Next Generation · · Score: 1

    this could be attributed to the employees of nvidia all being from colourful backgrounds (sgi et al), they have the experience that ati doesn't

  10. Re:Valgrind and memory leaks on KDE 3.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    you mean: class MyClass : public Uncopyable i prefer to stick to real english words, and uncopyable isn't one, don't mean to be pedantic

  11. Re:KDE 3.0 Scoop on KDE 3.0 is Out · · Score: 2, Funny

    why lurk when you can script :)

  12. Re:Pleading... on Konqueror's Javascript Continues To Improve · · Score: 1

    well one of these days everyone has to move to a fully dom 2/3 compliant browser if there in to visual viewing (eg not lynx)

  13. one thing to say on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    keep riding that pony

  14. you know what's funny? on Linus Retiring from Kernel Dev · · Score: 1

    even on this day i can't get modded up more than 2!

  15. Re:I was a skeptic on OpenOffice 641d Released, Next Stop: 1.0 · · Score: 1

    i want to know if there gonna put some filtering into the icons or anti-aliasing into the text / drawing objects, that's why it still looks dirty in comparison to office

  16. Re:sadly, it doesn't matter how well it works on OpenOffice 641d Released, Next Stop: 1.0 · · Score: 1

    well what do you call large? i opened up an 80kb xls file (it had one sheet with about 600 rows and 3 columns of voltages values from a picoscope, and then a graph on those values on the same sheet), it took swriter (what's with the staroffice names?) about 5 minutes to load it, now that's just crazy, i'm not running on my old dx2 33!

  17. Re:version number on OpenOffice 641d Released, Next Stop: 1.0 · · Score: 1

    now that's a nifty versioning system i never thought of!
    why not also the double cup sizes? eg. the infamous dd, hey, that rhymes! fruity.

  18. Re:OpenOffice at work on OpenOffice 641d Released, Next Stop: 1.0 · · Score: 1

    when you do, inform us, i really need an australia dictionary, its very annoying to manual add so many words, if not an australian dictionary, at least a uk english one!

  19. Re:Well... on OpenOffice 641d Released, Next Stop: 1.0 · · Score: 1

    well what i love is that when it does crash, it saves your files to a recovery state that can be gotten whence you reopen openoffice, very well done there, if only more programs were like that (well i do realise its not a universally applicable concept)

  20. Re:What's the next step? on Eric Raymond: Why Open Source will Rule · · Score: 1

    for the more detailed permissions, i believe you can do that with XFS and ACLs

  21. problems with oreilly site on 'Shared Source' .NET Overview · · Score: 1

    i can't seem to view that page with konqueror (kde 2.2.1), hope you can fix that :)

  22. what will it include? on Open Source Computer Algebra Systems · · Score: 1

    maybe i'm not understanding it properly, but will this be a large maths library? if so what will it include exactly?"

  23. Re:What makes Mozilla different... on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 1

    your underestimating konqueror and the underlying kparts architecture that allows it to do so much more.

  24. Re:641C is nice on Sizing Up StarOffice 6.0 · · Score: 1

    Java? i beg to differ, have you ever tried looking at the files it install's, libstdc++? stlport? hmmm, don't look like java to me!

  25. Re:PS3 on Sony's R&D- Linux and PS3 · · Score: 1

    The programming difficulties have been eased, as the tools become better, for example the new vector c compiler for the ps2 automatically does all the vectorizations to push those 16 pipelines, no more hand coded asm