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  1. Re:Congratulations all around on Red Hat In The Black · · Score: 1

    RHAT is the stock ticker symbol for Red Hat... so that isn't spelled wrong.

    However, pretty much everything else on the front page is. :)

  2. Re:The real test... on The Speed Demon That Is Tux 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Most of the time, it's not the web serving software that dies, but rather the connection to the internet that gets saturated.

  3. Re:An alternative point of view... on TiVo Upgrade Isn't · · Score: 1

    why were these users upgrading thier Tivo's when they worked fine the way they where? why are these users "using" tivo software that is released ONLY to assist subscribed users? I don't think Tivo has to support the users that use the Tivo as a VCR in thier software updates, that's not what the device was designed for.

  4. Re:Too bad its in Real format... WTF? on Linus Torvalds on NPR tonight · · Score: 1

    Streaming Ogg Vorbis(sp?) would be better... but do you think that NPR is going to use anything other than the top one or two solutions?

  5. Re:So.... on Just For Fun · · Score: 1

    well, if I read my GPL right, it's not the book that you get for free, it's the source

    I imagine he could put up a page on how to make paper, make ink, how to write, and a HowTo on not being a total jackass.

    Then you could try to make (live) his product (life - autobiography).

    Cheers

  6. Re:Linx-ox? on Linus Torvalds on NPR tonight · · Score: 1

    Same reason she keeps saying "Trans-MEAT-a"

  7. Re:Too bad its in Real format... WTF? on Linus Torvalds on NPR tonight · · Score: 1

    I downloaded the "free" comunity supported version of 8 about a month ago.

    What other version is it going to be in?

  8. Re:IPv6 and Supported Operating Systems on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    you can find all sorts of info on IPv6, including how to connect to an IPv6 over IPv4 network that exists now at 6bone.net

  9. Re:Why do the crappy sci-fi authors have religions on Scientology Critic Flees U.S. Over Usenet Posts, Pickets · · Score: 1

    I think a religion by Doug Adams would have been really kick ass! :)

  10. Re:Sick, Sad World on Scientology Critic Flees U.S. Over Usenet Posts, Pickets · · Score: 1

    well, Martin Luther was excomunicated from the Church. Excomunication was considered the worst thing possible then because of the Church's hold on what was thought to be the only way to God. However, that is not the belief today.

    The Co$ seems to enjoy perverting US law and hiding "church" documents from prospective members untill such time as the new members brain has had a major washing and allows them to believe in space cooties and other such nonsence.

    It amazes me to no end the number of "famous" actor people that have joined Co$. Is Hollywood becoming a town with a Blacklist? If your not Co$, no work for you?

  11. Re:What were the special MS-DOS features? None! on Perfect Pair: PowerPC And Linux · · Score: 1

    Boy, that would have been a kick if IBM went with the 68000 and Apple picked the 8088 back when the choice presented itself.... We would all be laughing at the Apple users with thier 1.8Ghz cpus that couldn't keep up with our 500Mhz machines, instead of the other way around...

    Something to think about

  12. Re:This makes sence. on Perfect Pair: PowerPC And Linux · · Score: 1

    You just described a Cobalt MIPS system, except for the price. $300 isn't going to be a large enough return on the product to make it viable in the long run, unless it's a turnkey system with a *large* manditory service contract.

  13. Re:Why do you want do this? on Is Linux Losing Its SPARC? · · Score: 1

    So that I can have a standard system around all the platforms I have. That's why I've linux on my USparc.

  14. Re:One reason at least to pick Cable over DSL on Cable Sprints, DSL Trudges, Free ISPs Pant · · Score: 1

    You could use Dialpad and have free long distance over your cable connection. Since I started using this, AT&T only bills me when my phone charges total over $60 ... around every three months. The no cost to me long distance is very much worth having to look at ads that I never click on.

  15. Ben Kanobi on Intel Offers "Unsigning Bonuses" · · Score: 1

    Jedi hand wave "These are not the tech jobs you are looking for...."

  16. Re:Patents are funny... on Worlds.com Patents Quake-like Games? Kinda. · · Score: 1
    I'm going to patent breathing. Pay up.

    My grandpa has prior art on this.
  17. Re:The old too many distros argument again on Dueling Distros - It's All Good, Apparently · · Score: 1

    bah, any distro can be secure or insecure... just matters how much you put to it

    and now, most have a firewall setup on install, EVEN redhat 7.1

  18. Re:Redhat Upgrade on Dueling Distros - It's All Good, Apparently · · Score: 1

    I did

    I needed to edit the mc file to allow connections from outside

    dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1
    dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want
    dnl to accept email over the network.
    dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

  19. Re:Red Hat 7.1 on Dueling Distros - It's All Good, Apparently · · Score: 1

    download and burn all the rpms from Ximian and download the installer, then gunzip it and run the installer and tell it that the rpms are "local"

  20. Re:Mandrake 8.0 v redhat 7.1 :: One users experien on Dueling Distros - It's All Good, Apparently · · Score: 1

    I've not had any trouble with my terminal getting screwed up... I use kterminal and it gives me fixed-courer just fine

  21. Easy (Quck) way to download/install on Ximian Gnome 1.4 released · · Score: 1
    It's easy. Run the lynx -source http://go-gnome.com |sh, then look at the URL were you get the installer from and use the same akamai url to download in place of the http://red-carpet.ximian.com link

    the one I used was http://a1220.g.akamai.net/7/1220/1405/200104232327 52/red-carpet.ximian.com/

  22. How is this different from thin clients? on Rack Mount Solution for Desktop PCs · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure how this is different from thin clients except for the seperate "CPU Blade" for each desktop.

    Wouldn't a terminal server with thin clients do the same thing? I'd much rather have a room of thins and the student/worker/whatever walk in, swipe a card in a card reader and have the desktop they left eariler just as is was.

  23. Re:METROID?!?!?! on Gamecube In Danger? · · Score: 1
    The "kiddies" will play what they think is cool, and what is "cool" is defined by what peers and the gaming mags say. Gaming mags are writen for adults and what adults think is "cool." There for, the "kiddies" will think games in the mags are "cool" because adult (teens) think the games are "cool."

    "Cool" is highly overreated.

  24. Re:Who will sue the jocks??? on Gaming Companies Being Sued Over Columbine · · Score: 1
    I couldn't agree more. However, it IS the parent's job to make sure they don't raise the kids to be assholes. Unfortunatly, the kids that are the assholes have parents who were exactly like them when they were in high school and see nothing wrong with dunking the nerds head in the toliet during gym or stuffing the kid in a locker. They are the parents who brush it off by saying "Kids will be kids" rather than dealing with it.

    I feel sorry for the shooters, because they were the ones that needed the most help and the system failed THEM.

  25. Re:Parents of those slain are making matters worse on Gaming Companies Being Sued Over Columbine · · Score: 1
    Do we blame the alcohol industry when someone dies as a result of drunk driving? Do we blame the knife industry every time someone uses a butcher knife in a slaying?
    But from what I recall, the kids at Columbine were using guns, not retail copies of Doom or Quake.

    Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone has been killed by software, save military applications for targetting and such.

    I'm not trying to be an ass or anything, but it's one thing to sue the makers of the knife used, it's another to sue the maker of something the killer might have used in daily life. It is akin to sueing Kellogg's because the killer's ate Frosted Flakes for breakfast that morning.