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John Loftus translation services has volunteered hundreds of man hours (no woman hours please, he's a Republican) to ensure a "Fair and Balanced"(tm) translation.

Amazingly enough, every singe document details proof that Saddam had WMD programs in place!

We have the proof! Bush was right! The war is justified!

We always had the proof.

No one ever doubted Saddam had WMD. Clinton was a coward and a Commie for not going to war to kill him. Bush Sr. would have finished it but the French must have chickened out at the last second, leaving us without support we were counting on. That's why we're invading France in 2015...

And I'm sure that you've imagined a few thousand MANATEE PORN scenes in your sick little pin-brain.

Ah Matty... If you weren't so busy jamming your Gameboy into your over-worked little stink-hole, you'd check those IP logs..... (HINT: It's 10:49 PM on the East coast.....)

They're doing the suing....

While your wife is doing the mooing.

Of course, lots of foreplay works even better than some KY....

Dude, it's way too early in the morning for that mental picure.

Matt, Matt, Matt....

You need spellcheck for "believe" and I'm the one with the high school brain?

Dude, YOU'RE BEING TROLLED! Retards like you are the problem with Slashdot. All brains and not a lick of common sense...

BTW, it's funny that you have a link to "Spam Vampire" on your info page, but you appear to be something of a spammer yourself! Come on Matty, Slashdotters are supposed to LOVE Indymedia and HATE spam! Get with the program!

Has anyone ever told you that you look like Pvt. Pile?

This is just so very, very wrong.

Don't get me wrong, a program that lets linux programs run in windows isn't a bad idea, but that picture... it just should not be.

When napster went legit, I had images of the napter cat, once a symbol of freedom, as a borgified drone of the RIAA, that picture sends the exact same shivers down my spine.

It's called Wintux

Deus Ex was easily the best game I've ever played. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but feel shorthanded when I read that they had intended to incorporate more religious elements in DX. Here's hoping to see that crop up in DX2.

No one's got the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro working under linux, but it looks like someone's figured out Juno.

I had the chance to be the first post, but decided to mirror the site first.

My mirror is here

who cares about pictures of a STB dont they look like a box....
what matters is what running inside is it a shoddy x86 or a nice MIPS/ARM chip

"Cocoon uses the freely available Linux operating system and a microprocessor based on reduced instruction-set computing technology developed by MIPS Technology Inc"

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If this CD has an easy to install copy of LyX for Win32 I'll be more than happy to buy a copy!

Mmmmm. What you See is What you Mean editing. Mmmmmm. Yummy. Easy export of PDF, HTML or any other format from one document...

More on LyX, the BEST text processor in the world or just download it.

Linux users probably have it already.

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Diakatana team to develop Windows 2004 (Codename Mordor)

Hiring harte-hanks is the corporate equivalent of saying "We don't give a F***"

During my time there, my MANAGER told me that if a company really cared they wouldn't have hired the firm.

They're somebody you hire when you want to say you have a call center, but don't care if anything is actually accomplished by it.

One of the accounts I worked for was the warranty number of a defective tape measure that was being sold by Sears. Our job was to essentially tell them that unless the rivets had come out of the little metal tab that was attached to the tape measure itself, it wasn't covered by the warranty.

The case fell apart during the first day of use? Too Bad.

The spring that recoils the tape broke when you opened the package? Too Bad.

The tape broke when you uncoiled it for the first time? Too Bad.

And don't get me started on how they distribute "Information." Fuzzy photocopies thumbtacked to the cubicle walls.

The training session consisted of a video on how to handle brokerage calls. Nothing to do with our jobs, but it was "phone etiquette" training.

They also placed a lot of outgoing telemarketing calls. While I was there I made sure to put myself on all of their "Do Not Call" and "Do Not Mail" lists.

We were also told not to put someone on the "Do Not Call" list until they asked to be removed for the second time in the conversation.

I made the mistake of getting my manager when a caller wanted to "speak to the manger." I got chewed out for 20 minutes after the call. Apparently, you're supposed to hand the call to whoever is in the next cubicle and they become your "manager" for the duration of the call. This is to save the real managers time. I was once "Fired" by the girl next to me for the way I'd handled the call. After the caller hung up she and I had a good laugh at my "unemployed" status.

I'm now VERY glad I got a PS2 today. Now that I know harte-hanks is handling the calls, I know Microsoft doesn't care about providing service to ANYONE who buys the product. "Ship it and forget it."

