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  1. Re:Let me ask you a dumb question. on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    YES, the circle operation is that common to require a tool.

  2. Re:One more reason to use OpenGraphics.org card on Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    Will it be able to throw out Radeon-esque 3D numbers?

    No?

    I'll pass.

  3. Re:Gnome version? on KOffice 1.6 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Install KDE libraries.

    Shazam.

  4. Re:my suggestions on Firefox Accepting Feature Suggestions for Version 3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Eugh. We don't need more GNOME hideosity. I'd much rather see packages customized for each desktop environment. KDE, GNOME, whatever.

    But for the love of God, don't standardize on a user-coddler like GNOME. I used GNOME for three years, with ever-increasing annoyance and frustration, until finally I said to hell with it and tried KDE.

    KDE lets me do what I want to do. I'm never going back.

  5. Here's the big question... on Virtual Desktops on Windows? · · Score: 1

    Which of these various virtual desktop systems hide windows NOT on the current taskbar?

    I have KDE and GNOME both set up to do that. If I'm on desktop 2, I don't want to see the window entries from desktop 1.

  6. Re:I guess I'm not the only one on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1

    You whippersnappers. I craft my own packets.

    Using cat. And an ASR-33.

  7. Re:I am horrified... on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1

    Larry Wall invented the original "P" in the LAMP platform. He invented what amounts to transcontinental network communication while on the job. I don't care whether he's a born-again Christian or whether he's a frigging Pastafarian. He's one of the nicest guys I've ever talked to in the programming world and he deserves respect. You, on the other hand, are an anonymous coward. FOAD, troll.

  8. Re:Words and words. on The Relevance of Windows · · Score: 1

    Whereas in Photoshop I click a button and draw the bloody thing.

    Quit trying to defend OSS for sucking. I use it probably more than most of you (Kubuntu laptop install), but I don't defend it when it sucks. (Instead, I fix it.)

  9. Re:I find the above post offensive.. on A Gaming War Between Islam and the West? · · Score: 1

    Do you ethnically cleanse the curds during the cooking process?

    Genocidally delicious!

  10. Re:The problem with reunification on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Not a year. Try six months, tops.

    Of course, they could also drop hundreds of thousands of Sony laptop batteries...

  11. Re:It's a lie by Kim Jong Illin' on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Zero meters depth, dude. SOMETHING went boom.

  12. Re:Maybe That's Why WII Graphics Appear to Suck on Wii Will Have an Updatable Linux OS · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Wii use an ATI card...? Yeah, yeah, I know. Wishful thinking. But still!

  13. Re:My firm only uses BSD. on Microsoft Shown Involved with Baystar and SCO · · Score: 1

    Your turfometer is off. He said "thankfully." (said with tongue half in cheek)

  14. Re:The article talks a lot about the author on Ten Geek Business Myths · · Score: 1

    I hate LISP.

    But--no major software projects? I have a behemoth called emacs running right now, and she be LISPy, Cap'n.

  15. Re:Ubuntu Edgy beta confused the hell out of me... on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 1

    You're right--I glanced at Wikipedia after I posted.

    D'oh.

    However, I still stand by the opinion that "Bon Echo" is a stupid name, even if it's a codename.

  16. Ubuntu Edgy beta confused the hell out of me... on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 1

    It calls Firefox "Bon Echo."

    So very, very stupid.

  17. Re:MAGNETIZED paperclip? on A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0 · · Score: 1

    I had a paperclip.

    Just not a magnetized one.

  18. Re:it's not like he has a choice on Why Torvalds is Sitting out the GPLv3 Process · · Score: 1

    News flash. AIX and Solaris are BSD descendants/offshoots/whatever.

    AIX, at least, also has the charming ability to suck like God's own vacuum.

    As for Theo and OpenBSD--well, let's look at it this way...you need money to run a bloody development team. And a lot of people use OpenSSH without giving anything back. That's their right, but who the hell are you to jump on de Raadt for it? Does he not deserve to make a living from what he does?

    And FYI...FreeBSD is a lot more prevalent than you seem to think.

  19. He cheated! on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    He must have linked in KDE. Couldn't have had that much time otherwise.

  20. Re:Facebook is run by nazis. on Yahoo Tries to Woo Facebook With $900 Million · · Score: 1

    Nah--something like political science was more his speed.

  21. Re:Interesting point. on Linux Kernel Developers' Position on GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    When the FSF came knocking, Linus was a much younger man, and less wise to boot.

  22. Behind the times. on Zero-Day Team Launches with Emergency IE Patch · · Score: 1

    As of the XP kernel they aren't linked at all anymore. Go try WinFLP if you don't believe me; installing that (which IS an XP kernel, just without all the crap to go with it) gives you the option of IE or not.

  23. Re:Signed binaries? on PS3 Downtime To Fight Disease · · Score: 1

    Why not...I don't know...respect the decisions of the company who makes the device, and respect the rules by which you agreed to purchase the product? If you don't like omgomgomgsignedbadbadDRMTWOMINUTESHAAAATE, then don't buy the PS3.

    Their toy, their rules.

  24. MAGNETIZED paperclip? on A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0 · · Score: 1

    You had a magnetized paperclip? I had to move bits by feel!

  25. Re:Herbert's Dune Series on New Tolkien Story To be Published · · Score: 1

    Eh. The writing is dry and painful as hell. I read War and Peace in a weekend and got stuck on the Simarillion to the point of never finishing it.