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  1. Chase was nominated on 2006 Webby Award Winners Announced · · Score: 4, Funny
    I think it's a pity Chase did not win. About a month ago I got an email from them inviting me to unlock my account via the internet. Their website was very easy to use and I had no problems at all filling in all the details.

    I also forwarded the email to my associates, Panikovsky and Balaganov, I thought they would enjoy the services of such a nice company.

  2. Is it a hardware problem? on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1
    Could some hardware oriented slashdotters shed some light on this: why is there no further compartimentalisation done inside the kernel? Why should a driver be able to destroy memory areas that have no relevance to it? A fault in the driver should be signaled to the calling code rather than break everything.

    I see a similar thing with running processes. A bad library can bring down the whole process.

    Is is too expensive to associate a different set of privileges in hardware for every driver in the kernel?

  3. Re:In response to overwhelming demand ... on Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD · · Score: 2, Funny
    What about Yoda? Whatever happens to him?

    Details here

  4. Thermaltake Sonic Tower on Roundup of Eight Horizontal CPU Coolers · · Score: 2, Informative

    In TFA they say: the Sonic Tower shouldn't block access to anything on your motherboard. It's not always true, on a Tyan Tomcat mobo it will push against the VGA card, I had to bend it a bit so that it does not touch any contacts.

  5. Re:Of course not on IBM to Oracle - You Can't Buy Open Source · · Score: 1
    They would do well to have a distro that they controlled so that they could tightly integrate the OS dev with their product development.

    I don't know about them but I want to run whatever distribution I choose. If you want to install Oracle amd64 on Ubuntu you have to make the installer detect RedHat otherwise it refuses to run. I found this more annoying than all the other problems I had during the install.

  6. Just gave RealPlayer a try on Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die · · Score: 2, Interesting
    (realplay.bin:609): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

    Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
    aborting...
    And that's all I have to say about RealPlayer. I'll stick to VideoLan, thank you very much.
  7. Public Relations on Study Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance · · Score: 1
    I am starting to get sick and tired of all these PR scientists. I guess a dry description of what they found will never generate as much fame as saying: we've just proven evolution.

    Vinik after discovering Ingap hired a public relations person. And it was all a miracle until the phase 2 tests. Hwang Woo-suk risked and lost all credibility in cloning just by trying to be the famous. And the list goes on forever.

    If it works so well show us an application. Otherwise show it to your peers that can have a qualified opinion.

  8. Re:When redhat dropped the desktop market on Red Hat Gives up on Fedora Foundation · · Score: 1
    (Ubuntu) It's just not a very "corporate friendly" distro. ... I run Kubuntu on my Linux machine at home

    And so are many of us. That's how Windows made it into the workplace, everyone already knew it from home. If there were only more games for Ubuntu it's enterprise future would be certain.

  9. Re:JBoss and Marc Fleury on The Story Behind JBoss's Boss · · Score: 4, Funny
    He's the most sincere caring CEO of a software company I've ever talked to.

    Marc, don't try to live up to all our expectations. Stop posting as AC.

  10. European Gravity on First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity · · Score: 1

    Before realising it was coming from ESA - European Space Agency I thought it was another article about McDonalds.

  11. Re:Getting a Firefox Alpha on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand why parent was modded Funny. I compile from the trunk on a daily basis and I see nothing unusual about that. At least not among slashdotters.

  12. Can't use it on Ekiga 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Wanted to give it a try but then I read that it needs ALSA. The Nvidia driver for NForce4 mobos only implements OSS.

  13. From TFA on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: 4, Informative
    The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph

    The moslems only attacked Persia in 638. It seems to me that at least one of these inventions have nothing to do with Islam.

  14. Article Summary on Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you don't get punished for being honest. This sounds like a perfect candidate for: In Soviet Russia...

  15. It's about Digital Cameras on Konica Minolta Quits Photography Market · · Score: 1
    I know nobody is supposed to read the TFA by they are ditching the digital camera business as well as the film.

    Konica Minolta said the market had become too competitive, and added it would sell its digital camera business to Japanese electronics giant Sony.

  16. AMD Shortage on Intel Loses Market Share to AMD · · Score: 1
    I am not sure if this is of interest but in Europe I have noticed a shortage of Opteron dual core chips. So far the only place where I could find some was a couple of shops in Germany and they went out of stock quite fast.

    All shops in USA that I could find and that had them did not ship overseas.

  17. Slashdot DupeBlock on Web Users Judge Sites in the Blink of an Eye · · Score: 1
    I think leaving this for the editors to solve is not getting us anywhere. Maybe a Firefox extension to filter out dupes is the way out.

    The question is how does a program recognise a dupe? My first guess would be to verify the links in the story intro against a list of already posted ones. I would not go for read links as not that many people read the articles first.

    Any other ideas?

  18. Re:Doomed to failure? on EU to Develop Search Engine · · Score: 1
    If I am to believe the stories in the newspapers all you need to put up Google is a russian an american and a garage. There's lots of russians in Europe, we certainly have garages and I there's definitely americans as well. There is of course this little detail of finding the exact russian, american and garage. So what we need to do is lock them in random pairs in every garage until we find the right combination.

    So on this occasion I would like to invite Anna Kournikova in my garage for some googling.

  19. They have a special way of dealing with spam on Behind the Scenes at Hotmail · · Score: 1
    During the last month I only used my gmail account. When I saw this story about hotmail I went and check my hotmail inbox. Everything had been deleted.

    So long and thanks for all the spam
    So sad that it should come to sham

    Could anyone suggest a better rhyme for spam?

  20. Re:Huh, at first I thought... on Panel Confirms S. Korean Cloning Fraud · · Score: 1

    I wish I could metamoderate also as Funny not as just Fair/Unfair. The parent comment about cloning stories on Slashdot was modded Redundant.

  21. Remember those MS Word 2 Documents on The Softening of a Software Man · · Score: 5, Funny
    Bill Gates has moved from trying to take over the world to trying to save it.

    Will future versions be able to read what he saved? And even if they could will it render the same?

  22. Re:It's the industry, folks on Behind a Steve Jobs Keynote · · Score: 1
    Jobs is like Ralph Lauren or Steven King.

    I don't believe that, I have yet to see a post on Slashdot with the subject: Netcraft Confirms it ... Steve Jobs, dead at 54

  23. Sometimes 39 buttons is not enough on The Engineer Behind Microsoft's TV Strategy · · Score: 1

    As you can see here the remote control for the Dreambox has a lot more keys.

  24. Nullsoft on Microsoft Unveils 'Urge' Music Service · · Score: 1

    Initially I was shocked that the creator of Winamp showed together with Gates but a quick google search revealed that the one in the article is another Justin.

  25. -1 Troll on Windows, Linux 25 Year Old "Clunkers"? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think we should be allowed to mod the stories as well as the comments. This way we could get rid of both the dupes and the trolls like the current story.