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  1. Re:YASE on Grokker Search Engine Provides Visual Search Results · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, we do. Everyone complains about the monopoly that MS has, but noone seems to care about Google. If Google looses your site now, you are fscked for the time until it gets back in, due to its dominance. True, so my site ranks far better in Google than it does in other SEs, but that's only due to PageRank.

    (On an off-topic note, does anyone else have problems with any browser except IE? I've tried konq and Moz (my normal browser) but they don't work...)

  2. Re:when I was little on ECCp-109 Solved · · Score: 1

    I think the parent was referring to the UD project

  3. Re:Link to the UD forums on ECCp-109 Solved · · Score: 1

    Just slashcode with its protection from page widening posts - trolls who would post long strings to stretch the page.
    Better than *shudder* horizontal scrolling...

  4. Re:What are you going to do? Beat cancer! on ECCp-109 Solved · · Score: 1

    There is the intel one, AFAIK... As I said in my other post (posted when your repy wasn't here - you beat me to it) I thought it was funding which would be needed... or something.
    *ahem*

  5. Re:What are you going to do? Beat cancer! on ECCp-109 Solved · · Score: 1

    Many people have said this already - their response is that they can't - it'd need funding.

    Still, I'd love to see a Linux client.

  6. Re:New standard? on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Not breaking as such - but adding can have bad effects... Just look at the amount of images with useful data needed, hidden in ALT tags because people design for IE.

  7. Re:Economics will screw this up on When Alcohol And Airplanes Make A Good Mix · · Score: 1
    If a government sets up a voluntary recycling scheme for paper, cans or bottles I bet nearly everyone would still throw their rubbish in the bin!

    Actually, in Bath (where I live) there is such a scheme - they give out green boxes for recycling stuff, and it does get used... Of course, this is the UK, if it was the US it would probably be different (not trying to troll or anything - just the way I see it is that the US tends to be more wasteful. If such a scheme gets set up in somewhere in america and it's a success, I stand corrected).
  8. Re:AMD... on Intel Must Pay $150M for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I got this one - "Intel Software Developer Tools" - for the story (/.) (they use doubleclick now? /me blocks via mozilla :P).
    Hmm... An AMD AND Intel ad on the same topic... /me's head explodes

  9. Re:Reverse it and feel your dinner come back up on Wanted: Female Game Testers · · Score: 1
    Remember what does acronym BFG meant in doom?

    Damn... That's something I think has never been 100% decided ;). According to the manual it's "Big Fragging Gun", as well as on the BFG FAQ (yes, it does have one...).
  10. Re:Girl Gamers Unite (at my house) on Wanted: Female Game Testers · · Score: 1

    That would be Laura Bow 2 - The Dagger of Amon Ra, 1992 (IIRC). INFO

    I've got it, it came as part of The Roberta Williams Anthology (Hey! A female developer!).

    There was also another one - AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter)-based. The Colonel's Bequest - Some info...

    I've always found adventure-style games fun, dunno why, maybe because I was brought up with them.

  11. Re:Linux is free... on Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dunno if the AC is trolling, but he/she did make a valid point - it's still not free unless they don't pay you.

    Then again... fsck it. I bet someone else has posted this whilst I was reading.

  12. A lot... on Red Hat 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I couldn't really get 7.0 running on my server; X didn't work, quite a few other things I can't remember also didn't work... 7.2 was fine.

  13. Times _HAVE_ chaned... on Slashdot Turns 5 · · Score: 2, Funny
    (yes, I know, I only joined a couple of months ago...)

    Read this article...

    "I'm not exactly sure why it died, except to say that we got linked from somewhere fairly sizable since we were getting several times the usual number of hits."
  14. Re:And for 3 outta 3... on AOL: Lindows Is Misleading People · · Score: 1

    "Click and Run"

    Quite an apt heading...

    OK, it sounded funny to me at the time.. Don't ask me why.

