User: pembo13

Re:Good decision

On: White House Ditches YouTube

What can Google do that the US government can't do?

Re:Games now.

On: Nintendo Reveals New Wii Controller

I don't think Nintendo has a magic stick with which they can beat developers into creating games you specifically like.

Re:For the too lazy to google

On: Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love

$4500 USD I take it?

Re:Yeah, but rpm's still stink

On: Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop

Well one is expected to have dep hell if you're installing manually and non using a dep solver like yum. That's like installing a .deb without apt.

Re:Yeah, but rpm's still stink

On: Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop

Were you installing RPMs manually with RPM?

Re:You gotta love Microsoft

On: Microsoft Asks For a Refund From Laid-Off Workers [updated]

No idea. I thought Microsoft was a public company mandated to create profit.

You gotta love Microsoft

On: Microsoft Asks For a Refund From Laid-Off Workers [updated]

They are generally very consistent with their goal of screwing over who ever they need to to increase profits.

Re:Red Hat = Microsoft

On: Microsoft and Red Hat Team Up On Virtualization

What are you talking about?

Re:Slashdotters?

On: Open Source Study Included In US Stimulus Package

I am actually none an atheist, thank you very much.

Re:Maybe it is because of PANGO?

On: Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native

Nope. I have mine off and it's still butt slow.

Isn't the OS still important?

On: Next Pwn2Own Contest Targets IE8, Firefox, iPhone

Doesn't the underline operating system still assist with the overall security of a browser? ie. can't a more secure OS make escalation of a browser hack more difficult?

Re:DoS

On: Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More

You didn't read what the dude said before you responded. He is suggesting that a virus can effectively DOS a Windows session by launching multiple valid applications.

Re:healthy distrust

On: The Case For Supporting and Using Mono

It's a case where everybody wins

Has that every intentionally happened before when Microsoft is concerned? I'm talking about in actual history.

Re:migrating from Joomla..

On: Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development

CMS Made Simple really lives up to its name. Much easier to get stuff done than in Joomla.

Re:My experiences

On: Moblin 2 First Impressions

Pity they don't even seem interested with working with Fedora.

Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good.

On: Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome

It has become obvious that very few people listened to anything the KDE developers said before the 4.0 release.

Re:Oh, Dear

On: Linux's Role In Microsoft's Decline

IBM isn't a Linux company.

Re:GPL v Govt Freeriders

On: Russia To Develop a National Operating System

Once they provide their changes, all that is legal.

Re:Its all okay. Nothing to see here.

On: Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes

Got any proof to back that up?

Re:WTF is up with IBM?

On: Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM

Maybe the non US workers are better on average.

Oh well

On: Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal

It's not like they don't have what's best for you in mind.

Re:Just upgrade

On: Hope For Fixing Longstanding Linux I/O Wait Bug

You have no idea. This seems to be operating procedure in a lot of Windows only shops. I'm not sure if Windows is a factor or just coincidence.

Re:OT : Why cancel analog?

On: Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal

Thanks.

OT : Why cancel analog?

On: Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal

Can anyone educate me on why a mandated cutting analog is a requirement of DTV?

Re:PyQt?

On: Qt Becomes LGPL

I hadn't thought of that. Will be interesting to hear. I'm on the list, and nothing has been mentioned officially yet.