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  1. Re:well well well on 'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK Public Domain · · Score: 2, Informative

    Britain != England

    Britain = England + Scotland + Wales

    I'm English, and I do not wish to be associated with the Welsh, thank you very much :)

  2. Re:Nothing left for Modders on New PowerMac G5s: Up to 2.5Ghz, Liquid Cooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could always slap a Type-R sticker on the side of it.

  3. Re:Wow! on New PowerMac G5s: Up to 2.5Ghz, Liquid Cooled · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, they're very nice, but THIS is the UNIX-nerd's dream machine!

  4. Re:Several reasons on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 1
    When Adobe sees the light or WINE supports Photoshop, MS can kiss my skinny white butt.

    Well, Photoshop 7 runs fine under Crossover Office on Linux, so Billy-Boy had better pucker up.

  5. Re:The good (?) news on Interplay Finally In Process Of Going Under? · · Score: 1

    They're still pretty new, but they're in charge of Knights of the Old Republic 2 for LucasArts. Which is nice :)

    That should set them up with enough cash to be able to work on their own projects.

  6. Re:The good (?) news on Interplay Finally In Process Of Going Under? · · Score: 1

    Hmmmmm...Maybe (ex Black Isle) Obsidian Entertainment would be interested in acquiring the Baldur's Gate license.

    Here's hoping!

  7. Re:Might as well seed the system a bit..... on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...profit?

  8. Re:Slashdot applies for European Patent on European Council Approves Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Full story again next Tuesday.

  9. You'll be wanting to read this howto: on Suse 9.1 Reviews? · · Score: 1

    Here.. It involves tweaking the kernel a little bit, bit it's not a major hassle. 3D acceleration is now working fine on my Radeon 9200 under SuSE 9.1 :)

    I think the real trick is to switch off the "Use register arguments (EXPERIMENTAL)" option, as this is known to break binary only modules.

  10. Captions on Possible First Photo Of Extra-Solar Planet · · Score: 4, Funny
  11. This is classic! on Ignalum Linux - A Bridge to Windows? · · Score: 2, Informative

    " ... Based on his belief in Linux, Daniel founded Ignalum Software, Inc. in 2002 and created the Ignalum Linux OS, when it became clear that without some of his input making its way into mainstream Linux, Linux will likely continue to suffer as a high maintainence Operating System."

    Hahaha! Cheers mate! There was me slaving over a hot server, and your mainstream Linux input has made things so much more low-maintainence!

    Good luck with the slashdotting :)

  12. Re:I guess it's a nice to have... on "Missing Link" In Windows Emulation Unveiled? · · Score: 1

    I've successfully run both Photoshop 6 and 7 under Crossover Office on various Linux distros. They ran absolutely fine. I haven't tried CS, but I can't imagine there would be too much trouble.

    As always, YMMV :)

  13. Re:TUI? on Text Based User Interfaces in the 21st Century? · · Score: 1
    I've NEVER heard a command line referred to as a TUI!

    I think it's referring to actual text based user interfaces with equivalents of windows, menus, buttons, etc, rather than straight command line interfaces.

    Something ncurses based like the Debian/Slackware installers, for example.

  14. What's going on here? on Text Based User Interfaces in the 21st Century? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Text based user interfaces? DOS Games?

    What is this? The Dark Ages?

    Ah, I see. We must be experiencing some latency from the frame dragging.

  15. Hungarian Translation on Hungarian Mac OS X Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    "My iHovercraft is full of eels!"

  16. Re:ice? on Messenger Spacecraft Prepared for Mercury · · Score: 1

    Seeing as we're water based life forms, mapping out the exact location of all the water deposits in the solar system seems like a pretty good idea to me, if we're ever going to explore it.

    I get your point though, where are the frozen alcohol deposits?! ;)

  17. Re:Redneck on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 1

    Oh well, the ter'rists have won. Let's all sit around and wait for the Sun to explode.

    Seriously, who really needs nuclear ballistic missiles anyway? Why be so obvious? You can see those coming a mile off! A warhead in the back of a taxi would do the trick just fine, and wouldn't need expensive propellant or guidance systems either.

    Meh, ballistics are yesterdays scaremongering. (Except for when I'm playing Civ 3, they're quite handy then.)

  18. Re:Redneck on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No science, just commercial space travel. Yes, smashing crap into the moon is completely without merit, but to me it's exciting that it's even possible for someone with the $6M cash and no experience in rocketry to think "Hmm...I think I'll throw something at the moon today."

    Go for it, guys. Run pointless, self serving commercial space launches. Make it cheap.

    There really isn't *too* much of a stretch of imagination between this, and a University landing a portable, robotic observatory on the moon for $500,000.

  19. Scary Boss on TUMIKI Fighters Takes Free PC Shmups Higher · · Score: 4, Funny

    "WARNING Here comes a gigantic toy!"

    I've spent far too much time on the net to not be intimidated by a message like that!

  20. Re:What about on Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated] · · Score: 1

    There's a thread on 2.6 in the forums.

    It'll probably be ready in about a week or so, I reckon. (Looking forward to it!)

  21. Re:When has he been to Mars? on Methane on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Apparently, the Funkometer was right off the scale.

  22. Re:silver top hat on Brain Controlled Tightrope Video Game Shown · · Score: 1

    Nah, you just have to attach a Pringles can to the front of it.

  23. Re:Mozilla 1.6 on Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I used to have my user agent string claim I was running Mozilla 0.0000001 on a ZX Spectrum 48 :)

  24. Re:Generic Rant on Nasty New Virus Variants · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot to close the tags! Now, the rest of Slashdot will be anti-windows, pro-linux/mac...oh, wait...

  25. Re:That's what I call a fan! on Tom's Hardware Investigates Michael's Computers · · Score: 1

    I've seen Motorhead a couple of times, and I have to say that it's still possible to hear some loud noises over the blaring tinnitus.