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  1. Re:My Favorite Splash Screen on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > The only good Splash Screen is a dead one.

    They do have a purpose though, they hide the fact the program takes forever to initialize

  2. ASCII Trolls on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition · · Score: 1

    The ASCII trolls can be on-topic for a change

  3. What would be better on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This competition is great, but maybe a "design GIMP a decent fucking GUI" contest would be better?

  4. Star in your own Murder mystery on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 5, Funny

    Star in your own Murder mystery:

    Your demise is inevitable, why not make good fun of it:

    - Pick a handful of suspects to frame for your "murder"

    - Plant, and contrive evidence to implicate the "suspects" in your death

    - Secretly make silent calls from suspect's phones, nearing the night of your demise. When questioned they will deny any knowledge of such phone calls further raising the suspicion

    - Intentionally accuse potential suspects of plotting your death, say things like "I know what you're doing, you won't get away with it!," just load enough to be overheard

    - Change your will to benefit the suspects, but don't make them aware, they'll deny any knowledge of the change the in the will. But it gives them a motive

    Watch the hilarity ensue

  5. Re:Things to do. on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 5, Funny

    > The common saying goes "Plant a tree, have a child, write a book" before you die.

    I'm impotent, allergic to trees, and have lost the use of my right hand. Thanks for making me feel good.

  6. I know! on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tell your family and friends you're getting much better, and the doc says you have a 100% chance of pulling through. You should see the look on their faces when you croak, they'll be laughing so hard, that they totally forgot your deceased dead carcass collapsed on the floor

    Was that sick? sorry.

  7. I've tested the beta... on Coming soon: Google TV? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Google TV Search: Something actually worth watching

    No results found

    Suggestions:
    - Try lowering your standards to an obscene level

  8. Re:This is exactly what Gentoo needs on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    Yes I have, but please give me your perspective, and how it is applicable here. I suspect your input will be very amusing to the ./ community.

  9. Re:This is exactly what Gentoo needs on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    By your reasoning the quality of Gentoo degrades when more people use it, as if it where some sort of tangible object which needs to be broken up among its users.

    Secondly, I'm not from the US.

  10. Re:This is exactly what Gentoo needs on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In response to your comment: have you actually read (even just) the title of the article in discussion?

    Secondly, he provided a reason why incompetent people should not use Gentoo, not a reason why "many more" people shouldn't use it, unless you both assume that the only people with any intelligence are already using Gentoo, which would make you very arrogant.

  11. How can I contact these companies? on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 1

    How can I get in contact with these companies?

    I have some magic beans they might be interested in purchasing.

  12. Re:single logon means.. on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    > I think most people would read it as I did

    Granted.

  13. Re:Breaks Gentoo as a learning tool on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    Correction: I meant system calls, not assembly instructions.

  14. Re:Breaks Gentoo as a learning tool on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1
    Maybe I'm doing something wrong - any pointers for me on how I should be learning from compiler output?

    Try:
    # strace -f ./configure
    # strace -f make
    # strace -f make install

    Then go mildly insane deciphering assembly instructions at high speed

  15. Re:Of course on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    > What is the compiler flag for that ? -O4 ?

    No, -42

  16. Re:This is exactly what Gentoo needs on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I am not really sure if this is *really* good to have many more people... I mean that gentoo isn't an easy to handle distro

    You don't actually provide a valid reason why it's not a "*really* good to have many more people" use Gentoo. The explanation I see implied from your condescending post is that you're afraid you won't look "1337" if too many people start using your distro of choice.

  17. Re:single logon means.. on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    > There is nothing wrong with writing passwords down.

    I really hope your not a network admin, because if you are, then your users are screwed

  18. Re:single logon means.. on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    I was talking about users using the same password on multiple accounts, in response to parent; "most users will have the same user/pass combination for most if not all their logins anyway." I think you misunderstood.

  19. Sorry, some of you /.'s have not got a clue on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    There are far to many posts proclaiming "I only need one password, that'll do me, and I generate my password using the following or step by step procedure ...". This is a Linux/geek community that probably attracts a heap of crackers (or whatever you wish to call them), gee, do you think that just maybe your giving a little too much info out?

  20. Bad Name on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, when you're dealing with security you need to give your service a good title, would you really trust a company called "Ping" to safe-guard your security? OK, you might, but I think a lot of the general public would not.

  21. Re:single logon means.. on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    > I don't see how this offers *any* less security.

    Because if I find out one of your unimportant accounts password, I can root your computer with it!

  22. Re:Generating Passwords Using MD5 on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now I have a 33 character, fairly uncrackeable password.

    It was fairly uncrackable password generation method, until you told *everybody!*

  23. Re:About time too on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet · · Score: 5, Funny

    > There's no way I can keep track of the 200-odd different passwords I have

    Don't worry, I keep track of all your passwords for you

  24. Re:Too Fast for its Own Good on Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: 1
    Have the throngs of people correcting you that Bill Gates didn't actually say it taught you nothing?

    That's not important, it's still has a valuable moral behind, regardless of it's authenticity

  25. DVD quality sucks on HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios · · Score: 1

    Really, I watch any DVD, despite the supposed "high-quality" I should be getting everything on screen seems strangely artificial, to be honest the quality is vial, the image on-screen senseless jumps around, always the obnoxious wooden noises painfully forcing themselves through the speaker holes, and often everything on-screen is completely unintelligible to the human eye.

    The the sound and picture quality is awesome though.