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  1. Re:Starting low level vs meet-in-the-middle on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 1

    > You reach enlightenment when you can bridge the
    > gap from very low level to the highest levels.
    > But it is folly to try to do everything at once.

    Enlightenment? A quick satori perhaps...
    Only when doing everything at once by mastering massive autonomous distributed parallel learning networks you truly enter Nirvana.

  2. Pick one and outsource the support on Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The best I can come up with is just pick Ubuntu for instance, outsouce support to cannonical (big contract for them, perhaps several others). They would immediately become the community's champions and mass distribution will result in networks of emerging experts to help their friends out. No need for centralized support, if its everybody's os, its everybody's responsibility to help others out.

  3. Re:This was sorely needed on Flash 9 Beta for Linux Available · · Score: 1

    BTW: I just remembered that just yesterday I could not see the WII experience videos.

  4. This was sorely needed on Flash 9 Beta for Linux Available · · Score: 1

    The old flash player had some horrible issues with sound output that actually made firefox suck.

    This has been a problem at Ubuntu and I guess others.

    I work with a web-based application and usually watching any YouTube video would crash my entire browser session.

  5. Re:Central... right... on GlobalFlyer 'Round The World Solo Flight Takes Off · · Score: 1

    Well... it feels like the US is the center of the world quite too often, in little but annoying ways.

  6. Central... right... on GlobalFlyer 'Round The World Solo Flight Takes Off · · Score: 1

    The Salina Airport was chosen for its central location

    ... Right.. so in a semi-sphere like our planet... how was this a CENTRAL location? ;-)

  7. Re:Misleading Title on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1
    Actually, I just tried this on my Windows XP SP2 partition:
    fire@heaven:/winxp/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32$ strings winsock.dll | grep BSD
    BSD Socket API for Windows
    So they did take the BSD TCP stack, and I remember seeing this in microsoft.com (to make the point that WinNT was as good or better as any Un*x.)



  8. Re:Unheimlich on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 1

    The old bastard Freud actually devoted pages and pages to the translation of the word unheimlich. You can read a short summary here..

    Fairly interesting, really. It means uncanny, unfamiliar, un-home-like, but it has several mixed meanings. This is the beauty of languages really, as you can evoke such richness of meanings with a single word...

    This is the beauty of poetry too.

  9. Re-invention of the wheel? on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.wiktionary.org/ has been doing this for a long time, what's wrong with them?

  10. I need the same thing! on ERP/CMS for Small Business IT consultants · · Score: -1

    And have been looking for it for a while now... I would have loved to see this in the main index.

  11. Re:Use pf's authpf to enable the gateway on Managing the Online Teenager? · · Score: 0

    In any case self-control is better than outside-enforced control. The difficult thing about self-control is that it relies on feedback and information. If you provide your kids with information about their online activities (without content, just statistics) like this:

    Hours spent on computer this week: 40
    Usage distribution (based on traffic):
    80% IM
    10% Browse
    10% Playing

    They might realize something is wrong, specially if you compare with hours spent doing some other productive or social things.

    If they can justify their long periods online, then they probably deserve to be online.

    Just a thought from a soon to be psychologist.

  12. This is, by far, the lamest story. on Automatic Games Installer for JDS Linux · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod me troll me... but it is, it's just a freakin ugly script. How the hell did this get to Slashdot.

  13. Re:Avalible for a while now.... on Handtop PC Announced Using Transmeta Processor · · Score: 0

    http://www.antelopetech.com/en/index.aspx?view=i-p roducts_RuggedHandheld.htm

    # Buttons: CTRL-ALT-DEL, Left/Right mouse, On/Off

    I just had a laugh about that one

  14. Good luck! on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 0
    Hey guys, I was, just by coincidence, with my non-geek significant other and she found your story very cute! Now she is all tender to me! Thanks!

    Now, the only problem is when I want to ask, I will have to find a bigger way! Maybe a message from space?

    Anyway, congrats. I hope our story goes like yours...

  15. I downloaded the whole thing and I can't compile! on Download The Human Genome · · Score: 1

    As soon as I heared, I downloaded the whole thing, and did this, but it didnt work! tar xzvf genome.tar.gz man/arms.c // written in C! man/legs.c man/brain.h ... and so on ./configure --with-bigboobs it seemed to work, and then: make woman but nothing happens! anyone can help???

  16. Actually... all but five... on Linux Advocacy At PC Expo · · Score: 1

    thats all.

  17. Current leadership model... my ass. on Several Stampede Developers Depart · · Score: 1

    "The current leadership method has worked well up until this point, and shows no indications of future failure." -------- Come on, half of your staff is leaving you, but it still works? Hey, there is a mutiny in the ship, but the captain was still right... well whatever, I just think that this IS a "failure" of the current leadership model;

  18. come on! on Linux Blamed for DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    just because windows does not have build-in c compiling does not mean you cant attack other systems!!! In fact, linux is more secure because only experienced users will be able to compile and use exploit, whereas in windows you get the binary file and just click exploit.exe... I hope the public does not buy this crap!

  19. Re:trans*snore on Phoenix BIOS Software Available for Crusoe · · Score: 0

    Angels of course...