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  1. Re:Error bars - woohoo! on OpenOffice 2.3 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're serious about your charting, why not look into good alternatives like R, Octave or GNUPlot? These all come for free and offer vastly superior charting possibilities than Excel.

  2. Re:That's great.... on Google to Release Firefox Toolbar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then learn how to use smart bookmarks. Make a bookmark, set it to:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

    and put "g" in the keyword field. Searches are a simple as "g searchterm" in the address bar, and you gain all the space of the search box.

    I've got similar smart bookmarks for google groups, images, babelfish, several dictionaries, mathworld, acronyms, ... Possibilities are not very limited.

  3. Re:I'm disappointed on A Brief History of Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Even COW isn't mentioned!

    http://www.bigzaphod.org/cow/

  4. Re:Tor on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1

    They update at blinding slowness, drawing seems to take a few seconds.

    I'm on a 1.5GHz box, and have GTK apps like The GIMP, Inkscape, XChat installed. They run as smooth as any other app.

    Something's wrong with your setup, dude.

  5. Re:Why flat-panel TVs are selling. on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Reasons 2 and 3 boil down to "hype". That leaves you with one additional reason. Nitpicking, I know...

  6. Re:Weird... on Google Flips Back to Groups Beta (Again) · · Score: 1

    This only confirms my belief that Usenet is now mostly worthless spam, rendering the Google Groups debate moot.

    And I believe email is useless because I received nothing but spam email on one account of mine today.

    If you'd spend some time on Usenet, you would notice that the amount of spam varies between newsgroups. There are some that are deserted and spam-infested, others are completely spam-clean and useful beyond words.

  7. Re:Not happy. on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Can't say I've noticed...

  8. Re:Not happy. on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    So, you're ditching the car because you don't know where to put the key?

  9. Re:About Time! on Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio HOWTO · · Score: 1

    The hard drive chatter was in fact the only thing I enjoyed on any Bizkit album.

  10. Re:astyle, indent, etc. with subversion on Subversion 1.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has been discussed quite recently on the Subversion users mailing list, someone wanted to use Jalopy to format Java code on every commit. The answer basically is: nonononono, bad idea.

    Check the mailing list archives, the initial posting was on February 12.

  11. Re:Once bitten, twice shy? on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free! · · Score: 1

    Eclipse is coming close in the IDE department, but damn does it feel slow and clunky on my 2.4 GHz 512 MB RAM workstation.

    Maybe try the latest 3.0M7 build? It's out since friday, and I'm impressed with how smooth it runs. And that's on a 2.2GHz 512MB RAM machine...