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  1. Re:Digital pants.... on Community Networking Made Easy · · Score: 1

    Ummm.....

    It would seem your digital pants have crashed. Maybe next time you should run FreeBSD on them, no?

  2. Re:Non apple PPC? Where? on TerraSoft Releases YellowDog Linux 3.0 · · Score: 1

    TerraSoft Boxer series has an ATX motherboard and G4 processor. It doesn't looke speedy, but it is certainly PowerPC.

  3. Re:IT? No, ID! on R.I.P. Original iMac: 1998-2003 · · Score: 1

    George Foreman is a company/man, not sure which, who produces cooking grills in North America.

  4. Re:OpenBSD Secure? on OpenBSD: Hackers Meet Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Don't bolwfish inflate themselves with water? That is what they live in.

  5. Re:Now, if they would only release Linux? on Safari Beta Leaked, With Tabs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can you your /etc/groups and /etc/passwd files to create users in X

    First clause no verb.

  6. Re:Great feature but where is CD burning? on BSD Journaled File System Ready For Testing · · Score: 1

    Just install cdrecord. Just like Linux.

  7. Re:US only phenomenon? on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    Here in Saskatchewan (Canada), my school was ruled by the band and choir geeks. I was one of them. We wern't like you see in movies like "American Pie" and such, we were normal people. The jocks weren't very popular, but they were accepted. The cheerleaders were the lowest of the low, aside from the FLS (Functional Living Skills, retards if you will), except for one English teacher, whose order of preference went: Cheerleader, female, male.

    It also didn't matter if you were in French or English, they were held at the same level.

  8. Re:They gave the source back for KHTML??? on Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other? · · Score: 3, Informative
    And I'm still waiting for Apple to release the source code to their GNU Chess port, dammit.

    chess.tgz on Apple's site. It's right there for the taking.

  9. Re:Well on Recycling Pay Phones into Terminals · · Score: 1

    Well... the country is bigger than Quebec and Ontario. BC and Alberta are owned by Telus, Saskatchewan is owned by Sasktel, Manitoba is owned by MTS, Ontario and Quebec by Bell Canada, The Maritimes by Alliance and its subsiduaries, and Newfoundland by Islandtel or something like that.

    So, Bell has at most 50% of the country, and outside of cell phones and sattalite, they don't exist in Saskatchewan at all.

  10. Re:Favorite Part on All-New PowerBooks, Web Browser Featured at Macworld · · Score: 1

    You mean the things that people buy Apples for? Wow.. who'd think they wouldn't release those as Open Source. Apple has to protect its investments. Darwin isn't nearly as major as Quartz or Aqua. They're where MacOS X really shines.. its ability to run Unix apps beside Photoshop and MS Office.

  11. Re:Most Important Enhancement on Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.2.3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Before, we had US and UK English spell check dictionaries. Canadian English is a mix of US and UK English. You used to have to pick one and add the correct spelling to it for words it didn't recognize.

  12. Am I the only one? on Joe Clark's Answers -- In Valid XHTML · · Score: 2

    Am I the only one who read the title and thought: "What does /. want with Joe Clark, the Canadian politician?

    Joe Clark is the leader of the Canadian Progressive Conservative party (Torys), for you non-Canadians.

  13. Re:They're great machines, that's why on Apple Gives Laptops Speed Bumps · · Score: 2

    The thing that makes a big difference for me is that the internationalization is seamless;

    That's a nice feature, and I like it. The problem is that my main language (Canadian French) isn't supported by many programs, and neither is French. My preference order for languages goes Canadian French, French, Suisse French, British English, English. 90% of programs run in English or British English. The exceptions are some Open-Source programs, and Apple Programs, which all support French.

    Even MSN Messenger doesn't work in any language I've tried (French, German, Some Asian language I couldn't read, or Spanish), but runs in English just fine. Internet Explorer is internationalised, so MS knows how it's done.

    This doesn't bother me that much, because I simply switched it for the duration of my University French classes, but does anybody know if one can get French versions of ICQ, MSN, RDC, and various other prgrams?

