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  1. Am I the only one.. on Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All · · Score: 1

    who has no use for the program but downloaded it anyway because it was free? /me gets his coat

  2. Re:Lessons from a Farmboy on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    Really interesting post. As an aside:

    Did a quick google on baboon hunting.... found this site:

    http://forums.bowsite.com/TF/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=347804&messages=61&forum=18

    They're are some crazy people out there.

  3. Re:BLASPHEMY! on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Always love a Ghostbusters quote :)

  4. Re:Haven't really noticed any reduced quality .. on The State of X.Org · · Score: 1

    It's not that they missed their date because they were busily fixing bugs and adding new features; they missed it because they're just not doing that much right now. There's no management, there's very little direction, and there's really not that much going on at all. That's not a good thing. Isn't slashdot great?! You can make wild and unsubstantiated claims and be modded up.

    --The Queen of England
  5. Re:Amen on BBC and ISPs Clash over iPlayer · · Score: 1

    The British advertising authority think it's ok to advertise as Unlimited as long as they have the 'fair use' policy, or cap in the small print.

    So in the UK unlimited no longer means unlimited. Excellent work, no?

    http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_42732.htm

  6. Fairness on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    Jonathan Schilling, a 53-year-old software developer from New Jersey who works to keep Hillary Clinton's Wikipedia entry clean and fair throughout the election season.


    Let's hope Jonathan isn't as 'fair' as the writer of the article summary.
    Jeebus.
  7. Re:Book on this topic on Linux At the Point of Sale · · Score: 1

    Well maybe he/she is not as mercenary as yourself. If one believes in the FOSS movement and its principles, then there is nothing wrong with putting it in a spec. It would be good for us all if more people did that.

  8. Re:2 anecdotes on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good guy to me! I remember hating the 'method' thing myself when learning java.

  9. Re:If I were still in the eighth grade... on Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wales and the Wikimedia Foudation came down hard on the editor who leaked Durova's email. After it was posted to the public forum, the email was promptly "oversighted" - i.e. permanently removed. Then this rogue editor posted it to his personal talk page, and a Wikimedia Foundation member not only oversighted the email again, but temporarily banned the editor. This is a disgrace if true. Basically this sounds like the 'clique' on the mailing list are in control *and* have the support of the foundation. There seems to be no discussion on preventing this. I would say the discussion and exposure of lists like this is very important.

  10. Re:Don't know about the UK... on UK Music Retailers Beg, Drop the DRM · · Score: 1

    "afraid to buy a CD because it might "have a virus on it".

    I think people care more about price.

  11. Re:What About Foxit? on Adobe Confirms Unpatched PDF Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Is there a pay-per-post thing happening right now? These 'foxit' posts seem suspect...

  12. Vendor lock-in not allowed on Jobs' Next Fight — Dealing With iPhone Hackers · · Score: 1

    Mobile phone operators in the UK *must* unlock phones when requested to. They are allowed to charge a reasonable admin fee (£10-£20). I think this is just talk to keep O2 happy to be honest.

  13. Re:I'm Sorry on Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Nope, tried it at mine. Lightning (a must if you are going to be using Thunderbird in the work place) missing decent native shared calendaring support. This is big stopper. But if you have users that do not require it, go for it. I've rolled it out for our laptop users, i.e users not connected to the exchange server..

  14. Re:No 64 bit on Google Desktop Now on Linux · · Score: 1

    woah, you learn something everyday.. although I'd like to hear it from a source other that amd! ;)

  15. Re:No 64 bit on Google Desktop Now on Linux · · Score: 1

    Not sure compiling a 32-bit program on a x86-64 platform automatically means it takes advantage of the x86-64 platform

  16. Time limit? on Final Draft of GPLv3 Allows Novell-Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    So when the 5 year deal runs out... will Novell be able to renew it? I would presume not..good news, no?

  17. Europeans were riled up ... on EU Considering Regulating Sale of Violent Games · · Score: 1

    umm no 'we' weren't.

  18. Re:Calendar plugin just announced on slashdot on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it looks nice. But this could not be used in a work environment. Email stored remotely like this would be an impossible sell.

    I would have thought they would have integrated lightning (an integrated calendar extension, currently on 0.3). Again, I would love to have this built in...ah well Thunderbird 2.5? :)

  19. All I want *built in* is... on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. A shared calender
    2. An integrated Calendar
    3. Exchange support a la evolution (even if it just supports a few features :) )

    I have introduced Thunderbird to my work place to a limited extent. But these features would allow me to push its introduction further.

  20. Re:From what I read here... on Bloggers Propose Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    This is so true, if I had mod points I would throw some at you.

    Honestly, it's like people think 'bloggers' are important. Perspective needed.

  21. Worried... on Doctor Who Series Four Is A Go · · Score: 1

    I'm liking the new episodes but.... The doctor and his assistant should never kiss! There should be no romance there..lets hope this new series doesn't go the way of 'Torchwood'. I mean sex monster aliens? bah

  22. Firefox is good. on Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firefox has an extension called customizegoogle. It adds a 'filter' option to a google results page. Allows one to filter out the sneaky pages that hi-jack your search query.

  23. Boo! hiss! on Google's Test Search Engine · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It needs JS enabled to work.

  24. The User Friendly... on The Web 2.0 Conundrum - How Much Control is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    guys said it best.

  25. I hate it when... on The (im)Mobility of Web 2.0 Apps · · Score: 1

    people use 'web 2.0' without quotes. Or use it in a paragraph without including the following: 'stupid','buzz term', or 'nonsense phrase';