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  1. Re:Ooooo... Graphical installer! on PC-BSD 0.5a Beta: BSD For Dummies · · Score: 1
    They had a reason for the GPL. From their FAQ:

    Why the GPL License for PC-BSD Installer?

    All custom software developed for PC-BSD, The GUI Installer, Package Manager, Package Creator, were developed using the QT libraries. (www.trolltech.com) QT is one of the most powerful, solid C++ library sets available today, but it does not allow releasing under the BSD license, only under the GPL, or their own custom license QPL. For this reason, we have chosen to go the GPL approach. This was not intended to *pollute* the BSD license, just as a user running KDE on BSD doesn't intend to pollute the license either.


    So they had to either write a GTK installer (and using KDE as the desktop, this wouldn't make sense), pay Trolltech for a QT license, or release under QT with the GPL.
  2. Re:It Just Works on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1
    Which is exactly was I was talking about:

    ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously symlinks, Smart Folders


    So this is the new feature in Longhorn. I was pointing out that hard links were what the original poster was meaning to say, not symlinks.
  3. Re:It Just Works on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1
    ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously symlinks, Smart Folders

    What about hard links?

    From the linked page:

    By default, ln makes hard links. A hard link to a file is indistinguish- able from the original directory entry; any changes to a file are effec- tively independent of the name used to reference the file. Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems.
  4. Re:Burnable folders on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 1

    Windows XP does this too.

  5. Re:How about from two? on Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Yahoo! uses Google to do their searching? I doubt it.
    Yahoo! search for `xyzzy'
    Google search for `xyzzy'

  6. Re:Am I the only one... on Linux-based Bluetooth Robot · · Score: 1

    The signature is in x86 32-bit machine code:
    0x90 is nop (No Operation, i.e. do nothing)
    0xCD 0x19 is interrupt 0x19 (The last thing the BIOS does after POST, reading the first 512 bytes of the hard drive, AKA the boot-sector, and executing them).

    So this means: Do nothing four times, then reboot.

  7. Re:The Pacebo effect is controversial on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: 4, Funny

    Possibly they gave one group real medicine, and the other nothing at all, and got the same results as giving one group real medicine, and the other a placebo.

  8. Re:Google cache to the rescue! on Google's X Files Vanish · · Score: 5, Informative

    A link that actually works can be found Here.

  9. Re:Google cache to the rescue! on Google's X Files Vanish · · Score: 1

    I just found a working version (with images) Here.

  10. Re:Already? on Google's X Files Vanish · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was lucky enough to see the page before it was taken down, but a (non-zoomed) screenshot is linked from the article.

  11. Mirrors on WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix! · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the Coral Cache and the Mirrordot Mirror.

  12. Re:Wikipedia first for "online poker" on 'Online Poker' Googlebomb · · Score: 1

    That's "Online Poker" in quotes. If you just search for Online Poker, it's the third result.

  13. Reg-free link on 'Spamalot' Subscribers to Get Spam ... a Lot · · Score: 5, Informative
  14. Re:April? on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to Arrive in April · · Score: 1

    From the summary:

    Think Secret is reporting that Tiger will be out in April with an event on April 1st and it should be out in stores by April 15th.

    So yes, this could be an April Fool's joke.

  15. Re:I'm just guessing, on AIM's New Terms Of Service · · Score: 1

    From the first paragraph of the TOS:

    The following terms and conditions apply to all users who either registered for AIM services or downloaded AIM updates or software (emphasis mine)

    So using their service is enough to agree to the TOS.

  16. Re:Good move... on Chicago To Consider City-Wide Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    How many people do you expect own a wireless-ready laptop and yet have never used the Internet? Not very many, I'd guess.

  17. About 'my ($f) = `fortune`;' on Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read more about the issue here.

  18. Caches on Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives · · Score: 1

    The website was very slow, so here's the Coral Cache.

  19. Re:handhelds with browsers on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    MiniMo hasn't been ported to the Palm. Only to Windows CE at the moment.

  20. Re:Dust on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, the HP Jornada has an SH3 processor, and doesn't run Windows Mobile 2003. Also, getting an SH3 binary of this might not be easy.

  21. Download Minimo on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just noticed that Minimo for WinCE can already be downloaded at http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6 097.

  22. Minimo on desktops? on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since Minimo seems to require a relatively small amount of memory (compared to Mozilla or Firefox), has anyone ever considered porting it back to the desktop so it can be used as a very lightweight browser on desktop?

  23. Re:Sure would like a link... on First Symbian OS virus to replicate over MMS · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a link. It's at the top: CommWarrior.a.

  24. Re:huh? on Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The difference is in the title:
    "Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?"
    As opposed to
    "traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?"

  25. Re:Scary on NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as you don't sell things and claim they cost less than they actually do, there shouldn't be a problem.