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  1. Re:Ah, the usual fallacy, eh? on Hack turns GIMP into Photoshop Look-alike · · Score: 1

    I'm still using the PSP 5 that came free on a magazine cover disk a few years back... works fine on Linux using WINE... :)

  2. Re:It should be off by default.... on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    correct, this is an unbelievably stupid thing to have set true by default...

  3. hah... now we know the real reason on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    Billie and Chris Evans split up... you can see it in almost every shot of Billie and Chris Eccleston together... she's only got eyes for Eccleston... Evans never had a chance after Billie had been taken for a spin in the Tardis...

  4. Re:So very planned... on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    has "The Stone Tape" ever been re-transmitted since the original broadcast back on a Christmass eve in the 1972??? I remember the original showing and it was seriously scarey...

  5. A transcript... a transcript... on Alan Cox on How Linux Can Survive Without Linus · · Score: 3, Insightful
    my keyboard for a transcript....

    well at least the download's fast from the mirror I've chosen... :)

  6. Re:Debian has a release coming out? on Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Its no big deal if there isn't an updated release on a CD in my opinion. I can't stand installing from CD anyway

    It matters a big F deal to those stuck with dialup or a very intermittent connection... or even dialup on a good connection... just think about doing "apt-get install KDE" over dialup... in some back-woods country in the middle of Africa... over a very noisy line where you can't go over 9600 Baud if you're lucky... and the line only goes up around 4 hours in any 24... and it's a party line...

    the "I'm alright Jack, I've got Broadband" atitude from some in here p'sses me right off sometimes...

  7. Re:Much of the energy has gone to Ubuntu... on Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is also perfectly suited for servers... there is a boot option for the install to install a minimal system with absolutely no gui stuff whatsoever... and the good news is, you get all the up-to-date php, perl and apache stuff available for you to suck in using apt...
    for Debian Stable, you have to rely on backports to use the new stuff.

  8. Re:I hit my monitor on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 1

    if you're gonna take it out on something... do the mouse or keyboard... especially if they're el cheapo no name jobs and only cost $3 each...

  9. Re:Why is OSS equated with Leftist ideology? on Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend · · Score: 1
    if your flamebait gets modded up, slashdot has hit rock bottom.

    What's worse, is that his comment (flamebait or not) is a dupe of a comment made when the article first went round yesterday...

  10. OK then... on Return of the Mac · · Score: 2
    how sure is he that they're not just running Linux on those iBooks??? After all... Linus has one and fer damn sure he's not running OSX. I've got one... and I wiped OSX off it shortly after getting the thing... wtf would I really want OSX for when I've got all of Linux to play with... the hardware's perfect for Linux... far better than that legacy x86 drek...

    I'm sure the Apple guys are perfectly happy as they've got the money off me all the same... rather than seeing it go out the country to some nameless beige box shifters...

  11. Re:Who's minding the coop??? on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 1
    time for you lot to get your congress critters off their backsides and supporting the OSS camp...

    If they need any encouragement, it'll help to tell them that they'll be keeping money and jobs in their own states... "local jobs for local people"... not lining Bill Gates' coffers...

  12. Who's minding the coop??? on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 3, Funny

    If, as everyone expects, Ballmer's off to South Korea to get them back in line, then who's off to Brasil to sort them out??? at this rate, the Microsoft Anti-OSS Emergency Response team will be maxed out rushing all over the place... no one will be left minding the shop back in the good ole US of A... time for you lot to get your congress critters off their backsides and supporting the OSS camp...

  13. Re:Oh God.. on William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show · · Score: 1
  14. Just make sure... on The Next Net · · Score: 5, Insightful
    you keep patents out of the standards... Microsoft have been trying to stick one in for the basic premises of IPv6... and surprise, surprise... they were also involved in the standards committee...
    Those familiar with the meetings of the IETF as the committee hammered out the IPv6 IP address discovery system told eWEEK.com that Microsoft was actively participating in those discussions back in late 1997 and early 1998. Microsoft left the meetings and filed a patent for work on which there already existed numerous RFCs (requests for consensus)--basically the legislation that runs the Internet.
  15. Now you must remember... on Underwater Robot to Re-Cross Gulf Stream · · Score: 1

    It's a right turn when you get to the other side...

  16. Re:No, read it again... on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 1

    see what I mean...

  17. Re:Cracked distributions on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 1

    ah, but then it really becomes the Bank's problem...

  18. Re:This will be viewd as a great idea.. on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 1

    you missed some... ;)

  19. Re:No, read it again... on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 2, Funny

    problems, problems... that's all they come to me with these days... problems... never solutions...

    that's my fate... to be nibbled to death by nitpickers, pedents and Jeremiahs...

  20. Re:This will be viewd as a great idea.. on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    well considering if you'd actually RTFA... the browser and networking stuff on the CD is setup to only point to the Banks own systems and nowhere else... ie it gets its DNS info only from the Banks secured servers and so only web addresses for the Banks own secure website will be given back... it will NOT be possible for the user to type in a web address URL into the browser bar and go there unless it corresponds to one of the Banks own sites.

    So unless you type in an IP the hard way, tough...

    note for Pedents... It gets it's own IP from whatever DHCP service is running on the customers NAT router or ISP service provider, but doesn't use the NAT or service provider for DNS queries.

  21. I would be far more impressed if on The Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    he'd rigged all those mirrors to be computer controlled so that he could drive the focus spot around using a joystick...

  22. Re:aha! LISP! on Miguel de Icaza Explains How To "Get" Mono · · Score: 1

    isn't EMACS written in LISP???

  23. Re:Oh, thank God! on Utah Governor Signs Net-Porn Bill · · Score: 1

    what neolithic tosspot modded the parent post flamebait???

  24. thank you very much... not on Michigan Diagnostic Software Case Big Win for GPL · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wondered why it had gone extremely slow... by the way, the article poster has got it wrong. It's not a victory per se for the GPL as it never went to the finish, the two parties settled instead. However, it is possibly good news for those of us frustrated at companies tying up international standards with submarine patents and other IP trickeries... Microsoft watch out.

  25. Re:Arch Linux rocks on Arch Linux: the Distro of the Year? · · Score: 1, Funny

    so... what's it like on PPC then...


    makes swift exit...