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  1. Re:speaking of KDE on Lower Saxony KDE Migration · · Score: 1

    I like most of KDE, but there are a few things that aren't up to scratch.
    Konqueror. Just use Firefox.
    That funny music player. XMMS, hands down.
    Kopete. Haven't tried it for years, but when I last looked at it, anything was better.

    The man hours that are wasted trying to re-invent the Konqueror wheel could be better put to use doing something else, and contributing little patches to Firefox to integrate it more into KDE.

  2. Re:Very strange... on Lower Saxony KDE Migration · · Score: 1
    KDE is not a stable desktop.

    Last time KDE crashed/messed up on me? Not in the last few years. Currently KDE 3.5.2 via Gentoo, and it's lovely.

  3. Cowboy Neal in Slashdot troll shocker! on Dvorak Admits To Trolling Mac Users · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cowboy Neal in Slashdot troll shocker! Read all about it for only $19.99 at all good book stores

  4. RAID 0? on Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd find RAID 1 a better choice. Whack it through the dm-crypt layer, plonk XFS on top, and it'd be good to go.

  5. Re:Hardware? on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I also demand to put the scores near the comment title.

    Yep. On a 1600 pixel wide monitor, it's a long way to look over to see the rating of a comment.

  6. What to do with the data gathered? on Why Web 2.0 Will End Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Just a question. Who will actually pay a lot of money for that data? And what do they think they'll be able to get from it?

  7. Re:Drinking The MS Kool-Aid on 20 Things You Won't Like About Vista · · Score: 1

    Please, someone, explain to me (and maybe many other Brits) what Kool Aid is, and why people should/should not drink it. I hear it all over teh intarwebs, and I don't know what it is.

  8. Re:Virus!? on First StarOffice Virus Sighted · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I bet it isn't even a virus. Someone was caught looking at porn, and they came up with the excuse:
    Look! It must be a virus. Oh yeah, Star Office. They don't have viruses, you say? Well, it must be the first one ever.

  9. Re:define("Improved" sendmail configuration)dnl on Sendmail Removed From NetBSD · · Score: 1
    I've no idea what that dnl crap is about.

    Did not learn.

  10. Gattaca on A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers? · · Score: 1

    GATTACA. Watch it.

  11. Re:This is why... on PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Released to Plug Injection Hole · · Score: 1
    I'm interested - why is it not good to:
    $foo = pg_escape_string("This is my 'blah$*& 'crazy string %^Q*&*&^Q");
    $res = pg_query("SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = '$foo' ");
    Or similar with inserts, etc.
  12. Re:I guess it HAS to be better to sell it on Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.

    Yeah, but if it couldn't support many, you'd be the first saying: Heh look at teh l4me Excel. It's because evil M$ wantz joo to buy SQL server. Evil, evil.

  13. Re:Avast! on Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices? · · Score: 1

    What!? Are you insane? Repost it, and get the karma again - that's what we all do!

  14. Re:More like "Horribly Bad Joke." on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Most people don't even realize how many keys they use. They could default on a law like this without even knowing it.

    Excellent! Everyone's a criminal. Now just make sure you toe the party line, otherwise we could, you know, check up on you.

  15. In advance, or on demand? on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Is this a change from the current laws? Giving them up (on pain of 5 years) when asked for is one thing. Giving them up in advance takes it to a whole new level. What does this include? SSH id_dsa keys? SSL certs? Passphrases for mounting crypto partitions?
    And trust it to the government? They have never once run an IT project properly. Disgusting (if true).

  16. Re:one more thing (didn't see page 2) on NSA Chose Invasive Phone Analysis Option · · Score: 1
    Sources say the NSA's existing system for data-sorting has produced a database clogged with corrupted and useless information.

    DELETE FROM database-clogged-with-corrupted-and-useless-inform ation;
    75275001712992015750 rows affected;
  17. Re:Increase the use of SSL dramatically on The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool? · · Score: 1

    But as you can't run vhosts over an SSL connection, it would be obvious which site your visitors were visiting.

  18. Re:Question on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    Oh, I know they can support it fine. I just assumed the standard boot disks would support it. But no, you have to faff around with other disk, and drivers and stuff.
    It's nothing major, and nothing that I couldn't fix. Just one more little irritation though.

  19. Re:Question on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    Add to that list of stuff: the PHP PDF module. Wonder what the reason for that is.

  20. Re:Question on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1
    Can anyone tell me why a person would want to use Ubuntu on a server, as opposed to just using Debian?

    If I can apt-get install mod_security in Ubuntu, I'm all for changing. I have tried to like Debian, I really have. But no Compaq RAID drivers on the boot floppies I downloaded, and loads of software I need not in the main apt-get lists just means that I can't be bothered with it. Gentoo doesn't kick itself in the head with this sort of thing.

    Mod me down: It's just my opinion.

  21. Re:Digital = infringing? on RIAA Sues XM Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    No, no, I wasn't criticising! But I was just wondering about the history of that expression.

  22. Re:The official story is a conspiracy theory. on US Releasing 9/11 Flight 77 Pentagon Crash Tape · · Score: 2, Informative

    So can you provide evidence of:
    * Rumsfled making a lapsus about "these terrorists who pilot a plane into the WTC and a missile into this very building" while at the Pentagon
    * half of the presumed "hijackers" still alive in Saudi Arabia or Qatar

  23. Re:Digital = infringing? on RIAA Sues XM Satellite Radio · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just noticed something strange - why do we in English say "took" a shit/dump? Made, Did, Had, I can understand, but took just seems entirely wrong.

  24. Re:To the Government I say: on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain to the rest of us how the impeachment process works?
    Can't a random American start the ball rolling?

  25. Exemption clause. on Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that Linus should wave his magic wand, and add a little clause that says these guys are exempt.

    Yeah, I know, I know. Don't bother...