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  1. Re:Pessimist. on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 1

    "'Tis only a flesh wound..."

    -uso.

  2. Re:Too bad this isn't a controversy on Science vs. Homeopathy · · Score: 1

    I tend toward folk remedies and herbal medicines myself.

    Some, like chicken soup for colds, are said to be actually effective.

    -uso.

  3. Re:"Free" should probably encourage "open source". on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    And yet, compared to the BSD toolchain which GNU's most closely resembles, GNU coreutils uses embrace and extend too.

    -uso.

  4. Re:DOS 5 was GREAT! on DOS 5 Upgrade Video · · Score: 1

    5.0 *was* buggy.

    MS released 5.0 revision "A" with file dates of 11/11/1991 and IBM released 5.0 revision "1" in 1992 to fix a couple problems with FORMAT and a couple other tools. I also remember SETVER worked poorly on the original release.

    -uso.

  5. Re:Will Novell free the SVRx source code? on Judge Kimball Strikes SCO's Jury Trial Demand · · Score: 1

    Isn't Solaris a SVR4?

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  6. Re:Alternate channels on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 1

    The tech's definitely out there. A friend and I have been experimenting with a system to stream a 640x480, full framerate, stereo video feed over RTSP on his friend's gigabit pipe, and so far, it's looking up!

    The simple matter of programming, now, is the showstopper we're working on now.

    -uso.

  7. Re:As much as i hate the RIAA.... on RIAA's "Making Available" Theory Is Tested · · Score: 1

    In New York State, it is illegal to serve alcohol to someone who is obviously intoxicated. I think it's the same thing you just mentioned, and they could theoretically lose their license to sell alcohol over it.

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  8. Re:Read about Luther. on Failing Our Geniuses · · Score: 1

    William Tyndale, and his friend John Rogers (aka Thomas Matthew) who published his unfinished manuscripts after his death. They were both executed as heretics for translating the Bible from Hebrew and Greek to English. And there's no question Tyndale was a brilliant, brilliant man. He just disagreed with the Catholic powers that be over the Bible, and he was burnt at the stake for it.

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  9. Re:Pity on AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Dies Quietly · · Score: 1

    And wasn't the original (RJ Lissner) AppleWorks the original works program?

    (Although I think it was originally released for the Apple /// as /// EZ Pieces?)

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  10. Re:Open sourced Unix? on Novell Proclaims 'We're Not SCO' and We Won't Sue · · Score: 1

    Except that Caldera [the new SCO] (who got the "rights" from Tarantella, the old SCO) never had the copyright to begin with, as the judge just determined - so that leaves their release in a bit of a predicament.

    Still, I would like to see a Unix derivative, with a BSD or GPL2 license, that actually works like System V. :/

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  11. Re:So.... on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 2, Informative

    IBM's version of DOS 5.00a was called a CSD, so it dates at least that long (1992)...

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  12. Re:Kicking their own asses... on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    What of the Ancient Unix sources? They've already gone into the BSDs with an SCO copyright message. (Well, "Caldera International", but same diff.)

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  13. Re:in college this would make some sense on Discouraging Students from Taking Math · · Score: 1, Interesting

    *cringe*

    No Child Left Behind leaves all children behind.

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  14. Re:Math? on Discouraging Students from Taking Math · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the US it's "math". In the UK (and also Australia, at least) it's "maths". Like elevator/lift or color/colour, prolly.

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  15. Re:Now is the chance on Music DRM in Critical Condition? · · Score: 1

    id3v2 is an extensible format, but id3v2 --delete-v2 solves that.

    BTW, anyone know how to get rid of APE tags in an mp3?

    -uso.

  16. Re:Classic case of trade mark infringment. on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    Not a *blue* cursive "Johnson and Johnson" ?

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  17. Re:GPL on BitTorrent Closes Source Code · · Score: 1

    Yep, BitTornado is a fork of a 3.x-era mainline. It's my client of choice.

    -uso.

  18. Re:From the person above on Netcraft Says IIS Gaining on Apache · · Score: 1

    I used to make quickie CGI apps in QuickBasic 4.5 and run them off a Windows-based server. (Apache, of course! I wouldn't have it any other way.)

    For me that was the easiest way to do CGI. Though now that I'm running Linux, I use C and ksh. (bash is too damn slow. anything cgi I write in bash I run in pdksh.)

    -uso.

  19. Re:I don't understand the thinking... on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    My guess is the judge will make an example of her and throw the book at her head.

    The law may be unfair, but it takes a few people getting hammered by an unfair law before anyone will care to do anything about it.

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  20. Re: ridiculous provisions?? on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    If I were to set a bar, it would be "10% of the whole"

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  21. Re:Any consensus? on Blue Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    I've never been in "The Scene", and I don't really want to be.

    My TV rips are all plain xvid/mp3 avis. I still know several people with sub-gigahertz cpu computers, after all.

    As for "we", I meant my fansub group, sorry I didn't make it clearer. Of course it's not a group you'd know, I doubt there's too many Pokemon fans here...

    -uso.

  22. Re:Any consensus? on Blue Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    We have a dual standard: xvid/mp3 avi and x264/m4a mp4.

    MP4 is far more standard than MKV will ever be. I don't like either format, though, give me good ol' xvid/mp3 avi and call it a day!

    -uso.

  23. FP? on Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty" ? Oh wait, that went out the door back in the 50s with McCarthyism.

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  24. Re:Just a quick question? on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    And my teachers in the mid-90s not only required dead-tree, they required handwritten, in cursive.

    Yes, I said mid-90s.

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  25. Re:Don't think so on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    It was primitive (as a GUI) even by MY standards. As bad as Windows 1? Damn close at any rate.

    I really need to learn the gories of gemdos so I can get CrySTal written...

    -uso.