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  1. Re:Microsoft wanted this soooo bad. on Linux to be Official OS of People's Republic of China · · Score: 1

    Maybe I should have changed the Subject line. But maybe Microsoft would have wanted each village to send one person to work at the Microsoft institute...

  2. Re:Microsoft wanted this soooo bad. on Linux to be Official OS of People's Republic of China · · Score: 1
    Set up a "contribute to open source" institute?

    How would that work? Would a certain percentage of graduates of programming schools be assigned to the institute? Each village would have to send one person to work at the institute?

  3. Re:But will they honor the GPL? on Linux to be Official OS of People's Republic of China · · Score: 1

    Check your definitions. Do you consider yourself a communist or a socialist?

  4. Re:MS will never release source code on Microsoft To Go Straight to the Supreme Court? · · Score: 2

    Oh, you mean Excel using secret OS functions in the days of Lotus 1-2-3 wasn't the only and last event of its kind?

  5. Re:Bytes vs. Bits on 2-Megabit Bandwidth for Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Those silly metric bits...

  6. Re:SEC - any way to contact them? on Rick Moen on LinuxOne's IPO · · Score: 1

    Does this SEC filing mention the risks in violating the GPL authorization to use their sole product?

  7. Re:LOL on Linkage between Cell-phone Usage and Long Term Memory Loss · · Score: 1

    What do you call a pile of rats in a bowl of milk? The Low-Carbohydrate Diet.

  8. Interesting that this page views OK. on Microsoft Adresses World · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was amazed. This "Reply" page is the best Microsoft page I've ever seen. Its HTML worked fine on Netscape, the character set and sizes were reasonable, no proprietary characters.

  9. Re:Yeah, Microsoft Excel on Microsoft Adresses World · · Score: 1

    Excel also used Microsoft routines/system calls which the competition could not use because they were not documented. Definitely taking advantage of writing the OS and the application. Did Lotus sue or merely complain? There was quite a fuss about that.

  10. Re:Sure they have. on Microsoft Adresses World · · Score: 1
    That reminds me...

    Does anyone have the InfoWorld article announcing that MS-DOS was adding subdirectories? No longer would it be necessary to keep all your files in the single directory which your floppy had. MS said they intended to add more features from Unix.

  11. Re:Penguin rampant on BSOD on Linux on a Magazine Cover? · · Score: 2

    A garland, around the shield, of woven coaxial and 10BaseT cable with connectors dangling down?
    Put Linus' Doctorate mortarboard on his head?

  12. Re:Penguin rampant on BSOD on Linux on a Magazine Cover? · · Score: 2
    "Rampant" is often used in heraldry. I suppose a Linux Coat of Arms is a possibility.
    • Perhaps with Linus on the crest
    • Tux head as a helmet
    • Cox as the supporter on the left
    • Gates as the supporter on the right (an unwilling supporter, but he's helped a lot)
    • Need a motto. Through Freedom, Strength?
    • In the shield...
      • a magnifying glass over, or crossed with, a scroll
      • crossed wrench and screwdriver
      • ...what else?
  13. First Millenguins on Linux on a Magazine Cover? · · Score: 2

    A million penguins typing on a million networked computers.

  14. Re:Scientists and Rats on Linkage between Cell-phone Usage and Long Term Memory Loss · · Score: 1

    In what way is it detrimental to the health of rats to find a way to get them to get more exercise by swimming around?

  15. Silly Stuff on Linkage between Cell-phone Usage and Long Term Memory Loss · · Score: 1
    • New Test Prove Rats Prefer More Exercise After Cell Phone Use.
    • Test Proves Male Rats Won't Ask For Directions When Lost.
    • What do you call 100 rats in a pool of milk? Rat Cream Soup.
    • What do you call 100 rats in a pool of milk? Target Practice.
    • What do you call 100 rats in a pool of milk? Graduate student physical exercise.
    • Animal Rights Activists Protest Removal Of Platform From Drowning Rats.
    • Dairy Activists Protest Waste of Good Milk.
    • Agriculture Students Thank Biology Department For Milk Fertilizer Shipment.
  16. Alarmed Honeypot on Linux Intrustion Detection? · · Score: 1

    Remember that you can wire your unused services to a network honeypot, a collection of things which are attractive to an intruder. This could be as simple as running The Deception ToolKit on all servers, configured to give DTK the services which that server is not using. Or your network may be configured to redirect all requests for improper server/service combinations to honeypot machines. You can alarm the honeypots to alert you to what is happening. At the same time you're wasting the time of the attackers.

  17. Separate firewall. on How do you Configure a Secure DSL Network? · · Score: 1
    The more features in the firewall the more dangerous it is. Look at things like the Linux Router Project, dig an old 386/486 out of the trash, and put three cheap NICs in it. You don't need hot stuff to keep up with less than 1Mbps/second.

    Configure the firewall with no services, one NIC for the Internet, one NIC for your DMZ where your Internet-visible servers is, and one NIC for your local LAN with your IP-Masqueraded access.

  18. Re:CPAN Works nicely for Perl... on Open-Source Component Repository? · · Score: 1

    Yes, CPAN has a pile of stuff. Now go to their web site, find the Gtk-Perl module, and figure out how to download it. Something about the arrangement tends to make me look at everything by a particular author...

  19. Re:ARRRRGH! on The Rare Glitch Project · · Score: 1

    SNL said they wouldn't do a Blair Witch takeoff, then proceeded to do something kind of unrelated in the same style.

  20. Re:wow, sounds nice on VDSL Demoed · · Score: 1

    If you didn't see length mentioned, look for the word "short". It's mentioned.

  21. More beer! on SlugBot, the Slug-Powered Slug-Hunting Robot · · Score: 1
    Obviously the bin which the slugs are dropped into should be at ground level, with beer in it. Not only will the charger attract slugs in the vicinity, this also is a way to gather more slugs to charge the robot when the robot can't be charged due to a slug shortage. Okay, so there usually would be an external electrical feed to the charger..but may as well design it to have feedback which tends to increase the charge when there are more slugs.

    Now what's needed is a recipe for beer made from slugs which also attracts slugs...and you thought the slug fermentation was only to generate gas.

  22. Salt Poisoning on SlugBot, the Slug-Powered Slug-Hunting Robot · · Score: 1

    Actually, a farmer won't put salt on his field because that poisons the dirt and eventually nothing would grow. On the bright side, there won't be any slugs in that desert either.

  23. It's Only Natural on HIV Gene Offers Potential Cancer Cure · · Score: 2
    Socrates died after drinking a natural tea.

    Nightshade and other poisonous plants are common agricultural weeds. Fortunately farmers get rid of them one way or the other.

  24. Re:Prior Art claim on Popular (& Common Sense) Y2k Fix Patented · · Score: 2

    An Airbus A320 can be told what year to extend the flaps? I thought that airplane was faster than that.

  25. Re:Where Oil _is_ from. on Oil Isn't from Dinosaurs & Other Iconoclasms · · Score: 1
    If it were from decayed life forms, it would have to be mostly plants. There is much more plant matter rotting...as you'd know if you ever lived near a swamp or watched excavation in one.

    So some of that stuff may become coal, oil shale, or a form of oil. But what about the much larger amount of carbon which got sucked under the crust? Both plant-derived and hydrate carbons end up in the crust.

    Gold's theory takes it a step further and says that there's even more carbon than this still migrating in the deep crust. The oil we know of is only a trickle. This also helps explain why hydrates are all over the deep ocean...

    Gold's own web pages summarize several items very well. The book must be quite an impressive collection of items.