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From The Sun

"The boys got involved because producer GEORGE LUCAS's 13-year-old daughter Katie is a fan of the band and badgered her dad to give them a role."

Man, I wish MY dad would let me name movies and pick the cast!

This Summer, from Metro Home Video: Christina Ricci and Janeane Garofalo in "Hotter than Natalie with twice the hot grits"

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The Archos Jukebox is basically a USB hard drive that can play MP3 and WAV files you store on it. No copy protection, no data regulation. There's been a slashdot article on how to upgrade the 6 gig model to 20 gig (Although a 20 gig model is out now) it can record WAV files and I have a review of it on my web site www.matthewmiller.net.

My review doesn't mention this, but it runs under kernel 2.4.x just fine. :)

Being a curious and somewhat masochistic person, I decided to try TopText and see what happened.

I normally use Opera, but I fired up IE 5.5, updated to the latest stable patches (6.0 beta is out but I didn't bother with it) and installed TopText.

No yellow links, but my pages are randomly reloading, usually bringing up something further back in the browser history.

It even destroyed my efforts at Meta-Moderating!

I'm using Windows ME (Don't ask why, we have sales reps in the field using it and I had to become familiar. Don't install it. IF you must use Windows use Win 98 SE or W2K, perhaps XP when it comes out, but NOT Windows ME)

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The article is a big, steaming pile of marketing:

if people miss Clippy, they can turn him back on by clicking the 'help' tag on the Office XP task bar.

How, then, is the blasted thing being removed? It doesn't pop up as often. Great. Wow. Personally, I uninstall the component whenever I can.

On the bright side, Clippy helps me identify people I don't want to date?

I have a few tests. Test 1. Can they watch Dogma for the first time and listen to the dialog instead of complaining about how little action there is.

Test 2: Do they like the #$@& Paper Clip.

They're intelligence tests. Enjoying Dogma and detesting Clippy are prerequisites for intimate relations.

I never get First Post because I actually READ the articles and think about them before posting.

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How would you manage the development of an Open Source rocket guidance system? How many people would you find who would test it? Part of the reason Linux has grown the way it has is because anyone can set up their own test system (Assuming sufficient technical skill). How does Joe Blow hacker set up a test environment for Rocket Guidance?????

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I could be wrong here, but the documentation for the GPS I got for my Palm Pilot said that it was a receive only protocol, so I receive telemetry data but am not sending any. Given the range of Cell phones, wouldnt a GPS have to be much larger to send data back into orbit???

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Dual Processor, overclocked to 1.6Ghz, 4 Gig RAM, 20GB RAID....

And 2,000 of them in a Beowolf Cluster....

Drool...

Put it on a T3 and I will be the Quake III God!!!!!!

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Diablo, Planescape, those "Whatever his name is" Gate games are all nothing but cute graphical interfaces to a tiny subset of Nethack's gamely. The gameplay is the ONLY thing. Yes, the interface is ASCII, but it's still around, still being enhanced and still more complex and detailed than any of the pretenders with glitz and glamor.

Nethack is proof positive that Open Source workes for the game core. Sadly, the same has yet to be proven true for graphics and 3D engines.....

Besides, you gotta love a game with instructions written by Eric S. Raymond.

http://www.nethack.org/

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It's so fast-

How fast is it?

It's so fast, it takes TWO halt instructions to stop it!

Humor that predates the Arpanet
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Cool! I'm already boycotting them and didn't even know it.

In all seriousness though, I would like to given them a chance to respond before a boycott. (As if little 'ole me boycotting them will make much difference to them)

I say if they don't apologize by Tuesday we start the political activism. I've had it with all these #)&$@ corporations deciding their bottom line is more important than right and wrong. I don't want to live under Corporate Feudalism anymore.

This has been posted to the Pilsbury http://www.mealtimeideas.com/bulletinboard/

For those of you who don't know, Pilsbury is sending cease and desist orders to a variety of organizations who use the term "bake-off."

The most recent round of such letters went to computer companies who use the term for a state of software testing. Salon has an article about it online. http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/01/19/pillsbury /index.html

Your local school could be next!

Anyway, my computer geek background and my considerable cooking skills inspired me to come up with the following recipe for Dough-Boy cakes.

