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  1. Build Environment on Ultimate Software Developer Setup? · · Score: 1
    Disclaimer: Eclipse is great.

    I'd advise you to get a running build environment set up using either ant or make. Your goal should be the case where you can do a fresh checkout of your project, type one command, and have the whole system build itself.

    An IDE will compile your code, sure, but as a project gets larger and larger you'll find yourself needing to automate other tasks. If you're already comfortable with ant or make then you'll naturally fold these new tasks into your build scripts.

  2. Hungarian Notation on Successful Strategies for Commenting Your Code · · Score: 1
    Hungarian notation is wrong.

    Anybody who uses it is a terrorist. (Or a pEvilbeardTrrist, as they like to call themselves)

  3. Re:Most, boring, game, ever! on Happy Birthday, Amiga · · Score: 1

    In your bathroom

  4. Arrogance on Why I Hate the Apache Web Server · · Score: 1
    What a shame that all those completely valid points are classed as humour. lol, apach3 is t00 1337 4 teh n00bs, etc.

    I look forward to a rival project providing some realistic competition.

  5. Not even two nines!? on New Study Finds VOIP is Getting Better · · Score: 1
    The worst VOIP provider had an availability of 94.8% (which isn't bad)

    That's fucking terrible. That's one in twenty calls failing.

    imagine if your car broke down once a fortnight either going to work or coming home; absolutely unacceptable.

    Hell, imagine if your car broken down once a year.

    In telephony, anything below five nines is an absolute joke.

  6. Re:Time to reitre C++?? on Stroustrup on the Future of C++ · · Score: 1

    Well I found that incredibly funny, even if the mods didn't. Bravo!

  7. Re:Churches? on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    But, but, but, they're not going to get any money and political influence that way!

  8. teh ub3rparrot on Alex, The Brainy Parrot Who Knows About Zero · · Score: 1

    Ask it what's better out of BSD and GPL

  9. Re:Days are numbered? on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1

    It was a joke.

  10. Re:FYI... on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1
    Expect congestion and unreachable people if you try to join them on their cell phones.
    Londoners have been warned to stay at home. Commuters have been warned to avoid London.

    Good to see it's business as usual in London then ;)

  11. Re:Why so late ? on Google to Release Firefox Toolbar · · Score: 1

    whoops, a typo in the word and the link! If only I had the google toolbar to correct my speeling ;)

  12. Re:Why so late ? on Google to Release Firefox Toolbar · · Score: 1
    Because the number of people using a non-IE browser is negigible
    (or it has been, up to now).

    Blah blah netcraft confirms it blah blah 10% install base, blah blah blah, blah. I know IE is teh SuXXor and firefox is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but google are doing mozilla a favour by porting their app to a niche browser

  13. Re:I used to care about the "Linux Desktop" on A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future · · Score: 1
    I must admit that I was trying to bait the usual response of 'Years and years ago it wasn't GPL, and I'm too obstinate to change my mind'.

    I hadn't really considered the importance of it being GPL rather than L GPL.

  14. Re:I used to care about the "Linux Desktop" on A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future · · Score: 1
    But in my opinion, KDE choosing Qt as its toolkit basically ruined any chances of a dominant desktop that could be a standard.

    Why's that?

  15. Re:I keep forgetting on We Don't Need the GPL Anymore · · Score: 4, Funny

    And as such should really be referred to as GUN/ESR, not just ESR.

  16. Amazing on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1
    "the researchers found that our learning process was similar to other biological organisms"

    Fuckin ell, who'da thunk it?

  17. teh STATISTICS must be true! on Legal Music Downloads At 35%, Soon To Pass Piracy · · Score: 1
    So 35% of music downloads are legal, and 40% are illegal.

    Cool.

  18. Re:I still don't get it.. on Desktop Linux on x86 - Adapt or Die · · Score: 1

    That's all true, but slashdot readers love arguing and the truth should never be allowed to get in the way of that ;)

  19. Re:Wrist braces at 40? on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1
    I know what you mean about the scroll wheel. I used to get a noticeable pain after a couple of pages.

    I forced myself to unlearn the scroll wheel and start using the Page Up/Down, Home and End keys instead. The best thing is that it's more comfortable, but the funniest thing is when other coders at my workplace get amazed when I can scroll to the top or bottom of a file in just one keypress.

    If you're on Windows, then clicking the scroll wheel and moving the mouse up and down a bit is comfortable too. I miss that when I'm working on linux (I use KDE, maybe something else does it)

  20. Low quality content, brilliantly served on BBC News Under The Bonnet · · Score: 1
    It's a pity they couldn't slip a spell checker (or even better a human being) into the content management pipeline somewhere.

    The BBC television and radio news are both far and away the best in the world, but the errors that routinely find their way into the online version are shocking.

  21. Re:Why use fedora? on Redhat Spins Off Fedora Project · · Score: 1
    It feels like RedHat. That's enough for some people.

    (*shrug* I dunno, that's only a guess. I use Debian Sarge)

  22. Selling at a loss when new on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1
    The bottom line is that console manufacturers often heavily subsidize their new machines, swallowing huge losses up front in hopes that they'll make it all back selling games

    Another factor is that a year down the line, the hardware is much cheaper. A PS2 costs practically nothing to produce these days.

    This is a great problem for the Xbox, as intel chips don't tend to drop in price a great deal, they just get faster and faster for the same price.

  23. Re:First question for alien intelligence . . . on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    lol :) I wish I'd seen this comment before posting as I have mod points today.

  24. Life from far far away on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1
    Do two thirds of Americans believe that life exists on other continents?

    Sorry, couldn't resist! ;p

  25. Re:Life Expectancy taken into account? on Innovators Are Older Than Ever · · Score: 1

    It turns out there is no 'FA' to 'R' :|