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  1. "Collection policy" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ibiblio Director Paul Jones Answers

    Hmmm. So how does this site fit in with this?

  2. Hong Kong Picture Archive by jsse · · Score: 2 · on Ibiblio Director Paul Jones Answers

    I live in Hong Kong, but I didn't realize ibiblio has been hosting such a great site. I'd like to use to space to thank Paul!!

  3. What about SuSE? by Mr.+Pibb · · Score: 2, Informative · on Bootable Linux Demo Distro - Knoppix

    My (IBM Deskstar) hd died the week before finals last year. Luckily, I had ordered a free SuSE 7.2 LivEval CD (not sure if it's still offered). StarOffice, as well as Mozilla and Konqueror were all I needed to get my work done (and ftp my files off my comp). My K7V Dragon's onboard LAN and Sound were supported right off the bat, and I didn't have to have the 100mb of swap space on my HD it wanted for it to work well. You can get the ISO from here
    Thanks, SuSE!

  4. Re:role of women... by silentbozo · · Score: 4, Interesting · on SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University

    Well, you can take a look at how trends in society have affected literature. I remember picking up a copy of The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle and finding that this newer edition had totally removed all references to the word "negro", since the original text might offend some younger readers (the Gutenberg linked above has the original, I think.)

    I recently read a book by Ben Bova (The Watchmen), a re-release of a pair of novels originally written in the 60's, where he specifically says in the 1994 foreword that he did NOT alter the original text, and hence you would find women referred to generically as "girls".

  5. Re:doubtful by Flamerule · · Score: 4, Informative · on SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University
    The article:
    University staff were stunned by the size of the donation: upwards of 35,000 volumes dating back to the 19th century [...] It ranges from 19th century Jules Verne [...]

    Kyzia said some of it should get to ibiblio, and since some of it is from the 19th century, that's eminently reasonable. That "very little science fiction" includes authors like Jules Verne, whose stuff is already available online, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. And while we're visiting the 19th century, though the article doesn't mention him, also freely available are the works of H.G. Wells.

  6. Re:doubtful by Flamerule · · Score: 4, Informative · on SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University
    The article:
    University staff were stunned by the size of the donation: upwards of 35,000 volumes dating back to the 19th century [...] It ranges from 19th century Jules Verne [...]

    Kyzia said some of it should get to ibiblio, and since some of it is from the 19th century, that's eminently reasonable. That "very little science fiction" includes authors like Jules Verne, whose stuff is already available online, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. And while we're visiting the 19th century, though the article doesn't mention him, also freely available are the works of H.G. Wells.

  7. Re:doubtful by Flamerule · · Score: 4, Informative · on SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University
    The article:
    University staff were stunned by the size of the donation: upwards of 35,000 volumes dating back to the 19th century [...] It ranges from 19th century Jules Verne [...]

    Kyzia said some of it should get to ibiblio, and since some of it is from the 19th century, that's eminently reasonable. That "very little science fiction" includes authors like Jules Verne, whose stuff is already available online, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. And while we're visiting the 19th century, though the article doesn't mention him, also freely available are the works of H.G. Wells.

  8. Hopefully... by Kyzia · · Score: 1 · on SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University

    Some of this stuff will find its way to ibiblio or some other online archive..

  9. Re:And I was such a high seas pirate! With compute by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Computers That Thrive in Salty, Humid Environments?

    THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE OR THE SLAVE OF DUTY

    SONG -- PIRATE KING

    KING:
    Oh, better far to live and die
    Under the brave black flag I fly,
    Than play a sanctimonious part
    With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
    Away to the cheating world go you,
    Where pirates all are well-to-do;
    But I'll be true to the song I sing,
    And live and die a Pirate King.
    For I am a Pirate King!
    And it is, it is a glorious thing
    To be a Pirate King!
    ALL: It is! Hurrah for the Pirate King!

  10. Attracting/managing techies on a budget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Ask About 10 Years of Free Web Publishing

    How do you go about finding and retaining technical people without the promise of high salary or even stock options? Along the same lines, how do you deal with the misanthropic and/or egomaniacal employees that bedevil every IT manager?

  11. Attracting/managing techies on a budget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Ask About 10 Years of Free Web Publishing

    How do you go about finding and retaining technical people without the promise of high salary or even stock options? Along the same lines, how do you deal with the misanthropic and/or egomaniacal employees that bedevil every IT manager?

