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  1. Linux 2.2 on SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    They said Linux 2.4 and later.

    We could all just switch back to 2.2 right now! and avoid litigation.

  2. Price on X-Prize Overview: To The Edge Of Space, Cheap · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Enough of the overviews. When will I get to travel like I'm on Star Trek? And yes, I don't want to see borg.

    Oh well, tick tick tick.... I wonder how much it would cost to buy a ticket to travel on one of these machines when they come out?

  3. Re:G O A T S E . C X on Australian Federal Court Overturns Legal Modchip Sales · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I had mod points, I would mod you -1 offtopic

    Well, at least it's in Internet Protocol Version 6.

    cut here

    The ACCC might appeal, since that decision also made it a bit more legal to sell multiregion DVD players here.

  4. Re:Even if SCO proscuted them... on Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO · · Score: 1

    What difference would it make?! Australia is a *prison colony*. What are they trying to accomplish?

    Excuse Me, but I take that as a very offensive statement. Not all of Australia is a prison colony. (i.e South Australia). Even though I am not a descendant of a convict, as an Australian citizen I think ./ is not the place to shame countries. Find somewhere else to spam. In Australia, we always take the end-customer seriously

  5. Re:AOL8 claims 'popup blocking' on AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders · · Score: 1

    Umm... they could always 'fake' it by using IE User agent strings and divert error messenges to the IE ones.

  6. Re:As always, more proof of the old saying: on AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders · · Score: 1

    We have to complete our assimilation of the Alpha quadrant.

    Yeah, we do. But you are still yet to explore the Delta Quadrant because of those pesky Borg on 1nm SOI processes.

    "We are the Borg" - 1_of_12

    To mods: Yes, this does qualify for either: 0, Offtopic, 1 Funny or -1 50% offtopic, 20% underrated and 30% funny

  7. Re:It sounds like.. (In other news...) on SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 1

    ... RedHat (NASDAQ: RHCE) executives are reportedly uncomforable with Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUN) actions.

    Now... why the hell does http://wwws.sun.com/software/linux/ exist.

    From the page (If you have a problem with this, I DON'T LIVE IN A COUNTRY WITH ANY KIND OF DMCA-LIKE LEGLISLATION!): "Linux from Sun is more than just an OS. Sun takes a systems approach - x86-based hardware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and will tightly integrate with our Sun ONE product family and Java value-added software"

    Now, I wonder if any Sun employees are going to act as whistle-blowers

  8. Re:Real Geeks use UUCP on Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Of course!

    Our company also standardised around TeleType terminals years ago.

    We also standardised around Bang!paths. Why shouldn't!every!body!get!a!copy!of!your!pr0n!?

  9. US citizen on Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! · · Score: 1

    DAMMIT!. I have to be a US citizen over 18. bugger.

    Australian and 13 years old here.

  10. Re:babelfish translation on GPL May Not Work In German Legal System · · Score: 1

    And so has Google Translate ( http://translate.google.com )!

  11. Re:After we finally got the thing stable.... on Microsoft Pulls Plug for Support on NT4 · · Score: 1

    Use a real kernel. Use Linux Kernel 0.1. Availiable from http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/kernel/Histo ric/
    right now!

  12. P2P not outlawed on Sweden To Outlaw File Sharing, Crypto Breaking? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Read carefully. It says it's illegal to get files without the permission of the copyright holder. So in other words, P2P porn will still be legal in Sweden

  13. Bochs on Sen Hatch Would Like To Destroy Filetraders' PCs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We might as well use Bochs in order to prevent this. Guess he never thought of that (VMware and Virtual PC might actually pass the self-destruct command to your main system)

  14. HEV on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 1

    Sounds simular to the Half-Life H.E.V protective suit. Wonder if it will allow you to heal with soda cans from vending machines? and administer morphine when you fall

  15. Re:GPL - Source Posted on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 2, Informative

    To me this looks like it's a cover up. Netscape has it's source located on cvs.mozilla.org and they aren't saying anything about that (and hell, a shitload of Netscape Proprietary stuff could be in there).

    As far as I see, NullSoft had authorisation at local level. They released it thinking it was 'Go go go', but AOL said "Speak to our lawyers first". The GPL doesn't allow revocation. It probably was autorised.

