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  1. Re:I'm impressed on Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released · · Score: 1
  2. Re:These guys need a brain transplant... on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    Right. Because some nerdy 20-something admin with a copy of "Sendmail for Dummies" can do a much better job than all the engineers at Google.

    I don't know about Bill W., but is that your idea of an administrator? It differs a lot with mine.

    This is a paid service offered by one of the largest and most knowledgeable technology companies around.

    Don't you think you are putting a lot of trust on them?

  3. Re:I thought it was in beta on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 1

    1. Lighter than Firefox, like Opera and Safari are.
    2. Each tab acts individually. If the tab crashes, the browser stays alive.

  4. Re:A new copyright battle? on 3D Printing On Demand · · Score: 1

    Yeahhh, we do this a lot on Slashdot :( It's out way of argueing.

  5. Re:Good! on Bugs Delay Release of Debian Lenny · · Score: 1

    why do you hate ubuntu?!!! :P

  6. Re:It would be nice... on Spammer Perjury is Worth Prosecuting · · Score: 1

    The person who created the mfh account sold it to the current user.

  7. keep this 2001 search here on Google, Circa 2001 · · Score: 1

    "How long will this service be available?

            One month. It's kind of lame to be celebrating a mid-September birthday in late October, don't you think?"

    Why not keep it here for ever? It will be the search counterpart of web-archive!. If it's not too much trouble, they could bring up newer versions of their index... perhaps let's say one for each year? Think of the possibilities! We could broaden our searches in a historical way!

  8. Re:I just love Gimp on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    You just haven't worked on this thing a lot. Or maybe you are programmer and it's easier to let the window manager to handle this. Or it *is* actually more sane to let the wm handle this, and it makes more sense in a semantic way.

    BUT! The image processing app should have it's own space. I don't want all these pallets ending up taking space on my top level desktop. Gimp literally spams my taskbar with windows and more windows and, and! Enough! I want all of them tidy inside a "virtual" desktop. Maybe us designers have gotten used to this after 20 years or so. Corel PhotoPaint, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro. How to put it differently, by now it's the orthodox way, much like Norton Commander, File Commander, and Midnight Commander.

  9. Re:Finances & Conflict on Blizzard Awarded $6M Damages From MMOGlider · · Score: 1

    The thing that the users clicked away on "Yes"? That wasn't a contract! You need to put your signature for it to become a contract.

  10. Re:Sweet! on AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer · · Score: 1

    Organize a LAN party with old goodies =)

  11. a Wiki! on FOSS Multicast Document Sharing? · · Score: 1

    Maybe a Wiki will help you. As for exchanging files, a perhaps an FTP/HTTP/Samba server? Or each one of your running such an app?

  12. Re:What the problem with Gmail? on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 1

    He didn't say his kids are 5 years old.

  13. Re:The public internet is not private or personal on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the best thing to do. Sometimes I like having a beer. If a college minds that, then I don't want to go to that college. That's the spirit.

  14. Firefox on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 1

    I can't believe none has mentioned Firefox yet!

  15. Geany on Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? · · Score: 1

    A great lightweight IDE. I use it for pretty much anything, even for a regular text editor.

    http://www.geany.org/
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/geany
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geany

  16. all Id Software and Epid games on What Modern Games Are DRM-Free? · · Score: 1

    All id Software games are DRM-free. Native clients for Linux too. Even on Windows, after the first update, it doesn't ask you the CD.

    All Epic games (the Unreal series) are also DRM free. There is a native client for UT99, UT2003 and UT2004. They say a Linux client is coming for UT3 too.

  17. Re:Windows XP Activation made me a Linux user on What Modern Games Are DRM-Free? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean an animal? What was he before? Humans are animals.

  18. Re:The correct term on Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be religious to be afraid.

  19. Re:Can't we all just get along? on Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    Can't geeks just be happy for society's scientific accomplishments and not try to screw up a good thing just because it's possible?

    Greeks yes. Greek hackers no, it seems.

    Disclaimer: I live in Greece. People are generally ignorant here about what's going on in LHC. Including me :-P

  20. Re:Empathy on Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux? · · Score: 1

    aMSN has video support for the MSN protocol.

  21. Re:Skype on Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Please be kind enough and show us something that has an open protocol, works as p2p, not proprietary, has 12 million people online and is not being blocked/traffic shaped by your ISP ?

    SIP but no p2p. And if you use ekiga.net it's free too.

    I don't know how many people are online using SIP but it doesn't matter if all the people that I am interested to talk use SIP. Skype just got all the hype (and maybe that's what its name means :-P) because it was there before the others.

    SIP isn't blocked by my ISP, how about yours?

    You also have the option to check out msn's protocol which horribly abused by bots to spread scam and malware, or take a peek at most open source chat clients who's userbase is comparable with the number of students in some major college.

    Yeah, MSN is crap.

    If the protocol is open, does it matter whan client you use? I chat with Pidgin on XMPP with people in Gtalk just fine :)

  22. Re:If it doesn't work... on 'Super Steel' Sought For Fusion Reactors · · Score: 1

    Your link doesn't cover these:

    1. The buildings fell too fast, at the speed of free fall. This happens only in demolition
    2. The ground was hot for days after the buildings fell. Thermite.
    3. The beams were as if they were "sliced" at 45 degrees. Only on demolition.

  23. Re:Ah... The irony of IBM helping Bletchley Park. on PGP Leads Corporate Efforts To Save Bletchley Park · · Score: 1

    You forgot Coca Cola, the American company, based in a country which fought against Nazi Germany :-P

  24. but?... on Carmack Talks Quake Live · · Score: 1

    Will I be able to use something like ioquake3 to play on Quake Live? It's so much more convenient for me than Java or Flash in the browser (Flash would be worse since I mostly run things on Linux).

  25. Re:Alta Vista wasn't "great". on Google Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Whoa! 1996? My whois sais Slashdot started on 05-Oct-1997. Is this some conspiracy dude? :P