  12. Re:Ads?? by Isaac-Lew · · Score: 2 · on Ask About 10 Years of Free Web Publishing
    See http://ibiblio.org/partners/index.html

    Note the interesting list of partners.

  13. Re:Cost effective by aengblom · · Score: 2 · on Ask About 10 Years of Free Web Publishing

    Don't totally waste a question ;-)



    ibiblio is a nonprofit internet collaborative supported through the generous
    and enthusiastic contributions of the following partners...

    http://ibiblio.org/partners/



  14. Re:Where are they ? by JonahC · · Score: 4, Informative · on Think Python
    You can go here to get a list of all the available versions in the "How to think like a computer scientist" series:

    http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS.php

    I was actually quite surprised to find this article on slashdot. You see, I'm the author of the Perl script which converts the LaTeX source to HTML. I hope nobody finds any blatant problems with the online book websites...

  15. Re:http://www.oreilly.com/ by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 2 · on Best Computer Books For The Smart

    Many O'Reilly are good, but some seem slapped together. That imprint is not the end all of computer publishing.

    For example,Addison Wesley publishes

    OpenGL Programming Guide
    C++ Primer (Lippman/Lajoie)
    C++ (Stroustrup)
    The C++ Standard Library (Josutis)
    AOCP (Knuth)
    LateX (Lamport)
    LaTeX Companion (Goossens/Mittelbach/Samarin)

    I'd say that both AW and O'Rielly have good editorial staffs-- but a book should be judged by its contents, not its imprint.

    (On the other hand, certain imprints are acquiring a bad rep. Usually they are distinguished by loud, slogan strewn covers-- and a bias towards Windows.
    see, for instance, Donald Knuth's Big Dummies Guide to Visual Basic)

  16. Re:some good ones.... by bastard01 · · Score: 2, Funny · on Best Computer Books For The Smart

    as for knuth books, would this one be a good book? here

  17. Re:4 seconds is enough by overunderunderdone · · Score: 2 · on U.S. Developing 100-Kilowatt Laser for Strike Fighters

    Nobody - starved - under communism ?

  18. mirrors by country... by neo8750 · · Score: 4, Informative · on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About
    lets be nice to the main site! .at .au .be .bg .ca .ch .com/.net/.org/.edu .cz .de .dk .ee .es .fi .fr .gr .hk .hu .ie .il .jp .kr .no .pl .pt .ru .se .sg .sk .tw .uk
  19. mirrors by country... by neo8750 · · Score: 4, Informative · on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About
    lets be nice to the main site! .at .au .be .bg .ca .ch .com/.net/.org/.edu .cz .de .dk .ee .es .fi .fr .gr .hk .hu .ie .il .jp .kr .no .pl .pt .ru .se .sg .sk .tw .uk
  20. Re:Efficiency? by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 3, Informative · on Spheral Solar Technology Approaching Reality

    Looking around the net with google I found this link that indicates 8 to 10% efficiency. This is fairly low when compared to standard solar cells ( see CNN article ) which indicates 40% efficiency. Although spheral solar cells aren't as efficient, since they can be used in places where regular solar cells can't, any efficiency is better than none at all.

  21. Re:AOL by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 1 · on Moms Go Linux, And Other Windependence Winners

    I have an old toshiba laptop with a 1.3Gig Harddisk which I made usable again by installing Linux. Back then I was on ISDN which means that downloading an ISO really shouldn't be 650Meg, so I looked for small distributions. I personally happen to like Peanut Linux . It takes about about 600Meg and comes with KED. Give it a try.

  22. Roger McGuinn: Free net.Music since 1995 by pjones · · Score: 1 · on Carp-Free Independent Music Labels
    Roger McGuinn, founder of the Byrds, has been giving away music on the net at the rate of one song per month since November 1995 at his Folk Den. There you'll find a variety of styles and genres (folk, cowboy, celtic, blues, etc) as well as historic recordings like Roger playing John Henry" in a 1959 recording.

    Roger also testified before Congress in 2000 about the devious ways of the music industry and in support of MP3s and net.music.

    This has been rewarded too. Roger's CD, Treasures from the Folk Den, was a Grammy Nominee for "Best Traditional Folk Album" this year.

