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  1. Re:Itanium on Will Intel Ship an x86-64bit Chip This Year? · · Score: 1

    No, It is a new arch (Intel Architexture, IA64) - That's one of the big deals about the AMD 64 bit chip, it is x86 compatible.

    Isn't that what I wrote?

  2. Re:Itanium on Will Intel Ship an x86-64bit Chip This Year? · · Score: 1

    the AMD chip? I'm pretty sure it does.

  3. Re:Itanium on Will Intel Ship an x86-64bit Chip This Year? · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, It is a new arch (Intel Architexture, IA64) - That's one of the big deals about the AMD 64 bit chip, it is x86 compatible.

  4. Re:You know what that means??? on No More Leap Second? · · Score: 1

    or just not pregnant!

  5. Re:Industry defense mechanism on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    Sorry I should have said after a couple months reading... and investigating.

    What? You really expect every SCO employee to come home after work and start poring over Groklaw for the night and spending hours...

    Or they could ask around. Grab an engineer they trust at SCO and ask them what they think. If the answer is that SCO code is in Linux, then fine.

    If I worked at SCO, I certainly would expect/deserve a better explanation than the letters and statements I've read from SCO's lawyers and management. Furthermore, it would be very important to find out, to the best of my knowledge WTF is going on, since my current and future employment almost certainly depend on it.

  6. Re:Industry defense mechanism on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? You think Sally the Office Manager , Stuart the HR assistant, etc. should bear the weight of dip-shits on the top floors who nose-dive a company (morally)?

    I think they should if they can't see that something *seriously* wrong is going on. Sometimes this is harder than others (probably Enron), but in the case of SCO, after a couple of months reading about the case, it should be apparent that there's some screwy shit going down.

  7. Re:Industry defense mechanism on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to be hired by someone that doesn't bother to look at the dates of your employment? If they don't know when the lawsuit started but pass you by anyway, think about other baseless decisions they might make while you are working with them.

  8. Re:A bit offtopic, but I need to vent on Konqueror Compiled For Mac OS X; KOffice Next · · Score: 1

    not only are you correct, it is the default choice.

  9. Re:Since when is Strained Silicon Secret? on Strained Silicon Chips From Intel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OT - Which book is your sig from?

  10. Re:The Last Goobye... on Best and Worst Books of 2003? · · Score: 1

    Dreamcatcher was *not* an exception. It was the most boring book about flatuence I've ever read!

  11. Re:and content by the corporations on Smart Billboards · · Score: 1

    Probably something like "Vote YES on the greenbelt".

  12. Re:The things people complain about X... on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 1

    I'm running gnome 2.4 and have a little app in my preferences menu that lets me change resolution on the fly. Back when I was running kernel 2.4.x and playing RTCW the game would change the resolution for me and back when I was done.

    And for the posters below... I'm not talking about virtual desktop space...

  13. Re:a Better headline would be on Expose Metacity With Expocity · · Score: 1

    rta...

    "expocity is an effort to integrate an efficient means of switching between applications into the window manager metacity, similar to Expose on Apple's OS-X."

  14. Re:Stupidity or Insanity? on Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The thought they put into that letter was... I want to express my anti-war on drugs opinion, but I don't want to paint a target on my forehead!

    I think it was very well thought out.

  15. Re:Linux support on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Removes Linux Support · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahem... shouldn't that be GNU/Linus?

  16. Re:Hey nice oss.. on SkyOS GUI Contest · · Score: 3, Informative

    oss...

    I don't think the skyos kernel is open.

  17. Re:Break in on Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does, since he entered. Your "peeping tom" analogy would only have worked if the guy was looking at material mistakenly put on public web sites.

    No, a public web site would be more like a banner over the front door advertising a birthday party.

    Thinking of a window as a "port", using shades would be kind of like closing and opening that port.

  18. Re:Even though I'm using Windows... on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    You're right. So just click Show Content and it won't ever show ever again. Or you could just uncheck the freaking box in Folder Options.

    I click this every time I relog in and I have the freaking box unchecked so I shouldn't see it at all. ;(

  19. Re:How do you improve? on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    I'm running 2K right now and I miss being able to log in more than one user at a time. Also I think the fonts are better.

  20. this site's gui on Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability · · Score: 1

    Kind of ironic that this site, "DevX.com - the know how behind development", looks completely broken in firebird. So much for its GUI.

    As long as freedesktop.org works out well it shouldn't matter which toolkit you use. This is where themes can come into play in a big way.

    Plus, a lot of windows apps i've used don't use MS toolkits but they still manage to integrate into the GUI (Desktop Environment).

  21. Re:Make that would hang at booting.... on Other Web Browsers for Bell Labs' Plan 9? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    grammar ;)

  22. Re:SCO has no strategy on Samba Team Points Out SCO's Hypocrisy · · Score: 1

    Though I agree a lot of people seem to think that *distribution* is implicitly through the internet, it seems to me that "a means whereby the user can request the source code from you, and that you will give the source when requested" is distribution.

  23. Re:You can do this already on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows · · Score: 1

    Recommended Update for Windows 2000 (822831)
    Download size: 243 KB
    Some driver installation programs don't work on Windows 2000 (W2K) after you install either Critical Update QFE 813044 or W2K Server SP4. The installation does not succeed and you receive an incorrect error that no drivers are available for the device. The %WINDIR%\Setupapi.log reports there are no compatible drivers for the device. After installation, you may have to restart your computer. Read more...

  24. Re:Wow on RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Against File Swappers · · Score: 1

    If you're coming from the mindset that you've been getting ripped off buying music since cd's first hit the shelves, then perhaps you can justify ripping them back.

    -

    I've seen many people pay incredible markups for music they own on vinyl and tape previously. So while many people are just stealing, there are others who are legit. like me ;)

  25. MSDN like service on Microsoft's Athens PC · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is unveiling a new approach to preventing hardware incompatibilities. It's launching a support network for hardware developers modeled on the support program it has long had for software developers.

    Wow I hope it's as disorganized and poorly designed as MSDN is. That would rock!