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  1. Re:Makes me glad I run my own mail server on An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment · · Score: 1

    Roundcube displays HTML emails fine, with the usual "Are you sure you want to display external images?" first. It uses lots of AJAX-y stuff, so it's quite different from Squirrelmail, which could be good or bad.

  2. Re:Makes me glad I run my own mail server on An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment · · Score: 1

    (I haven't checked, but maybe there's some open-source webmail programs out there),

    • Roundcube
    • Horde
    • Squirrelmail

    I'm sure there are more. Horde even has a "display thread" mode, but you have to do a bit of work to get sent mail put in your inbox to be part of the thread.

  3. Re:The only problem on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    KDE? I'm sure there would be plenty of other problems with KDE 3 or 4, but they both have thumbnail views, and there is a right-click menu you can add on from kde-apps.org that converts, resizes, and mails, but not all in one step. (There are a few for KDE3, but only one or two for KDE4)

  4. Re:Let me be the first to say: on Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked · · Score: 1

    That may be the case for you, but the fact is there is nothing along the lines of Microsoft Vizio in OpenOffice

    It's not in OpenOffice, but since people are recommending Dia, Kivio in Koffice works well for me, and 2.0 RC runs on Windows (I haven't tried it myself, but I did install KDE on Windows). It comes with a good number of sets of shapes, and can also use Dia shapes. It has a sane 1-window interface like Krita, compared to Dia and the GIMP's mess. And no, I'm pretty sure it only depends on kdelibs, not all of KDE. The windows installer seems to do fine at dependency checking anyway.

  5. Re:why? on MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring · · Score: 1

    I just read the Postgres manual page another Slashdotter pointed to, and checked my own Postgres installations in Gentoo and openSuSE. Auto vacuum exists, and is enabled by default.

  6. Re:Time will tell on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Except old Spock already knowing about it. :) Actually, after thinking about it I agree they can't undo it (anymore). Even sending the entire fleet back to intercept Nero might not be enough, and Spock's black hole ship is gone. Unless old Ambassador Spock has been keeping up with the cutting edge in weapons and defensive technology, and can give them a hand designing new ships first. Supposedly Nero even had some Borg stuff the Romulans were studying, so even that might not be enough.

  7. Re:Worst Case on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    My only question is how George's crew knew they were Romulans and not just some crazy Vulcans...

    It was clear the way the communications officers and Spock talked about Vulcan/Romulan similarities that they knew exactly what the Romulans were in the reboot. I'm actually glad they dropped the Federation (and especially Vulcans) not knowing who the Romulans really were. Especially since they knew about the Vulcans, meaning they spent over 2000 years hiding themselves from *everyone* just so the Vulcans would be surprised one day? It was quite a stretch to think no group that had met both would ever say anything, and Enterprise tried very very hard to have the Earth-Romulan war start up without ever seeing them. According to someone who read a draft of Balance of Terror, the whole thing was probably because of a half-deleted espionage subplot anyway.

  8. Re:Great a notebook with a broken package manager on Novell and Intel Team Up For Moblin On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    YaST in SUSE has recommended packages. Installing a package sets recommended dependencies to install, but if you choose not to install them, or have them version-locked or set to never install, it doesn't complain. That's my experience at least, I don't know if it's the intended behavior.

  9. Re:Unlocked? on Apple and AT&T Sued, Again, Over 3G · · Score: 1

    in the USA you have a chploice of at&t or tmobile in some cities

    Can't you get an unlocked iPhone to use on other providers like with old Palm Treos and others?

    What other providers? The iPhone here is locked to AT&T, and if you have an unlocked one you have a choice of using it with AT&T or T-Mobile.

  10. Re:How faithful to the 1970s series will it be? on Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series · · Score: 1

    You're remembering correctly. And the devil was the one who told the reptilian Cylons to make them (well, the Imperious Leader had the devil's voice, so that was implied).

  11. Re:Patrick Stewart on David Tennant Stands Down From "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    Robert Picardo should be chosen way before Patrick Stewart.

    I'm confused...is this about the Doctor, or the Doctor?

