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State: It's very simple. Buy more games and tell the industry that you're buying that game to play on Linux.

I totally agree. The single biggest hinderance to seeing more games running natively on linux is the perception (and likely fact) that there's no money in it. It's for this reason that I subscribe to Transgaming, Bought Neverwinter Nights (and sent them a letter explaining why I picked their game and thanking them), and have copies of games from (some defunct) companies that I dont even play, but whose development I thought it was important to support.

Just keep supporting the folks doing a good job.

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Jedimom.com, picking out a thermos for you.

Far more interested in the progress and development of AMD's Opteron line than all this G5 stuff? I mean, dont misunderstand. I'm excited about desktop 64 bit computing, but I really dont want to be locked into a whole platform. These benchmarks really say to me that the G5 is ok, a little better, but you've gotta go all apple to get it.

Just my pennies.

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Jedimom.com, go banana!

I think that virtual worlds are entirely capable of standing on their own merits and do not need to be considered credible by the academic arts to be worthy.

Having played on and assisted in development of a host of muds for over 10 years (ranging from old diku and lp based all the way through EQ, Planetscape, etc...) I would agree 100%. There is no substitute for 'Fun Factor' in a mud. In fact the more reasonable and sensable (our world like) a mud becomes, the less interesting I find it.

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Jedimom.com, now with twice the pudding!

but Microsoft was seen on Linux today also http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.micr osoft.com.

Quoth Billy G: "Linux sucks, it's worthless, not usable for real . . . What? A worm? Aaaiiiieee! Tux Save Me!!!"

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Jedimom.com, that not-so-fresh feeling.

At the risk of sounding like I've missed the clue-train. Can someone please remind me of why I want to use a smart-phone (whatever that is) to move my mp3s around? I pretty much use my cell phone for, you know, calling people.

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Jedimom.com, that not-so-fresh feeling.

But a quick look at the Google Cache will let you see the original, licence-violating version.

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Jedimom.com, leon's getting larger.

The ISC supports four principles: software should be procured on its merits, the promotion of government funded research, the promotion of interoperability through platform-neutral standards and the maintenance of strong intellectual property protections.

Whew they really had me going 'huh?' until that last part.

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Jedimom.com, that "not-so-fresh" feeling.

Seeing as my total life savings when a senior in college was deep in the negative digits, I should have been so creative as to get the RIAA to assume my debt.

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Jedimom.com, picking out a thermos for you.

Better: Infinity, not being a number, cannot divide any other number, so "one divided by infinity" is a meaningless statement.

Since we're all getting picky, I'll contribute.

Better Still: The division, in the reals, of an integer by Infinity (here defined as an ordinal sharing the cardinality of the set of integers, or for simplicity, we'll pick the ordinal commonly referred to in set thery as 'omega' or w), is not defined. So "one divided by infinity" is a meaningless statement.

(Depending on which infinity you're talking about, infinity may be, indeed most likely is, a number, albeit a cardinal number, or an ordinal number.)

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Jedimom.com, now with 70% less statistics...

I've always enjoyed Blackbox myself on the old Pentium 200. It doesn't eat up alot of processor time or have a large memory footprint, but it still looks nice and lets you do some basic X goodness. Of course, different strokes... Having this kind of variety available is what makes Linux so lovely.

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Jedimom.com, that not-so-fresh feeling...

The jury was intimidated by the pigeon mafia.

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Jedimom.com, choo choo choosing you!

Aw hell, now Sony's gonna go and nerf the monks again. And you know the troublemaker was just a damn dr00d...

. . . ummm, wait a sec.

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Jedimom.com, picking out a thermos for you.

I guess you could say the whole thing just sort of ... fizzled.

*cough*

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Jedimom.com, choo choo choosing you.

But I fail to see any mention of the fact that Lindows is a (inferior?) Linux distribution. Surely we all know this, but I couldn't find so much as the word linux on that page. That coupled with the already mentioned questionable product comparison chart has me a bit peeved.

That said, I think I'll stick with my Dell Latitude/ Redhat 8 combo. It's like joy and love all bundled together in the nicest little package.

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Jedimom.com, tastes like burning.

