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  1. Re:OpenOffice FTW! on Office 2007 Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Not if you need to evaluate stuff like measurement data.

  2. Re:miranda/kopete on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 1

    Kopete++

    Kopete shows the images of people I am cahtting to. And it integreates seamlessly in my addressbook.

  3. Re:What a waste of time... on Police Need 90 Days To Crack Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    ah, so you thnik a suspect == a terrorist. I suspect you know little of how law works!

  4. Re:Synergy on Can Open Source Outdo the IPod? · · Score: 1

    If you open source it, you get "features" like 'creative commons', (legal)torrents, wikipedia, ogg, whatevers, for free (as in freedom) with it.

    I am confident that such a project will soon gain momentum, and include stuff like last.fm (audioscrobbler) ratings from your player, musicbrainz support, etc etc.
    It is those 'features' that make it a more complete product. More complete then a silly mp3-website with closed apis (itunes) can ever get.
    In an open sourced player+ system any distributor can contribute, can provide podcasts, ratings, tagging, free beer, application integration etc. etc.

  5. Re:the new site runs Drupal on Gallery 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    uhu. back that up with some examples please. making such a statement says more about what you are. I'm guessing that (d) you are a moron that has never sen or used Drupal. And (e) hope to never see you appear in the drupal community.

  6. Re:the new site runs Drupal on Gallery 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It is what they call 'the slashdot effect' :p Normally Drupal (if properly configured) can handle these peak loads very well. But without cache or throttle settings you might get in trouble with such a peak. Or your servers might just collapse under the load, off course.

  7. Re:the new site runs Drupal on Gallery 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    well, i /meant/ to say: "/was/ the next big site", since obviously, it already moved. But /. does not let me change my comments, so it seems. (Drupal does)

  8. the new site runs Drupal on Gallery 2.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those interested. Gallery is the next big one in line to move its site to drupal

  9. Re:Woohoo! on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    uhuh. "crap i spew". It is a meaning. something I think; Teh only one spewing here, is you. Sorry.

  10. Linux for networked desktops on Linux Five Years Away From Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Linux is very well suited for VNC implementations, thin clients and all that. Where one service provider takes care of all the 'hard stuff' and users just do what their name implies: USE the desktop. I have seen some commercial tests for this already. Aimed at elderly people, or professionals who want it to Just Work[tm]. Users just rent a thin client, and get it all over the network. No more hardware trouble, no more update and security thingies. it Just Works. And it often proves to be cheaper then having to buy a new Dell ever two years because the latest MS stuff requires more memory, and space. Once such a philosophy gains users, it might well be a great push forward for OSS/linux on teh desktop.

  11. Re:Woohoo! on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    konqueror has exensions too. By my knowing nautilus too. They all update find *with my default update manager*. So yes: I am saying: leave /all/ the updating where it belongs: in teh OS.

  12. Re:Woohoo! on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Jus wondering: Did they allow -disallowing- teh upgrade system, finally. It is hell to have the update system, when your OS (macos, most linux distro's) has a perfecly capable upgrade system already. My ubuntu just keeps choking on the upgrade system in firefox, that is really only there, because our happyWindowsBrethren have a crappy update system in their OS. It really annoys me that the upgrade is handled by a custommade system in the app. imagine all my applications doing upgrades all in a different way. Shivvver. From what I see this did not change at all. which IMO points ot that FF is primary for windows. pity.

  13. Re:Never could do these... on LGP Announces New Competition · · Score: 1

    Or you could eat that pizza funghy that re-appeared in that pizza box you keep forgetting to throw away. Sailboats guaranteed!

  14. Re:Drupal powers... on Drupal Needs a New Home · · Score: 1

    No, ou address specific issues. And you make them appear as if they are due to the vary nature/architecture of drupal is wrong. That is what I meant to say with the fact you do not know what you are talking about. Because Drupal /is/ secure in its very nature. And these issues appeared after a long while, on places where we, as drupal developers, gave th community some power. If you leave all security in the very basics, you should disallow ANYONE t connect to any network at all costs, with a Linux kernel. that is the only really secure kernel. But that is simply not an option. So, as soon as you allow a kernel to do some network stuff, you give people power. But people are people. And thus you add insecurity. Drupal has the same problems. It was only in those situations and those set-ups where people used advanced input formatting, and allowed anonymous users to use them, that XSS/JS could be injected. That is the story in a nutshell. So, please, read the code before you judge again. For you are very right about the fact that things should be secure from the very core on; not bolted on top of that core, but Drupal has all that. It is just that you cannot make something 100% secure, yet give power to the users.

  15. Re:Drupal powers... on Drupal Needs a New Home · · Score: 1

    You really need to know what you talk about. The exploits you talk about were only applicable in a very few cases. And even then one could do quite little with them. So far no-one has actually managed to get that root-access that is theoretically possible to get with the exploit. Drupal had all that you talk about. So get the facts... ;)

  16. Re:Other sites running Drupal on Dan Gillmor Launches Grassroots Journalism · · Score: 1

    Drupal has much better cases and examples that that list, though. Do not be misguided by what you see in that list. The best Drupal sites do no seem to use that module to appear in that list.

  17. Re:drupals ok, I prefer mambo on Dan Gillmor Launches Grassroots Journalism · · Score: 1

    Drupal has a page for powered by X buttons, but that is about it, no one is considered a bad person or so, if he does not mention Drupal. As it stands, Drupal is alreaady ranked very high in Google; no need for special programs to increase the ranking.

  18. Re:drupals ok, I prefer mambo on Dan Gillmor Launches Grassroots Journalism · · Score: 2, Informative

    Drupal might be harder to set up, but is better, when used as development platform. The way Drupal is set up is much more interesting for developers, then Mambo is. But it is indeed less friendly to newbies. And if perfomance is an issue, Drupal is most likely the CMS of your choice.

  19. Gimp Light on Integrating OSS Graphics Apps · · Score: 1

    What I think we need is a fork. That will not save the imperoperabilties, but it will be a great application for Joe User. Since Joe Users now all have thier own digital camera, they want to do some stuff with their photos. Not "one-click-to-add-curly-frames-around-yer-pic", but simple things. Like rotate, resize, cut, crop, and some small colour/contrast changes. A fork of the gimp: The gimp light could be great for this.

  20. Popular Cuisines on 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    I think this says a lot about the way (U.S.) people think about eating. with pizza, sushi, bakery, chinese and italian you might be able to live, but healthy?

  21. Re:Worse jobs... on One Terrible Job: IT Manager · · Score: 2, Funny

    I cleaned the office (I was 15 and saving for my bike, so do not laugh). It was not an IT corp[, but a logistic (trucks, shippings etc) corp, so the M/F rate was not as bad as an IT corp, but about 60/40. But the toilets were. awfull. And njot the mlae toilets. But the woman toilets. OMG, those were bad. (think of badages sticking on walls, P all over the place, and make-up (removal) pharmacy laying around everywhere. After that, I beleive no-one who tells me man are dirtier that women. Yuk!

  22. Re:carjackers in South africa... on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    So: Never drink and dive.

  23. carjackers in South africa... on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    well, not those that break into your car at night, but those that try to rob you from it while driving around. Those are burned. Alive. with this cool device: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/232777.stm

  24. I have one: very cheap. on The Internet Meets the Neural Net · · Score: 1

    I use two devices to transmit data directly from internet onto my brain. One transmits light waves and one that transmit information trhough airpressure differences. I call them my monitor and my headphones.