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  1. Re:What's the exhibit? on Microsoft To Exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo · · Score: 1

    MS have allready been handing out samples of their OS to the expo's organisers:

    NETCRAFT

    As you can see, the guys were so chuffed with NT4, they moved the website to it!

  2. Re:Linux on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    Troll? Hmm?

  3. Re:Hmm, necessry? on Tom's Guide to Water Cooling · · Score: 1

    Make that "two fans" even ;)

  4. Re:Hmm, necessry? on Tom's Guide to Water Cooling · · Score: 1

    Actually the system they built still has two funs: The powersupply and the radiator de-heater. Decibel readings aside - An annoying humm is still an annoying humm.

    Utter waste of time and money if you ask me.

  5. One word for the record industry... on Music Companies Convicted of Price Fixing Again · · Score: 1

    Scum.

  6. Re:Not sure how long this will stay up, so... on GUIs for Robots · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did the same thing for a little 3D platform I made (which I want(ed) to mount an airgun on).

    It was parport controlled and I used OpenGL to draw a crappy picture of it onscreen in a Qt application =D

  7. Re:Double Sided? on Yamaha CD-RW Drive Writes Images In Substrate · · Score: 1

    AFAIK it writes the image in the UNUSED space - between bits of real data. Not in the empty space if you only use half the CD. But in the gaps between the pits.

  8. Re:*Sigh*... gotta flip it to see the images on Yamaha CD-RW Drive Writes Images In Substrate · · Score: 1

    You stick a CD-Label on the non-date side. Duhhh. The whole *POINT* of this article is that it can non-destructively burn a visible image in amongst the data, and someone makes a post about the data side not being the label side. omg.

  9. Re:Great bands deserve money on Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales · · Score: 1

    Since when was an MP3 ripped right off the CD "not vinyl quality"?
    Last I checked, my high specification high fidelity PC speakers beat my stereo on output quality by far.

  10. Re:Just anti-aliasing? on Gnome 2.0 RC2 Asks For Abuse · · Score: 1

    There are multiple anti-aliasing algorithms available for Gnome/XFree. Search on google for "Xft Hack" for a patch which results in a Microsoft style look.

    Also, if you want "ClearType" (technically known as sub-pixel antialiasing) you will have to do a bit of XftConfig`ing.

  11. Repost. on Software Dead Man's Switch · · Score: 1

    This is a repost.
    It was on a few weeks ago.

  12. Re:Skeptical on "Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It probably crashed and rammed the gate till it opened, then just randomnly opto-navigated its way around till it ended up in the car park.
    It had no "intent" so to speak.

  13. Re:Influence on UK Reconsiders Expansion of Surveillance Powers · · Score: 1

    I met him once. D. Blunkett was awarding my mother with some "super teacher" nonsense.

  14. Re:Phew on UK Reconsiders Expansion of Surveillance Powers · · Score: 1

    If you ever watch the house of lords on BBC Parliament they are indeed a godsend.

    They are nothing like those "other" image-oriented sleezebag politicians and they always seem to reason correctly and accurately.

    They have a certain neutrality and arent concerned with public image or government spin, which is what we need more of.

  15. Re:90%+ for IE still on AP reports on renewed "Browser War" · · Score: 1

    Opera pretends to be IE by default. Id guess 98% of Opera users are wearing an IE user agent..

  16. Re:90%+ for IE still on AP reports on renewed "Browser War" · · Score: 5, Funny

    My logs go something like: 50% IE 20% Moz 10% Konq 20% CodeRed

  17. One string sums this up... on Visual Studio .Net: Now with more Viruses · · Score: 1

    Bwahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha! ROFL!

    Uhm. How do these twats still have an ounce of credibility? For god sake - that happens to high schools and newbies running Personal Web Server.

  18. Games/ISOs with wrong names on Spoofing P2P Networks as Marketing Plot · · Score: 1

    Tons of junk on kazaa has the wrong name. You download a pirate copy of some game only to find its a completely different game to the file names suggestion. And people dont rename it!

  19. Re:Today? on Festival of Inappropriate Technology · · Score: 1

    Given the traffic on the A1, its going to take me 4 days to reach London from here (Newcastle). Bah! I was really looking forward to attending too... or not.

  20. Re:Will there be.....? on F# - A New .Net language · · Score: 1

    This wouldnt have been off topic if it wasnt the latest slashdot trend to applaud dotNet.

  21. Cheaters not "desperate to win" on Game Developers Cracking Down on Cheating · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will you lot stop making it out that cheaters are some desperate for attention, glory seeking mentally Ill people? Ive messed around with OGC in CS myself, and you know what? Its just funny. I was just sitting having a laugh and wondering how the program worked whilst a bunch of nazis went mad telling me I must have no girlfriend and be a 33 year old loner and must never win at anything (all wrong). Get the friggin point! Cheaters are just taking the piss out of you. Why be their entertainment by going all irate and showing yourself up? Theyre just normal guys like you: The only difference is theyre having fun and laughing their ass off and youre not. And btw HLGuard/CSProtector/WhateverItsCalled does not work. I bound my mousewheel up/down to activate/deactivate the OGC aimbot (thus I activated it when aiming at someone) and nobody ever suspected me (atleast not when I was trying to be subtle). Disclaimer: I only tried it to see what its like and whatnot. The experience was valuable: I feel like my eye for cheaters is far more honed than it was before.

  22. Re:Good news.. on Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal · · Score: 1

    Do you really want executives who know nothing bar the location of the email shortcut and the layout of their keyboard to use Linux? I dont want Linux to become a newbies OS. I want it to remain for the technically knowledgeable. Contrast the 4 lines of error information you get from Linux when a network cable begins playing up to the "A Cable Is Unplugged" popup note you get in XP. XP is wrong half the time - Usually it says a cable is unplugged regardless of whether its a cable, NIC, switch or any number of other problems and thus is useless for me. If Linux was "good" like XP is, I wouldnt want to run my network with it!

  23. Re:Major commercial support for (Free)(Open)(Net)B on FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uhm, there's some little company, I think its called... Apple? :)

  24. Package Management? on Linux Vendors to Standardize on Single Distribution · · Score: 3, Funny

    /Me prays its Debian inspired. Perhaps this will put more momentum behind the campaign for destroying the useless (read: Surpassed long ago) RPM standard.

  25. Kazaa Alternatives != Kazaa Replacements on KaZaA Collapses · · Score: 1

    Whilst Im all for the idea of open source, clean file sharing stuff, all you people arguing that Limewire/GNucleus are betteer than Kazaa are seriously short sighted.

    The facts are simple, Kazaa has: More users, more files, faster downloads, faster searches.
    When I tried GNucleus and Limewire one afternoon I found both of them to be clumbsy, slow, unreliable and neither had the file I was looking for. I was back to Kazaa in a flash. Im sorry, but those are the facts as far as I can see.