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  1. Kazaa authors != evil spyware people on John Dvorak Hypes Skype · · Score: 5, Informative

    Skype was written by the original authors of Kazaa, not Sharman Networks, the company who took it over and added all the malware.

  2. Argh. I thought I hit Extrans. on Safari Passes the Acid2 Test · · Score: 5, Informative

    From his latest blog entry:

    "Do you have any idea how hard it is to be merging between two totally different trees when one of them doesn't have any history? That's the situation KDE is in. We created the khtml-cvs list for Apple, they got CVS accounts for KDE CVS. What did we get? We get periodical code bombs in the form of them releasing WebCore. Many of us wanted to even sign NDA's with Apple to at least get access to the history of their internal vcs and be able to be merging the changes incrementally, the way they can right now. Nothing came out of it. They do the very, very minimum required by LGPL."

    Go read the whole post. Very informative, and kind of sad.

  3. New post from Zack Rusin on Safari Passes the Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    From his latest blog entry: "Do you have any idea how hard it is to be merging between two totally different trees when one of them doesn't have any history? That's the situation KDE is in. We created the khtml-cvs list for Apple, they got CVS accounts for KDE CVS. What did we get? We get periodical code bombs in the form of them releasing WebCore. Many of us wanted to even sign NDA's with Apple to at least get access to the history of their internal vcs and be able to be merging the changes incrementally, the way they can right now. Nothing came out of it. They do the very, very minimum required by LGPL." Go read the whole post. Very informative, and kind of sad.

  4. Re:KHTML on Safari Passes the Acid2 Test · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yeah, so 5 seconds after the other two comments gets me redundant. Fair enough.

  5. KHTML on Safari Passes the Acid2 Test · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks like he's actually fixing the bugs, and not just adding some lame hack to make it show up right - nice!

    I hope these fixes trickle back down to KHTML soon. In time for KDE 3.5 would be great. ;)

  6. Re:Not being trollish, but... on Opera 8 Released · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The Web Developer Toolsbar does all that and more. Plus, it and the DOM Inspector are an absolute godsend for doing web design.

  7. Rproxy on loband - Killer App for Developing World? · · Score: 1

    Hell, I just want rproxy. I'm stuck on dial-up out where I live, and I'd gladly trade a few CPU cycles for faster access to the sites I regularly browse.

  8. Re:A CmdrTaco first! on **No Title** · · Score: 1

    Sure enough... weird.

  9. Re:A CmdrTaco first! on **No Title** · · Score: 3, Informative

    No problem:

    Link

  10. Re:They "think" it was "sabotaged" ? on EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows · · Score: 1

    It's like "suggesting" Microsoft purposely "sabotaged" the Help system after a person removes the IE Core from the system. (Doing so effectively breaks the help system among other things)

    That's what Microsoft did. Apps are apps and OS is OS, and coupling one to the other has been recognized as bad design since the 1960s or earlier. Yet MS purposefully chose to do bad engineering because it looked like a good marketing strategy.


    Oh, shut up. An HTML renderer is a perfectly good thing to use for a help system. It's not the embedding that makes IE a problem, it's the IE security flaws that make embedding a problem.

  11. Filterset.G instructions - important! on Mozilla Firefox 1.02 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't forget the proper settings you need to get the most out of Filterset.G:

    Recommended Adblock settings for Filterset.G

    [To modify: Tools > Adblock > Preferences]

    Hide Ads x Remove Ads

    Ablock Options:
    Obj-Tabs
    x Collapse Blocked Elements
    x Check Parent Links
    x Site Blocking
    x Keep List Sorted

  12. Re:Naming? on Ask Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker · · Score: 1

    Off topic? That was a serious question!

  13. Naming? on Ask Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My question:

    Since when is Mitchell a girl's name?

    Thanks,
    Mitchell Mebane

  14. Re:Not by a decade. on Hindsight: Reversible Computing · · Score: 1

    Just... wow. Ten years? It could've been the most awesome debugging tool ever, and nobody wanted it? Why?

  15. Re:A bit more on the rip... on CherryOS Mac Emulator Resurfaces · · Score: 1

    Which file is the config file?

  16. Re:Not really a theming engime on Windows on Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released · · Score: 1

    WindowBlinds pretty much skins everything.

  17. Re:Boycott Transgaming on Fragging on Linux and TransGaming · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Fortunately, oliverthered and co. seem to be doing some excellent work lately.

  18. Re:Still no PATA Support? on Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released · · Score: 1

    Gee whiz, if you actually read the page you linked to, you'd see that the patch won't be ready until March due to the standard not yet being finalized. In any case, I fail to see what this has to do with PATA drives.

  19. Re:ACPI suspend? on Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it can still be a bitch to get working. Is it ever going to be merged into the kernel?

  20. Not really a theming engime on Windows on Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released · · Score: 1

    The way the article words it, it sounds like the Windows widgets aren't really done by a theming engine, they just made a Luna Blue skin for OO.o. This would mean that people, like me, who use WindowBlinds will still not have a matching OO.o.

    I haven't tried the 2.0 betas, is this really the way it works?

  21. img*.exs.cx on Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware · · Score: 1

    Those img*.exs.cx links are provided by ImageShack. I use them all the time. Saves me eBay fees, and gives me an easy way to store pictures for message boards.

  22. Re:WINE on Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users · · Score: 1

    Well, that may be true, but Wine _does_ have a VM layer.

  23. Re:MS downloads no longer needed on Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users · · Score: 1

    Well, almost completed, anyway. If you look at the , you will see they aren't quite there.

    However, massive amounts of work have been done over the last six months, and I think the next six months will bring some very exciting things for the Wine community.

  24. Pi? A song? Hmm... on A Savant Explains His Abilities · · Score: 1

    "Most people can pretty easily memorize song lyrics and the sounds of a song, but yet the digits of Pi are incredibly hard to memorize. Might the digits of Pi be to this guy be like memorizing a song to most of us? I equally can't explain in a nice rational way why it's easy to memorize a song, but to anyone that can it doesn't need any more explanation."

    You mean like this song?

  25. Ha! on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    I just tried it and got "dsfhlsagfd". I guess this means it's pretty secure!