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  1. Re:buggy? on Thunderbird 0.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I've been using it since 0.5 with POP and IMAP accounts and never had a problem. Though one time, one of my clients where I've installed TB 0.7 for Windows lost its accounts settings.

    I think what happened was that they had it as a dead process and just started again and it created a new profile or something like that. Any way, I've been able to recover everything.

  2. Re:Tiger Features? on Thunderbird 0.9 Released · · Score: 1

    Just to add another one to the list of the previous posters(The Bat, Evolution): Opera Mail (M2), integrated in the Opera Browser.

  3. Re:Candy on NHS Awards Contract to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Haven't you saw Trinity? They had the Matrix AND THEY STILL USED the command line! :) The command line will never die :-)

  4. Re:Candy on NHS Awards Contract to Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I really like the standard Windows message: This application has performed an illegal operation. Press Ok to continue, press Cancel to start the debugger." Is this Microsoft's usability design at work? :)

  5. Re:Bad news for you. on Small, Fast RDP Client? · · Score: 1

    Modded down because I've mentioned win95... Hey, crackhead, I know what I'm talking about. What you've just did is try to hide the truth: win95 runs well enough on a p133 to run an RDP client, but you'll get really bad performance with that hardware running rdesktop on X.

  6. Bad news for you. on Small, Fast RDP Client? · · Score: 1, Informative

    First of all, you can use LTSP and rom-o-matic to create a network where you boot from floppy disks and have networked X computing. On a 100 Mbit switched LAN it works fast and with almost no problem. The bad news is that your stations will be too slow. In my experience, there is a big difference between P200 MMX and P2 233.

    In the end, if you don't want to replace your hardware, you would have to run win95 with and RDP client on them.

  7. Re:Good ! on DoubleClick On The Blocks? · · Score: 1

    It is very easy to filter ads these days, and without working too much. Just download privoxy and configure your browser to use it as a proxy server. If you have to use any cache server such as squid, just chain privoxy to the other server. It works on Windows and Linux and it uses quite a lot of filtering criterias: image size, urls, javascript, window popup blocking, etc. In its default install catches almost any advertising, even if it's not hosted on a previous, known, advertising domain.

  8. Re:nice, but could do better on Google to Launch Mac Version of Google Desktop UPDATED · · Score: 4, Informative

    You cannot define which directories to index, and it only indexes single machine.

    Yes, you can. Look harder.

    The google search keeps index of the data on the desktop harddrive. If you have lots of files, the index size gets insanely large, some say nearly 2Gb when you have large amount of documents lying around.

    That's why you should configure GD to only index your work folders.

    .... Some other interesting stuff

    You can already sort of do this. See Harvest
  9. Re:Linux on Google to Launch Mac Version of Google Desktop UPDATED · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can already do this with Linux. There are several software spiders intended for setting up search functions for websites or just localhost. One of them is harvest and let me quote on the formats suported from their website:

    Current list of supported formats in addition to HTML include TeX, DVI, PS, full text, mail, man pages, news, troff, WordPerfect, RTF, Microsoft Word/Excel, SGML, C sources and many more. Stubs for PDF support is included in Harvest and will use Xpdf or Acroread to process PDF files. Adding support for new format is easy due to Harvest's modular design.

    There are a few others, do your own homework if you want them :)
  10. Re:What is the Warranty Period? on XBox Owner Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    http://life.org.ro which is a website that I did has this, you can look at the source code of the webpage to see how it's done. Hint: it uses an .htc file.

  11. Re:Pinguin = Fatter wallet on We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Why pay when you can get it for free? This is just one of the reasons. Others that I could point out are:
    • superior sollution for many tasks (in big offices easy administration for hundreds or thousands of workstations is very important
    • free source, so you can look and modify if needed, this is also important for national security
    • promoting local economy and local providers instead of those overseas
    • products translated in their own language
    • independence from only one vendor (as there is only one producer of windows, and that is microsoft)
  12. Re:What is the Warranty Period? on XBox Owner Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Microsoft hasn't yet replaced the defective browser they put in their product (I'm talking about IE and PNG 24bit transparency). Is this an example of how you should treat your customers? Doesn't this say clearly monopoly?

  13. Re:On defense worry over AOL on First Felony Spam Trial Gets Underway · · Score: 1

    Extremist! That's just a guy trying to make money, he didn't murder or rape anyone. I don't think he deserves at all the sentence that you propose. Think about this: he send you an email that you didn't ask for. You want to put him 15 years in jail for this. I don't like spam. I think spammers should be fined, but their act does not justify spending hard years in prison. Even if they tried to scam. Prison should be reserved to the criminals and drug dealers.

  14. Re:I suggest on Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter? · · Score: 1

    That "radium" is not a radioactive compound. Those luminous dials are produced by a special paint, I used to know its composition, but I forgot it. It used to be described in my high-school chemistry book.

  15. Re:180,000 frames on Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work · · Score: 1

    All that extras are tons of scene never released before. It will make for the first real competition Young and Restless had in decades, for the lenghtiest soup aaaa... I mean space opera.

  16. Re:Two bits on Microsoft Advised To Learn To Love Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What kind of a f* moron finds this interesting? Who believes that bogus page on MSLinux as proof that Microsoft has a Linux distribution? Who, in their right mind, thinks that DRM needs a kernel driver to function? DRM in a specific application... Hey guys! PDFs also embed DRM information... shouldn't we have by now some PDF-loading kernel module?

    Idiot...

  17. Re:Alternatives.. on Neopets Gambling Controversy · · Score: 1

    No girlfriend, huh? It will come...

  18. Re:NPR Quake on Can't Draw? You Need The Inkulator 9000. · · Score: 1

    NonPhotoRealisticQuake :)

  19. Re:So, in real world terms.... on 'Tit for Tat' Defeated In Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You have the nukes. Why shouldn't they have them?

  20. Re:Human cloning... on Harvard to Clone Human Embryos? · · Score: 1

    Why not engineer a better human?
    We are a race that competes in the survival battles, be it here on Earth or in the history of the Universe itself. If genetic engineering makes us better prepared to face the unknown worlds of the universe, I agree to this with all my heart.

  21. Re:this is great stuff on Croquet Project Releases Initial Developer Release · · Score: 1

    I bet you miss Microsoft Bob.

    Really people... real-life based interfaces? Sounds a lot like the Microsoft Bob we all love to hate.

  22. Re:Natural on South Korean Music Retailers Dying · · Score: 1

    Ok, this applies only to the "famous" bands, but they do make a lot of money from advertising, acting, merchandise, that would not have been posible without their singing.

    What bothers me mostly is that they are called artists. They only produce their art if they are paid, and sharing their music with your friends becomes a crime.

    I think in this case we can see a paralel to open source. Programming open source software means passion, and if you put passion in something of course you're more than glad to give it for free, to let others enjoy the fruits of your passion. But if it's a job for you, then it's not art anymore and you've just become a prostitute by selling the artist inside.

    My opinion, anyway...

  23. Re:Would you want to work for this guy? on Worker Fired For Running SETI On State-Owned PCs · · Score: 1

    Quote from the article; Charles E. Smith, 63, told administrators He's 63. Do you think he can afford to go several years to school? :)

  24. Re:i wouldnt on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1

    Final Cut = Premiere =~ 700$, don't forget that

  25. Did we slashdot google? on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

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