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Full Name Mike De Palatis
Nickname Strife 
State/Province, Country TX   United States
GD Gathering City Austin, TX, United States
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Homepage URL http://mike.polycat.net 
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Job Description Undergraduate physics student 
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FAQ I am always looking to continually enhance this forum's FAQ. Please post any questions (along with answers, if you have them) that you feel should be included. Also, if you are a first time forum-goer, please read the FAQ before posting. [Edit... 
Posted June 19, 2004 5:11:17 PM
Gaim + Google Talk Out of curiosity, has anyone gotten Google's Jabber server to work with Gaim on a platform other than Windows? It doesn't get past "authenticating" for me, and my friend using Adium on OS X can't seem to connect either. It mysteriously work... 
Posted August 24, 2005 4:21:22 PM
Why do the autotools suck? So I've been around Linux for a long time, but I've resisted learning the autotools. Why? Because they're complicated as hell. I really don't want to spend an extra 30 minutes having to remind myself what all the damn macros are and then writing t... 
Posted May 27, 2005 2:24:15 AM
Ye olde windowe manager threade So I've been around Linux for a while (about 5 years now), but I remain disappointed with the window managers available. The problem is, a number of them have features I like, but each one seems to have annoyances that others don't have. For... 
Posted April 6, 2005 11:37:05 AM
GNOME settings Ok, so just for fun, I decided to mess around with GNOME a bit more today (as I've said previously, I always switch what I like using). Anyway, I tried to add the Email notifier applet to the panel, and then things froze up. I had to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPA... 
Posted April 25, 2005 1:43:01 AM
Ndiswrapper and Debian So recently, you may recall that my hard drive died. Well, when I had initially installed Debian on that drive, I was at my parents' where I had an ethernet connection to the Internet, but in my apartment I only have wireless access. (The f... 
Posted February 18, 2005 2:04:46 PM
Data recovery from a dead drive I suppose this question isn't necessarily *nix-related, but since the drive in question was formatted with ReiserFS, I would think there would be 'nix tools to do the job... Anyway, I had a hard drive that crashed recently (a Maxtor, the second ti... 
Posted February 11, 2005 11:32:32 AM
GDM and the path So I'm trying to run Eclipse on my freshly-installed Debian, but it complains about the Java binaries not being in the path. No problem, I change it. So I can open Eclipse from the command line, but for some reason, I can't seem to make the pa... 
Posted December 22, 2004 5:00:20 PM
Java 1.5 Ready for Download Java 1.5 Ready for DownloadPosted by: Strife at September 30, 2004 5:06:11 PM 
Posted September 30, 2004 5:06:11 PM
Music Plasma I was at a friend's house last night, and he showed me this great site called Music Plasma. You type in the name of a band, and it gives you a little map centered on the band you searched for, showing similar bands in close proximity. The clos... 
Posted July 31, 2004 12:58:16 PM
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The GDNet Dead Poll Quote:Original post by Will F He's probably still alive, but it looks like Strife is no longer with us (he hasn't posted since October 29, 2005). Perhaps the Java Development forum needs a new moderator? Funny, I told Dave that about a year and... 
Posted July 24, 2006 9:28:46 AM
FAQ Post away... 
Posted October 29, 2005 1:52:22 PM
Gaim + Google Talk Yeah, it works now. I'm not sure what the big deal was... 
Posted August 25, 2005 1:19:34 PM
Gaim + Google Talk Yeah, I've followed Google's own instructions for setting up Gaim, but it's refusing to work for me... 
Posted August 24, 2005 8:10:54 PM
starbucks Starbucks???? Are you kidding me? The only reasonable excuse you have for going there is if you live in such a small town that there is no other coffee place for you to go to. 
Posted August 6, 2005 7:19:01 AM
Funniest Computer Word Quote:Original post by Nypyren Cliches That Piss Me Off: The recursive acronym pattern "<acronym> Is Not <whatever>" GNU is Not Unix PINE Is Not Eudora <etc> It was clever the first time, but get over it. PINE actua... 
Posted August 3, 2005 4:16:48 PM
Ladies and gentlemen (mostly gentlemen), Actually, Python in general is really cool. Even though I hardly know it, it's already becoming one of my favorite languages. Where I can use a scripting language, I accept no substitutes (except maybe Bash scripting, if I'm mainly manipulating... 
Posted August 2, 2005 3:36:51 PM
Moving from Java to C# C# was basically designed to be Java plus some other stuff that Java should (erm, doesn't) have, e.g., operator overloading. So yes, learning C# after knowing Java would require relatively little time. I haven't looked at C# a whole lot before, bu... 
Posted August 1, 2005 2:39:24 PM
Social networking IM, neat idea. Very cool idea. Privacy isn't really so much of an issue, seeing as you have to opt in to it rather than opt out. I was also very pleasently surprised to see that there is (or at least will be) a Linux client. If this catches on, I may look i... 
Posted August 1, 2005 2:34:51 PM
Mouse issues on ubuntu Hoary. I remember having those same problems with Slackware when I first started using Linux years ago. The solution to the problem was simply finding the correct driver to use. It's strange that ImPS/2 isn't working for you, though. Try a few of the other... 
Posted July 31, 2005 2:13:27 PM
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