  15. Re:Dear AOL: misleading product name on AOL's new Linux PC · · Score: 1

    I recently got a few DVD-style AOL cases... Of course I removed the CD and used it for a proper CD case... Shame it doesn't come on CD-RWs ;).

  16. Re:Do NOT buy MX cards on Graphics Memory Sizes Compared: How Much Is Enough? · · Score: 1
    Hmm... Unreal Tourney locks up after 5 minutes.

    Hmm... May Payne locks up after 1 minute.

    Hmm... BF42 locks up in SECONDS.
    Hmm... on my GeForce 2MX 32MB/Pentium II 400Mhz...

    Hmm... Unreal Tourney suffers from loads of "lag" on maps with loads of people, but otherwise runs fine.

    Hmm... Max Payne runs fine...

    Hmm... Never played BF42 :P
  17. They _CAN'T_ release the source. on Kazaa Continues to Evolve · · Score: 1
    Given that the source isn't out, I'd rather stick to the official spyware version instead of using something that might give criminals an income, or take over my computer.
    They can't release the source, for one reason... They don't have it. It's a hacked version of KaZaA.
  18. Re:The Economics Of Warez on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 1
    I bought Lavasoft Ad-Aware Plus. It didn't really add anything I needed; sure ad-watch is nice, but I did it because I wanted to support them. £10 is two week's "pay" for me (I'm 15, too young for a job, got work experience soon - basically free underage labour for some company ;)) - not that that has much to do with anything, since I don't know how much an average wage is, but I expect it's enough to still buy some things. I like to have a "box"; not nescasarily a box as such, something showing that my purchased product is superior to thou's illegal copy. I look at my Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise (yeah, I know...) and see printed manuals, real CDs. Sure, many people may not feel the same, but I feel that you get more value out of software if you buy it.

    OK, I think I covered about 500 things up there, but basically...
    1. I like to have something saying I legally got this product
    2. I feel that you get more value out of legally purchaced software. Mostly because you put your money in and - therefore - try to get your money's worth... I'm sure I wouldn't have played (and enjoyed) Deus Ex as much if I'd copied it.
    3. (With smaller companies) I like to feel that I'm "helping" them by doing the right thing...

    Of course, saying that, I do use Linux and open source software as well.

    Anyway, if you can read my comment, and understand it, please send how you did it to "The Confusing Guy", 26 Oak View... (and no, that isn't my address...)
  19. Enigmail has been there for a while on Enigmail Standard In Mandrake 9.0 · · Score: 1

    Enigmail Project Mozdev Site.
    I've been using it for a while, and since this is only in Mandrake (AFAIK) I doubt it would make that much difference.

  20. Re:redhat and AMD. on Intel to Build DRM into Next-Generation CPUs · · Score: 1

    I guess that there isn't as much demand...

  21. Re:no wonder on New Linux Kernel Configuration System · · Score: 1
    How ironic; There's this ad at the top of the page...
    "Don't let Your Database Slow You Down"
  22. Re:Cost effectiveness? on XBox Linux HOWTOs · · Score: 1

    The irony of running Linux on an Xbox: Priceless

  23. Four Cs? on Shop Till It Drops · · Score: 1
    Industry veterans note that there have been unsuccessful efforts to move beyond the "four C's" -- candy, coffee, cold drinks, cigarettes.
    They forgot condoms.
  24. Re:WP is flat out better on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 0
    I edit table widths all the time in Word, and have NEVER had to go through a mass of dialogs to do it, either. Just click and drag... presto.
    We're talking about precice changes - click 'n' drag is OK for basic resizing, but if you want perfect you need to have the details.
    Or more likely, you're trying to directly translate word perfect actions into word actions, which given their fundamentally different underlying philosophies, obviously doesn't work very well.
    As I said before, I don't actually use WP; but this is a feature I would use. I like to have full control over a document's appearance.
  25. Re:No Star Office? on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 3, Funny

    DAMN! So I won't be able go to my Office(r) to do some work (when I'm old enough to get a job :S)?
    /me sits in his Office(r) looking out of the Windows(r).