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  1. Re:Statistics! on Korean MSN Site Hacked · · Score: 1

    So you are talking about a BSD distro when the previous poster talked about BSD/Linux. I don't consider it a fair comparison, it's like comparing FreeBSD to different Windows versions. But it's true that BSD is favoured among web hotels and has significant installation base, I'm not disputing that.

  2. Re:no surprise... on Morse Coders Beat SMSers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure. Attach a full keyboard to a tiny a mobile phone, that's a great idea. Trust me, you can't be as quick with those mini keyboards as you are with full sized keyboards.

  3. Re:what do you mean MS doesn't do tabs? on Browser Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    Try setting the user executable bit and Type=Application then it works. I guess diego forgot to mention/copy those. Then it would be possible trick user. Desktop files should be added to same class as any executables: email programs should warn about them.

    But diego, do tell more about the conversations you had with the freedesktop people.

  4. Re:what do you mean MS doesn't do tabs? on Browser Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    I tried that kind of desktop file, it didn't work. What are you talking about? Could you tell more about it and prove it? By discussion, I assume that you mailed their mailing lists: can you provide a link to your message in their mailing list archives?

  5. Re:Advice to developers on Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporware Claims · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure.. :D

  6. Re:Advice to developers on Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporware Claims · · Score: 2, Insightful

    which is different of what you are doing now? You're arguing how they should do it..

    It's not like they are in a big flame war, they are just stating what the status is currently.

  7. Re:Linux! on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: 1

    I know nothing about zeroconf but here it goes..

    Shouldn't this be implenmented on a lower lever than desktop environment?

  8. Launchpad's Rosetta on Canonical Plans a Version-Tracking Tool for Devs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will it result in inconsistant translations? I translated few of the item's and already noticed how somebody's translation differed from what I would've written. The Gnome finnish translation team does provide a dictionary for english > finnish ( http://www.gnome.fi/cgi-bin/sanakirja.cgi ) but will everybody translating from english to finnish use it? How about other languages? Who get's to decide which term to use in the actual release?

  9. ltsp on How Many Desktop PCs Can One Server Replace? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The power can be direct to users via Linux Terminal Server Project. Use a gigabit network and you can have lots of users. But why would someone buy it if it has too much processing power for their needs?

  10. Re:Still no cigar on Something to Sidetalk About · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think that it's the worst mistake in it. Otherwise it would be a cool gadget. I used the original N-gage for two weeks with couple of games and if it wasn't for the bad screen, I might have bought one. I don't know, if the phone I had a bad battery or not, but it didn't seem to last too long. Do you know if the playing time has increased with the later models?

  11. Re:Still no cigar on Something to Sidetalk About · · Score: 1

    What do you think about the screen? Is it a big problem for you that it's vertical and not horizontal like in most devices?

  12. Re:Miserable failure... on A Search Engine Manipulator's Tale · · Score: 1

    I thought it was bit funny too... :)

  13. Miserable failure... on A Search Engine Manipulator's Tale · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This just reminds me of a <a href="http://www.google.fi/search?q=miserable+fai<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ure">miserable failure</a>.

  14. Re:Recommended Storage Media on MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation? · · Score: 1

    Just name it as sylvia.saint.hot.lesbian.action.on.sybian.avi
    The re'll be always interest on that...

  15. Yeah, real cheep on The Hundred-Buck PC · · Score: 1

    100$ * 1 000 000 = 100 000 000$

    Think about if the real developing countries have that much money...

  16. Re:One Expensive Song on Norwegian Student Ordered to Pay for Hyperlinks to Music · · Score: 1

    $15,900 fine / 170 songs / probably hundreds of downloads per song (200 for calculation) = $0.5~

    Not much payback for music industry. Although I'm not saying that those songs would be bought if not downloaded..

  17. Re:I'm confused on Author Makes Symbian Virus Code Available · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, even though one might think of it as a positive thing to expose security problems in software, I don't. One should first contact the company about this. And then after a while, depending on what the company response was, release it. The security problem might not be due to originally bad design or lack of interest in security.. In which case the company should suffer from it.

    But now, we, the customers suffer from it.

  18. When is it going to be released? on Ubuntu Preps Next Release · · Score: 1

    Should I believe what is said on their webpages?
    ---
    Release schedule
    The following are the current planned releases:
    1. Ubuntu 4.10 (The Warty Warthog): October 2004
    2. Ubuntu 5.04 (The Hoary Hedgehog): April 2005
    3. Ubuntu 5.10 (The Grumpy Groundhog): October 2005
    ---
    Which would mean that this article was published at least two months before appropriat time IMHO.

  19. Re:Warning: I brake for BSODs! on EU Approves Anti-Collision Automobile Radar · · Score: 1

    But it might in reality just do that. See, I've noticed that some people tend to speed up, drive just behind the car they are about overtake and then switch lanes at the very last moment leaving only a little bit of space between. So when driving aids become more common, we might have to change our driving styles.. And that's not a bad thing!

  20. Great idea on Technological Solutions for the Partially Sighted? · · Score: 1

    It's very good that you are searching for solutions. Unfortunetaly I don't have any advices to you. I hope that we get a slashback on this or perhaps you could post a web page about the results so other people could learn from what you've accomplished.

    Thanks

  21. Re:Not the first time on Nokia Invested In Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Which one and was it considered as good product by consumers?

  22. Re:Kudzu on Thoughts on Automating Driver Installs for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Kudzu only detects and install driver modules found on the computer, as far as I know.

    From the frontpage of http://driverondemand.sourceforge.net/

    Overview of Driver On Demand

    Driver on demand is an attempt to ease driver installations in linux. Basically, what happens is that a user installs a PCI, PCMCIA, or USB (not implemented yet) device, if a driver isn't found, the client connects to a CGI server, to check if the device is known, if it isn't, then the driver lookup fails and the user is no worse off then they currently are. However, if the device is found online, the driver information file (similar to .inf's, just XML and more versatile), and it is analysed. If its built into newer versions of kernels, but theres a driver available, the driver is installed, but the system recommends strongly that the user upgrades their kernel, automatically.

  23. Re:Of course not on A Publication Style Guide for Linux? · · Score: 1

    But such guides should be created if possible. If somebody would like to code using The Style Guide he/she couldn't found it resulting in more that incosistent code. Creating a guide improves the situation in the long run.

  24. Push to talk on Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out push to talk.

  25. Re:I'm so glad to see this! *rimshot* on Location-Based 3D Audiogame Debuts · · Score: 1

    But that would've still required you to have some kind of blue print of the level in your head.

    Good game, though.