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  1. GOOD! on Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back · · Score: 0

    I have a WRT54GS and love having OpenWRT on it instead of their firmware! Having Linux on your router is very nice!

  2. Re:Two major ones on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, when Yahoo breaks their protocol to try and keep third party clients out, the Trillian people will often figure out how to get back on first and share it with the Gaim developers (the two development teams seem to be pretty good friends).

  3. Re:Go with GAIM on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 1

    Your windows manager should be able to prevent that from happening. Or you could run UT2004 using 'xinit `which ut2004` -- :1' and it will be started on a second X display, and you should be able to easily switch back to the first using control+alt+f7. If you're using Windows.... just leave a window open always and set gaim so it adds tabs for new conversations.

  4. Re:Accountability. Or Lack there of on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  5. Re:Am I missing something? on Vista Could Ship Earlier Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Actually it was originally supposed to be released in 2003.

  6. Re:try putting up articles on time on The Mother of all BIOS Guides · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. Slashvertisements are 95% of the (non-dupe) stories here.

  7. Re:Functionality in IM programs - Gaim on Smart Mouse with E-Mail and IM Alerts · · Score: 1

    Aduim is based on Gaim.

  8. Re:Who installs software from an audio cd? on President of RIAA Says Sony-BMG Did Nothing Wrong · · Score: 1

    Its not the auto playing of the audio side that is the problem, its the data section of the cd being auto-ran that install the software. Windows defaults to auto-running whatever software the cd says should be auto-ran. How many people actually know how to disable the autorun?

  9. Re:Test cases with different codecs on Sony Completes First Full-Length Blu-ray Disc · · Score: 1

    "This makes error reporting easier: "Charlie's Angels screwed up" means a problem with one codec, and "Stealth screwed up" means a problem with another."

    Those aren't problems, they are features.

  10. Re:What next? on Sony Rootkit Allegedly Contains LGPL Software · · Score: 1

    The RIAA was already found guilty of price fixing in the US (it happened during the NAPSTER thing, or one of the big Music Industry vs P2P media events)

  11. Re:Must-have KDE apps on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 1

    "Klik, hadn't heard of it, I think, but why would non-experts use bleeding edge (and hence unstable) apps? How hard is it to set up klik (which must include a bunch of libraries if it must run precompiled binaries)."

    Klik was originally made for knoppix, so you could use extra software on it without having to remaster the CD/DVD. All the dependencies are included inside the app-bundle (a cmg compressed file system, currently it only needs to update /etc/fstab to install, though FUSE will change that once it gets common). Just yesterday I was using a klik bundle of KDE 3.5 beta 1 (I have 3.4.3 installed). If you use Debian or SuSE it should work very well, Gentoo and Mandrake would be a bit less likely to work (though most of the stuff works on my computer running Gentoo).

    Klik is perfect for:
    A.) testing out the most bleeding edge version of an app, perfect for translators, and usibility people.
    B.) trying out software on your system without having to make a commitment of any sort (no need to have someone with root install the package for you, and no need to track the dependencies in case you don't like it)

  12. Re:ITLB/DTLB on Red Hat Wants Xen In Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    RedHat probably doesn't see that as a priority since they use SELinux in their kernels (which I guess doesn't use that).

  13. Re:The irony on Red Hat Wants Xen In Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Where do you think Microsoft got their network stack? How much code have they given back?

  14. Re:Doesn't this point to a weakness? on Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    Google recently hired the lead developer of GAIM... except he was hired to improve Google Talk, so obviously they think very highly of the work hes done on GAIM.

  15. Re:I... on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    I'm no DND expert (only played it a couple times) but... damn, thats a large die!

  16. Re:NX from Nomachine on Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I can say that thats true, I was in NYC a couple weeks ago and setup NX on my desktop and was able to use my desktop machine as if I was there (the connection I had was about 6 kb/s so slightly faster than 56k, and my laptop also runs at 1400x1050). It really is amazing how fast it runs. The best way to see that is to try it out yourself (either with the evaluation NX server, or the FreeNX server, I used FreeNX).

  17. Re:SunRays on Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Its a lot easier to stream video at 100 mb/s than 6 mb/s (what I'm supposed to have with comcast, though I only really have 3.5). Also an ethernet connection generally has lower latency than anything over the internet (since the distance between one end of a lan to the other is generally shorter than just the distance from your modem to the other end of the line).

  18. Re:how about... on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 1

    VA Linux owns Slashdot, Newsforge, ThinkGeek, and the rest of the OSTG. (They changed their name a while ago)

  19. Re:Idea on Monad Shell Removed From Vista · · Score: 1

    IIRC Cairo was the name of WinFS in NT 4 or 3 or something. Thats most likely what hes talking about.

  20. Re:I'd like to complain! on Sony's New Nagging Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    1. Return the CD
    2. download the whole album
    3. Fill your trunk w/ CD-Rs of the album
    4. Go outside a store that sells it
    5. Give it away to anyone who wants a copy

  21. Re:what do they do with those emails? on Sony's New Nagging Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Then they return the CD and download it off of Kazaa or any other p2p network.

  22. Re:They stole MY idea !!! on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 1

    Just so you know, it works on Konqueror (though you have to use it's on screen keyboard).

    Have a look at http://robin.sourceforge.net/

    Looks like someone is way ahead of you.

  23. Re:I Know!!! on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 1

    "Now all graphic connections will happen in memory instead of going out over the network to the router and back in to the machine they went out of!"

    FYI Xorg generally uses Shared Memory for the connection if your running everything on your local system.

  24. Re:Boot time on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 1

    Same problem with the proprietary NVidia drivers, thats why I switched to using the 'nv' drivers instead (absolutely no acceleration, but at least now I can use software suspend 2, which is worth it).

  25. Re:Intel needs a show pony on Apple May be Intel Show Pony · · Score: 1

    The development machines are Pentium 4s (64 bit ones). And in the XCode compiler it says x86 (or i386 or something like that, I don't remember what).