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  1. Re:You have three options. on Living In A Microsoft Country (And Speaking The Language)? · · Score: 1
    4. Find friends with a clue. My friends don't e-mail me data in propriatary formats, even though some of them are using Windows.

    5. Find a better place to live. I'm sorry, but I don't expect anything good from Mr. Sharon.

  2. FreeBSD as a development platform. on FreeBSD 4.1.1 vs. Linux 2.4 · · Score: 1
    FreeBSD is very inconvenient as a development platform. Many tools - sed, m4, make, csh - are inherited from UNIX. They don't have many nice features offered by their GNU counterparts. Other tools - gcc, as, ld - are old versions of GNU software. But if you upgrade them, you almost certainly lose the ability to recompile the kernel.

    But what annoys me most - the sources are packed together and split in chunks. So if you need the sources of sed, you have to download the sources of the whole /usr/bin!!!

  3. Plaintext link on A Love Song For Napster · · Score: 2
    for those using Lynx of having JavaScript disabled:

    http://www.discover.com/feb_01/featnapster.html

    In related news: by 2010 every HTML page will have JavaScript code to check whether you can read the text or not.

  4. Re:Another reason to stick to the RFC on New E-Mail Vulnerability - Trust Your Neighbor? · · Score: 1
    Make sure that your browser warns the user about embedded javascript and any external references (images, applets etc). It's better if you know about the malicious intent of your correspondent.

    Please make sure that not only the messages written in your client don't have any HTML tags, but also that all the messages quoted or forwarded by your client are free of them.

  5. Re:Support issues. on Ximian Partners w/HP; Ximinian Default HP-UX Stations · · Score: 1
    How many OS'es can you boot with your bootloader? Can you add and remove entries from the menu?

    Lilo and GRUB are not just bootloaders (like nuni or the DOS boot sector), they are also boot selectors, and people want more from them than just loading one OS all the time.

  6. Fine granularity??? on ORBS Lookup Entries Undergo Major Revamping · · Score: 1
    From http://www.orbs.org/usingindex.html:
    untestable-netblocks.orbs.org - netblocks known to contain open relays and which have been proven to be blocking the ORBS tester or who have demanded that ORBS not test. Returns 127.0.0.7. Updated: hourly

    Come on, this is not called fine granularity.

  7. Air Farce? on NSA + VMware = Crackproof Computing? · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Air Force or Air France?
    If the later, I'm scared.

  8. Not a separate distro! on The Haps from LWCE: Samba Wins, RH w/XFS, BOF · · Score: 4
    SGI announced the availability of RH7-based distro

    In fact, it's just a modified installer for RedHat 7.0 that allows you to install it on XFS.

    There are similar installers that make it possible to install RedHat, Debian and even Slackware on ReiserFS. More details on freshmeat.net

    In short, it's not a separate Linux distribution from SGI.

  9. Re:Good news for Midnight Commander users. on KDE 2.1 Beta 2 and Nautilus PR 3 - are out · · Score: 1

    ... which is called IceWM
    Actually, I don't quite understand why you are shifting the topic from file managers to windows managers, and why only people with less-than-500-MHz-CPU-box need them to be GNOME compliant.

  10. Good news for Midnight Commander users. on KDE 2.1 Beta 2 and Nautilus PR 3 - are out · · Score: 1
    I hope that Nautilus will make obsolete the GNOME frontend to Midnight Commander, GMC. After that Midnight Commander will probably stripped of all GUI frontends and moved to SourceForge.

    Finally its development will not be hindered by the need to support two radically different user interfaces.

  11. Re:VAIO slimline on RedHat "Fisher" 7.1 Beta Out Now · · Score: 1
    ... unless you want to help them sort it out by reporting your problems on bugzilla.

    I was regretting many times that I hadn't tested a beta version of some program or hadn't found time to report a bug, and the release of that program still had that bug.

  12. Text of the announcement on LWN on RedHat "Fisher" 7.1 Beta Out Now · · Score: 1
  13. I wouldn't worry about Linus. on Speculation On AMD Buying Transmeta · · Score: 4
    He'll find a better job, that's for sure.

    Regarding Transmeta, my company is developing some internet appliances using Crusoe. Maybe you'll not believe me, but the prototype boards are the primary development platform. People are even compiling XFree86 on them!

    By the way, am I the first in the world to run Digger under Linux+DOSEMU on Crusoe?

  14. Re:What about the vegies on Rice Genome Mapped · · Score: 1
    If you just transplant animals' genes you are in trouble - it won't be purely vegetarian anymore. But if the animals' genes are consructed by the researches from scratch, then the plant would remain vegetarian.

    This method has already been used to circumvent the US export regulations and create the international version of PGP.

  15. Re:Once it starts... on Italian, U.S. Scientists Unveil Human Cloning Efforts · · Score: 1
    You won't be speculating like this when someone strips your genitalia.

    From the article:

    He said 10 infertile couples have volunteered to participate, including an American pair who cannot conceive because the man's testicles were severed in an accident
  16. Use vs. distribution on Using GPL/BSD Code In Closed Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    From GPL 2:

    Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope.

    I fail to see how GPL can constrain you as long as you don't distribute your software.

  17. Primary culprit on Global Warming Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1
    > the u.s. is still the primary culprit responsible for 25% of climate effecting polution

    ... and for 90% of language affecting junk.

  18. Re:What hardware? on Rasterman's New Toy: EVAS · · Score: 1
    Nope. Lynx rules, but you should compile it with persistent cookies and enable them in lynx.cfg. Don't forget that you should always use slashdot.org, not www.slashdot.org. Finally, don't forget to tweak with colors. The default is very bad for your eyes.

    Posted in Lynx.

  19. Security is not only for servers. on Is Mac OS X Threatening Linux? · · Score: 1
    Security and open source are important not only for server machines. Worms and virii live and proliferate on desktop computers, not on servers.

    If a new virus threatens the world, would you ask Steve Jobs or your sysadmin to close the hole?

  20. Re:Spread it around... on Linux PPC Boots On The Powerbook G4 Titanium · · Score: 1
    > Ctl-click for contextual menus too complex a sequence for you to remember?

    It requires two hands. And I have no more hands to hold my cup of coffee :-)

  21. Re:But they're not useless, just expensive on Digital Frying Pan? · · Score: 2
    If the frying pan had run linux, then I bet the headline would've been much different.

    I personally won't install anything but OpenBSD on my frying pan. I don't want script kiddies to steal my dinner.

  22. Re:I hope this doesn't happen to me! on Amateur With Call-Sign Deflects Domain Challenge · · Score: 1
    > I've already got problems with a credit card company sending my cat, Cindy, credit card applications.

    But why not help your cat make a good credit history?

  23. New TLDs? I want one. on ICANN, new TLDs, and Congress? · · Score: 1

    I want Monkey.biz to resell it to Ximian (former Helixcode).

  24. Re:Surprising facts on Helix Code Changes Name To Ximian · · Score: 4
    It has almost no nerve endings in its genitals, which additionally allows the red ape to make love for hours without orgasming.

    It also allows the red ape to develop software for years without delivering a stable version.

  25. Re:Good name for a Semiconductor Company? on Helix Code Changes Name To Ximian · · Score: 1

    How about Crystal Hardware?
    crystalhardware.com is still available.