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  1. Re:Everyone should at least learn on Learning Latin - Has It Helped You? · · Score: 1

    flu = influenza..which you could latinify with influensis. Plural? Influenses? The others....completely anglo-saxon words...

  2. Re:So... on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1

    not get IN their way, they get their way....now, the fact that it a unanimous vote means that 100% of the politicians were NOT looking out for the people, just the elite.

  3. Re:Vocabulary, Vocabulary, Vocabulary. on Learning Latin - Has It Helped You? · · Score: 1

    So, Ambulance SHOULD mean anything from crutches to a cargo ship :)

  4. Re:Latina scientem dat on Learning Latin - Has It Helped You? · · Score: 2

    Manadarin! I have always been a Language Afficianado, and have loved languages since I was around 8. I was tutored in Chinese by the woman across the street. SHe bought the rice paper, and I was taught calligraphy, and the Mandarin tones.For 5 years this was a daily exercise. However, when I speak with Chinese people, all the tones are thrown out the window. So, therefore I have no idea what they are saying! The woman's kids (around my age) hated me, because they didn;t know a LICK of Chinese. They couldn't care less. Unfortunately, my knowledge of Mandarin is pretty much useless since 90% of Chinese in NY speak Cantonese, which is as close to Mandarin as Finnish is to English..oh well.

  5. Re:Vocabulary, Vocabulary, Vocabulary. on Learning Latin - Has It Helped You? · · Score: 2

    I agree, but using that logic, the word ambulance makes no sense. Ambulare means to walk. Therefore an ambulance could mean "Something for walking" or "A walking vehicle"

  6. Re:Everyone should at least learn on Learning Latin - Has It Helped You? · · Score: 1

    Actually, we can assume Pox is neuter...Plural nominative of Rex is regi...
    so pox can be either pogi or poci

  7. Re:I don't think so on Learning Latin - Has It Helped You? · · Score: 1

    I was a Linguistics major, and Latin was a requirement. It gets you out of the "no grammar" English, and helps you to appreciate other tongues. I love agglutinative languages (Turkish, eskimo, etc), put Latin was a joy to learn...If you "get" Latin, Russian is SIMPLE! (I think grammar is fun..declension are fun..I know..I must be crazy)

  8. Re:Need a Website on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1

    Although I am right wing, I don't always agree with the entire republican/conservative party. WHile W is not my favorite (I voted for Buchanan), Congress is a majority left-wing congress. Bush can't do shit really. All he has the power to do is veto, and SUGGEST to congress, which of course they'll immediately vote against. If it was up to Bush, we would be in Iraq already. (Which I support).

  9. Re:So... on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1

    Ahh...the liberal left-wing communists get their way again......this is for our PROTECTION, remember...We all have to be EQUAL and the govt is NOT the enemy..it's our fellow man!
    Seriously, I hope every US citizen knows why there is the right to own and bare arms in the constitution. To prevent the govt from taking too much control (remember the revolutioary war?). They take away thew right to protect ourselves from them, and they win...

  10. Re:a bit offtopic, but on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 1

    True, but I have a gig of ram, so maybe I don't notice....

  11. Re:a bit offtopic, but on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 5, Informative

    MOST Linux distros have a couple of Journaling file systems. ext3 being the most common. JFS (from IBM) and XFS (From SGI aka IRIX) are others. I use JFS on my home partition and ext3 everywhere else with naru a performance hit....actually, ext3 has been out for almost 1 years and a half with Kernel 2.4.10

  12. Re:SourceForge Dot Net on Microsoft Puts SourceForge Clone Into Beta · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.that seems against what RMS originally designed the GPL for. If I wanted to compil VB code, I need to use a NON-free (+$100 compiler) to use it. Sure, I can have the code, but without a free compiler, I can't do shit with it...catch my drift? So, I should rewrite my statement...{Proprietary compiler} code SHOULDN'T be GPL, since it doesnt allow me the freedom to compile it.

  13. Re:SourceForge Dot Net on Microsoft Puts SourceForge Clone Into Beta · · Score: 1

    I think that needing to link to the non-GPL libraries (dlls) to make the VB progs work is a violation of the GPL..I have to research it more to be sure

  14. Re:SourceForge Dot Net on Microsoft Puts SourceForge Clone Into Beta · · Score: 1

    Then how is someone supposed to compile your "free" software if the tool sto compile it are not free?

  15. Re:SourceForge Dot Net on Microsoft Puts SourceForge Clone Into Beta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe it's IMPOSSIBLE to write GPL'ed software in VB or .NET. Don't the tools have to be GPL'ed or at least freely available for software to be GPL? You can't write GPL VB software since VB itself is not free (and the DLL's used in it are not GPL)

  16. Re:Multiple Users Simultaneously on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 1

    Don't know much about XP, but how is that different from Linux? or typing su?

  17. Re:hahaha! on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 2

    I can install Linux in about 20 minutes. Useable and running. Pop a Mandrake or Suse Cd in, come back in 20 minutes, and you're listening to MP3s, burning CDs and browsing the web. (However, DVD video support isn't installed by default...)

  18. Re:As says Janie Porche on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 1

    Hmm..when I installed Suse, I didnt have to compile my kernel..detected my scanner, cdrecorder and dvd player on install..Can Windows XP do that?

  19. Re:menuconfig on New Linux Configuration Tool · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I think make xconfig is SIMPLE. Click what you need...not sure? Click HELP (If you're not sure, say YES here)
    Honestly, configuring the kernel is easier then compiling software with missing libs that you thought you had..is it because it doesnt LOOK pretty? It gets the job done.

  20. Re:Win4Lin on How to Sync PocketPC to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Win4Lin is great..I have win4lin 3 but it doesnt have USB support :(

  21. Re:What about Consoles? on The Aging Gamer · · Score: 2

    Not true...I had a Commodore Pet in 1978/79 and my Uncle had a Kaypro (1977)

  22. This site explains how..this is what I do.... on How to Sync PocketPC to Linux? · · Score: 5, Informative
  23. Plenty of Software tools.. on What's in Your Toolbox? · · Score: 2

    As a UNIX admin, over the past decade, I have collected a plethora of proggies, scripts, etc that I just can't live without. Since I am inherently lazy, I write a shell script for everything. I have kept all my scripts and have put them all on CDs. Plus, every software dev tool I have collected over the years from previous jobs. The go in my sack of goodies. I wouldnt know what I'd do if I lost these things(Yes, they're a crutch, but at leats I get the job done!)

  24. Re:first? on Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows · · Score: 1

    I really couldn't care less to be honest. I really didnt know that Windows was that "powerful". I've been adminning UNXI for more than 12 years, and I can do the stuff in my sleep. I KNEW there were ways to start and stop service from the cli in Windows, byt typing net start /? is definitely not the same as a man page. I figured out the net start thing myself after a couple of seconds (My mother-in-laws job has Win2k, so I telnetted in...). So, I tried running mozilla from the command line and export the display on my UNIX box...it didnt work...so I just gave up (I didn't care enough to do reasearch on it, but I'd bet it can't be done with out Citrix or term server installed, and not that seamlessly)

  25. Re:first? on Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows · · Score: 1

    net user guest tseug is an example of adding and removing pwds..
    How would you add a virtual IP using ipconfig?
    you know, like eth0:1, etc...
    How would you restart IIS or whatever thru the cli?