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  1. Re:As my grandmother used to say on Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest she take a walk out bush (the terrain not the bloke). In heavily wooded areas you get... blue and green. If it works in nature, the only things stopping it working in production is incompetence and prejudice. However, you lead me to believe that she is no longer using that saying... regards.

  2. Re:What shrinking market? on IBM Exec Bemoans Lack of Industry-Specific Linux Apps · · Score: 1

    Since you posted it, it has gone up to .8... Methinks that perhaps it is not the best measure if a few views from a relatively small site can alter its data by .2 % (of the internet population) in around 7 hours. Perhaps linux et al are just becoming aware of it.

  3. Re:Stop paying MS for bad software... on Windows XP Still Outselling Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Well, my sister complained about how difficult linux was, as I watched her do a task she had no hope of doing in xp. (I'd always done it for her.) I deliberately did not give her any hints or tips other than to read the screen.... Afterwards she still complained... I tried to get her to do it in xp and she couldn't... I just told her to go study some logic.

  4. Re:More statistics on Windows XP Still Outselling Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Heh, I had good experiences with both ME and XP, but everyone else I knew who also happened to know computers reasonably well, had a horrendous time with both. They are still on Windows systems and I've moved to linux. (I'm trying to move to Plan 9 eventually -- but it doesn't seem beneficial at the moment.

  5. Re:Wow on Windows XP Still Outselling Windows Vista · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... IBM already has worked many hours bringing lotus technology to linux,...

    I am not sure we want this...

  6. Re:Wow on Windows XP Still Outselling Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    So now we not only have cars that can only run on certain roads, but your driving license expires with the car? This is madness.

  7. Re:The Problem on Obscura Digital Demos "Minority Report"-Like Display · · Score: 1

    Have you ever considered lisp?

  8. Re:Thats not an excuse on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 1

    It's also funny how the current iteration of Gnome has been around longer than Vista... Lets face it we have been hooked on flamebait.

  9. Re:MS has lost all sense of reality on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Emacs had tabbed browsing in 88. Hey! don't knock it because it was just for local files... it amounts to the same thing...

  10. Re:Microsoft is right, you are all wrong. on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Is this a rhetorical question?

  11. Re:Just use pirated software on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Should have kept sucking...

  12. Re:Open Source is poor on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 1

    To bring it back to gp train of thought, think of OSS being funded by micro-payments (stupid term, but effective for this purpose). Each user/developer that helps debug or feature add in their own time, is making a micropayment to the relevant project. Individually poor, collectively rich.

  13. Alien Verification on EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design · · Score: 1

    Now we can have another source for our funny little comrades...

  14. Re:Negroponte on Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO · · Score: 1

    It is just a coincidence see...

  15. Re:Yo! USA did that FORTY FUCKING years ago !! on EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design · · Score: 1

    // use a pic view smudger here...
    Yes, we heard this, but they never returned in quite awhile despite the promise of unprecedented wealth of resources.

  16. Re:It's an easier smear than that. on Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO · · Score: 1

    Months? He has been doing it for years!

  17. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    There is the unpopular learning method 'rote-learning'. If a command keeps coming up in a particular context with slight variations, one may begin think one might be able to combine some variations in other contexts. It requires intelligence thus one reason it is unpopular and unattainable for some of the wider population.

  18. Re:Wow. on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 1

    err having not read the article can't comment on its quality, however the sentences you pointed out were passable and parse-able. The answer is the object of the sentence, KDE 4.0.

  19. Re:What kernel bugs? on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the problem I see is that dependencies are duplicated leading to a waste of space. I agree that different versions should be considered just that, but it seems silly to duplicate identical dependencies when you may have multiple apps using the same version. I could see that tripling the space my system uses already.

  20. Re:What kernel bugs? on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I understand that self-contained apps are superior from an end-user situation. I'm just not sure how they cater for dependencies that are required for other apps as well... does it mean apps don't share any dependencies other than the system API's? Each app contains it's dependencies in itself?

    As for the sitting in /Applications, linux could move to this I'm sure if it is actually a superior method. I can't see where except for removing an app, but I'm still learning. Otherwise, it could just be a link if that is needed.

  21. Re:What kernel bugs? on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 1

    Damn, I learnt to write batch files... No wonder it took so long to do anything!

  22. Re:Splashtop on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 1

    Good! My Grandmother is single. Her husband died ~ 5 years ago and she is really lonely. Fit as a fiddle, despite what she says; she can run all day -- and does. Slight dementia, but if you are into reminiscing about old things she will repeat the same conversation 5 times in an hour! Send me your email and I'll hook you up.

  23. Re:Splashtop on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 1

    from HDD down, the devices would be used no matter what the machine. If they are all still pci they can be eliminated from the equation.

  24. Re:No, GNOME-like values on QT on Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME · · Score: 1

    I never have trouble with debs. I am believing that rpm based distros should give up and submit to the awesomeness of the Apt program. Recursively it states its purpose and its goal; and it succeeds.

  25. Re:Real writeable NTFS? on Linux 2.6.26 Out · · Score: 1

    There are still people who don't? When did everyone move to Plan9?