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  1. Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you exactly why.

    The Fedora KDE SIG is small. It had only 4 or 5 members at the time (versus 6 now, yippee). There was no way for them to both bring a 4.x desktop into Fedora *and* maintain a 3.5.x desktop. Their choices were to either to be stuck with maintaining an unmaintained version of KDE for the next 6 to 12 months, or to pinch their noses and jump in feet first. Fedora being Fedora, they decided to jump. It's not their fault that the KDE developers screwed up.

  2. Re:I suppose an argument could be made... on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    By that argument, all content is completely worthless since almost anyone can sit down in front of a computer with Internet access and pull up a very large amount of content on almost any topic imaginable. So why then should I pay an institution for any of it?

  3. Re:Virtualization on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unless Citrix or Red Hat ends up ruling it.

  4. Re:Not a problem on Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" · · Score: 1

    So wait...

    They have their own M, derived from their own D?

    If anyone needed further proof that Microsoft likes to confuse people for its benefit, here it is.

  5. Five words on The Blending of Music and Games · · Score: 1

    The World Ends With You

    Of course, the music needs to match the game. Otherwise, it may as well just be white noise.

  6. Re:Just use bleach on Nanotech Paint To Kill Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's not the bleach that kills them. The bleach produces free radicals out of water which then destroy most things they come in contact with. Sort of like what this paint does...

  7. Re:Nothing to see here. on Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised · · Score: 1

    Don't feed the trolls - when an AC says something stupid, let it slide.

    How about when someone logged in says something stupid?

  8. Oooh, I know! on Google Has All My Data – How Do I Back It Up? · · Score: 1

    On GMailFS!

  9. *ring* *ring* on Atheros Releases Free Linux Driver For Its 802.11n Devices · · Score: 1

    "Hi, Broadcom? This is everyone else calling..."

  10. Wha? on Parrot: For Real · · Score: 1

    Why the hell would anyone want to clone Ruby?

  11. Re:JFS Working Nicely... on File System Round-Up Interview · · Score: 1

    The reason JFS isn't in the kernel isn't because it's "rough around the edges", it's because there is no clean separation between the JFS utils, libs, and kernel code. If you look at ext2, you can easily compile its utils even on a Linux machine that doesn't use ext2 (not that I've seen too many, mind you...). Try the same with JFS. Go ahead, I DARE you.

  12. JFS in the kernel?!?!? on File System Round-Up Interview · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, right! Have you seen the code for it? It is a horrid mess. I tried digging through it, and soon found that I would have to rewrite it from the ground up. I'm not surprised LT et al. don't want it in Linux. It's a nice FS, but it's NOT ready to go into the kernel.

  13. Re:what about DVD tech? on New Philips eXpanium Will Use 3" CDs · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Nintendo GameCube will use 3" DVDs, and each will hold 1.47 GB of data.

  14. Re:passwordless authentication on OpenSSH Management - Understanding RSA/DSA Authent · · Score: 1

    Simple: use an empty passphrase.

  15. Little Sisters on Palm IIIe Announced · · Score: 1

    What is it with little sisters and Palms? Both of mine want one. I DON'T have THAT kind of money...

  16. My Experiences on Booting Linux from LS 120 Drives? · · Score: 1
    I have an LS-120, and I managed to get LILO working on it just fine. The trick is to tell lilo that /dev/hd? has a BIOS code of 0x00. I also find that giving the params also helps:

    disk=/dev/hda
    bios=0x00
    cylinders=963
    heads=32
    sectors=8

    Then to put it on, you run lilo as you normally would.

    CAVEAT: On SCSI-only systems, lilo complains if you try to put it on the LS-120 through command-line arguments pointing to the LS-120. The correct way to do this (for me, I don't know about others) is to put the LS-120 disk in the drive and just run lilo against the hard disk. If you run lilo against the hard disk without a disk in the drive, it complains about /dev/hda not existing or something. I believe that it's because lilo does IDE devices first.

    P.S.: Does anybody have a SCSI floppy drive they're looking to get rid of?