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  1. Linux Desktop and the Evolution on Analysis of SuSE Linux Desktop · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ive used a SuSE linux desktop for work for years and evolution takes it several steps closer to being perfect for the average office user to use.

    I've already replaced one XP/winroute gateway machine (dont ask me) with a linux box without anyone seeming to notice ... added a backup fileserver share for everyone without anyone asking where it came from ... the desktops are really the only objective left to conquer.

    Squad move out!
    Yes sir!

  2. Re:Responsibility on Ethical Dilemmas Related to Technology · · Score: 1

    No there were military installations in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Nagasaki Harbor was the launching point for the fleet that struck Pearl Harbor.

    Agree on the point about Dresden Germany. Once again there were military complexes in Dresden, but the price was paid by the thousands upon thousands of innocent life.

    #Rant
    135,000 enemy civilian deaths vs. 25,000 deaths of our fathers, brothers and sons finishing the war the hard way? And our losses would've been worse verses Japan. I wouldn't want to make that decision.
    #EndRant

  3. It's easy to tell on LANL Warning About Radioactive Trees · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not too hard to tell the difference between normal and radioactive trees. The radioactive ones talk and throw their apples at you. The others don't.

  4. Short Life on MS-DOS 1981-2002 RIP · · Score: 1

    7 Years is a short life for an operating system. I guess that's what happens when you make disposable operating systems.

  5. The Peoples Government on Microsoft's Political Lobbying Record · · Score: 1

    Everyone's right. We're all making valid points. And no one likes OUR government. But we still play their it their way, even though it's OUR government. Corperations are getting out of hand. It used to be the government protecting the people from the corperations. Now OUR government protects the corperations from the people. It's just not right. But instead of doing anything about it we think and hope it'll change if we give it time, so we do, over and over again.

    Take your country back, make it OUR government again.

  6. Movie Impossible on The Movie Studios' Next Step in Online Movie Delivery · · Score: 1

    Thank you for watching another quality film from Blockbuster Home Entertainment. You now have 15 seconds to eject the movie and place it in a properly designated blasting area.

    10 seconds ...

  7. Hard Drive the only loud thing? on Building the Ultimate Silent PC · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I never hear my fans as is. To me the only time I hear my computer is when a CDrom is spinning up or the harddrive is cranking and even that isn't very loud.

    Geeks are very picky ;)

  8. Re:Agree on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 1

    ouch

    I'd rename it to Handian then

  9. Stations on Small Webcasters get Powerful New Ally · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Chemlab
    Philosomatika
    FlareSound
    Link it
    Love it

    Don't forget to email your congressmen

    Who obvious has a filter set up to delete emails from constituents.

  10. Agree on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Nice articles. I installed Debian back in the day, my third linux flavor following slackware and redhat. I wasn't very impressed with it at the time. I installed it again several months back (and several, several, several levels higher of linux experiece) but still found it lacking. I didn't find the install very hard but did find it frusterating on the lack of configuration tools.

    Love aptget though and I'll be trying out the new release on one of my boxes for sure.

    And as a side note to those who don't pronounce it correctly (MEKTARUIN) The man who brought us the Debian package is Ian and his girl is Deb, hence DebIan.

  11. Re:wash repeat... on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yes Channel 1, thanks for the flashback ;)

    Yea that was a VERY bias news cast now that I think about it. Good thing I have a strong will.

    *Grabs a Pepsi*

  12. Re:about time on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 1

    Well yes, they'll have the free software, but they'll still need Apple hardware to run it with correct?
    Pretty smart move I think.

  13. Art on Raising Barriers to Entry into the Music Business · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree that artists need to be paid.
    But art needs to be public in my opinion.

    If something like the RIAA existed 1000 years ago think of where music would be now.

    Art is inspired by art.

