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  1. Re:Beating Darl at his Own Game on Groklaw Sends A Dear Darl Letter · · Score: 1

    Xenix was Microsoft's (!) V7 UNIX derivative. Ran on x86 and 68000 platforms.

    -uso.

  2. Re:Are you kidding? on P2P Filesharing vs. The Web · · Score: 1

    I use a site which has copyrighted music but (a) it's not MP3s, it's OGGs; (b) it's out-of-region (Japanese) music. You have only to look at my site (it has no sound files btw) to see what music I am talking about. (Warning, it's Brinkster.)

    -uso.

  3. Re:People dont share much anymore on P2P Filesharing vs. The Web · · Score: 1

    You should see how those of us on my channel use DCC then... We truly *share* files... mp3z, abandonwarez, and even GPL software.

    It's a nice little community, er, circle of friends.

    -uso.

  4. FEH! on Principal Photography on Star Wars III Complete · · Score: 1

    Well, as far as I'm concerned:

    VII = Heir to the Empire
    VIII = Dark Force Rising
    IX = The Last Command

    and the Jedi Academy hadn't been formed at that time. I think Leia may have been in training... (She was pregnant and had the twins Jaina and Jacen at that time, IIRC)

    -uso.

  5. Hm... on P2P Music Sharing Remains Popular Despite RIAA · · Score: 1

    P2P Music Sharing Remains Popular Despite RIAA?

    Hm...I think the more accurate expression is "P2P Music Sharing Remains Popular To Spite RIAA".

    -uso.

  6. Re:It's the distro I use on Red Hat Posts Its Best Quarter Yet · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah, teh deheadratting... I've done a bit of that myself. ;)

    Red Hat is a good distro for starters, but if you want the real Linux experience, avoid it like the plague. (Debian and SourceMage are better for this.)

    -uso.

  7. Re:About TIME! on Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size · · Score: 1

    It's not that we can't, because we can; it's that we WON'T. Too many old fogies refuse to give up their foot/pound/inch system.

    BTW re your sig ;) Certainly you know about Chuko Nezu (Iron Mouse), but what about Akane Karasuma (Lead Crow) ? :D

    -uso.

  8. Re:Liquid refreshment on Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    If you're going to nitpick about the C64's CPU, the NES actually ran a 2A03, not a 6502. ;) It had on-chip sound capabilities and lacked BCD mode.

    -uso.

  9. Re:New kind of bottle neck on Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    The SuperCPU upgrades the C64's 6510 CPU to a 14 MHz 65816 overclocked to 20 MHz. I think you can also up the RAM by a few megs as well.

    -uso.
    I'm an Apple guy, not Commodore.

  10. Re:DOES ANYBODY HERE GIVE A RATS ASS??? on Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    I'll care if someone can make one of these for my Apple //e.

    -uso.

  11. DoS on When Does Website Monitoring Go Too Far? · · Score: 2

    It's a DoS attack on your systems and should be treated as such (especially as you warned them already and they ignored you).

    Block them off and take them to court.

    -uso.

  12. Re:For Windows Users on BIND Strikes Back Against VeriSign's Site Finder · · Score: 1

    Windows 98 users, write that line into c:\windows\hosts (it can be otherwise empty).

    -uso.

  13. Re:10 Q on SCO Claims $15,300,000 From SCOsource · · Score: 1
  14. Feh on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 1

    1987, Oswego, NY. $4.50 admission; $2.50 for seniors, children and matinee times. Two screens of which one had stadium seating. (Later, five of which two.)

    The only thing new is that the price has doubled, and IMHO, it's a fucking rip-off. $4.50 I can handle, but it's like $8.50 to go to the fucking Regal Cinemas in Niagara Falls to watch some movie and it's just not something I can do as often as I could back then.

    -uso.

  15. VCDz0rz0rz0rz0r on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 1

    Well, I burn VCD fansubs that I make myself. (As opposed to leeching someone else's video or subtitles) Sure, the resolution's not that hot (352x240), and it's MPEG-1 encoding. About 70 minutes of video will fit on a CD-R. That's 10 MB/minute. And my DVD player groks them no problem (prolly can't say the same for SVCDs).

    Now if only I could encode directly from xvid...as tmpgenc and bbmpeg both choke on it...I have to transcode it to Indeo first :( which takes longer.

    -uso.

  16. Re:DVDs on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Macrovision on DVD players...I had to hax0r my Linux kernel to work around Macrovision when vidcapping from my DVD player.

    -uso.

  17. Re:Vancouver's Pretty Nice on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I live right next to the border.

    -uso.

  18. Re:XMS? EMS? on Memory Activity LEDs · · Score: 1

    I don't think EMS4 is even capable of grokking that much memory. ;)

    -uso.

  19. Re:ATTENTION on Memory Activity LEDs · · Score: 1

    That's the Blinkenlights sign...that's not off-topic. ;)

    -uso.

  20. Re:Its all about the cost on Solar Window Panes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and they lack the $$$ to fund this stuff...

    -uso.

  21. Re:The ends justify the means? on Dave Barry Strikes Back Against Telemarketers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, here's what the Bible really says about eye-for-eye.

    Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever will compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away. Matthew 5.38-42 (Tomson)

    -uso.

  22. Re:Stealing by the RIAA on RIAA Bits · · Score: 1

    Extortion?
    Attempted barratry? :\

    Suicide? :D

    -uso.

  23. Re:GOD on Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash · · Score: 1

    Only in Japan. I have MK2 for SNES and it's got all the gore fully intact.

    -uso.

  24. Re:What threw me on More on SCO Code Snippets · · Score: 1

    5. Stock prices go up
    6. SCOrdure execs sell off
    7. ???
    8. Profit!!!

    Oh, sorry, but someone had to say it... ;) After all, this does appear to be the case from my own observations.

    -uso.

  25. Re:Its all about the cost on Solar Window Panes · · Score: 1

    Riiight.

    Even if it were practically free to set this stuff up, the power companies would be all over it to kill it off, because it would make them almost redundant. Same way no one wants to find a cure for cancer except for idealists and relatives of victims, no one wants solar/wind/other alternative forms of energy to succeed because it means less $$$ in their pocket. And now may the FUD wars begin...

    -uso.