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  1. Respectively: on Replacements For Adobe Creative Suite 3 Apps? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus*, Nvu.

    *I haven't actually used Scribus myself.

    Gimp and Inkscape can import the native formats of Photoshop and Illustrator, respectively. There are many alternatives to Nvu, it's just the one I've used. However, I usually just write the HTML myself, for which Kate is very useful and user-friendly, supporting syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and so on (at the same time, if necessary).

  2. Re:Completely Off-Topic on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 1

    This page should make any stats geek angry regardless of his opinion on gun control, for using the most obvious loaded questions I have ever seen: http://www.a-human-right.com/views2.html

  3. Re:You use that word... on First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 2, Informative

    You pay an ISP to take your traffic to other ISPs, who take said traffic to their own paying customers (either other home users or big companies).

    Without net neutrality, your ISP can then charge the other ISP or it's customers to send and receive the traffic you've already payed for (this is the massive fucking flaw in the claim that these companies are "stealing all the ISP's bandwidth": it's already been payed for).

    Imagine that, in an attempt to "come up with new and innovate ways of providing network services that their customers want - and [...] make a profit doing so", your mobile phone (cellphone) provider started dropping your text messages to certain customers of other networks (because you were "unfairly" sending too many messages to them), unless customers of those other networks payed them for the service you've already payed for. Would you complain, or would that be too "egalitarian"?

    Furthermore, ISPs which are not neutral will not be out-competed by sane ones because in many situations they are not in genuine competition, and because the large ISPs would be free to cut them off as punishment.

  4. Re:take a stand on Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase · · Score: 1

    For me, it means I get Google's text ads instead of Flash, which is nice as they are not really annoying and occasionally relevant.

  5. A bittorrent client? on Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep · · Score: 1

    Does this wake the system up every time that 2GB has filled up then?

  6. Re:So no variety? on Classifying Players For Unique Game Experiences · · Score: 1

    Frustrating the player's preferred style of play could be interesting, as it could give a good illusion of the AIs "learning" what sort of fight the player isn't good at.

  7. Re:Oh well on Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but I wish it were more widely known. That way, people designing hairbrained schemes for ending spam could read it first and save their time.

  8. So no variety? on Classifying Players For Unique Game Experiences · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many players enjoy some variety within a game. I've played all the Hitman games with the aim of completing the missions "cleanly", so I enjoyed the ones which force you to play the last mission as more of a shooter game (they did this in the 1st, 2nd and 4th games, while the third had a finale which offed the chance to play stealthily, but was still designed to produce a massive firefight if not played stealthily).

    I would be somewhat annoyed if Eidos based the style of the final level of the next Hitman game on stats from the rest of the game, which seems to be a real possibility since Hitman is a game which offers plenty of chances to choose between stealth and action gameplay.

  9. Re:Bank disputes on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 1

    There is no bloody way you couldn't intercept and modify data coming from this iPhone app. Encryption doesn't work so well when you have physical access to one end.

  10. Re:NiteMair found a loophole!? on GPLv2 Libraries — Is There a Point? · · Score: 1
    I don't think you've understood the BSD licence. Read it again, it's very short. It doesn't even require that the code stays open source. It's purpose is for the most part to ensure attribution for the authors. BSD code has been used in closed parts of both Windows and OS X.

    If you have a windows partition handy, try this one:

    strings /mnt/win/WINDOWS/system32/ftp.exe

    (Last 2 lines).

  11. So many pages! on How Famous OS Logos Got Started · · Score: 1

    So many unnecessary pages! and each is so fucking slow to load with all the junk it's filled with. It's much less fun to read a list of things when you have time to tab back to Slashdot and complain in between each item.

  12. Re:Gotta Love Slashdot Linking on Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It says HTML Formatted (by default, if you're logged in) right under the input box.

  13. Re:It's all down to ridiculous password rules... on Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus · · Score: 1

    PAM supports Kerberos!

    /Ducks

  14. Re:Gotta Love Slashdot Linking on Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Getting the code right to link to something on Slashdot is so hard

    In comments, it's

    <a href="URL">linky</a>

    Standard HTML. You DO know HTML, right?

  15. Re:It's all down to ridiculous password rules... on Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And Linux has had Pluggable Authentication Modules since 1996. It currently supports, among other things, smart cards, fingerprints, passwords and and a bunch of different hardware crypto devices.

  16. Re:Does anyone actually USE IE anymore? on Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts · · Score: 1

    Yes, most people are using IE, but as a general rule, no one actually knows any IE users (workplace use aside).

  17. Cost on Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse" · · Score: 1

    The sensors and logging infrastructure must cost money

    Who in their right mind would pay the inevitable higher price that a device with such sensors would have?

    Oh, wait... We're talking about Apple here...

  18. Re:Did anyone notice the cost? on Teen Killed At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp · · Score: 3, Funny

    He just started with 0, and kept doubling.

    Duh.

  19. Re:16GB? on Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    At least for KDE and Qt, you mean from major (as in integer) version to major version, requiring people who use old applications to have both sets of libraries available (which is perfectly possible). I don't see how things are different on Windows.

  20. Re:making progress on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is actually true. A basically unpatched KDE; no fancy branding breaking things or integration of custom system configuration tools (systemsettings already does pretty much everything other distros might want to add as extra configuration tools). KDE doesn't really require a "KDE distro" which goes to lengths to integrate it (unless you desperately require a bootsplash theme which matches your login manager or something); give it hal, dbus and networkmanager* and it integrates itself very well indeed.

    There are probably binary packages for people who don't like compiling. And there are sets and metapackages for installing all of kde, or just kdebase and kdepim, or just base and koffice, or whatever, without having to go down a long list of packages.

    Also, while I haven't tried it other than using the rescue CD to install Gentoo, Sabayon looks interesting as an easy way to install a polished KDE distro based on Gentoo.

    * That said, I don't actually use networkmanager because my computer doesn't move about and I like the network to come up before login.

  21. Tags on Nikon Unveils a Camera With Built-In Projector · · Score: 1

    These tags may be the least useful yet, in terms of their original use for searching the archives.

  22. Re:Is this the KDE 4.0 we've all been waiting for? on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    You posted a link to an ADSL line on Slashdot?

    Good luck!

  23. Re:Except for books, it's emacs on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 1

    Word can open plain text files. Last time I checked, it didn't care if the filename happened to in .doc (to cause windows to use word to open the file).

    If it isn't formatted, the solution for sending things to people who can't use notepad should probably be "mv".

  24. Re:Um, OK. on Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a dollar, because I live in the UK, where we have proper money.

    I got given one of those US coins that's the same size as a new 5p (is the "dime" the tiny one?) once, though, in place of a real 5p, which was somewhat annoying.

  25. Re:Good news, everyone on Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito · · Score: 1

    Gah, but "track" sound so stupid.