    I say this with a grain of salt as I like to call myself an artists of several mediums. But the only truely original artist was that caveman who first smeared his shit on the wall, or the first to beat the ground with a bone in a rythm. The rest of us have all been inspired by some form of art whether we admit it or not.

    My point is that the more art is stifled the less art evolves.

    Just my opinion

  14. LOL Errors on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember the first time I seen the Half-Life error "ERROR: Dormant entity is thinking!!" I was impressed with the AI that it had a function built in to kill it off when it became sentient, I laughed forever. Literally.

    I can't remember which game it was, something under linux, I got the error "HOLY $HIT there's an error!" Open source kicks a$$

  15. Think of the children! on The Rise Of Counter-Strike · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not sure if anyone's heard, Oprah Winfrey had an 'expert' on the other day, who tied the recent sniper killings in the D.C. area to Counter Strike. The 'expert' said that Counter Strike had trained this individual to kill and how to handle a gun.

    Excuse me, but how does playing a game teach you how to properly handle a gun? I've told my friends that Counter Strike isnt a game, it's a simulator. But a gun simulator it is not. I view it as a very good tactical simulator. But no-where during its gameplay does it teach you how to properly handle a gun, let alone teach you how to shoot someone at great distances.

    I guess I just needed to get that off my chest. Oprah Winfrey is ugly too. ;)

  16. MS Terminator on Windows-based Robot and Development Platform · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It doesn't know pain, or remorse, or pity , or fear ... ... or how to create a proper file system, manage memory, or multi task

    And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, untill you are dead.

  17. 2 Down on Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Germany has done this as well havent they? China is developing their own version of linux, Im assuming to ditch MS. Chile wants to, California wants to, I want to. Wait I did :D

  18. PONG on Retro Activity: MorphOS 1.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My grandma has 4 different console versions of the classic Pong game in her closet. When will someone hack something together with these so I can play Counter Strike with them?

    Please no grandma closet jokes

  19. No longer profitable as payware on Blender Is GPL · · Score: 2, Funny

    This should be a case study for other companies with software no longer profitable as payware

    When will Microsoft start selling Win3.1 out to GPL?

  20. It will all come to be on Law Enforcement by Machines · · Score: 1

    New technology will always replace the old way of doing things. I'm sure the first wheels that we used weren't perfectly round, but we improved them.

  21. Too Much on Music Industry Pays $67M Fine For Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Paying for any commercial music is paying too much. It's like a $15 smorgasbord of unsalted peanuts.

  22. This Just In! on E-terrorism, Bark or Bite? · · Score: 3, Funny

    E-Terrorist Hackers Foil Local Website

    Arny's Dry Cleaning located at 1010 East Kimberly was recently hacked by hackers. The hacking was carried out by E-Terrorists hackers who left this message: you were hacked by hackers
    The local police and FBI are working togeher to catch the hackers who hacked this out. More at 11

  23. Re:Dumbing it down on Is Red Hat the Microsoft of Linux? · · Score: 1

    I don't mean to offend anyone, and of course it's better to use RedHat for any server project then an MS server solution. My problems with RedHat are just that, mine. Im sure RedHat works perfectly for most people. It was the second distrobution I ever tried and the first to get my old video card running at a resolution besides 640x480. My main beef is remote administration. I recommend SuSE to all my customers because it is so easy to change things around remotely. I should say it WAS so easy before they switched from yast to yast2. Just seems that RedHat relies too much on X for most of the setup.
    SuSE is an RPM based distrobution as well.

    And far from what people believe SuSE is the leader in linux. RedHat just dominates the U.S. linux market. ... I think ...

  24. Re:Redhat == Opensource on Is Red Hat the Microsoft of Linux? · · Score: 1

    I dont think Red Hat can go closed source. Not totally anyway. The day they do will be the day they write their own OS.

  25. Dumbing it down on Is Red Hat the Microsoft of Linux? · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, Red Hat tries to dumb everything down too much. Nothing wrong with making it easy, but the diaper days of he omputer industry are over.