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here here. Well said.



Dive Gear

I've probably spent over $1000 on various FreeBSD and Linux distro CD's and other various things like shirts, hats, towels (huh?), stuffed animals and such. All to help pay the bills for the great folk that are writing this stuff. I sure as hell can't write it, so I figure I'll throw a few bucks around to help. I'm pretty sure that the people hacking this stuff i.really/i appreciate it. How 'bout more of you join me?



Dive Gear

That's weasels.
Thank You.



Dive Gear

I am going to buy some of this stock, later today. I really like Mandrake, mainly for desktop stuff like my Mom's PC and such. Way to go!

In other news, this story will make your asshole pucker!



Dive Gear

bmajik said, "XP is monumental in that it brings SMP, JFS, firewalling, NAT, etc etc". Check your own stupid meter, bmajik. XP is doing NOTHING innovative. NT has had SMP support forever, BeOS, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX and others all have had JFS since you were drooling baby puke, and firewalling and NAT are common on *nix boxen. How exactly is all of this innovation? By simply shoving it into the same box as the OS? Microsoft has basically never created anything new, at least not anything I'm aware of.



Dive Gear

I've been a pretty loyal Adobe product user for years now. Photoshop and Illustrator are two of the main apps I use all the time. These tactics really make me want to puke. Does anybody know how much Killustrator costs to buy? Does "ZERO" come to mind? How the hell is this software (which is pretty decent, BTW) hurting Adobe, in any way, shape or form? Is there a version of Adobe Illustrator that runs on Linux? One of the main reasons I'm still running that M$ shit is because of this. Yes, I know I could run out and buy a Mac w/ OS X on it. Do you have an extra $3500 laying around?

I hereby declare a complete boycott of all Adobe products. Looks like I'll be getting more familiar with The Gimp after all.

Fuck You, Adobe. You where probably put up to this by that fag, Ballmer. Rot in hell.



Dive Gear

"LEBANON, Tenn. -- A 61-year-old man was shot to death by police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug raid on the wrong house." This is simply sick. Think about it. You're sitting at home, reading ./, and suddenly your front door breaks in! First reaction? Defend yourself. I am appalled by this story.



Dive Gear

That's "threatens", not thretense. It's took me almost 20 seconds to figure out what you where talking about there. I'm not picking on you directly, I'm simply getting tired of people that attempt to contribute to the dialog (mutlilog?) and can't even come close to something like spelling correctly. Good spelling is a mark of intellectual involvement in a topic. On the other hand, I do agree that a C# implementation on FreeBSD would probably influence Sun a fair ways towards creating a native Java SDK and byte-code compiler.



Dive Gear

That was truly the sickest thing I've seen this week. I actually screamed when I saw it! (I'm refering to parents .sig...)



Dive Gear

Frankly, it sounds like the guy was trying all along to tell you the project was hosed from the beginning. I've worked on numerous projects that relied on proprietary software (IIS, NT) to work. I know for a fact I could have created the same end result, faster and more robust, with open source software than the other 15 or so developers I worked with combined. Look at your methodology. What is going to make you more money? Something that you have to pay for up front or something you don't have to pay for at all? This is one of my pet peeves, managers that think the end deliverable can only be based on MS (or other...) products and the client will only buy such. BULLSHIT! If you support your product, who cares what it's based on? Only the VP's and higher, who Ms markets to, knowing full well that us techies think it's crap (most of us anyway). Please look closer at open source software and listen to your geeks, we know what we're talking about.



Dive Gear

Pretty soon we'll have some sort of rebel ICANN challenging the original

Frankly, I look forward to something like that. To date, ICANN has been nothing more than a closed organization, making decisions that directly effect all internet users, without listening to the community. I say disband the ICANN and form a new committee, based on an IRC like forum. Consensus could be pretty easliy found in such a manner and the overall good of the community would occur.



Dive Gear

I want that pen PDA!!! NOW!! Ok, I guess I'll just have to sit here and drool for a while. *sigh*



Dive Gear

We (I grew up and still live here in Wisconsin and consider the Packers to be God's own team) might have the smallest stadium, and middlin' revenue, but the Pack is still one of the most successful teams ever. You certainly can't say that about a team located just a little bit west of us... As for the Mandrake stock thing, hell yes! I _really_ like the distro and want to see them continue. I believe that Mandrake will be the distro to conquer the desktop. I'm running 8.0 on one of my workstations and my laptop right now. Gotta love it!



Dive Gear

• http://www.linux.org/
• http://www.linux.org/info/advocacy.html

Hey! Watch the scum comments!



Dive Gear

It seems to me that nobody really knonws that Triumph is back, with some very kickass bikes. I own a 2000 Speed Triple. No, I can't go 200mph. So what? Breaking 160mph on an un-faired bike is one hell of a lotta fun. The 2001 600 and the Daytona are tops in their respective classes. The major magazines just don't recognize this, I suspect because they're owned by the Big 3.



