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  1. Re:Hard to fathom on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 1

    Acad 13! You have never used Acad have you? Acad 13 was the worst version of Acad ever made. Most companies keep using Acad 12. It was soo bad that Autodesk bundled Acad 12 and 13 together so they could get the numbers shipped up for 13.

    I love Linux but until a real Acad killer is available I will not be able to use it at work. Too bad Microstation has included VBA in Mcad V8. Once Microsoft becomes your scripting lanuage I doubt you will make a Linux version.

  2. Re:Legitimate reason for bailout? on Open Letter to FCC Chairman Powell · · Score: 1

    The "Nobel prize for Economics" is a real Nobel prize. It was never in Nobel's will.

    If they had to fake a Nobel prize they sould have done one for all the sciences not in Nobel's will rather than Economics alone.

  3. Re: Oh, come ON... on Microsoft Settlement Compliance Criticized · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think that you will find that you paid more in federal income tax that the Microsoft corp did. All those stock options are tax deductable. So I paid more in income tax than Microsoft Corporation. Sad but true.

  4. Re:Knoppix -- bootable CD with Moz, Open Office, e on Distributions/Configurations For Specific Uses? · · Score: 1

    There seem to be a lot of thse CD distributions the best list I found is at CD-based A cd based distribution does sound the way to go if you have a CD-ROM, CD-ROMs are cheap to add if you don't have one.

  5. Re:How is it better than plain Debian? on LinuxOrbit Looks At Libranet GNU/Linux 2.7 · · Score: 1

    Libranet is Debian with KDE 3.03 and a few other newer packages (see Libranet) Libranet tends to have newer packages than the current stable. Due to some delays that the KDE maintainers have put on the KDE waiting for a bug free release, KDE 3 is not on the offical mirrors of Debian right now. There are unoffical debs available and you can always go to the source code, not the way to go on a binary release. Debian has chosen to support many different platforms and therefore is forced to be slower than a one platform release like Libranet.

    The problem is if there isn't a deb supplied by Libranet you forced to the source. I found that out when I went looking for Kwintv. If I wanted the deb from the offical Debian mirror I would have to uninstall 150+ packages, all of KDE3, needless to say I canceled that option.

  6. Re:FINALLY. on RC5-64 Success · · Score: 3, Informative

    Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects has a good list of current projects. I have been waiting for Climate Prediction to start. There have been several stories on it here before. In the mean time I have been giving spare CPU cyctes to Distributed Particle Accelerator Design.

  7. Re:making it look the same means more les probs? on Red Hat Explains Stance on KDE/Gnome Desktop Changes · · Score: 1

    Good point what are they going to do if I use iceWM or blackbox. The fix is only skin deep they just need to tell thier customer that they only support Gnome, if you prefer KDE or whatever you are on your own. In the end that is what they will tell the iceWM useres, right?

  8. Re:The problem with suse on SuSE Presents The YaST2 Package Manager · · Score: 1

    You should have used sax2 not yast2 to change your video, I don't think there is anything on video in yast2 come to think of it. The proplem I have with YOU (the online update tool) is that it insists on selecting packages to update that I don't even have installed. I have to spend a couple of minutes unslecting unneaded updates.

  9. Re:short rant and a question on AMD Delays Hammer · · Score: 1

    There is a good description of the work going into the 2.5 kernel tree to support Xeon Hyperthreading in the Kernel development section a few weeks ago. There is work going on to keep processes on one CPU if at all possable.

  10. Re:lnz was cool on RIP: Leonard Zubkoff · · Score: 1

    I would like to see your new SCSI layer could you post a URL? It is GPL afterall you don't need anybodys permission to post a patch. If your ideas are good I am sure that it will get in the kernel one way or another.

    Stop crying and show us the code.

  11. Re:No, 20 years. on The Linux Kernel and Software Patents · · Score: 1

    The other problem is twenty years ago you could not get a patent on software.

  12. About Time on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    It is about time that 3.5" dirves go,I have finally used up all those reformated AOL floppies that I got in the 90's.

  13. Just Think on What, Me Worry? · · Score: 1

    A hundred years ago we would never have know or could do anything about it. Now we have made two movies and a half dozen slashdot sotries have been posted. Progress!

