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  1. Re:Think different? on Vista Makes CNET UK's List of "Worst Consumer Tech" · · Score: 1

    When you can't buy a new computer from most manufacturers its not hard to sell a lot.

    I'd be much more interested to see the number of installed copies and the number of retail sales rather OEM sales.

  2. Year of the Linux desktop on Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's official, 2008 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

  3. Re:Well, duh. on Worry Over VZW, Sprint Phones' 911 Alarm · · Score: 1

    Because they make less money that way. The only reason you see that kind of thing anywhere is a price war -- and the monopoly telcos want to avoid a price war at all costs -- the only winner there is the customer.

  4. Re:Security? It's quite simple on DNS Server Survey Reveals Mixed Security Picture · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD's jail(8) is.

  5. Re:OpenFiler on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. Re:ha on The Pirate Bay Facing "Old Fashioned" Pressure · · Score: 1

    CDs aren't lossless. Frequency range is only 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Plus the whole dynamic compression issue.

  7. Re:This won't stop them turning it into an issue.. on Stem-Cell-Like Cells Produced From Skin · · Score: 1

    The flurries wont need costumes anymore.

  8. Re:I wouldn't be too alarmed. on Using Google To Crack MD5 Passwords · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You do realize that most businesses (and therefore most websites you have accounts on) just store passwords plain text because it's easier to do tech support that way. Salted hashes are better than unsalted hashes, but most don't bother hashing at all.

  9. Re:chain of responsibility on Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC · · Score: 1

    Most ad agencies carry each other's ads. I have used many ad agencies over the years, almost all of them show at least some ads from doubleclick.

  10. Re:Why didn't they include... on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    You have chosen to not load a number of libraries that you will probably never use. Cancel or Allow?

  11. Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    You've always been able to do this. The option is just burried 3 layers deep. I'm not running windows here, but IIRC it's under: system control panel -> performance tab -> advanced.

  12. Re:DRM: It's not just wrong on AntiPiracy Macrovision Bug is Actually Six Years Old · · Score: 1

    The media companies WANT their customers to get shafted. They like it when customers have to by their content over and over again in different formats.

  13. Re:If astronauts fight.. on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    Just like wars down on earth.

  14. Re:Easy on School District Threatens Suit Over Parent's Blog · · Score: 1

    Once your exams are done and marked, put the blog back up.

  15. Re:How dissapointing- they didn't include Xen on What's New in OpenBSD 4.2? · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD (And I think the other BSDs) have the jail command which gives you something between a chroot and virtualization -- almost virtualization from the process' point of view.

  16. Re:Appeal it again. on Court Upholds Internet Deregulation · · Score: 1

    Government should own and maintain all of the lines and rent space on them to the (to any) ISPs. Not control over what goes over the lines, just the physical wire connecting 2 points.

  17. Re:caches on TV Links Raided, Operator Arrested · · Score: 2, Informative

    Cache won't be useful for long with stuff constantly being taken down.

  18. Re:Why? on Electronic Arts Purchases BioWare, Pandemic · · Score: 1

    No.

  19. Re:Pre-installed OS on Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS · · Score: 2

    Pre-installed is great for end home user desktops. Not everyone are techies like us who would rather do it themselves.

    But for servers it does seem kinda pointless. Servers should only be setup by just such techies. I'll take an UP TO DATE driver and OS cd, but I'll do the install myself.

  20. Re:With ies4linux? A couple minutes on Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement · · Score: 1

    To update the DLLs installed in wine? Not all wine functionality is built in, some just uses windows dlls.

    But I think most interest in doing it is just the novelty of it.

  21. Re:With ies4linux? A couple minutes on Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement · · Score: 1

    Windows Update uses Active-X which Firefox doesn't support.

  22. Re:Only the RIAA could match this stupidity on Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray · · Score: 5, Funny

    Excellent. Now we know anyone watching one of our movies is a pirate and can sue them more easily.

  23. Re:Less keystrokes on The Next Leap for Linux · · Score: 1

    Terminal server (which remote assistance uses) is encrypted.

  24. Re:Could be worse on Open.NET — .NET Libraries Go "Open Source" · · Score: 1
    Webster says

    Main Entry: open
    Function: adjective

    3 a : completely free from concealment : exposed to general view or knowledge
  25. Re:Could be worse on Open.NET — .NET Libraries Go "Open Source" · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you can see the code, its open source.

    It's not FOSS. It's not OSI. Its not free as in beer or freedom. But it is open source.