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  1. Re:It won't get a penny from me... on Virus Hold Computer Files 'Hostage' for $200 · · Score: 1

    Um... isn't the salt put at the front of the md5sum?

  2. Re:Someone explain to me... on Wormholes Unstable (BBC) · · Score: 1

    Things would start changing from the moment you get the message around you since you would do things differently than if you had never received the message. So really the lottery type thing would only work if the numbers were picked before your 'ripples' in time made it to them. An example of this is in the first (I think) episode of 7 Days at the end, he bets all his money on a basketball game where the team one at the last minute where the ball just barely made it in (it was on the rim and fell in), except him going back changed it so that team ended up losing and he lost all his money.

    I've always wondered though, where does his self in the past go when he travels back in time? Also it would cause a grandfather paradox (him traveling back in time would prevent the need for him traveling back in time, so he would of never traveled back in time, and......)

  3. Re:Duh on Wormholes Unstable (BBC) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Stargates and hyper drive are a whole lot faster than warpdrive! Warpdrive is for sissies!

  4. OFF TOPIC: Re:OT: slashdot getting spammed? on Wormholes Unstable (BBC) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Haha you already got to spam replies :-P

    I thought I was the only one that noticed all of them (I read at -1 because sometimes there is some good stuff down there)

    Oh and mods, did you notice the 'OT' in parent's subject?

  5. Re:Gives a whole new meaning... on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1

    The red screen of death will only happen if the copy has a 'boot error'... I hope I don't have to call Microsoft up and activate myself before the end of the 30 day time period...

  6. Re:obligatory quote on Futurama May Strike Back (on DVD) · · Score: 1

    I've noticed those, sometimes I just keep refreshing the page to see more. I wonder where they got the quotes from? Maybe from a Fortune file?

  7. Re:Someone state the obvious on Futurama May Strike Back (on DVD) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the guys at [AdultSwim] will buy the rights to play the new episodes and air them after they run through all the older ones. It may be a while without any Futurama, but hopefully they will show them! I love watching Futurama at 11!

  8. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on Futurama May Strike Back (on DVD) · · Score: 1

    You should watch the first minute or so of the first new episode of Family Guy, they make fun of Fox and all their failed shows they have started and then cancelled since they were cancelled.

  9. Re:Why do I get the bad feeling... on NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust · · Score: 1

    They said in the movie it was caused by the tunneling being done on the moon to create living areas (I believe they said it was 'dynamite', but I may be wrong on that part).

  10. Re:It's so simple a child could do it... on NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust · · Score: 1

    You forgot the neutrons. Nucleons consist of more than just your fancy protoss pylons.

  11. Re:DRAG AND DROP!!! on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 1
    What is PHP-GTK?
    PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that enables you to write client-side, cross-platform GUI applications. This is the first extension for PHP of its kind, and was written in part to prove that PHP is a capable general-purpose language that is suited to more than just the web application environment.
    This extension will not allow you to display GTK+ applications in a web browser. It is intended for creating standalone GUI applications.


    Sorry, thats not for browser based apps.
  12. Re:Prior art... any more examples? on USPTO Issues Email Address Patent to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Except has Mail.app even existed since the mid 90's?

  13. Re:Office next? on IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing · · Score: 1

    Those tabs at the bottom are not for different documents though.

  14. Re:Allow users to uninstall and reinstall as neede on IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing · · Score: 1

    It is when the default account is setup to be 'root'. You have to go out of your way to NOT be an administrator account in Windows.

  15. Re:Allow users to uninstall and reinstall as neede on IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing · · Score: 1

    KIO-HTTP is what makes an 'internet' (http) connection in KDE, not KHTML.

    Also gtkhtml is a port of an old version of khtml to gtk. So it should be "(khtml, khtml, and khtml)".

  16. HOWTO: Install Java On Linux In 5 Easy Steps on FSF, OpenOffice.org Team Reach Agreement on Java · · Score: 0

    1. Download the Java installer from www.java.com
    2. Run the Java installer. (aka ???)
    3. Profit!!!

    The three step plan always works!

  17. Re:If you were running Linux OR BSD on Dumping Lots of Data to Disk in Realtime? · · Score: 1

    I think he meant PCI-Express 8x.

  18. Re:BSD license on MS Calls On Kids to Stop Thought Thieves · · Score: 1

    "and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."

    I don't think using strings on a binary is the common way to distribute documentation.

  19. Re:Video submissions, eh? on MS Calls On Kids to Stop Thought Thieves · · Score: 1

    You have to send it to them on CD or DVD, not VHS tape.

  20. Re:Screw another PDF (the first one) on MS Calls On Kids to Stop Thought Thieves · · Score: 1

    Self-extracting zip files can be extracted on Linux. Most decompression programs will ignore the executable part at the front if told to open an exe zipped archive. Maybe they just want people more accustom to open random executables off the internet that may potentially contain viruses, trojans, and other fun malware?

  21. Re: Do have to admit though........ on Firefox Lead Engineer Scolds KDE Project · · Score: 1

    Do you really claim you can transfer a file from a server with only SSH access, to a server with only FTP easier than you can in Konqueror?

    "Of course for me, you want to configure apache, samba, squid, X11, sane, cups, dhcp, or other such settings.....open an xterm window , find the conf file, and edit."

    Or you could open up KWrite as root ('kdesu kwrite') and edit the config file by hand in a GUI. You could also edit a config file on a remote FTP server (or any other that has a KIO-Slave that you can write to, like SSH) without manually downloading it, editing, saving, then manually uploading it again.

  22. Re: Do have to admit though........ on Firefox Lead Engineer Scolds KDE Project · · Score: 4, Interesting
    KDE has a page (http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.4.php) listing all of their requirements, I'll provide you all the things marked as 'required'
    QT
    X Server
    Perl
    BZip2
    ZLib
    PCRE
    LibPNG


    There are other things marked as recommended (such as OpenGL and OGG Vorbis), and there are others marked as optional (such as LAME).

    The problem isn't KDE is bloated, its the way the distros package it (huge monolithic packages that contain a load of different programs), though some distros like Gentoo now provide 1 package per app (which allows you to trim most packages off.

    Also comparing KDE to XFCE makes no sense, XFCE is an extremely minimalistic desktop environment (its just a bit more than only a Window Manager). Only comparing KDE to GNOME would make any sense since both are complete desktop environments.
  23. Re:what Windows apps do you need? on Wine Now Has Big-Time Lawyers On Its Side · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried PS or Macromedia Studio in a while under WINE, so things may have changed. From what I remember PS CS 2 wasn't supported, and the newest version of Studio wasn't supposed to work either. Though Photoshop 7 (version before CS) is supposed to work great, and older versions of studio seemed to work for me (this may of changed, since WINE advances very quickly).

  24. Re:Apple should start... on Safari vs. KHTML · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except Apple doesn't let them even see the source try, the KHTML guys even offered to sign NDAs.

  25. Re:And what would be better? on OpenOffice 2.0 Criticized on Use of Java · · Score: 1

    "I use Apple's OSX, I don't use BSD's, NeXT's, Apple's OSX, and I don't use GNU Linux, I use Linux."

    Um... You kinda contradicted yourself there... In one sentence... Or am I just confused???