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  1. Re:I tried it... on OpenZaurus 3.5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I will try that, but if it needs a kernel to do, it will not work. I thank you very much though as I will try that; I suppose that I should not respond to everyone who comments on my posts.

  2. Re:I tried it... on OpenZaurus 3.5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The 5600 uses a different flashing system - it requires a kernel to reflash. This is nice because if you screw up an old flash, you can use the little environment to resore it. If, however, you overwrite the kernel, you are screwed.

  3. Re:I tried it... on OpenZaurus 3.5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I tried reflashing; it needs a kernel in order to run the flashing environment, and I overwrote the kernel, so that will not work. It is quite annoying.

  4. I tried it... on OpenZaurus 3.5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I have a Zaurus Sl-5600; I have been waiting for them to release this for a while. I tried the GPE version first, it was really nice, but of course, as a beta, there are some problems. I then went to try the OPIE version, but accidentally overwrote the kernel instead of the root image on my flash card. Without realizing this, I flashed it, and now have an unusable $400 PDA. Any suggestions, other than not to be so stupid? It is a great OS, for a great PDA, though, when the owner is not an idiot.

  5. From TFA... on Dual Opteron SFF PC Tested · · Score: 4, Funny
    In profile, you can see that its quite a long unit from front to back, especially with the PSU housing protruding from the back, J-Lo-esque.

    You know you are a nerd when you compare your computer to Jennifer Lopez...

  6. Re:Waste of time for me... on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Who actually still uses FTP for uplading files?

    Often, that is that only way for people with webpages hosted elsewhere to get the files there. Before I got my FreeBSD server up, I had to upload all my webpage stuff through ftp to my hosting server. Of course, now they use sftp, but old ftp still has its uses.

  7. Re:Confusing on Complete Measurement of Molecular Breakup · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but it does not seem that they broke up a molecule; it said that two molecules were released with two protons and two electrons: a proton and an electron from the deuterium atom, and the others came from the neutron. So it is confusing, but it looks like it was just the isotope and not a molecule.

  8. Re:DOWNLOAD IT EARLY! on First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight! · · Score: 1

    The RAM file is a dead link to a non-existant real feed. There are at least 10 of those files, though; I did not go any higher.

  9. Iran on Iran: Even If Windows Is Free, Linux Is Preferred · · Score: 5, Funny

    I-ran away from Windows to Linux too.
    Sorry, I have been waiting to make an "Iran" pun for a while. Carry on.

  10. Re:Rude? on Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building · · Score: 1

    What, so only one of us gets to be sarcastic? I guess that you did not get that the whole rudeness thing was sarcasm, as was the bit about more construction, and so was the thing about opposing forces. Everybody here is very excited about the new building, especially since what it will replace is an ugly piece of crap, and the fact that we will get more gifts and recognition is good.
    Take a joke (though at first, I did not know that you were being sarcastic, so I guess we are even, and I guess that my original post does not come off as too sarcastic anyway. Sorry for the confusion).

  11. Re:Poor Bill on Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I ended up having to go to the O that night to get a real meal, since all I basically could have was cheese, so I left when I was done eating instead of listening to the people talk. I too cannot wait for the ground-breaking; it will be quite entertaining to watch all the hacks that people pull off. I cannot wait for the "Gates ph34rs Gates" sign like that "Gates ph34rs Wean" sign that appeared last time.

  12. Re:Poor Bill on Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was actually at the party to celebrate his gift yesterday at Newell-Simon (the free food force overcame the Anti-Bill Gates force), and through talking to people, I had actually heard that it would be named after Turing, but I guess that is something else. The problem is, though, this guy is really rich, and yet he gave only $20,000,000 of the $50,000,000 required for the building, meaning that they need to raise $30,000,000 from other people for a building that will be named after someone else. I hope that they succeed, because it would be nice to see yet another construction project on campus, but it seems rude not to give more for something named after him.

