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  1. Re:A Plea To Programmers For Better Dialogs on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1, Informative

    To run with the parent poster's dialog, a more usable dialog would read:

    Oil Levels are low. Would you like to:
    Change Oil | Do Not Change Oil


    Fix: switch to MacOSX.

  2. Re:Dear Pot on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 1

    The grandparent post used the expression incorrectly. The correct idiom is "the pot calling the kettle black." The poster thought the pot called the kettle "back", which makes no sense at all.


    Just FYI, in Venezuela (and maybe most spanish countries) we have the equivalent expresion for you pot/kettle americans.

    Actually we have lots of them, here are 2:
    -The rabbit laughing of the donkey's big ears.
    -The armadillo staring at the snail's shell

  3. Re:Counter-counter-attack on Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    Safari's pop-up blocking addressed the pop-under issue weeks before Firefox. It's been ad-free for quite some time now.

    Not true. Safari is vulnerable to popups from scripts as well.
    Example: astalavista.box.sk (flash). There are others, but i can't remember the links

  4. Hibernate too hyped on Ruby On Rails Showdown with Java Spring/Hibernate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hibernate seems to be the most hyped technology for webapps on java right now. I evaluated it to use it on my thesis.

    I don't trust/want something to auto generate my sql tables and such based on my objects. That leads to problems, since the queries can't be tuned or maybe you don't get what you expect.

    So, i am using SqlMaps. You put your sql queries in a separate .xml file and use them with very few lines of code. It maps the results of the queries to your javabeans. Really simple, but powerful, there's a whole way of doing dynamic queries (i.e, if some object exists, do something with it, else don't)

    Disclaimer: i don't have any relationship with sqlmaps, i am just a happy user.

  5. Re:Beware this 'Tiger' release! on Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold · · Score: 1


    **** THE PROOF THAT TIGER IS EVIL ****

    T I G E R
    84 73 71 69 82 - as ASCII values
    3 1 8 6 1 - digits added
    \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/
    3 1 8 6 1 - digits added


    LMAO dude you have waaaaaay too much time in your hands!

  6. Re:"beta version of Longhorn Server later this yea on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1 · · Score: 1

    So what is "later this year" in Microsoft time?

    Longhorn SERVER, not client

  7. Update on Metafor: Translating Natural Language to Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.

    Ah, yes! Duping words next to each other, that is the new fad. Because duping articles is so yesterday's news

  8. Eclipse speed on On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seems that the plugin-based architecture of eclipse hasn't helped a bit with loading times. On my athlonxp 2100 with 768mb ram, it takes about 15 seconds to load, same as netbeans.

    Netbeans also has very good html/xml syntax highlighting and completion. I hope Eclipse 3.1 plays catchup on this.

  9. Re:PAM on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 1

    We use nss_ldap, but it isn't enough. You need PAM to be able to create the home directories of the ldap accounts, and also to handle screensaver locking, and other bits. Nss_ldap isn't enough

  10. PAM on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 1

    From the changelog:

    There is also Dropline, of course, which is quite popular. However, due to their policy of adding PAM and replacing large system packages (like the entire X11 system)

    Is PAM still insecure? Has Pat reconsidered adding it back?
    PAM is a neccesity. How am i supposed to integrate the logins of all my boxes to LDAP? We wanted to use slackware, but we had to use debian because of this.

    Funny that the most popular gnome choice in slack is not recommended

  11. I switched too on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1

    I thought that apple hardware and OS sucked until i saw OSX. I had a g3 with OS9 and it kept crashing 2-3 times a day, reminded me of pre win2k versions.

    Once i saw OSX, i had to get a powerbook. Too bad i didn't buy some extra ram, 256mb isn't enough.

    There is some stuff i miss (mainly, i can't print to a windows-connected canon printer) but i am mostly happy

  12. Re:Ark has a long way to go on Kubuntu, ArkLinux Announce KDE 3.4-Based Releases · · Score: 1

    As for "Ethernet adapter" etc. being too hard to understand, this is quite possibly right, but how do you want to manually configure a network without knowing what it is?