  14. Re:They're great machines, that's why on Apple Gives Laptops Speed Bumps · · Score: 2

    The document unsaved button is always on in Terminal if you're running a program it doesn't recognize.. IE one that you have not put in the "Prompt before closing" box. So vi ALWAYS has the button, whether you've saved or not.

  15. Re:DVD-R Superdrive by Toshiba on Apple Gives Laptops Speed Bumps · · Score: 2

    Considering my iBook uses a Toshiba DVD/CD-RW combo drive, it wouldn't be surprising to fin that Apple is using a Toshiba drive in the new Powerbooks.

    Its hard drive is an IBM TravelStar 40GN too.

  16. Re:ptelnet on Apple Gives Laptops Speed Bumps · · Score: 2

    Linux can do console access via ptelnet-Palm M500-iBook.

    It uses the visor driver in the stock kernel, and the serial device only exists when it's trying to make a connection. You just start the PPP client on the Palm, then the server on the Linux side, and you can telnet. I have not tried it in OSX yet, but it'd likely take a ppp server, and I don't know if that exists on OSX client.

  17. Re:Obligitory Canadian 'humor' on Dr. Robot Watches Over Home And More · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we could finally understand what the fuck Chretien is trying to say.

    There is not a computer in existence that is powerful enough to translate "stupid politician" into "English" or "French", or even any other human language. I simply cannot be done.

    Don't you remember the Air Farce bit about "What is the Governor-General Trying to Say?"

  18. Re:Won't fly high. on Dr. Robot Watches Over Home And More · · Score: 2

    There are channels that show something OTHER than hockey?

    I've never heard of such a thing. You Americans are weird.

  19. Re:Canada Kicks Ass Again on U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press · · Score: 1

    The problem with Canada is that they could have gotten French cuisine, American technology and English culture. Instead, they ended up with French technology, American culture and English cuisine.

    I thought it was: Canada could have had French Culture, American Know-how, and English Government, instead we got American Culture, English know how, and French Government.

  20. Re:Where's the Inter in the 'Net? on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 1

    Writing an unfavourable newspaper article about someone is libel, unless you can prove everything you say is factually correct.

    Actually, the onus is on the accusor in libel. It is up to the plantiff to provide evidence that the statements are factually incorrect. After that, you must give evidence that you 1) had a reputation to damage, and 2) had your reputation damaged.

  21. Re:Serverless browsing .. on Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer · · Score: 1

    Previously mentioned was data replication. Presumably, a laptop would not be a person's primary computer. I use my laptop as a satallite to my desktop. When I'm near the desktop, I use it. It has a faster network connection, faster disks, it plays games better, and my Palm is synced to it every night.

  22. Keeping .su as an area? on See Ya .su · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Weird. You'd then expect something along the lines of .eu, .na, .as, etc.. assuming that none of those exist at the moment. Too lazy to look them up.

    What do you people think of geographical TLDs as opposed to national ones?

  23. Re:Other "questionable" acts on ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Who cares if he had terrorist links (and that point is questionable at best, according to the cbc story)? He is still human, and is therefore entitled to human rights. He is a Canadian citizen, and presumably had given up his Syrian citizenship. Either way, he should have been deported to CANADA not Syria.

    How would you feel if we deported you to Iran on suggested terrorist links if you tried to cross the border?

  24. Re:mmmm.... on There's a Hole in the Middle of It All · · Score: 2

    Actually, a point with no volume would have infinite density, but finite mass. Density is defined as Mass/Volume.

    Let's set mass = k, and volume = x okay?

    Lim(x->0) k/x = infinity.

    What's inside a point with infinite density? Who knows, but we do know that our universe has finite mass, just like black holes....

    points to ponder.

  25. Cisco LEAP? on TiBook Wi-Fi Range Hack: New Card · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My University uses Cisco LEAP to keep unauthorised people off their wireless network. PCs work with Cisco cards, and MacOS X 10.[12] work with internal Airport cards.

    When it asks for your password, just use , and it works. Can you do this with a cheap card and drivers?