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  1. Re:awful for technical searches on Google's Struggle To Reach Authors — of Every Book Ever Written · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not like they're going to use the same exact search algorithm or parameters for everything. Look at Google Code Search (http://google.com/codesearch). It even supports (limited) regexp!

  2. Re:how stupid on Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects · · Score: 1

    It seems you are confusing static and strong typing. C is indeed statically typed, but also weakly typed.

  3. Re:Quote on Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The voice actor is the same, Jon St. John. That's Duke's voice alright.

  4. QR codes on Microsoft Finds a Home For Barcode · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They already have this in Japan. Just take a picture of the QR code with your cell phone camera and you'll get all sorts of info about the product. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

    -- dbg

  5. Re:I don't have to... on Vista Exploit Surfaces on Russian Hacker Site · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those who didn't understand: http://attrition.org/postal/z/033/0871.html

  6. Re:That's 10 years of not using it! on CSS Turns 10 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Here's something you should read http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

      -- dbg

  7. Re:MDI on Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday · · Score: 2, Informative

    Opera still doesn't have tabs. It has an MDI interface and it calls the subwindows "pages", not tabs.
    Newer versions of Opera also have a restricted MDI mode that's similar to Mozilla tabs.

      -- dbg

  8. Re:Hashing IP addresses is impossible on Google to Give Data To Brazilian Court · · Score: 1

    This is where salt comes in and makes hash tables worthless.

      -- dbg

  9. What's the problem? on EA's 'Invasion of Privacy' Policy · · Score: 1

    I can't see what's the problem here. If you don't like what they do, don't use their products.
    You wouldn't buy a product that says "Insecure!" on the box, would you?

      -- dbg

  10. DNF isn't dead! on Duke Nukem Forever Tops Vaporware List · · Score: 2, Informative

    You guys should follow the most excellent 3D Realms forums! George Broussard has provided us .. um.. "a lot" of info about DNF

    It will come soon (as in 10 years), I'm sure! ;)

    -- dbg

  11. Re:QWERTY, DVORAK, ABCDEF on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's easy, that's how I did it. The current keyboard I'm using is actually QWERTY, but I've changed the locations of keys to match DVORAK and then I simply changed my keyboard type in X11 config file. Now I have a fully working DVORAK keyboard :)

    So yeah, just use some tool, like a screwdriver, to pop up all the keys and then replace them to match dvorak.
    Here's some tutorial on how to do it (with nice photos): http://dvzine.org/type/reconfig.html

      -- dbg

  12. Re:2008 Olympics: LINUX LOVERS on 2008 Olympics Aiming For Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obivously such important systems shouldn't be connected to the Internet. And if the password is secure (as in long and not based on a word) there should be no problem, plus no one should never ever allow root to login though ssh.

  13. Re:Not for Opera 8.5 for OSX? on Firefox 3D Canvas FPS Engine · · Score: 3, Informative

    Works on Opera 9.0 preview on Linux

  14. Re:three projects fill 18 screens easily. on Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times · · Score: 1

    You're not gonna use dual monitors on a laptop. It'd be pain (and hilarious) to drag a second monitor with you all the time.

    I have two monitors on my desktop though (this computer) and I'm also running Enlightenment 17 on Linux. I don't have enough space for all my programs on two screens, so I still have to use virtual desktops (total 2*4=8 desktops).

    For example, I need to have IRC (X-Chat) always visible which takes up 1/3 screen and I usually have the Opera Internet Suite covering one whole desktop. I also need to have a bunch xterms and vims on other desktops for programming and other tasks. Xmms/Eclair (music player) is also a nice thing to have open, not to mention The Gimp, OpenOffice.Org and VMWare.

    So you see, there's never enough space. It'd rule to have, say, 4 monitors though (NVIDIA SLI).

      -- dbg

  15. Wrong order on Manga Explains NASA Mission · · Score: 1

    Odd. It seems you have to read this manga from left to right (and top to bottom) .. not right to left as in most mangas.

    .. and it's in English, not Japanese :P

    -- dbg

  16. Re:The map doesn't work in Firefox. on Google Maps Graduates · · Score: 1

    Java!?
    Google doesn't do Java!

    Maps uses Javascript though, which is ENTIRELY different thing.

  17. Re:Can someone please explain to me... on Opera Free as in Beer · · Score: 1

    It also annoys the heck of me that when you right click on a tab the top menu ISN'T "Close" but 'new page'

    You can modify every single menu. Alt-P (Preferences)->Advanced->Toolbars->duplicate opera standard menu
    Then simply `vim ~/.opera/menu/standard_menu\ \(1\).ini` (or something similar).

    -- dbg

  18. Re:why fix something that isn't broken? on When Will E-Books Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1
  19. OO.Org on MS Office XML Format Now In TextEdit · · Score: 1

    I wonder if OpenOffice.org or KOffice will start supporting this format any time soon..

  20. Mozilla support on Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta · · Score: 3, Funny

    What they should do is release a toolbar for Mozilla Suite as well and not only Firefox.
    And Google needs to release the toolbar for Linux.

    Though, even if they did that, I'd still continue using Opera :)

  21. Re:WAREZ suck. Use Linux on 'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers · · Score: 1

    right, so do you think there's no propietary software for Linux? Not everything for Linux is free.

  22. Re:Linux 8.0?!? on Google to Release Firefox Toolbar · · Score: 1

    That's Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
    Red Hat 8.0 exists.

    -- dbg

  23. Opera is like Emacs on Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client · · Score: 1

    Yay!
    Opera is like Emacs, though it's not too bloated... Opera has everything I need. Most of the features it has are hidden so they stay out of your way.
    I'm currently testing this out (bittorrent downloading) and seems pretty nice. Torrent downloads appear as normal http downloads.

    Way to go Opera!

    -- Esine / dbg

    .. btw, vim rules (Emacs just isnt for me) \o/

  24. TFA in HTML on Getting Rich Writing Mac Software · · Score: 0, Redundant
  25. Re:Maybe? on Kernel 2.6.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Look, not every single person who uses Linux, uses it only because it's Open Source, but because it's a good operating system. I like Linux, I like GNU tools, I like UNIX. I want my system to function fast and the way I want it to, and that's exactly what Linux, nVidia (binary) drivers, XFCE 4 and Opera gives me.