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  1. build your own with game systems on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer · · Score: 2

    ASCI Purple will be built using 12,544 IBM Power5 microprocessors, the same chips that are used in Apple PCs and Nintendo games systems.

    all I need now are 13,000 nintendo game cubes.....

  2. I got DRM on Linux. on Movielink Snubs DRM-less Macs · · Score: 2

    part of the crossover plugin windows media player instalation....

    Of course, the website tells me I need to be on a Windows machine all the same.

  3. Linux + TV Tuner card + PS2 console on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    you messed up bigtime by ever letting them use windows, BillG likely has already been granted thier eternal souls in a click through agreement of some sort.

    get a PS2 -( Sony Playstation game console that is) and let your kids know that windows is there to steal thier souls and corrupt them to the dark side.

    I haven't told my kids about Microsoft yet because they're too young to know of such evil things, but you have some damage control to do. Best you can hope for is converting your kids so thet BillG doesn't get your grandkids soul at a later date.

  4. Re:One-Click shopping on W3C Policy To Favor Royalty-Free Patents Only · · Score: 4, Informative

    this isn't about patents, this is about the W3C.org which is an internet standards group. there was this possibilty that they would charge folks to impliment what was considered the standard...oh hell read the story.

  5. the good guys always win on W3C Policy To Favor Royalty-Free Patents Only · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it just takes awhile sometimes.

  6. Re:One question... on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    someday you'll be able to backup and restore your Mozilla Profile, and when that day comes, I hope you'll remember that Mozilla has a House online at ZillaVilla.com

  7. you need a Bigger agenda to give you direction on Re-Tooling Your Skills for the Future? · · Score: 2

    For example, Try joining the Rebel alliance in a fight against the evil empire. Sure, you want to make money and have skills that are in demand, but it's a big world and in the computer universe you are here as much as you are in Khatmandu. and we are talking about the future here right?

    Head over to Mozilla.org and scope out the Mozilla Hacker's Getting Started Guide . the Mozilla community works inside of a tool they've created called Bugzilla which is just so great other projects have started using it. Bugzilla lets you follow anyhing you're interested in and even follow around other coders to see what changes they're making. I myself am something of a bugzilla Lurker watching features I'm interested in, it's like the celebrity coders show. The animal book people have done a great thing and open sourced Creating Applications with Mozilla which seems to sum things up pretty good and gets updated frequently as readers point out errors and such. Using the Mozilla environment is great for apps that run anywhere (mostly anywhere) and you can jump in to Mozilla at many different levels javascript to C code. you could create browser addons like those at Mozdev.org or standalone applications. Best of all, when Mozilla and it's Kindred have 80% of the worldwide browser market and IE is only a bit player, you can tell people that you've been a Mozilla Hacker sice 2002 and it isn't new for you.

    Help us Obi Wan, you're our only hope...there's more to a job skill than the money you make with it.

    May the Source-Force be with you!

  8. I guess they don't Like me on New Movie Download Pay Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers; however, you currently do not meet our minimum system requirements. You will need to adjust the following:

    *

    You Need Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP

  9. DOJ will email you the decision on Microsoft Anti-Trust Rulings Due Tomorrow · · Score: 5, Informative
  10. Mandrake club Cluster benifits... on Mandrake Announces Turn-Key Clustering Distribution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now they need to let Mandrake Club members pool their resources to create an internet wide cluster for all Mandrake users. Join the club, get to play on the club cluster.

    I don't know what the hell I would use it for / get out of it, but it would be a nice way to support your favorite distro by donating unused cpu time to MCC (Mandrake Club Cluster)

  11. yet another reason not to be as the others on What Software Do Cable Installers Place on Your PC? · · Score: 2

    those poor M$ Windows users, chasing virus, hiding from spyware, trying to hard not to crash.
    People, computing doesn't have to be that way.

    Folks who don't know Linux think Linux is so hard, but it's not as hard as preserving your windows install. Really.

    This message brought to you by those of us who are not as others, and have an esier time using our computers than you do.

    Microserfs, Please remove Bill Gates's dick from your mouth and join the rebel alliance. It's really much nicer over here, and you're all making people think that computers are hard to use.

