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  1. Re:How many of those users CAN upgrade? on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 3, Informative

    And I'm pretty sure FF3 still works on Windows 2000 which just barely beats out Linux in popularity.

    FF3 works in Windows 2000. I installed it last month on an older computer, and it is used daily as the default browser.

  2. Re:Great software! on The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Does it run on linux?

    Well I'm glad it didn't run Windows for Workgroups 3.11, because then they wouldn't get any support anymore over there on Mars!

  3. Re:Different reason on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 4, Informative

    The geeks are buying the XP version to install their own flavor of Linux as a dual-boot?

    Then they are stupid geeks. The Windows version has a smaller disk, so it makes more sense to buy the Linux version.

  4. Take a course in Spain or Cuba on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    I had English, French and German in High School, which were mandatory foreign languages (as well as Greek and Latin). I dropped them as soon as I could. My language skills after high school were moderate, and I learned English only really in university when all my study books turned out to be in English. I tried to learn French when hitch hiking through France.

    Then I took a Spanish course in Salamanca, only two weeks, and that taught me basic Spanish, enough for tourist needs. I spent one night drinking Sangria with a French girl that didn't speak English, and suddenly everything fell in place. That evening I talked to my Spanish teacher for about half an hour. Strangely enough, my French improved a lot as well....

    So my advice, take a course in Spain or Cuba, and drink lots of tequila or rum...

  5. Re:If at first you don't succeed.... on Microsoft Going After Yahoo! Again · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come to think of it, I don't think the word "soft" applies anywhere near Ryan. :D

    You obviously missed the two most important points here!

    Come to think of it, the word "micro" doesn't apply anywhere near Ryan!

  6. Re:If at first you don't succeed.... on Microsoft Going After Yahoo! Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come to think of it, I don't think the word "soft" applies anywhere near Ryan. :D

    You obviously missed the two most important points here!

  7. Portable Firefox on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 3, Informative

    When using Portable Firefox, the automatic updates installs the normal version when updating. This results in something you don't want. So I uncheck the automatic update, and do this manually.

  8. Re:F5 IRule on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another suggestion I read somewhere else is to redirect all traffic to the AVG website. That will teach them!

  9. Windows X on Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel · · Score: 1

    Now we're talking about Windows 7 and 08, I think they should call it Windows 10 as it is going to be released in 2009. Or better, they should call it Windows X. Then they can add something along the lines of 10.1 to it, you know like Windows X 10.1. That sounds more interesting. And along the lines of this development, they should call for the Office Assistent to twist his legs and fill the position of mascotte and to pose on the boxed version.

  10. Re:Can't put that genie back into the bottle on US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only thing I'm afraid of is being prosecuted in the US. I live in Europe, but these kind of agreements scare me. I've seen people being extradited to the US for alleged crimes commited in the US, that were in fact commited in Europe. Those crimes generally result in sentences about 1/10th of those in the US, and it involved American federal agents that tricked people into doing stuff, while this is not allowed in our justice system.

  11. Re:Fanfic on Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slashdot.org sometimes it feels like south american novel... I think the "novelty" here is that this is the first slashdotted book!
  12. Re:What is this? on Let Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Man, are you crazy? Never heard of the Blue Flame of Death?

  13. Re:Too much UNIX for me on FBI Wiretapping Audit Secrets Uncovered Via Ctrl+C · · Score: 1

    Hey it was good to be reminded of those days! I still have an Intertec Superbrain Q64 here, although it doesn't work anymore, sadly....

  14. Re:Too much UNIX for me on FBI Wiretapping Audit Secrets Uncovered Via Ctrl+C · · Score: 1

    That's not true. See this screenshot. CTRL-C made you scroll down. Arrow keys were not used back then, so E and X were up and down, S and D left and right, A and F word left and right, and R and C scroll up and down.

  15. Xandros EEE desktop? on A View From Inside the OLPC Project · · Score: 1

    I have an Asus EEE and it has a customized desktop with buttons to start applications. It's not revolutionary, but it works. I'm curious in what ways it's difference from Sugar, and if it could replace it.

