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  1. sys admin will suck eventually. Try College. on System Administrators - College or Career? · · Score: 1

    Not to pick on you, but any old high school grad
    can do sys admin.

    If you are good, then you will get bored/sick quickly.

    Going to college at least puts some new thought/ideas in your head.

  2. Why not just "JPEG 2" on JPEG2000 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    The year convention is obviously broke when the
    project is late.

  3. It's a PC that won't fit in the entertainment ctr on Linux-based Digital Audio Player with Ogg · · Score: 1

    This is another one of those PCs that attempts to be an entertainment appliance, but still is in a big clunking box. This one is 19" deep. Entertainment centers are designed for big stereo reciever which at most is 15" deep.

    I looked for the perfect case, and failed.
    They simply do not make a 15" deep case with 2 or threee bays.

    Your options are:
    fv24/25 shuttle box.
    bookpc.
    Put a flexatx MB in your Apex DVD player case.

  4. iSCSI? on Iomega's New Unix (Optional) NAS Appliance · · Score: 1

    Does the device follow any standard protocol?

  5. Paperless Society on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Unix/Linux decided printing is not really needed.
    Being future minded, Unix/Linux is "Paperless Society ready".

  6. Think outside the 1982 box that you live in on Apple Wants Your Input · · Score: 1

    >... computers of 2009 will resemble ... flexible place mat.
    > It will be an illuminated touch sensitive pad.
    > ... when not typing a finger can :
    > TAP
    > Double-Tap
    > DR

    Again, you are assuming that I am a one fingered monkey.

    Ever think that I could tap with two or tree fingers?
    Hint 1: Compare tapping with 4 fingers to quaddripple clicking (think new user).
    Hint 2: Ask a proffesional piano player to
    play with one finger.

    Note that you are limiting yourself to the UI of 1982.
    All GUI 's current suck (Windows, Apple, Linux).
    They all are clicking and dragging windows about.
    Hopefully by 2009, we can use something based on new thought.

  7. Need 2/3 button mouse. (Single click interface) on Apple Wants Your Input · · Score: 1

    No more double/tripple clicking or key combination clicking please.
    I have five fingers and I know how to use them all. Support mice that let me.

  8. When did they switch to Microsoft on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I've been out of college a while, but real CS schools still teach in UNIX, right?

  9. Indigos weren't designed to have internal CDROM?? on Iris Indigo Case Mod · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they were designed for ripping the guts out
    and replacing with a PC?

    Maybe if the case was bigger, then you could squeeze a CDROM in.

    -don

  10. Why not just underclock on Hitachi Demos Water-Cooled Notebooks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If only notebooks would allow you to easily underclock, then you run at lower power and not bake your lap or boil water.

  11. Donate $100 (premier), Only $96.60 makes it on Class Action Lawsuit Says PayPal Restricted Funds · · Score: 1

    Say that I have a paypal account and I "upgraded" to "premier" because paypal told me it's better.

    Now say that I donate $100 to some site. (say vorbis.org). Ok it says I sent $100, no other message.

    They get a message. "Do you want to accept $100?"

    They accept. Problem is that only $96.60 was put in the account. No message or warning about the premier fee (2.9% +$0.50) taken.

    It was a donation, so the organization does not complain. I was never told about the fee, so I don't complain.

    So how much in hidden fees did PayPal rip people off with $200,000? Of course they give you special treatment.

  12. Representative Mary Bono said it best/worst on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution. I invite all of you to work with me to strengthen our copyright laws in all of the ways available to us. As you know, there is also Jack Valenti's [of the MPAA] proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress."

  13. A sweet note ... on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 5, Funny

    A sweet note telling how Emperor Claudius beheaded St. Valentine in 270 CE, and compare this to your relationship somehow.

  14. "The Meaning of Life" -by Moses/Burning Bush on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    > People dont want to believe that there is a being somwhere in the heavens that is superior to them, a being that created them and the universe [...] in six days.

    Some guy came down from a mountain and said a burning bush told him how the earth was formed. The story incorporates several parts of the story that his Sumerian relatives had told him (Gilgamesh).

    I will not accept any theory blindly, evolution, creation or otherwise. You must consider the credibility, date, and author of any theory before accepting anything. Please read Genesis again. It's funny :)

  15. False. Biblical writers knew a flat earth on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    "Isn't it funny how that bible states that the earth is round? and this was written in the bible when the earth was still considered to be flat."