Dive Gear

Where on earth did you learn how to write? Anyway, I "think" you mean that marketing will triumph. If so, I tend to agree. I was reading a ZDnet article the other day about standards. They mentioned a number of times how Windows is a standard, simply because it's everywhere, even though there's no official "desktop standard". We gotta long fight ahead of us!



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so long and thanx for all the fish, doug.



Dive Gear

Douglas Adams, of Hitchikers Guide fame? Oh, shit. He was one of my favorite authors, in a bizaare sort, towelish way. I'm not as moved as when Heinlein died, but still... My condolences to the many fans out there. May your towels always be full of gargleblaster and food!



Dive Gear

Thanx for the link to ESR's little doc, it's been a long time since I've read that. :)



Dive Gear

yeah, but does it have 9 hours of battery life?

Ya know, I'm not sure. Probably around 4 hours. I've never seen how long the battery will last.



Dive Gear

Time to be the old,weird guy.
I remember, dimly, when gas was as low as 16 cents per gallon, with the average cost around 24 cents. My dad spazzed out when we went to northern Wisconsin (I grew up in La Crosse, WI.) in 1974/5 and gas was an astonishing 48 cents per gallon!! I was paying 35 cents per gallon when I was 19, wayyyyyy back in 1979. The first gas crunch hit us, when, 1983? We really need to get off our collective asses and find a decent alternative to gasoline. Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions.

When I started buying CD-R media, it was around $5 to $6 per disc. I'm still going to go and buy a couple of hundred at current prices though.



Dive Gear

But, aren't you stuck with a single button mouse/trackpad/thingie? That's the main reason I bought a Compaq 1800T laptop and stuffed Mandrake 8.0 on it. I know you can put a serial or PS2 mouse externally on a laptop, but what about the built in device?



Dive Gear

Think about all the fun you can have with the old coots who won't understand a damn thing you're saying though. You know, like "What out for that cliff." and fun things like that.



Dive Gear

Actually, I've got a very big tool. I'm a huge Tool fan too. dumbass troll...

I'm going to delete WinX from my entire network, not just a simple workstation. If you think I'm making this decision bsaed solely on this one M$ bashing story, well I'd like to talk to you about this bridge I have...

And who's the dumbass moderator that modded me down as redundant? Look at the posting order. I'm post #13. You're possibly seeing someone else asking the same sort of question much later than me, but to an earlier post. Jeez, ask a simple question.



Dive Gear

streamsicle rocks...



Dive Gear

Whoops! I spoke to soon. I finally got through to Ameritech. I'm ordering a 768/128 w/ 5 IP DSL connection from them. Damn good price too. $74.00 per month. FSCK cable. I was told that I'd be hooked up in 2 weeks. Now, was it a black goat I sacrifice? Oh, wait, that's for SCSI. Anyone know what the DSL gods want for a sacrifice?



Dive Gear

My DSL provider, @link Networks, just went belly up. I have(had) SDSL 512k/512k and 32 IP addresses. All for $159.00/month. My service basically never went down. The people at Nortel Networks are, from what I can garner from various sources, in complete control of @link. Just this morning I subscribed to Charter Cable for 384k/128k with 5 IP addresses. The price? $159.00/month. It totally sucks that I have to degrade my service in order to pay the same price, but, that's life in America these days.



Dive Gear

Give him a break. It's his choice if he wants to risk his life doing this, not yours. I, for one, don't think he's a freak at all. Of course, I grew up during the rocket crazed 60's, so I really don't see anything that insane about what he's doing. The guy is only 4 years older than I am and I can empathise with what he's doing very, very much. I also dropped out of college. Wanna compare tax returns? He deserves kudos for having the balls to try what NASA has been saying is impossible. What if he succeeds? Mass produced space-rockets? WOOHOO!! Sign me up!



Dive Gear

I'm trying to remember the letter to the Homebrew club. It's been ages since I read "Hackers". Wasn't it something to the effect of "We stole DOS from you, fuck off. Bill G."?



Dive Gear

Frankly, I prefer my 27" monitor...



Dive Gear

I've yet to make my HP 812c printer work under Linux. Maybe it'll work with the latest Mandrake release. I even bought the commercial version of CUPS. No dice. At least my USB mouse works...



Dive Gear

What's really annoying is having to call M$ tech support a lot of times. Like when I worked as a network engineer/consultant, I would usually have to call M$ 1 to 4 times a week. Yes, I knew 90% of the answers or fixes, but when NT4 starts getting pissy and you have absolutely no idea why, you gotta deal with them. At least getting the MSDN stuff helped. But, for gods sake, try getting a straight answer out of M$ tech support. YIKES!



Dive Gear

>>DSL sucks and is unstable/unusable at any promised speed I'm writing this using a 768k ADSL connection. Next month, I will be changing the connection I use at the ISP I own to DSL, only keeping T1's for the phone lines.



Dive Gear

I like those channels (Discovery, et. al.), but the same commercials, every 4.76 minutes is enough to drive anyone crazy. Except, of course, those perfectly mentally balanced floks like PETA members. They can't be driven crazier...



