Chninkel - Slashdot User

Comment slightly offtopic, but ... (Score 1) 711

by Chninkel on Saturday August 29, 2009 @07:32PM (#29247641) Attached to: Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear

I just noticed that on Ubuntu (and I guess every recent Gnome) the file's size/hard drive occupancy are indicated as "KiB", "MiB", "GiB" while XP displays in KB, MB & GB (but using the base 2 of course).

How long has it been that gnome (and the others ?) displays the "iB" instead of the "B" (or was it always that way) ?

Comment Re:Try the query.... (Score 1) 138

by Chninkel on Friday June 12, 2009 @10:57AM (#28308377) Attached to: Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages

Why the query

Who has not been acquired by Microsoft

doesn't return Yahoo ?
actually it doesn't return any result ...

Comment Re:Command Line Interface (Score 2, Funny) 285

by Chninkel on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @12:52PM (#26798943) Attached to: Firefox 3.2 Plans Include Natural Language, Themes

In the beginning was the command line,
then they invented the GUI to make it easier to use that command line
then they invented the command line to make it easier to use that GUI
then ...

Comment Re:dumb sheep (Score 1) 217

by Chninkel on Thursday January 15, 2009 @07:20AM (#26463791) Attached to: Biometric Passports Agreed To In EU

But a near 70% income tax rate is still necessary to pay for ... what exactly?

I'm Belgian you insensitive clod !

(and it's less than 50% by the way)

Comment Re:You're kidding, right? (Score 1) 78

by Chninkel on Thursday December 18, 2008 @12:14PM (#26160851) Attached to: IRS Doesn't Check Cyberaudit Logs

you just forgot that some people cannot detect sarcasm :-) http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1629245

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