    NullSoft has other P2P stuff up it's sleeve

  16. Sounds Promising on Preview of Java 1.5 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ohh.. this sounds very promising. The fact that I don't have to do this:
    JPanel jp = new JPanel();
    JComponent jc = ((JComponent)jp);

    or Node xmlNode = (Node)xmlElement;
    sounds quite good.

    Probably one of the most significant changes in years to the Java language.

    --
    Mathew McBride
    Head Honcho Jazilla Project

  17. Re:Running this puppy on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Assuming that mozilla is properly installed on your machine, you need only run: /usr/bin/mozilla
    Ahh.. what are you going to do. However, you are implying that you need to be using UNIX/Linux/*BSD/Cygwin. But hey, on my Debian box, it's under /usr/local/mozilla

    Hasn't Sun changed their license to allow you to use their code with non-Sun VM's?

    --
    Mathew McBride
    Lead Developer: Jazilla Project
    http://jazilla.sourceforge.net

  18. Re:So, using Javascript and Java... on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Unless you get 1,000 votes for bug -1* it won't be implemented until 2015.

    At that time, I would of probably switched the GUI to something rendered in OpenGL.

    (Me don't want it rendered in DDraw crap)
    * NOT a typo.
    --
    Mathew McBride
    Lead Developer: Jazilla project

  19. Re:Running this puppy on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 1
    So what... the Jazilla home page looked
    worse in JTextPane then it does in HTMLRenderer.

    JTextPane clearly sucks due to a lack of reliable XHTML Renderer. And the fonts look quite bad too.

    For Comparison: (note, the version shown here is slightly advanced from M1) look here

    See the differences?

    JTextPane disadvantages:
    • JTextPane: Requires Entire page to be parsed
    • JTextPane: Parses XHTML incorrectly
    • JTextPane: Not really Open Source


    The Window IS Resizeable. And HotJava is in EOL. Yes HotJava is a bit more advanced. But it will NEVER implement XHTML directly
  20. Re:Running this puppy on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 1

    If I can just correct myself:

    unlicensed = jXUL doesn't even have a license.

  21. Re:IE, Mozilla, and Opera are all I need! on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, Jazilla might be the only Java browser out there.

    HotJava - Who's working on that. I think it's dead
    XBrowser - Dead
    (I'd be suprised if someone names a actual Browser NOT RENDERER written in Java which people are working on - other than Jazilla)

    Point is: You can run it on almost anything. Unfortunately, you will need a VM which supports JFC/Swing. AWT Sucks :(.

    (Windows users could do with a good 3D Card, as Swing on Windows uses DDraw.)

    What I really need are Swing coding guru's, that's why some of the GUI is hard coded, because at the moment, the browser tag takes over the entire app.

  22. Re:Running this puppy on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    I might as well add two other things I didn't put in my original submission:

    1) Look in org/netbeans/netbrowser/tags for any .java files not compiled. Compile them. The renderer uses Reflection to start up tags, so they don't get compiled at compile time. In the future, if Jazilla finds a compiler and tag which isn't compiled, it will compile that tag
    2) Did I mention that getting URL's is multithreaded? If you try and hack it abit, e.g use a JIT for Crimson, you might get a better result.

    Also, anyone wishing to make a product based on Jazilla, note that the jXUL part is unlicensed. I am yet to talk to Kevin T. Smith (co-founder of the jXUL project) about what license to put it under. The renderer is under the SPL. When that's done, expect anything under org.jxul to move to org.jazilla

  23. XPFE. on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 1

    At the moment I use Firebird only on my Linux box. I simply cannot stand not using XPFE/SeaMonkey.

    I might as well maintain the XPFE browser myself..

    Whoops... better get back to some hacking on myself

  24. XBox Modchips on Play PSX Games On Your Xbox · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It looks like M$ will never let us mod our XBoxes without being banned from XBL. What a shame.

    Well. It looks like we will still need to depend on Buffer overflows then. I wish we just used the buffer overflows to install and boot a Linux system, not use it like Knoppix.

    Then again, I can't wait for *BSD on Xbox!

  25. This is going to be good on Wireless at Firewire Speeds? · · Score: 1

    I'm definitely going to buy it when it comes. Now I can hold LAN's between my friends without a high ping.

    However, I think some ISP's with game servers would want to have a good hard look at this technology. It could help keep the bandwith choke down in metro areas