Dive Gear

PBS is to liberalism as Rush Limbaugh is to conservatism. Being basically conservative myself, if I do watch any PBS, most of the time I'm laughing at the lack of objectivism or screaming at it. NPR (National Public Radio) is even worse. After listening to that in the morning, even I want to go and hug a tree.



Dive Gear

I thought that the joke is close to a disater/tragedy classic. Who the hell uses Mastercard anyway? I get so many offers for "pre-approved" credit cards it's silly. To all credit card marketeers out there: get a grip, I really don't need $4,000,000 dollars worth of credit cards. One is enough. The balance? Maybe $200. The limit? $10,000. That's enough to buy a few toys with, but I prefer to save. Think about it. I saw an article today about how our economy might be getting hurt by all the credit cards out there and the ways that people misuse them. Whatever happened to the day when a person saved up for something?



Dive Gear

"Maybe you don't trust them, but get a reality check.. the vast majority of people trust Microsoft and Bill Gates implicitly"

I was, in essence, forced to leave my last job, as a network engineer, simply because I was vocal about my distrust and loathing of Microsoft products, specifically servers. There were other mitigating factors, like being setup by a co-worker, but in the main, I was not liked by upper management because I told them they were wasting money buying all these damn licenses and additional hardware, when they didn't need to. I also PROVED to them, in a testbed, that M$ products were unreliable. I was told, by a Director and a VP, "Quit bashing Microsoft, we chose to use it, now make it work.". Of course, they chose M$ without even looking at other approaches. The whole point I'm trying to get at is, management has been brain-washed by M$'s market droids to the point that you can't change their minds! If these well-educated, supposedly intelligent people can get pulled in by the hype-meisters, does the general public really stand a chance?



Dive Gear

The commercial site I run, in partnership with my brother-in-law, is profitable. We sell dive gear.



Dive Gear

Just curious here. What do you have against Netware? What version? I just finished a network OS upgrade research project and came up with Netware 5.x as the winner over Linux (yes, go ahead and flame me) and Win2K. This was a small shop that already had a Netware box, um, a 3.11 box. I've ran Netware 4.x on a 3000+ user netwrok with over 75 WAN connections also. I rather like it for file/print and user auth. Certainly not for apps though.



Dive Gear

Ech, I had to wipe the drool off my keyboard. Now, what was I going to say? Oh yea. Getting actual ethernet to the house would not be much different than DSL or cable. Faster and cheaper, probably, but realistically what do you get? A connection to a network and an IP address(es). The speed capability of Ethernet though. 100mbs Internet connection. Cheap hosting solutions. Anyone hear about pricing?



Dive Gear

Actually, I dispute that. Look at the old Tom and Jerry cartoon. The ones from the 40's and 50's. In my opinion, most of the T&J's of that era where the finest cartoons ever made. I don't know that most of the names, but the one where Tom goes fishing in this insanely beautiful pond, using Jerry as bait, has got to be one of the best cartoons ever made.



Dive Gear

Basically, anybody with a pulse can use AOL. My 14 year old daughter refuses to use it anymore, stating "All it's good for is chatting and I can get that for free everywhere else! I think AOL is for people that are to stupid to understand how to surf the real internet.". Smart kid... Anyway, I think it's pretty cool that they chose Linux for the base OS. Does this mean we're about to get bombarded with AOL for Linux CD's, offering 5,000,000 hours (useable only in the first month, of course)?



Dive Gear

Ya sure, they think they're gonna control us, the geeks, hackers, engineers, and just plain strange people. Well, they can bite my ass. I have control over what's on my machine, not Intel, Microshit, or even IBM. Who do they think they are? Some giant corporations that can control peoples lives... Oh, uh, wait a sec here. Nevermind



Dive Gear

First off, I'm an American. I do fish in Canada though. (The boundry waters kick ass, I'm looking forward to flying up there after I get my pilots license...) Anyway, ratings of this type are going to do nothing. They won't stop younger kids from playing the games rated for older kids or adults. Period. The really disturbing part about this is the gov's ability to censor games and ban them. If something like that happened here, why, I'd, uhhhhh, be pissed! Seriously, I'm pretty sure there'd be a good sized shit storm over the banning part. You Canucks need to raise some hell.



Dive Gear

Oh boy! Just what I've always wanted! A chance to increase the worlds dependence on M$ shit. At least make it ASP 3.x compatible. Personally, I'll use PHP all day long over that crap ASP. I don't care that I can use my scripting language of choice for ASP, it's still a proprietary piece of shit, created to run VBScript. Pure drivel.



Dive Gear

This story has been up for less than a half hour and it's already slashdotted. Must be a complete piece of crap server/conection they have. Anyway, it appears obvious that the mouse is only for less than fully operational people. I think it's a good thing though.



Dive Gear

Hey! You described one of my first cars! I got one when I was about 20 or so. Damn, was that a pussy chaser! Of course, I'm pretty damn old, memory ain't what it used to be...



Dive Gear

Section 9 kicks ass. I used to be an admin (probably still am...) but I haven't play tries in forever. I'll probably go back into it when tribes 2 comes out. I truly love the shifter mod.



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The best cartoon ever. Period.



Dive Gear