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Slashback: Norwegian, Nader, Handheld
Putting it all online. "As earlier reported on Slashdot, poor Ottar Grepstad has difficulties getting into his database. Now they're available for download! This is one geeky challenge you don't want to miss. :-) You'll find the story here (click on 'the password mystery'). 'use Xbase;', anyone? :-)"
The loyal opposition. Helmholtz Coil writes "Yahoo! is carrying a rebuttal to the letter James Love and Ralph Nader wrote to the OMB, from the fine folks at ZDNet. Some interesting points, very interesting tone to the whole piece. The question is, though-when can we expect a rebuttal to the rebuttal?"
They need a Free OS focus group :) Gecko writes "Remember the PCs without a pre-installed operating system, selling at Wal-Mart's? OSNews got their hands on one of these and they test Windows, Linux and BeOS. Apparently, the company behind these products had immediately replaced the on-board winmodem with a hardware PCI one, in order to be compatible with Linux, but their new AthlonXP/Duron PC models now come with a newer S3 Savage4 DDR integrated graphics card that is not supported by XFree86. One keeps wondering why they sell these PCs without Windows, if they are not able to test their hardware with other OSes before sending them to Wal-Mart for sale."
A new meaning for Pocket Rocket. Hot on the heels of XScale introductions and announcements from Toshiba and Fujitsu, Brian writes "Acer, Inc. today announces the Acer n20 series, eight months after announcing support for the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 platform, the announcement also made Acer one of the few manufacturers to support both the Palm and Pocket PC platform. PDA LIVE.com again has the scoop and the photos :)"
I hope the pace picks up on the introduction of machines based on Intel's XScale processor.
Dog Star. DHR writes "An update to an earlier story shows that Sirius the satellite radio provider has finally come to their senses and withdrawn their petition to restrict the 2.4GHz band."
Intermission. bubblegoose writes "Yahoo has a story about Film88 being taken down by the MPA. They say it's because the servers were in the Netherlands, I think it more likely due to a good /.'ing."
Anyway, they're not MS backup. The header on each file is NORTON Ver 2A.
although not in the main XFree86 4.2.0 release.
Download the driver here.
Note that, according to the author of the Savage driver, he has no ProSavage DDR hardware to test on, so don't bet on it, but hopefully it should work (as with most drivers, it's just a matter of adding a hardware ID to make it work, assuming the hardware vendor hasn't messed around too much since the previous version, which is unlikely in this case)...
Hope this helps some people...
The password is "ladepujd", but the msback.exe I linked to in another post says the version is wrong for a restore. It does do a catelogue though.
> Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950.
"From the Earth to the Moon", Jules Verne, 1865
"Around the Moon", Jules Verne, 1869
...not to mention all the mentions of the moon in your fucking bible!
Now go crawl back into your fucking fundaMENTAList conspiracy theory troll hole!
I installed Mandrake on my new Walmart PC.
It thought the video was a "Trident CyberBlade (generic)"
but it works just fine.
I was disappointed that the SIS 650 wasn't supported,
but I've got video that works up to 1600x1200.
I downloaded a demo MSbackup cracker that gave me the first letter, then I found the word in the file, but reversed. I shouldn't have needed to look in the file, once I knew the first letter I really should have noticed it was the last letter of the guys last name and put 2 and 2 together...
This is what I posted to one of the ZDNet forums. Jamie
Who said the government should buy MS Office outright? Ralph and I didn't. Maybe the author of the commentary should read the letter again. There is difference between buying "the code for Microsoft Office outright," and asking OMB to consider "Buying outright the code for office productivity products." I think Dan Farber should have understood that the likely source for such a purchase would not be Microsoft, a company that makes billions off its MS Office platform, but more likely other products, such as those offered by Lotus or Corel, which are pretty good, and not that profitable. In any event, that was only one of a pretty large menu of things the US could look at, including much more incremental steps such as requiring disclosure of file format information (an option he ignored), a relatively modest step that would be quite feasible, and would make competitor's products more interoperable, a major barrier for non-MS products now.
On the issue of putting caps on the number of units purchased by a single company, this is not really an innovation in terms of federal procurement policy or law. FAR 6.202 is designed to promote alternative sources of supply, so as to keep the government from dealing with a monopolistic supplier.
6.202 Establishing or maintaining alternative sources.
(a) Agencies may exclude a particular source from a contract action in order to establish or maintain an alternative source or sources for the supplies or services being acquired if the agency head determines that to do so would-
(1) Increase or maintain competition and likely result in reduced overall costs for the acquisition, or for any anticipated acquisition;
james.love@keionine.org
Actually, since Pacman generates no waste, there is no need for an anus; hence no problem.
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