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  1. Re:Not so overpriced after all... by devnulljapan · · Score: 1 · on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables

    And you sir are a fat fuck

  2. Re:What's the point? by tweek · · Score: 1 · on IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux

    Well I can't speak for the iSeries and pSeries specifically but we went full xSeries for our new deployment because of IBM support. The biggest in our bunch are two x445 boxes. We may turn around and buy two more and and connect them to the existing ones to get the 16 CPU max on each box. Cost wise, these boxes weren't cheap but the support from IBM and the quality of hardware is unrivaled.

    We also have numerous x335 pizza boxes that we can buy all day long and rack up because the are so cheap.

    Our web and mail infrastructure runs on x345 boxes.

    Everyone of these guys is running either RHAS3 or Gentoo.

    I've become a whore for IBM lately. The hardware is rock solid and the support I've gotten from IBM has been stellar.

    We may have to move up to i or z if we grow out of those 445s but if we do, we get to keep our same environment thanks to IBM's investment in Linux on the mainframe.

    I think that's the real reason people buy it with that.

    FYI if you want to see pictures of the current datacenter we're building out, Check it out

  3. Re:One thing I'd love to see in KDE that was added by tweek · · Score: 1 · on Gnome 2.4 Release(d)

    Well two things really:

    1) my desktop is /home/username not /home/username/Desktop

    Which leads to point number two

    2) The directories will just be recreated when I rerun the application (i.e. evolution) that created them.

    If I were using a Desktop directory none of this would be a problem but because I'm using my home directory (i.e. /home/username ) as my desktop directory, there's alot of cruft there that I don't really want to see.

    here's my current desktop:
    Be warned, it's 1280x1024

    The stuff circled in red is what I don't want to see. Eventually I'll move the text documents into another folder but I need them right now.

    The other downside is that KDE and Gnome don't share .desktop formats. Therefore if I load gnome, the links on the side (root, tubby, fatboy and my two fish:// links) are displayed wrong and do nothing. Now fish:// is a kde-specific thing but if I wanted to, I could move them into a folder called "Network Filesystems" or somesuch and then I wouldn't have to see them in gnome but for now since I'm spending my time in KDE, I'll leave em.

  4. Re:Where's the tarball?!? by tweek · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla 1.2.1 Released

    I'll have some SRPMS available tonight hopefully for 7.3 in case no one is willing to wait.

    Here's the result of my build of 1.2b:

    Mozilla 1.2b + Xft + Gnome2 on RH7.3

  5. Re:Excellent! - Hoping for real save as PDF in 1.1 by tweek · · Score: 2, Informative · on OpenOffice.org Team Releases Version 1.0

    http://www.lusis.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=N ews&file=article&sid=44

    Here's hoping slashdot doesn't fuck up the link.

    If you're running a linux workstation, it's even easier but if you happen to have a linux firewall or just one on your network, it'll get the job done.

  6. Re:Open document formats by tweek · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Sizing Up StarOffice 6.0

    heheh I actually posted a reply on the newsforge article about how to do this.

    Here's a link to the article on my website

    Quick and Dirty PDF Printer

    You'll need samba, ghostscript, mpack and a decent postscript printer driver.

    hope it helps.

  7. Neat side note by tweek · · Score: 3 · on Rural India Could Get Internet Access Via Railway
    I just got back from India after a 3 week business trip recruiting technical candidates. I met some of the most amazing men and women there. One group that still has my attention is a group of people who are working on a project sponsored by the government to basically build the Indian version of arpanet. 6 major cities connected, then 16 minor cities connected to those major and then 32 outlaying cities connected to the minor ones and so on outward. My only gripe about India during the trip (despite the heat in New Dehli and the traffic in Bangalore) was the poor quality of internet access and extortionate phone charges levied by the government. The hotels I stayed at (Le Merdien) were charged Rs 150 just to get a dialtone by the government. I used my calling card the entire time to dial into the US for ISP access because it was faster, more reliable and cheaper than dialing locally.

    To all the slashdotters in India, I can't wait to come back and see more of the country.

    P.S. For some pictures of the trip if you are interested check out this link.

  8. Ugh. Thank You. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DeCSS Source Included in Public Court Records

    Thank you for standing up for intellectual freedom and open discourse. Unfortunately, there are too many people like Tweek who wish to silence anyone who doesn't share their ideological hobby horse. Mr. Tweek (john@lusis.org) is typical of the intolerance practiced today by the priests of politically correct orthodoxy. Mr. Tweek (john@lusis.org) tosses around words like "racism" and "KKK" without any evidence to support such outright slander. His ad hominem attacks are indicative of the worst form of logical fallacy and intolerance. In Tweek's world (john@lusis.org) the only "tolerance" allowed is for those who happen to share his particular prejudiced world view. Woe to those who don't agree. Tweek (john@lusis.org) will throw an irrational temper tantrum, and subvert Slashdot's moderation system to enforce his pet agenda, censoring those who would dissent. No doubt Tweek (john@lusis.org) would love a job as enforcer for the thought police in his politically correct totalitarian dream world.

  9. Re:Snurk. by tweek · · Score: 2 · on FTC Petitioned on Data Profiling

    In addition, with men like Al Gore still holding elected office, many people doubt that governments can understand the basic issues (technical and
    otherwise) required for passing reasonable laws.

    I find this to be the scariest part of the whole issue. I don't WANT people who have no understanding of the internet to pass laws. Chances are they will screw things up and make it worse. You've seen how the government has already handled encryption and related export laws. People fear what they don't understand for the most part. Thus making laws to restrict what they don't understand makesi t more difficult for those of us who do get it

    I think netscape has officially hit the crack pot. 4.7 128 bit for linux is showing all the colors funny. check it out here
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