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  1. Don't chase taillights on Advice For Programmers Right Out of School · · Score: 1

    My advice: read books on computer stuff you find interesting, leave your job if you're bored, and just keep coding cool stuff and improving your professionalism.

    If you chase what's hot now, you're already too late. Just enjoy yourself and keep learning, and sooner or later your own area of expertise will serve you well.

  2. Re:Will it... on Vista's 'Next Gen' TCP/IP Stack · · Score: 1
  3. BSD + MS Licenses Compatible on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux? · · Score: 1
    MS Guy: "Licenses like the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and commercial software, on the other hand, are quite compatible with one another"

    Oh, so I can migrate that leaked NT source code into FreeBSD's NTFS module and change the license to BSD and not get sued?

    Excellent!

  4. Re:Don't on Moving a Development Team from C++ to Java? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > But the key is to shake out all the cruft that has built up in the system. Every little bit of cruft is a bugfix that you'll have to make again.

  5. Re:Simple solution... on Bill Would Outlaw Digital Receiver Recorders · · Score: 1


    You can't be serious. You really think Al Gore would have passed those budget-busting tax cuts and gone on that budget-busting Iraq adventure? That's ludicrous.

  6. Re:ID on Stereo View of the Sun · · Score: 1

    Because none of those things bite you until after breeding age, which is the only thing evolution selects for, while an intelligent designer would presumably want you to be comfortable throughout your life.

  7. I *heart* Sarbanes-Oxley on Sarbanes-Oxley - How is it Affecting You? · · Score: 1
    I have a great job making Linux devices that companies use for SOX compliance.

    Thanks Sarbanes-Oxley!

  8. Re:No on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    > You are not required to carry ID with you at all when you drive. The Supremes recently ruled that you *must* furnish ID to a cop, whether you're driving or not: Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of the state of Nevada, June 21, 2004

  9. Re:Sauce for the goose. on New Hominid Species Unearthed in Indonesia · · Score: 1

    On the Internet, nobody knows you're The Deity.

  10. Re:No chance... on Nuclear Rockets Moving Along · · Score: 1
    If the risks are so small, why can't the nuclear industry pay for its own insurance?

    http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact -sheets/funds.html

  11. Re:F.A.C.E. Intel on Pre-Retirement Interview With Intel CEO Barrett · · Score: 1

    1. They call Intel "dastardly". I tend to not
    trust adults who talk like dungeon masters.

    2. Any company with tens of thousands of employees
    will have a "string of suicides" going at any
    given time. Suicide is common.

  12. Re:Phone calls on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    Here is SCO's toll free number: 1-800-726-8649. *They* pay the phone bill. If everyone reading this post calls them and gives them a long and detailed opinion on what they're doing, they might run out of lawyer money.

    Remember to be polite, since the person answering the phone is not the person making these silly decisions.

  13. NT booting from a floppy on Suck on Linux Evolution · · Score: 1

    It's my understanding that NT can't boot from a floppy, period. Which, I suppose, takes the hassle out of making a boot disk.

  14. Man pages are great... on Salon on why "Linux Needs Help" · · Score: 1

    $ apropos space
    df (1) - summarize free disk space
    ...

  15. Dell Optiplex GX1 on Ask Slashdot: Linux on Mobos w/ Integrated Sound & Video. · · Score: 1
    My Dell Optiplex GX1 with integrated sound and video works just fine. It has a 440BX motherboard with an ATI XPert@Work video card, and a cs4232 sound card built in.

    I used ALSA to get the sound going, following the directions here.

    It also has a Voodoo2 for Quaking. :)