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  1. Re:Call me ignorant if you like... on Open Source Limitations? · · Score: 1

    Exactly like Microsoft - except that it's not a fair comparison at all - Emeril doesn't illegally maintain his monopoly on the chef market which MS has been CONVICTED of doing. So, yes - just like those criminals.

  2. Re:Heh, not all the science was bad. on Review: Blade II - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    More importantly, it's the most common anti-coagulant used in the medical laboratory. Ever see a purple top tube? Guess what - that has EDTA in it.

  3. Re:Anyone know... on FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now · · Score: 1

    Excellent. Where is this handbook?

  4. Anyone know... on FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now · · Score: 1

    A good way to get it to dual boot the same way Win2k / Linux does? Specifically, one installs Linux and then lilo to it's own partition, uses dd to copy the first 512 bytes off the linux partition (naming it something like linuxboot.bin) and then adds a line to boot.ini like C:\BOOTSECT.LIN="Slackware Linux 8.0". This will cause Win2k to boot Linux, and since I already have that setup that way, I'd like to do the same with FreeBSD - but FreeBSD doesn't use lilo of course... Anyone have any ideas?

  5. Re:^H^H^H?? on FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now · · Score: 1

    It means Backspace.

  6. Link is bad on FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now · · Score: 1

    It takes you back to the earthstation1 homepage...

  7. Who cares that it's Ugly? on Off-The-Rack Liquid-Cooled PC Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't - I want to run a 2 CPU athalon system as a server for my website, and knowing that it's not going to croak like that one on Tom's Hardware is very important to me. I may just have to get one of these.

  8. What license? on The LSB Delivers Again · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wasn't there a problem with LSB that prevented Debian from using it? Was that ever resolved?

  9. Re:Man, you're kidding right? on Microsoft Appeals Anti-Trust to Supreme Court · · Score: 2, Troll

    You and I are no different in this respect - the machine I got for my wife for $650 would have cost me much more to build - it had quality components, the only thing I had to add was a DVD (it came with a burner) and the Sound Blaster 5.1 Platinum I had got her. The rest of it was all good components, like the Intel Management Pro/100 Adapter (eepro100) and a GeForce 256.

  10. Sigh... /.'d already on Aeron Chairs As Stupidity Barometers · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The second link is already unreachable.

  11. Re:Man, you're kidding right? on Microsoft Appeals Anti-Trust to Supreme Court · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I used to. Then I found a machine on pricewatch that was both less expensive and better than the one I had just built. That pretty much ended the days of building my own machines. :-)

    The real kicker? My wife has the less expensive machine and I have the three I built. :-)

  12. Man, you're kidding right? on Microsoft Appeals Anti-Trust to Supreme Court · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny, the last time I looked, they don't advertise raw machines anymore. In fact, that is what I went there looking for not 3 months ago, and was presented with two choices: Win and Mac. I couldn't even find LINUX machines on their site anylonger. I suppose it's possible that I simply had an aneurysm and wasn't reading what I was looking at correctly, but it sure seemed that OS-less machines were not listed anylonger.

    <Vlad goes and looks>

    Yep! Here's what currently listed on the page for choices:
    Systems
    PC - Windows
    PC - Apple
    PC - Kits
    Notebooks
    Hand Held
    Hand Held Accessories
    Servers
    Server Accessories

    NOTE: You can get a Windows Machine, an Apple, or an unassembled incomplete kit. OS-less machines no longer an option.

    Gee, I wonder if this had anything to do with the recient rash of MS threatening people who sell PC's without operating systems?

  13. It's worse than you think on Microsoft Appeals Anti-Trust to Supreme Court · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And lets face the fact: If one of them DOES keel over, or retire (as Sandra Day O'Connor reportedly says she wants to) they are likely to be replaced by someone FAR FAR more scary. Think about this: Bush is like Rush Limbaugh - only FAR more stupid. Who do you think he's going to try and appoint to the court???

    By the way - is anyone else seeing "Invalid form key GvORsfGrvV !" every damn time they try to submit something? Hey Rob! Fix the damn site please!

  14. Re:More than half way. on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    Wow. While I agree that GF II was an Excellent movie, I have a hard time saying it was better than the first one.

    Superman II and St:2,3 and 5 I'll concede however were better.

    Still, it's few and far between that sequels don't disapoint. Can we agree on that? :-)

  15. Re:More than half way. on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    I don't agree. Alien was a better suspense move than Aliens was. Aliens was a better action move than Alien was. Same universe, but a bit like comparing Apples to Oranges. I'd call them equal in that regard.

  16. The best part? Even CNN readers think it sucks. on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check out the results from this poll over on CNN. Yep, even non geeks think it sucks ass, but about 2/3rds.

  17. Re:Attack of the..... on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    What will Star Wars III be called?!?

    "Plan Mine from Outa yer wallet".

  18. More than half way. on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 2

    The books are, in fact, considered cannon. As such, perhaps after he croaks, we'll see something made from them. Not before however, if we are to believe what Lucas himself reportedly said during the making of Ep I, which was that he was stoping at 6 since he didn't want to do Star Wars for the rest of his life. He decided to make it a story about Vader from the time he was a boy until his death. Shrug They've all sucked ass after the second one, which is the only sequel ever to be as good and better than the first movie.

  19. Re:For the opposite perspective: on Roasting Sacred Cows · · Score: 1

    Nah. The trolls all work for me. Adequacy is for real.

  20. Actually, you're wrong too on Windows XP To Block Use Of "Troublesome" Drivers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to the The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty the correct terminology is derived from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Prefixes for binary multiples. So as you can see, the correct term would actually be one mebibyte (1 MiB = 220 B = 1 048 576 B). It is suggested that in English, the first syllable of the name of the binary-multiple prefix should be pronounced in the same way as the first syllable of the name of the corresponding SI prefix, and that the second syllable should be pronounced as "bee."

  21. So... on Nintendo Announces Gamecube Launch Numbers · · Score: 2

    How long before there is a version of Linux for the Gamecube? Anyone have any hardware specs?


    Geekizoid: The Small Shiny Things Network ©!

  22. Corrected link on Genesis Mission - Search For Origins · · Score: 1

    The correct link as some have no doubt figured is http://www.genesismission.org/ not .com. :-)


    Geekizoid: The Small Shiny Things Network ©!

  23. Re:Napster is dead. Hurah! Now get over it. on Napster Licenses "Acoustic Fingerprinting" · · Score: 1

    That was the old hosting service. We're on a new one now. ;-)

    Fawking Trolls!

  24. Napster is dead. Hurah! Now get over it. on Napster Licenses "Acoustic Fingerprinting" · · Score: 1

    Really, you didn't think the entire music industy was going to let you steal from then forever did you? In the wise words of Marshal Mathers III, "Napster is bullshit."

    Fawking Trolls!

  25. Hypocrits! on Napster Going Offshore? · · Score: 1

    In which case you must admit, the Australians, the English and the French shouldn't have been there either. In FACT, it's really all the Frenchies fault - we vowed to give Vietnam back to the Vietnameese for their assistance during World War II, and never did - why? Because the French asserted it was theirs and they'd do what they damn well pleased with it. So don't get on our case for something we had to get into because of obligations to our allies - unless you want us to forget about England the next time she needs our help, which wouldn't bother me in the slightest. "British Empire" indeed.

    Fawking Trolls!