    The Bible is a funny,inconsistent and greatly altered book in general. But the bible's authors believed the earth to be flat.

    The view in Genesis was that of a flat eath protected by a firmament dome.

    Danial speeks of a tree growing in the center of the world.

    Revelations speeks of angels at the four corners of the earth.

    Google for "flat earth" and bible and you find
    sites like:

    http://infoweb.magi.com/~godfree/flaterth.html

  16. Standard of RPM subset on Linux Standard Base 1.1 · · Score: 1

    While the standard does narrow RPM to a subset of commands. The set of commands seems too large, and the syntax of the commands is ambiguous. Should the commands always allow all GNU options or could a subset (like busybox) be sufficient.

    The required command syntax should be complete spelled out, so you could write a portable rpm. If the command set was known, you could write rpm such that it is independent of system tools and does not require the root user to use --root option. This could be good for embedded systems.
    rpm and busybox could share a .so.

  17. ov3 or ov4 would be better on BBC Reopens Ogg Streams · · Score: 1

    because version numbers are often free marketing.

    3 somehow means compressed music.
    4 is better than 3 (of course).

  18. competition on PowerPC Open Platform Motherboards Finally Here · · Score: 1

    As long as the monopoly makes products that are perfect for you, then it is hard to complain. If the product is not perfect for you (say you wanted a ppc linux box that didn't look like it came for Toys'R'us), then you are out of luck.

  19. Consider WebKNotes on Chromatic On The Wiki Plugin For Slash · · Score: 1

    You may also want to consider WebKNotes
    (webknotes.sourceforge.net) as a knowledge database.

    It has support for html,text,wiki,and htxt files.
    Everything is stored in a directory hierarchy, it has authentication and it has many choices for look and feel.

  20. Re:Lose the GNU and I might Try It on Review of Sorcerer GNU Linux · · Score: 1

    The GNU mob may mod you down,

    But you are not alone.

    I don't like political bs, so I try not to use a distro that is compelled to follow RMS commandments.

    I stopped using Mandrake when they renamed it to Mandrake GNU/Linux.

    I'm waiting for a Debian clone "Linux distro" :)

    I may start rolling my own soon, since "they all suck".

  21. 15 bags of groceries? on New Thoughts in Public Transportation · · Score: 1

    Either you need to go on a diet, or go to the store more.

    I have walked to the store at the last four places that I have lived. I buy what I can carry ( I do not use a cart in the store). It's good excercise.

    Some people always use the elevator, and drive two blocks away. Then they go to the gym and use the stair machine and treadmill.

  22. A "real biosphere" would be under water and on TV on Science and Education in Biodomes · · Score: 1

    If you really wanted to create a biosphere:

    - Put the dome under water, to insure a good seal.

    - Have an elevator shaft to the surface that you can seal easily, and introduce new "contestants.

    - Have escape hatches in case elevator problems.

    - Give a few million dollars to the person who can stand living isolated with plants longest.

    - Put it on TV so it is self-funding of course.

  23. 2.4, fb, usb and cd write on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 2, Informative

    2.4.0-? frame buffer had some problems with edge offset.

    -2.4.5 usb-storage was flakey.

    2.4.6 usb stablized.

    2.4.15 broken
    2.4.16 first stable version with ext3
    2.4.16 ide-scsi hangs with some cd-recorders

    2.4.17 seems stable for me.

  24. If we each spent $20k on mass transit, not cars,.. on New Thoughts in Public Transportation · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We could have high speed acrross the US, and have "Johnny Cars" like this in every city.

    Watch the road sometime, and notice how many thousands of dollars drive by in 4+ person vehicals, each carrying 1 person.

    Americans fight in the middle east, so that someday every city can be like LA.

  25. No overclocking with FV24 on Build Your Own Mini-Computer · · Score: 1

    Issues that I have with my Fv24:

    - Bios does not allow overclocking or underclocking. I want to underclock and run fanless.

    - There is space for 2 5.25 bays, they should have put two in.

    - Mine did NOT come with a CPU fan.

    - The FlexATX back panel is a little non-standard, and there is no removable back panel plate. It may be hard to put another FlexATX MB in there.