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  1. Re:Damn fine, pity about Kubuntu on New Enterprise-Level Ubuntu Due This Week · · Score: 1

    It's not nearly as polished as GNOME in Ubuntu... perhaps it's just KDE, I haven't been using it for long. GNOME just seems smoother and more tweaked than KDE.

  2. Damn fine, pity about Kubuntu on New Enterprise-Level Ubuntu Due This Week · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm using Kubuntu 6.06 now, and it's a very good bit of software, with one exception: KDE. Apparently Kubuntu haven't been putting as much effort in as the raw Ubuntu developers. Shame that.

  3. Re:Google vs. competitors on New Google Services Announced · · Score: 1

    My sister uses Google to search for Google. Well, AOL Search Powered By Google at least.

  4. US Shoots down Satellites on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    Next week the US shoots down Luna, Phobos, Deinos, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Charon, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Triton, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto; thus ridding the entire solar system of major enemy satellites.

  5. Source on Microsoft Releases Critical IE Patch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Downloadable immediately from here.

  6. No. on Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? · · Score: 1

    Monolithic API, limited GUI capabilities, bastardised Javascripty syntax, Windows-only, one must pay Microsoft to use it. Give me Glade and Gedit any day. This is the kind of language learnt in English secondary schools by A-level students who are fully aware that whatever job they get it won't involve VB.

  7. Re:Not to Ask For Flamebait, But... on UK MPs Approve Compulsory ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Don't blame me and the useful populace of England. I didn't vote for Blair, and neither would I have done so if I were allowed to. The only reason that Labour have got in yet again this time is that our electoral system is based on constituency-counting and not vote-counting. Their anti-terror laws have made it effectively illegal for me to go into London wearing a coat, and we've got no other option. New Labour is exactly the same as the New Tories (i.e. middle-ground) and neither of them are terribly charismatic: Lab led us to war based on a lie that your government told your country, and the Conservatives still have all of the bad-arse Thatcherite days of fascism, ruthlessness, low unemployment and effective economy to answer for. Do you blame the US for the Bush administration? Our "democracy" is so screwed up that no actual people got a vote in this matter. It's not our fault.

  8. Re:Trupe! on First Impressions Count in Website Design · · Score: 1

    Technically it's "triplicate", not "truplicate". So this article is actually a pile of "tripe".

  9. Re:Free software VoIP on Yak Launches Free Video and Voice Service · · Score: 1

    Gaim 2.0 should support Google Talk protocol Gaim already does support Google Talk. It's called Jabber if you aren't a buzzword-integrated Google shareholder. Coming soon: support in Linux for the Apple Bonjour, Microsoft Remote Assistance and IIS 6.0 protocols.

  10. SCO will be pissed on Anti-Gravity Device Patented · · Score: 1

    ...When they find out that this thing runs Linux 2.7...

  11. Re:But hey... on London Tube Dangerous for Technophiles? · · Score: 1
    • I would remind you all that it is not Britain that is uptight, it is the Home Office.
    • All these Americans do very well to say that we are overreacting, but at least our PM bothered to make the journey from the G8 to London. President Bush would have sat in that classroom trying to comprehend The Three Little Pigs all morning if it were up to him.
    • The reaction of Britain to the attack was admirable. After one day of slight inactivity, London was completely back to normal for 98% ish of everyone living and working there.
    You weren't the person behind Become A Republican, were you?
  12. Dear me on Your Homework is Play Video Games · · Score: 1

    In China, roads are diverted, sirens are disabled and policemen patrol the roads outside of institutions to ensure that sixteen-year-olds can take their secondary examinations in peace, without interruptions.
    In Britain, we are given weekly cash to stay on after GCSE, and some of the more chavvy students have to be bribed with iPods to take their GCSEs in the first place!
    And now, Americans want to bring in video games to help keep their mentally subnormal children entertained while homeworking! We learn best with teachers who are quietly authoritative, who can keep everyone quiet but not bored. Return to the thirties' public schools, I say.

  13. Re:Firefox is compliant? on Update on Standards and CSS in IE7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you will all look towards the left, you will see Deer Park Alpha 2 (Firefox 1.1) getting acid2 very, very near.
    Besides, rendering Acid2 is not a test of correct CSS rendering, it's a test of invalid css rendering. Firefox has nigh-on perfect CSS2 capabilities - when the CSS is correct. What Acid2 is designed to test is the browser's resilience to errors. Ironically, IE should do very well at this, since it renders totally invalid HTML as it was meant to be rendered.