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  1. RE: Why does this article seem to go hand in hand. on Software Patents Could Stop EU Linux Development · · Score: 1

    .... with this one:
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/01/ 173122 8&tid=109

    Arg... Yuck...

  2. Re:Don't Underestimate Micro$oft on Inspecting MSN Search · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When they add the search button to only link (or automatically, same thing) to m$earch, then it's over for google. At least for all the people who don't know any better.

    M$ will make it one click eaisier to use m$earch in stead of any other search, and it will matter.

    But google will be here for quite a while.

    I seriously couldn't do my job without google. It is by far, the best tool I've ever had. I tried about 10-30 searches in m$ (all of which gave me the info on top 3-4 of page 1 in google), I had to go several pages to find pseuro related sites. (and half of the searches didn't find what I needed with the simple search terms.)

  3. Re:Worst on Monitor Basics - LCD vs. CRT · · Score: 1

    Droping like pieces of balled up paper would be about as useful...

    I still prefer my Sony 19" trinitron for games. And a sony 19" lcd at work which I like.

    I actually don't like most LCD's. I find most in the market work best at only one or two resolutions. And a lot of them aren't half as easy to look at as, say a cheap ViewSonic 19".

  4. Re:Guilty until proven innocent? on IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO · · Score: 1

    I agree... this way all SCO has to di is say "AhHa!!"

  5. Re:TeX on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lyx... http://www.lyx.org/ is my favoite.

    It's the reason I switched to linux.
    It's the reson I bought an iBook.
    It's the reson I passed some tough courses.

    Down with WYSIWYG!

  6. Re:No excuse on Centrino-based Linux Laptops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And most of those geeks who demand a linux laptop are being slightly drawn by mac's right now.

    I'm one: Gave up my dead PII 300 Cpia Debian machine for a iBook. :)

    I have came close to snapping up an amd64 e-machines a few times though.

  7. Re:If your'e not underneath it on US Air Force Building Space Router · · Score: 1

    DSL on one end, Internet 2-->fiber-->cat5e on the other for 3 hops and I've seen 10+ seconds to get an SSH connection established.

    This would still be very viable for communications. I don't think the fighter pilots will be interested in fragging some noobs in RTCW, so 500 ms should get them done.

    Any word on the bandwith?

  8. Re:BTEFNET.NET on New Battlestar Galactica Series Starts Tonight · · Score: 1

    If they have enought downloads, the advertising on the page will pay for it. :)

    I'll be downloading soonest. And watching on my own. Since I can't get the scifi channel, it's a godsend. :)

  9. Re: Required response. on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    No... I was just phishing. :)

    More or less, was seing if anyone of the above posters would flame with a "it's Orwell, you lout" type of comment.

    The Mr. Dictionary def wasw most amusing, using the popularized americanized adoption of "communist" rather than the actual definition.

    This whole thread was sort of amusing. I'm glad I got it started, after missing such an opertunity when Gate's first comment aired.

    And now I'm trying to get the analagy of linux to farm animals out of my mind.

    "It's not dead, it's just sleeping."

  10. Re: Required response. on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    He's watched too much cnn.

  11. Re: Required response. on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    Neither are socialism/communism.

    Neither and Republicans are classical LIBERALS. Contemporary LIBERALS are more socialist. Blahblahblah.

    Nazism and Fascisim are near the same end of the linear poiltical spectum (with pure liberal(classical) capitalism in the center).

  12. Re: Required response. on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    Exactly... IN practice, it may seem like the "state owns", but the state only "acts in trust" for the people. Of course, also in practice, the lines are blured. Just look at Eric Blair's Animal Farm. :)

  13. Re:No on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    he wasn't talking about the governemt being communist, netierh was I. I was refering specifically to his applicatin of the term "communist" to free source software. I'm applying the term "fascist" to code practices.

  14. RE: Required response. on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's actually kind of right. IN a comunist/socialist systme, the people own the code. (Since the people own everything.)

    This is a refreshing contrast to the fascist model, where the state owns the code. In this case, the writers own the code.

