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  1. Re:Desktop is not usable until fonts are sharp on Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit of a font fetishist myself and all I can say is that Mandrake 10.0's font smoothing is far superior to Windows'. (ATi R9800SE, CRT)

    It's probably the premier reason for me wanting a Linux machine.

    See, the Internet DOES aggregate the most screwed-up people in the world :)

  2. Re:Thunderbird is missing something on Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    In the registry under HKCU\Identities, there should be only one "folder" (registry key).

    Somewhere down the later branches, there is a sort of mailbox location String. Setting this to a folder on another partition works quite well (I did this for parentals for a while, until I upgraded them :)

    So it's on par with getting Thunderbird's email location.

    (Check %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Identities otherwise, I believe).

    Kind Regards,
    Jason

  3. Re:Umm... on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1

    Can you say pre-USAPATRIOT?

  4. Re:How do you know? on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 3, Informative

    Click About... Is this copy of Windows Legal? in the My Computer window.

    And stuff... :)

    Cheerz, Jason.

  5. Re:Yea... on Halo 2 Released · · Score: 1

    From what I can gather, there was a leaked version of Halo (from a beta or something).

    The dialogue for the characters was in French and some people played through it.

    That's about all I can gather.

    XeeRz,
    Jason.

  6. Re:Worlds Colliding! on Water Cooling With A Car Radiator · · Score: 1
    As an American of asian descent

    As an African of African descent, I take great offense to seeing "asian" without an uppercase letter.

    Jeez, they teach us that crap for 5 years; at least apply it once in a while.

    /rant Jason.
  7. Slight Typo in the URL on Making the 'Best' Desktop Linux System · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is what one would think is the URL.

    XeeRz,
    Jason.

  8. Re:Censored version? on Possible Half Life 2 Troubles in Australia · · Score: 1
    but saying that pornography should be allowed for kids because it would increase profits doesn't sound that good either
    You've obviously never been a kid... (Unless I'm being a male chauvanist pig, in which case, you probably didn't want pornography as a kid...) :) Just my R0.02 (~$0.0014) XeeRz, Jason
  9. Re:Better: Grep For Windows on Google Launches Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 1

    I assume, of course, that you already know about

    findstr
    built into Windows (XP).
    I post an excerpt from the output of
    findstr /?


    Searches for strings in files.

    FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]
    [/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes] [/OFF[LINE]]
    strings [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]
    Give it a shot; I haven't :) XeeRz, Jason
  10. Re:How to detonate it? on Air Force Researching Antimatter Weapons · · Score: 1

    It's all theory just now. We'll have to drop a gram of it to be sure.

    D00d, advocating drugs is not good!

  11. Re:ext3 to reiser4 ? on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'll bite... Every hashing algorithm has collisions. Even SHA-1. It just has "less" collisions (infinities are strange) than MD5. XeeRz, Jason

  12. Re:Firefox // Opera on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Wonderful browsers, both of them.

    Firefox has the neat ability to actually FORCE websites to use my fonts easily accessible (considered a plus by some) and Opera feels faster out of the box.

    I would love to say Opera is the best, but the best browser is one that can actually SAVE PAGES DECENTLY. (Sorry, Opera zealots. Hundreds of files in a top level folder is not "organisation").

    Peace out, and word to your mother...

    and stuff...
    Jason

  13. Re:Alternative scenes on Don't Smudge The Sensor When You Press 'Play' · · Score: 1

    Just proving that people who purchase CD's are thieves ;)

    Just kidding: I'm sure you had legal tender when you pointed the shotgun.

    CheeRz,
    Jason

  14. Re:Entire OS on RAM drive on Making Operating Systems Faster · · Score: 1

    and the third and MOST useful version (at least under XP) Start->Run shutdown.exe -t 0 -s -f Ironic that W32.Blaster taught me how to shut down Windows without giving microsoft Outlook any say in keeping it open (not that I run MS Outlook, but MSOffice programs keep the machine up if you don't use the above command) Just my R0.02 (±USD0.0014) Cheerz, Jason

  15. Re:Hmmm.... here's an idea! on Windows Users Fear Korgo Virus · · Score: 1

    There exists a little (well, at ~270 MB, not really little :) program called AutopatcherXP.

    The URL is www.autopatcher.com.

    While I cannot vouch for its integrity, it may be worth a look (I'm about 50 MB from finishing; damn 56k modem).

    Just a thought.

    Cheerz,
    Jason

  16. Re:Let's not forget South Africa on Biometric ID Cards Trialled in Glasgow · · Score: 1

    During the Apartheid years, non-white South Africans were also forced to carry passes when walking on the streets.

