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  1. Re:even if you thought 7.0 sucked, check this one on Red Hat Linux 7.1 Release Announcement · · Score: 2

    This has been true of RH for a *very* long time. Yet another reason to use Debian.

  2. The paperclip may be dead on The End Of The Paperclip · · Score: 2

    but Vigor will be with us always.
    Oh gawd I'm evil. Trust me do not install Vigor. But if you really want to there are debs. Just follow the link. It is bad trust me.

  3. Re:what are you packet tables like? on Security Issues For Many Alcatel DSL Modems · · Score: 1

    I got mine like 2 years ago and usworst sent it with a management cable. mine is just in bridge mode with a Linux based firewall right behind it.

  4. Re:default dsl passwords suck, unchangeable ones on Security Issues For Many Alcatel DSL Modems · · Score: 1

    I must agree I do love my 675 :)

  5. Re:Concrete evidence of the Aurora? on NASA Prototype Plane Scheduled To Attempt Mach 5+ · · Score: 5

    This link (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/aurora.html) has some good background info for those of you who don't know much about the Aurora. Although I can't find links just now. There are several pictures of the "donuts-on-a-rope" contrail and also I heard on TLC a few years ago a story about evidence for sonic booms over the Pacific for which the Aurora is the only really good explanation. So in short yes I do think the government has things that none of us know about. From the fact that this is public knowledge and NASA is doing it we can assume that Mach 5 is nice and slow at this point. :)

  6. Re:Yeah, sure on Why Community Matters · · Score: 2

    There is no initial moderation. It just so happens that of the thousands of people looking at /. at any given moment someone sees a post you made and mods it. I sometimes get responses to posts within a few minutes. Does that mean that there are people doing "initial responses" nope it just means that there are a great many people reading /. at anyone moment.

  7. Woody does in fact on Progeny Debian 1.0 Released · · Score: 3

    Have everything the poster listed except for the graphical installer and that is being worked on. Nonetheless good job. This will make commercial support for Debian improve which when trying to sell a client on it is an important. Thing. Also GRUB is nice very nice.

  8. Re:A simple request for Jon on Review: Blow · · Score: 2

    Shoeboy you wrote
    Hey, he can post anon if he wants. Although I've been out of the closet IRL for a couple of years, I've maintained a straight persona on /. just because of the advesarial nature of the site. I even went so far as to invent stories. Sad, I know, but I'll not cast stones at AC's. That's what anonymous posting is for, right? --Shoeboy I moderate myself up.
    in this story. http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/06/0012207.shtm l So are you gay or where you faking it for that story. I wish you all would quit modding this fool up.

  9. Re:My interpretation... on CPRM Lecture · · Score: 1

    No not so much that as I have just yet to find the job for which winders is the right tool. If you know of one please let me know.

  10. So Jon on Does Peer-to-Peer Suck? · · Score: 2

    in light of the fact that you wrote this and this. What are your *real* thoughts on the subject? A few months ago napster was a basic right and now it is a means to steal stuff. This is why you piss so many of us off get a postion and stick with it.

  11. Re:Use Folding@Home instead on Philanthropy Redefined · · Score: 1

    That is very cool. Thanks for the link.

  12. Re:"Free Software" on Free Software's Star to Rise During US Recession? · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering what you think of something like this. http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/research-papers /replace-4262000.html#Introduction

  13. Re:argh on ESR's Sex Tips For Geeks · · Score: 1

    Not only that but check out what he thinks a good looking woman is. I'm going to be flaccid for a very long time. :(

  14. The reason I won't be on Why Isn't BSD a Desktop Operating System? · · Score: 5

    using *BSD on the desktop soon is not even their fault. But I gotta have my video drivers and damn Nvidia won't do it or let anybody else do it. Otherwise I would think about switching. Oh yea and if Debian/BSD got off the ground that would be very cool also. But that mailing list is *very* dead.

  15. Re:this isn't e-gold's fault on Secret Service Raids Gold-Age · · Score: 1

    They may ask for a card to put a deposit on but they do in fact have to take cash for the payment. They can *not* refuse to take cash.

  16. Re:this isn't e-gold's fault on Secret Service Raids Gold-Age · · Score: 2

    While it is true that the cash is gone now it is not true that you have no protection. This varies from bank to bank but I have had someone use my check card a couple of times. Both times the bank refunded my money. And both of them where under the $50 limit on credit cards. But of course my bank is well known for customer service. :) Just pick a bank with good terms.

  17. Re:Debit card on Secret Service Raids Gold-Age · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind they *have* to take cash. As in can not refuse it. If you have the cash all they can ask for is someway to verify that you are who you say you are. Now they can also demand a deposit. But yes it is very possible to do with cash. Because to turn you away because you want to pay in cash would be against the law. This is the whole idea of legal tender.

  18. Re:Marketplace is NOT an NPR program. on Supremes Hear Case of Publisher Piracy · · Score: 1

    That is true but ask just about anyone who is listening to a public radio station what they are listening to and they will answer "NPR" I know that even when I know it is a PRI show that that is what I would say. I like that my local station carries both. :)

  19. Re:WTF? on Day In The Life Of Net Scam Artists · · Score: 1

    I meant that. It was supposed to be funny.

  20. WTF? on Day In The Life Of Net Scam Artists · · Score: 4

    "SECURITY EXPERTS WILL tell you most of the computer attacks they see every day are initiated by clever teen-agers, so called ?script kiddies.?"
    I started laughing when I read that. Most of the rest of it was very funny also. I never thought I would read the words "clever" and "script kiddie" in the same sentance. LOL

  21. Re:Marketplace is NOT an NPR program. on Supremes Hear Case of Publisher Piracy · · Score: 1

    But of course most of us listen to it on a NPR station. But they do say PRI every once in awhile. Thanks very much for a grear service.

  22. Re:Keep up the good work on New Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1

    The best part of that would be that the kernel would have to go into non-free. That would be funny.

  23. Re:Keep up the good work on New Debian Project Leader · · Score: 3

    I think he is talking about the install problems. I just built a new box this morning and noticed that some of them have been fixed. I do not know on what he bases the statement that Branden as gone AWOL as there was a new version in Woody last week and there seems to be a new version in Sid again. I'm thinking the first poster wants X to come up with no effort on his part and in Debian that is not going to happen and I for one like it that way.

  24. Re:The Importance of Freedom of Speech on "Nuremberg Files" Decision Overturned · · Score: 1

    Ok You are right. I've always heard that Holmes was in dissent. In any case you are also right that this case does not come anywhere near being a clear and present danger. Thanks for the info.

  25. Re:The Importance of Freedom of Speech on "Nuremberg Files" Decision Overturned · · Score: 1

    You are right I was wrong. Thanks for the info.