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  1. Re:"Btrfs" on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    Not teeth, a pallet.

    Try saying "This tricky tricycle is trippy" and pay attention to where your tongue goes. If you use your teeth for anything except the "th" in "this", then you have a strange accent or you may consider seeking out a speech therapist.

  2. Re:In unrelated related news... on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    CentOS 6 should start pushing out to the public mirrors early next month.

    The QA team should have had the trees for about a week already, and would be receiving the ISO images for QA later this week.

    Hope this helps.

  3. bad title on TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors · · Score: 1

    Since when is "may have" the same as "confirms" ?

  4. Re:I agree on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    On a 2-lane road, maybe. Not on a 6+ lane highway.

  5. Re:Probably won't gain wide acceptance on Zero Install Project Makes 1.0 Release · · Score: 1

    Er, no. It would still be a debian package. It just wouldn't be an official package.

    As well it wouldn't be that simple to do. The .deb file has more than just files, it is an 'ar' archive containing:

    1. debian-control - a simple file with the package version number
    2. data.tar.gz - this is what you seem to think a .deb or .rpm is, and only is (can be other compressors, such as lzma, bzip, xz - but it is always a tar archive)
    3. control.tar.gz - contains scripts for install, configuration, uninstall, etc - as well as the metadata file that says what the package is etc

    This is the difference between a distro package (.deb, .rpm etc) and a simple archive (.zip, .rar, .tar.gz) which you seem to think they are.

  6. Re:Same with 1080p on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    and most screens, when you use it, look horrid. I don't know why, but looking at the screen at a 90-degree rotation like that, I can clearly see some kind of structuring from the display.

  7. Re:First on Linux Gets Dynamic Firewalls In Fedora 15 · · Score: 2

    It works even better if you use IP Sets with it. Check it out... it's been around for a while, but seems to be little known.

  8. Re:Wait, so.. on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Most of what I've learned over the years had been at the cost of breaking something, when you get to the root of it. And yes, abusing your phone is a lot less dangerous than, say, a thresher.

  9. Re:Wait, so.. on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 2

    .. and even if they didn't, they didn't even TRY the only other option, after finding the first did not work?

  10. Re:Lets look at it on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    Thank you!

    This is annoying. It was done maybe months after my last checking, and I had not heard anything since. ... I have me some backups to run and a reinstall to do :D

  11. Re:Abandoned on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    Don't try to hard, or next thing you know you'll be a gimp!

  12. Re:Lets look at it on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    There are exactly three things that prevent my use of BSD as a desktop, and they are all related to the same demon.

    1. ATI drivers/code is still atrocious
    2. nvidia is still taking their sweet-ass-time on amd64 FreeBSD support (ok ok, so they pushed it on freebsd saying "implement these things our way first")
    3. Any other option isn't an option for me. I need something that works and doesn't perform like it's 1995.

  13. Re:Apple Stores on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    Hey, who said you could bring your logic here! This is an Apple story!

    (oh the irony)

  14. Re:Apple Stores on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    Two words: Vocal Minority

  15. Re:Abandoned on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    BTW, the G in GTK does not stand for Gnome. It stands for "GIMP Tool Kit" - and really has no dependence upon Gnome at all.

  16. Re:gtk is buggy on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    It also looks like ass.

    You should try GTK+ instead.

  17. Re:I support this! on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    Oh wow, because GTK+ is so huge!

    Really, it's something along the lines of 30mb. It's all the other Gnome crap that makes it look like bloat incarnate.

    Just remember - Gnome depends upon GTK+, but GTK+ most certainly does not depend upon Gnome.

  18. Re:Missing from the summary on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    Thanks! I'll have to give the aeropress a try, the downsides you mention are minor/nothing to me, and I'm used to... well, calling it office sludge is a generous overstatement of it's quality.

  19. Re:Missing from the summary on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    Do you prefer the aeropress or the french press?

  20. Re:Missing from the summary on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 3, Informative

    You've developed a tolerance.

    Not really a horrible thing it seems, caffeine isn't all that bad. But cut your intake off and you're gonna have some issues.

  21. Re:In other words on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    They are, and they do.

    They only have presence in a few states.

  22. Re:In other words on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    Routing is wierd. You'd have to look at the packet source and destination - looking at the path would really be unfair.

    I've seen shit go from atlanta to texas and back instead of just going around the metro 'ring'

  23. Re:If you don't believe him... on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 0

    Flamebait would work, after all it's baiting for flames :)

    Remember, flamebait != troll, and troll != flamebait (as so many seem to think otherwise)

  24. Re:If you don't believe him... on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Having met a magical constraint in your UID does not give you the right to be a jackass.

  25. Re:Isn't this bad for fingerprint scanners? on Fingerprint Scanner That Works From 6 Feet · · Score: 1

    You apparently missed the "From X DISTANCE" part of the fucking story title.