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  1. That sounds like a problem easier to solve... on New Moon System Around Uranus · · Score: 1

    ...for a few thousand years than for a few billion.

  2. And Paint can finally save as PNG! on Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired · · Score: 2, Funny

    One day, I'm sure IE will get around to displaying them correctly.

    Yes, but... other than roads, sanitation, better medicine and the streets bein' safe at night, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  3. sudo knoppix-installer on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    (an update from knx_hdinstall)

  4. Anything said in Latin makes a bigger sound? on GameCube $99 Price Drop Now Official · · Score: 1

    Sorry, just trying to decipher your tagline.

  5. They could port an AdvanceCD for it... on Atari Drops GameCube Support For Two Titles · · Score: 1

    ...which would add about 4000 games in one hit.

  6. tar! on Better Browsers for Text & Form Handling? · · Score: 1

    Bookmarked the parent. That'll come in handy.

  7. Er, you follow those steps? on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    That's all I've ever had to do. (-:

  8. References? on Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up? · · Score: 1
  9. Good idea. on Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up? · · Score: 1
  10. Summary: they told him to go knot himself... on Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up? · · Score: 1

    ...but they did it politely.

  11. Ayup, fire enough shots... on Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up? · · Score: 1

    ...and at least one of 'em 'll hit the enemy sooner or later.

  12. As per RFC1149... on Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up? · · Score: 1

    ...and Linux is the only OS to have actually implemented it.

  13. Well, there's a project at Step Zero... on GameCube $99 Price Drop Now Official · · Score: 1
    ...on the path to a Beowulf cluster of these. And of course, it could run stuff and then you'd have lots and lots of games. Of course, the game developers might not be entirely happy about the end result, but y'get that. (-:

    I wonder if it'd be possible to usefully adapt a 512MB SDRAM stick for the GameCube? (-:

  14. Do it again! on Better Browsers for Text & Form Handling? · · Score: 1

    Spend a few days writing a rich text editor that supports find/replace and optionally HTMLish attributes like bold, italic, underscore, blockquote, maybe even super/subscript. You'll be a hero, the world will beat a path to your door. (-:

  15. The punctuation nazi *HITS*! on Better Browsers for Text & Form Handling? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ( ) Parentheses or round brackets
    < > Brokets or angle brackets (type &lt; &gt;)
    [ ] Brackets or square brackets
    { } Braces or curly brackets
    &laqou; &raquo; Guillemet, angle quotes or chevron brackets (real ones thoughtfully ripped by slash)
    I'm betting that you used brokets, as in <TEXTAREA>, but without escaping them, yes?

  16. Welcome to the internet, we have lots of stuff... on Better Browsers for Text & Form Handling? · · Score: 1

    ...you slacker, I think you want definition #2.

  17. The obvious segue to that is to send an OOo doc... on Better Browsers for Text & Form Handling? · · Score: 1
    ...and have a simple way for them to return it.

    We can do that right now by adding the OOo doc as a frame and leaving a form with an "upload" button in another frame, but that's kind of clumsy. With KDE 3.2 and KOffice 1.3 (stably by 1.4, I expect), OOo docs will be embeddable as KParts so it should in theory be simple enough to integrate that, maybe a frame with "save" and "revert" buttons on it and another with the doc itself.

  18. The original tagline was... on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    ..."May you live in interesting times and attract the attention of important men."

  19. In a word... on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 1
    ...Knoppix.

    I'd add a boot-once automatic testing routine, to be sure.

  20. Reminds me of Ankh-Morpork slumpie on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    "Sits on the tongue like finest meringue
    and on the stomach like a concrete bowling ball"

  21. You can fix that! on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 1
    It's called Knoppix. (-:

    I personally prefer Mandrake, but nothing beats the karma bonus of shoving a CD into the drive, having a working machine 30 seconds later, then typing a one-liner to make it permanent.

  22. And this one... on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...will burn down, fall over, and then sink into the swamp?

    The six-previous-floridas comment isn't as silly as it sounds, some of the swamps have several generations of ruins under them.

    However... I do wonder if LindowsOS will make the hard drive go brittle and blotchy.

  23. Compared with SDL+OpenGL... on Is There Life Beyond DirectX? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) poorly supported; SDL+OpenGL does masses of platforms and targets (e.g. X, framebuffer, aalib) within those platforms that DirectX won't;

    2) SDL does more with sound and input than DirectX, and handles stuff like enumerating CD drives, handles events that DirectX knows nothing of, and you can use parts of it (you needn't ship interfaces to all);

    3) DirectX grows unpredictably and in directions ordained by Microsoft; SDL is GPL, make of it what you will.

  24. Nor does it run on... on Is There Life Beyond DirectX? · · Score: 1
    ...Windows 95, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Solaris, HP-UX, DGUX, AIX, IRIX, Tru64 and a flock of others. Which means that my wind-tunnel DEC Alpha box with the fancy 3D hardware ain't on the list, boo, hiss.

    The big problems will come when your game has to be RMS/DRM-compliant to run at all.

  25. Do you ever! on KernelTrap Interview With Rusty Russell · · Score: 1
    If you've ever installed System V, you have to do a kernel compile for your destination machine.

    Having just surfaced from recovering a dead OpenServer 5.0.5 system onto new hardware (a very Quixote experience), I feel compelled to say: "Amen, and amen!" Reconfigure a serial port? No worries, that's a kernel relink, and an environment rebuild, and... oh, yes, a reboot. It feel far to much like fixing MS-Windows.