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  1. Re:negatives of the review on Firefox Reviewed in the Globe and Mail · · Score: 1

    You only missed that ActiveX is written without '-', which was what the grand-parent post was about.

  2. Re:www.esa.int on Huygens Probe Prepares for Saturn Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    You're new here, aren't you?

    ;)
    No. Just still a bit utopian.

  3. www.esa.int on Huygens Probe Prepares for Saturn Moon Landing · · Score: 5, Informative

    I won't blame anyone who hasn't RTFA for this news, because here is the really interesting link: the ESA (European Space Agency) portal.
    A 346 words article from India Daily is not the most relevant for an ESA project.

    I hope /. moderators would care a bit more when posting news. Recently the interesting links were often missing. A link to a press agency article may be interesting to some, but we have other sources for that. I expect a bit more from a /. news: the poster should at list post links to official sites with deeper information.

  4. Re:Tip #3 on PCs For A Workshop Environment? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is better known as 'batteries'.

  5. Re:... sort of on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    It's only sort of a dupe. The timeline wasn't *directly* mentioned in the original article.

    A search with keywords "usenet" and "timeline" directly point to the old article. The editor is at fault.

    The problem with this dupe is that is says "Google just released" which implies "few days" in my mind, when reading in the /. context. Not 3 years.

  6. Re:Huh? on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    The HTTP request says that the page was not modified since dated September 23, 2004.
    But if you did a search on /. archive, you had found the old post dated December 11, 2001 that also gives a date to the timeline.

    Of couse you should had suspected the the timeline is old, because some interesting things happened on Usenet since 2001.

    Get it now?

  7. Re:mono on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    ... which is a redirect to http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html.

  8. Re:Yup. on Best Configuration for Linux Gaming? · · Score: 1

    The problem is anti-copy protections. This guy uses software such as Daemon Tools that emulates what is needed by those algorithms. The Linux driver doesn't do that.

    However TransGaming is known to solve the copy-protection problems with their Cedega product, but for a limited list of supported games.

  9. SVG works with also Gnome on KDE SVG Wallpaper Competition · · Score: 2, Informative

    SVG wallpapers work also in Gnome 2.8 (and probably earlier) on my Gentoo. Too bad the Gnome art gallery only proposes bitmaps.

    Vector wallpapers and icons: at least two really cool desktop features where Linux based destkops are in advance.

  10. Re:IT Security on Finding Student IT Security Placements in the Industry? · · Score: 1

    In France, you have to be a doctor to have access to patient data.
    So to have security clearance in an hospital would require to study medecine for 10 years.

  11. Re:Congratulations... on Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals · · Score: 1

    No, you are using the right word.

    But the reporter didn't distinguish those. Which of course means that "985 bugs were found in the Linux kernel code" does not mean that fixing them will fix everything and that Linux will then be perfect.

    Coverity can some bugs, but it can not find all bugs.

  12. Webcams on A Barcode Driven Kitchen and Grocery List? · · Score: 1

    If you need all this to establish a check list that you can read from your work place, I have another idea: install webcams in your fridge (with light) and in other critical places of your kitchen. It will have an other side-feature: you'll be able to track roasts and blast them if you add other gadgets.

  13. Re:Octave? on Open Source Math Software For Education? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The lameness filter is for lamers.
    I imagine that if you are flagged as non-lamer through moderation you can easily pass it.

  14. Dynamic geometry software on Open Source Math Software For Education? · · Score: 1

    To learn geometry, I recommend C.a.R. (Compass and Ruler), a Java application.
    The Java WebStart is here :
    http://mathsrv.ku-eichstaett.de/MGF/homes/groth man n/java/zirkel/doc_en/JavaWebStart.html

    The SVG export is excellent, and I'm using it to import figures in Inkscape.

    Another popular one is GeoNext. Select the english flag, then scroll the page to the "run Online!" link (Java WebStart too).

  15. Another interesting site to view... and listen to on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 1

    There is a very interesting online presentation (slides with speech) here : http://www.javalobby.org/eps/swarmstream/ (Flash player required)

  16. Re:In other news... on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 1
    Just to correct myself:
    • Buzzword in just one word.
    • the right link is here.
  17. Re:In other news... on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that swarming is already a buzz word?

  18. Re:In other news... on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 2

    Bugs also decided to join the SIAA in the combat against the so-called "swarming technology". They are already preparing to invest software implementations.

  19. Re:I already have a pretty good dictionary on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 1

    Wiktionary is already available under GFDL. This is far better than AFD that "will be soon available for free under GPL", where "soon" may be "never".
    Contributing to such a project is a bad idea if the license is not clear.

  20. Hoax ? Not the first time on Bhopal Disaster Revisited [updated] · · Score: 1

    This is not the first time that Dow Chmeicals is victim of an hoax on this matter. In 2002, the activist group RTMark did a hoax site dowethicals.com where they were talking about Bhopal. You can see the press release they did at the time. After that Verizon cut the connectivity of their hosting provider thing.net without any warning, and obviously Dow was behind.

  21. Gentoo can save your life on Embedded Gentoo? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next time you are blocked in a snow storm with your your Zaurus in your pocket, just launch emerge --update --deep --newuse world. Let's hope the battery will last enough...

  22. Re:Equally instable on Switching to Contracting? · · Score: 1

    I'm, curious, what country/state are you working in that there is any notice period?

    In France, the notice period is 3 months for an engineer, 1 month for a lower level. And if you are fired (except for a fault on your part), you are usually being given money as indemnity, and you receive money for one year from the national job insurance.

  23. Re:As long as the user can say no to the updates on Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System? · · Score: 1

    OpenOffice.org already has OOBasic which is the Visual Basic language, but with a different object model. So, what is lacking is a compatibility layer for Microsoft documents.

    Have a look to OOoMacros.org and the french OOo sub-projectfor interesting native OOo macros.

  24. Re:Yeah right on Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player · · Score: 1
    Verified on french Windows XP in files wpaud[1-9].wav :
    findstr "Sound Forge" %WINDIR%\Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav\* .wav
  25. Try NX on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 1

    Try NoMachine's NX. Better than X and GPL client and server are available.