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  1. Re:From a brazilian point of view... on Microsoft Sues Brazilian Official for Defamation · · Score: 1

    Brasil (yup, that's the right way to write our country's name)

    Only if you're speaking Portuguese.

    This is just stupid. So calling Spain "Spain" instead of "España" is wrong?
    "Brazil" is the English word for the Portuguese word "Brasil".

  2. Re:Hope for all geeks out there on John Carmack's Test Liftoff a Success · · Score: 1

    But certainly he would blow up a lot more without the simulators.
    Or at least he wouldn't be able to tweak ideas freely.

  3. Re:3D? Great! on 3D Linux Laptop Available · · Score: 1

    That reminded me of Flatland :)

  4. Re:Plenty of plain jane crap phones around on 3-D Gaming on Your Cellphone · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's even a free one!

  5. Re:Web browser overload!! on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Linux URL handling. on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Just use this handy script.

  7. OO != modularization on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Your're 90% right, but a system doesn't need to be object orientated to be modular. That could be archived with regular C code as well.

    Maybe you just don't know what OO is, but that's perfectly normal for non-programmers.

  8. Re:So advanced... on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    I have sex regularly with my girldfriend, and I still enjoy masturbating with pr0n.

    One is not a replacement for the other.

  9. HTML email sucks on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Parent is not trolling, HTML email is indeed bad etiquette. Just a matter of KISS. Anyway, why HTML email? Email is meant to send text messages. Attachments are fine if you want to transmit something else (like you can do in regular mail), but deliver the text as text (preferably 7-bit ASCII) so it's easier to read for everyone in any device.

  10. Re:Meg or Gig on Sony VAIO U50 Reviewed In Depth · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could be wrong?!!

    Of course you can't be wrong.
    How could it run Windows XP in 20 MB?

  11. Free games on Realistic Driving Simulator Games? · · Score: 1

    Both the Racer binary (couldn't compile: "ar: q3ddlg.o: File format not recognized") and TORCS (compiled fine) freezed my X completely, and I had to hard-reboot (ctrl-alt-backspace does not kill X on my cheap mobo, the machine enters sleep mode instead). Ah, and it's a GeForce2 (nVidia driver 1.0-5336), kernel 2.6.6.

    An other (unrelated) problem I have here is that many OpenGL apps seems to run in software mode (< 5fps, depending on the game). Note that, for instance, Quake3Arena runs with decent (> 50) fps.

    The only racing game for linux runned ok for me was carworld, that suffers the same from other Free games: the guts of the game are working, but the game is far from complete, not even playable. They seem to have a tendency to stagnate at this (production/polishing) stage.

  12. enough of this on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right now I'm excluding stories about patents in my preferences page.

  13. Re:Not really. on Do You Really Want to Meet People on the Web? · · Score: 1

    Maybe that is exactly what they want: a reason for one to use Jabber. Or better: an argument for you to convince the next guy to use Jabber. In fact, the worst of Jabber is that my buddy list is just empty. :P

  14. Re:Impossible on First All-Artificial Feature Film Released · · Score: 1

    Interesting point of view...

    And if it appears spontaneously then it will be with no human involvement, but it would be natural (not artificial) anyway.

  15. Re:Pasting urls on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I prefer Digger.

    Also note that you can, within Firefox, drag a link or a selected URL text to the tab bar to open it. If you drag to an existing tab it will replace that tab, and on an empty area (or the X button, if the bar is full) of the tab bar it will open a new tab.

  16. How many more times... on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ..I'll have to hear this?

    It's just the linux kernel that follows that numbering.
    A small number of projects followed the idea, but it's very far from a general rule, and it's not intended to be.

  17. Re:Avoid even the appearance.. on Process Improvements in the Kernel Development · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if this is in any way related to this.

    From FSF:
    We have just begun a project here at FSF to document and codify our process, so that it can be disseminated in the form of a policy manual and accompanying software, to all other Free Software projects who wish to solidify their legal assembly process. Distilling nearly two decades of organizational know-how into easy-to-understand software and documentation is no easy task, and we will rely greatly on your financial support to aid us in carrying out this momentous task.

  18. overkill on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 1

    Do we need a whole application to every thing we do?

    Just keep the list in a plain text file. That's how I manage contacts, appointments, movie db, and many other data.

    For web access, just keep the .txt file in your webpage (possibly in a hidden directory, like http://my.page/my/stuff.txt, depends on how private you want it to be). Use can use a .html instead if you really want the photos.

    All other requested features are there already! It's just a matter of organizing the text and using a simple text search tool.

  19. Re:Guess what they recommend on Calculate When You Are Most Awake · · Score: 1

    That, and I also don't trust a mathod that ends with any medicine. Even if it's gratis.

  20. On the importance of GPL and FSF on FSF Subpoenaed by SCO · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My favorite part of the FSF letter:

    In addition to answering and/or disputing the subpoena, we must also educate the community about why it is that Linux was attacked and GNU was not. For more than a decade, FSF has urged projects to build a process whereby the legal assembly of the software is as sound as the software development itself. Many Free Software developers saw the copyright assignment process used for most GNU components as a nuisance, but we arduously designed and redesigned the process to remove the onerousness. Now the SCO fiasco has shown the community the resilience and complete certainty that a good legal assembly process can create. (SCO, after all, eventually dropped their claims against GNU as a whole and focused on the Linux project which, for all its wonderful technical achievements, has a rather loose legal assembly process.)

  21. Re:Excellent on KernelTrap Interviews Andrea Arcangeli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about meta-moderating?

    You just have to be lucky to have this particuar message selected for you to meta-moderate.

  22. Re:This new fuel.... on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    How much to panic,

    Get out to the streets, running around in circles, screaming and banging our heads on things, and screaming louder.

    and when?

    Now!

  23. Re:How much money do they want? on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 1

    A googol?

  24. WARNING GOATSE.CX LINK! on Simulate "The Day After Tomorrow" On Your PC · · Score: -1, Troll

    GOATSE.CX!!!

  25. FYI on Simulate "The Day After Tomorrow" On Your PC · · Score: 1

    i checked with ClamAV (freshened virus db), it's ok.
    but didn't run in my winex3.