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  1. Code Deep Purple on Code Red Reporting That Doesn't Suck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Smoke on the water.

    Hacked by Metal Heads.

  2. I dropped windows on my desktop. on Dell Drops Linux on Desktops and Laptops · · Score: 1

    And haven't looked back. Linux rocks on the desktop, even my wife likes it.

  3. corporate citizen....not! on Under The Surface Of The BSA Anti-Piracy Campaign · · Score: 2

    "If you're contacted by the BSA and doing the right thing, you have nothing to worry about. So, why respond? You can and be a good corporate citizen. [But] there's no reason why you'd have to react to a letter like this." You can and be a good corporate citizen. Excuse me I'm not a corporate citizen. I am a (insert country here) citizen. If the BSA contacts you ignore them. Don't even respond, especially if the letter is send via normal mail. If it is send via registered mail (which I doubt they do), then leave the country quickly. I heard Canada is nice this time of year.

  4. DirectTVDSL. on What Makes You "High Risk" For SPAM? · · Score: 1

    Formerly Telocity.

    They seem to harvest from their clients email accounts. I run my own server (not on their network) and found I was getting the same spam to both my personal accounts and my this is for spam account all because I accidently sent an email from one to the other.

    Bad, bad, bad.

  5. Re:Just use your own relay. on Verizon Email Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Cutting a deal to use a Businesses DSL to host:Free
    Gently Used Pentium II: Free
    Linux: Free
    Qmail: Free

    Uncensored email: Forever

  6. Re:Usability study for Windows. on GNOME Usability Study Report · · Score: 1

    Do you philosophize about post-modern rationalism every day? Do you speak russian (or another non-native language) everyday? Have you ever called another car driver an idiot? I thought so. I work everyday with people who are very smart, but do really stupid things when it comes to computers. I'm not engaging in de-humanizing rhetoric or digital apartheid as you would believe.

  7. Usability study for Windows. on GNOME Usability Study Report · · Score: 2

    "Why do I need to press start to shutdown."

    "What is the any key?"

    "What does Fatal Exception in ... mean?"

    "Press yes if you want to reboot."

    "No, I didn't send you that email."

    "Die clipply die."

    "Click on this, right click on that, double click there, oops sorry press back."

    "Why am I out of memory, I'm not running anything."

    Users are dumb no matter what the OS.

  8. Re:Where? on Monitor's Engine Raised From Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Read the article and it will tell you. There was also a PBS (nova?) documentry about the team that raised the propeller. Just saw it the other day. I had always thought that their was only 2 iron clads, the PBS show said there were something like 60 of the monitor class built with pictures of some really big ones. Very interesting and how did I miss that in high school history class (oh yea...zzzzzzzzzzzz).

  9. Where did you buy this scanner at taco? on Why Linux Won't Ever Be Mainstream · · Score: 2

    Don't they have a return policy? Seems to me if it doesn't work return it. Much better than FUD about how Linux will never be accepted by the masses.

  10. Re:When the Moon eclipses the Sun... on Moon Hides Venus Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Not only can't you see Venus when the Moon eclipses it, but you can't see Venus period since it occurs in the middle of the afternoon for all the US.

  11. A fix for the shower curtan mystery. on Solving the Great Shower Curtain Mystery · · Score: 1

    Just add a water filter. It reduces the flow enough to remove the hurricane affect and removes clorine at the same time.

  12. Internet2....I'd be happy with a T1. on Internet2 Update · · Score: 1

    Yea, like this really matters to the typical non-university internet user beholden to the corporate idiots who seek to limit the bandwidth we use and maximize their profit.

  13. Wrong. on Porting OpenOffice To OSX · · Score: 1

    Office 2002 does not run on OS X it runs on OS 9.1 or whatever that emulation layer is called. OpenOffice will be a true OS X application.

  14. Re:colocation on Outsourcing Email For An Entire Domain? · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like the only reason you haven't done it is because you don't know how.

    Questions 1 and 2's answers are. I don't backup email accounts, that is the users responsiblity, hardware breaks...don't mail your box to timbuktu for colocation.

    Question 3 is nonsense. How often do you reboot a Linux or BSD box? Mainly kernel upgrades, but even then I have yet to see a remotely exploitable kernel bug so I don't upgrade my kernels very often, especially if the box is stable.

    Oh yes, don't try this with sendmail.

  15. colocation on Outsourcing Email For An Entire Domain? · · Score: 2

    Forget the hosting companies where you pay large fees for part of a server. Find a colocation company where you can put a box and do what you want. A lot of them will even let you use them as secondary dns so you can control the dns updates.

  16. Meanwhile@the atty generals office. on Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000 · · Score: 1

    Ga Attorney General: Whatya listening to Fred. Deputy Ga Atty General: Rush, this internet is cool. Ga Atty General: Yea, Rush is so right. Deputy Ga Atty General: I'm with ya.

  17. Re:SGI at 1.14 ... on End Of reality For Silicon Graphics · · Score: 1

    To bad, I could have told them that there isn't any money in NT unless your microsoft.

  18. Re:Linux firms - use this in ads! on Microsoft Delays New Licensing Terms · · Score: 1

    I was reading some trash business rag the other day while sitting on the john and came across a Microsoft ad. No, I didn't use it in place of toilet paper...although I should have, instead I read it. 14 ecommerace sites and 79 servers is what it said in a green box in the upper left corner. A picture of some guy playing with a slinky took up most of the page. Now what is this ad trying to say? Well the best I could come up with is that it takes at least 5 servers to run 1 ecommerece website on w2k and that that the only people you can get to run those survers are bubble gum chewing, slinky playing kids. Microsoft is their own worst enemy.

  19. Re:/. pop-ups on Public Outcry Over Popup Ads · · Score: 1

    Ah, backticks and escape sequences. It can't be good, I would suggest you try it first.

  20. /. pop-ups on Public Outcry Over Popup Ads · · Score: 2

    Everytime I start my browser up pops /. How do I stop this? Help.

  21. Lawers web site. on Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand · · Score: 1

    Running Apache on Linux. Web site was designed in (you guessed it) Adobe Go Live. Stupid lawyers, bad bad bad.

  22. Re:Another secret XP feature. on Embracing Digital Photography · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention, I couldn't continue without entering a credit card number. I tired and invalid one and my computer crashed with the XP beta being trashed in the process.

  23. Another secret XP feature. on Embracing Digital Photography · · Score: 1

    I was fiddling around with my new XP beta and accidently set the year to 2003. Now evertime it starts it asks if I want it to check for a new version of Windows and includes a space to enter a credit card number. WFT!

  24. Re:Best MTA -- QMAIL on Postfix · · Score: 1

    I read the opposite, has far as postfix being 3 times faster, I saw no supporting evidence at the site to prove that postfix was any faster. As far as DJB's behavior, I see no attitude, only truth and well thought out opinion. He doesn't just come out and say something sucks, he says it and proves it. Ever heard of a root hole in POP3 or IMAP? Yes. I figured you had.

    Qmail is the best.
    1. Easy configuration - Read LWQ
    2. Easy administration - Read LWQ
    3. Security. qmail doesn't seem have any root holes per bugtraq.
    4. Fast, proven by many large sites.
    5. Great support for those who ask well researched questions.
    6. Maildir (not mailbox) format much better than mbox. Usuable over NFS, non-blocking.

    I don't worry about my qmail servers. I sleep well at night knowing that they aren't going to break.

  25. Re:Spammers have rights? on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    Where did you go to school? Must have been in Germany in the 40's. Seig Heil boyo.