  12. get the 200$ walmart pcs and load Mandrake 9 on Cheap Computers in My Classroom? · · Score: 2

    Load Manrake 9 on the machines. Mandrake has tons of stuff that the kids coulld get into. once you install on one machine, you can save a "quick install" and duplicate it over the other machines with Mandrake. you will also have open office for presentations. Go through some Gimp titorials with the kids, that'd be great for art projecrs. Gphoto2 captures pictures from Most digital cameras. Of course for research there's Mozilla, or 3 or 4 other browsers laying around on Mandrake. I wouldn't set them all up with login accounts, just have one user and login on each machine and make them all the same, and set them to auto login on boot.

    asking the parents to help seems like a good idea, create an invoice and share it with everyone what you've spent on the machines. after a few years of a volutary "lab fee" you'll have those machines paid for.

  13. Re:I already live in California...ha! on The Free State Project · · Score: 2

    not going to have New York. sorry.

  14. I already live in California on The Free State Project · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and the "squares" tend to be the ones that stick out in a crowd. Even if the Laws are against pot, local police don't really bug people about it unless they're doing something else like having a turf war or driving into things.
    there may be laws on the books but "It's casual"

    I want CA WA OR and NV (so we get vegas) to just leave the USA and form a "west america" new country. then if you think it sucks, you just move back east where you weirdos come from.

    seriously though, I think Califonia will end up leading the way anyhow.

  15. Ethical issues with supporting M$ software on System Adminstration and Corporate Ethics? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't know about any of you other Linux Zelots...

    but when I get to where I work and have to log into that wintooK screen it makes me feel dirty and unclean.

    is this an ethical issue or am I just sick in the head?

  16. More fun to let the message go through on System Adminstration and Corporate Ethics? · · Score: 2

    ethical issues aside, f that hothead, he needs to learn to cool his jets and not spout off like an idiot saying things he wants to later take back.

    heck, having a conflict, and then resolving it will likely bring those 2 closer together, opening the road to honest communication.

    or they could be pissy and have more arguments, who cares, at least the mails gets through, that's your job, keep the system running.

  17. We (USA) need to make them start over on Microsoft Settlement Compliance Criticized · · Score: 2

    don't fine MS a penny. just release ALL of thier works into completely open source free code and then we all have whatever they've built, they can then compete on those grounds.

  18. Re:dreaming of centralized cookies and bookmarks on Roll Your Own Browser · · Score: 3, Informative

    go and see ZillaVilla.com for information about roaming profiles and a list of bugs on Bugzilla that are related. Roaming profiles don't work YET, but hopefully will soon.

  19. seul.org/edu simple end user linux / education on Home-Schooling and "Open Source" Materials? · · Score: 2

    http://seul.org/edu

    this org has a list of learning software that works with Linux.

    you might also try:
    http://schoolforge.net/

  20. I think this is Better than 'United Linux' on Three Major Linux Distributions Certified LSB Compliant · · Score: 3, Informative

    a nice open standard like LSB, imagine the improvement in install docs, cross distro rpms...this is a good thing.

  21. I feel sorry for windows users on The Day The Music Died: Windows Media and DRM · · Score: 2

    it's a hard thing to be able to use a windows pc, I don't know how people do it.

  22. 8 miles,... everyday? on Portable MP3 Player w/ Unix Support? · · Score: 2

    dude, you're going to make yourself sick. that's too much unless you're training for some type of competition.

    I don't know of a good linux mp3 player but would advise you to run a bit less, about 1/2 of that should keep you in fine shape. I've know of "distance runners" who developed heart problems fro it.

  23. Linux terminal for high-endusers on OEone HomeBase Desktop · · Score: 5, Funny
    in the nice demo tour at thier website, near the end it shows top running in a terminal window, the caption says:
    Linux terminal for high-endusers

    of course I thought, hey it's great someone is thinking about us stoners and providing the features that us really high end users need.

  24. this is going to be GREAT on Microsoft in Peru, Living Room · · Score: 2

    when the governments "open source only" bill does pass and Microsofts "donation" gets used to teach how to program for Linux.

    problem is, all those government folks might just toss freedom and ideals for Cash.

  25. expecting a virus? on Visual Studio .Net: Now with more Viruses · · Score: 2

    Flores said that under Microsoft's security policy, the company normally scans every file being transferred to the master of a program. But in this case, the company only analyzed files it expected to find. Since the Nimda-infected file had been added by the worm, the company overlooked it.

    I would think one might look for something that shouldn't be there when trying to detect a virus. I guess MS has some more "advanced" method that I just can't grasp.