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  1. Re:In your opinion.. on Talk To a Successful Free Software Project Leader · · Score: 2

    Stop moderating this up... as another poster pointed out, NetSaint is not the intrusion detection tool I thought it was, so this is a pretty dumb question.

  2. Bird on Linus Is A Hero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Go Linus!

    I always knew he rocked, that's why I named my cockatiel after him!

    I also named my fish after Alan Cox... but the fish died, so no wonder he didn't make the list :)

  3. New mozilla & Font server... on New Red Hat Beta · · Score: 2

    don't know about you... but these are things I patched into my system a long time ago to the last redhat release.

  4. Google is cool on Yahoo Buying Inktomi · · Score: 2

    When it comes down to it, the company's who "Get it" will be the ones that succeed. No one wants their search engine to be throwing 3.6 pop-ups per second at them. Google will (hopefully) prosper because it does things the "right" way.

    I guess there have been companies that "get it" that failed... but that's usually due to some other dumb business practice.

  5. Re:I travelled back in time... on DVD Review: Back to the Future Trilogy (Widescreen) · · Score: 2

    But doing that you branched time, so that the people living in your time would never see it... but the new branch would see it, and you would return to this new branch, and so it would appear to work, and I must be in this new time branch, but does that mean I'm not the real me, and if so ... oh ... my head hurts.

  6. Re:Platform favouritism on Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section · · Score: 5, Funny

    What makes a unix-like os unix-like?

    Bash/tcsh/sh/*sh ? OSX Has it
    X11? OSX has it
    Unix kernel? Got that too
    ssh? Yup
    Stability? Yup
    Bad UI that's hard to use and not fully intergrated? Hmm... maybe OSX has a ways to go.

    Hell... it *should* be possible to port any unix app to darwin and run it in an xserver on OSX.

  7. Re:OS X Needs a Cocoa Evolution Project on Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section · · Score: 2

    My company would buy licenses for an OSX connector in bulk!

  8. Re:In your opinion.. on Talk To a Successful Free Software Project Leader · · Score: 2

    heh heh "Use the Preview Button!"

    That should have been...

    "In your opinion what's the WORST security practice/vunerability/annoyance that's come out in the past year?

    sorry

  9. In your opinion.. on Talk To a Successful Free Software Project Leader · · Score: 2, Interesting

    what's the WORST security practice/vunerability/annoyance that's come out in the pasy year?

  10. Rejoice! on Euro DMCA Fails · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You guys sure are lucky over there to have politicians that can actually think without being prompted by big-business. Go EU!

  11. Re:Mozilla vs Flash on Microsoft To Acquire Macromedia? · · Score: 2

    Flash works just fine for me under linux... no crashes.. no sound problems ... of course the latest builds of mozilla have had some problems, but running flash in galleon is all happy-happy for me.

  12. Re:uh oh on Microsoft To Acquire Macromedia? · · Score: 2

    I thought THE flash player was open source. I know you can get the source for the player from Macromedia ... but I'm not sure if their license is OS compatible.

    Macromedia's faq:
    http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/ope n/faq/ #3_5

    And their license page:
    http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashpla yer/lic ensing/sourcecode/

    Also... the specification is open
    http://www.openswf.org/

  13. Bummer. on U.S. Proposes Centralized Internet Surveillance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well.. I'd write something critical of the plan here ... BUT THEY MIGHT BE LISTENING!

  14. Re:so now... on ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty · · Score: 2

    Tom has suffered damages, both emotional, and financial. He has every right to go sue the girl in civil court. Of course it's best to wait until the criminal court is done so you can use that verdict in your civil suit (assuming he wins). But remember, "Guilty beyond reasonable doubt".

    That being said, the courts do suck. My father was once accused of assault ... on a DEAF WOMAN. He didn't do it, and the case was thrown out in the first 5 minutes of the trial, but the scary thing is it went to trial! The cops assumed she was right, the judge in the hearing assumed the DEAF WOMAN was right, etc. A big mess.

    I wrote a play about it for school, read it if you like.
    http://www.wpidalamar.com/words/play/

  15. what movies? on Adult Swim Gets Three More Anime Series · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    This is slightly off-topic, but if I were to buy anime movies for an anime fan (that doesn't really have a lot) ... what should I get him? What are the must-haves?

  16. Monopoly! on Plans For New TLDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ICANN's a damned monopoly with no interest for the common internet user. We need another top level domain registrar.

  17. Re:Refund for XP on Windows Refund Day II · · Score: 2

    1 - not legal. The EULA specifically says it's legally bound to the hardware it was bought with

    HA! I don't aggree to the EULA! So I won't use the software, so I can't be held by it's terms. If I don't accept the license, you can't enforce it on me.

    I'm also not transfering the license, since the license was never bound to me.

  18. Pulverizing chicken feet! on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 3, Funny

    before reading the story, I was picturing chickens running away as their feet were pulverized by sadistic farmers with tornado guns. Glad to hear that's not the case!

  19. Re:Is it good on bandwidth tho... on CodeWeavers Release Server Version Of CrossOver · · Score: 3, Informative

    yup.. that's what I meant ... low-level, high-level mixup, silly me.

    And I think it my even have been better than that... I think it may have been more like, "Draw a listbox at x,y with width w,h with these items in it", because you saw VERY little network traffic after a dialog was shown. But I have no idea how it actually worked.

  20. Is it good on bandwidth tho... on CodeWeavers Release Server Version Of CrossOver · · Score: 2

    The GREAT thing about citrix-metaframe is the bandwidth utilization. At my last company we had over 20 clients connecting over a 128k line running apps from a server a state away, and you couldn't really tell it was remote.

    I think they intercept the windows GUI functions at a lower API than something like pcanywhere.

    Does this match the speed? If it's using XWindows, probably not.

  21. Stem Cell/Cloning Research on Stanford Jumps Into Cloning Fray · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Stem cell research is perhaps the MOST promissing medical research ever ... It would be a crime to not allow it. I'm ok with the government restricting funds for it, but don't disallow private institutions (or publically funded ones if those public funds aren't going to the research) to persue it.

    Of course that's not to say I wouldn't mind seeing some public funds go to it! But in the US, public funds are supposed to go where the people want it. If the majority of citizens don't want it, then that's what the government should do.

    That brings up the question... what does the majority want?

    I know 2 people with MS (not microsoft)... if this can help them, then why not?

  22. not a vegas wedding ... on Me Oh Me Oh My, Malda Gets Married · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a vegas wedding without Elvis presiding over the ceremony :)

  23. who pays? on Karl Auerbach Speaks Out on ICANN · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2 questions...

    Who pays ICANN's paychecks? Is it the domain registrars?

    Can a company or individual sue a company for anti-trust? Or does it have to be a government? And could ICANN be sued for this?

  24. Great... on Gateway to Ship PCs with Pre-Installed DRM Music Files · · Score: 1, Redundant

    so I order a PC and I get a full hard drive of Britney spears and the Back Street Boys.

    It's weird... you buy the data, but aren't allowed to use it.

  25. Re:there's an idea... on Sandia's Smart Heat Pipe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Caffenine is a bad idea for cold rooms. It makes your blood vessels shrink a bit, bringing less warmth to your extremeties. I never understood why computer geeks working in cold labs suck down the caffenine.