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  1. Re:Feist + Eye Candy on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    Well, for one, printer installation is 100% automatic (plug in printer, wait for "Ready to use" bubble). Second, Tracker search (faster and much less resource-heavy compared to Beagle due to lack of Mono dependency). Then you have the integrated Appearance app, the user switcher in the panel, a new wallpaper (It's better than Vista already! :) and a general tightening-up of the system.

  2. Re:will it wipe my /home? on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    If you upgrade in-place, it shouldn't touch your partitions at all.

  3. Re:Just do (n00b question).... on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    Yes. I upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy Tribe (alpha) 5 and it was near-flawless. I assume going straight to the final version works as well.

  4. Re:What? on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    Banshee and Rythymbox (the default GNOME app) have Last.fm support

  5. Re:People Still Watch TV? on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    In short, TVs are one-way, and computers are two-way. When I'm writing this post, I am likely using far more brain power than I would be watching American Idol.

  6. Re:2012 now in the US? on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    CRT != SDTV
    While most of the TVs on the shelves nowadays aren't CRT, that doesn't mean there aren't any HD CRT TVs (Explain how you used resolutions higher than 720x480 on your computer monitor). It's just a concidence that both LCDs and HD is the "new hotness" right now, thus no one really bothers with HD CRT sets.

  7. Re:Finally! on Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK · · Score: 1

    No, the OS itself is fine. It's just that Apple wanted to get the OS exactly how they wanted it before letting the public could get their hands under the hood.

    PS: Which Apple has done an wonderful job of with their main OS

  8. Re:Farscape and Galactica are great for this on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 1

    You forgot the rutting Firefly swear words, you gorram insensitive clod!

  9. Re:Within the retail sector... on Ubuntu On Dell After Four Months · · Score: 1

    http://www.directron.com/wm3945agm1gen.html
    OSS drivers, included in most recent distros
    HTH, HAND

  10. Re:Interesting. on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    You might recall the patent was used in litigation against Apple in April 2007 At least read the summary before posting.
  11. Re:Interesting. on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It so happens that even Microsoft is violating this patent directly (EXE link warning) http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/DeskmanPowertoySetup.exe

  12. Re:Wonder if it's the same as MicroB on the N800.. on Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's Mozilla-based. Suprised it's not WebKit/KHTML (Safari, Konqueror and "Series 60 Web Browser"), given that Nokia puts it on all their S60 phones.

  13. Re:Keep your stuff updated.. on iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not the same hole, it just happens that TIFF is a very holey format.

  14. Re:And on Google Hopes to Disaggregate Carriers with gPhone · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Did you see those people around the Goat Sea earlier?"
    ...
    "MY EARS!"

  15. Re:Team Fortress 2 FTW! on Orange Box In Stores Wednesday · · Score: 1

    If you watch one of the trailers, the last 30 seconds or so is of the Soldier class rocket-jumping to ballet music

  16. Re:and thats exactly why they did it on PS3's Back-Compat Loss Explained, Analyzed · · Score: 1

    They're supposed to have the downloadable game service up next year, and one of the first titles will be Impossible Mission.

  17. Re:Block editing only? on Japanese Bureaucrats Reprimanded for Wikipedia Editing · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, you could block "http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/*&action=edit", but there might be ways around that also.

  18. Re:Who cares? on Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5 · · Score: 1

    Team Fortress 2 is pretty refreshing for a game once mentioned next to Duke Nukem Forever, and Portal (a game that ships next to it in the Orange Box) is one of the more original PC games I've seen.

  19. Re:That sounds great on Jonathan Coulton Track Part of the Orange Box · · Score: 1

    Prepare to be the loneliest Team Fortress 2 player in existence.

  20. Re:What about Google Video? on UC Berkeley Posts Full Lectures to YouTube · · Score: 1

    VLC, MPlayer, xine, RealPlayer, and WMP (via ffdshow) can handle .FLV natively.

  21. Re:Beagle, Spotlight? on Best Way to Build a Searchable Document Index? · · Score: 1

    I don't think Beagle and Spotlight are really network-friendly. There's not really any point of having each and every machine having to index all the drives on the network. It'd be better to have some sort of networked solution.

  22. Re:Activation servers? on Microsoft Extends XP's Life By 6 Months · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Win2k doesn't have activation.

  23. Re:Is TI still in business? on The Handheld Calculator Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    The current high-end calcs are their Voyage 200 and TI-89-Ti(tanium). Their "next-gen" high-end calculator is the Nspire CAS, which IIRC is running an ARM.

  24. Re:I Can Think Of A Better One on Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store · · Score: 1

    That depends on:
    a) the amount of data in the vehicle
    b) the speed limit of the roads
    c) the distance traveled

    If you're hauling a few TB of data to the next city, the truck option is likely the best (unless you are a telco and have that sort of bandwith)

  25. Re:Two of TI's First, They Mean. on The Handheld Calculator Turns 40 · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you weren't aware, HP does still make calculators. They sort of slipped up on the keyboards a while back, but their new ones are much better. I believe their big ones are the 50g (which I have), and the 35s (very little relation to the original HP-35, but has a keyboard very similar to your 41). Naturally, they're both RPN.