First, you start with a basic pound cake or Mazitpan recipe. If using a pound cake recipe, you need to add flour to create a very dense dough.

Roll the dough into circles for the head, an oval for the chest and smaller ovals for the legs and arms. If you're feeling creative you can even make the hat and add some food coloring.

The more sadistic among us can shape the head with skeleton features to indicate a cooked Dough-Boy who met a gruesome end, as in the picture here: http://members.tripod.com/laffs/images/Doughboy.jp g

Serve and enjoy.

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Dear God in Heaven, PLEASE let this be a joke. This is a hoax, right? Pillsbury isn't REALLY this stupid and asinine, is it? Their lawyeres aren't really this insane are they????????

I'll just have to boycott them. Whose with me?

Come on, you know being boycotted by a group that probably makes up 40% of their business would hurt the suckers, and it's not like boycotting the MPAA because there are a LOT of alternatives to Pillsbury products!

Let's go to the bulletin board on their web site and post what we think of them, shall we??

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Jump Ship. There is NO reason for you to stay with a dying company. Give your friends good references. Feel no guilt. You'll be kicking yourself for losing those job offers whent the comany does fold.

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Text Version here

Palm Version here

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Text Version here

Palm Version here

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Text Version here

Palm Version here

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There are several readers available, many of which are freeware or open source. Http://www.palm-press.com/ has more info, as does
http://www.peanutpress.com and there's even a Slashdot article on it

Don't forget:
http://www.memoware.com/
http://www.tomeraider.com/

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Napster has been responsible for most of my recent CD purchases. Tired of getting burned by CDs with two good songs and 10 terrible ones, I'd drifted away from modern music, but then Napster came along, and I got to preview all the music for a download. I ended up buying CDs of groups I never would have listened to otherwise, or had only heard one or two songs by them on the radio.

I'd chalked up the whole "Harry Potter" thing to the "Latest cool thingine" style craze that brought us Pokemon. Then I stumbled across the first three books in text form on Usenet. Yes, I read the first three for free, but I got addicted to books I NEVER would have read otherwise. I bought the fourth book, will be buying the rest of the series as it comes out (Unless it starts to suck) and will probably take my little sister to see the movie when it comes out.

Bottom line is, having books and music available online has caused me to buy MORE instead of less.

Heck, I even ended up buying the hard copy of an O'Reily book I already had in the Perl CD Bookshelf because I wanted a hard copy to mark up, dog ear and bookmark instead of having to fire up my browser every time I wanted to look up a code snippet.

And now I've read the first chapter to Black on Black and look forward to perusing it on my Palm during my next flight.

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Nothing new here. Slashdot ran a story a while back about a slug hunting robot that is powered by digesting the slugs it catches.

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The simple fact is, the benefits of Cell phones, PDAs and 900 mhz CPUs are limited so far as the average consumer is concerned.

Running water, sanitation and medical aid have tangible benefits, like longer life span, increased health and reduced BO.

Most of the major "We need this to survive" itches have been scratched already. Until we develop telepathy or Star Trek style travel technology, there will not be any major, life altering changes, just incremental upgrades to what we already have.

What do computers give you? Frustration every time it crashes (Unless you're running BSD or BE, then you're frustrated by file format incompatibilities with the other OSes, but I digress) Most users don't care about computers beyond word processing. More advanced users care about spreadsheets e-mail and web surfing. In the end, only Ubergeeks like my fellow SlashDot readers care about computers beyond the basics.

Most of the technology that's been developed in the last 50 years involved the creation, manipulation and transfer of information, that's just not as vital as being able to see well after the sun goes down.

There's also the infrastructure issue. With a few government subsidies, even rural areas could get connected to the phone system by building a few buildings and digging some trenches, but running clean line for DSL and installing the hardware at the various offices disturbs existing infrastructure. Someone's phone access might be disrupted, and the technology just doesn't offer the massive benefits that the early land lines did.

Adding a GPS system, cellular emergency call button and map database to cars will do more for the mass consumers (Once the technology is wide spread and inexpensive) than the latest and greatest VooDoo chip or Load Balancing innovations in MS-Windows 20xx.

We'll never have the flying cars that have been promised since the 1930's because the infrastructure to support them would disrupt commercial airlines. Until we run out of oil, we'll never have Ethanol, Natural Gas or other alternative-fuel cars in nationwide use, because the infrastructure to support them (Refuelling stations, repair centers, dealerships) is too expensive to justify the trouble and cost for most consumers, and even then, they'll just be a tweak to existing technology.