    How about "network card"?

    If you want to make ethernet part of it, then "network card (ethernet)" is a little long but much better

  13. Re:Kubuntu is a word! on Kubuntu, ArkLinux Announce KDE 3.4-Based Releases · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Great, now what the fuck is Bemba?

    Funny that in spanish, bemba means "big mouth" i.e a person that has very big lips, mostly african americans

  14. Re:Hope it doesn't run Fedora Core on Linux-based Bluetooth Robot · · Score: 1

    If so, I don't know how they plan on fitting those CDs in this thing every 6 months.

    Or Ubuntu, Slackware, Mandrake, Suse, and pretty much all big distros. All of them have 6 month cycles.

  15. Re:Distribute JRE with Linux distro on Will Sun's Java Go Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Until now, you are only allowed to distribute the JRE with Java software.

    Slackware has distributed the JDK for quite some time now

  16. Re:Quick RPM Version Check on Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Now Available · · Score: 1

    It has Eclipse 3.1, dovecot, bash 3 (with debugger), Tomcat 5 (but only 5.0, not the declared stable 5.5.7), Xen 2. And that is about all that caught my eye.

    Eclipse 3.1M5 or 3.01?

    Anyway you seem to forgot to mention the biggest change other than gcc, and that is that eclipse is a native application now, using open source java tools like classpath and gcj.

    They didn't include tomcat 5.5.x because it requires java 1.5. Tomcat 5.0.x is the last version that supports java 1.4. There are some compatibility libraries though.

  17. Re:Screenshots! on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 4, Funny
  18. True on GNOME Ignoring its Own Users? · · Score: 1

    What's the first question a user asks about using gnome?

    Answer: how to disable spatial nautilus.

    If gnome really cares for its users, the default would be OFF.

    I like gnome, especially how fonts look, but attitude like this is silly

  19. Re:How? on Bounties for Gnome Optimization · · Score: 1

    So... how did you get KDE working properly with a mere 128 MB of RAM?

    You have to remember that no matter how much ram you have, linux uses as much as it can.

    One person said to me "in linux, unused ram is wasted ram".

    Sure it boots slow but it is usable for browsing and such, and if you have patience, maybe openoffice

  20. Re:Its about time on Bounties for Gnome Optimization · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kde has improved dramatically in speed , memory reduction and html rendering in konqueror in the last year.

    You may want to give it back a try.

    We use kde in our offices, which are pentium 2, 400mhz and as little as 128mb (!) of ram.

    On my development box, i have a dual 400mhz P2 with 320mb in ram, and i can run eclipse with tomcat

  21. Re:"There haven't been many reviews" on Take A Look At Solaris 10 · · Score: 1

    Learn how to search. When you want to search for ALL the words in the same order, you need to enclose them in quotes.

    So the real search results for "solaris 10 review" is 3,780, which most of them are sites linking to the few sites that actually have reviews

  22. Re:What does MandrakeSoft gain? on Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva · · Score: 3, Informative

    Marcelo Tosatti has been maintaining the 2.4 kernels you've been running for a long time. He's a Brazilian working for Conectiva.

    Actually, he left Conectiva a long time ago

  23. Cisco, while you are at it... on Cisco IT Manager Targeting 70% Linux · · Score: 1

    ...Properly support firefox, konqueror and safari on your CCNA curriculums!

    Firefox seems to be working fine but i don't take risks and use IE when taking the exams.

  24. Re:OpenOffice Access on Los Angeles to Consider Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad they can use the Open Source version of Access to work with their MDBs. What's it called again?

    Rekall

  25. Re:The problem iwth BSD... on Interview With Matt Dillon of DragonFlyBSD · · Score: 1

    There is no reason to through out the superior BSD userland

    There is this tiiiiny little thing called GCC that you BSD guys use...