User: CaptnMArk

Re:Why not a WRV54G?

On: Embedded Linux VPN Router Near Release

too bad these don't have a serial (for console) and USB2 ports (for external disk)

Re:What I find most interesting is that morticians

On: Measuring Pollution In Humans

And they must be digging quite a bit to be able to measure a 10% change.

Re:terrible idea

On: Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels

They ARE testing it on a BUS, not a race car :)

Re:Holy War

On: UserLinux Continues Debate Over GUI

Especially since there is at least one more choice for a linux GUI toolkit: XUL from mozilla.

Re:This is excellent

On: Hackers on Linux's Exciting Desktop Future

Unfortunately...

This is not cut and paste. It is selection mechanism.

The people that keep thinking this is cut/paste keep confusing matters.

Re:How does this benefit me?

On: Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released

usb-storage doesn't use ide-scsi, so no.

Re:Har har, but no regulations against my warp dri

On: X-Prize Progress Update

1982 is too late. There is prior art. :)

Re:Bubbling frustration

On: Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide

I agree with the cut-paste problem. (It still is).

But a good gui for unix will NOT be written:
a) by cloning windows
b) without changing unix at all

Re:I think they got it backwards

On: PowerPoint Makes You Dumb

I can only guess they are teaching them on mistakes.

Re:Star Wreck, truly,

On: Star Wreck Trailer

Well, there were subtitles. But perhaps you weren't paying attention to them.

Re:Weird

On: Star Wreck Trailer

I agree, the animated ones are funnier. Maybe just because they are more based on TOS.

Re:The lawyers will win.

On: When Good Patents Go Bad

Quick, somebody patent all the laws.

Re:It's because SVG sucks ass

On: Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released

And all those clean looking blank pages saying just "skip intro".

Re:One thing in Colorado's favour...

On: Laser System to be Tested in Boulder, CO

And they have a FLASH web page. LOL

Re:Wow... low level

On: Outsourcing Winners and Losers

>A bad programmer who has to implement three similar GUI classes writes one, then copy&pastes it two times and modifies the copies to fit the other two specifications

One of the coworkers says that all coders should have their middle fingers chopped off.

Re:Isn't there a better way?

On: Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon

In a way I agree with you.

All this I18N and L10N is anti-globalization.

Re:RTFB

On: Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

ROTFL!!

I agree with the "diet" comment.

Re:Teeny Bug

On: Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

I was just about to comment on the same thing.

This CSS only layout often hardcodes sizes and positions using pixels. Unless this can be fixed I prefer the nested table layout myself.

Re:Heavens to murgatroid!!!

On: Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora'

More recently they stole the ".net" for their marketing campain.

Re:I don't think so.

On: The Riches of Open Source

Standard Q3A is still played quite a bit.

Although I mostly play Unlagged Instagib and Mr'Pants Excessive Overkill..

Re:Waste disposal

On: Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way

It's probably safe for a smart guy to walk away. But it's probably no less dangerous when an idiot is operating it.

Re:They Won't Get Me!

On: Replace Your Music....Again

Well, if they go to DRM, the only way to get music in a usable format will be to download the mp3s (or raw cd images when bandwidth improves).

Re:Just Like Duke Nukem Forever

On: HP, Princeton Develop New Memory Material

You mean 2 of them, right?

Re:The only way

On: Memory Holes and the Internet (updated)

Or run your own persistently caching web proxy (preferably public).

All you see is remembered.

Re:Popular science and their lack of geeks...

On: The Best of What's New From Popular Science

It will be even more amazing when MS delivers the first 64 bit OS in a few years.