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  1. Re:UTF-8 is a bitch on American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga · · Score: 1

    "Properly punctuated e" according to whom? Romaji does not use accents. The correct transliteration is "animeeshon".

  2. That's bull on First Look at GIMP 2.4 · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? First of all, GIMP by default only has two floating palettes: The tools one, and the layers one. Second, the Inkscape interface is completely different--it has no palettes at all; everything is attached to the document window. Maybe you're thinking of Sodipodi, but that only has a single palette. None of these programs have "4 or 5 freely floating windows" or "umpteen stacked toolbars."

    Note that I base my assertions on Gimp.app and the OS X version of Inkscape. But maybe these just have friendlier defaults than other versions.

  3. ...maybe, but probably on Video iPod Oct 12? · · Score: 1

    it was more about making .Mac not quite such a ripoff.

  4. Dear god on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    What's "truely scarry" is your spelling.

  5. What do you mean... on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    ..."craps out?" It launched just fine on my machine (10.4.2). I didn't play with it much, but it certainly didn't crap out for me.

  6. Don't use that link to Filterset.G on The Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    They ask that you use this one when posting "on Slashdot or other major sites." Maybe they don't mean in comments and whatnot, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

  7. Two stable only if... on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1

    ...from your link, "the mass ratio between the two large masses exceeds 24.96." It goes on to say that in the case of the Earth-Sun system, this condition is indeed satisfied. But it's not the case that the two are stable for all systems.

  8. You're completely wrong on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    Their point is fairly moot.

  9. rsync bugs are known on Apple Releases OS X 10.4.2 Update · · Score: 1

    I make an app that uses rsync, and there are bugs galore in Apple's version. The "always recopies metadata" issue happens even for strictly local backups from HFS+ to HFS+. rsync will unexpectedly crash during the "building file list" phase if the backup source contains too many files.

    I've reported both of these to Apple and both of them have been marked "duplicate" so they must be aware of the issue.

  10. No internet connection... on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    ...means no updated forecast information through Dashboard either. Dashboard does not alleviate the need for an internet connection; it is the equivalent of keeping an instance of a browser open to the forecast page.

  11. Definitely not great here on Tiger Spotlight Less Then Optimal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've had a lot of problems with Spotlight. When I have a large external hard drive (160GB divided into 3 partitions) attached, I will find at random times that the processes mds and LAServer will start eating all of my CPU. This occurs despite the fact that all of my drives, including the external, have already been completely indexed. I've tried re-indexing (sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/volname), I've tried disabling indexing alltogether ( sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/volname). None of these solutions worked. The only thing that has kept my CPU usage normal is leaving my external drive disconnected, although I've found that that only decreases the frequency of these mds attacks, not prevents them entirely.

    I've also been experiencing frustrations with slow file copying (especially with rsync) that I suspect to be Spotlight- or metadata-related.

    All in all it's been a pretty frustrating upgrade (actually, clean install to be exact) for me. I hope these issues are addressed in 10.4.2 (yes, I've submitted bug reports).

  12. How about just regular literate? on Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World · · Score: 1

    "Japan is the most mathematically literate."

  13. You're completely wrong on GPL 3.0 to Penalize Google, Amazon? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's "voila"

  14. "Option" key also for... on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    ...inputting accented characters. It's very easy; much more so than on Windows. Example: For ñ, hit option+~, then hit n. You can view all possible combinations like this in Key Caps (or Keyboard Viewer or whatever it's called in 10.3).

  15. AE already has optical out on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 4, Informative

    As you can see on this page under "interfaces," the Airport Express already has optical out. What is the difference between this and what you're talking about?

  16. Godly? on Mozilla Roadmap Update · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Did Firefox find Jesus or something? Perhaps you meant "ungodly."

  17. Where's the freakin' roadmap?? on Mozilla Roadmap Update · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you wanted to see the actual roadmap itself, starting at this /. article you had to wade through not one, not two, but three intermediate sites to get to it. Thanks a lot for not putting a direct link anywhere in the article, guys.

  18. Re:Firefox needs better OS X support on Mozilla Roadmap Update · · Score: 1

    Middle click support has already been added on the trunk. The next release with this fix will be 1.1.

  19. I saw it, didn't like it on Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle Open in Japan · · Score: 1

    I saw it a couple weeks ago. The animation was beautiful, as is to be expected from a Miyazaki movie. However, the plot made absolutely no sense, and after talking with a friend who's read the book, the only conclusion I can reach is that Miyazaki's off his rocker and should have retired after Spirited Away. I wrote a longer tirade here.

  20. "Native" OpenOffice.org for OS X on Apple Offers Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update · · Score: 1

    The preferred implementation of OpenOffice.org for OS X is NeoOffice/J, which is basically OO.o 1.1.2, but it uses Java so that it behaves more like a native app: It does not require X11, it supports native print dialogs, native fonts, all of the OS X international text input methods, and as of recently it even puts menus in the menu bar instead of in the window. I highly recommend it.

  21. Re:Keychain Access Gripe on NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I don't know about your specific situation, or much about certificates in general, but I have a Thawte free email certificate that came as a .p12 file. Opening that file in Keychain Access added the cert to my Keychain, but the file still remains, and is perfectly portable (I make use of it every time I have to trash my Firefox profile). Did you not get your cert this way? Did you just not keep the original file? Because if that's the case, that seems more like your fault than anything else. I agree, though, that Apple should allow exporting of Keychain certificates.

  22. No, it doesn't on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple does not "have" gBrowser. That's a 3rd party app made by someone who happens to have a homepage hosted on .Mac. I don't think this will be a problem for Google.

  23. "Mac" is not an acronym on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 2, Informative

    So don't capitalize the whole thing!

  24. Of course not on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    KDE must be the first to get Klingon.

  25. Are you serious? on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0, Troll

    The correct answer is "me."