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  1. Re:Overreacting on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    - Benjamin Franklin

  2. Re:What's even more freaky on Java Application Development on Linux · · Score: 1

    The formatter is *very* customizable. If the indentation is messed up from you viewpoint, odds are that you typed it in that way.

  3. Re:The IDE Issue... on Java Application Development on Linux · · Score: 1

    CVS update early, CVS update often. The whole point of refactoring support is that you can change all of the references at the same time.

  4. Re:The IDE Issue... on Java Application Development on Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well it sounds like you've never seen incremental compilation done *in the background* while you resume typing. Eclipse 3.0 introduces some major UI improvements with the goal of getting out of your way when you want to do something. When you save a file it gets compiled in the background, and you'll even get feedback before you save if some things are going wrong in your source.

  5. Gnome-centric worldview? on Point-and-klik Linux Software Installation? · · Score: 1

    Two wrongs still won't make it right.

  6. Re:Even Linux companies on Red Hat Trying to Make Fedora More Open? · · Score: 1

    1: Red Hat is two words
    2: You can still use the software for free, you just can't call it RHEL and you have to build it yourself since you don't get the binaries.

  7. Re:Fix the bloody build system! on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    In the words of people smarter than you or I: "Accepting patches, bitch."

  8. Just add USB Ethernet on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1

    Add a USB hub and a USB ethernet and you're off. Seeing as how it's got 2 High-speed USB ports, you should be all set.

  9. You're overlooking the obvious on Enthusiast Hacks WiFi Into Treo 650 · · Score: 1

    >...it's a top-shelf product. Other products in similar price ranges all have Wi-Fi. You're NOT getting what you paid for here, that's what people are upset about.

    You're getting exactly what you paid for. It's no one's fault but your own that you overpaid for something and missed out on a feature you wanted. Vote with your dollars.

  10. Um, yeah. on Transgaming to Support Half Life 2 Under Linux · · Score: 1

    So you're telling me you would rather download 5 discs worth of stuff and install it than download 5 discs worth of stuff, install it, and STILL cart your discs around?

  11. Choose your copy protection on Transgaming to Support Half Life 2 Under Linux · · Score: 1

    Most stores don't let you return a game unless it's broken. You must live in Crazy World where exchanges aren't the only recourse. Consider this: the game will have a copy protection scheme. Take your pick of a CD key combined with a goofy Macrovision disc that WILL be problematic for certain optical drives or Steam-based authentication during the install. I pick the latter.

  12. Free support? on Interview with Red Hat VP Michael Tiemann · · Score: 1

    Open Source doesn't mean charity work or not-for-profit. It's a business model and they were offering customers support for a largely compatible product (RHEL3) that was planned to be supported for far longer than RHL8.0 and RHL9 would have been, even under the old lifetimes.

  13. Re: framing on Red vs. Blue Season 3 Begins · · Score: 1

    The framing is necessary to remove the weapon being held by the "camera man" as well as his HUD from the final picture.

  14. Re:Why abandon GTK1? on Gaim Maintainer Rob Flynn Interviewed · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be supported since it's not under development. It's like sticking to the Windows 3.1 widgets, whatever they were called. GTK1 doesn't do proper internationalization aside from all the visible nicities that its successor does do. If you never want your application to be used by half of the world, feel free to keep using it. Just remember, time waits for no toolkit and someday people will be asking why they have to install GTK+1.x just to run an application and have another toolkit use up the extra memory *it* entails.

  15. Screw build from source systems. on Linux Standard Base 2.0 released · · Score: 1

    If you're a software developer, the last thing you want to deal with is bug reports from people who didn't patch or build the code properly or have tried to deploy it on something like Debian Unstable or a similarly bleeding edge system. If you can't isolate your own code as the variant in a system, there's no hope of fixing some bugs. Good luck when everyone builds with different optimizations (compiler bugs, yay!), feature sets (hey, you didn't even compile in support for X, no wonder the GUI's not there) and so on. Selective optimization is good enough, or do you compulsively overclock as well?

  16. Re: mplayer on Real adds GPL to Helix Player, RedHat/Novell Join In · · Score: 1

    How about a usable UI that doesn't make my eyes bleed after 5 minutes?

  17. Re:a few extra notes from someone using OSS on Evaluating Open Source · · Score: 1

    You might as well say that someone who speaks English is automatically smarter than someone who speaks German, French, or any other language. The task might be better served by a VB and ASP.NET programmer, you can't tell. Many OSS-friendly developers use those (or other) tools by day and OSS tools and software by night. Keep an open mind.