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  1. Re:is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever buil on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    This statement would hold water if MS didn't wait an eternity to release an OS.

    When you change the statement to "Try a version of Windows less than one version old please." the argument starts to break down...

  2. Re:Gentoo Did This Years Ago on Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tag this article gentoodiditfirst. I saw this in gentoo long ago.

  3. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 5, Funny

    They just want to make sure you become a properly informed citizen from a reliable and unbiased source!

  4. Re:Package Managers? on OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's in Gentoo; I have been using it for a few days...

  5. Re:Seems to work on Firefox but not Opera on Flash 9 Beta for Linux Available · · Score: 1

    I had the same problem with video not showing in Opera even with version 7 of Flash. So I don't think this breakage is version 9 specific.

  6. Re:Where can you improve ? on KDE Celebrates 10 Years of Existence · · Score: 1

    My old hardware doesn't have any OpenGL support.
    If it tried to use OpenGL it would end up using the software implementation thus hosing the CPU.

  7. Re:it's like ... the opposite of trust on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, sesame seeds.

  8. Re:Gentoo on X.Org Releases First Modular Source Roll-Up · · Score: 1

    It's called running ~arch. It's the only way to fly. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" in make.conf in my case. Lots of goodies available without having to fiddle with package.keywords including xorg 7.0 for a while now.

  9. Re:"KDE 4.0: Now even more bloated!" on Awesome Multimedia Technology Heads for KDE · · Score: 1

    I am Canadian and even I know this isn't ironic. This my friend is called S-A-R-C-A-S-M.

  10. Re:In all honesty... on Vista Firewall to be Crippled · · Score: 1

    I use a router but I can see why other users won't. For one, my ISP absolutely refuses to provide support to any user who uses a router. Second they don't tell you directly the information you need to configure the router, they give you a Windows program that sets automatically sets up your computer for their service.

    If they don't understand how to set up a firewall properly, they probably don't know how to set up PPPOE on their router without even being given the proper information by their ISP.

  11. Re:Well... on Boot Camp Flaw Leaves Some Users Fuming · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course. I was just making a comment about the dillution of the term Beta. Most people are just treating it like production software now. Then the parent to my first post suggested calling it Alpha instead of calling it Beta. My post was saying that people shouldn't do that because it just makes the word Beta a meaningless corporate buzzword by stripping it of it's original intended meaning.

  12. Re:Well... on Boot Camp Flaw Leaves Some Users Fuming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Then Alpha would eventually be the new and hip Beta. If we constantly adapt the meaning of the words, they effectively become meaningless. If it is Alpha call it Alpha; if it is Beta call it Beta but if it Beta don't call it Alpha.

  13. Re:UML2 on Sun Opens Modeling Tools · · Score: 1

    Thats where GMF comes in.

  14. Re:Never buying D-Link again! on D-Link Firmware Abuses Open NTP Servers · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say they are fine normally when they advertise features that they know themselves dont work. For me UPNP didn't work on my router so I called them up and they said it wasn't implemented properly yet even though they advertised it as a feature. The next firmware upgrade let UPNP work some of the time but broke port forwarding so, again, I called them up and they said it was a KNOWN problem that port forwarding doesn't work properly in the new firmware. Then on my wireless card, the board itself does not work with motherboards with VIA chipsets and is a KNOWN problem yet they still refuse to provide refunds.

    So, in conclusion, no, D-Link is NOT "fine normally". My problems along with this new NTP debacle is enough to show this.

  15. Never buying D-Link again! on D-Link Firmware Abuses Open NTP Servers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have never once had a good piece of D-Link hardware. I bought both the DI-624 wireless router and the DWL-G520 PCI wireless card. First up the router didn't do UPNP properly; it simply did not work. A call to tech support told me to upgrade the firmware because they knew that UPNP simply didn't work. After the firmware upgrade, port forwarding didn't work at all either. No solution for the router yet. As for the wireless card. After installing it, my system would completely hardlock after about 5 minutes of use. I called D-Link tech support and had to deal with all the questions for clueless people such as "Do you have the drivers?" and "Is it plugged in right?". After being elevated two or three tiers of tech suport, I was finally able to get an RMA. I sent the card to D-link and waited a week or so for my new card. I plug in the new card and what happens? Same deal! Hardlock in 5 minutes of use! Now I have to wade through tech support all over again and end up getting another RMA. Wait another week; new card makes not one lick of difference. So I decide, I will just return the bugger to the store. The store wouldn't take it back because it has been 30 days since I baught the card! 30 days of tech support and RMAs. I call D-Link once more. This time I get to top level tech support and the guy said "Oh yeah, that card doesn't work with certain VIA chipsets, sorry.". I am quite annoyed because it says nothing of the sort on the box of the card. So I politely ask that since the card doesnt work as advertised if I could have a refund. He said "Oh no, we can't do that it is against our policy.". He then offered me an 802.11b card for a $15 administration fee.

  16. Re:This is a nonsense article. on Lucent Sues Microsoft, Wants All 360s Recalled · · Score: 2, Informative

    Umm... MS _did_ lisence DOS to IBM. The GP was being sarcastic.

  17. Re:The Big X. on Thinking About Desktop Eyecandy · · Score: 1

    Except he mentions XGL and AIGLX as doing the same thing in the article...

  18. Re:Counterproductive? on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like you just about summed up SDL pretty well...
    And the statement about multiple libraries? boo hoo, is it too much of a hassle to type -lGL -lSDL?

  19. Re:10x faster? on NVIDIA Launches New SLI Physics Technology · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article compared fancy physics effects on the CPU at ~6fps and fancy physics effects on the GPU at ~60fps. This is completely understandable. It does nothing for current games and you most definitely will not see framerates of 600.

  20. Re:Dynamically sized encrypted filesystem on Encrypt Filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did you RTFA? (this is Slashdot, stupid question) This is what the whole purpose of EncFS is, you don't need to pre-allocate a set amount of disk space.

  21. Re:Encfs on Encrypt Filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES · · Score: 1

    I use encfs every day on my ~amd64 Gentoo system with absolutely no problems whatsoever. And secondly, how on earth did you corrupt a partition using encfs? Encfs is a layer on top of an existing filesystem. Methinks you may have tried using it a little... strangely.

  22. Re:Nice selections on No HD-DVD Movies Until April · · Score: 1

    Extra features? Not likely considering that, in most cases, the feature presentation itself barely fits on the disc. I see extra features gettign the shaft as far as HD-DVD is concerned unless 'every' release is 2-disc.

  23. Re:How much was for UNIX and now runs on MS? on Microsoft to 'Support and Usurp' Unix · · Score: 1

    Apache does not fork a new process for each request in Windows, it actually just creates a new thread. (Source) Not that I would use it in Windows anyways though.

  24. Re:Does it interoperate with... on Ekiga 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    MacOS - OphoneX
    Windows - Netmeeting

    As for solaris, I believe it will run Ekiga/Gnomemeeting itself anyways (guessing but very probable)

  25. Re:yes, you can command line photoshop on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was refering to the original script that used `ls *.jpg` instead of simply *.jpg. The original script will choke on images with a space in the file name.