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  1. Re:Oh. on Video for Skype Users · · Score: 1

    It's more interesting when you get strings that you didn't cause yourself by viewing the page and typing the command. Like "llamaboy2000". I think it came from my MLdonkey p2p program, maybe a username...

  2. Oh. on Video for Skype Users · · Score: 1

    *Reads article*

    Wow! I've been waiting for this. And it will work with my firewall! And... Oh wait, boring.

  3. Re:Competition on Intel Preps Mac mini Look-Alike · · Score: 1

    And the measurement of area, the CD; and the measure of small amount of disk space, the MP3 minute (LoCp is for large amounts).

    How do we do proccessor speed again?

  4. Google's translator on Coming Soon, The Google Translator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So what powers Google's current translator? I have seen it give word-for-word the same as Babel on some occasions (but with better handling of non-ASCII characters).

  5. Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali on POV-Ray Competition Winners · · Score: 1

    Your saying this doesn't look real?

  6. Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali on POV-Ray Competition Winners · · Score: 1

    The same, but at 20 FPS instead of 0.0001 FPS?

    Cool.

  7. Re:Well on Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks like America always needs an enemy. Once you could accuse someone you disliked of being a Nazi spy. The moment WWII ended, you started calling them Communists. The Berlin wall falls; and people you disagree with are vaguely called "terrorists" (or "funding terror", etc).

    If piracy was a political problem 20 years ago they would have called them "commies".

  8. Re:I Guess The Children Did Work on Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged · · Score: 1, Informative

    Communism and fascism are the same thing?
    Idiot.

    (And an NRA sig. Loser.)

  9. Re:As an aside on Titan Moon's Bright Hot Spot · · Score: 1

    Planet. Titan is a planet?

  10. Re:Slashdotting Google bomb? on Using the Semantic Web to Enhance Search · · Score: 1

    Thats right and proper and everything, because thats part of how they rank pages. Your explaination was nice, because I had been noticing both direct and monitored links and wondering what was going on.

  11. Re:best with firefox on Using the Semantic Web to Enhance Search · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe Fx can do whatever they need fastest? Maybe they use pipelining or something?

  12. Slashdotting Google bomb? on Using the Semantic Web to Enhance Search · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That second link goes to http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://ww w.w3.org/2001/sw/&e=9707
    How is that different to linking to http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/?

    Is Slashdot trying to improve someone Google ranking?

    (Also, did Slashdot always linkify URLs entered as plaintext? I didn't write any "a href" for those two.)

  13. Re:Odd... on Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 and LX700 Showdown · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it just generate some wierd keystroke without that? Do they generate keystrokes that are recognisable to X-based software like khotkeys?

  14. /.ing, for good on Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    Can we /. this with negative stories?

    What made you start using Firefox? What made you switch to Linux/OSX/BSD? What stopped working when they crippled the TCP system in SP2? Enter all the catagories with disposable emails.

  15. My experience with Windows on Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    I had just reinstalled Windows XP on an old computer that we had reformated to sell, and was installing the software that came with it, and explorer was crashing because it didn't want to open zip files. And every time explorer had to be started again, it popped up a bubble asking me to take a tour of the "exciting new features of Windows XP", because that is what it does when it has just been installed.

    Windows was reminding me how new and innovative it was every time it crashed. Brilliant.

  16. Re:About time... on IBM and Red Hat Offer College Prep · · Score: 1

    OT but doesn't it piss you off when someone says "Tried Linux [some number that can't be a kernel]; it didn't have any good programs and couldn't play mp3s", and they can't tell you which distro they had?

  17. Re:Blame The Slashdot Editors on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 1
    If they gave sites the courtesy of a quick email conversation prior to putting a link up, a large portion of slashdottings could be anticipated and prevented.
    And the news would be even older; by at least a day if the site's owner is in certain time zones.
  18. Re:what am I doing wrong? on Time Warner to Spin Off AOL? · · Score: 1

    Are you root? Are you using something weird?

    You need to be root, obviously (other user's email passwords in plaintext in RAM, etc).
    I have heard this crashes CoLinux (hehe, directly doing anything with hardware under NT), and someone said there is a proper distro that doesn't allow it even as root. What are you using and are you root? It works in Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6 the way I built it, anyway. :)

  19. Re:Aol is dying on Time Warner to Spin Off AOL? · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting that the end user is most likely stupid. They don't know what bandwidth is, but they like the GUI.

  20. Re:The graphs are not self-explanatory! on Linux HW and SW RAID Benchmarked · · Score: 1
    It's completely in Norwegian, and a link to a Babelfish version isn't even included.
    Babel doesn't do Norwegian.
  21. Norwegian on Linux HW and SW RAID Benchmarked · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone know an internet translator that supports Norwegian? Or even a Norwegian? It would be nice to have a translation so we don't have to sit around making uninformed comments about what we can't understand...

    Oh, wait...

  22. Why? on Installing Fedora Core 4 on the Mac mini · · Score: 1

    Apart from the form factor, what advantages does the mac mini have over an x86 box of similar price? What is PPC hardware like? Does it perform better under load or something?

  23. Re:How is this news? on Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is GOOD! If it isn't worth anyone's while to make proper attacks, we don't need to bother with securing anything! We just avoid doing stupid things like we always did. All we need is to make sure that there are always enough stupid users that the script kiddies continue to launch only social engineering attacks.

    So, all sysadmin /.ers reading this, keep your users stupid. It's in everyone's best interests (except your user's, obviously). If you teach them not to open attachments, you will soon be having to protect your own machine against proper cracking attempts.

  24. Re:Overseas on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 1

    What if it isn't on a cargo ship? What if it is in a small private boat?

  25. MAC code? on The Horror Of British Telecom · · Score: 1

    What is this MAC code he talks about? Is it the same thing as a network MAC address, or is it some BT related thing that identifies the line?

    BTW, cable might be a bit less troublesome, as it doesn't involve BT. Might.