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Re:I won't pay to play an MMO until

On: Warhammer Online Information by the Truckload

Sounds like you're asking about Eve Online.

Re:Vote None!

On: Community Choice Award "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Govt"

Yes but some of these are really toeing the line of what is legal and what is not, wikileaks and cryptome especially.

Re:Locating CA.sh

On: Linux Networking Cookbook

Ugh... let's try that again
$ locate CA.sh
bash: locate: command not found

Re:Locating CA.sh

On: Linux Networking Cookbook

$ locate CA.sh bash: locate: command not found
Arch.

Re:That's why Open-Source fails on the desktop

On: Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork

and WTH is with that "premier multi-protocol instant messaging client" remark? Nobody uses that on Windows and Mac OS X I work for a very large university in Minnesota and Pidgin is the university approved instant messanging client of choice for all our Windows and Mac machines. This is probably because our protocol of choice is XMPP now that we are moving away from Groupwise, and Pidgin is one of the few clients that supports XMPP. It is also my opinion that Pidgin is the best multi-protocol instant messanging client in Linux, Windows, AND OS X.

Re:I am not trying to obnoxious.

On: New Botnet Dwarfs Storm

VMWare Server and VMWare Player are free (as in beer) for personal use.

Also, I don't think you have much to worry about running viruses in wine on a linux machine. Hell, half the things wine is designed to run do not run correctly. Plus, wine does not emulate (as it is not an emulator!) the security holes that most viruses take advantage of in windows.

No one has asked the real question yet:

On: Why Microsoft Surface Took So Long To Deploy

Can it run linux?

Re:Well...

On: NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007

For what it's worth, I have seen Vista BSOD, and I see it every single time I try to mount something encrypted with truecrypt. All your argument amounts to is "works fine for me, I can't see what your problem is".

That's pretty impressive...

On: An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life

/. having a dupe of an article that is still on the front page? I must say, I'm impressed.

Re:eee

On: Comparing the OLPC, Classmate and Eee

if equiped with a decent operating system Vista does not run on the Eee.

Re:Its cold down there though

On: Web Hosting For Privacy Activists?

Think of all the HVAC bills a server farm would save. Actually, according to last month's interview with the IT manager of the south pole station, keeping their systems cool is more difficult than one would initially think.

Not that I care, but

On: Jackson Slated to Make Hobbit Movie, Sequel

Didn't he say he wasn't going to do a Hobbit movie earlier?