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  1. Re:True? on Review: Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones · · Score: 2

    What? Do they have a location where you can download the Phantom Edit listed in the credits of Episode II?

  2. Re:ahem on Quickies from a Galaxy Far Far Away · · Score: 3, Informative

    ummm I'm pretty sure most of Michigan is in the Eastern Time zone, all except a small portion of the UP (Upper Peninsula). I can say this as I've lived in Michigan for 20 years, having moved there from Chicago, which is in the Central Time zone.

    Since Ann Arbor is in the large portion of Michigan which is in the Easter Time Zone, Taco's going to be watching it at the same time as you are...

  3. Re:Unfair comparison on Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets' · · Score: 1

    "Your toilet seat may very well be the cleanest place in your house."

    Not after my father-in-law gets done with it. Last place he visited before leaving yesterday after Mother's Day festivities.

    Damn, can that man stink up the joint.

  4. Re:I keep finding mouse droppings in my machine on Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets' · · Score: 1

    You just need to cover the sides of the wheel they run on to power it.

  5. Re:Obligatory Hitchhiker's Guide Reference on Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets' · · Score: 1

    I just had to go through the office of a co-worker that left the company. She was a smoker and I'll be damned it that office was the nastiest place. Looked like she dunked the handset of her phone in black ink.

    *shudder*

  6. Re:Retail Hell on Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets' · · Score: 1

    "Being a retail PC tech may be low paying and sometimes boring, but you get to see things you'll never find in a corporate environment."

    But is that really worth working there?

  7. Re:Ungrateful... on African ISPs Being Fleeced by the West · · Score: 1

    and that's the problem, handouts don't make places competitive with, but rather dependant on, the source of the handouts.

    much like the Welfare to work programs in many states in the USA. Give a timeline to when the handouts stop and help the recipient work towards self suficency.

  8. Re:Recommended course of action: just ignore on Microsoft And The GPL/LGPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the problem with your plan is that the plaintif will have to pay for court costs for years also. Microsoft can drag this case on for years, and make it impossible for any plaintif to continue the court case.

  9. Re:where's the ISA on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 1

    ISA is going to be difficult if not impossible to get on any new motherboards. Of course, you can always get a 2940 PCI card very cheap, and get a huge increase in bandwidth over the PCI bus.

  10. Re:Serious Journalism On Slashdot? on Globalism, Corporatism and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought the piece was rolled from the abstract of an entry level college econ class mixed with a lot of social liberalism and sprinkled with some "companies suck and poor people wouldn't be poor if it weren't for the evil companies" to tang it up a bit.

    Honestly? I had to sit through the exact same tripe, minus the open source comments, durning college in the 70s. All the instructors kept say that the world was going to change "man" when the proletariat would rise up and take up control "man." So I sat there and read my Marx, Lenin, and Mao like a good lemming. And what have I seen? Nothing changed. Guess the proletariat was too stoned to stand up "man."

    Not that people shouldn't get warm fuzzies from the ideas presented, but Jon's idea of the conclusions presented leave me wondering what you found incisive.

  11. Serious Journalism On Slashdot? on Globalism, Corporatism and Open Source · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    For the life of me, I keep wondering why JonKatz continues to post stories on Slashdot, even though the majority of posts in a JonKatz article are basically cat-calls and color commentary on his relations with *insert any item here*. Is it possible that the editors of Slashdot have bought into the same line that JonKatz believes, that he is a serious Journalism/Editorial Writer?

    I click on ads on Slashdot daily, mainly because I don't want to pay for "editorial content" provided by JonKatz.

    Flamebait, troll, whatever I don't care. The author sounds like my cousin who got hooked on drugs in college and joined the Communist Party of America because they had some "really cool ideas about stuff."

  12. Re:I'm not telling. on KDE 3.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the post, I'm getting it at around 700KB/s to 1.5MB/s with wget. I wonder if there are on Internet2...

