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  1. Re:At least, Google News is in Beta for a reason on Are Betas Taking On Lives of Their Own? · · Score: 1

    release quality, except the index hasn't been updated for years -- My site was moved a couple of years ago, yet google images is still pointing to the non-existent version and hasn't noticed the new one (compare to the main web page search; which goes round my site every week or so)

  2. Re:the changing definitions of words on Are Betas Taking On Lives of Their Own? · · Score: 1
    So when the morons steal all our words and turn them into synonyms for words they already have, how are we going to describe things properly?

    Are we heading for a world where we have to refer to cats as vaginas because "pussy" is considered rude?

  3. Re:Arrows on Anatomy of the Linux Boot Process · · Score: 1

    I did that already; someone pointed out that !0x2B = 0, because it's a logical rather than binary not.

  4. Re:Arrows on Anatomy of the Linux Boot Process · · Score: 1
    I've often wondered why the OS insists on redetecting hardware when BIOS does it for me already

    My BIOS sees that I have one 1GB disk; linux sees that I have a 1GB disk to boot off and a 120GB disk for data -- software is much more flexible than firmware, to the point where I wonder quite why we have the latter...

  5. Re:The End Of Political Correctness on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 1
    For years now, the intellectual elite of this world have labored mightily to stamp out all superficial signs of racism, sexism, gayism, and other isms, by banning "insensitive" speech and images

    No, politicians have been stamping stuff out; the intellectual elite realise that political correctness is a load of ass and have been trying to get their freedom back...

  6. $company says $their_product is good on MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux · · Score: 1

    How is this news? *All* companies put out the message that their product is best, there's really nothing special about it.

  7. Text Mode! on PC Users Fight Distractions to Work · · Score: 1

    When I need to get work done, I go to a text mode console and use vim -- many fewer distractions that way :)

  8. Re:What I think should be focused on first on Integrating OSS Graphics Apps · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't use it that way myself now that I'm used to the gimp way of doing things, but I can see why what you suggest would be a good idea :)

  9. Re:What I think should be focused on first on Integrating OSS Graphics Apps · · Score: 1
    the buttons are at the extreme top/corners of the screen, but The GIMP can't do that either.

    How do you mean? Trying it now, the toolbox can be stretched to one item tall and lots wide, and positioned anywhere the WM'll allow... Or a couple of items wide and many tall like photoshop on mac, with the big panels tabbed available on the other side of the screen, the images being loaded in the middle of the screen.

    And to have no wrist back & forthing, there's the easily configurable keyboard shortcuts (hover over a menu item, press a key to assign it); which reminds me - does PS have any keybinding config? I didn't look too hard last time I used it, but nothing jumped out at me...

  10. Re:What I think should be focused on first on Integrating OSS Graphics Apps · · Score: 1

    Just to reiterate what other people would say if they were here; blender fscking rocks when you get used to it. I have yet to see a 3D program which is easy for n00bs and elegant for pros, blender just chooses to be very far to the elegant / hard to learn end of the scale, and as someone who bothered to learn it, I'm grateful.

  11. Re:What I think should be focused on first on Integrating OSS Graphics Apps · · Score: 1

    The open & save dialogs are part of the GTK / GNOME project, not GIMP. And why would anyone want to dock a toolbar to a specific image window when they can have one dock (the main toolbox) to one side and use that for everything?

  12. Re:Wow on DDOS Mafia On The Loose · · Score: 1
    its time to leave time

    Breaking out of the spacetime continuum? Seems a bit overkill just to avoid the mafia, but I suppose it works...

  13. Re:Why HDD? on MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation? · · Score: 1
    HDDs only die when run via wearing out and not just sitting on the shelf.

    But how long do they live after being knocked off of the shelf?

  14. Plain text on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the govt found you sending plain text explanations of your terrorist plans, would they take it seriously or pass you off as a nut who's too incompetent to hide themselves?

  15. Re:Maybe He Just Married a Moron on Why Does Windows Still Suck? · · Score: 1
    Wow! Where can I get this mythical operating system that can do all the work of the user and cannot be broken no matter how incompetent the owner!

    I was talking about cars o_o

    (Really, it's an analogy; it's not meant to be taken literally, or expected to be accurate -- it's there to get the point across quickly and easily at accuracy's expense)

  16. Re:Maybe He Just Married a Moron on Why Does Windows Still Suck? · · Score: 1
    Cars don't suck because they crash when people drive drunk, the drivers do

    But a bunch of mostly volunteers working in their spare time for no money can make a car that doesn't crash no matter how drunk the driver, and they're giving it away for free!

  17. Drivers? on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 1

    Any chance of them being able to hack something together so linux driver modules can be loaded?

  18. Re:Google saves HTML? on Climbing up the Search Ladder · · Score: 1

    My site is practically unlinked to (Only about 3 sites regularly refer people), I don't have any great uniqueness, and yet I'm on the front page of hits for a lot of keywords that I'm quite sure I don't deserve to be on. The only explanation I can see is that google likes my pure-structure HTML, giving it a boost over the sites that do deserve to be on the front page, but have unreadable code...

  19. Re:I installed Ubuntu on my Dad's computer on 4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yay ubuntu indeed -- especially with the "installation of programs is still hard" comment - my 8 year old sister uses synaptic to browse & install the games category, and generally likes ubuntu more than windows "because everything's much simpler"

  20. Why do you need to ask? on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Any professional admin should already know which is the best distro... (it being, of course, whichever said admin feels most comfortable with)

  21. Re:Mice on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    A three year old child is easy, try explaining it to my mother

  22. Re:LOL on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    Or you run a dedicated seed on the server - in the worst case scenario your BT bandwidth is the same as the HTTP bandwidth would have been, and having more people downloading at once is just a bonus.

  23. XViD + BitTorrent on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    xvid compresses wonderfully, and then bittorrent if you're popular enough to have many people downloading at the same time.

  24. Re:FIFA 2005 on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 2, Funny
    I had to turn away because the gore was so bad

    You get to play as fans as well as players?


    (Note: post may not be retain humour outside of England, where football fans are stereotyped as hooligans)

  25. Re:Interesting premise, but.. on Google Plans Free VoIP In the UK · · Score: 1

    You could have ads played as a ring tone, while you wait for the other end to pick up