  13. Re:Interesting but on Transmeta TM8800 And Ultraportable Announced · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actaully, sharp's PDA is Linux powered, the first widely successful Linux PDA made availiable, I believe. I have one, and I use it as an X server so that I can ssh into my FreeBSD box at home and run programs. It has a WiFi card, built in keyboard, and all around is very nice. There is also an alternative Linux distro availiable for it.

  14. Re:Rhetorical question: on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 1

    Whoops, add a after that "would seem." I even used preview!

  15. Re:Rhetorical question: on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Zombie Macs and Zombie Linux boxes are about as common as snowcones in hell, it would seem.

    Yeah, but Macs and Linux boxes are also not very common anyway. It may be much easier to use Windows boxen as Zombie boxes, but percentage wise, if every Linux and Mac desktop were a zombie box, they would still be a smaller percentage. Perhaps it would be better to figure out what percentage of desktops running each individual OS were zombie boxes, this would probably still be much lower for MAC OSX and Linux. FreeBSD etc than windows.

  16. advent on New Issue Of Independent Adventuring · · Score: 1

    You find that you are in a maze of twisty little links, all slashdoted.

  17. Re:firmware updates on Can DVDs Kill DVD Players? · · Score: 1

    I may not know about what I talk, but would a software-based firmware update help with physical problems that are had by a specific disk that obviously has affected more than one player? I should not think that a firmware update would help in this case.
    Of course, I suppose that you could be joking, but I know not.

  18. HP and Linux on HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner · · Score: 5, Informative

    I put Gentoo on my HP ze5600, and I have been quite impressed. The winmodem works, the ATI Radeon works, the WiFi works with NDIS Wrapper, and even ACPI hibernate mode seems to work fine. I hope that companies like HP continue to support more variety in their OS options.

  19. Oh, yeah on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 5, Funny

    So SU me!

    Probably redundant by now.

  20. Re:never underestimate your calculator ;) on Note Taking Devices for Students? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We are approaching off-topicness, but I have an HP calculator (HP-48GX) from which I have surfed the net (yes, Slashdot worked), checked my e-mail, played ADVENT and Nethack via the serial port, and taken notes in class. It is possible to get software to remap the keyboard to be qwerty-like and to rotate the screen, to aid in note-taking. Not only is it cheaper (~$100 now) but it can also do a lot more than many other calculators. Back on topic, I also new a guy with the same writing problem, and he was able to get money from the local government to help pay for a subnotebook for the purpose of note-taking in class. He certainly did not let his disability slow him down.

  21. Printing on FreeBSD on Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Printing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Having just installed FreeBSD, I too had to configure my printer, yet this article made it seem overly complicated. Of course, I used KDE and CUPS to set up my USB HP-5150, but when I set the same up on Gentoo by hand, it was not that difficult. This makes using *nix systems seem harder for the desktop than it is.

  22. Re:Gnome on Stirring The GNOME Fires · · Score: 1

    Wow, this is pretty much exactly what I do. XFCE I think was origionally designed to be able to be used with GNOME, and I still do this because the default XFCE panel and apps are not, in my opinion, very good. But when combined with GNOME, it is very nice.

  23. SSH on Dial-Up Friendly Websites? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I too have a dial-up connection, and one of the things that I do a lot online is read documentation and manuals that I do not want to buy/print/download because of cost/too much paper/size, etc., but one thing that is useful is SSHing into my college account and running "links" to read it. I cannot see pictures, but who needs them? As for sites, Slashdot normally loads fairly fast on dial up without toning it down, and once I am used to the slow speed, even flash-intensive sites do not bother me much; however, I do use Yahoo! games on occasion, and there are quite a few sites that have lighter versions.

  24. At the risk of offending little people... on Size Is Everything: Making Tiny ELF Binaries · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should ELF binaries not normally be really small?

  25. Re:Precedents? on Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab · · Score: 1

    I actually believe that he, as well as other satirists such as The Capitol Steps must get permission from the artists and copywrite holders, as well as state that they had permission on the album cover or wherever the music is, in order to parody it. While they may not have to pay copywrites on the songs, they do have to seek permission and state that they have it.