User: b0rk b0rk b0rk

Only young men?

On: Students Learn To Write Viruses

Since when do only men write code?

Re:Why not?

On: Firefox to Drop Pre-Windows 2000 Support

I've used Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu, Vector, and Debian testing on a PII 400 MHz laptop with 64 megs of RAM. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world, but it worked acceptably. The key is to not use KDE or GNOME, but rather a lightweight window manager like Fluxbox, IceWM or ion.

It's really not that difficult.

Download link

On: Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/bonecho/alpha2/

Re:Gaim? MS-messenger?

On: aMSN 0.95 Released

Quebec also (Eastern Canada) - everybody I know, without exception, uses MSN. This may be a teenage (high school/college thing, however - my parents do use Yahoo!

Re:More data than they need

On: Software Predicts Movie Success

The article says as much:

On the other hand, predicting the potential success of a film based on a set of factors is what movie studio executives are paid to do, Peterson acknowledged. It may be interesting to automate the process, he said, but the software would only support industry behavior that already exists. "Film executives look at things like star power, film release dates, target audiences and soundtracks," Peterson said. "This software is going to give you information that is probably already known."

Other cool floppy hacks...

On: Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable

Floppy the Robot

Dance Dance Revolution? (offtopic)

On: AMD to Adopt DDR2 Next Year

Was anyone else initially thinking "DDR? Wha? Dancing chips, now?"

Re:According to Maddox:

On: Rise of the Professional Blogger

Actually, that's probably what I would use blogging for if I had a blog... as a braindump for ideas, to organize them.

Nothing wrong with that...

Re:Microsoft is a control freak.

On: Microsoft Serious About VoIP

So when Google comes out with new services left, right, and centre it's cool, but when Microsoft does it's evil?

Re:Revenge of the Spelling Nazi and Grammar Troll

On: Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar?

I sometimes wonder if I'm one of the last generations (I'm 34) who will have any solid grounding in grammar, spelling, and basic English constructs for the future.

I don't think so... I'm sixteen, and the misuse of "its" makes me cringe every time I see it. Most of the (intelligent) people my age I know can spell decently