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  1. Alexandria on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised no one mentioned Alexandria yet: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/

  2. Re:the thing i don't understand on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 2

    There are some nutty "animal lovers" out there, but I think most of those that are against easting meat do it in protest against the cruelty of how animals are raised for human consumption. As a meat-eater myself, I often think about this and I'm getting closer to be an almost full-time vegetarian. I don't have any problems eating the livestock that my parents raise, because I know they live a good life, full of great outdoors, and are treated with respect. But I've seen my share of farms and in some of them the conditions in which animals live are horrendous. This is the cruelty you speak of.

  3. Sonic boom! on Guile Scheme Emacs-Lisp Compatibility Matures · · Score: 2

    That means Emacs 25 will be filled with "Sonic boom"!

  4. Re:Lynx - cool! on Gate One Brings Text-mode Surfing To the Web, Quake-Style · · Score: 1

    $ lynx --nocolor

    But you should give elinks a try instead of lynx. elinks supports frames, tabs and mouse input.

  5. Elinks vs Lynx on Gate One Brings Text-mode Surfing To the Web, Quake-Style · · Score: 1

    You should have used Elinks instead of Lynx. Elinks supports frames, tabs and mouse input.

  6. Re:The Golden Age on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Yes! I came here to recommend the same trilogy. Great writing and very realistic view of a technologically advanced future.

  7. Re:Neat on MINIX 3.2 Released With Some Major Changes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >It's great to see alternatives to GNU tools gaining ground. It's the only logical choice for embedded systems due to licensing. We're going to need to step up our game and make our own tools with threats like Wayland coming.

    What threat does Wayland poses? It's MIT licensed. And X.org isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

  8. Re:To quote Shao Kahn on HADOPI To Disconnect 60 People In France · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was Shang Tsung. Big Fail.

  9. Re:Extinction-level event on Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM · · Score: 0

    I prefer GNOME over Unity, I prefer GDM over LightDM, I prefer Firefox over Chromium and Wayland is nowhere near ready for mainstream. And I still prefer Gentoo over Ubuntu.

  10. Re:SLES/openSuse installs are everywhere on OpenSUSE 11.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see a copy of ubuntu running in a corporate environment.

    That's funny, I'm looking at a few dozens right now. We probably don't work at the same place...

  11. This is useful and hygienic on SEGA Brings Gaming To Public Restroom Toilets · · Score: 1

    The most disturbing consequence of this is that the urinals will be cleaner because people will try to piss inside the urinal now. I'm not joking. In a mall in my town someone remembered to make urinals with images of spiders and other bugs inside the urinals and the effect was notorious because people would then concentrate on pissing on the images inside the bowl!

  12. Is now dead? on Unreal Tournament 3 For Linux Is Officially Dead · · Score: 1

    It wasn't dead before?

  13. Portugal's MBNet on Alternatives To Paypal's Virtual Credit Card Service? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Virtual every debit and credit card in Portugal can have access to MBNet, a nationwide initiative in which you can have your one time credit card numbers.

    We actually have a pretty accessible banking system here in Portugal. We have a state regulated entity called SIBS that pretty much guarantees that every banking system should be able to talk to the others. In practive, this means that every bank has at least one ATM that is compatible with every debit and credit card in the country, and can be used for free, with no taxes for money withdrawal and other operations. It's pretty sweet.

  14. Obligatory Snatch quote on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    - Anything to declare?
    - Yeah, don't go to England.

  15. Screen on Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing beats screen. One student starts programming within a scren session; the other student joins that screen session (screen -x) and now they're both in the same environment at the same time, and both are in control.

  16. I've got another way on Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    It can make very small, precise changes in orbit, and that's what you need to avoid a keyhole. Actually, to avoid a keyhole, you just have to get drunk.

  17. Re:Acronym in an Acronym? on First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier · · Score: 1

    gtkmm, gtk#...

  18. Re:Choice is a Good Thing on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    I can't believe you left elinks out of that list, considering that elinks is way better than links, with support for mouse, tabs, etc..

  19. 17 years is a long time, Ulysses on Ulysses Spacecraft on its Last Legs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Penelope's gonna be mad when you return to Ithaca. According to the prophecy, you should have returned from Troy seven years ago!

  20. GNU/Linux... which distro will they use? on Mac Hack Contest Redux · · Score: 1

    I hope they'll go with Gentoo. It is uncrackable. When the hackers attack they can't do anything to it because the system is busy compiling itself.

  21. Gridlock vs Grimlock on MIT Researchers Fight Gridlock with Linux · · Score: 1

    How many of you read that as "MIT Researchers Fight Grimlock with Linux"? That would be so cool...

  22. Won't anyone think of the children? on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    And I denounce all religion an affront to "human intelligence".

  23. Re:Not even Windows users like OOXML on New York Decision On ODF Vs. OOXML Approaching · · Score: 3, Insightful

    TXT would indeed be better, if only because it isn't going to change in the future.

    What kind of TXT? ANSI? Unicode? UTF-16? Big endian? Little endian? etc, etc.. I know, my examples are probably wrong, but the point isn't.
  24. White Knight? on 2008, The Year of the Spaceship · · Score: 1

    They would have gone with the Black Night, but he lost his limbs in a fight with King Arthur and thus couldn't handle the spacecraft. It's a shame, really.

  25. Reading is good on DS Games for Pre-readers? · · Score: 1

    Give her some cool and flashy game that *requires* reading. It will encourage her to read and become a brighter human being. I started to read because I was tired of the drawings on Asterix's comic books. I wanted to know the stories too.