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  1. Re:Try Yellowdog on Two Shots In The Arm For PPC Linux · · Score: 3, Funny
    (installer didn't install yaboot properly, I had to fix it myself). I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to run Linux on their Mac...

    Well, except for people who who can't fix yaboot, right?

  2. Re:PPC on Two Shots In The Arm For PPC Linux · · Score: 2

    At the Apple Store. And you get a nice case, hd, dvd drive, or cd or dvd burner and a bunch of other nice stuff.

  3. Re:Is this ethical/legal or not? on Drive-By Hacking in London · · Score: 2

    The way I see it, it's pretty much like saying "Hey, did you know that at [Office building] there's a person who goes outside at 10:00 every day for a smoke break and they prop the door open with a brick so they can get back in" the information isn't illegal, but you could use it for illegal purposes.

  4. theoretically... on "Lindows" Coming Soon? · · Score: 2, Redundant

    theoretically many DirectX games should run under Windows

    Theoretically speaking, of course

  5. um, what? on Michael Jackson Releases Uncopyable CD · · Score: 5, Funny

    So far its just free promotional copies of the single.

    Record Company: This new copy protection method will ensure that nobody is getting a "free ride" with the new Michael Jackson single.

    Person with common sense: Aren't you giving away the single for free anyways?

    Record Compnay: Ummmmmmm....

  6. Re:Bug report: on Help Test Exciting All-New Slashdot "Banjo" · · Score: 0, Funny

    me too

  7. One part I like on Ballmer Calls Linux "A Cancer" · · Score: 5

    It's hard to find a computer that doesn't run a Microsoft product, particularly in Chicago. Microsoft's Chicago-based Midwest district office, which covers Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin...

    Then, a little later the interviewer uses this statement in a question:

    in Chicago we do seem to have an inferiority complex about our place in the tech world. Rankings frequently put us toward the bottom among major cities in terms of our tech presence.

    draw your own conclusions. :-)


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    andy j.
  8. Did anybody else... on You Are What You Click · · Score: 2

    think twice before clicking on the link?
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    andy j.

  9. WWF on Big Ugly Dishes Grab Primetime Shows Early · · Score: 2

    The WWF has two major tv shows a week. One that is live on Monday nights and then they do a taping on Tuesday for Thursday showing. They still feed the Tuesday show live back to their studios so you can grab it then. But, they also show the Tuesday tapings "live" on Tuesday night at their NYC resturant.
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    andy j.

  10. Mozilla on Sony and AOL vs Microsoft · · Score: 5

    Hey, with Mozilla I think we've finally found a piece of software that can push the PSX2 to it's limits.

    *ducks*


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    andy j.
  11. Re:Copywritable == Expressive on Report From The 2600 Appeal Hearing · · Score: 3

    And aren't DVDs essentialy computer software?


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    andy j.
  12. Re:will this trigger them, as well? on SDMI Challenge Participants May Face DMCA Action · · Score: 3

    That's funny. At my web design job I've been naming all my external stylesheets "de.css" also. Nobody at work knows what it means (I've tried to explain, but...), but they just go along with it anyways, even on projects I have nothing to do with. :-)

  13. Oh! That GIS on Open Source, GIS and Data Visualization? · · Score: 2

    When I first read the headline I thought it was about Geek in Space. oops.

  14. Er, don't touch that. on CNET Reviews Windows XP Beta 2 · · Score: 5

    Fill up your desktop with unused icons, and Windows XP asks you whether you want to keep them, then sweeps them into one tidy folder.

    Hey! I wanted to keep those *there*.

    "No David, I think you want to keep them *here*."

  15. One year? on Gnutella at One Year · · Score: 5

    Yeah, that seems about how long I've been waiting for this file to download.

    :)

  16. Re:Missing the point on Another Look At OS X · · Score: 1

    hey, I spelled cocoa wrong too. :)

  17. Missing the point on Another Look At OS X · · Score: 2

    OK, sure OS X doesn't have DVD and a few other things that didn't get quite finished in time for the March 24th deadline. Apple *had* to meet that deadline, they have a complete rewrite of their operating systems and what do operating systems need? Programs. Developers needed to have a deadline too. If Apple had said "sometime 2001" developers wouldn't have done anything, but come tomorrow quite a few people are going to be running OS X and these people want cabronized and coca apps. I think it's great that Apple decided to concentrate on making the core of OS X better and OS 9.1 better for Classic comptibilty then work on something trivial like a DVD player. I would not be happy if I heard "Yeah, some older applications won't run under the Classic environment, but we do have DVD!"

  18. Pre-Slashdot Effect? on Illegal Prime Number Unzips to DeCSS · · Score: 1

    I saw this on Kuro5in earlier today and I couldn't access it then. I guess I don't have a chance now :)

  19. Whole new game? on Dungeon Master Returns · · Score: 1

    If it's "whole new game with new content!" is it actually Dungeon Master?

  20. Sim Games on "The Sims" To Have Its Own TV Series? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone actually play those sim games all the way through? My cities never made it more than a couple of (real life) days before I gave in to temptaion and sent in the godzilla and the earthquake and the fire, etc.

    I'm sure we'll hear about someone who's had some city running since 1994 on his 386. He's burned out two monitors, five keyboards and eight mice, but his citizens are all happy with their mayor that's been in office for the past 8000 years.

  21. Re:damn.. on Do it Yourself 1U Half-Width Server · · Score: 1

    well it *is* a 486-100. Isn't that about the same as that webserver that was being run by a potato?

  22. Re:[re: reverse-engineering legalities] on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's a secret any more.

  23. First Cell phones, now... on Wireless Net Access in Your Car · · Score: 1

    Great, you thought people drove bad when they were talking on cell phones, just imagine what will happen when they're surfing for pr0n while driving.

  24. Re:A potential problem on Napster to Filter by Filenames · · Score: 1

    Now will this keyword blocking continues when the fee-based napster starts? Now I have a song that I have written called "Metallica - Unforgiven.mp3" (yes, it's really called that, and guess what it's about). What happens if I pay my $20 a month or whatever to access the napster network to distribute my own music and my song gets blocked?

  25. Disney on Physics of Billiards · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else remember the little Disney cartoon with Donald Duck that talked about the same thing? It was made in the 50's or 60's I think and I saw it in the mid-80's. My memory is a little foggy, but I think I remember them using some trig to explain the relationship between the taget pocket, the ball you want to hit, the cue ball and the little dots on the side of the table. It was pretty complex for a seven or eight year old, but I remember actually understanding it and testing my new found knowledge the next sunday at the arcade. Of course I can't remember very much of it now. Does anyone know the name of this?