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  1. Re:i hope these guys will integrate with kde-redha on Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project · · Score: 1

    If you want people to use your program, you should be willing to package it so they can install it easilly.
    If you want to start a new distro, you should either use an existing popular package format or if you have good reason to make a new one, be willing to package things yourself (or convert others) until your distro is popular enough for program authors to care about support.
    RPMs, DEBs, and Ebuilds are popular enough, IMO, that programs should take over packaging them.

  2. Re:On the heels of ESR on Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project · · Score: 1

    Technically, all the parts *are* seperate as KParts. This setup basicly allows you to have seperate "programs" within one window (via tabs or splitters). I think the problem is with the menu not changing based on the part...

  3. Re:i hope these guys will integrate with kde-redha on Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project · · Score: 1

    Actually, packages *should* be maintained by the project authors, not by the distribution. Does Microsoft package all Windows applications? (something actually sensible about windoze) It makes a lot more sense for a group of programmers to make 3 or 4 packages (force RPM-distros to become compatible) than for each individual distro to package all 1000000 applications that can be run.

  4. Re:Tasogare on Anatomy of Game Development · · Score: 1

    Nothing redundant here... Metamod, plz.

  5. Re:This is how (x || ! x) can be false on Star Wars Episode III Spoiler Photos · · Score: 1

    However, since ++ only specifies that the variable will increase at some point before the next statement is executed, it is very possible that neither of the increases to `foo' will take place until *after* the current expression is complete, and (x || !x) will still be true.

  6. Re:Face it, Star Wars Three IS a spoiler. on Star Wars Episode III Spoiler Photos · · Score: 1

    I had a really old copy of episodes 4-6 in a book. It had a prelude-type page which explained Palpatine's rise to power, so none of that part of the plot was new when episodes 1-3 were planned.

  7. Tasogare on Anatomy of Game Development · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The goals of my project Tasogare (which will probably begin development sometime in the next year when higher-priority projects are complete) would for the most part allow the designers themselves to create the games since it would have most of the code all implemented in a way that isn't specific to any single game.

    P.S. If any other game developers want to help out, let me know. This project is too large for just a few people.

  8. You can't... on Lighting Control on Non-Windows Systems? · · Score: 1, Funny

    By definition, a PC is a computer for personal use. If you're only using it to control theater lighting, then it's not being used for personal use and therefore cannot be considered a PC.

  9. Re:How did it leak? on Microsoft Warning Leaked Code Traders · · Score: 1

    NTFS is a filesystem. Filesystems are usually formatted onto a partition. Partitions are defined by (surprise!) the partition table. About the only thing I can think of without a partition table is removable medium and some of those probably have partition tables too.

  10. Re:Traders or Traitors? on Microsoft Warning Leaked Code Traders · · Score: 1

    The source came through these people at some stage...

  11. Re:What am I missing here. on Allnet GPL Infringement Settled Constructively · · Score: 1

    The donations were *in addition* to future compliance with the GPL. Now that the settlement has been reached, the only part of the GPL they are still violating is the part that says the GPL notice needs to be included with the product, not that they can fix that after the fact..

  12. Re:For those that need more proof on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Looks like a remnant from the old 8.3 filename limitations...

  13. Re:Windows 98 doesn't even work on it on Bochs x86 IA-32 Emulator 2.1 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    FYI, Windows 98 crashes bad even without BOCHS...

  14. Re:But how does it stand up to the comeptition? on MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here · · Score: 1

    The / and * keys are next to each other on the numpad, which make them quite easy to use for volume controls.

  15. Re:It needs to be pointed out on New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex · · Score: 1

    Actually, I don't... What does RedHat have to do with WINE or any of it's forks?

  16. Re:No Download? on New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex · · Score: 1

    Or it was when TransGaming forked. I believe after they forked, WINE changed to LGPL. Besides, even [L]GPL products do not have to be freely downloadable. TransGaming could simply include the source code when you purchase their products and it would be legal.

  17. Re:It needs to be pointed out on New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex · · Score: 1

    Uhm.... WineX isn't a distro at all, it's the Win32 and DirectX libraries ported to run on Linux.

  18. Re:How about plain old Wine? on New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex · · Score: 3, Informative

    From experience, vanilla WINE is the best at running Windoze applications. WineX lacks many common application features such as shaped windows (non-rectangle) etc.

  19. Re:Close! on Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future · · Score: 1

    All software should be open source anyway. And for drivers, why not GPL it at the same time?

  20. Re:Stats might have been even higher on America's Hams Embrace Linux · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Mac OS X uses ext3

  21. Re:makes me think twice... on SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World · · Score: 1

    Having RPMs would be a *bad* thing...

  22. Re:Torvalds's's Comment's on SCO: Code Proof Analyzed, Linus Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I used to think this too, but somewhere recently I found something which pointed out that the s' rule only applies to plural nouns, not names. Names would still use s's.

  23. Re:Ummm, isn't Bruce setting himself up? on SCO: Code Proof Analyzed, Linus Interviewed · · Score: 1

    2.6 does not contain the code leaked, FYI.

  24. Re:Sounds familiar on Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent · · Score: 1

    What difference does it make? They used content and even put my name in the Gentoo 1.4 story and it showed as rejected. They probably just "reject" most multi-submitted stories and merge them into one. It's just a few bytes on a page only you can see, anyway. =p

  25. Re:What's new? on Linux 2.6.0-test3 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've been using 2.6.0-tests for a while now and the opposite seems to be the case. With 2.4, XMMS would *never* skip. With 2.6, XMMS is skipping whenever I change virtual desktops or do anything that uses more than 80% CPU (estimate)