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  1. Re:What timing! on Windows vs Linux On Security · · Score: 2

    Did you read everything I wrote, or merely home in on the assessment of the original version of Mandrake? I thought it was rather clear that this was the last time I had tried it. What was unsaid, but clearly implied, is that it is far different these days.

  2. Re:What timing! on Windows vs Linux On Security · · Score: 2

    I haven't used Mandrake since it was basically a 'search and replace 'Redhat' with 'Mandrake' and compile for i586', but 'up2date -u' would automagically update all of his packages on red hat. Similarly, 'up2date wu-ftpd' would have updated just that program.

    Trust me, he couldn't have figured out Mandrake either. He would have had to do the same thing he didn't do with RH: RTFM.

  3. Re:What timing! on Windows vs Linux On Security · · Score: 2

    This must be some new version of RH I don't know about. Every stock kernel I used from 5.0 up through 7.3 had the ability to do NAT and firewalling builtin. Ditto the reply about scroll wheels. Nothing to do with kernel compiling. Unless you count my Gentoo install (and I don't:) I don't know when I last recompiled a kernel. Oh, wait, I did have to compile the NVidia modules.

  4. Re:Damn... on DRM in Real-Time and Embedded Systems · · Score: 2

    No doubt. It smells like... victory.

  5. Re:my notes on the oral arguments on Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments · · Score: 2

    Why would anyone bother with Grant's autobiography these days? If I wanted to read the ramblings of a drunken asshole, there's plenty of Hemingway.

  6. Re:nissan.com on Slashback: Dilemma, Privacy, Chess · · Score: 1

    If I were Uzi, I'd countersue Nissan Motors for cybersquatting the 'nissancomputer.com' domain name.

  7. Re:Big surprise about Hipaa on Slashback: Dilemma, Privacy, Chess · · Score: 2

    That's why everyone is applying for whatever extensions they can, and they are almost all being allowed.

  8. Re:Jesus, it's like the Smurfs(tm)... on The Weblog Handbook · · Score: 1

    It's comments like these that remind me why I read slashdot.

  9. Re:/. blurb wrong. They're still paying the artist on The New Webcasting Compromise · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're trying to deduct their expenses for setting up the royalty payment system, not avoid paying artisis altogether.

    I'm sure the recording industry uses the same accountants as the MPAA member companies. The same accountants that figured out that Coming to America, Titanic, and hundreds of other movies never made a profit.

    Hey, if these guys would get together with Enron's accountants, who declared they always made a profit, perhaps the truth would finally emerge???

    The artists will never see a dime of this money.

  10. Re:why the wait? on Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional · · Score: 1

    Wow, I hope that was sarcasm that I somehow missed

    It was, and you did.

  11. Re:why the wait? on Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional · · Score: 3, Funny

    nogoodmonkey, meet cluestick

    cluestick, meet nogoodmonkey

    WHAPPP!!!

  12. Re:Let me know when we finally win... on CDMA, Cell Phone Standards And Who "Wins" · · Score: 2

    First of all, I thought that land line calls in Europe were charged by the minute, thus obviating the need to pay for incoming cell calls. I could be wrong.

    Second, you can get cell phone plans that have free incoming calls. Can't remember which plan off the top of my head, but you can find it here. Just checked. Nextel has a free incoming plan.

    Yeah, only one provider out of several, but it does exist.

  13. Re:SliMP3 on Component MP3/OGG Players? · · Score: 2

    If you have a fast enough processor, you can transcode the ogg into an mp3.

    Read the slimp3 discussion boards about this.

  14. Re:Prices for BitKeeper (from BitKeeper) - removed on BitKeeper EULA Forbids Working On Competition · · Score: 2

    Well, shit, that just cemented it for me. Thanks for the linkage attempt.

    RIAA, MPAA, BK.

  15. What's this? on ICFP 2002 Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    whose entry was written in C!

    I was just getting used to C#, now we are added C! ?

    How is that pronounced? 'see bang'?

    How is it different from plain C ?

  16. Re:second impressions on E-Book Copy Protection, For What It's Worth · · Score: 2

    I've lost far too many of those stupid post-it notes. I prefer to write my passwords (and usernames) on the monitor bezel with a Sharpie pen.

  17. Re:Damn users.... on Bugbear Windows Virus Making the Rounds · · Score: 2

    The sad thing is, I don't know if you are just a funny guy, or telling the truth, or both.

    Not a single thing you mentioned is outside the realm of possibility.

  18. Re:I think you mean, "Why do artists like Todd?" on Gaiman v. McFarlane Decision Handed Down · · Score: 2

    Not quite. Jordan was/is an all around player, and capable of being on a team (at least a team of two, with Pippen being his backup). McFarlane, even by your generous discription, lacks these abilities. His work in ASM was incredible and groundbreaking at the time. His storytelling was... not up to the quality of his artwork.

    He's probably more like Shaq than Jordan.

  19. Re:Pets Warehouse on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 2
    Over in the far rear corner is the "Scratch and Dent" bin full of great bargains.


    Where else do you think these two came from? I tried to return the one on the right because of the eyes, but it turns out there is a 'no return' policy in the bargain bin.

  20. Re:I don't understand this ruling on Public Up-Skirt Cams Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    Hehe. I'd try to identify them the same way Tommy played pinball, but the wife might disapprove.

    But she's the one who is deaf-blind... Hmm... Maybe she could identify Jenna's genitals the way Tommy played pinball?

    Yeah, I think that's a solution.

  21. Re:WRONG! on Call For Linux 2.5 Testers · · Score: 2

    I figured most of the moderators haven't. kt.zork.net is my first stop Monday morning. IDE is just now starting to get to the point where it isn't really screwing things up left and right. Of course, that could have been 5-10 releases ago given the frequency of 2.5 releases.

    I fully believe that testing experimental kernels is one way for people to give back. But I think the blurb in this writeup was a bit misleading.

    (It would also help if there were a HOWTO on how regular, non-coding doofuses like myself could learn how to send in bug reports and to whom.)

  22. Re:source based distros make no sense on Lunar Linux 1.0 Released · · Score: 2

    I have a 2.4 P4. I have the cycles to waste. No idea whether it is the P4, the custom compiles, the preemptive kernel or what. But the thing is damn quick.

    Too bad the hard drive is utter shit.

  23. Re:Wow!!! on Lunar Linux 1.0 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your post is SOOOOO 15 minutes ago.

    I'm now browsing at 0 looking for the karma whore who posted a copy of the page.

  24. Re:WRONG! on Call For Linux 2.5 Testers · · Score: 2

    No, the AC said that there was only one problem left. I understand what ?.odd.* releases are for. The person who wrote the blurb does not. The person who wrote the blurb is implying that 2.5.* is much safer than what it really is.

  25. Re:WRONG! on Call For Linux 2.5 Testers · · Score: 2

    Not true. Read lkml. There have been some problems in the IDE code that have borked partitions.