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  1. Re:Gnome's weakness is not its looks on Gnome 2.10 Sneak Peek · · Score: 1

    Qt is a bit faster than GTK. KDE feels faster on X terminals than Gnome.

  2. Re:Target Audience on Getting the Girl · · Score: 1

    Hey! Did I draw any conclusions? I was just stating a fact

  3. Re:Target Audience on Getting the Girl · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend spends about 90% more time than me playing. In fact, almost every girl that I know is a more avid player than most of my guys friends.

  4. Re:Excellent... on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    no way, too geeky. You would need to realise that the remote uses IR... no way :)

  5. Re:Time for (even) better security? on Security Holes Draw Linux Developers' Ire · · Score: 1

    There may be a gcc compiler, but I'm sure the task of porting mysql, for example, to DOS would be more than it's worth

  6. haha on PSP to Recieve Television Broadcasts? · · Score: 1

    Marketing speach: "placeshifting" :) aka downloading streams from the internet and displaying them on the screen. How is this revolutionary or new?

  7. Re:Dotproject on Open Source Project Management for Beginners? · · Score: 1

    If the dotproject developers apreciate the postnuke systems as something to be used and maybe be inspired by, I don't even want to take a look at their project. Mod me troll, but *nukes are not an example of how to do 21 century webdevelopment.

  8. Re:Time for (even) better security? on Security Holes Draw Linux Developers' Ire · · Score: 1

    Nice idea! Cool! Now if you could only help me with some binaries for apache, php and mysql it would be perfect! Will they run in freedos?

  9. Re:Coming Soon! on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    Editorial comments on the news: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame".

    Hihi :) Who would have thought?

  10. Re:Why Big Blue, of course. on Where Do You Shop for Server Components? · · Score: 1

    Buying IBM stuff will never get you fired? :)

  11. Re:But MS Anti Spyware doesn't detect itself. on MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs. SpyBot · · Score: 2, Informative

    When downloading, they want me to check if the windows I'm using is legit. Wouldn't you call this spying on my affairs?

    (I already know about the link to the direct download)

  12. Re:whew! on Local Root Exploit in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 · · Score: 1

    should I explain this to you? it goes like this: if you have ANY service exposed to the internet, it can potentially be exploited to get the user of that server, then escalated to the root using this exploit. So, potentially, you're not safe either.

  13. Re:*sits back* on Local Root Exploit in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 · · Score: 1

    explorer.exe is considered the shell for windows. It provides manipulation of the file system and launching other software. Even if it doesn't have a command line, it's a shell.

  14. Re:3.9 beta version download delays are uncool on Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    What exactly do you mean about the delay? Should I be worried? I'm using it with btdownloadmanycurses.py and as far as I can see, it works well. It has some biggish delay when adding or removing a torrent (about 30 seconds until it updates to the changes), but for everything else it worked fine for me (I've been using it for 2 days now).

  15. Re:The best thing about bit torrent on Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Didn't Valve hired Bram for steam? I could swear I read somewhere about this. Seriously...

  16. Nothing found on my hard-drives... on Microsoft Releases AntiSpyware Program · · Score: 1

    But I'm still being picky. Why isn't this software multi-threaded? When I click on the menu in the middle of the scan, it stops the scan. Oh, yeah, and the MSN Desktop search tool doesn't work at all on my windows xp.

  17. Re:Follow-up on PHP Becoming More Popular · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with easy to use tools? I think in business pragmatism wins. Most of the time you have to choose between the easiest/faster to develop to use tool and the right tool.

    Let's suppose that there are two start-up businesses with the same idea. Who's gonna win in the long term? The one that will offer services a year before the other or the one that has a better platform (that may not translate into better services for customers), but will start offering its products a year later?

    Having said that, I, as an independent programmer believe that PHP is not the right tool and if you choose Python+Zope+Plone, it may not be the faster development tool either.

  18. Re:Ads already in place on LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    A! I forgot. To be able to insert banners into a page while proxying the page you would have first to load the entire page and then modify the page. (This is the mechanism used by privoxy). This would result in the end user waiting some time for the page to start loading, and at least this would not go unnoticed and would be seen as a degradation in the quality of service.

  19. Re:Ads already in place on LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Maybe AOL with their proxy systems, but I can't imagine why would a regular ISP highjack the html stream to insert their own content (not imposible, just unbelievable).

    Having said that, I get close to 0 ads just by using firefox (no special extension) and privoxy (privoxy.org).

  20. Re:This is what happens in today's "free market". on Transmeta Mulls Exit From Processor Market · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that there would have been, by a weird twist of fate, an actual chance that Linus would have been employed by Microsoft? :)

  21. Re:Copy protection my butt on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 1

    You forget macrovision. The capture card will, for sure, scramble the content if it's comming with a macrovision signal (and all consumer VCRs and DVD players have). Better put your money on some kind of screen capture software, but those are slower and need more computing power.

  22. Re:The real reason games don't come out for Linux on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 1

    Who's stopping them from using the Intel compiler? The difference in framerate may come from the graphic card's driver optimizations, but I doubt gcc is the main culprit here.

  23. Re:Medical needs on Engineered Enhancers Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Reason no. 1 for humongous Word files: embeding clipboard image snipets and uncompresed image files. I found that saving the files in GIF or JPEG format before inserting them into Word really cuts from the final document size. Of course, I don't know if this is your case, as I have not downloaded the Word file.

  24. Re:But... on eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In · · Score: 1

    bitchx is even worse... at least mirc doesn't spam itself on every channel and possible way.

  25. Re:Gollums equipment on Medical Students Profile Middle-Earth's Gollum · · Score: 2, Funny

    not likely. Imagine Golum being a voyeurist. He has invisibility, has a lot of time to burn, what else can he do than polish his "ring"?