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  1. Re:ClearType FTW on Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? · · Score: 1

    it makes ALL the DIFF uh rence... intheWORLD. Just like the right man in the wrong place...

    Half-Life 2 intro! And now you're going to say "thank you captain obvious" :-P

  2. Re:But they only produce power-- on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 1

    The curtains can power a battery during the day :-)

  3. Re:MachIne Learning for Embedded PrOgramS opTimiza on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1

    I though that it's called GCC from Gnu C Compiler but later it got to compile other languages too.

  4. Re: Strawman on Who is Winning the Web Talent War · · Score: 1

    Those are probably the products that the Marketing department hasn't corrupted yet :-P

  5. Re:Maybe they could just "un-retard" it on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    Just use Miranda man: www.miranda-im.org . It's clean and simple, fast as Notepad. The default is to take the colours of Windows but you can skin it all you want.

    Cheers!

  6. Re:IC what? on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    Heh... I wish I could get your joke :) I am not a WoW player, maybe that's why I didn't got it :-P

  7. Re:There is only one true keyboard... on Review of Das Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I am typing from a Microsoft Internet Keyboard [1] [2] and it's very good. A bit loud but that's ok. I has just membrane but it has a nice feeling on pressing keys. I was a bit disapointed when I took it apart to clean it. There wasn't a big membrane but small button membranes on the "film" (that transparent thing). But it's an ok device for it's money (around 15 bucks). It has lasted long enough and I think it's going to be with me for a lot more

    I though that Logitec makes Microsoft's keyboards.

    [1] http://www.protectcovers.com/images2/dell/ms_intpro_lg.jpg
    [2] http://www.activewin.com/reviews/hardware/keyboards/ms/internet/images/keyboard2.jpg

  8. Re:Short answer: no on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's what I mean. What other OS assumes you are an "idiot off the grass"? :-P

  9. Re:Short answer: no on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Windows got non-root accounts on WinNT. But consumers in broad saw it with WinXP Home. So it is Microsoft's falt too for not having non-root accounts from the beggining.

    Also, I can't be root on my system. The administrator account doesn't have full authority over the system! What the fuck was that?

    And Vista is slower than XP on my 2008 machine.

    Other than these, yeah, Vista is ok.

  10. Re:Other forms of payment on Blizzard Announces Diablo 3 · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Through that page I was led here:

    http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=22619

    and then here:

    http://eu.blizzard.com/en/support/webform/legacy.html?locale=en_GB

    But it gives a Tomcat error. Bummer :-/

  11. Re:Other forms of payment on Blizzard Announces Diablo 3 · · Score: 1

    Where is the form for Europe? In that link it sais that this contact form is for US only. They have a link for wow-europe.com but it leads to a Support website, not contact form for European customers.

  12. Re:Huh? on Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World · · Score: 1

    I think you may be interested to see what a previous poster wrote:

    http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=592163&cid=23902723

  13. Re:In other news on Sun's Java Will Be Free This Year · · Score: 1

    Then here is a solution: make it so that if a comment is moderated Funy and some one moderates it Overrated it will not subtract karma from the poster.

  14. Re:Thank you on Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's it! Thanks :D If you need Telix, I can provide -- it's a Shareware after all ;-)

  15. Re:Thank you on Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos · · Score: 1


    Yeah, I don't remember either. A friend set it up. It was my first experience on the Internet/Web and didn't knew what he was doing. But I do remember this... After the dial process (the modem sounds) another window poped up that looked a lot like a terminal (grey text on black background) and is where I typed a username and a password. Username and password were not stored in the settings, I had to enter them each time I loged in. I remember the font of the terminal was Fixedsys (great font by the way!). If any of this reminds you anything, then please tell me what that software or add-on was. I am looking for a way to fully emulate that era inside qemu :-)

    At that era, I also connected a couple of times to a BBS with Telix :) (you can still find Telix as shareware). Not, actually my friend connected just to try the connection. He created me an account on the BBS and I was supposed to pay a check to enable it but never did that :-P It all seemed magic and beatiful back then. It's because it is the way I entered the world of the Web and the Internet.

  16. Re:Thank you on Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos · · Score: 1

    I was able to get online with Win95 and it was a pre-release version too :)

  17. Re:Opera 9.5 is a good browser on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    Yet Opera 6.5 runs GOOD Erm.. did you mean 9.5? Because 6.x is very old can undoubtly run on that hardware. I can even run (barely) on a Pentium1 machine! (I have tried it :-P)
  18. Re:I think they're jumping the gun. on AMD's New Card Supports Linux From the Get-Go · · Score: 1

    The original quake3 binaries (demo and full version) are already very old for Linux (for Windows not so much because WinXP-SP2 got released on 2004). You need to get ioquake3: www.ioquake3.org . It will play all your mods too, and you can try some Quake3-based games (like Wolfenstein).

    Have fun :-P

  19. renders from the Electric Sheep screensaver on Computer Art For a CS Dept Office? · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Links to actual services on User Not Found, Email Drops Silently · · Score: 1

    It looks a lot like what http://www.self-destructing-email.com/ does. I just tried that, out of curiocity and it didn't work on my Firefox2. Felt like a knocked together JavaScript thing. Lame :-P

  21. Re:Technically, yes on 42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games · · Score: 1

    Quake 3 *is* Quake 3 Arena, they are the same game :-P

  22. Re:Operation and Cost? on Acer Bets Big On Linux · · Score: 1

    Windows has file locking. Linux doesnt. Um, that's just plain wrong. You're obviously not a programmer or a sysadmin. Neither am I but every day I am seeing this thing. I want to delete a file and Windows sais I can't do this because it is used by another program or process. What the fuck is that? Linux doesn't do that. It lets me delete the file even if applications have it opened. It's my computer and I know what I am doing. This is outrageous!

    Ok, end of rant.
  23. Re:Lazy dumbasses on Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta · · Score: 1

    Nope. Let me introduce you to Conditional Comments: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx

  24. Re:VLC is lacking (at least) one important feature on VLC Hits the Device Market · · Score: 1

    I have a question. Why not decompress the RAR file and then play the movie? (or keep it in your archives)

  25. Re:Fighting fire with fire on Asus Set To Release Desktop Eee PC Variant · · Score: 1

    I just clicked this now and this is what I get:

    Results 1 - 10 of about 160,000 from microsoft.com for linux. (0.02 seconds)

    I think they saw your comment and started trimming the term Linux from their website :-P