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Yep. Did you also know that metal knives didn't replace flint knives until Roman times? While available for a few thousand years before then, it just wasn't possible to get a metal knife to keep an edge as well as flint until around the time of Rome's rise to power.

Plus, a knife does more damage and doesn't have that pesky battery problem like a tazer.

Stone knives don't care if an EMP hits you, or if a giant magnet is trying to extract all your weapons. Flint knives often have a sharper edge than many of the low to mid-range weapons sold today, and they're made of materials that require less energy and infrastructure to extract and shape. It's a lot easier to spend an hour making a new stone knife than it is to mine ore, refine the metal, shape it and sharpen it....

AND they don't rust!

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Every Linux user won't migrate, but M$ will be the company that forks Linux into new versions. Businesses will evaluate M$ Linux as if it were the only Linux, the press will assume that any problems M$ Linus has will be problems for the rest of the Linux distros, because as we all know the media is pretty clueless about Linux and Operating Systems. All Linux coverage will mention Linux as being distributed by M$. Red HAt stories will mention that Linux is "An operating system distributed by Microsoft and several smaller vendors." MS-Linux will BE Linux to most users.

M$ will go after the clients that SuSe and Red Hat get now, and all the business supported Linux Distros will die when faced with such a direct threat from Uncle Bill. There will be Debian, Slaskware and MS-Linux. All the others will be consumed by M$.

We will keep the hobby market, but we will lose the business and desktop forever. Hardware support will become harder and harder as the Hardware companies make deals with M$ to give them the specs and not us.

Enjoy the Glory Days of Linux. Enjoy them while they last, for soon, Linux will be embraced and extended by Microsoft.

The doom of us all

Back in my day, we built probes that would last decades. Forget this disposable, one-use crap you kids go in for now. When we launched something, even if it was designed for a six month mission, we EXPECTED it to last until our grandkids were running things, so they could look up and know that we were better at building this stuff than they could ever hope to be.

And we used a slide rule for everything! That little chunk of plastic and metal you use to play games has more computing power than all of NASA had when Pioneer 6 was launched!

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Everyone knows that as soon as Linux becomes a threat, Microsoft will release their own distro. It will NOT be compatible with existing distros, but it will become the "Standard" for Linux because it's a Microsoft product. They might trample the GPL. they might now, but you can be certain your Linux Apps won't run on MS-Linux. If we're lucky it will have .NET.

Remember what they did to Stacker? To PC DOS? Face facts, M$ will eat Linux for lunch as soon as they feel the need to do so. Perhaps they'll just steal Linux code and use it in Windows (Like they did with Stacker), or their version of Windows will ONLY run applications compiled with "Blessed" compilers, causing mysterious crashes when a program compiled with the GNU compiler is launched (Like they did to PC-DOS when Windows was first released)

As a matter of fact, I have proof of what I say. Here's a link to the new M$ Linus distro to be released soon.

Everyone knows that as soon as Linux becomes a threat, Microsoft will release their own distro. It will NOT be compatible with existing distros, but it will become the "Standard" for Linux because it's a Microsoft product. They might trample the GPL. they might now, but you can be certain your Linux Apps won't run on MS-Linux. If we're lucky it will have .NET.

Remember what they did to Stacker? To PC DOS? Face facts, M$ will eat Linux for lunch as soon as they feel the need to do so. Perhaps they'll just steal Linux code and use it in Windows (Like they did with Stacker), or their version of Windows will ONLY run applications compiled with "Blessed" compilers, causing mysterious crashes when a program compiled with the GNU compiler is launched (Like they did to PC-DOS when Windows was first released)

As a matter of fact, I have proof of what I say. Here's a link to the new M$ Linus distro to be released soon.

Did anyone else see something strange in the Jupiter photos? A black object floating near Jupiter? Kinda like a long rectangle, black, no visible surface features. Looks like a large Hershey bar...

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Well, Venus has a lot of Sulfuric Acid rain, but the air pressure is apparently too high for pools or oceans of the stuff to form. Light breezes carry half ton boulders around like grains of sand, and no probe has lasted on the surface for more than a couple of minutes.

