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  1. Re:You thought YOUR caffeine intake was bad on New Baby in the Torvalds Home · · Score: 2
    Sure there will, it'll just be usleep(). :)

    1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.

  2. Re:The wonders of choice on Has Netscape's Browser Become Too Self-Serving? · · Score: 1
    There's even an anti-anti-cruft version, called Galleon.

    But... wouldn't that make it pro-cruft? :)

    1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.

  3. Re:the real Leto2? on Netscape 6.0 Released · · Score: 1
    You call that low?

    Damn, and if I knew I could be *selling* my low ID, I'd have been on ebay long ago.

    Bidding starts at $5k!

    (Score: -1, Offtopic)

    1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.

  4. Re:Storage on TiVo Hacked to Include Ethernet · · Score: 1
    Exactly. Pretty much the only reason I have a land line at all anymore instead of just using my cell phone is because of my TiVo. I'm definitely looking forward to being able to do this... :)

    1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.

  5. Re:My question... on Election Wrapping Up (Part 2) · · Score: 1
    Why are you so worried?

    It's like the difference between getting poked in your left eye 9 times, or your right eye 10. Either way it's unpleasant, and in the long run it doesn't make much difference *which* eye gets poked out.

    Regardless of what their "platform" is, Democrats and Republicans are effectively the same once they get in office. They both make stupid laws they have no right in making, there's only a slight difference in what they make them about.

    Relax, you're screwed either way.

    1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.

  6. Re:Quicktime codecs ? on The Next Generation of XAnim · · Score: 2
    Yup, streaming works fine in Media Player under wine. I use it to get my nightly Coast To Coast AM fix. :)

    1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.

  7. Re:In the final analysis on Visual Analysis Of Mp3 Encoders · · Score: 2

    Because it's a real pain in the ass to mess with 300 CDs, but it's really easy to select a directory with 300 CDs worth of music and put it on random. You have no idea how useful it is until you put 4000 songs (I'm not kidding) on random. :)

  8. Re:and were are *you* from? on The Impact on Open Source of Stolen Microsoft Code · · Score: 1

    Damn, you mean French taunters actually talk like that?!

  9. Re:fuck you and your crappy little country on The Impact on Open Source of Stolen Microsoft Code · · Score: 1

    Thank god for EuroDisney!

  10. Re:DNS entry also cracked on Microsoft Cracked · · Score: 1

    Dammit! I get righteous and you agree? How is that supposed to make me feel? =)

  11. Re:DNS entry also cracked on Microsoft Cracked · · Score: 3
    Jesus christ already, that's not cracking, I'm sick of seeing this "story"!

    All those are is host entries under, say, terrorists.net or hackerjack.com.

    If you have a DNS that is acting on behalf of registered domains, it's IP address is registered to the registrar so their root servers can point to it.

    So if you say you have a DNS server called "microsoft.com.is.secretly.run.by.illuminati.terro rists.net" it will show up there.

    So can we agree that there's no "cracking" going on? Sure, it's a neat hack, but I've seen this thing in e-mails, on 4 different web "portals", and now in comments as well. Please, for the love of god, make it stop! :)

  12. Re:Browne on Presidential Answers, Round One · · Score: 1
    There are just *some* things that can't be individualized to be prey for the tragedy of the commons.

    That's the whole *point* of the Libertarian platform. You care enough about the environment to start a group to help it, and to educate others on why helping the environment is a Good Thing, etc. The goal of the Libertarian party is for it's citizens to have enough "enlightened self-interest" to overcome the tragedy of the commons. If you don't think that's possible, then you shouldn't vote Libertarian.

    Amongst the myriad things you can do with your freedom, I don't think screwing over the shared environment or whole nations of people should be one of them.

    That's fine, but your constitution (that's right, you haven't left the country, so you accept the constitution enough to stay) doesn't make a provision for "saving the environment", and therefore, it is not legally in the domain of Government control.

    (Forgive me for making assumptions that you are an American if you are not. Your comments imply that you are.)

  13. Re:But can wine run... on Wine Runs Word 2000 And Excel 2000 · · Score: 1

    Media player works fine... has for at least a couple of months. I listen to Coast To Coast AM every night with it. :)

  14. Re:the pantscam on Broke into the old Quickies · · Score: 4
    Bzzt! Not one use of the word 'geek'.

    You lose 10 points in the Dec-Katz-Alon.

    :)

    :wq!

  15. Re:Copy protection on The Software Police vs. The CD Lawyers · · Score: 1
    Um... the whole point of mp3'ing my collection is so I don't *have* to put in a new cd every 10 songs.

    Instead, I can put 4,000 songs on random. Kinda pointless if I need to put in a new CD every time the track changes. :)

    :wq!

  16. Re:General Operations Daemon on Richard Stallman vs. Jorrit Tyberghein · · Score: 1
    What, are you trying to turn this into a religious war?

    ;)

    :wq!

  17. Re:No Photos? on The Ultimate Monitor · · Score: 1
    Well, duh! Where else could you model a super wide screen 3D image than on a widescreen monitor!

    The proof is in the puddin'!

    :)

    :wq!

  18. Re:Deep Thought on Computer Will Take On Formula 1 Champion · · Score: 1
    7x7=42

    So that would make you the Pentium bug, right? :)

    :wq!

  19. Re:Slashdotted: 8:57 AM, Friday the 13th on StarOffice Source Released · · Score: 1
    Even more scary is the line at the bottom:

    Apache/1.3.13-dev Server at www.openoffice.org Port 80

    They're running a development snapshot of Apache.

    :wq!

  20. Re:Mandrake RPMS? on KDE 2.0 Final Release Candidate Is Out · · Score: 1
    I had installed mandrake_desk, and things still went whacky. Guess I'll have to try 7.2. :)

    :wq!

  21. Mandrake RPMS? on KDE 2.0 Final Release Candidate Is Out · · Score: 1
    Does anyone know whether the Mandrake RPMS are the cooker ones (like previous ones have been) or are they actually compiled for 7.1? Using cooker RPMS on 7.1 for KDE totally f**ks up my system... (kdm loses all of my window manager choices, for example)

    :wq!

  22. Re:an E-book? on Slashback: Padulation, Lightenment, Amends · · Score: 1
    Yeah, real books may be cheaper, but once you buy 200 e-books, the pad's paid for itself! :)

    :wq!

  23. Re:Proof positive of the benefits of Open Source on RH7 Crashes In Three Weeks (But Fixed) · · Score: 1
    Or, at least, if they do need superuser privileges to install, why does it need to be in a *daemon* (that has net access no less, great idea) -- instead of something that's just run out of cron every day? Even if it leaked descriptors it wouldn't have mattered then...

    :wq!

  24. Re:When all you have is a hammer.... on Debian On Compaq's iPaq Handheld · · Score: 1
    The reason we put debian on our iPAQs is it's the closest thing to a handy *real* distribution for ARM out there. The iPAQ is fast enough to do native development on, instead of having to set up a cross-compiler chain.

    My first step in setting up my iPAQ after getting the bootloader and kernel on it was following these instructions, now I can build whatever I want on it over an NFS root.

    :wq!

  25. Re:PocketLinux on Debian On Compaq's iPaq Handheld · · Score: 1
    Not Transmeta. Transvirtual .

    :wq!