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  1. Re:What are the ramifications? on SUSE Linux Becomes openSUSE · · Score: 1
    - ATI drivers
    - NVidia drivers
    IIRC from when I got SuSE 9, it did not include the nVidia drivers, and therefore I doubt it would include ATI drivers, so these haven't changed because it's open.
  2. Re:This doesn't affect SLED and SLES on SUSE Linux Becomes openSUSE · · Score: 1
    how can they develop brand loyalty when they keep changing the product names?
    Yeah, it worked so bad for m/b/Phoenix/Phoenix Browser/Firebird/Firebird browser/Mozilla Firebird/Firefox...

    p.s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Fi refox#Naming
  3. no from the...dept? on MDN presents 'Manglish - Manga in English' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This article has no from the ... dept. thing. Why? Put one in.

  4. Slashcode on Good Software for Editorial Management? · · Score: 1

    http://www.slashcode.com/
    It's the same code Slashdot uses and, from the layout of your website, looks just like what you'd want. However, I'm 99% sure it's in English, and there might not be translations available to where the UI is in your language. Although, it might be in a format where it doesn't matter what language you use, I'm not sure.

  5. Re:Another reason for failure on DVD Format War Already Over? · · Score: 1
    HD floppies didn't fail. ;-)
    What's an HD floppy?
  6. Re:whoohoo on Belgium Chooses OpenDocument · · Score: 1
    ...and in other news, The UAE chooses Toro as it's official brand of snow-blower.
    Well, if this was SnowBlowerDot and not Slashdot, that probably would be on the front page right now...
  7. Re:MODERATION ABUSE!!! NOT A TROLL on Belgium Chooses OpenDocument · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The parent comment is a factual statement rebutting a point in the summary of the story. Why it is modded -1 Troll is peculiar. Perhaps some zealous moderator doesn't like an inconvenient truth that gets in the way of their worldview.
    Something he said doesn't have to be false for him to be a troll. It is not the fact that he presented the facts that made him a troll, it is how he presented the facts that made him a troll.
  8. Re:Mozilla Friendliness on Windows Live Messenger with VoIP · · Score: 2, Informative
    I just assumed it was a flash item that didn't work in Linux because of lack of flash 8 player.


    I see that as the most likely cause. I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.4 on XP (full UA string Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4) with Flash 8.0.something and it works just fine.
  9. Firefox icon on sample desktop for Y!M on Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger · · Score: 1

    Anybody else notice this? On the download page for the Y!M Beta, there are three icons besides the msgr8us.exe one: Internet Exploder, Mozilla Firefox, and ymsgr7.exe.
    http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/msg/7/scr/d ownload_ns_step2_2.gif Here is the picture with the Firefox icon.

  10. Mirrordot link on Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. W3Schools says pre-2k only 2.1% on Firefox to Drop Pre-Windows 2000 Support · · Score: 1

    http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp
    Read the stats for yourself...or just read it right here.
    2006 WinXP W2000 Win98 WinNT W2003 Linux Mac
    April 74.0% 11.2% 1.8% 0.3% 1.9% 3.3% 3.6%

    It shows that only 2.1% of people are Win98 or WinNT. That means that the other 97.9% will be unaffected by this.

  12. Re:iBerry more likely... on AppleBerry Predicted? · · Score: 1
    who uses for loops in perl?

    I changed it to a do...until loop, happy now?
  13. iBerry more likely... on AppleBerry Predicted? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think that iBerry is a much more likely title than AppleBerry, since just about everything else Apple is i (iPod, iTunes, iYouNameIt...).

  14. Re:Seamonkey also updated on Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released · · Score: 1
    Seamonkey, the new version of the old mozilla suite (Netscape-like) has also been updated. The release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases /seamonkey1.0.2/.

    I know it was released! I submitted an article for it but it got rejected!
  15. Re:Shipping from Sapan to Europe on Nintendo Announces Japanese Wii Price · · Score: 1

    What does it matter whether it goes over an ocean or over countries? Unless one or more of the countries it would have to go through had very restrictive laws on what can fly over it, it doesnt matter at all.

  16. Re:correct price? on Nintendo Announces Japanese Wii Price · · Score: 1
    Overseas shipping of console units, accessories, and games?

    But then why would the conversions from xe.com come out to almost exactly the same for USD, but much less for GBP and EUR? Japan is almost on the other side of the world compared to the US, but is much closer to Europe/Great Britain.
  17. correct price? on Nintendo Announces Japanese Wii Price · · Score: 1, Informative

    According to http://www.xe.com/ucc/, 25000 yen is: 223.435 USD (dollars), 174.841 EUR (euros), and 119.357 GBP (pounds), not 225, 225, and 150 respectively, as the article says. Just what "various factors" does it take into account, anyway?

  18. Re:Utter Bullshit. on Mac Theft Recovery Software Tracks Thieves · · Score: 3, Funny
    1) Stupid people (who are reassured by a false sense of security)

    What if I like my false sense of security?
  19. two words: "totally" "wrong" on Firefox Memory Leak is a Feature · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The person that sent in this article is mistaken. In Firefox 1.0 the Memory Leak still existed without caching previous pages completely as is currently done. Do I need to say anything else? It may be possible that the new caching system worsens the problem slightly, but it's not the cause of it.

  20. Re:I can't access the site on New Possible Record Prime Number Found · · Score: 0

    It's very possible that there are other primes, just not so likely that there are other Mersenne Primes because it would most likely have to be one where the computer printed the wrong result the first time and then the result of the double-check (done by another computer a while later) was found to be different and after more verifications is verified to be prime.
    FYI, the verifications are currently running to see if this number is prime before they release the number and the person that found it.

  21. "Strategy" on Dead Chinese Gamer Wasn't A WoW Player · · Score: 1, Funny

    He was playing a strategy game and died? Here's a strategy for him: don't play Warcraft III so much you die...he must've been really bad at the game to have such a poor strategy he couldn't even figure that out.

  22. Xbox 360 Very Microsoft on Xbox 360 Very Unstable · · Score: 0

    correction
    title should read "Xbox 360 Very Microsoft"
    but, then again...Microsoft and Unstable are synonyms, so I guess it's correct

  23. Secunia says "Not Critical" on Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 DoS Exploit · · Score: 1, Informative

    assuming the Secunia Advisory is referring to the same vulnerability linked to in the /. article, its Critical level is the lowest, Not Critical

  24. Not Redundant! on 20th Anniversary of Windows · · Score: -1, Redundant

    When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC.

    now, it's considered nothing more than a slow operating system that has a monopoly on the market...

    p.s. I'm not redundant because the others say it's the same and I say it's still slow but has a monopoly...so don't mark me as redundant...please

  25. Play once DVD! on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 0

    The way John Carroll sees it, Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for all the technology it invents.
    You mean like the Play-Once DVD?