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  1. Re:Woohoo! on Mozilla Tests Integrated Desktop Browser · · Score: 1

    [quote]Am I missing something?[/quote]
    You mean besides you can now access your calender or read your mail even when you are offline?

    No I don't think there was more.
    Oh yes, one thing: It will also be in firefox 3.

  2. Re:Most important thing on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    [quote]The tool palettes also disappear when the app's not in focus -- there's no reason why they need to be separate windows, or even visible when the app's not being used.[/quote]

    So all subwindows disappear when you unfocus or minimize the main window?

    So if I have brought a picture and a toolwindow to another virtual desctop, to work with them there, they simply disappear because I don't have focus on the mainwindow?

  3. Re:wxWidgets! on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 1

    Did you ever notice the bookmark sidepanel in the file-chooser?

  4. In Denmark on No More TV Listings For MythTV Users · · Score: 1

    In Denmark we use a more sophisticated system, which parses and merges 6 different online html webguides into one ultimate xmltv file, which is actually of such a good quality that a large number of danish mce users are converting it into the format of Microsoft.

    The speed of this grabbing depends heavily on the layout of the webpages, but grabbing somewhat multi-threaded it takes a couple of minutes per channel, which isn't that bad for a tv server running 24x7.

    One of the grabbers actually fetch so much data, that we were contacted by the page maintainers asking us if they couldn't just provide the xmltv for free, so we could spare their servers.

  5. Did you try Netbeans on A First Look At Red Hat Developer Studio · · Score: 1

    I believe the GUI editor of the nice free Netbeans IDE is working something like the one of Visual Studio.
    Not that I ever tried Visual Studio, but Netbeans Matisse GUI editor is really some of the most impressive UI stuff I've seen.

  6. Inversed qubit? on First Quantum Computing Gate on a Chip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If a qubit is both 0 and 1 at the same time, what is the point of inversing it? Would it then be 1 and 0 at the same time?

  7. Re:Teleporter death on Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly, because if we said that it _would_ be _you_ in the new body, then if the old you was not destroyed you would be consciously in two bodies at the same time, and that'd be rather confusing.

  8. Re:Well... on Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite? · · Score: 1

    GIMP lacks so basic features such as a usable grid, 16-bit/HDR image support, and requires special plugins with numerical inputs to draw a simple rounded rectangle, let alone something more complex.

    I don't know if you ever noticed "View -> Show Grid/Snap To Grid" or "Select -> Rounded Rectangle"
    16 bit is still missing though.
  9. teraflop_s_ on Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor · · Score: 1

    'The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop'
    Should probably be "known as a teraflops".
    You don't two fps, one fp either, right?

  10. Sad on Fedora 7 Released · · Score: 1

    Sad, I thought it would be webbased, so I'd only have to download the software I wanted to use.

  11. Anybody knows on Fedora 7 Released · · Score: 1

    Anybody knows where one can try that "revolutionary new build system"?

  12. Many will want it on MS-Funded Study Attacks GPL3 Draft Process · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it is quite clear that most people who release there source under GPL does so to ensure that they can always have access to it, even after other people have made changes to it.
    If a company then can go and make changes to your code, and add patented technology which you are not allowed to used, then you are pretty fucked, right?
    Why should anybody not want to be protected against this?

  13. Re:vcal support? on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would just be really unfortunately if anybody else than Microsoft supported msoffice calenders?

    But really, I like thunderbird simple and then to be able to add a calendar as en extension.

  14. Better name on Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd probably go for the name GINFA: Gaim Is Not Fucking AIM!

  15. Hwo to get a Windows tax refund on Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails · · Score: 1

    It can be done in the states too.
    Actually there's an entire guide with answers to all arguments you might meet.
    http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/22723 7

  16. Re: Wikipeida's success on How Open Source Is Changing Education · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, I think Wikipeida's success is rather proven. Just look at the google trafic: http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia
    And the reliability studies show that Wikipedia is just about as reliable as Britannica: http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html
    Furthermore it puts light on the fact, that you always have to cross test your informations, no matter the source.

    How can that not be success?

  17. There is no such thing as a "Teraflop" on AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box" · · Score: 1

    It is 1 Teraflops since it stands for Tera floating point operations per second. The ending "s" is not plural.

  18. Re:Is that the best he can come up with? on Windows Vista - Still Fresh After 19 Months? · · Score: 1

    Is that really a huge efficiency boost? I use Windows Search even less than I use the Start Menu. It's very rare that I don't know where to find something on my own machine. Does anyone else use the Search function that often? For what are you typically searching? Personally I use searching a lot.
    I use it when I have to find something I heard somewhere, and don't remember if it was on the web, on the chat or in some email.
    I use it when I need to run some application I don't use often, and only remember a single word of the programs' description.
    Some times I even use it for searching Google, if I don't have a web browser open.
  19. Re:Turn SuperFetch off on 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot · · Score: 1

    Don't know on windows, but most ram measures I know of automatically out filters cache.

  20. Description of Godwin's Lawf from wikipedia on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 1

    Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is a mainstay of Internet culture, an adage formulated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

    Strange

  21. Renting makes no sense on Macrovision Responds to Steve Jobs on DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At first sight their argument about letting people rent videos might sound reasonable,
    but then in real life, why rent videos to a lower prize, when it costs the same (or even less) for the content manufacturers to give a real copy?

  22. Funny how history repeats on Apple, the New Microsoft? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!" - Steve Jobs

  23. Re:try/except/else/finally on Python 2.5 Released · · Score: 1

    You could put that in the last line of the tryblock too.

  24. Makes no sense on MySpace Music Player Hacked · · Score: 1

    If you are going to illegally download a song, why use backdoors like this, when they are all available on the p2p and bittorrent networks?

  25. Re:MS Trojan on Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    Snyder translated from English to Danish:
      snyder (100%) (Dansk-Engelsk)
    cheat; cheater; fraudster.