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  1. San Diego down since 4am pst 10-3-02 on UUNET/WorldCom Backbone Diffiiculties · · Score: 1

    Like the subject says, I have dsl with a provider that resells the old rhythms network that wcom acquired, and I ahve been down awhile.

  2. marketing facts on Report: Broadband Too Expensive For Many · · Score: 1

    At the current price point, it's only too expensive for those whom are not good marketing targets anyway.

  3. muni offices and costcos for recharging on Ford Pulls The Plug on Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    So, it appears many of the recharging stations, which you seemingly dont have to pay to use, are at municipal offices(tax dollar funded), or Costco stores (higher price funded). So, once again the greens are getting non willing participants to pay for their desired results.

  4. car rental for long trips on Ford Pulls The Plug on Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    So if you want to drive somewhere more than a few miles away, you need enough planning to find a recharging station along the way, have another vehicle, or rent a car? I can't imagine non tree huggers accepting the inconvenience and social limitations of owning 1 vehicle and having it be an ev.

  5. hybrid cars are the next natural step on Ford Pulls The Plug on Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Hybrid cars give insanely good gas mileage and are the next step in evolution of auto transport. Their weight makes them unsafe in collisions, but thats another article.

  6. does ssh and ssl fixes without make world on FreeBSD 4.6.2 Released · · Score: 1

    make world takes so long on my k6, this is a kewl way to get those fixes quickly.

  7. Re:First Amendment is now conditional. on Raisethefist.com Update · · Score: 1

    Right to sat what you want about a candidate 60 days before an election was revoked yesterday.

  8. consumer favoring default on Vermont Goes Opt-In, Corps Unhappy · · Score: 1

    Its about time the default was opt-in instead of opt-out.

  9. Re:Outrageous! on Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs · · Score: 1

    Exactly correct re quality of service. People who are wanting quality of service and are able to pay for it should get it, and are therefore a better marketing target.

  10. Socialism on Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs · · Score: 1

    What do you expect from them, I mean the opinion of most leftist governments is if you can afford to pay more you should..

  11. Most developers want some concrete reward for work on Why Free Software is a Hard Sell · · Score: 1

    The non socialist reality is that:
    1 Companies want guaranteed support, not email lists and usenet.
    2 Only a company can provide the above.
    3 For a company to do that, it must pay for it somehow, via revenue from sales of the software or service contracts for it.

  12. people use win 4 games & office on What's up with Lindows? · · Score: 1

    Tons of people use windows for office and games, and Linux for most else. From what I hear around town, the idea here is to allow people who are curious about Linux but not brave or knowledgeable enough for drive whacking to try it.

  13. get raid 5 on Affordable Home Backups for 10-100G Systems? · · Score: 1

    just do it

  14. pm0.net on Christmas Spam Level Skyrocketing · · Score: 1

    I get 8-10 a day from these fools..

  15. Find a dealer on What Do You Think of ASUS Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Find a dealer and go muck with one, laptops are a personal thing, what I loathe u may like. Just check for a good warranty and whether u like it, what else is there??

  16. bad press on How Not To Ship Computers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the result of this will apply some pressure??

  17. tuff time with power on Rolling Your Own Laptop? · · Score: 1

    last for a week without ac, that seems unbelievable. The rest of it is probably doable, either with an all in one board pc or a lunchbox style thing I've seen.

  18. Re:Unix admin by hobby! on How Did You Become a UNIX Administrator? · · Score: 1

    That is a great story, showing the evolution well.

  19. worked up from isp tech support on How Did You Become a UNIX Administrator? · · Score: 1

    I worked there doing phone support, became acquainted with some smart folks, and was hanging with them during Linux's early days, 95-96. We used Sunos as an os, so I got user experience that way.

  20. Even Star Wars demands us to be information whores on Star Wars II (Attack of the clones) Trailer · · Score: 1

    This is deplorable, I thought the idea of promotion was to get people to see your ad?

  21. Re:Your opinions of TI calcs are uninformed on HP Calculator Department Closing · · Score: 1

    Exactly, you could easily input data points and get logarithmic or exponential equations for them, and do tons of statistical analysis. My calculus and ee studies would've been much harder.

  22. hp calcs whooped so much butt on HP Calculator Department Closing · · Score: 1

    These were awesome, when I was studying engineering, the hp-48 was the bomb. I am beyond sad.

  23. Re:Cheap linux box. on The Ultimate Linux Box 2001 · · Score: 1

    Looks like your referenced page shows $699 actually, and I agree with the yuk comments posted by others. But if u want a bargain pc and not a performance one, this is probably ok.

  24. Re:Linux is for the finanically challenged? on The Ultimate Linux Box 2001 · · Score: 1

    because they want to show they dont need to be a dumbass and spend thousands to get decent performance.

  25. date says November 2000 on The Ultimate Linux Box 2001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looking at the top of the referred article text, it states it is also in the November 2000 LJ issue. I assume this is an example of poor proofreading and not a truth?