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  1. Re:For those wanting to do this on the cheap... on A Truly Silent Home Theater PC Built for Linux · · Score: 1

    Not sure what you are talking about. I download and burn the images on my main computer, not the media center computer. It has nothing to do with RAM anyway. You just need hard drive space and K3B.

  2. For those wanting to do this on the cheap... on A Truly Silent Home Theater PC Built for Linux · · Score: 1

    Forget about buying a media system, just dig out some old computer you have, make sure it has a video card with TV-out. Doesn't matter if it has a hard drive or not, as long as it has a CD or DVD player. Download Linux Geexbox boot CD. Hook up your system to your TV and stereo system. Download some movies from the bittorrents. Burn to CD/DVD. Watch movies. Who cares if the system is noise, you won't hear it when you have a movie playing loud.

  3. Now 17 on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    Yay, I just matched 17!

  4. Re:Just put 'picture' for every answer on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    This was one of my first thoughts as well, we should all start typing the same word for everything. Problem is that nobody is going to see your post. There are probably thousands of people at any given time playing this from all over the world. This idea would not work unless the word really got out about doing this scheme. But then again, most people would think it's just a stupid idea.

  5. Re:People are dumb. on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    That accelerator thingy comes up a lot. Trust me, type factory or construction or scaffolding. One of those usually gets it.

  6. Post your highest score... mine is 14 matches on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    My wife managed to actually get 20 matches with someone!! It is very difficult to be paired with someone who is serious about playing, or then they are just too slow of typers.

  7. Me too!!! on What is the Ultimate Linux Development Environment? · · Score: 1

    I love jedit as well. So customizable and so cross-platform! If I had mod points, you would get some! Nobody ever seems to remember jedit in these discussions. When on the command line, I stick with "joe".

  8. So BSD is dying, what about Solaris? on The Future of NetBSD · · Score: 1

    Are they dying as well. Not meaning to troll or flame, just curious what happened to Solaris after it went free and "open". They were supposed to kill Linux, weren't they? Does anybody actually even use it?

  9. Re:CNR is great, but their customized apps suck! on Linspire Makes Click and Run Free · · Score: 1

    No, she's only my mother-in-law, but we call her grandma around here because that is what my son calls her.

  10. People who like easy installs on Linspire Makes Click and Run Free · · Score: 3, Interesting

    CNR is unquestionably the BEST software installer on ANY distro or Windows or Mac. Screenshots, description and reviews before you single-click-to-get-it-installed-with-an-icon-on-y our-desktop is hard to beat!

  11. Re:Here comes the targeted scripts on Linspire Makes Click and Run Free · · Score: 1

    When you install Linspire on harddrive, it creates a regular default user for you. Yes, you do have the option of running it as root only, but that's just stupid.

  12. True on Linspire Makes Click and Run Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I am not personally a Linspire user, it always annoys me when ignorant people complain about them charging for free software. They never did! The free software was always free. If you choose to use the CNR method to install it, you had to pay $20/year for the service of doing so. You didn't pay for all the free software it installed for you though.

  13. CNR is great, but their customized apps suck! on Linspire Makes Click and Run Free · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had my mother-in-law running on Linspire 5.0, having switched from Windows 98. It was great as it eliminated the support I had to give every time Win98 crashed or something went wonky. I switched her to Linspire because I figured it has the easiest method of installation. You run CNR, browse the apps in the categories, see screenshots and descriptions, click to install, icon gets put on desktop. Excellent! But then the problems started. Many of Linspires default branded apps, suchs as Lphoto, just had too many bugs to be usuable. Even with a fully supported HP deskjet printer, Lphoto refused to print the way the preview windows showed. Thunderbird refused to print emails with anything other than a huge font. Simple programs that should perform simple just didn't work. I run ArchLinux and my software all works the way I expect it to... I don't know what Linpsire did to screw things up. Anyway, she sprung for paying for WinXP and I installed that for her. It seems that Linspire, while having the easiest install system, is not ready for grandma yet.

  14. Re:I get paid to add links to a site on Social News Sites Pay Top Submitters · · Score: 1

    Nope. That is my site, but I get hardly any cash from it. I do the link gathering job for somebody else, completely unrelated, non-techie, web site.

  15. I get paid to add links to a site on Social News Sites Pay Top Submitters · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For about half an hour every weekday morning I add links to a certain website (can't name it). I get paid about $350/month for this simple task.

  16. sure on Dodging the Negative Reaction To GE Crops · · Score: 1

    Give your explanation to the farmers that get sued by Monsanto for unintentional crossbreeding.

  17. It's the "last" big thing! on OSS on Windows the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    Many people that switched to Linux had previously been running mostly OSS on their Windows machines. Me included. It is hardly the "next" big thing. It's the "last" thing you do on Windows before you go Linux.

  18. Good book on SQL Injection Attacks Increasing · · Score: 1

    I should have also mentioned that Pro PHP Security is a good book on the subject of creating secure PHP code.

  19. Solution for PHP programmers on SQL Injection Attacks Increasing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Make sure you specify where you get your incoming data from, like using $_POST, $_GET, $_SESSION, etc, don't just grab them from the air (with globals on).
    Make sure you use mysql_real_escape_string() on all incoming data that is headed for the mysql database (to get rid of SQL injection).
    Make sure you use strip_tags() on all incoming data that is headed for output on your page (to get rid of cross-site scripting).

  20. No proof there on Virtual Worlds and ESP · · Score: 1

    I can replicate all those videos... not even with camera tricks, just some basic methods which you would kick yourself if you knew how they were done. It's basics of show magic.

  21. Hmmm... is it porn? on SUSE Linux Becomes openSUSE · · Score: 1

    There could possibly be some misunderstanding when people hear you talking about downloading "open suzie".

  22. 100% WORKING SOLUTION FOR THE KIDS!!! on School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Leave your damn cell phones at home. It's school, you are there to learn not to socialize with your buddies at the other school.

  23. Disgusting! on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was a born-again Christian for over 20 years and thought the same way as the above poster. I left religion / christianity about 6 years ago and I have to say I have never been happier! I realize now how very much I was missing the point (much like above poster)! Atheists aren't violent criminals doing thing for selfish needs, that does not make sense... but that is what the religious mindset teaches you to believe. You believe this to the point where you can only see "good" as coming from following the Bible, which is utterly ridiculous. Many so-called Christians go the opposite way and become evil for the very reason that they can no longer tell that true morals are not based on some set of rules from a God on high. Morals come from living and learning... education. You do good, people do good to you. There is nothing to gain if everyone is out for themselves! This is why I see Christianity as so hyprocritcal these days... they are exactly what they think the secular world is... evil! And they can't see past that.

  24. This is the end of freedom on Police Launch Drones Over LA · · Score: 1
    You will all be required to get rfid tags implanted under your skin (for national security reasons of course), see http://www.adsx.com/, and these drones will be sent out to scan every square inch of the continent, looking for people who AREN'T giving off a rfid signal. The rebels will be captured and put into fenced off detainment centers for processing, see http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps1.htm

    Kiss your remaining freedoms goodbye.

  25. 666 exposed on New Caldera Promised · · Score: 1

    It's fake because they use "color:#666;" in a few spots in their CSS code (just view the source)... meaning that obviously the page was made by evil hackers.