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  1. Re:It was just too slow for me. on Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 · · Score: 1

    SoftMaker Office 2008 is lean and mean, though proprietary. It has excellent MS compatibility (way better than OO.o). Costs less than $100. Doesn't have macro recorder though, which is a shame. (It has a VBA analog that's called BasicMaker)

  2. Re:Always felt a bit clunky to me oh and a questio on Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Just finished 600-page translation in Word 2003 SP 2 under Vista - no problems, not a single crash (!), even saves were mighty quick.

  3. Re:Openoffice? no thanks. on Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Hmn, I wonder what you missed in comment implementation then. To me, it's still broken. You cannot assign a comment to a range of text, and comment information is butchered on roundtripping between Word and Writer.

  4. You wanted a list on Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 · · Score: 1
  5. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where I live it's routinely pronounced with "ch" as in Scottish "Loch".

  6. Re:It really didn't have this? on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm stealing this for my sig!!!

    OK I'm not :-( Apparently this is too long a signature for the stupid Slashdot to bear.

  7. Re:It really didn't have this? on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    you should try comparing apples with jet engines and oranges with elephants, it will make you a much more rounded individual who is happier about life in general.

    I'm stealing this for my sig!!!

  8. Re:Huge number of bugs? on GNOME 2.24 Released · · Score: 1

    This can be partly mitigated using the Launcher List applet aka quicklounge. That way, at least your launchers won't rearrange themselves when they feel like it (and you can lock the whole applet). As an added bonus, you can drag and drop launchers (also from the menu) with the left mouse button.

  9. Re:Wait a minute on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 1

    OK. Now imagine there IS truth to the words of the student. The student gets suspended for her words. As a result, the paedophile remains at the school, and the accused is conveniently removed. Do you see the problem with your argument now?

    Yadda yadda yadda, she should've contacted the police if she thinks that he is a paedophile. But wait, that's exactly the point here: use the proper ways to resolve conflicts! Which, for the principal, is to file a suit if he believes a libel has taken place.

    BTW, the very fact that the principal doesn't want to file a suit may cast a shadow at him: maybe he just doesn't want the whole story behind the girl's words being investigated? Why would that be? This too could be avoided if he just filed a suit (and settled for some small sum if he felt like being generous.)

  10. Re:EULAs seem at odds with... on Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Here are the relevant snippets from ther license itself.

    GPL v.2, section 0: "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope."

    GPL v.3, section 9: "You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program."

  11. Re:EULAs seem at odds with... on Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...and wrongly so, because GPL doesn't cover use, just distribution.

  12. Obligatory YouTube link on Researchers Test Drive Bus With Automated Steering · · Score: 1
  13. Hmmm on Can You Be Sued For Helping Clients Rip DVDs? · · Score: 1

    the courts have yet to rule

    You mean, they have sucked to date?

  14. Re:What I want to know is on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's just that I have never seen the word "adjective" used as, well, an adjective. Though I have just looked it up in a dictionary, and here it is:

    adjective

    ADJECTIVE: 1. Adjectival: an adjective clause. 2. Law Prescriptive; remedial: adjective law. 3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.

  15. Re:What I want to know is on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would start with A again, and call the new release simply Animal Adjective.

  16. Re:ICQ is not going anywhere on Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging · · Score: 1

    These are valid reasons to want XMPP to become more popular - not ICQ to disappear.

  17. Re:Oh Noes! on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    That's simple. I do not *intend* to, but sometimes I do unintended things.

  18. Re:Oh Noes! on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    Oh noes, this rips the phone companies of profits!

  19. Re:Google Yandex for search anyway on Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging · · Score: 1

    Shit, I meant Google is_more_than Yandex. Stupid slashcode.

  20. Google Yandex for search anyway on Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging · · Score: 1

    But at least I now know a good mirror where I can download Linux distros :-)

  21. Re:ICQ is not going anywhere on Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems you want ICQ to disappear. Why? It works for me and for millions other people in Russia.

  22. Re:it is PR on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The terms of the challenge indicate that you cannot disassemble the drive.

    Have you actually read the terms?

    "If the challenger is an established data recovery business located in the United States of America (We would need to see Articles of Incorporation, a current business license and one other form of business identification in order to determine that they are indeed a professional, for-profit, established data recovery business) or a National government law enforcement or intelligence agency (NSA, CIA, FBI), then we will allow these type of organizations to disassemble the drive and to keep the drive for thirty (30) consecutive days. "

  23. Re:Slow News Day on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until we get transparent hands, people will obscure the screen while using it

    I've heard that there is experimental support for hand transparency in the current X.org git tree. The code is still very much alpha however; in particular, on some hardware, you cannot disable transparent hands after you have enabled them.

  24. Re:Lather, Rinse, Repeat = SHAMPOO! on Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    OK so they win this round in Bullshit Bingo.

  25. Re:Does it bother anyone else? on IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker · · Score: 1

    Someone who blocks ads isn't going to click them anyway.