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  1. But you know what was stronger? on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    My bibi gun. It really won the match pretty well. I had a fun childhood.

  2. Re:Haven't found much - Actually... on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, yes... perhaps. For whatever reason, Novell decided to let go of the Hula project but, being open source, others took the project on and it's alive (although it seems to be progressing forward slowly due to lack of man power). It's called Bongo, and it looks pretty nice. Go check it out.

  3. Re:and the winners are on Bye Bye Spam and Phishing with DKIM? · · Score: 1

    NO. DKIM is an improvment upon Domainkeys. SPF says which mail servers are ok to be sending mail for a specific domain. Domainkeys verifies that the email is coming from the source that it claims and that the contents are not tampered. SPF + Domainkeys = full accountability for emails sent. I.E. all emails are immediately traceable to the source. At least with Domainkeys, the mailer generates the certificates himself. Uses part to encrypt on his server, and publishes the public portion in DNS, where SPF records are also kept, so a certificate authority has no role in this. Verisign, etc don't get to sell anything here. The point is that the mailer puts out the key to verify the signed messages... it's publically available in DNS. The only winners are email users.

  4. Be Smart About It on Korea's Online Aggression a Taste of the Future? · · Score: 1

    "Will policing net behavior eventually become necessary?"

    Ignoring net behavior will probably be the most stress-free and effective way to deal with it.

  5. wth? on GPL 3 May Require Websites to Relinquish Code · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is ridiculous. I'd never use GPL v.3 if it included such nonsense.

  6. Re:Mine installed in German! on Google Toolbar for Firefox Released · · Score: 1

    I uninstalled, reinstalled, then restarted firefox, and it magically became English. The "Autolink" feature is awesome by the way. Saves soooo much time.

  7. Mine installed in German! on Google Toolbar for Firefox Released · · Score: 1

    Hey, how to you change the language settings on this thing? I don't speak no Deutsch!

  8. My GNOME ... on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    already does this. I guess they just wanna be like GNOME then, huh?

  9. Re:Blackbox ... blah. on Blackbox (Finally) Updated · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Blackbox was really cool, but I don't see anything of use to me in this new release. I tried it about a week ago, and here's what I noticed:
    • It seemed to take much longer to start (with my FC3 setup on a Thinkpad T21)
    • Not all of the old themes looked as nice as they used to (buttons looked somewhat weird, etc.)
    • The bulky, *nice*, new anti-aliased fonts bugged me. If I wanted to have the same look as GNOME and KDE, I wouldn't have been using blackbox.
    So overall, I much prefer 0.65... But for the built-in features + look that I use, Fluxbox is a better choice for me.
  10. This may spark your interest on Open Source Math Software For Education? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've seen this but haven't yet used it. It seems pretty cool:

    Genius Math Tool

  11. That's nothing on Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can do that with my eyes closed. It'll just take me a bit longer.

  12. great on GdkPixbuf Suffers Image Decoding Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the update. Now on my Fedora setup, all the image thumbnails in Nautilus look like they were side-swiped by a bulldozer.

  13. Re:To suggest this is almost criminally stupid on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1

    Rubbing alcohol works great. If the case is plastic, I'd wash it first with water then go at it with the rubbing alcohol. You don't want to get the alcohol on too many of the internal parts, especially the ones that heat up the most... they probably smell the least.

    I did this to successfully clean a box that reeked of cigarette smoke. It does wonders. After your done treating it, just let it air out for a day as the previous post said. The smells will eventually fade.

  14. Thread Safe yet? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is php 5 thread safe? More specifically, is it safe to use in a production environment with Apache 2?

  15. Re:Best. Excerpt. Ever. on MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, true.
    But hearing all these comments about Perl,
    I can't help but think: Have you people ever heard of commenting code?

  16. Sun Java Desktop's package management on Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux · · Score: 2

    Does anyone know what kind of package management the Java Desktop uses?

  17. Killer Games? on Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro? · · Score: 1

    It's all about the BZFlag.
    Beware when you see a player named "Mad Killa"

  18. Re:Actually it should be lower on Rapid Internet Growth In Iran · · Score: 1

    Microsoft aren't likely to support whatever language they speak in iran

    Sure they do. The language is called "Farsi", and Microsoft supports it just fine... although you can't type Farsi style numbers in MS.
    Nonetheless, I am all for open source, but Iran is strictly a place where it would take root only if there is more functionality AND ease of use in open source.

    By the way, because of the lack of high bandwidth in Iran, getting Linux would cost you the same as Windows, cuz you'd still have to go to the computer store to buy the CDs.
    Open source and Linux only appeal to the true geeks and university students, as it does here in the U.S.
    ;)

  19. Re:NTFS Read/write support? on 2.4 vs 2.6 Linux Kernel Shootout · · Score: 1

    I found the Captive project quite impressive. It's a pretty neat idea, I'll agree to that.
    However, if you have anything on your NTFS partition that you actually like/want, don't use Captive. I tested it out and here's what I can conclude:

    Reading NTFS: works fine.
    Writing NTFS: looks like it works fine on the linux side, but as soon as you reboot into your windows system, expect the file to be missing/corrupted, or for windows to refuse to boot. You'll need the install CD to boot into repair mode and do a check disk. This is especially likely to happen if you try to copy some files to the NTFS partition, or create new ones.

    After frantically getting my windows system to boot (I need the Visual Studio .NET on there), I went back and pulled Captive and reinstalled my Linux-NTFS rpm from linux-ntfs.sf.net

    It obviously loads much much faster, and I don't have to worry about whether I can boot into my other OS again.


    Hope this helps. Don't say no one warned you ;)

  20. Re:I never thought I'd say this... on MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO · · Score: 1

    It's just so damn funny that their servers run Linux.
    Go ahead and check netcraft.

  21. When did Nomadix come up with this... ? on Wi-Fi Redirect Gateway Patent for Hotspots · · Score: 1

    When did Nomadix "come up" with their brilliant idea? Does anyone actually know?

    I know that Berkeley's AirBears system (airbears.berkeley.edu) had it sometime in 2000-2001. Perhaps, someone came up with this idea before Nomadix?

    Anyways, patents suck. Especially stupid ones like this.

  22. Re:They should go with XFce on UserLinux Continues Debate Over GUI · · Score: 1

    XFce = minimalism. Minimalism != user friendly.

    Dude, that's pretty biased. Notice that even if XFce wasn't 'minimalism' you set it to be just that: (XFce = minimalism)

    ( I hope you're not writing any software I use ;)

  23. Helping to make a reality on UK To Start Biometric Passport Trials · · Score: 3, Funny

    of people getting their body parts stolen. Ouch.