  23. Roger McGuinn: Free net.Music since 1995 by pjones · · Score: 1 · on Carp-Free Independent Music Labels
    Roger McGuinn, founder of the Byrds, has been giving away music on the net at the rate of one song per month since November 1995 at his Folk Den. There you'll find a variety of styles and genres (folk, cowboy, celtic, blues, etc) as well as historic recordings like Roger playing John Henry" in a 1959 recording.

    Roger also testified before Congress in 2000 about the devious ways of the music industry and in support of MP3s and net.music.

    This has been rewarded too. Roger's CD, Treasures from the Folk Den, was a Grammy Nominee for "Best Traditional Folk Album" this year.

  24. Re:Then why is Apple targeting newbies? by mtec · · Score: 2, Funny · on Mac Users May Be Smarter

    'cause in the seeds of every newbie is an Apple tree with a fine *nix root, you just have to cultivate it as a seedling. Alas it grows into a weed-dows plant similar to kudzu

  25. LDAP + Cyrus + PAM by maeglin · · Score: 4, Informative · on Converting an Exchange Userbase to Unix?

    The site here describes how to create an Exchange replacement. If you want to use RADIUS you can probably find a PAM-RADIUS module to substitute for PAM-LDAP, or conversely replace your Radius server with a FreeRADIUS instance which can be backed by the LDAP server.

    For moving users, enable the LDAP directory service on the Exchange server and you should be able to script (or find) some LDAP-to-LDAP migration tools. At worst, do a full directory search and massage the data into an LDIF file to be imported. Moving the mail data would be harder but I imagine something could be rigged up using the Exchange IMAP service, fetchmail, procmail and the Cyrus deliver command.

    If you can find a BackOffice resource CD you should be able to create a way to access the Exchange store without even going through the LDAP and IMAP services.

  26. Janis Ian is Project Gutenberg's 3001 entry by pjones · · Score: 3, Informative · on Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle

    http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext02/sochi-REA DME.txt

    Janis Ian's "Society's Child" is Project Gutenberg's etext
    #3001 (the lyrics) and #3002 (sound files).

    The lyrics are short (shorter than the Project Gutenberg header,
    unfortunately), and are in sochi10.txt or sochi10.zip

    The sound is in 4 different formats, made from the same digital
    audio source tape:

    sochi-high.mp3 MP3 file, no degradation
    sochi-med.mp3 MP3 file, slightly reduced sound quality
    sochi22.wav WAV file at 22kHz
    sochi11.wav WAV file at 11kHz

    ** These are copyrighted files, including the sounds and the lyrics!
    ** Please read the header in sochi10.txt or sochi10.zip before
    ** redistributing them.

    The lyrics are Copyright (c) 1966 Taosongs Two (BMI) Admin. by Bug
    The musical performance is Copyright (c) 2000 by Janis Ian

    Thanks to Jason Moore and IBiblio (formerly Metalab) for creating
    the digital files. Thanks to Janis Ian for donating these files for
    distribution by Project Gutenberg.

    The machine and software used to create the MP3 and WAV files was:
    - Power Mac G4 running at 500Mhz
    - Yamaha DSP Factory DS2416 sound
    - Bias Peak and Media Cleaner Pro software

  27. rats! by cowtamer · · Score: 5, Funny · on Knuth Releases Another Part of Volume 4

    I was actually hoping for this.

  28. Get Mandrake and Open Office by pkretek · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Reading/Writing Chinese Using Linux?
    Disclaimer

    I am not Chinese and do not speak Chinese, however I am working in China and was trying to introduce Linux. The following text treats Chinese == simplified, however most of the stuff should be valid for traditional too.

    Introduction

    First of all, Chinese under Linux is hell. There seem to be no people being interested in developing open source in China. And if they do then it's difficult to find, crappy and unfinished. Just look at the Mozilla 1.0 simplified Chinese translation, it's not there, the guys did not move since 0.9.8. The Chinese HOWTO is quite old (1998!) and most of the links are dead and the information inside useless (practical experience).

