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  1. Re:Emacs... on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 1

    What, don't remember the eMac?

  2. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Yes. McCain wanted to tax the poor to pay the wealthy. McCain was two footsteps from the grave with a ditzy anti-choice, creationist VP.

    And I thought I've heard some insane things. Where do you come up with this stuff?

  3. Re:This is a huge amount of work on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 1

    It does happen. It's just that the Windows kernel doesn't update vary often, so you get a binary driver instead of kernel source (the Linux version has binaries too if you have the right kernel), but it does add drivers for Network and others to your windows install.
    This happens on kernel upgrades to guarentee that your new kernel (new OS version) can still use the driver, avoiding any issues with kernel changes.

  4. Re:standard apps? on Windows 7 Trades Email and Photo Apps For Downloadable Ones · · Score: 1

    That was included by default starting with Windows XP - in all editions.

  5. Re:ed -- the question mark! on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    Also funny is the OK prompt on Sun Systems...

  6. Re:Your language is too bloated on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    That would be Brainfuck for anyone not familiar with the language.

  7. Open source the OS on OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And more people will port Open Source software to it.

  8. Re:Nice, but... on Sub-$100 Laptops Have Finally Arrived · · Score: 1

    We can try =)

  9. Re:MIPS will make it a hard sell on Sub-$100 Laptops Have Finally Arrived · · Score: 1

    On my SGI Octane (MIPS IP30), I have full X running KDE 3.5.9. Does that count? Gentoo BTW....

  10. Re:Help Vista or Linux? on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    Miss the whole SCO debacle, did you?

  11. Re:Obama hates linux! on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 3, Informative

    How so? PWS was the precurser to IIS...

  12. Re:Nothing to see here. on Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised · · Score: 0

    That would be enforcing mode, which can be quite troublesome, but is useful for the paranoid..

  13. Re:Gday on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    I've also gotten several in Chinese/Japanese that slip right through as well.

  14. Re:It's the BIOS, not windows on Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps · · Score: 1

    So, we should use Haiku (the Open Source project to succeed BeOS)?

  15. Prior art on reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that erosion on stone tablets predates fading by quite a bit....

  16. Re:KDE4 on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, not much. For that matter, GNOME's screenlet's support Karamba widgets, and plasma supports them plus OS X's stuff too. They all started differently to achieve the same end goal; now they're supporting each other in a way.

  17. Re:Marketing on Examining gOS With Its Ubuntu Origins In Mind · · Score: 1

    And Slackware (since the 90's) could install on a DOS based system and boot by typing loadlin.exe from the DOS prompt (DOS Mode for Win9x required though)

    On a side note, does anyone remember linuxconf that used to handle virtually all configurations?

  18. Re:Marketing on Examining gOS With Its Ubuntu Origins In Mind · · Score: 1

    The ATI 200M is a mess running in a lot of distributions. Actually, I run Fedora on my laptop because I can get the proprietary driver to run without hassle. The open source drivers (it's a r300 card if memory serves) have minimal support for the card, and especially no acceleration whatsoever. The Ubuntu and Gentoo communities are the two greatest wealths of Linux information on the Web. Both have super zealots that get in the way though... Ubuntu is not a distro for a lot of us. And that's ok. That's what makes the Linux world great - I can run Red Hat at work, Fedora on my laptop, Gentoo on my desktop, LFS on my toy system, and Solaris on my server (yes, I know it's not Linux), all for different reasons, without too much trouble.

  19. Re:When are they going to get it? on Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I doubt it. A good C++ programmer (or a good Assembly) would be able to way out do Java. Why? Java isn't well optimized on higher end systems, and sometimes not supported.

  20. Afterstep, FVWM, or Window Maker anyone? on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 1

    I guess you forgot some Desktops aren't MS based in the least. NeXt is so much more fun to copy =)

  21. Re:I switched from KDE... on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 1

    FVWM2 under RH6 on a Pentium 120MHz w/ 49MB RAM from where I am right now =)

  22. Re:The Mayans were wrong on Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation · · Score: 1

    I don't expect DNF until 2112...

  23. Re:I switched from KDE... on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 1

    FVWM, FVWM2, or FVWM95? FVWM2 is much better then 1 IMHO.

  24. Re:7yrs with Linux and dead set on DEB on Intel Switches From Ubuntu To Fedora For Mobile Linux · · Score: 0

    Never had dependency issues with Fedora, neither with yum or apt. And, I laugh at you from behind my Gentoo box.

  25. Wrong reason on Intel Switches From Ubuntu To Fedora For Mobile Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually it has nothing to do with RPM vs Deb. It's apt vs yum. Install apt-rpm in Fedora and see how fast you can install stuff (Actually, it has to do with yum updating the package lists every run vs apt just doing it with apt-get update).