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  1. Internet Banking sites which make use of pop-ups on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A lot of Internet Banking (and other legitimate websights), for example Standard Bank. I have also had clients who insisted that they have popups on their websites. Personally I hate them but I wonder how website/web applications will be accidentally disabled by this.

  2. Africa safe? on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 1

    I suppose Africa's still safe at the moemnt.

  3. Re:Linux has been ready for the desktop for a whil on Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Our VSS repository *HAS* been corrupted.

  4. Re:Try FBSD on End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0 · · Score: 1

    I don't know .. I have a Lucent "Winmodem" will I be able to set it up before I do dialup download. I usually have to set it up *after* setting up Redhat from driver I download from here.

  5. Re:Time it takes to download distributions on End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0 · · Score: 1

    "With RedHat, you need all the packages."

    Do you mean I could maybe use another distribution which has lesser requirements?

  6. Re:Time it takes to download distributions on End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0 · · Score: 1

    That's R51.38 (South African Rand). Not bad.

  7. Time it takes to download distributions on End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0 · · Score: 1

    I'm using Redhat 9 and at home and work - a I have been interested in having a look at Fedora. But on my limited bandwidth it just takes TOO LONG and I don't need everything on the ISO. Does anybody have information on doing a online install, so only packages I need will be downloaded.

  8. Re:Interplanetary Internet on How Spirit Takes Pictures · · Score: 1

    Woah, that link is interesting - in the faq that they are planning a satelite system around mars.

  9. Humans to the moon... on How Spirit Takes Pictures · · Score: 4, Funny

    Humans to the moon (1969)
    Digital cameras to mars (2004)
    Internet Fridges to pluto (2010)?

    Is this progress?

  10. wouldn't it be better strategy to make up evidence on SCO Fails to Produce Evidence · · Score: 1

    How can you convince a judge - if you can't convince yourself. Wouldn't it be better strategy to make up evidence (especially if it was hard to prove). Then you would at least start a debate about the "evidence" - real or not.

    I'm still waitin for SCO to demand that I purchase a license.

  11. Linux has been ready for the desktop for a while on Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I use Linux at home, my girlfriend uses it. I started migrating developers at my work. From my experience it takes our developers about 2 days to adjust. For some or other reason they all love CVS (Visual Source Safe being what tied us the most to Windows).

    In fact there is nothing that I want/need to do that I cant do on linux.

  12. Standard Bank South Africa on Online Banking And Browser Support · · Score: 1

    Sinner: Standard Bank South Africa once logged in under Mozilla/Galeon the interface is broken, and you can't access your accounts. Works fine under IE 4 and up, and on Netscape 4.79 (which I use to access it under Linux). I'm a recent convert to using Galeon, from vanilla Mozilla.

  13. Link to article on Dinosaurs Never Held Heads High · · Score: 1

    The link to the article can found here.

  14. Here's the link to article on Dinosaurs Never Held Heads High · · Score: 1

    woops I forgot to link to the silly me. You can read the about it at

  15. Re:PS2 - pulling an 8 bit micro on Open Source Programming On The UK PSX2 · · Score: 1

    hmmm How about gasp including C# and the .net platform

  16. PS2 - pulling an 8 bit micro on Open Source Programming On The UK PSX2 · · Score: 2
    In the 80s when I first starting messing around with computers, mostly on 8 bit micros, most of them has a BASIC interpreter has an integral part of the operating system - such as Sinclair BASIC. 8 bit micros were so cheesy that only kids really took them seriously, their BASIC interpreters being way superior to MS-DOS's gwbasic at that time. By emmbedding a BASIC interpreter it will allow PS2 gamers to get under the head of their computer. This openness of the OS is what attracted me to GNU/Linux and Open Source originally. Again we could gain control over our computers. However I no longer believe that BASIC is the best language for children to learn - maybe include a Java SDK would be a good idea.

    Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code still lives on! Although I won't touch VB with a foot long pole.