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  1. Why not in April on Debian 3.0 (Woody) May 1? · · Score: 1

    Why not release it a day before, so we can have Mozilla 1.0, KDE 3.0, Apache 2.0 and Debian 3.0 all on the same month?

  2. Re:Samba for windows on Microsoft Tech Specs Prohibit GPL Implementations · · Score: 1

    This would be great.I'm nowhere near the skills to implement SAMBA in Windoze, but if you have the expertise, why not set up a poroject in sourceforge to port SAMBA to Win32???
    Hugo

  3. An Elephant, actually. on Living on Internet Time... Like Thomas Edison Did · · Score: 1

    Edison went as far in FUD as to film the electrocution of an elephant.

  4. Re:Running Away? on Globalism Post 9/11 · · Score: 1

    The Palestinians picked no fight.The United States helped a group of radical Zionists in expelling the Palestinians from theis own land and establish a religious and racist state.

  5. Re:This is what'll screw us all in the end on The Root of All E-Mail · · Score: 2, Funny
    Secrets have never worked in security before, and they won't work now.

    So, can I please have the recipe for making Coke? I'm tired of buying those silly bottles.

  6. Closest to martian reality on Utah, the New Red Planet · · Score: 1
    So, if we land a few miles off the intended landing site on Mars, are gonna land on a bunch of Mormons?

    /*sorry, could't resist*/

  7. MSDOS & PCDOS on Microsoft's Ancient History w/ Unix · · Score: 1
    This was both MSDOS & PCDOS at that time, only the versions shipped with IBM PCs were called PCDOS, and MS could market it under the name MSDOS.

    Still, I don't think there were lots of clones (yet) by the time MSDOS 2.0 came around, so it's probably more accurate to talk about PCDOS

  8. It's happenning now on Bandwidth Shortage And The Telephone Company · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is exactly what's happenning in Mexico, the major Telco companies are pushing for a per 15 min. rate. They are responsible, as in the US, for the delay in wide broadband implementation...

    hugonz

  9. You forgot PGP on Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services · · Score: 1
    PGP support, devising some really smart way for sending your private key through SSL instead of trusting it to some server.

    hugonz

  10. too expensive on Serial ATA Coming · · Score: 1

    Firewire is too expesive to be implemented widely at .tw ad .hk manufacturers....the technology has heavy patent royalties (about 1 USD) per chip.

  11. A couple of pedantic corrections... on The Sad Parable of OS/2 · · Score: 1
    I read several years ago, Dvorak's column "Inside Track" He said that OS/2 never succeeded because it was supposed to be optimized for Microchannel (the bus used in the PS/2) and for the PS/2 itself. People feared IBM would go proprietary again...

    Paul Allen and Bill Gates named their company Micro-Soft, not Microsoft.

  12. searching on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 1

    ...in related news, Google re-engineers its search clusters to index webpages (flashpages?) based on pixel pattern recognition.
    c'mon!

  13. Standards on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 1

    ..And when is it they're going to submit their formats to the W3C?
    Because otherwise, it's very bad juju...having everyone try to reverse engineer their format (DMCA, anyone?)...possibly breaking patents, etc.
    Hugo

  14. Smallpox, polio, nuffsaid on Nuclear Mutant Flies Are Good For Africa? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    We are animals as well, and though we must be careful not to wipe other species irrationally, we may (and must) fight for our survival.

    I believe you think erradicating the smallpox and polio viri is bad as well. After all, they do feed and live and reproduce...

    Hugo

  15. I believe we made our point on Episode II Gets Rave Review · · Score: 0, Redundant
    We said it before, someone is gonna have to spank Lucas.

    We said it before and we're saying it now:

    JAR JAR MUST DIE!!!

  16. First Post from an AOL user... on Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    fuck...it was a really good joke...but /. didn't let me write:

    What?? no caps???

    AlL iN CaPs

    Hugonz

  17. Zipspeak on What Accessibility Options Exist for Unix? · · Score: 1

    There is a whole distribution (a version of Slackware) that is designed for speech synthesis. I wonder how it has not been mentioned. Ah, and it works through UMSDOS, so it's for the tech imparied as well.

    Oh, the only problem is that it requires one of several specific model of speech synthesis cards.

    You can find it at www.slacware.com

  18. Re:Uh, why not? on Porting Debian to... Windows · · Score: 1
    Because we are not going back. The GNU tools ran on proprietary UNIX because the kernel was not ready (the Hurd is still not ready)...

    The next step was to have a whole Free OS. Why should we go back??

  19. No---really on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 1

    No, really. Gimme a PayPal option (I live in Mexico) and I'll gladly pay for /.

    But I sincerely will hope the site gets even better...

    Hugo

    250 000 hits * 10 USD = 2.5 MILLIONS!!!!!!!

  20. I you wondered why FS was cool on Kernel 2.4.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine a proprietary software company saying the truth (let alone such a harsh coment as Linus') about its own product?
    "I'm ditching the sorry excuse for a web server that IIS is..." Yeah, right.

  21. OK, this should be it on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    Well, in the last century black people got from being called "niggers" to "African Americans", so was the case with gay people, oriental people, single mothers, flight attendants and pretty much any title that ends with -man was replaced with -person.

    Why don't some american hackers out there go marching on the street and stop the media from implying they're CRACKERS???

    Hugo

  22. Remember DAT on RIAA To Target CD-R · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that this actually happened. When DAT was to become popular, it was killed by taxation.

    Hugo

  23. It was obvious on PDF Virus Spotted · · Score: 1

    Well, you know. PDF is derived from Postscript (TM) and PS is a programming language.

    Like any good book will tell you, if you are masochistic (spl?) enough, you could write a compiler or a shell in PS.

    Just my 2 cents here.

    Hugo

  24. Too late, time for the question was 1995 on Why Won't You Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    Back in 1995, everyone was trying to squeeze a way to get money out of the free Internet. Content on the Internet was free and people only paid for access.

    Capitalists believed they could get money through portals, but they were very wrong. Now the Internet is populated with free content, there's no way they can profit from that.

    Tha Internet is a great medium for *individuals* and not so for corporations, get over it.

    Hugo

  25. MEXICO! on CD-Eating Fungus Among Us · · Score: 1

    Hey...this just happened to me a couple of day ago.I live in Mexico and I found an unburned CD I had (which was previously ok) with a white spot on it...
    We're very close to Belize...you know..

    Hugo