    Red alternatives

    You have several alternatives, I suggest you forget about them: RedFlag Linux (Experience based on 3.0, Redflag 3.2 beta ISO)
    I had to use the text installation: I guess it was unicode without unicode support, so all I saw was messy characters but not Chinese. Somehow it's similar to redhat so I was able to click through. After the installation: whoops, the system is asking me for my registration key otherwise I can try RedFlag linux for 40 days (? do not remember how many exactly). It was not just a key, it was one of the Microsoft dimensions. After choosing the trial I ended up in Kde trying to look like windows. It had a tray, and a start bar, the Control Panel and so on. But I had a feeling it was there but it could not satisfy me, and I could not stand the little penguin patriotically holding that red flag up. The Chinese input seems to me to be the most advanced, but the system it self seemed to me unstable. Most modifications were in the interface and trying to lock down the system so you need to get that key after the trial period.

    Office: RedOffice different company, same red. It's OpenOffice 1.0 looking like Office XP, that's all except there is no source code, no binaries, only a trial version and a price of 398RMB (~50US$) for the full version. Stick with Chinese OpenOffice.

    Mandrake 8.2

    Mandrake has in my opinion the best Chinese support. You only need to install it using the Chinese language. If you install it using English and then switch to Chinese you will have several problems, like you desktop disappearing etc. Do not use Unicode, use gb or big5 only, I was not able to see anything by switching to Unicode.

    After the installation you should have a Chinese kde, Chinese Mozilla 0.9.8 and some more software in Chinese. The best input for simplified is Chinput, for Big5 Xcin and that's how Mandrake is doing it, if you use gb you will get Chinput by pressing Ctrl+Space and Xcin on a Big5 system.

    Turbolinux seems to have taken over the Chinput project, therefore you will find no info on the net. They made an extension to Chinput called ZWinPro (ZWinPro-3.2-11.i586.rpm) you need to forceinstall it (solve some libary deps, install unicon but do not uninstall Chinput) and forceinstall Mandrakes Chinput again. This will give you Mandrakes Chinput with a configuration toolbar and some binaries which allow you to use Chinese input for all applications. There are some minor probs you will need to fix (font alias missing, etc), if you have trouble contact me.

    The only problem about Chinput (and probably Xcin) is: it's dumb, the windows input tries to guess what you are typing. Means, you need to write character by character on Linux, does not matter if you use Pinyin or Woubi (or what ever you call it). This is very unconvenient and a killer for every Chinese linux desktop. Nobody will want to type 10 min on Linux when he can be finished in 2 on windows.

    Next get the Chinese version of OpenOffice1.0 and English Mozilla 1.0. If you want to use a Chinese browser stick to konqueror, Mozilla 0.9.8 is not stable and crashes randomly.

    You will want to get some Chinese ttf fonts from windows, as the fonts on Mandrake are quite ugly.

    paul

  29. Re:I have a client who is Japanese.. by FreeUser · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Reading/Writing Chinese Using Linux?

    Which part of he wants absolutely no Microsoft software anywhere near it didn't you understand?

    Shilling Microsoft solutions in answer to an article asking specifically how to do something without Microsoft software is not only offtopic, it is insulting to the intelligence of any reader not in the partisan throes of the pro-microsoft zealotry camp.

    Now, I'm not saying that there isn't something similar for Linux. But if Apple couldn't come up with anything more productive for MacOS 9, which was intended from the start to be a consumer-level, desktop, OS, I am highly doubtful that Linux developers can come up with anything better.

    So basically you are using your ignorance of GNU/Linux as an excuse for posting an offtopic response promoting your partisan software when in fact the only cognizant answer you could have possibly given would have been "I don't know."

    Indeed, even a fraction of research on your part would have allowed for a slightly more intelligent answer than "use Microsoft, it kicks Apple's ass and GNU/Linux can't possibly be any better than Apple, so it must suck!", for perhaps then you might have stumbled across the Linux Chinese HOWTO.

    Interestingly enough, both the Chinese and Taiwanese governments do not share your pessimism ... both are using and promoting GNU/Linux and discouraging further use of Microsoft Windows, and while it may or may not be as polished as Microsoft's Japanese IME implimentations, it should be noted that (a) Japanese' use of Kanji aside, Japanese isn't remotely the same as Chinese and (b) the Freedom (both financial and otherwise) afforded by using a Free operating system such as GNU/Linux, and actively taken away by submitting to a Microsoft based solution, vastly outweighs any amount of polish Microsoft could possibly offer.