  14. Re:Yeah and thats why the world is fucked up on Spy Fly · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the USA education is paid for by the local and state goverments not the feds. So the feds spend about 20 billion but the states spend about 150 billlion and the local goverments spend about another 140 billion. I would perfer that Goorge Bush the younger keep his 20 billion and leave the schools to local goverment. I also don't want the loacl govement developing weapons or spy devices. Keeping the powers seperated might protect my freedom a little longer.

  15. They will have to get jobs at the RIAA on House OKs Life Sentences For Hackers · · Score: 1

    I guess that if they want to crak computers they will have to break into all the MP3 traders computers.

  16. Re:forced upgrades on New Chips Keep Tight Rein on Consumers · · Score: 1

    If you think about a a subscription system will do the opposite. If they are getting your $150 a year the less they do the better. Autodesk has been pushing it's AutoCAD useres into a subscription model. Theat is probably why they layed off most of the AutoCAD programmers and have been slow to put out anything new since AutCAD 2002, released nine months ago.

  17. Re:The only way Microsoft on Console Pricing Economics · · Score: 1

    Hay this is Microsoft, I am waiting until Xbox3! Let someone else work out the 10% of the bugs.

  18. Re:Privacy on Slashback: Agenda, Reproduction, Aesthetics · · Score: 1

    Yea you can lie but all you purchases are still linked by the card. They can still follow your patterns of purchases over time. That is what they want to do. It is the trend that they are looking for.

    If they want your personal data they will tie in with a bank and give you a low interst rate credit card. Like one chain did where I used to live.

    Me I pay extra and in cash.

  19. Re:Does passport only work with IE? on U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID · · Score: 1

    Well I can login to hotmail with Mozilla 0.99 and SuSE 7.2. There is a cookie in Mozilla for passport. I don't know if I could serve a web page that required passport. Maybe that is what they ment?

  20. Exporting costs on Silicon Valley vs. Your Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Busness in the 21st century is interesting. They have switched the cost of enforing copyrights to the goverment e.g. DCMA. Now the govermant is going to create the bigest and best marking database that will probably fail. But of couse once it is created it will be to valuable to destroy. The goverment will sell the data to get back their sunk costs and repay those that got them into office.

    Exporting costs to goverment were the copyright holder or marketer can do what he does best and the goverment can do what they do best. Why recreate a police force, census, or intelligence agency when the goverment already has them. Isn't that what globalization about, doing what you do best and buying services of what you are not as good at.

    It is a new mellennium.

  21. Re:GREAT! on DVD Format Changing Movie-making · · Score: 1

    Can it really be the view of an artist if it takes a crew of 250 and 100 million dollars to make? Who is the artist? The writer, the director, the actor, the editor, or the money man? Movies are industral scale entertainment, if there is art in there it must have slipped in by accident.

  22. Re:Gentoo's portage is nice... on Gentoo 1.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Filsystem Hierarchy Standard has a good explaination on what /var and /tmp should be used for. You can pickup a copy at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.

    Files in /tmp should be disappear when the app is shut down. Put files in /var if you need them between instances of the app.

    It doesn't make much differance when there is only one user but is very important when there are many users.

  23. Re:Microsoft MAY have a point... on Microsoft To Start Running Anti-Unix Ads · · Score: 1

    That should be GNU/Linux is not Unix.;-)

  24. Is there a way of finding out who approved this? on Patent Claimed on System-Level Encryption · · Score: 1

    I work as a draftsman. My name goes on every drawing that I do. The very least that should be done is to subject the examaner who failed on this to public humiliation. If they think the patent is good let us see their name and the name of his/her boss while we are at this.

    I would love to put a face to this farce.

  25. Re:I bet Microsoft wishes they donated more money. on 25 More States Oppose MSFT Antitrust Dismissal · · Score: 1

    The total amount of money spent in all elections, state and fedral was around three billion dollors in 2000. Microsoft has more than that in the bank. It is shocking to see how cheaply you can buy a pol for. That is why it is the way it is. Getting a return of $200 or $300 dollars for every dollar given to a pol is not uncommon.

    More than Microsoft can give, Ha, they would even miss it.