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  1. Re:Yes, and cable companies -still- don't show it on Ceefax Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Ceefax on Telewest works for me.

    Don't try and drag down Telewest with that mess called NTL.

  2. Re:woof woof! on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    Cats really know these things ... they just fucking don't care a bit.

    Ain't that the truth, They'll maybe look at them in a funny way, why they steal all your stuff.

    Dogs are actually good and knowing who it is as well, they never bark when I come home, or someone in the family does, but they go mental when its a stranger who opens the gate.

  3. Re:Dog on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    Dogs are the best. They know when some one is there, even outside the property.

    Some guys where trying to break it to houses where I live they tried three. All of us had dogs, so they can't moving further up the street.

    They didn't get past the fourth as they had a couple of German Shepards, Which kept them pinned in the yard till morning. They didn't bark, just growled. Police came round and collected the criminals.

  4. Re:4 days? on KDE Gets Gecko/Mozilla Support · · Score: 1

    Its not a problem as Konq is my default web browser, its only in Windows, that I ever really use Firefox. KDE is so capable now I very rarily boot into Windows at all. ( games mainly ).

  5. Re:Nice job, but ... on KDE Gets Gecko/Mozilla Support · · Score: 1

    There are still some quirks (e.g. just moving the mouse over an article heading will trigger a download dialog), but it is way ahead of KDE's Gecko.

    This is already solved in Konq 3.3 with lots of other things.

  6. Re:4 days? on KDE Gets Gecko/Mozilla Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The underlying tech between the two is very diffrent. I prefer KHTML since it renders all the sites I visit, and firefox doesn't ( specifically my banks ). The Gecko engine is slightly more standards compliant, but KHTML isn't far behind. Having two gives us options, they'll both improve, Also KHTML can be made to do things for the benefit of KDE where it would be wrong for Gecko to do the same.

  7. Re:You think the US is bad? on Broadband Envy: Fixing American Broadband · · Score: 1

    Yep Blueyonder is probably the best provider in the UK.

    No limits, run lots of game servers, also they mirror loads of stuff on their ftp servers.

    so If you run Debian, Gentoo, Knoppix, Slackware ( and others ) or a BSD you can access the repositries and ISO's straight from them.

  8. Re:Brazil on Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film · · Score: 1

    It depends on which version their talking about, the American or the Russian.

  9. Re:That's backwards on POV-Ray 10th Anniversary Contest · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are GUI front ends for Pov, http://www.kpovmodeler.org/ for one, which is part of KDE's graphic package.

  10. Re:http and ftp mirror on DOOM 3 Final Video Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks, The server seems to holding up quite well.

  11. Re:How about some screenshots?! on KDE 3.3 Beta "Klassroom" Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What would you like to see? Theres quite a lot of new things, my personal favourite being the seemless integration of most spam tools into kmail.

  12. Re:Bi-Partisan bill on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1
    It's not a left vs. right struggle
    I though this was America? So its Right vs. More Right. There is no Left, or even middle.
  13. Re:When? on New HHGTTG Radio Show Gets Douglas Adams' Voice · · Score: 1

    On Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 6.30pm

  14. Re:SourceCode != QualityDocumentation on Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes · · Score: 1

    You did see the Qt page right? As for KDE Just go to the parent site http://developer.kde.org/ We where after all dicussing API's the other documentation is there.

    As for e-mailing
    http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs -api/kdecore/html/classKApplication.html#a22

    One function call.

  15. Re:SourceCode != QualityDocumentation on Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Non-existant API Docs for Qt are located at http://doc.trolltech.com/3.2/index.html
    KDE's are at http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs -api/
    Thats every function call to program in KDE and Qt all completeley cross-refrenced, with examples.

  16. Re:Firefox is great on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    Konq works very well with this as well.

  17. Re:Examples of some sneakier popup methods on End Run Around Pop-up Blockers · · Score: 1

    Konqueror blocked everthing but the clicked safe new window. Which is what I expected as its meant to be smart, and know what you wanted.

  18. Re:What oo Software Patents Have to Do... on EU Moves Toward Software Patents · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was already voted down for the people we elected. This is unelected people saying it doesn't matter, what the elected said where changing it back.

    The Irish Polticians have a cozy setup with MS.

  19. Re:Kstars....? on KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Well your standing on one, so there are 8 others. ( its an observation program, thats why you set where you are on the planet. ) The new one doesn't count, its not even categorised as a planet by most astronomers.

  20. Re:Kant we all just get along? on GNOME 2.6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    You could try changing the font sizes, I have Minimum set to 10, and medium set to 12. No problem here with those sizes. The defaults I think are chosen for an 800x600 display.

  21. Re:Spatial Not worth it on GNOME 2.6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Which then destroys the point of Spatial Navigation. Where back to one window, Why not just use the one window? and change the contents when you click on the directory. The only diffrence between this and they way things where done before is the size and position change, which without the parent windows open means nothing, spatially.

    Why bring all the extra overhead of opening and closing windows? Why change it at all in fact.

    I think its a mistake, Spatial is obvious, infact so obvious is was the very first design used for WIMP systems. The fact that all systems that used Spatial Navigation dropped it( or had programs written for them to by pass it ), should point out something to the people coding Nautilus.

  22. Re:A paradigm a day, grows the complaints, right a on GNOME 2.6 Reviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This paradigm has already been tried, and it failed. Mac(Old Finder), Amiga, Atari, Windows (Before 95), all used spatial, Two don't exist, Mac and Windows dropped it.

    Its was crap then, its crap now. Redoing other peoples mistakes, is just bad way of doing things.

    Usability studies only take you so far, Real world testing proved it wrong.

  23. Re:Spatial Not worth it on GNOME 2.6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    So Nautilus in 2.6 is good, when you turn it back into Nautilus from 2.4 This does not bode well.

    Why "My Computer" I though KDE was the one being accused of being a Windows Look-a-like.

  24. Re:Spatial Not worth it on GNOME 2.6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Resolution does help, but it still doesn't work, I had the Amiga up to 1280x1024, as my current Desktop, and once you start having to go down more than two directories, for two diffrent areas you can have up to seven windows, all overlapping.

    We've invented things to stop that from happening in other applications ( Tabbed browsing, virtual desktops ), why bring it back for file browsing?

  25. Spatial Not worth it on GNOME 2.6 Reviewed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember on the Amiga, and Macs having spatial, and this is a very bad move from GNOME.

    Its a mistake, Every one used Directory Opus to deal with files on the Amiga for a very good reason. Spatial handling is messy, and a pain in the arse.

    There not just redoing things, there now repeating other peoples mistakes. ArsTechnica is quite good normally but spatial file handling was never any good.