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  1. Re:Viable? on Legal DVD Burnable Downloads Launched · · Score: 1

    'redundantly prooven yet again'

  2. Re:Portal progression on Now You're Thinking With Portals · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna guess that you just can't go through it till theres another end of the portal.

  3. Re:Gimpshop! on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Have GIMP developers?"

    Of course, do you think the GIMP devs created the worst UI ever made purely by luck? NO!

  4. Re:For those who don't know... on Shared Source Device Emulator from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    "I'm guessing the shared-source has a bitch of a license"

    The 'shared source' license isn't an open source license.

  5. Re:Why? on Fully Open Source NTFS Support Under Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    1.) WinFS was canned a good while ago
    2.) Despite its name, WinFS is NOT a new file system, just a layer on top of NTFS.

  6. Re:Why it is being released for Free on VMware Releases Server 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Xen has been able to run Windows for a while now (VT enabled procs are on the market). Both VMware Player and Server are free, only Workstation (like player + a few extra features) and ESX Server (like Server, but doesn't require a host OS, because it IS the host).

  7. Re:Some questions on VMware Releases Server 1.0 · · Score: 1

    If the wireless card was a USB wireless adapter you could give the guest machine raw access to the device which should then work (then you could do reverse sharing pretty much). Since yours is a pcmcia card though you could always try using ndiswrapper.

  8. Re:With this out, why would I need vmplayer? on VMware Releases Server 1.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Xen doesn't split "1 OS into several running 'instances'" (which is what Solaris's containers or Linux's VServer or FreeBSD's jails do). Xen vitalizes all OSes that are run (except the Dom0 OS is allowed to tell the hypervisor what to do) which is very similar to how VMware ESX server works. Xen also provides many of the same features that the VMware product family provides (like live migration).

  9. Re:What about Opera, Safari and Konq. on Firefox Usage Climbing · · Score: 1

    I use Konqueror for pretty much everything, and if I can't use Konqueror for something (like when running windows/osx) I use Opera. Since I first tried Opera (when they released the ad-free version) I have hardly even touched FireFox.

    I also agree with the reasons you posted in the subpost, as well as loving Konqueror for the greatness of the file manager (local,sftp/fish/ftp,different file views like radial map, etc). Part of the reason that Konqueror isn't more popular is that most distro's 'Web Browser' icon generally points to FireFox regardless of what desktop is the default.

  10. Re:OS/Distro/versions? on Firefox Usage Climbing · · Score: 1

    No problems here in Konqueror. Can you repeat that bug? What version of FireFox are you using? What about the extensions?

  11. An easy solution is... on Using VMWare and Citrix in Tandem? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You could always run a 32 bit OS on the servers (at least till novell releases the 64bit client). If theres nothing you need specifically from the 64bit-ness you won't really be losing anything really (though I don't really know what hardware or software you plan on running).

  12. havinfunfun@gmail.com on Phishing in Yahoo! Geocities? · · Score: 1

    If you view the source of the form on the phishing site you'll see that email address, it suuuure would be fun to spam that with fake info. Other info from the form that might be useful is:

    Subject: "Yahoo id"
    the URL for the mail form thats used is: http://www2.fiberbit.net/form/mailto.cgi

  13. Re:Gnome 2.14 and xorg 7.x?? on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, a Closer Look · · Score: 1

    The only difference between Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 is the build system, 6.9 is old style monolithic, and 7.0 is modular, though the binaries produced are exactly the same.

  14. Re:time travel on The Physics of Superman · · Score: 1

    If he was flying AT the speed of light... whos 2 hours is he flying for?

  15. Re:Just looking for that sacrafice on Portrait of an Identity Thief · · Score: 1

    You are too kind, sir.

  16. Re:Looks like BEST BUY missed their opportunity on Smart Mob in China for Retailer Discount · · Score: 1

    Well the blue-shirts didn't go and talk to discuss a discount, did they? They just appeared randomly on the floor and didn't talk to any manager or anything. If someone from the blue-shirts had immediately gone to the manager to discuse a collective discount or them going to a different store to buy the product instead things most likely would of been different. These 2 situations weren't alike at all.

  17. Re:OB: Invader Zim (CORRECT Zim quote) on Yahoo China has the Worst Filtering Policy · · Score: 1

    Zim: I put the fires out!
    Red Tallest: You made them worse!
    Zim: Worse... or better?

  18. Re:how?? on PayPal Security Flaw Allows Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Actually its the reverse. Theres a problem in the PayPal code that lets them insert extra data on to the page (or doing transparent forwarding or anything else really).

  19. Re:Identity "Theft"? on PayPal Security Flaw Allows Identity Theft · · Score: 1
    It really grinds my gears when industry lobbyists and shills use inflammatory rhetoric to exaggerate the impact of mundane, victimless crimes.

    'Identify Theft' is not a victimless crime (you've obviously never had your identity stolen).
  20. Re:Microsoft's buisness plan on Red Hat Not Seeing Microsoft, Ubuntu as Threats · · Score: 1

    "I have heard about 5 people at least ask me what linux is and if it runs on windows... Its a shame how some people are so uneducated anbout alternatives."

    Linux DOES run on Windows, ever heard of CoLinux (similar to User Mode Linux)?

  21. Re:KHTML is a rising star. on Nokia Opens the S60 Browser Source Code · · Score: 1

    Most of the improvements to KHTML and WebKit are actually still shared between the two. The architecture of WebKit was changed a lot (ported to use OS X's technologies), but they still have a huge amount in common.

  22. Re:What are you smoking? on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 1

    1.) They bought Picasa when it was already some-what mature software.
    2.) Throwing money at a problem is a good way to lose all your money.
    3.) You would be complaining its not Free so it would end up being no different for them.
    4.) I just downloaded Picasa, so obviously people can.

  23. Re:not free on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 1

    So you dislike any company that has anything under an non-OSI approved license? Wow that means you dislike pretty much every company except for a few like RedHat. Also the Wine patches don't force anyone to use Picasa so its not 'bundled' at all.

  24. Re:wow on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 1

    Google Earth is written in Qt and OpenGL (though also supports DirectX). Unfortunately Google Earth also uses the IE rendering engine for some of the stuff so that will cause problems when porting (they could replace it with KHTML potentially, or a home made solution).

  25. Re:Andy Tanenbaum ? on Tanenbaum-Torvalds Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    He created Minix, the OS Linus Torvalds (the creator of the Linux kernel, which is the 'kernel' of an operating system, which if you need to have that explained, please leave slashdot and never return) used before and during his creation of Linux. Tanebaum and Torvalds had a long flamewar over microkernel vs monolithic kernels back in the early days of Linux development (you can find it with a bit of searching, its pretty entertaning, especially the parts where Tanebaum predicts the future).

    Minix was an Microkernel OS that was meant as a teaching tool.