Slashdot Mirror


User: GAlain

GAlain's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
41
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 41

  1. Re:The Problem: Batteries don't last long enough. on Batteries Becoming Limiting Step For Portable Toys · · Score: 1

    What about making it run longhorn 24/24? wouldn't it be largely sufficient? :-)

  2. Re:Not too far from the truth! on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    If you boycott them (as I do for long now), then you are placed in their statistics as a stoler as they assume you got their stuff with another mean -> higher prices, new taxes, new laws etc... dumbasses I say, yeah!

  3. Re:Halo 2 in French? on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 1

    Which accent mark? è or é?

    é

  4. Re:Halo 2 in French? on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dunno how you do those accute accent things on the e of sacre

    like this: 'é' :-)

    the french (and my belgian) keyboards use the shift key to output those numbers above the letters. without the shift, it ouputs a special characters. exemple: 2:'é' 7:'è' 9:'ç' 0:'à'

    anyway, accents should not be considered 'pointless foreign pretension'. in french, that's not very important, we can guess, but try for example to write vietnamese without accent and you will end up completely incomprehensible. letters with accent may be a completely different letter/meaning.

    Sacré bleu!!! ;-)

  5. Re:It is a good book on Point and Click Linux · · Score: 1

    So you're new to slashdot too?
    RUN AWAY from /. NOW! Do it NOW before it's too late!
    Just telling you that for your own good ;-)

  6. Please TAKE A LOOK! on Unifying Linux Package Management · · Score: 1
    What are the obstacles to it's implementation?

    To my sense, the main obstacle is that nobody even know the existence of zero install (please, take a look at http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/)

    I was quite satisfied with the 'aptitude install' & co. commands, but I really love ROX/0install since I tried it and THAT is an easy environment. It is really sad that nothing is using it, and it is not even incompatible with your current packages manager.

    I see many things that must be improved/implemented, but please take a look at the documentation, particularily the security part before flaming.

    I am not talking about servers or else, but try ROX (http://rox.sourceforge.net/) running on top of 0install and imagine yourself as Joe user. Man, that's easy, more than Macs!

    Please, take a look, try, comment, even post flames but please spread the word or... or... I will cry :-)
  7. Re:Kylix Was Pascal on Gambas 1.0 Release Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    Where? How? When? please explain!

  8. Re:Debian is NOT that out-of-date on Updates From Debian · · Score: 1

    yes, right
    http://www.debian.org/releases/

  9. Re:I'd be happy to get a debian based distro to wo on Updates From Debian · · Score: 1

    I don't like installers, so I cannot help you with that :-)
    If Knoppix boots, you can try using debootstrap. My preferred way because you can install debian on nearly everything the way you want; it is nearly as flexible as the Gentoo installer. And you're lucky, this article just came out today ;-) :
    http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8675

  10. Re:Tried with Safari on OS X ... on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm backing up this one, firefox & opera crashed. Click like crasy the refresh button if it doesn't ;-)
    Konqueror seems to handle everything very well! If I were in the KDE team, I would reconsider the porting of Gecko to KDE for now :-)

  11. Re:Tried with Safari on OS X ... on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have actually tried the code?
    I did try it using Konqueror/Linux, Opera/Linux&winXP, Firefox 1.0PR/Linux&winXP, Mozilla/Linux and IE and nothing happenned anywhere!
    I am willing to repeat my question again: does anyone else tried the code and saw something weird?

  12. Re:Excellent! on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 1

    Nope, sorry... I've tried this using FireFox 1.0PR on Linux & win32 and Opera on Linux & win32 too; same things happenned: input box for the first and nothing for the second... Nothing so nasty happenned

  13. Re:Agnosticism on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1
    I have to disagree there. I have to believe that every extraterrestrial civilization will still want to try to answer the very question of its own origins--scientific or not.
    Of course they will try to answer these questions, but I deeply hope they won't adopt the same methods we're using here: "I have invented my theory; I know it's like that; I don't have to prove it; It's like that and that's it; I am right, you are wrong"

    As someone said in another post: "I don't have to tell you what that kind of thinking usually leads to, do I? (hints: crusades, 9/11, war, torture, genocide, holocaust, terrorism)"
  14. Re:Windows Critical Vulnerabilities on Microsoft Announces Three More Critical Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    You prolly coulda left off the 'MS'. What (significant) operating system built in the last 15 years has been completely finished?
    OpenVMS
  15. Re:Cool on Announcing Cooperative Linux · · Score: 1

    It needs an option that warns you that you have other tabs open when you try to close it.

    Konqueror has it. At least in version 3.1.5 I am using. Maybe the "Don't show this dialog again" checkbox was checked once. Go browse the preferences, It may be possible to reactivate it.

  16. Re:What release did it APPEAR? on Kernel Exploit Cause Of Debian Compromise · · Score: 1

    From the Debian Mailing list:

    Linux 2.2.x is not vulnerable to this exploit because boundary
    checking is done before. It is also believed that Sparc and PA-RISC
    kernels are not vulnerable since user and kernel addresses are stored
    in different address spaces on these architectures.

  17. Re:what kind of person... on Kernel Exploit Cause Of Debian Compromise · · Score: 1

    From the Debian Mailing list:

    Even though this kernel bug was discovered in September by Andrew
    Morton and already fixed in recent pre-release kernels since October,
    its security implication wasn't considered that severe. Hence, no
    security advisories were issued by any vendor. However, after it was
    discovered to be used as a local root exploit the Common
    Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned CAN-2003-0961 to
    this problem. It is fixed in Linux 2.4.23 which was released last
    weekend and in the Debian advisory DSA 403.

  18. Re:what kind of person... on Kernel Exploit Cause Of Debian Compromise · · Score: 1

    From the Debian mailing list:

    This bug has been fixed in kernel version 2.4.23 for the 2.4 tree and
    2.6.0-test6 kernel tree. For Debian it has been fixed in version
    2.4.18-12 of the kernel source packages, version 2.4.18-14 of the i386
    kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha kernel images.

  19. Re:maybe 4x more efficient but on Embedded Systems Study Rebutted · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is called an "embedded minister"

  20. Re:Opera is Worse on Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    Unchecked by default on mine Same version, and YES, I'm *sure* I did not unchecked it. Default installation on vanilla operating system.

  21. Source != binaries? on MS Proposes Disclosing Windows Source To India · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am just wondering what are the proofs that the given source code is the very same one used to compile the binaries I can find in the stores?
    I mean, even at m$, nobody as a view at the entire source. What are the proofs that backdoors aren't added just after the programmers labs by NSA or even... Al-Quaida?
    And don't tell me Indian government will be allowed to compile their own versions for their whole staff!
    Maybe I'm paranoid, but NO, I don't trust m$...

  22. Re:fast chip? on Intel Releases "Fastest Chip Ever" · · Score: 1

    I remember when the Pentium 200 was the fastest chip ever!

    Oh yeah? so you're telling me that a GAVE my cousin a computer with the fastest chip ever?

  23. And the anonymous is.... on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    Don't repeat it, but the anonymous is Steve Ballmers... to sell more XBox!!!

  24. I wonder... on Disney Switches To Linux For Animation · · Score: 1

    ...if submitters begins to post MP3s here using UUEncode, will they fight to death to try to close slashdot.org too???

    Just a thought I got on this very moment... 8-)

  25. Re:clue, anyone? on Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 1

    Like atmosphere is a huge buffer for pollution, right?