Comment Re:Crowdsource it (Score 1) 259
You're telling me that my neighbor decided to be a nice person and set their SSID to "linksys" and keep it un-secure!? Damn, I never knew they were such nice people!
Comment Re:Now is not the time to celebrate (Score 1) 331
I've run Office 2007 on a Via C7 (1.5GHz) with a gig of RAM, and it ran decently. Not quite as fast as Office 2003, but fast enough.
Comment Yeah. (Score 1) 6
Actually, I believe that tab coloring and "having tabs open to the right of the current tab" (don't know the official term for that) are part of IE8. Now, I'm not saying that IE8 is better. It isn't. I hope those features get integrated into Firefox soon.
Submission + - IBM Policy Switches from MS Office to OO.o (linux-magazine.com)
eldavojohn writes: "It's frequent that we hear of a country or city or company switching from Windows to Linux but it's rare that we hear of one third of a million employees being told to use Lotus Symphony (IBM's OO.o variant) over MS Office and also to use the Open Document Format when saving files. The change has been mandated to take place in the next 10 days. Of course they are doing this to illustrate that they actually offer a full fledged alternative to Microsoft. With i4i stirring stuff up against MS Office and absolving OO.o from litigation, are we on the verge of a potential break from Microsoft's dominant document suite? Hopefully IBM supports OO.o past their acquisition of Sun instead of concentrating on Lotus Symphony."
Comment I use... (Score 1) 891
I use open source software when it is superior or equal to the closed source offering. Some open source software is great (Firefox, Notepad++, VLC), some decent, and some not so good. I'll use an example: I use Firefox because it's superior to Internet Explorer. However, is Firefox "superior" to Opera? No. If need be, I would switch to Opera in a blink of an eye. I care about the quality of the software more than the license of the software (well, within reason, of course).
Comment What the fuck.. (Score 1) 1
What the fuck is it with this "Czar" bullshit?
Submission + - In 2010 the World Runs Out Of IPv4 Addresses (arstechnica.com) 1
blitzkrieg3 writes: Ars has an excellent writeup of the coming end of the IPv4 Address space, as well as in depth technical reasoning behind it. From the article:
Either by choice or otherwise, the big ISPs will soon have to stop giving each customer an IPv4 address of his or her own. Giving those customers just IPv6 is not an option, as the majority of the services are still IPv4-only and many IP-capable devices that don't run a full operating system (smartphones, VoIP phones, webcams) don't support IPv6. So that means stretching the existing IPv4 addresses in some way through "carrier grade NAT" (CGN).
Assuming the ISPs don't strip people of their current IPv4 address, Apple users may be in the best shape.
Comment Re:Remove WGA (Score 5, Funny) 360
These days you'll have to deal with the Linux Genuine Advantage.
Comment There has to be.. (Score 5, Funny) 414
There has to be some way for people to compensate me for having to hear the shit reasons these people spew out for being greedy.
Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 295
The GTX 280 goes for $240 on NewEgg. Around a 15 FPS difference for $100.
Comment Re:Respectively: (Score 1) 270
Yeah, you can get it here. Basically it's Expression Web 1.0 but with some SharePoint stuff added in. Though, SharePoint designer doesn't seem to have syntax highlighting support for PHP.
Comment I've always wonderded... (Score 4, Insightful) 926
I've always wondered if the FSF was actually somehow on Microsoft's payroll. They' sure as hell aren't doing free software/open source any good. If anything, they're making people want to avoid using open source thanks to Rick Stallman's antics.
Comment I'll show em.. (Score 1) 451
I'll make a song where Microsoft Sam reads out the article with a click track made in Audacity in the background.
Comment Re:Another work around: (Score 1) 673
I know that Opera has an "awesome bar" implementation. I also believe that Safari has an "awesome bar"-ish implementation.
Comment Re:Company makes new versions, news at 11. (Score 1) 259
Yeah. I'm still waiting for that 10GHz Pentium 4 you guys were talking about.
