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  1. Re:So a better title would be.. on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 1

    Then that 40% could consider upgrading to an old toy like OS like Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. It's not shiny, it's not new, it's not a toy and it doesn't serve blue screens everytime you press Ctrl-Alt-Del at the wrong moment.

  2. Re:How many are IE6? on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even if you do not explicitly use Internet Explorer for browsing, you should upgrade it as it is a core part of the Windows Kernel.

    Internet Explorer it is used behind the scenes in many places; the eye-candy interfaces of most Norton products, for example, runs on the IE engine.

    Not that I recommend Norton products, still...

  3. Re:How many of those users CAN upgrade? on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 5, Informative

    They can still upgrade to Opera, which supports down to Windows 95.

  4. Re:is all of them on A Look At ACTA Wish Lists For RIAA, BSA, Others · · Score: 3, Informative

    The one on that list that surprises me is Intel. They make very little software

    http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/index.htm?iid=siteindex+prod_software

    They produce C++ and Fortran compilers, debuggers, performance analysers, "cluster tools".

    I'm not sure about their market share, but that's a non negligible amount of software IMHO.

  5. Re:They will never stop on A Look At ACTA Wish Lists For RIAA, BSA, Others · · Score: 1

    2. I DO work on a plan for a new government that does not ignore the the conflict between personal interests and interests of being a leader of people.
    4. I do not plan to do anything evil like hurt people or similar stuff. Only losers do need that. Professionals use psychology.
    6. I see you as my friend in the first place, no matter who you are, and even if you do very stupid things.

    Based on the above, I think you will find your answer in this book, 1984.

  6. Re:Like the ones WHERE? on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    We're flooded with shitty Acer laptops here in the whereabouts of Milan. It's such a level of 'fail' it's not even funny.

  7. Re:Who Cares... on Firefox 3.0.1 Fixes 'Carpet Bombing' Issue · · Score: 3, Informative

    And Safari and Opera are both non-free so they are more reluctant to give detailed fix reports.

    http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

  8. Like the ones WHERE? on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    That sounds like ages better than your average PC place.

    So, where do you live again? :D

  9. Huh on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just roll three d20's.

  10. Re:2.6.30 == 3.0 on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 1

    That's so GNOME.

  11. Re:Data format for Google's export... on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    From the documents:

    Defendants' "Logging" database contains, for each instance a video is watched, the unique "login ID" of the user who watched it, the time when the user started to watch the video, the internet protocol address other devices connected to the internet use to identify the userâ(TM)s computer ("IP address"), and the identifier for the video. Do Sept. 12, 2007 Dep. 154:8-21 (Kohlmann Decl. Ex. B); Do Decl. Â 16.

    That is the data that must be disclosed, as far as I understood.

  12. Re:pi on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    Calculating pi with this method could be a way to test the overall accuracy of the process, but there are easier and cheaper methods to calculate pi ;)

    For example, http://en.literateprograms.org/Pi_with_Machin's_formula_(Python)

  13. Re:Laptop, you insensitive clod on Google Abandons the Gmail Name In Germany · · Score: 1

    As long as it features a left and a right mouse button then yes.

    Click with both left and right buttons == Middle click (in GNOME).

  14. Re:Hardly the end of the world on Google Abandons the Gmail Name In Germany · · Score: 1

    Gnome does not sync the copy-paste buffer and the middleclick buffer.

    It's a plus if you ask me.

  15. Re:Who woulda thought? on Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Not counted on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What are 5 Betas and 3 RC releases for anyway?

  17. Re:Doing well so far on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 1

    They could have caught a botnet doing massive numbers of downloads... or removed IPs that downloaded more than 10 copies... or maybe numbers are just projections that are updated with the real figures from time to time.

  18. Windows 95 on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    Win95 was as good as Windows got. No, I'm not Bill Gate's sockpupet. This is true.

    When I installed Windows 95 on a virtual machine (just for the hell of it) I was baffled: that OS was much better than I recalled! I liked Explorer especially: the windows were intelligently sized and as little as it would get the UI would never feel crowded.

    Snappy, screen efficient, running decently with as little as 4MB of memory... whoa. Installing using an (USB) floppy was a pain, sure, and I had to install and configure TCP/IP manually, still I was very impressed.

    Then at some point for absolutely no reason, Windows decided to install Internet Explorer 4. And I went back to the Windows Experience I recallled...

    "Optimising performance..." my ass.
  19. Re:Send These Clowns a Message! on McCain vs. Obama on Tech Issues · · Score: 1

    Just because one party doesn't scream NO at whatever the other party says, it doesn't mean they are the same.

    Anyway, we now get to see how bad it can go. With the latest rise of nazi-fascist-etc. shit, I'm not too hopeful.

    I heard Canada wasn't too bad.

  20. Re:Had its chance in 2001-2007 on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 1
    Is this the linux version of the "OMG netfoobar confirms: *BSD is dead LOL get over it"?

    Because if you strolled through the Ubuntu boards you'd see a different story.

  21. Re:Yeah, everyone will answer that quiz honestly. on Online Quiz As a Gateway to P2P · · Score: 1
    Of course if questions are not randomised it just becomes a matter of memorising the key sequence to type in...

    TAB-P-TAB-2-TAB-P-TAB-TAB-IS-TAB-B-TAB-A-TAB-D-TAB-ENTER

  22. Re:Correction to article on Linux Desktop Distro Shootout · · Score: 1
    ...sigh.

    8.10 is smaller than 8.4, which is misleading because 8.10 is released at a later date.

    That and I don't know my HTML, sue me.

  23. Re:Correction to article on Linux Desktop Distro Shootout · · Score: 1

    8.10 > 8.04 8.10 As simple as that.

  24. Re:Thats.. on NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming World · · Score: 1

    That's called wasted CPU cycles. BOINC for PS3?
  25. Re:And why do we need another Distro? on FSF-Approved gNewSense 2.0 Released · · Score: 1
    When I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on this laptop (which sports a WinModem), Ubuntu warned me (with a notification bar pop-up) on first boot that there were restricted drivers available, but they were disabled by default.

    Nevermind that I could never get the winmodem to work -- Ubuntu did prompt me.