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  1. Re:Internet Explorer Remover on Rivals Upset At Windows XP Features · · Score: 1
    Actually the price of the program that remove IE from the OS is $0.00 thats right is free

    from the faq

    WHAT IS IERADICATOR? IEradicator disintegrates all versions of Internet Explorer from v3 to v6b1 from an existing installation of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, and Windows Millennium. The removal process eliminates 99% of Internet Explorer's files and registry keys to clear approximately 30MB of disk space. The remaining 1% is left behind to maintain compatibility with programs that use the MS HTML layout engine (e.g. Outlook Express). IEradicator is offered as UNSUPPORTED LICENSED FREEWARE; You must read and accept the terms of the enclosed LICENSE. Use of IEradicator consititutes ACCEPTANCE of all terms of the LICENSE, whether you have read the licence or not

  2. Re:Last summer, Andy Hertzfeld got a standing ovat on Eazel Come, Eazel Go? · · Score: 1
    ...Eazel's product was not Nautilus. It was support services and whatnot for Nautilus

    Hmm lets see now...We develop the greatest filemanager ever and give it away for free, then we make tons of money on providing support services and whatnot for Nautilus.

  3. Correct link for photo page on Dual Athlon Motherboards Creep Closer · · Score: 5
    Here is a direct link for the photo page at Toms Harware

    http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-2001 0510.html

    http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-2001 0510.html

  4. Re:Heavy Price for kewl new gear on GeForce3 and Linux · · Score: 1

    Hey if its not supported now whats the point in forking the cash now. I'll wait a year and when games DO start supporting it I'll think about buying it at a much cheaper price

  5. Re:What really pisses me off on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1
    Well everybody has an opinion, and in this case I think your wrong.

    Those who cheated on the paper not only had an advantage, assuming they cribed quality work, on the paper but also had extra time to study for exams. The person who busted butt to write the paper was also balancing their time spent on that class with the other courses they were taking.

    In any case the cheating must have been pretty brazen for it to filter around to other students.

  6. what about sawfish on Using Lisp to beat your Competition. · · Score: 1

    If the faq page is correct sawfish uses lisp.

  7. It's just not in the valley on Coder on the Cross · · Score: 4
    Take out all references to coding and computers and this story could apply to any startup in any field.
    Two years out of college back in 1988 or so I went to work for a "startup" in a small town. I was underpaid and worked long hours, while I didn't have stock options I had "promises" of an ownership stake and visions of store expansion into multiple locations. As time went on my responsibilities increased and my pay went up, not alot, but up. I would stay late to get a head start on the work for the next day. Allways trying to move the company forward. The crushing blow came when I realized that I had wasted 8 years and this "startup", wasn't ever going to get beyond the point where one person, the owner, could be rewarded well.

    I was living to work instead of working to live.

    So what did I do? I went back to school to get a CIS degree and here I am now ready to enter the brave new world.

  8. 1 or 5 ? who cares? I have ZERO right now on Have the Baby Bells won? · · Score: 1

    I wish they would roll it out to the rest of the masses.....I've been promised RSN for years. Still plunkin along at 56K. I think the only option left is 2 way satellite...

  9. Just like we only need 640 k of Memory on What 1.7Ghz Is Like · · Score: 1

    Hey my cheap ass celeron is fast enough for me, but I imagine someone out there really needs more speed. I just wish they would get with the program and get the other bottlenecks in performance worked on. I know, I know its getting there.
    Personally I'm not interested in a newer faster CPU. What my moneys going for will be bigger HD (60 + gigs), bigger Monitor (21 + inches, or flat screen) etc.

  10. limited editon of 275 copies @$400.00 sold out on The New Flatland · · Score: 1

    The ultra cool completely flat version published by Arion Press, unfortanately is sold out. The full details can be found at Arion Press For those who wont click and go its http://www.arionpress.com/catalog/007.htm.
    "Format: 14 by 7 inches, accordion-fold of 56 folded panels", that makes it roughly 32 feet long when completely unfolded in all its flat glory.

  11. Well it Depends on Sean In The Middle · · Score: 2

    In most areas the schoolboard and county/local gvt are seperate. But your representitive in county/city govt, as well as the member of the school board who represents the area you live in should be getting an earful from you right now. I would begin with a phone call, and during that call request a face to face meeting with your elected representatives. School systems also recieve funding from the state and federal govts, so I would be inclined to walk up those chains too.
    If you do end up home schooling i would look into the possibility of attempting to get reimbursement of school district taxes. There may be some programs in your location that provide for this.