  16. Re:One problem machine out of many installs on Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's funny that to fix Microsoft Windows, it's faster to just wipe and re-install from scratch rather than try to fix the issue. After installing SP3 on my work desktop (using the download), I couldn't login anymore. I got a black screen, the monitor stayed alive. I could go back using system recovery. After the first time going back I lost my remote desktop client, so I couldn't login to other systems anymore. Furthermore I lost my CD drive. I tried another time via Windows Update (which was only 60MB instead of the 323MB of the download), but had the same problem. I did another system recovery, going back a month now, and now everything works, although I had to reinstall several programs.

    Still I have to do a complete reinstall if I want to get this SP working I'm afraid...
  17. Re:It seems to me... on Massive Increase in RIAA Copyright Notices · · Score: 0

    This is typical for an organization (or person, animal) realizing that it is in big trouble. This looks like a struggle to survive. So it might be a good sign. On the other hand, it doesn't mean that they will loose all the way. And for the ones being attacked it can be a nasty experience.

  18. Re:Uh, you realize your error, right? on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    ...that implies that there's a one in 170,000 chance that your gun will accidentally kill someone. To be exact: there's a one in 170,000 chance that your gun will accidentally kill someone this year.

    (Also, consider the chance that some of those potential rapes would end in murder. Apparently only two percent of rapes end in murder, so that means there's about six murders prevented there as well. That article is from 25 years ago! Furthermore, I wonder if it works like this. The 2% that commit a murder, probably won't be stopped by a gun. Chances are that it simply means the woman who tries to protect herself with a gun, will be killed immediately by the criminal. She won't show up in rape statistics, because she is killed before the criminal has the chance to rape her. So be careful with these statistics!
  19. Re:You've Got It All Wrong! on Sony to Buy Gracenote · · Score: 1

    Walkman. Discman. Arguably both Sony's most successful consumer electronics products. You forget Trinitron.
  20. Re:Has NetCraft confirmed on Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying · · Score: 1

    ...that XP thinks it is BSD? I think XP has all the right to think it's the Bull Shit Distro.
  21. Re:I need a 10k$ table on Why Microsoft Surface Took So Long To Deploy · · Score: 1

    What will happen when my kids spill their food on it? I suppose Clippy will appear and suggest you wipe his ass.
  22. Re:HOLY CRAP on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the worst slashdot story I've ever read and I'm an avid reader, have a shirt and everything. Make a bookmark people, this is it, one of the milestones of the decline and fall of slashdot. You have a shirt!?! And everything??? Wow, that's impressive.

    I've bookmarked your reply. I think it's even worse than the article. Not that I read it.
  23. Re:Undermining our way of life... on ISO Miscounted Cuban OOXML Vote · · Score: 4, Funny

    Know what? If something changes Cuba's mind about OOXML and very shortly after the US embargo of Cuba is ended... fuck, I just don't have words for that. I think those Cuban cigars come in handy when Hillary is in "Office". It could open her up, you know! ;-)
  24. Re:I like it. on The Joy of the Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    What about the "unihammer" printer, such as the Seikosha GP80-A? It's the only printer I've owned where my downstairs neighbour knocked on the door and asked me to stop printing... I had a Brother daisywheel printer once. My desk started swinging when it printed something. The noise was incredible. I had a Intertec Superbrain (CP/M) back then, with Wordstar, and the only way to get a decent layout was by using bold and capital letters. (I refused to use underlines.) I used double and even triple bold to add extra effect. The result was that some head lines were printed eight times, and if you turned over de printed paper, you would have a 3-D landscape. I think it would be a good braille printer!
  25. Re:Wikipedia as Advertising on The Battle For Wikipedia's Soul · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth/

    Your link doesn't work. This link does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth

    The problem is that you use the "auto-link" url style. This adds a slash to the end of the link, which results in an error. I had this problem myself a while ago.