  12. Re:Acid scores on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 1

    The Opera build is available at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/03/28/public-acid3-build I agree, though, the Acid-3 stuff won't be in a stable release of either browser for quite a while.

  13. Re:Well... on AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Jabber, you can used both Off-The-Record encryption, and GPG, depending on what the client supports. There's also a much newer standard for encrypted sessions, but I don't know if it has any support yet. http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ XEP-0116 and XEP-0200 are related to the new one.

  14. Re:Acid3 on IE8 Will Be Standards-Compliant By Default · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Build 1834 scores 65/100 for me. It also crashed once.

  15. Re:Spokesperson without a clue on Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Like you don't open a double-A battery, you just plug [the reactor] in and it does its chemical thing inside of it. You don't ever open it or mess with it." Uh huh... Nuclear reactions are not chemical in nature... spokesperson without a clue.
    I figured that she meant the battery and was still using the metaphor, and the article's author assumed she was talking about the reactor and put it in brackets. At least, I'd rather believe a reporter made that mistake than the spokesperson for a nuclear power company.
  16. Re:This is why... on Microsoft Readies Cheaper 360 · · Score: 1

    The American unit is the "barrel-full of monkeys."

  17. Re:Email notification? on Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Do any of these have email notification?
    Trillian does. I used to use it to let me know about yahoo and hotmail/MSN.
  18. Re:Exchange 8GB mailboxes today on MS Fights Gmail With 2-GB Exchange Mailboxes · · Score: 1

    The GP said Google Desktop, not specifically GMail. Google Desktop has no problem indexing Outlook's or (I think) Thunderbird's email.

  19. Re:Bring back the Gorn, dammit! on Star Trek XI - What We Know · · Score: 1

    One of the characters in DS9, Kassidy Yates, was from the planet Kirk and the Gorn got into the fight over, and it was apparently a large colony. It even had a decent-sized baseball league. Since in the original they claimed it was in Gorn territory, either the UFP walloped them, or they worked out a peace treaty.

  20. Re:Please don't force everybody to use it on Slashdot Discussion2 In Beta · · Score: 1
    Giving you five or ten words of a reply doesn't tell you anything worth knowing when the comment starts out with a quote from the Parent.
    I don't know much javascript, so this may be completely impractical, but if the preview of the comment could exclude any leading quotes (and italics, since a lot of people use those for quotes) and newlines, IMHO that particular feature would be a lot more useful.
  21. Re:not ready? on Early Testers Say Vista RC1 Not Ready · · Score: 1

    I reinstalled Duke3D recently, and on the disk was a demo for a game called "Prey". I no longer doubt that someday, 3DRealms will release a game called Duke Nukem Forever. When and if Microsoft releases Cairo and Yukon (those are the '93-era projects, right?), they will be elevated to 3DRealms' level of lateness.

  22. Re:Not the first time on Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government · · Score: 1

    It irks me that so many children in the US learn that "Columbus discovered the Earth was round." Everyone he went to for financing laughed at him because his circumference was about a third (I think) of the real number, which had been known for what, 2000 years? Spain was desperate, so sent him to die on a journey twice as long as he was prepared for. But no, no one knew the Earth was round until Columbus discovered it when seeing masts disappear over the horizon, isn't that right Timmy? The worst part is that any books a grade school kid would read say the same thing. I didn't learn the truth until my high school US I teacher untaught us.

  23. Re:Steroids, Hell on NASA Learns Anew From the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    Isn't viagra a steroid?

  24. Re:Perfect storm of perfect storms on 'Perfect Storm' of Mac Sales on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    A perfect storm, at least in New England, is when a noreaster combines with another storm (I think the term is usually used when the other storm is a tropical storm or hurricane). This creates a very, very bad storm, with little warning, especially at sea. More generally, the term is used whenever a bunch of related things improbably happen at the same time. Thus agrees the wikipedia.

  25. Re:Traffic shaping on Skype Addresses Visibility Concerns · · Score: 1

    So that's one poster who wants to give Skype traffic priority, and a page of them who want to block or limit it. I can certainly see why a small ISP would want to give Skype the same service as other realtime services, but as long as big ISPs and corporate networks want to block or impair it, the rewards of being invisible outweigh any losses.