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  1. Re:It's true, Firebird is the best. on Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Checking memory boundries is a OS work, not an application work.

    Also, if you are using Linux, remember that, when it is low on memory, it simply kills applications that are consuming lots of memory. And Mozilla tends to be only a process with several threads...

  2. Re:What major changes? on Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    IE is still the dominant browser, because Windows is the dominant desktop platform. People generally don't want to change what comes with their system

    The problem here seems to be the "if it's not Microsoft, your Windows will broke faster" mentality. I heard that a lot when 98 was launched and still hear that from time to time.

  3. OT: Relatives? on Dijkstra's Manuscripts Available Online · · Score: 1

    Slashdot Fortune: "Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. -- Dykstra"
    Slashdot title: "Dijkstra's Manuscripts Available Online"
    Huh?

  4. Re:question on SCO Group Hires Boies After All · · Score: 1

    The code is under GPL, but maybe not the patents.

  5. Re:question on SCO Group Hires Boies After All · · Score: 1

    But it makes you wonder: if Caldera added some feature in their Linux kernel, that was added later in the main kernel source tree. What would happen then? They would sue Linux for a feature that was added by them?

  6. Re:This worked so well for Netscape... on MPEG 4, Windows Media 9 At War · · Score: 1

    2) Open your codec completely
    Then how can you get any license revenue from it?


    Creating a GPL version for GPL products and a closed licensing for products that have closed source, much like MySQL.

  7. Re:If they're pissed at MS... on MPEG 4, Windows Media 9 At War · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, MPEG4 offers things like hotspots, 3D and other stuff that makes it looks like Flash. Theora is a video compression codec, much like DivX.

  8. Re:Cut n Paste on Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    This is how the client and server synchronize their sequence numbers, which is how a connection gets established. The client sends a synchronization request, the server acknowledges it and sends a synchronization request of its own, and the client acknowledges that. Only then can the HTTP request proceed reliably.

    If IE+IIS can jump this synchronization step without a problem, this means that all synchs are simply useless?

  9. Re:Interesting Perspective on Kevin Free · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. TWM and XTerm will always be there. Even when we start using XFree 5.0 (or something like that...)

  10. Re:It's "Troubles On Middle Earth" on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    Correcting myself: the initial page says "Tales Of Middle Earth", but the download page says "Troubles On Middle Earth". And the game title is "Tales Of Middle Earth". Somebody must have change the name in the middle of all the stuff... :)

  11. It's "Troubles On Middle Earth" on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    The game is "Troubles On Middle Earth", not "Tales Of Middle Earth".

  12. Re:One Step Closer to Mechwarrior... OR Labors on AT-ATs Coming to a Forest Near You · · Score: 1

    Oh, how much time until I can drive my Patlabor? I just can't wait!

    Cryogenics NOW!

  13. Bad UI on Version Fatigue · · Score: 1
    Kuro5hin has an article about the new Visual Studio.NET, where they found about 3 widgets in the same application. If MS can't follow it's own GUI Guidelines, who will?

    Also, there is a great place for the bad UI design at The Interface Hall Of Shame.