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  1. Re:Apple is dying...again. on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're going to ingest hallucinogens, at least - offer us some.

    Ahhhh, spoken like a true Linux user: Wanting someone to give you something for nothing eh?


    Not at all - I plan to eventually puke in your lap! I call it giving back to the community.

    On a more serious note, how about the Mac user community getting "something for nothing" by having FreeBSD as the base for their OS. That "something" is huge. Essentially the OS is replaced, and skinned with OSX and its little suite of apps. This will carry Apple much further than System 9 or whatever would have. It's nice about Konqueror and all that but let's get real - Apple was saved technically here. Now, can they do it financially?

  2. Re:Apple is dying...again. on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yet at the same time, Google has reported [google.com] an increase in the percentage of Mac users using Google.

    Exactly, they're all shopping online for new PCs.

    Hey, where would Microsoft get all their R&D from if not for Apple?

    If you're going to ingest hallucinogens, at least - offer us some.

  3. swissbit site on USB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 0

    Hmm, the swissbit.com site seems to be slightly b0rked. How can that be, it's has "smartsite" installed???

    FEHLER AUF DIESER SEITE

    * Fehlertyp:
    Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80040E4D)
    [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Zu viele Client-Tasks.
    D:\IISWEB\SWISSBIT\_INC\../../../../../../../smart site_231/tool/dbTools.asp, line 48

    * Browsertyp:
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030821

    * Seite:
    GET /Default.asp

    * Zeit:
    Donnerstag, 11. Marz 2004, 15:02:56

    * Der Fehler wurde an den Systemadministrator weitergeleitet.

  4. marsh bows to extortion on EV1 Servers CEO Responds To Customers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So he doesn't deserve any freedoms extended his way anyhow.

  5. Fyodor pulls nmap on USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap · · Score: 1

    Ok Mr. Torvalds, time for you and all the kernel developers to do the same with the kernel.

  6. OWA on Correlation Between Stress and Technology? · · Score: 1

    I once had a gig in the dot com boom that was so stressful because of the lying, cheating, backstabbing, snubbing, and unprofessionalism in every direction that when I finally quit it, it took about six months before looking at the yellow default Outlook Web Access homepage would not cause a severe knot in my stomach. Doctor helped solve it with some special pills, and I went freelance again.

    So yeah, put this in your paper -- pain can be delivered via SMTP.

  7. tarfix on Recoverable File Archiving with Free Software? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    tarfix

    may help some of those archive issues.

    But, the archive format is not going to save you. Use multiple media. You need more than one physical archive for better safety, regardless of format. Hell, you'll probably die before some of today's media fails.

  8. You'll forget you're driving Windoze.. on Moving from Linux to Windows Desktop? · · Score: 2

    SecureCRT
    http://www.vandyke.com/

    Indispensable window shell program, port redir, and serial terminal too (for jacking into a switch/router console port from your laptop)

  9. Re:Why didn't you post today's updates on Security Update 2004-02-23 Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It wasn't your bad. If you log in, and allow all stories, the Apple shit shows up on the front page. And so do all the Apple religious jihad.

  10. Why didn't you post today's updates on Security Update 2004-02-23 Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why didn't you post today's updates for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD?? Or is that the Slashdot brand of selective journalism??

  11. Re:Mac users from way back on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Mac users can't learn like PC owners?


    PC? Huh?

    Unix.

    Correct: The average Mac user is not yet ready for the level of complexity they will encounter when they start looking at the Unix OS under their hood. This is a fact, not a troll. On the whole, Mac users are not exactly technical. On the other hand those of us who understand computing from a starting point other than Apple, tend to have, aside from just plain better technique, a keener understanding as to how things are working in every avenue.

    If this wasn't true, why would Michael and Timothy get their panties all so in a knot and start modding troll troll troll??

    I am sorry, but I find this is not the case.
    OK... whatever....

  12. Mac users from way back on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: -1, Troll

    don't bother getting this book. You'll neither understand or like anything Unix-like, and you'll just be making your lives more miserable.

  13. Vivisimo is not a search engine on Search Beyond Google · · Score: 4, Interesting

    rather a document organizer. It gets some of its results from Google anyway and just reorganizes it. Search results have the flavor of


    See books about "more stupid f---ing shit" at Amazon.


    targeted organization as in targeted selling. All they want is your demographic datum.

    IOW google will crush them.

  14. There was the perception that .. on Tech Training Schools Going Bust · · Score: 1

    a few months of computer training could lead to a fabulous job

    Yes, in your new fabulous job you'll be king among hamburger flippers.

