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  1. Re:Maze on Slashback: Deception, Fusion, Membership · · Score: 2

    The light is coming from the maze side of the window.
    They have the way out of the light into the dark.

  2. Re:Check out this bullshit on Slashback: Deception, Fusion, Membership · · Score: 2

    Notice the light coming from the window.
    Come out of the light (of Unix) and into the darkness (of Microsoft Windows).

  3. Re:Not much happening today? on BBC interview with RMS · · Score: 2

    It's now showing "No web site is configured at this address."
    For as long as it takes them to get the site up using their "way out", it is news. Note also that due to the PR aspects, this has to be getting the best support Microsoft has to offer, far better than you or I would ever get if we needed it.

  4. Stupid Question on BBC interview with RMS · · Score: 2

    Did you get an answer?
    A binding (on Microsoft) answer?

  5. Re:IIS on March Netcraft survey · · Score: 2

    Internet Idiot's Server.
    For them what think they's smart for buying Microsoft.

    Beware of anyone richer than you who tells you that you're smart.

  6. Re:But will they throw crap at you? on Teoma Aims To Kill Google · · Score: 2

    Bah. I wish you weren't right.
    It also means that when push comes to shove, Microsoft Windows will never be stable or secure.

  7. Re:But will they throw crap at you? on Teoma Aims To Kill Google · · Score: 2

    What's fun is to watch it try to "correct" a numeric ip address.
    Maybe it's dumb so its users can congratulate themselves on how smart they are. I don't think I've ever seen it do anything actually useful.

  8. Re:What is the use of a high tech toilet? on Best High-Tech Toilet? · · Score: 2

    Gargantua and Pantagruel
    But, to conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs.

  9. Re:Fool! on Microsoft To Start Running Anti-Unix Ads · · Score: 2

    Smart, real smart.
    At least that's what Microsoft would have you believe.

  10. Re:Too Complicated on Preparing for the Worst in FreeBSD · · Score: 2

    BSD goes back at least to the 70's, but not readily available due to difficultities with ATT.

  11. Re:Corrective lenses make things worse on Monitors for People with Poor Eyesight? · · Score: 2

    He has mild myopia. There are two valid and opposite ways to treat the condition.
    One way is to use glasses to correct the myopia. Using these glasses while reading will increase the condition.
    The other way is to use glasses to increase the myopia. Using these glasses while reading will decrease the condition.
    Which one is right? Well .... they both are.

  12. Re:The reason you can't remove those components on Declawing Windows: Impossible? · · Score: 2

    Imagine Microsoft supporting Netscape 4.6 included in windows 98.
    ... warms the cockles of my heart.

  13. Re:Oh god, not again on Global Warming - From Inside the Globe · · Score: 2

    I don't see how anyone can deny that they have the ability to model the effects of each factor individually
    Ocean currents. In particular, what turns them on and turns them off.
    Does anyone have a model that explains the climatic changes that occurred when the Isthmus of Panama closed the gap between North and South America?

  14. Re:Noooooo! on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System · · Score: 2

    So that's how early NT4 could manage to trash a file that was read-only.

  15. Re:it was another story a few weeks ago on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System · · Score: 2

    Look at the XP ads and imagine your whole file system flying around the room.
    Advice to the victims. Backup early. Backup often.

  16. Re:One thing I don't understand on Eric Raymond: Why Open Source will Rule · · Score: 2

    Soon it will be time to buy another box of RedHat Professional Server.
    A nice box. Official CDs. No download hassles. The fact that everything I'm using is freely downloadable or cheaply from Cheapbytes adds to the value of the box. Whatever problems it might have will tend to be sorted out and fixed by or because of the "freeloaders".
    I don't see any problem with StarOffice and OpenOffice coexisting, even if feature set and file formats are identical and everything is binary interchangeable.

  17. You know it's only a matter of time on gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer? · · Score: 2

    when the best search tools for Microsoft errata are Linux based.
    (And /. seems to be the best early-warning system for Microsoft wormage.)

  18. Re:Linux apps need price tags! on gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer? · · Score: 2

    It's not the software, it's the box. The $200 box is fairly impressive. The price is reasonable, and it helps ensure that RedHat is still around next year and the year after.

  19. Re:And what about VA? on Gateway Testifies To Microsoft's OEM Treatment · · Score: 2

    It's always Microsoft's fault.
    One of the side effects of being a monopoly.

  20. Re:That's what I thought, too, but... on Gateway Testifies To Microsoft's OEM Treatment · · Score: 2

    There are far too many ways for Microsoft to retaliate without being obvious, without the victim even having more than a vague suspicion.

  21. Re:How is this NOT racketeering? on Gateway Testifies To Microsoft's OEM Treatment · · Score: 2

    It can play more subtle than that. A bit of documentation or information missing from the months-in-advance "engineering samples" with no way for the OEM to know that something is missing.

  22. Re:refactorable? on Spolsky Stands Firm on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 2

    I think the point to refactoring is to leave things a bit better than you found them. Slowly the code quality oozes from terrible to mediocre to good to excellent. It works well, but does not fit into the instant gratification scheme of things.

  23. Re:Greenhouse Gasses on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 2

    For close to 100% efficiency you need the heat sink close to absolute zero.
    maximum theoretical efficiency is something like (T-hot - T-cold) / T-hot with T measured from absolute zero. The problem is that your heat sink is too hot. Air is a gas not a solid.
    Somebody current in thermodynamics could give you a correct formula.

  24. Re:I wouldn't tak eGreenpeace's word for it. on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's an old tale that someone from the EPA wasn't satisfied with a pH of 7. He wouldn't be satisfied until they go the pH down all the way to zero.
    (7 is neutral. 14 is extreme alkalie, attainable. 0 is extreme acid, not attainable IIRC)

  25. Depends on where on Microsoft Kicks Playstation2 out of CeBit. · · Score: 2

    ***censored***