  13. Re:Does MS GPL code? Then what is the fucking issu on Microsoft Releases CIFS Docs -- Free Ball & Chain · · Score: 2

    I've got to say, flamebait or not, this has got to be the funniest comment that is also on topic I've yet to see on Slashdot.

  14. Re:Other than the value of the lawsuit on AtheOS Fork Brings BeOS on Top of Linux · · Score: 2

    I do believe that as late as version 5.1, Novell was using DR.DOS as the boot OS to bootstrap yourself into the Novell server OS. I don't know how Novell 6 is going to handle this, but Dr.DOS is far from "irrelevant" and is infact still a useful tool.

  15. Re:Just one thing on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm using the nightly from 3/11/02 and it doesn't have that problem anymore. The milestones are nice, but the Nightly Builds is where it's at. I've not had *any* problems with the last few nightly builds, and they run great...

  16. Re:OFF TOPIC! LARGER ADS! on Bug in zlib Affects Many Linux Programs · · Score: 1

    I set that up the first day that the ads started showing up. I couldn't figure out what the parent post was about until you said that.

  17. Re:Slashdot - Compuserve and the BBSes on Slashdot IRC Forum Today · · Score: 1

    I was skimming the comments and I thought you said "..being forced to eat war and peace 5000 times,..."

    I have to admit, that would be worth the $5 per 1000.

  18. Re:If I subscribe... on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    I second the question. Removing moderator ability for simply adding an agreement or a disagreement to that post without any type of prior notice is questionable.

  19. Bandwidth Abuse on Are Public NNTP Servers a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've found multiple public NNTP servers located at colleges and 4 year institutions that offer public read and write, but the majority of them don't offer access to alt.* groups. My opinion on this is because they can't afford the bandwidth abuse that comes from having alt.binaries.* open to the public. I know when I was running my NNTP server at the college I work for I was recieving 10GB daily of alt.* traffic, and that's with the head provider filtering some of the more "warez"ish groups.

    Depending on what you are looking for, multiple options exist, but I've yet to find a public access NNTP server with a full alt.* feed. Of course, most have rec.crafts.brewing, so I really don't go looking for anything in alt.*

  20. Re:Evolution vs Breeding Out Intelligence on Designer Babies, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    The Old English Sheepdog was approved into the AKC in February 1990.

    http://www.akc.org/breeds/recbreeds/olengshe.cfm

    I do agree with your eval of the Dalmation. One of the, if not the, dumbest dogs around.

  21. Re:Explanation? on Linus Merges ALSA Into 2.5.4 · · Score: 1

    Flamebait? I asked an honest question! I've never had to use ALSA cause it's always "Just Worked," so I wanted to know what exactly this change would do for me.

    Stupid moderator...

  22. Explanation? on Linus Merges ALSA Into 2.5.4 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Can someone explain to me what this means? I've never had trouble with the sound modules that came with the kernel before. Every time I've installed Linux since the 2.0.5 days, my sound cards (always Sound Blasters) have been supported just fine.

  23. Charter Pipeline sucks ass on How Much Does Your Broadband Cost? · · Score: 1

    Well, I just took my cable modem back in today after having it for more than a year. Charter Pipeline can kiss my ass. I talked to a customer service rep shortly before the @Home debacle, and was told that my price wouldn't go up and that I would get half price service for the first two months. Two months later, a bill comes saying I need to pay 15$ more a month for service, $56.40 (includes modem rental) and I didn't get my half price month. I called billing and the lady basically said that I couldn't prove that someone told me that, and there wasn't anything I could do. Taking the modem in today, and the service desk rep was a total bitch to me and quite rude. There were also about 15 modems in a pile on a desk behind her... I assume that I wasn't the first to bring my modem back.

    Needless to say, that type of service has me subscribing to DSL at the end of the month. Of course, it's dial up till then. *guh*

  24. Re:Safety? on Electric Car Sighted on Highway - Who Makes It? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about safer, but if you got in an accident in that thing, at least it would keep most of your parts in the box rather than all over the road as with a motorcycle.

  25. Re:Nimda also lends a hand on Resume Spamming Redux · · Score: 1

    that was sircam