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  1. Re:High Quality... on Wired Releases Creative Commons Sampling CD · · Score: 1

    Sure, that would be much better, but if given the choice between WMA, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis, which would YOU choose?

    And serving FLAC would be a substantial hit to the bandwith of whoever serves those files.

  2. High Quality... on Wired Releases Creative Commons Sampling CD · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    From TFA:

    Return to this site after November 9, and you'll be able to download high quality versions of the songs.

    I hope they serve them as high quality Ogg/Vorbis and not some shitty MP3 or WMA.

  3. Re:Real link? on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 1
    Try
    while true; do wget -O /dev/null www.fedora-redhat.com/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz done
    that way it doesn't use up diskspace.
  4. Re:For me it's the X splash screen on Free Software Friendly Graphics Card? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should RTFM...

    Option "NoLogo" "1"
  5. Re:Emergency Calls? on France to Allow Cell Phone Jamming · · Score: 1

    The caller only pays the standard rate for connection to the mobile phone. Any additional charges have to be paid by the called person, e.g. if you are in another country. (The caller cannot know where you are -> Called person pays difference to standard rate). A roaming like system inside theatres with high charges would be great. And if you don't allow roaming on your cellphone you have no connection except emergency calls (just like being abroad).

  6. Re:Another reason to move to GAIM on New IM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Trillian can't handle Unicode Messages. I don't remember which protocol (ICQ, AIM or MSN), but a message with e.g. chinese characters would just produce an error message like "Unicode not supported in this version", whereas GAIM worked like a charm with no problems at all.

    Conclusion: forget Trillian if you don't want to restrict yourself to ISO-8859-1 Characters.

  7. Re:I'd consider switching on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, the fileselector is much better than the old gnome-file-selector.

    Now with gnome 2.8 and udev+dbus+hal the new fileselector rocks! Navigation is much quicker (due to the "directory buttons"). Try it a while, you will love it if you just forget the Microsoft/KDE training you had.

  8. Re:And here I was... on UK Record Industry Sues 'Major Filesharers' · · Score: 1

    Well, for $25 you can ask them.

  9. ADSL on Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    The problem is that many people have asymmetrical DSL and thus have a shitty upload rate which is important for any p2p on a greater scale (You cannot download more than up (without multicast)).

  10. Re:Not Rocket Science on Keeping Microsoft Happy · · Score: 1

    Actually it is a big blue button, it looks quite similar to an "E".

  11. Re:Roxxor on Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mplayer uses it too, there is also a Windows version

    BTW, it is not libcss anymore, but libdvdcss.

  12. Re:Nice troll on Germans Reach 360 Mbps in Mobile Network Tests · · Score: 2, Informative

    You had neither the first satellite in orbit nor the first man in space, nor did you create the first modern rocket.

    You did not discover Fission neither did you understand the theory behind it.

    Oh, and you didn't invent computers.

    Now, you sure are proud of being the first nation creating the Nuclear Bomb and USING it.

  13. Re:inevitable on Less Might Be More · · Score: 1

    I actually had Gentoo installed on an AMD K6 200MHz with only 32MB RAM

    The only thing that took a long time to install was the glibc (locales generation took 3 days because of thrashing/swapping due to the small RAM .. That CPU had a bug so you couldn't put in more than 32MB)

    But once it is installed, Gentoo is just great! Running Apache and Postgresql on those 32 MB worked like a charm.

  14. Re:behold! on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    Go read the wget manpage first. That above command will fill your Harddrive in no time. (With numbered files like firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz .1 ).

  15. Re:Gaim rules. on Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    The problem is not the popup, it is the focus change.

    Quick typing and hitting enter somewhere while gaim pops up, you end up having the half of you text in the conversation.

    Standard should be: raising level of window so that it is ABOVE all other windows but NOT taking focus so that keyboard events don't go to gaim until you click on it.

  16. Re:gaim on Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    The interface is much more responsive than Gaim - it's a very lean program.

    GAIM is very responsive in Gnome. The problem is it uses GTK and not MS-Windows native widgets (although the WIMP-theme seems to use them/emulate them). So, don't change the IM-Client, change the OS.

  17. Re:I call fraud on SCO's website on Report Claims SCO Intends to Charge IBM with Fraud · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is totally stupid. Use the title tag for tooltips and the alt tag as ALTernative for the image. The title tag works in all browsers.

  18. Re:DomainKeys will not work. Crypto costs time and on AOL Will Not Support Sender-ID · · Score: 1

    It still isn't useful against spammers because the filter rules are too simple and too inflexible.

    The only possible use is against exploits as HTML-mails are converted to plain text. Nice "i can program an email-server"-project but nothing worth to use in daily life.

  19. Re:DomainKeys will not work. Crypto costs time and on AOL Will Not Support Sender-ID · · Score: 1

    Your approach to describe your approach sucks

    How does CF13-POP3(TM) work?
    1) It is hostile to spammers and computer crackers.
    2) It is simple to use and fast.
    3) It is extremely reliable when operating under nominal conditions.

    Now, how DOES it work? 1. Being hostile is not a proper description of an algorithm. 3. What are the nominal conditions? Not receiving anything?

    CONCLUSION: Bullshit-O-Meter says: Stay away from that, it's probably a trojan or something similar.

  20. Re:WGET!!! on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    But curl has no recursive download, and we all know what wget gets used most for:

    Recursive download of *.jpg

  21. Re:How the system works. on More Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    For the gazillionst time: You DON'T have to enforce patents to keep them. That only applies for Trademarks.

  22. Re:$5/month is nothing... on University Tests Legal File Downloading System · · Score: 1

    Calculate the money ... 5$ for EVERY student. That sums up to a pretty amount. With the same money they could afford a bigger/better backbone which would be positive for all, not just the RIAA.

  23. I for one ... on Virus Writers Look Ahead: Target 64-bit Windows · · Score: -1, Redundant

    welcome our new 64bit windows virus overlords!

  24. Re:Ditch the phone on VOIP Progress To Be Hobbled By Wiretap Costs? · · Score: 1

    everyone i need to talk to is connected to an IRC network

    I hope you use encryption for that.

  25. Re:Fighting the last war. on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is a stupid way for a question. Suppose you never felt unsafe. (Because you know the statistical chances). What do you want to answer to "Do you feel safer now?

    "Yes" -> That implies you feel safer because of the freaking "security" on airports.

    "No" -> So you want MORE security?

    It is the same question like "Are you still beating you wife?"