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  1. Re:booo... not user unfreindly enough!!!! on GNOME Ignoring its Own Users? · · Score: 1

    I give you the geeky linux install back

    And they take it away.

  2. Re:That sucks on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 1

    I was talking about his wife.

    My bad.. I assumed you were the same guy. Shame on me.

  3. Re:That sucks on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 1

    A few days ago I realized....

    Yeah, I know

  4. Re:That sucks on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 1

    Dude. They're $20 at most. One button just won't cut it.

    I'm starting to doubt you even have a wife.

  5. Re:That sucks on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 1

    You can add the new tab button (like someone else already said) for her if you right click the toolbar and click customize, just drag it on to the toolbar wherever you/she wants.

    There's also the double click an empty part of the tab bar, if it's open and the preference to make the tab bar not disappear when there is only one tab.

    But if she's opening an empty tab, she's probably typing a URI in manually right? ctrl-t is probably handier than the mouse if thats the case. Keyboard focus goes straight to the URL bar.

  6. Re:That sucks on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 1

    Are there things missing from Thunderbird that you will miss from MozMail? I'd be interested to hear how the import goes if you decide to move to Thunderbird.

  7. Re:Mozilla Suite is Dead! on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Um... looks like we need a new entry in The Book of Mozilla.

    And what did the bird (Phoenix/Firebird) do? He:

    • cast
    • fire and thunder upon them
  8. Re:That sucks on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 1

    My wife says that it's easier for her to open tabs with the mouse from mozilla

    Whats wrong with middle mouse button? It works on bookmarks as well as links.

  9. Re:Mozilla Suite is Dead! on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's not dead

    To quote Firefox's "about:mozilla" URI:

    • And so at last the beast
    • fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
      - from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
  10. Re:too little, too late on Star Wars Episode 3 PG-13? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have no fear. It'll be on Quicktime's page in a day or two.

  11. Whatever.. on Normalizing Music? · · Score: 1

    (read on for what I mean by normalize)

    Thanks for not making me RTFA, but you don't expect me to read the whole question do you?

  12. Re:Or... on Google Punishes Self for Cloaking · · Score: 1

    Meh... Lets see them rectify my mailbox. Then I'll be happy.

    I want my money back. ;)

  13. Re:Future viability in question? on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    My simple work around was to add a drawer to my panel which I just drag my favourite apps in to.

    It irks me that important features get removed from Gnome during point releases quite frequently, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

  14. Re:Future viability in question? on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    4. I should have been saying Kate, not Kedit. Kedit is devoid of features.

    In that case, maybe try bluefish if you want something powerful. I've recently started using it for *ML editing, and it's very nice. The custom menu editor is reason enough to switch.

  15. Re:Future viability in question? on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    nah, you can use the applications:// url in nautilus too.

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's gone now.

  16. Re:GNOME 2.10 on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    funny how this (already ) doesn't happen in kde...

    ... And never did with Enlightenment, which I find much more pleasant than Metacity.

  17. Re:KDE trolls are coming on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    I find gnomes load/save dialogs to be far less efficient that KDE's. In any kde app i can open up files on remote servers using fish://servername.domain and it does magic with ssh.

    I think ctrl-L is what you are looking for. It's not very intuitive at all, and much like spacial nautilus the location entry should be part of the widget. However it's much more intuitive to use ssh://servername.domain, than fish:// I think.

  18. Re:I don't think so. on Canadian Government Going Big Brother? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, because I try to avoid hypocracy.

    What hypocracy? Please tell me how this does not count? There are several rally every year, and many of us have been arrested, as I said, I got arrested once (in Edmonton). Marc is the only one who ever faces charges as far as I know. Here is video footage of Marc being arrested in Regina, and then talking about what happened to him.

  19. Re:Take what you Get. on Canadian Government Going Big Brother? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they don't have daily usage tracking or they wouldn't be sending someone out to check my meter every month ;)

    Yeah, it used to be like that here too. Then a few years back, they came and took our meters out. I'm not sure where they are now, but it's not on my property anymore.

  20. Re:I don't think so. on Canadian Government Going Big Brother? · · Score: 1
    Prohibition in the US is what gave rise to the mob. Really good job there...now we have a much stronger organized crime than we did before.

    Yep. Same thing is happening right now.

    • But the profits come at a deadly price. At least 150 people have died during the eight-year turf war between the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine. While Canadians were aware of the biker war, few cared until the death of 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers. He died when a bomb exploded outside a biker hangout.


    These low lifes killed a very dear friend of mine in 1997, by shooting him point blank in the face with a shotgun because he attempted to get the license plate number of their vehicle after they stole under $100 from the store he worked at as a butcher.

    The things these people did to that poor family after he died, and his brother went on a crusade to crack down on gangs in this country went from showing up at his mothers work (a downtown department store) and displaying various weapons, to tapping on their windows in the middle of the night to yell threats at them.

    If ever there was a group of terrorists that needed dealing with, its these guys.
  21. Re:First post on "Enemies of Linux" Trying to Undermine OS? · · Score: 1

    though no one is going to tell me that a Mac Mini is going to compare with one of those $500-$600 e-machine PCs.

    No they won't, because the Mac will still be working in 6 months.

  22. Re:First post on "Enemies of Linux" Trying to Undermine OS? · · Score: 1

    Just because you hate Sun don't diss the real contributions they make to Linux by paying for engineers to contribute significantly to Gnome, X, and all the other stuff most Linux users depend on every day.

    They don't seem to be too shy about stepping up to the plate when the need arises either.

    I can tolerate a little mud slinging from Sun's management as long as they put their money where their mouth is.

  23. Re:Wow, this sounds great! on Gamespy Reveals Xbox Next Specs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Offtopic when he quoted from TFA. Way to go whoever modded that one. You've set a new low.

  24. Re:So what? on Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules? · · Score: 1

    Geez, people love Google when they're small, then they start looking for a reason to hate them. This isn't it folks, keep looking.

    GMail just took a shat on my entire mail collection. Everything got thrown into my Mozilla Bugzilla label one day last week, and lots of mail mysteriously vanished even though I'm only at 17% usage... (Or was anyway, Grrrrr)

    Thankfully though they have POP3 support, and Evolution has my archive as well as awesome mail sorting filters.

  25. Re:Interesting, now for the next level... on Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't be able to write to a cloop compressed filesystem like knoppix has.

    This looks promising.