    Just my R0.02.

    XeeRz,
    Jason

  17. Re:Famine, Civil Wars, AIDS, Dictatorships. on Africa Source 2004 Wrap-ups · · Score: 1

    Yeah, d00d.

    I'm from South Africa. I know what it's like.
    Politicians are corrupt (indisputable fact).

    When you've noticed how the money IS squandered in this country, you'd be shocked.

    Most of the time I laugh when I read about American laws being passed, oblivious to the fact that worse things are happening here. The Draft Bills being sent through Parliament are just as atrocious as some of those being passed in USofAmerica.

    Most of the Election Campaigns are smear-campaigns. ("The NNP is with the ANC. Vote DA", as an example). My Hypocrisy keeps me amused at least, but if you want to see a FUCKED UP country, look at South Africa.

    XeeRz,
    Jason

  18. Hack da Planet! on Can Your ATM Play Beethoven? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this remind *anyone* of the movie Hackers, in which Joey makes an ATM (in "Bumsville, Idaho") spit out a certain amount of cash?

    Something makes me think a next RPC vulnerability will do just that ;)

    XeeRz,
    Jason

  19. Re:Gnoppix review on Four Linux Live CDs, The Executive Summary · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they obviously used the same machine, which means that the other distro's worked fine.

    Without taking into account they used the faster machine for Gnoppix as well (the Athlon XP 2GHz), there coudn't have been differences in physical networking subsystem.

    So the hardware guys blame the software guys ;p

  20. Re:Could this mean... Linux 2.x is dying? on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    Come on...

    Where are the early-warning trolls? :)

    Cheerz,
    jason

  21. Forerunner? on 'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does someone else see this as a prototype for spammers fishing for e-mail addresses?

    Yeah, yeah, paranoia and all and I have no compelling evidence at this time that spammers and virus-writers are collaborating, but think about it:

    Instead of mailing to addresses on the machine, forwarding those addresses to a spammer mean a great deal more, in my preconceived notion of the workings of a spammers mind.

    Oh, well... time will tell...

    Come on you OSS guys: a replacement for SMTP already. Where's the Advanced version of *Simple* Mail Transfer Protocol :-p

    XeeRz, Jason

  22. Re:A company making a protection racket? on Replaced by Outsourcing -- What's a Geek to Do? · · Score: 1

    As a second year student in South Africa, I can say that it's already daunting trying to break into a market that's about as saturated as, you know, stuff. The guy is competent (as can be seen from the blurb, you know containing Welchia, et al.) and he still gets sacked. As easy as it is to say: "Hey, Company! You deserve to be cracked/ You deserve what you get", this doesn't rectify the problem that this guy is now unemployed. (an assumption, granted) Hell, I'd be glad to hog onto any job right about now. Come on! If it's any consolation, I'm sure he could find any number of "qualified MCSE's" who need a reality check... Oh well, such it is..

  23. Re:Will it run on... on Microsoft Releases Changelist for Upcoming XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    Okay, 'tis possible, I'll grant.

    For the record, I had a total of 3 GiB HDD running WinXP SP1 and Office XP and used for Java devel. Everyone laughs when I mention the little bugger ;p

    On an unrelated note, while running Sun's Forte 4.0 CE, I started the app, made a cup of instant coffee, finished it (as a person who likes mildly warm coffee), made another cup and after about 10 mins it had finally started up. (Let's not even talk about compiling) Much better than XP (or, indeed, many of the later User-Friendly Linux distro's) in THAT regard :p

    Anywaste...

  24. Re:Will it run on... on Microsoft Releases Changelist for Upcoming XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    I used to run Win XP on a P166 with 64MiB RAM.

    Loadsa fun... especially ater the 3-4 minute bootup :p

  25. Re:who cares? yeah, doom... on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    You seem to forget that the "reason" Iraq was invaded was to find "Weapons of Mass-Destruction." In the absence of finding those, is he not presumed to be innocent until proven guilty? Or is this a long-abandoned concept in America? The same would go for Osama, if he were suddenly resurrected (as I believe he is said to have been murdered). Until such time as he is tried, he is to be presumed innocent, even if the outcome of the court-case seems fairly clear. I'll probably be told to look-up the word reality; Patriotic americans have given me quite a disdain for the general idea of American people, mindlessly following the mass-media to the point of forgetting their OWN Civil Liberties. The efforts of IBM and the (American-based portion of the) OSS-movement are restoring that. As they have abolished coins under ZAR0.05 here in South Africa, I cannot give my two cents. Unless I convert from another currency. :p Oh, yes: I Anal.