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  1. Re:Linus and Beer on Linus on Linux in 1994 · · Score: 1
    Can I get the penguin-hoisting-a-beer-stein logo back in my kernel?
    Apparently that was a problem in cultures where alcohol is prohibited.
  2. Re:A few factoids... on Dish Network & Viacom Settle Their Differences · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that each first-time user of these PPV coupons is that much more likely to use (and pay for) PPV the next time they want to watch a movie.

    Compare it to a loss-leading promotion to familiarize users with their service.

  3. Re:Fixed?! on KDE 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 1
    Oh c'mon, that was my FAVORITE bug! Who was the dork who filed this bug report? ;-)
    Well, you can still configure konqueror to prevent animated gifs from looping if you prefer it that way.

    Or are you just kidding? :-)

  4. Re:OMG - - consiracy!! on KDE 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    This board has been hijacked by trolls!

    Are you a bad enough dude to save it?

  5. Re:Great thing about driving through Chernobyl on Chernobyl...18 Years Later · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know what they say, more people died at Chappaquiddick than Three Mile Island...

  6. Re:Debian RPMs? on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get experimental DEBs for Debian Unstable:

    deb http://people.debian.org/~ccheney/kde-3.1.95 ./
    deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde-3.2 ./

    These packages currently conflict with openoffice and koffice, I would uninstall them first.

  7. Re:Nasa won't learn on Columbia's Final Minutes in Detail · · Score: 1

    The Columbia was heavier than the other shuttles, it was not capable of reaching ISS's orbital inclination.

  8. Re:What is the purpose of this? on Columbia's Final Minutes in Detail · · Score: 1

    Gnumeric also pulls it up just fine (including the column headers which seem to be missing in the Google version)

  9. Re:Next step - better apps on KDE 3.2 Release Candidate 1 Debuts · · Score: 1

    Konqueror has had tabs for a while now... 3.1.0 I believe.

  10. Re:Starcraft uses some stock sound effects too on History of a Famous Star Wars Scream · · Score: 1
    The terran troop carrier in StarCraft - the one that kinda looks like the lander from Aliens - plays a second or two from the Aliens soundtrack when clicked on. It's some stuff the woman pilot (dunno her name) says when they are descending onto the planet in the begining.

    "In the pipe -- five by five"
  11. 2.6 adoption on Future of 2.4 and 2.6 Kernels · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I disagree, in this case.

    2.6 is getting more positive reports and more good buzz on lkml than I have ever seen for a 2.x stable series. There can be no comparison to 2.4's rocky childhood, for example.

    I think 2.6 is going to be the smoothest early stable series yet, and that 2.4 is going to be looked back upon as a relative stinker. The subtext in Marcello's posts about 2.4 imply that he thinks the same.

    Sometimes I wonder if the difference between 2.4 and 2.6 is the change in the development maintainer's (Linus') source control model -- that is to say, he finally started using one (bitkeeper).

  12. Re:They missed the _amazing_ on Scientific American's Sci/Tech Gifts for 2003 · · Score: 1

    I've been meaning to get one of these for years, but I cannot believe I never noticed that these are sold by Cliff Stoll (of Cuckoo's Egg fame).

  13. Re:for the same weight as the drivetrain... on Bicycle Tech Drivetrain Advances Showcased · · Score: 1

    It's a fixie. Rear brake comes from pushing back on the pedals.

  14. Re:Here's the angle I would take... on Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad · · Score: 1

    This is probably because your PCMCIA hardware uses ISA internally.

  15. Re:Then the judge replies... on SCO Asks IBM To Make SCO's Case For It · · Score: 1

    I believe you mean that anyone who copied (distributed) it would be infringing, and liable to action from the copyright holder.

    Think of the word copyright. It is the right granted to the maker of a work to control how that work is copied.

  16. Mint != BEP on Bureau of Engraving and Printing Issues New US$20 · · Score: 1

    What does the Mint have to do with it?

    Bills are made by the BEP, not the Mint.

  17. Re:Now I know I'm very stupid on Space Elevator Going Up · · Score: 1
    But anything that goes up the cable still has to be accelerated to orbital angular velocity, doesn't it?


    No, because if you think about it, anything that goes up to geosynchronous orbit is already at orbital angular velocity, without requiring any tangential force at all.

    That's what geosynchronous orbit is, after all. The stable orbit with no velocity relative to the earth's surface below.
  18. Re:Idealism... on Space Elevator Going Up · · Score: 1
    I'm just waiting for my light-saber.
    He said Sci Fi, not Fantasy.
  19. Re:Are the tiles 1 by 4 by 9? on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 2, Informative

    In 2001, the monoliths were of the proportion 1x4x9 (1^2 x 2^2 x 3^2), presumably as a hint from their creators that they were artefacts of intelligent beings.

  20. Re:$1.5 billion well spent on Goodbye, Galileo · · Score: 1
    The Flight of the Dragonfly describes an evolved culture of intelligent gaseous creatures living in a gas giant planet
    No, that was Saturn Rukh. Flight of the Dragonfly was about intelligent amorphous creatures living on the ocean of a roche world. (You usually find FotD in the extended form called "Rocheworld").
  21. SCO = Calvinball on SCO Announces Final Termination of IBM's Licence · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've finally figured out what this SCO debacle reminds me of: a game of Calvinball.

    Contract disputes are legal play, except on Reverse Days or while standing in the Invisible Box. SCO attacks Linux users with FUD, and Novell makes them sing the Sorry Song. But SCO claims Novell was in the Reciprocity Zone, so it has to sing the song instead.

    SCO says it owns IBMs code because IBM crossed the Hidden Contract line, but IBM claims today was negative day and now it wants everything that SCO owns.

    The score is now 12 to Q, and I eagerly await the next round.

  22. Re:Flavor/Flavour on Flavor vs. Flavour · · Score: 1

    Is there an USian dry pint?

    Maybe you're thinking of the ounce, which in the US has two meanings (ounce of weight vs. fluid ounce or "fl. oz." of liquid volume)

    I was an engineering student, so I've had both systems drummed into my head. I think we all preferred metric, of course. Working in slugs mass and Rankin absolute temperatures is just bizarre.

  23. LSB doesn't prevent competition, it encourages it. on LSB & Posix Conflicts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The LSB doesn't prevent competition, it encourages it:

    - The LSB prevents distribution lock-in by lending similarity to competing distributions. This reduces pain and training costs when a user changes distributions.

    - The LSB helps new distributions by providing an open documentation of best practices. This reduces research costs and interoperability problems for a company bringing up a brand new distribution.

    The LSB also makes Linux systems in general a lot cleaner. I used to use Slackware in 1995, when it wasn't uncommon to find files in /etc symlinked to three or four different places in the filesystem.

  24. Re:DO NOT GO TO THE TORRENTSE SITE on BitTorrent Community Running For Cover? · · Score: 1

    Also, I never used it much myself, but thanks from me for hosting torrentse.cx.

    <3 HELLO.JPG <3

  25. Re:pssst: elpintogrande is a commie on BitTorrent Community Running For Cover? · · Score: 1

    5 manbabies lol i wish i had ur life!!!

    oh shi