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  1. when is KDE 3.5 due for release? on Preview of KDE 3.5 · · Score: 1

    will it be in time for SUSE 9.4 which will be released in mid October?

  2. Re:Games on Microsoft 'under attack' On All Fronts · · Score: 1

    90% of >real games he should have said. :p i'm a PC gamer, and i like PC games. i use linux and would be delighted to play PC games on linux. vive la revolution

  3. Re:No Mac mini upgrade? on New Mac System Specs · · Score: 1

    it's about time they did upgrade the mac mini, i did a quick build of an attractive small i86-64 PC today and ended up with a price of £500: Athlon 64 3000+ = £90 Foxconn nF4 mATX = £50 2 x 512MB PC3200 = £70 nVidia 6600 128MB = £80 Silverstone LC-11 = £95 Dual-Layer DVD-R = £35 250GB SATA drive = £80 i know people say that you can't compare windows hardware with an Apple [i]system[/i], but: 2GHz 64bitCPU 1GB of PC3200 memory DX9.0c video with 8 pixel pipes and 128MB all nVidia core system components endless storage space looks pretty to boot looks pretty bad for the mac mini. i am a fan of the concept, i just feel that Apple have got to get a grip on improving technologies. we are talking: 1.6GHz G5 512MB PC3200 as standard ATI X700 128MB 160GB SATA drive with these the mac-mini could compete.

  4. Re:No mac mini update on New Mac System Specs · · Score: 1

    good = mac mini with a low end G5 better = imac with dual core G5 best = dual dual-core G5's sounds good to me

  5. lets hope nVidia and ATI follow suit on XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    whichever went first would score a real coup against the other.

  6. Re:agreed on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 0

    null

  7. What about Win XP 64 ? on MS, EU Agree on Name for Windows Sans Media Player · · Score: 0

    is the new OS exempt from this?

  8. Re:Reiser4 on Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i'd like an answer to this Q too............

  9. don't know why people bother ripping BBC progs.... on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    they produce some amazing programs but their DVD encoding department actually manage to make many of their commercial offerings worse quality than the VHS versions.

    Blue Planet was particularly bad.

  10. Re:how is this possible? on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 1

    i have used infostego in the past combined with a dekart drive; cumbersome but very obscure. > put 'secret data' in a dekart drive called: pr0n.bmp > put dekart drive into an image called pr0n.bmp with infostego even if the steganalyst thinks their is something wonky about pr0n.bmp, all he can extract is another file called pr0n.bmp.

  11. Re:I don't think so ... on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    a HD encoded movie takes up to 30GB's i don't care what net connection you have, it will still take longer to arrive than going to blockbusters.

  12. Re:why call it carnivore? on Carnivore No More · · Score: 1

    terrible bit of brand awareness on the FBI's part!

  13. Re:bundling it into Linux Distro's on U.S. Army Research Lab Opens BRL-CAD Source · · Score: 1

    very good idea, linux needs to come reagy with world class appz.

    O.O.o. v2.0 will be ace
    Gimp is rapidly becoming ace
    why not a professional CAD program too?

  14. Re: Dumb Democrat? on Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat · · Score: 1

    i'm neither, but the Repub bashing shows you to be just as ignorant.

    On/T - show me a solution to the problem and will back it. kyoto certainly isn't it, and i am yet to be convinced there is an anthropogenic solution to global warming.

  15. Re:Why not release it? on Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man' · · Score: 1

    i do my best, i use support@msn.com for every log-on that permits me to sign up with it.

  16. Catholic Bush clones and other such drivel....... on Microsoft Pays $536M to Novell · · Score: 1

    europe violated about three of its precious fundamental human rights by booting out buitiglonni (sp?), a man who stated that he would only ever act within the confines of EU law regardless of personal opinion. how has the EU won anything, other than the craptatorship of the year award!

  17. Re: as powerful as a PS2 on PSP Pricing, Battery Life Announced · · Score: 1

    given that Gran Tursimo is being more or less directly ported over to the PSP from the PS2 i don't think it is an unfounded comparison.

    i hate consoles, but i will be buying a PSP.

  18. Novell Resource Kit on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 1

    me too, but it arrived so late (due to it being repackaged with Enterprise v9.0) that i had already installed the .iso version. however, i will re-install 9.1 Pro and purchase the 9.2 upgrade.

  19. Re:The IRA........ on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 1

    it doesn't matter how many were queuing up to join, by the late 80's the IRA was thoroughly infiltrated via human and technical means to the point where it could achieve very little successfully. it was forced to the negotiating table. likewise in the mid sixties during the reign of the super-grasses the IRA was bent over the and recieveing some rough therapy, sadly it was deemed unconstitutional to get convictions in such a manner and so the method was sadly abandonned.

  20. Re:Out of curiosity on The Athlon 64 3000+, A Budget Gamer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    R6 Ravenshield is very good fun, i recommend this level for it:
    http://www.theplatoon.com/ravenshield/mod.asp ?file =124 ;)

  21. I don't touch creative rubbish anyway. on Creative Pressures id Software With Patents · · Score: 1

    I haven't done since i bought a CL PCI512 card about three years ago.

    nice piece of hardware no doubt, but the people who write their drivers have less talent than a marrauding band of monkeys jumping up and down on a skip full of broken keyboards.

    and then there was they way they suppressed A3d's superior 3D sound system........ after they bought out the IP!?!?
    and then sensaura as well i believe?

    the biggest laugh i had at CL's expense is when they thought they had buried the competition by buying out A3d intellectual property, not realising that nVidia had hired a lot of A3d's brilliant engineers. the result was nVidia Soundstorm, oh how i laughed as i bought my nForce2 motherboard, hopefully that amusement will continue when i buy an nForce4 motherboard this X-mas.

    screw CL, i hope they (as a corporate entity) rot in hell for all time.

  22. Re:Now what are they trying to hide? on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Anyone read Clancy's "The Bear and the Dragon"? Its no real stretch of imagination to picture a patriotic MS employee adding a couple of lines of code into windows. It would explain the US justice department publicly going for Microsofts throat, but privately allowing the [i]Carve Outs[/i] when informed of what lies windows non open-source code.

  23. Re:Greenhouse Gasses on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 1

    agreed, nuclear energy would solve most of the energy problems, and the pollution problems.

  24. Re:I wouldn't tak eGreenpeace's word for it. on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 1

    agreed, greenpeace's actions over the oil platform resulted in greater pollution and greater loss of life during deconstruction. being a geology graduate i am aware of how great the fluctuations in global climate can be.