  30. Use the web by MrHat · · Score: 5, Informative · on Reading/Writing Chinese Using Linux?

    Google is your friend.

    http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Chinese-HOWTO.htm l

  31. Gentoo by iangoldby · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Running Unix Entirely from CD?

    The Gentoo boot CDROM gives you a usable Linux system booting from CDROM. You can download the iso at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gen too/releases/build/1.2/gentoo-ix86-1.2.iso

    I'm not sure how this differs (if at all) from Tom's Root Boot mentioned by 'djn' earlier. You may find this is all you need - burn the CD, insert and switch on computer.

  32. Re:First photo? Wild Turin Shroud theories... by megabulk3000 · · Score: 1 · on World's First Photo

    And veering off-topic, uber-famous painter David Hockney has been promulgating this theory that many Renaissance old masters (van Eyck, Caravaggio, da Vinci) were using optics to create their paintings, citing distortions in their paintings that'd only be present if they were projecting them onto the canvas, touching off a debate among art historians.

  33. ibiblio? by _vapor · · Score: 2, Informative · on Finding Mirrors for the evolt Browser Archive?

    Have you considered ibiblio.org? This seems right up their alley. They have a public FTP archive that can handle a lot of traffic, and they mirror Linux distributions, among other things.

  34. Re:IBM just has poor management. by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Samba Team Announces Samba 2.2.5
    If you're eliminating Microsoft products, why do you need samba? :)
    I know you were being funny, but I've asked the same question: Why use Samba to serve Linux files to Windows PCs? Why not use NFS on the Windows PCs to reach those Linux files? Apparantly that's not a good idea. It's even in the NFS HowTo: "[the NFS How To] will also not cover PC-NFS, which is considered obsolete (users are encouraged to use Samba to share files with PC's)"

    I would really appreciate any pointers to an open (GPL, BSD, whatever) NFS client for Windows, as I'd much rather go that route. Google searches turn up "free" demos of commercial software; the only open client I can find is PC-NFS, which is depricated (although I may try it anyway).

    Can anyone please explain why NFS on Windows is such a "bad idea" -- or did Samba simply kill PC-NFS? Is it a better idea now, in the face of M$ patents threatening to kill Samba?

  35. developer using warez?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Gentoo Linux 1.2

    OMG http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gen too/images/shots/desktop-mjc.html.

  36. Re:Not about Linux at all... by karlm · · Score: 2 · on Ask Moshe Bar about [your choice here]
    Ehh... they believe the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden away in 68 C.E. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain fragments from all of the Old Testement books except Ester andcontains a nearly complete copy of Isaiah, IIRC. Maybe the earliest complete work is from 300 C.E., but there are much earlier framents that match pretty well what we have today.

    Where have you read about systematic destruction? IANAJ, but it's my understanding that at least the first 5 books were coppied very carefully, with someone double-checkinthe scribe's work and something like 3 wrong letters allowed before the copy had to be destroyed. Once an old copy got to tattered to be readable, it had to be destroyed to prevent bad copies from floating arround. Is this the systematic destruction you speak of? My reading of you post sounds more like some kind of evil rabinical conspiracy. Once again, IANAJ. (Not that there's anything wrong with being Jewish.)

  37. Re:Install from floppy. by Anna+Merikin · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Gentoo Linux 1.2

    If anyone has a "HOWTO install gentoo from floppy" I would be happy to know about it.


    No howto, but why not use a floppy-based linux like 2-disk xwindows or baslinux or even tomsrtbt from here to connect to ftp.gentoo.org, download the ISO, mount it as a loopback device and install from the laptop's HD?

  38. Fosters by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Funny · on Java Powers of Ten

    It's Australian for Russian cubism, mate!

  39. DRM helmets are outdated. by Jacco+de+Leeuw · · Score: 5, Funny · on DRM Helmet

    Neurodongles are where the action is!

  40. Re:Homer Simpsons puts it best: by vovin · · Score: 1 · on Cradle to Cradle

    You are wrong. You can just 'pump the energy' back. There are common methods for this - single meter and dual meter. For the single meter if you supply more electricity that you use the meter runs backwards. The Utility will then purchase that energy at retail or wholesale depending on the rules which govern your Utility. In MN they are required to: Use the single meter system. Buy your generated electric at retail. AFAIK there are 33 states which have mandated use of the single meter system. More here and here.

  41. The Modern Prometheus by apsmith · · Score: 2 · on Conceptual Models of a Program?
    The correct model for software development is obvious:


    Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (first published 1818).