    If he says Linus is Stallin/lennin/marx, then he's Hitler by the same set of parameters.

  15. Re:But... on Torvalds on the Linux Security Process · · Score: 1

    Ummm... when did this happen? I've not had a single issue with any 2.6 kernel past 2.6.6.

    And it runs rtcw masterfully. :)

  16. Re:Give up net!? on Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Give up IE and OUtlook.

    I've shoved firefox/t-bird down many throats. Most have recovered and are back online.

  17. Re:But... on Torvalds on the Linux Security Process · · Score: 1

    The issue is, with linux, you never know exactly who the right ten will be to solve the problem. There's no infrastructure to mandate that a specific group of ten people are responsible for the code. And if only ten select people know about the problem, and they also know that the're the only ones, they can put it off for a while without being as worried.

    It's a cool system, and 2.6 shows it works. I'd lookup the /. article from a few weeks ago comparing linux kernel to most commercial produtct bug counts, but I'm lazy and already not getting anything done today. :(

  18. Re:no incremental on Backing Up is Hard to Do? · · Score: 1

    Incremental above, with creating images of the incremental stuff with the current date-time stamp in the file name. then dvd-record out the images when you get some stored up.

    I do it over nfs and smbfs mounts using rsync to dvd-r's and dvd-rw's.

  19. Re:Target Audience on Getting the Girl · · Score: 1

    It's rather obvious on TS or ventrillo. Or at lan parties.

    Or if the're people you already know.

    Then again. I am reminded of that NCIS episode.... ehk!

  20. Re:Target Audience on Getting the Girl · · Score: 1

    "...largest...huge...large...huge..."

    size matters I guess?

    Some of my best friend/players on line are females.

    Nothing cuter than a girl playing a game seriously. :)

  21. Re:Best SSID on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 1

    I think the'll probably be changing that due to it's negative connotations in the future.

    Elements is my favorite. *you know who you are*. And if you see it; bug ogg! It's protected.

    I went through a dorm hall a few months back with my iBook before the rouge ap's got shut down. Funny stuff. :)

    They all had MAC filtering on the floor I went through, though no wep.

    One of the extra campus dep's here uses only MAC filt.

    The main campus uses vernier boxes in front of the dhcp server and router. You try and get on and a webpage with login info gets shoved at you on port 80. GOod system.

  22. Re: Answer.... on Has The "Technology Bounceback" Begun? · · Score: 1

    It was an act I didn't intend...

    And in my justification. I think I was actually thinking of another word there but the fingers half found that one instead.

    That's what I get for typing on a keyboard I only use for RTCW. :)

  23. RE: Answer.... on Has The "Technology Bounceback" Begun? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nah... Not yet. We're just now getting some stuff that the Korean and Japaneese school kiddies have had for the past 5 years.

    Wait 1-3 more years for us to get them fully integrated into our lives.

    I know some people are already there. But I think for the most part, even those of us with these gadgets, using them constantly to their capabilities is not yet within comonplace.

    I mean, I actidenditly forgot my pda somewhere and lasted like 3 days without it. And that was just after a new year res to use the thing more.

    I haven't synched it in like a monthe either. :)

  24. Re:Let's talk reality here on The Tin-Whisker Menace · · Score: 1

    Not ignored, but not focused on. Just look at RCRA and stuff...

    There's only 12 states right now that even have legislation in the works to mitigate the disposal of computer products. The EPA has to suggest a problem and then states have to decide upon a solution that works for them.

    It's a process that's slow, but has been doing a heck of a lot since 1976.

    And it is a LOT eaisier to regulate the use in newer products than older ones. Keep in mind, there's very few houses that have wine glasses, and a heck of a lot that have computers. And all of them have plumbing. If you regulate out leadded soilder for new houses or rennovations, then you save youself a heck of a lot of work later, since you can essentially ignore them.

    It frees up resources to work on older products while steming the sevarity of new problems.

  25. Re:Same machine on Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained · · Score: 1

    He's a sleeper for SCO.