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  1. Re:Spell Check on Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta · · Score: 1
    What about a single icon, toolbar, menu, drop-down box, etc.?

    http://www.xvsxp.com/power_user/ sheds some insight on screen shots.
    But the fact is, I can take a screen shot of anything I damn well please without getting my background in there too. :D

  2. Re:Spell Check on Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta · · Score: 1
    Really because Safari seems to do quite well.

    Off topic, things Linux should take from OS X... Command+Shift+4 is a nice feature under OS X-- selective screen shot. Press the Space Bar and you can take a screen shot of various elements-- window, menu bar, icons, etc. without getting other crap in the way.

    ftp://nichrome.serveftp.com/Picture%201.png

  3. Re:Apple Fanboys on iPod nano Owners In Screen Scratch Trauma · · Score: 1

    iBooks are white. The blood would stain the iBook. That's... murderous!

  4. Re:CAUTION! on iPod nano Owners In Screen Scratch Trauma · · Score: 1

    Quickly! Use your sig in defense!

  5. Re:Spell Check on Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta · · Score: 1
    OS X-- System wide spell checking. Instead of a million different spell checkers, there is just one, standard, system of checking your spelling.

    Something that I would like to see copied into a Linux distro, as it is extremely helpful.

  6. Re:Suggestion! on Martian Naming Madness · · Score: 1

    If we kill all of those damn Geocities websites with the Slashdot effect... ooohhh.... instead of modding you down, we should mod you, "+1 Good_for_Internet_as_a_Whole"

  7. Re:Existing combat robots on Korea To Build Front-line Combat Robot · · Score: 1
    The U.S. has a system to remotely clear landmines after a battle so that civilians do not get killed. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, a number of African countries, etc. all end up killing more that the United States.

    I think I would mod you an Insightful Troll. Very good comment but marred by the jab at the U.S.

  8. Partial Answer, but still kickass software on Opening the Potential of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1
    SubEthaEdit is a great program that does something like that...

    http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/

    I use this all the time on my PowerBook... can't wait until they get their RTF version out the door!

  9. Bluetooth! on Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    My Tungsten|T syncs over Bluetooth to my PowerBook. Works great... sometimes. Palm added this in as a sort of, "Why the hell not?" feature but it is workable. How will the Windows-based Palms interface with Macs? Or would this be behind Palm's announcement that they are dropping Mac support and working with The Missing Sync to create a pseudo-Palm Desktop (which is actually pretty good software).

  10. Class system! on How Would You Define a Planet? · · Score: 1

    I don't care what is decided, so long as Earth is an M-class planet.

  11. Well... on The Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1
    First thought was, "Hey, DRM will do this!" But then I RTFA and thought, "Well, that's pretty stupid considering computers have been storing data for at least 30 years now and this is already happening kinda."

    DRM will do this quite a bit more. "Kids, the family fortune would have been yours but we can't read grandpa's format... and according to Wikipedia, Microsoft was a huge company that is gone now but nobody but them could read their software."

  12. Re:No other free shell? on KDE Running on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    No, I've got bash still under Single-User Mode and in the Terminal and xterm under Apple's X11. And you can install pretty much any shell IIRC... don't know how but I remember you can.

  13. Fink and DarwinPorts on KDE Running on Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Interesting
    http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/relations.php?phpL ang=en

    That's pretty much a summary. DarwinPorts is just like Fink essentially, just minor differences. Ironically, the KDE port is mentioned in the comparison of the two. (Bottom of page)

  14. Re:CTRL-H Defined on The Quintessential Sentry Gun · · Score: 1

    Wow, what a freak^H^H^H^H^H geeky^H^H^H^H^H cool thing to know!

  15. Re:radio! on Dell Launches Flash Music Player · · Score: 1

    Listen to the reception you get. Unless you live near one of those radio transmission towers (and I mean, you have a second or third head because of it) you won't hear much at all.
    Apple ditched the radio because it sucked in players that size, pure and simple.

  16. Re:What the hell... on OpenOffice 1.1.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, in fact, they did, which also happens to be your score.

  17. Re:Don't use your distro tools to install it... on Firefox 1.0.7 Released · · Score: 1
    How about this installation method:

    Under OS X you drag and drop the application to anywhere. Everything that the application needs is contained within that package-- icons, executables, etc.
    Some applications need installers and those use package installers. They install all the needed software or they can just install the software they are supposed to and leave the user to determine if they have all needed software-- it is up to the developer. This works rather nicely... you can download nearly anything and just double-click to run it from any location.

  18. I know how to play this game! on Games Teaching the Basics of Programming · · Score: 1

    While Slashdot=Slashdot
              {Story}={LastStory}
              Post({Story})
    End

    #Comments are great ways to destroy the damn lameness filter. How lame.

  19. Why can't they link directly to this? on 3-Way Motherboard Shootout · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review_print. php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xNjAw

    Printer friendly version for everyone so that this (click, load ads) doesn't (click, load ads) happen (click, load ads) to (click, load ads) you (click, load ads).

  20. Re:Indeed on Opening the Potential of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1
    I once tried a web browser that made me parse the HTML in my head. That got annoying fast.

    (sound of dial-up modem chirping)

  21. Re:Linux on Reducing The Negative Impact of Laptops · · Score: 1
    True Windows has quite a few issues. But if Linux and other OSS are supposed to be better than the competition, why not fix this information overlap? (Thanks for that).

    Make Linux better! I found a nice how-to on installing wine in the Ubuntu forums. Now I need to find why various cryptic errors have decided to tell me (after a ~30 min compile) that I can't actually install WINE.

  22. Re:I cut my Linux teeth on Mandrake on Dell Releases First Consumer Product with Mandriva · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu has worked out of the box for me, but getting WINE to work is being a major pain in the ass...

  23. Re:SATA version may be new, but features are not n on Hard Drives Made for RAID Use · · Score: 2, Funny
    I bought one to replace what I thought was a bad drive in a RAID configuration about a year ago.

    "Yeah, boss... drive, uh, died. I'll get a nice new one-- let me... uh... take this one home. I think it's, y'know, dead. Honestly this time."

  24. Re:How about information about your car's health? on VW Goes USB · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what the "Oil" light is for on the dashboard? That will be just one more thing for people to ignore. Some cars have "Engine Oil life %" displays that warn you when it falls below a certain %.

  25. Re:Linux on Reducing The Negative Impact of Laptops · · Score: 1
    So what it boils down to is, Linux comprises of a half-dozen different help systems that don't work with each other.

    Pay for support? Whatever happened to "free as in beer"?

    And the forums I found tended to be: "Do this and then try some and then if that doesn't work, just start recompiling things."

    In short, Linux was a great OS. But I couldn't get help for it without paying, or without giving myself a headache.