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  1. US Government on Govt Says: Internet Is Popular · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Leave it to the US Government to state the obvious is some special report that they spent millions on.

    Who cares.

  2. PIII and LCD Display on Voltage Frugal PCs? · · Score: 1

    Maybe but an "all in one" PIII motherboard and rather than utilizing a regular PIII, use a PIII wit the Intel "Speed Step" technology. Then throw in an LCS monitor and you are good to go.

    Notes:

    1. Not sure if a chip meant for a laptop will fit in a regular mother board.

    2. Not sure about the "Speed Step" term but it is something along those lines from Intel. Used to save power in laptops but running the CPU at lower MHz.

  3. zipslack on Linux Clustering w/Bootable CD-ROMS? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Slackware (http://www.slackware.com) has a product called zipslack (http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/) which (as its name implies) runs off of a zip drive. That might work for you.

  4. What it would take... on Palm Releases New Wireless Handheld · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would buy this if:

    1. It was around $350.00
    2. Had color
    3. 16 MB RAM
    4. Scraped the 9.99 wireless setup fee. What the heck, lets charge them an extra 10 bucks on top of the 449.00! What is up with that.
    5. Unlimited service for 20 / month. First six months is inlcuded in the 350.00

  5. Re:Cleaver on Woz's New Startup · · Score: 1

    um dude, did you read the article? The article definitly mentioned what woz stood for. You are not very clever.

  6. SCSI on Single IDE vs Dual IDE? · · Score: 1

    For a server, SCSI is the only way to go.

  7. Sweet System on Review of Sorcerer GNU Linux · · Score: 1

    This is one cool distribution as long as you have a really fast machine and a large hard drive. It is kind of like Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) on steroids.

  8. Re:Cool for road trip? NO. on The Ultimate S.U.V. · · Score: 1

    What this thing needs is the new GM / Isuzu Duramax diesel engine and the 5 speed allison automatic transmission. Power and torque to spare and it might due something to that 9.5 MPG. Maybe double it to 19 MPG.

  9. Web Methods on MQSeries to COM - What's Best? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a company out there called web methods that made a decent product that would run on all of those systems. The product is active works. We used it on NT, 2000, 390, and Solaris.

  10. Current Phone Bell on AOL/TW Plans for $230 Monthly Cable Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I guess it is possible. My current Cincinnati Bell phone bell runs about 200 per month, but that includes two phone lines (one with all of the calling services), two cell phones, ISP, ADSL, and long distance. Time Warner AOHell is going to to have to offer more than just cable and ISP / Cable Modem to get me to pay that much.

  11. platform agnostic? on The Successor To Popunder Ads? · · Score: 1

    How can the ads be "platform agnostic" if they only run with Internet Explorer?

  12. The Monitor is Strange Looking on Concept PC 2001 · · Score: 1

    The PC is pretty cool, but the monitor is kind of strange.

    1. The dials on the right look like something off of a 1960's era tv set

    2. No cables are going to the monitor

    3. The article does not say anything about the monitor being wireless. That would have to be a lot of bandwidth

  13. Remembering Bob on Do You Remember Bob? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I remember Bob. I bought a Gateway in the 1994 - 1995 timeframe and it came with Windows 95 preinstalled and Bob (and a whole bunch of other software) on CD-ROM. I installed Bob just for fun. The next day, I was reinstalling the whole system from scratch and if I rember right, quadruple booting 95, NT 3.51, Linux, and OS/2 Wrap.

  14. who cares on Review: Harry Potter · · Score: 1

    Who gives a hoot about Harry Potter. I love to see the capitlism machine at work.

  15. Re:What's wrong with RedHat? on The Linux Distribution Game · · Score: 3, Informative
    RedHat was the biggest, oldest, most successful Linux

    Ah, no, of the distributions listed, Slackware is by far the oldest. Redhat is a relative newcomer.

    There is one older than Slackware, it started with a "Y", but I can not spell it. It is no longer maintainted.

  16. Linux from Scratch on The Linux Distribution Game · · Score: 1

    Linux from Scratch is really cool. I installed my own system from scratch in a couple of days. I would recommend a really fast machine though, the compiles take forever on an old 150 MHz laptop. For example, it took 8 hours to compile XFree86 4.1.0. A new 1 - 2 GHz system would cut that down to less than 1 hour.

  17. VA Researh on VA Linux Dropping "Linux" From Name · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember when they were VA Research and changed their name to VA Linux. Ah, how life comes full circle. And for the time being their stock symbol is still LNUX.

  18. Re:Let's be fair: this isn't IE specific. on WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks · · Score: 1

    "Granted, it's the freshest big outrage in our mind, but if you can hop in the Way Back Machine and head back a couple of years to when Netscape was still a viable contender, there most certainly were "Best Viewed With Netscape" sites to go with the "Best Viewed With Internet Explorer" ones"

    Yes, but there is a huge difference between "Best Viewed with..." and "we will not let you view unless you are using..."