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  1. Re:I would like to know... on Sailing the Titan Seas · · Score: 1

    | That is absolutely and totally obscene. You are a horrible person. To advocate taking all the money from NASA and using it to STARVE children is insane. I hope you die.

    This is absolute genius. I wish I had mod points....

  2. Re:First! on Is Retaliation the Answer To Cyber Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Unless it is "Anticipatory Retaliation"...

  3. It's a Tri-corder on 'Lab On a Chip' Made From Paper and Tape · · Score: 1

    Probably McCoy gave them a visit.

  4. Does anybody have any idea about these on Ice Age Beasts Blasted from Space · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Let me be the first to say... on SCO Fiasco Over For Linux, Starting For Solaris? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually Sun bought out their license from Novell in 1994

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_199 4_March_24/ai_15082383/

  6. Re:10.2 percent? on Microsoft to Launch Zune in EU · · Score: 5, Funny

    He said the Zune had a 10.2 percent market share in the U.S. in the 30 gigabyte category

    "If you can't make the numerator rarger, make the denominator smarrer."

          -- Guy Kawasaki - The Computer Curmudgeon

  7. Question: DHCP and LAN side DNS w/ routers on Interoperability Tests of Draft 802.11n Routers · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      I have a LAN side caching DNS which also serves the "in house computer names".
      The only router that I've been able to configure with a LAN side DNS address (192.168.200.9 in this case) for DHCP is a Linksys.
      Has anyone had any success configuring any of these routers with a LAN side DNS for DHCP configuration?

      Thanx

  8. Re:Hey is that crow on the table? on Paul Thurrott's WGA Woes Solved · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So the solution is not to buy any Microsoft products. Then at least you'll be protected from Microsoft ever claiming anything against you. I wouldn't buy anything from any company if there was any danger of buying illegal stuff. So Compusa is out, Fry's is out, Newegg is out as far as Microsoft products go.

      Just say no to Microsoft.

  9. Re:Hey is that crow on the table? on Paul Thurrott's WGA Woes Solved · · Score: 1


      No. It is not my job to police Microsoft's marketing force, and it is wrong for me to be impacted by their marketing force's incompetence.

      This would never happen with my copy of SUSE 10.1, or OpenOffice.

  10. Re:Or if it causes them...Ooops on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. Re:Or if it causes them... on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 1


    This site gives pretty good statistics..

    http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm/

  12. Re:"Essentially" the same data? on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even then , would you rather spend $500 on Microsoft Office or extra memory and a CPU to get a better machine to speed up all the applications. Paying for one piece of software usually does not pay.

  13. Largo has it.... on ESA Cryosat Launch Reported Failure · · Score: 1

    And unless James can get it back, The world will be a much hotter place.

  14. Re:My question... on AMD Takes Case To Public, Japan · · Score: 2, Funny

    >>They're in it for power.

    Nope. Apparently they're in it for Pentium...

  15. Re:what? on Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery · · Score: 1

    Dual Pentium 4 ? Who makes such a mobo ???

  16. Re:2 hours = Useful project? on IT Literacy Test · · Score: 1

    You haven't said if this is your computer or the users computer.And also have not indicated if it is a one button mouse, or two or three.

    If your computer, if you are using firefox, opera, mozilla, konqueror or lynx or safari.

    You also have not indicated if middle button is set for tab, and the right button is set for new window for three button mouse, or what the mouse button setting is for a two button mouse, or what meta keys are used for a one button mouse.

    Or is this lynx browser ....

    Sorry not enough info...

  17. Re:An embarassment of security. on Lexar JumpDrive Password Scheme Cracked · · Score: 1

    Also known as "Signetics WOM" WOM

  18. Re:Too Bad... on SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan · · Score: 1

    >

    To Quote Arlo Guthrie:

    "We must not negotiate with terrorists at any level!"

  19. Re:not only the president.... on Ballmer Sells Part of his Stake in Microsoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually Bill Gates used to own almost 50% as AFAIR. Now he holds about 11% ...

    Which means he has gotten rid of almost 80% of his holdings.

    Yahoo -> MSFT -> insider , looking at last year show an almost scary mass exodus...

  20. Re:IBM is not faulty on SCO To Show Copied Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could come from a lot of places.

    When the supposedly infinging code is made known, then a million hands will be searching for it's origins, and they will go back, way back to see where it might have originated from.

    Way back in late 60s and early seventies there were a lot of interchange of ideas/code between academics and industry about operating systems.

    Some that come to mind were HP RTE (Real Time Executive) ,which was developed at University of Montana in exchange for an HP computer.

    There was the Scientific Data Systems.

    There have been , as a crude estimate, well over 10,000 books written on the subject.

    History of the subject is rich and way to complex to research by one company , or a law firm, but it is well within the grasp of a million specialists sitting at a computer, or leafing thru JACM or IEEE publications, and the millions of ancient books they have in their posession.

    One ofshoot of this is that those who subscribed to MSDN( as I did) will also search for any source code that resembles the supposedly infringing code.

    So at that point Microsoft may have to get into picture and coach SCO as to not to reveal the code, since the outcome for Microsoft may not be pretty.

    Al in all this is a good thing for Linux. We can get a lot of milage out of this. A lot more than they hope to get.

    I can understand some proprietary software company having a brain-storm session and coming up with a scenario like this to curb the growth of Linux, but this ain't it.

    All this has accomplished this far is crystalize the opposition to SCO and Microsoft.
    Any companies it actually has helped is Sun and IBM.

    It appears that these people still don't understand what open source is about. There IS no air supply to cut off. There IS no funds to dry. If IBM stopped Linux developement today, Linux will still charge on. Now, next year, next decade.

    Another problem for Microsoft is that, even if Linux was banned, then all these programmers would develope Office tools, CRM, Games, and all the other lucrative things that MS is trying to capitalize on. Apache has already demonstrated that when OSS can't eat Microsofts lunch at OS, it will eat their lunch on their home turf.

    Tp paraphrase, "Linux sticks like #$%^ to Microsofts blanket".

  21. Re:What else are we supposed to do? on More On Detecting NAT Gateways · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I pay for 2 extra IP's per month from Comcast, and have done so for 6 years now. But not to use them. I do so out of fairness. We are 3 people in the house , and I feel we should pay for 3. However , we do have 14 computers in the house, including 1 caching DNS server. We also use DSL from Qwest which gives me 5 static IPs so that I can run my own servers.

    This network is not realizable by using their IPs, because they don't give more than 5 IP addresses. Besides , since we access thru Comcast and Qwest, whose IPs should we use? What about unintentional leakage of Comcast traffic to Qwest and vice versa?

  22. Re:10 years... So similiar... on 10 Years of the World Wide Web · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Just curious, why companies like Apollo with Mentor Graphics s/w is never mentioned in these discussions. I remember attending Mentor Graphics training classes ( Apr. 1984?) with a flow blown windowing system, touch pad (fingernail?) mouse.

    sinan

  23. Re:Gee... no kidding. on Sun Rethinking Linux Strategy Over SCO Lawsuit · · Score: 1


    I like your user name. Do they still make those?

    sinan

  24. Re:64 bits? on The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    10^64 ? I thought ARthur Eddington's estimate was around 10^80. Are there finer estimates now?

    Thanx...

  25. Re:well, it is illegal on OptimumOnline Bans uploads to P2P networks · · Score: 1

    I thought that was called prior restraint and was illegal in this country...

    sinan