    "I know TCP/IP, routing, and Checkpoint Firewalls."

    "Fill that ketchup you big mouth bitch."

  15. never lie but.. on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: 1

    Some interviewers would rather you be honest, but if you, like I, feel funny about having to explain a period of unemployment, one way to get around it is to continue to support (remotely) one or more projects, products, or infrastructure you've designed or built in the past, on a freelance ad hoc basis. It's easy to ask someone who you worked with before to support you in this regard and also provide a reference proving recent contact.

    The prospective employer doesn't have to know if it's one hour a month or twenty days a month ..

    I've done this on and off and it has made it easier to have a conversation..

  16. 2 things on What Extras Should I Buy When Buying a Laptop? · · Score: 2, Informative

    -backup AC adapter
    -backup HD with an image of your OS
    (until recently this, and a CD with your data on it, was a pretty good backup but these days if you run windows you need to pretty much have a paid copy of AV software for each installation you have)

  17. Re:not a patent of XML on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 4, Funny

    the text of the /. headline is a bit misleading.

    W H A T W A S T H A T ? ? ?

  18. It's not for XML itself on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    The patents is for the idea of aggregating multiple scripts into a single XML file - seems valid to me.

    Your G5 is doing this? Maybe configuration parameters like the .xnf files in Winamp5 on winbloze, but not scripts themselves?

  19. At least they seem to practice what they preach on Is Open Source Fertile Ground for Foul Play? · · Score: 5, Funny

    devx.com

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:06:06 GMT
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

    In other news, the devx.com website was found lying in its own blood and excrement after being linked from Slashdot.ORG today.

  20. Dearth of commentary on this.. on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hm. 1000 is a number, by itself meaningless except to the porters. Would like to know more about the quality of the ports so far as it would influence my decision as to whether to buy a G5 or not.

    Why not more on the class action lawsuit against Apple?? Far more substantial of a topic.

  21. Re:Corrupt on Microsoft Lawyer To Lead ABA's Antitrust Section · · Score: 1

    The standard should be "avoiding even the appearance of impropriety", s

    No, don't you remember, that standard was recently changed, when Bush appointed his own committee to find out why he invaded Iraq ("Guys, investigate that and make sure you get back with any result way after the elections")... things are different now!!

    (it's so infuriating I can't help but being facetious.. sorry)

  22. treat it as if it were a CD on Replacing Rescue CDs with USB Keys? · · Score: 3, Informative

    you'll have to burn an el torito bootable image and then dd it to the boot sector of the USB. You can make partitions in the key for each OS. Grub can be the boot loader, but you'll have to set up the OS images on a separate PC as if they were the principal image, then dd/copy them to the appropriate partition on the USB key.

    So long as your bios allows boot from the USB device it should think it's a CDROM with the eltorito image.

    This is a lot of work man. The requirement of graphical interface in there makes it all the more complicated. And not too many people on the planet will realize how unbelievably cool you really are when and if you get it working.

  23. I never noticed any corruption in the stream on Three Vulnerabilities Discovered in Real Player · · Score: 4, Funny

    I still haven't gotten past configuring my message center options in Real Player. Boxes keep popping up. I've bought the full version three times now. What's wrong?

  24. Re:Tracking? No, more like targetting! on The Trouble with RFID · · Score: 1

    Hi Michael, just checking to see if you were there checking for trolls, like Don Quixote with his windmills.

  25. Re:Tracking? No, more like targetting! on The Trouble with RFID · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The USA does have legitimate security concerns whether you believe so or not

    You're confused - addressing national security concerns is good. Unless you remove constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and move closer to a police state in the process. No, do not take citizens' freedoms away or introduce processes that ease potential abuse.

    You're confused - national security is not being served, and our reserves are being wasted. Your tax dollars and mine pal. Our borders are not any safer than they were pre September 11 - the Homeland Security department is doing a bad job. Even networks like Fox News are pointing this out. If you've ever travelled through Israel you'd realize American "security" is a joke.

    Which part of September 11 did you like? All of it?

    There is a part of your brain telling you that having the Patriot Act in its current incarnation is going to prevent another September 11. America's policies toward the Muslim world for years are what finally led up to our September 11. George W. Bush's alienation of practically every other country on this planet may eventually lead to another September 11.

    Since I knew people who died in those towers, and since some of my best friends happened to make it out alive, from where I stand your question there is pretty stupid.

    A lot of people don't like our freedom and way of life.
    We didn't achieve this way of life by looking the other way when legislation like the Patriot Act appears. This is exactly the kind of shit the first Americans rejected the Crown for. Fucking wake up.