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  1. Re:Oracle ? on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 0

    Because you cannot get ULN updates without a support 'subscription', so you're advising people to simply go unpatched until they find it necessary to pony up money to do so?

  2. Re:Support them from your own money on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 0

    5) Oracle Enterprise Linux is cheaper than RHEL, and in some ways better. The yum repo's are open and free, and they offer support that cost less then RHEL, and it can be purchased per incident instead of a subscription.

    The yum repos are free from Oracle? Since when? They do the same thing RH does, charges you to access them via a yearly subscription fee. Though, yes I can get 3 years of ULN for the price of 1 year of RHN.

  3. I bought 6 Seagate Savvio 300GB (2.5" SAS 10k spin) drives yesterday. They were $199 (relatively cheap) and now are $267 or higher at most eTailers.

    I'm sure most of it's fear mongering but some "analysts" have suggested it may take "several quarters" for the drive mfg's to recover from this. So I figured why chance it and bought what I needed rather than deal with potential inflation for 2 years.

  4. Re:$200 phone, $200 hearing aid on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 0

    Interesting link. Thanks for that.

  5. Re:Since no one ever buys them... on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 0

    Most insurance plans do not cover purchases of hearing aids.

    MOST? Almost none do. I wear a HA and I've come out of pocket about 7 grand in the last 10 years. :/

  6. Unimpressed by Roomba on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 0

    I was largely unimpressed by a Roomba Scheduler I bought at Best Buy last year, so I took it back. I have a 1400 square foot house, and mainly I wanted it to take care of the main area (kitchen/living room). This thing would get down one of my hallways that is maybe 4 feet wide and 8 feet deep (leading to a bathroom and bedroom) and circle endlessly in that hall because it couldn't figure out how to get out.

    It would also get stuck on a floor(tile or wood) to an area rug transition, it couldn't climb it but it could get down it.

    Queue the "DO NOT WANT" broccoli dog.

  7. Re:I don't get it... on New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes · · Score: 0

    Meanwhile I've had 1 carbon and 2 Karma's break with MINIMAL (under 10 hours) of use. I've given up on Rio. My first Karma, drive got click of death. Second the headphone jack went out.

    My brother's Carbon overheated and would never retain anything after being shut off.

    iPOD > Rio products.

  8. Re:AV Comparison on Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices? · · Score: 0

    AntiVir and AVK (The one that ranked best on your URL) are completely different products.

    Just FYI.

  9. Uhh.. Taco you suck. on FreeBSD 5.0 Available · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    2003-01-19 04:48:49 FreeBSD 5.0 on FreeBSD ftp's, not officially annou (bsd,bsd) (rejected)
    2003-01-19 05:09:15 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE (articles,news) (rejected)

    MMMKAY!

  10. Re:damn you foo fighters!!! (optical out?) on Copy Protection On CDs Is 'Worthless' · · Score: 1

    One difference seems to be that a CD player (I tried KDE CD player) can not play it, the CD drive starts scanning the disk wildly and I had to turn the computer off to stop it. This was an Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop with CD-RW drive, running Mandrake 9.0.


    I think that's a feature of Mandrake not a disc problem... *cough*

  11. Re:List of unofficial mirrors here on Slackware 8.1 is Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ahahah, oh man.. the unofficial slackware mirrors from #slackware on OPN. Mine is on there, mindflux.dns2go.com.. hahaaahaha

  12. Re:Someone should tell Matt... on Matt Groening on Futurama, Simpsons and Fox · · Score: 1

    That's funny, I petitioned to get Invader Zim back on nickelodeon.. and so did about another half million viewers. It's back on the air.. just luck? I think not.

  13. Re:Ads? on Slashdot Subscription Update · · Score: 1

    heh

    yer smurt... 127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org hur hur!

  14. Re:Still 802.11a! on 802.11b at 22mbps · · Score: 1

    802.11a is 54mbps not 100.

  15. Re:Instead of "banana",... on Intel Shows Off 'Banias' Chip for Mobile Devices · · Score: 1, Troll

    That would have been mildy funny if you had taken to time to put the tilde over the n.

  16. Re:Bania chips? on Intel Shows Off 'Banias' Chip for Mobile Devices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seinfeld quotes are expressly forbidden.

  17. Re:Didn't stop here long on Revolution OS · · Score: 1

    Are are you part of the ALUG that was goung to see it at the North Alamo Draft house?

    I was going to go to that, then chickened out.

  18. Re:Why I no longer use gentoo on Gentoo 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    What on earth does Daniel Robbins view on muslims have to do with you using linux?

    First, You posted 3 lines from a conversation, there could be more to the story than just this.. for all *WE* know you could be trying to belittle him.

    Secondly, I don't see anything in those 3 lines that are *WRONG*, he said there are some wonderful muslims, just like there are wonderul in every walk of life.

  19. poo on Doubleclick Exits The Ad-Tracking Business · · Score: 1

    good for them, maybe they too finally discovered how annoying popups are.

  20. super on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome not a Disability · · Score: 1

    neat, another thing us geeks can't count on. disability benefits from CTS.