    Developing software means creating something new, that has never existed before. Something that is often cobbled together out of parts from both the living and the carcases of the recently or not-so-recently deceased. Something that, when we first try to bring it to life, often fails, badly at times. Something that we, acting as gods, mold and shape into an active entity worthy of respect from our peers and customers. The range to which software can be applied is vast, encompassing the entire spectrum of human endeavor. The consequences when we make mistakes can be devastating. Be careful out there, ok?
  42. subtlety, thy name is music by robburt · · Score: 1 · on lowercase music

    OK, as a musician and an artist, I am kind of surprised that it took so long to get to this. We have to think back to the time when artwork meant being able to paint a pretty landscape, then someone like Picasso here comes along and "distorts" art by painting disfigured images, kind of like Roland Kirk here and the like "distorted" music with their free-form jazz. Then along came someone like Piet Mondrian here who "reduced" art to the simple lines that are contained within. I know that Ambient has been around for quite some time, but what we're talking about here is a more ethereal tone, the reduction of the essence that makes up music (as an art form). Bravo to the movement, and to those promoting its very existence.

  43. KDE FTP mirrors by Pooh22 · · Score: 1 · on KDE 3.0.1 Ships
    Primary Mirrors

    source: http://www.kde.org/ftpmirrors.html

  44. KDE FTP mirrors by Pooh22 · · Score: 1 · on KDE 3.0.1 Ships
    Primary Mirrors

    source: http://www.kde.org/ftpmirrors.html

  45. Re:Another reason not to trust the media by Semi-Psychic+Nathan · · Score: 1 · on Coasters to Face G-Force Limits?
    And how much background research have you done? Compare this with the Highest G Forces listed on this page under the Steel Coaster category.

    So, do some research before you call someone a moron for not doing any research.

  46. Re:AbiWord by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on AbiWord 1.0.1 Released

    It sounds like you aren't looking for a source-based distro, but you don't need one in order to use Linux.

    Crux is small. You want their i586 version.

    Peanut Linux, as the name implies, is compact. They have an abiword package if you don't want to compile it yourself.

    Some major distros like Mandrake offer minimal install options.

    Big catagorized lists of distros are here and here and here.

    You can get about any distro to work nice if you use a lightweight window manager such as blackbox or xfce (which is actually a complete lightweight desktop environment). Every major distro has a few like these.

  47. This is not the first time this has happened. by apc · · Score: 4, Informative · on Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft
    Some of you may remember that Microsoft lost a patent infringment suit in 1994 to Stac Electronics for much the same reason. See this article for more info.

    Microsoft was also caught in 1995 using bits of Apple's Quicktime for Windows in an MS product. See this old cnet article for more details.

    In that case, they blamed it on a subcontractor. It's been speculated that the big Apple/Microsoft deal at that time (to keep Office for Mac and to bundle IE with Macs, plus a big MS investment in Apple) may have been to settle a copyright infringment claim.

  48. Re:ARP-Proxy is way to go by squeegee-me · · Score: 4, Informative · on Configuring a (User-Side) Hassle-Free Network?

    Try this here there was a space.

  49. Re:Above-average book by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Macintosh... The Naked Truth

    but the total of zero packages for the Linux user

    Umm.. I count around 1200 packages, and that's just in the Red Hat 7.2distribution. Just because someone hasn't put each of these packages on a seperate CD each with their own EULA and a nice price tag, doesn't mean that they aren't there.

    They also carry Mandrake and SuSE Linux.

  50. What surprised me... by jawtheshark · · Score: 1 · on Linux On a Used Cash Register
    ...is that he didn't use a small Linux distribution. I personally would have taken a minimalist distribution (or NetBSD, but that's another story) and there are plenty to choose from according to linux.org .

    The funniest thing for me was RedHat complaining that there was not enough memory (32Meg, come one, isn't that enough to *install*). My favourite "mini" distribution is Peanut Linux . It's the one I use on all my machines, big and small. I have running it on a P120/32Meg RAM with WindowMaker as windowmanager and it runs really smooth (while playing MP3's, in mono however). The installation process never complained a single time about "lack of memory".
    Ah, the days that 4Meg of RAM was huge and 8Meg of RAM was overkill :-)

    This was my 500th post on slashdot. Feel honoured I used it on you ;-)