The NX handhelds have a built-in microphone which turns the NX series in a digital ATRAC3/MP3/ADPCM format voice recorder to store your memos.

Am I the only one who thinks that one of these PDA makers needs to include a line-in jack? It doesn't seem like much to ask, and given this simple feature and some accompanying software, I can effectively do away with my mini-disk recorder for most tasks...

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Jedimom.com, Ph Balanced for Women.

As a supplimentary reading assignment, this months Linux Journal is running an similar, interesting article on Programming PHP with Security in Mind.

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Jedimom.com, choo choo choosing you...

We hope that you are one of those for whom right and wrong does matter.

In the end, ones decision whether or not to refer to Linux as GNU/Linux is a moral decision? Wow... let the holy wars begin!

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Jedimom.com, the not-so-fresh feeling.

But I was a little happy when I heard about the Mozilla security bug. Not because I want to see anything bad happen to the lizard (after all I'm using it now), but because I knew it meant that soon Ximian would release a Mandrake 8.2 build of the most recent version taking care of a few of the other 1.0 bugs I wanted to see fixed. :)

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Jedimom.com, picking out a thermos, for you.

Your point is well taken, since I often find myself playing the part of the Zealot. But there is more to it than this. I personally have been trying to get Linux to replace Windows on my PCs at home. Not simply have it there as a secondary boot. The only thing that keeps me in Windows at this point is Games. I'm a gamer, I love games, and I can't play them in Linux. This is exactly the type of thing thats needed to keep momentum moving in the right direction. We've been facing this chicken/egg situation where you cant run linux because there are no games/apps and no one will develop games/apps because no one runs linux for too long. I'm way past ready for this.

Go Gentoo!

(Offtopic: I have been able to completely convert my laptop to a Linux only box thanks to Mandrake 8.2/Ximian Gnome. I use it primarily for development, and I dont think I'll ever need to boot windows on this machine again.)

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Jedimom.com, ever been in a turkish prison?

I'm not sure who modded the immediate parent up to 2, but I'll reply to the first (obvious troll) comment all the same:

Bill Gates is not the problem. And no one in their right mind is going to attempt any such thing. The real problem isn't business people. Sure they are sleezy, and sure they do what it takes to keep themselves and their companies profitable, but it is the asshat pols like Sen. Hollings that will make all this stuff a set-in-stone reality. Pocked-padded politicians, as worthless as they are, can actually force people to adopt these technologies.

Your right that violence is not an answer. Your answer lies in educating ordinary Americans, making them aware of the danger of this sort of thing, and encouraging them to vote farkers like Hollings out on his well padded rear.

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Jedimom.com, the not-so-fresh feeling.

I enjoyed working in Academia more than any other sector, though I'm not certain whether a BIG 10 university is considered Public or Private. (Since it draws a large amount of funds from the Government) Whatever it may be considered, it was terrific for me. The flexibility you have in when you do your reasearch and how you choose to conduct it is unparalleled.

Just my .02
Jedimom.com, ph balanced, for women.

Finally a reason to buy a PDA. I'll need a suitable controller, but personal address books and calanders just never quite made these things interesting for me. Serious old school gaming will get me to CompUSA for one of these faster than all the financial apps in the world.

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Jedimom.com, ph-balanced, for women.

Here are my current list of demands for a livable tech working environment:

1. Climbing Wall
2. Chalk Bag
3. Pop Tarts
4. Wearable PC
5. Free tickets to Star Wars movies.

Don't need much else, thanks.

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Jedimom.com, ph-balanced, for women.

I'd like to see a story about a certain Commander Taco retiring from posting stories on April first. Couldn't all these be placed a quickies posted near the end of the day?

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Jedimom.com, Ever been in a Turkish Prison?

But I find this hard to believe coming at the same time as the retirement of AMD's long time CEO. If we could only get some real news today, posted by someone other than Rob, I'd be thrilled.

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Jedimom.com, It ain't no summer sausage.

When I was at Purdue we could get most Microsoft software from the copy center for $5 a pop. That included office, all forms of the OS's etc. It's always nicer to have a license and a copy of the CD then something you grabbed from Kazaa. So at that price point it made alot of sense to buy it.

Jedimom.com it ain't your mom's dot com.