  12. Heh... on Open Source Tax Credit? · · Score: 1

    Good thing I payed too much in taxes. :) I more than likely would have forgone a low risk money market fund but rather risked it on High Risk tech funds.

  13. link cache on Linux Anecdotes · · Score: 1
    For those that have difficulty reaching the link, Google's cache is here.
    Linux Anecdotes

    for the I hate clickable links crowd,
    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:liw.iki.fi/li w/texts/linux-anecdotes.html+&hl=en

  14. Re:Buy.com what? on 101 Dumbest Dot-Com Moments · · Score: 1

    the poor sap is crawling around sniffing a dogs ass.

  15. Umm No reg required on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1

    The link given didn't require any registration when I went to read the article. I only wished they had explained how the hamming codes were used. IIRC hamming codes depend on ordering to do their thing.

  16. Re:That's not why on Secret Service Raids Gold-Age · · Score: 1

    Well I don't have any Student Loans and the card app was for a corporate card with the company name being the website name. I may be current but I sure dont meat the minimum income reqs. Regards Michael

  17. whats to stop them from doing it anyway? on CPRM Voted Down · · Score: 1

    Well if appliance makers want a "hard drive" with some sort or proprietary interface/settings and they want to buy a gazillion of them whats to stop the hardware vendor from making them for them?(If enough money is involved someone will make them). I think what will happen is that the content people and the appliance people will get together and form a cartel. Then as a group they will go to a manufactorer and say, This is what we want and we want a gazillion of them over a two year span.

  18. Re:this isn't e-gold's fault on Secret Service Raids Gold-Age · · Score: 1

    Is that wife or ex wife?

  19. Re:this isn't e-gold's fault on Secret Service Raids Gold-Age · · Score: 1

    I'm a underemployed college student and American Express sent me a pre approved application for an American Express Gold Corporate card, which i accepted and use without difficulty. The only criteria I can see that qualified me, in their eyes, for the card was i had a web site I was working on.

  20. Re:Why oh why oh why! on Coming Soon: Burn-Proof CDs · · Score: 1

    Actually having 1000's of CD's doesn't mean you live in a big house it just means you choose to spend your money differently than other people. I used to have around 1200 cd's or so and still have around 500 LP's in the closet. Why you ask? Well I like music, a varied and eclectic range of music. I choose to spend money on buying CD's on a regular basis, and acquired a rather large collection. I then decided to sell a vast majority of them. For a while I was trading them in at the local independent music shop but then I found Amazon and have sold about 500 or so over tha last year.
    Most of my napstering was for "unreleased" bootlegs by Bob Dylan, and over a 56k modem I didn't even bother with that too much.

  21. Braves and AOL on Baseball Fans Must Pay To Listen Online · · Score: 1
    I'm not suprised that more and more free stuff isn't free anymore. When the tech sector was flying high in the stock market the mantra was build the brand..now the mantra is maximize profits

    [begin offtopic rant]
    Now that AOL/TimeWarner have sunk their grubby hands into the Braves operations they are beginning to dismantle the scout system that has served the Braves so well over the years. For the sake of saving an insignificant amount of $$ towards the bottom line, especially when you consider that the player payroll is near 90 million $, some bean counter has decided that having a decent scout operation is unnecessary.
    [end offtopic rant]

  22. one is quarterly the other for the year on Red Hat Breaks Even, Beats Street Estimate · · Score: 1

    My reading of the blurb is that the $600,000. figure is for the quarter while the other is for the year.

  23. not to pick a nit ....but..... on TCP Weakness No False Alarm? · · Score: 2
    I think the story blurb needs to be worked on. This part can't be right..."...and his work has been confirmed by many sources as being a major problem in the implementation of TCP on many operating systems."

    I don't think that his work has been confirmed as being "a major problem" It looks to me that he seems to have discovered a "major problem"

    Regards Michael

  24. It worked for Jobs at macworld on OS X Won't Be Fully Functional On March 24th · · Score: 1

    Didn't Steve demo dvd functionality when he showed of the OS at Macworld? Maybe they just need to get the version of OSX that was running on his machine.

  25. Re:Stealing? No. on DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers · · Score: 1

    Well you can still manipulate the signal as you wish. They just decided to change the rules of the game.