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  1. Re:Portable mp3's? on LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives · · Score: 1

    you're confusing megabit and megabyte.

  2. Re:Portable mp3's? on LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Video editing requires a much faster harddrive than the specs mention. Firewire is not up to snuff.

    Perhaps video archiving though.

  3. you mean like a keyboard? on IR Remotes with Letter Keys? · · Score: 3, Funny

    wireless remote with letters...hmm...

  4. Re:Ah, the memories on Linus Torvalds On Linux 2.6 · · Score: 2

    Considering your signature and name, it sounds like you have your own unhealthy obsession.

  5. Re:Important questions. on Linus Torvalds On Linux 2.6 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    and last but most importantly, will you be able to to swtich kernels with out rebooting (is it that hard?, why dosent the kernel just unload it self from memory and go back to the boot menu?)
    That's called rebooting.
  6. Re:Editors : Please fix the typo in the Heading ! on Seeking Computer Science Fokelore? · · Score: 1

    How is this a troll? The parent is absolutely right. That's a pretty obnoxious mis-spelling in the headline.

  7. Contact real media on Retailers Swing DMCA To Stop "Black Friday" Sale Info · · Score: 1

    "Hi, Ron Lieber from the Wall St Journal here I'm working on a story about the use of the DMCA to crack down on consumers swapping Black Friday sales data on web sites. If anyone would like to air their feelings on the subject, please call me at 212-416-4974 or send me an email with your phone number and I'll call you. Thanks, Ron"

  8. Re:from MIT on Single Sign-On for Integrated Open-Source Apps? · · Score: 2

    and the WebISO group has a web front for Kerberos. The implementation our school uses is called Pubcookie. It's flexible and easy to tie in, because it acts as another HTTP authentication method.

  9. WebISO? on Single Sign-On for Integrated Open-Source Apps? · · Score: 2

    that's what it's for.

  10. Re:mplayer for Debian please on Mplayer Adds Sorenson v3 To the Linux Roster · · Score: 2

    you should download the source file and use dpkg-build. it's going to make a debian package that's optimized for your system if you do it this way (the right way). debian control files are right in the source. decompress and run "debian/rules binary" in the main source directory.

  11. Re:BEWARE MODERATORS YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLED on Evolution Reaches A New Milestone · · Score: 1

    Guilt by association. Worked on HUAC, so why not here?

  12. Re:mutated? on Evolution Reaches A New Milestone · · Score: 1

    I think this was a subtle troll.

  13. The Sun's not yellow, it's chicken on Web Page Entanglement · · Score: 0
  14. Re:ASCII Only? on Just One Page a Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    From actually proofing a few pages, this depends entirely on the particular project and when it was started. Some of the newer ones allow special characters.

  15. Re:Eliminating duplicity on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers · · Score: 2

    I meant to add that zephyr classes could be easily reproduced with Jabber, which is why I put it forth as a good replacement for AIM. It works well in an institutional setting as well, which makes it like zephyr again. But it is also more mature and robust than the hacked-together-ness that is zephyr.

  16. Re:Eliminating duplicity on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers · · Score: 2
    The client that I use for Zephyr is Zwrite for the most part. For a while I had the kerberized Gaim plugin for Zephyr, but it was a pain to recompile Gaim --with-kerberos for every time I upgraded. Someone else was doing it and I linked to their binary for a while, but they graduated.

    So when I use zephyr, I always use the commandline version, and believe me, it's much less useful than an interactive client like AIM. Also getting zephyrgrams when you're in the middle of using Pine and having it screw up your display is pretty annoying :) All of the nice Zephyr classes are useful, but if you think zephyr use in general is down, use of zephyr classes is close to 0. The useful ones are defunct or not worth the bother because of better alternatives.

  17. Re:LyX? on Software Suggestions for Elementary School Workstations? · · Score: 2
    No. Even to geeks, LyX is largely a hassle reserved for serious publishing.

    You might be confusing LyX with TeX (LyX is the WYSIWYM front end to LaTeX). I use LyX for every paper, even when I don't need formatted equations. I've come to find it much better than a standard word processor in the WordStar lineage. The advanced stuff is a little trickier, but I found that the initial use was extraordinarily simple -- I could get off the ground in no time at all. I can visit the LyX tips and tricks page to get more advanced stuff, and now I'm slowly learning TeX as I need it, making me infinitely better prepared for serious studies in Grad school.

  18. Re:My God. on Cable Industry Taking Control of the Net · · Score: 2

    Sorry. No such luck.

  19. Re:This article is a load of FUD on Cable Industry Taking Control of the Net · · Score: 2

    Are ya stupid? (Just trying to earn the foe rating)

  20. Re:Eliminating duplicity on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers · · Score: 2

    Zephyr is nice as it goes, but a more interactive IM client is what I prefer. I think that Jabber is the best replacement for Zephyr. BTW, no need to talk of Zephyr in the past tense. It's still alive and well. I use it daily.

  21. Re:more slashdot immaturity on Microsoft Alternative in Extremadura, Spain · · Score: 1
    I personally run both linux and win2k, and I love them both.

    It's just that third, ugly child of yours that you lock up in the basement that you hate.

  22. Re:Guthriesque! on Slashback: Epson, AbiWord, Justification · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does that make Mayor Bloomberg Officer Obie?

  23. well, for one thing it kinda sucked on What Happened to 5dwm? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've used it on an Indy machine (IRIX 6.5 or so) and while it's not terrible, it's also not terribly functional for today's desktop user. While it had some good ideas, they've all been expanded upon and are exhibited much better in most modern desktops. I'd use it over Windows 3.1, but not much else. On the Irix box, my desktop consists of a number of xterms and Window Maker :)

  24. Re:This article is a load of FUD on Cable Industry Taking Control of the Net · · Score: 2

    wow, you really suck.

  25. Re:All hail the all powerful republicans! on First Worm with a EULA? · · Score: 2

    whoops, that was a big typo. sorry about that.