So Mars is downright friendly by comparison

The company I work for provides Continuing Education to Securities and Insurance Brokers, and as the MIS director, I get to review the exams at my leisure. You wouldn't believe how many of these bozos don't know basic terms like Money Laundering and Annuity. It genuinely frightens me that these people are trading stocks and selling Insurance.

The course people fail the most: Ethics

The main reason Online CE is growing so fast in the Securities and Insurance Industries is because online exams can be taken until you pass, as opposed to paper exams that you take and retake, usually paying extra fees for each retake. It's amazing how many of these morons retake the exams five or six times before passing, and they're multiple choice exams with only four options per question!

One of our competitors (SEII) is even worse. You aren't allowed to move on to the next question until you've gotten the current question right.

"I'm sorry, 'A' is not the correct answer, try again"

"I'm sorry, 'B' is not the correct answer, try again"

"I'm sorry, 'C' is not the correct answer, try again"

"'D' is Correct! click the button to move on to question 5"

In short, I wouldn't doubt the character's authenticity as a broker just because he didn't know the terms. About 10% of those clowns know what's going on, the rest are the Business World Equivalent of AOL users.

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I just send my e-mail in a special Pidgin Pig Latin Esperanto dialect I and some friends developed, then save it to file with WordPerfect 3.0. Then I send the file via e-mail. Don't even need PGP. Sometimes I can't read my own stuff, let the FBI do it's worst.

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Now all they have to do is engineer nano - factories into our skin so these suckers can be churned out in the thousands and emitted in a aerosol - like spray from our skin to deflect bullets and intercept rockets....

The name's Denton, J.C. Denton

The tests are a crock of road apples.

Now that I've enraged everyone I'll elaborate.

The tests are long and vague, relying on a persona's ability to understand themselves. The tests attempt at weeding out self serving answers (I want to seem more sensitive so I'll pick this option on question 23) by having redundant questions, but the bottom line is they are pretty much useless.

Go ahead and read the descriptions the tests give of the different personality types. You'll find that your personality is probably reflected to some degree in each one of them. It's like a horoscope. It's incredibly vague to the point where anyone can see some kernel of how it relates to them. You might as well read your horoscope on www.theonion.com as rely on the MB tests.

As a final note, there are classes on how to "beat" the tests. It's not as much fun as the courses on throwing off lie detector tests but it does show how the MB is only good for entertainment purposes.

In my opinion, any PHB who even bothers to give his staff the bloody test should be fired ASAP for incompetence.

BTW: I'd do the same to anyone who uses a horoscope in the workplace too.

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http://www.420.cc/forum/DCForumID21 /10 0.html

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The Gathering??

"So, it's here at last. The Gathering. Time is catching up with us my friend."

"There can be only one!"

Sorry, someone had to say it.

May she have her father's brains and her mother's looks,

The beauty of Venus and a love of Penguins,

The mind of Einstein and the fluency of Shakespere,

And may she be as loved and admired in the field she chooses as her own Papa.

May her parents have infinite patience,

The time to spend with her,

The wisdom to raise her

The courage to teach her that which she needs to know,

And may they be as proud of her accomplishments as if they were their own.

Congratulations Mr. Torvalds.

As long as there is Unix, there will be Linux and BSD.

Why? Simple. Sun, IBM and HP all see Linux as a way to gain mind share. Let's look at two hypothetical:

A business builds a small web server and database server using NT or 2000. Their business grows and soon they realize they need more power. Microsoft promises to scale infinitely. A salesman from Sun shows up and offers a Solaris solution. Better stability, scales better, and Oracle is kicking MS-SQL's but in exactly the kind of business they're running. But running Solaris would require retraining of staff, replacing all their software and migrating their data to a new system. Sun looses the sale.

A business builds a small web server and database server using Linux. The business outgrows the memory model of Linux because the same memory optimizations that allow you to have a 4,000 hit per day web server running on a 386 cause some problems when you reach eight processors and 24 gigs of RAM. Solaris walks in and offers a solution that scales better, runs ports of all the software they're using and because they know how to run Linux, Solaris is a small skip and a jump away in IT skills.

The more people who run Linux or BSD on their home systems, the more sales the big Unix vendors will be able to make, because there will be more people who know how to operate the systems. This is exactly why NT has gained so much ground. People know how to run Windows, so they figure a web server running NT can't be that big a leap.

Oddly enough, optimizing the Kernel for massive systems with a plethora of processors and RAM could hurt Linux if the big Unix companies see it as a threat.

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