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  1. Re:Probably a misquote on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 1
    Better one (without any changing the meaning of any individual verse):
    "he went forth and hanged himself" - Matt. 27:5
    Jesus said "Go, and do thou likewise" - Luke 10:37
    Jesus said "That thou doest, do quickly." - John 13:27

    There you are, all in order and everything - go and hang yourself quickly!

  2. Re:Phony/UL-uncertified power supplies on Tom's Hardware Compares Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    ... or perhaps (and this is just speculation, but I know it goes on frequently elsewhere) the manufacturer is UL listed and it is rebranded - they just keep the manufacturer's UL cert. (which, AFAIK is legal).

  3. Re:Good article, wish I could have written it! on Tom's Hardware Compares Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    ...and what were you doing with your left arm that would have caused such damage?

  4. Re:sorry on Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer · · Score: 1

    ...and what you get in the meantime would probably be a valid sendmail.cf

  5. Re:first? on Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows · · Score: 1
    The analog in Windows would be... VNC, ???, and batch files?

    Sorry. Despite being behind *nices in scripting, Windows really is digital, not analog.

  6. Re:Refresh is evil on Declaring The Death of Metatags · · Score: 1

    MRTG. Need I say more?

  7. You're all forgetting on Red Hat 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    There's a cardinal rule most people here seem to be forgetting. Never use a RedHat .0 release on anything but a test machine. I usually wait for the .2 release. (Posting from my RedHat 7.3 laptop - so it's not as if I have anything against RedHat in general.)

  8. Re:Bungie, Rare, ... Sega on Microsoft Buys Rare · · Score: 1
    I think they should stick to what(only) they are good at: mouses ;)

    Now be nice. Microsoft is good for more than 'mouses'. They make some nice keyboards, too.

  9. Re:obFlame on The Days of SysAdmin Numbered? · · Score: 1

    It was supposed to be funny. Sorry.

  10. obFlame on The Days of SysAdmin Numbered? · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    ... Yes I admit to being a MS admin

    ...

    most solaris admins I know are a lot more compentant (sic) than myself, and go way beyond telling someone to reboot their machine.

    You're being redundant.

  11. Re:Hardware, not software, is what the Zaurus need on Zaurus Software Reviews · · Score: 1

    This is the primary reason I don't have one yet. Heck, I'd be happy with a USB port that I could plug a PC keyboard into.

  12. Re:Quantum computing =/= no privacy on Cryptogram: AES Broken? · · Score: 2, Funny
    when quantum computers arrive

    I have a Quantum hard drive, but I didn't know they were getting in the PC business.

    Hmmm... now that I think about it, I thought they got bought out by Maxtor. I think you're just bluffing about "Quantum computers" and this power they will supposedly have.

  13. Re:Hanging chad on Electronic Voting's Fundamental Flaws · · Score: 1
    ... proved that candidates whose holes were to be punched over those bars were practically guaranteed to jam

    ...and here I thought that Bill Bradley was the only candidate who was practically guaranteed to jam.

  14. Re:It's not a lack of confidence. It's economics. on Maxtor Announces 80GB Platters · · Score: 1
    Remember Micropolis,

    RIP, you POS

    Miniscribe,

    I don't remember seeing an announcement about them going out of business, but then again, I haven't seen any for quite awhile either.

    Quantum, Conner,

    Both bought by the competition - Quantum by Maxtor, Conner by Seagate. Essentially, they still exist.

    and Rodime

    Who? And don't forget Winchester.

    Actually, other posters here have mentioned many others (Seagate, Fujitsu, Samsung, IBM, Toshiba). I wouldn't worry about a monopoly just yet.

  15. Re:Please on Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued · · Score: 2, Funny

    whew - at least i can get by with lower-case letters and some punctuation.

  16. Re:Improper use of the DCMA on Adobe Gets Hit By DMCA · · Score: 1
    neither or which I have even heard of

    You haven't been a font consumer for too terribly long then. I don't know about company profits / size, but I used ITC fonts on a MacOS 6.x platform c. 1994(?) and within a year later, I saw a $100k+ Agfa scanner (3000+ dpi in the days when 300 dpi was considered "pretty neat").

    They may not be Fortune 500, but it's not like these are two guys running a sham business out of their garage.

  17. Re:Class 90/10 on Trident Back From the Dead · · Score: 1
    ... they will have to also focus on integration to build product synergy and adoption.

    Did you just pull that out of a Dilbert comic, or are you really a member of management?

  18. Re:17 hours to 11 minutes!??!!?!? on USA Today says "Linux waddles from obscurity" · · Score: 1
    If it were in Microsoft's favor, would I be screaming FUD??

    Evidentally, many people here are (and not just the typical MS shills, either). To me, the height of intellectual honesty can be found in how one receives praise.

  19. Re:DOPEWARS! on What (And Where) Are The Classic Free Games? · · Score: 1
    FREE

    Well, at least the first one is...

  20. Re:Not such a great idea on Black Boxes to Track Driving Habits? · · Score: 1

    I had an acquaintance in high school that went through 13 cars in his 4 years of school (we sat down one day and counted). He didn't care because daddy bought every single one of them.

  21. Re:Top quality FUD, from your favorite provider... on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 1
    Wrong.

    Not.

    You state here you have NT domains, and this is taking care of the local authentication. We have no NT domains. After Novell's Client32 accepts the login, it presents the user with another 'local' login screen (which would be taken care of automagically with an NT domain). In essence you've taken one of the options I had presented, but you already had the NT/2k server.

  22. Re:actually you do have permission on The Age of Aggressive Linux Advocacy Is Upon Us? · · Score: 1
    Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

    New business plan: create something, let's say the "million dollar club" and get a trademark for M$ for your products. Then sue all the /. geeks for using your trademark improperly.

    Hmmm. My magazine on investing could be M$ Works
    I'll create a Monopoly(TM) type game called M$ Money
    ...and to catch the rest I'll produce a line of vacuum cleaners - M$ sux

  23. Re:Top quality FUD, from your favorite provider... on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 1
    Integrated support for Novell?

    Hardly.

    I'm trying to use Windows XP pro with a Netware server (and I understand 2k has the same issue). XP/2k requres "local authentication", which means that you can

    • Create local accounts for every person who will be accessing that PC to match your Netware user names. Cost: ~$1500 assuming my techs work really fast, not to mention ongoing password synchronization headaches
    • Upgrade your Netware server so you can run ZENworks and use the "dynamic local user" feature. Cost: ? - we'll probaby migrate to Samba, so don't want to get further entrenched with Novell
    • Buy a Win2k server to be a gateway service for Netware (helpfully mentioned by a MS rep). Cost: ~$3000
  24. Re:The state of Kansas suddenly becomes cool... on Project Rainbow - 802.11 Across the U.S. · · Score: 1
    I'm from Kansas (and still there now). No offense taken.

    It's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there.

  25. Re:I stopped earlier on Ransom Love's Answers About UnitedLinux · · Score: 1
    The only way to insure this ...

    ... is to buy a policy. s/insure/ensure

    Sorry for the OT post, but it just hit my personal pet peeve.