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  1. Re:My floppy drive, ok. My hard drive, never. on PSX2 To Replace Your PC? · · Score: 1

    PSX2 includes one (if not two) PCMCIA slots. I don't see why one couldn't insert a PCMCIA Iomega Clik drive. It may be only 40mb, but it sure beats paying 10$ for a little 256k memory card.

  2. Re:One thing that Motif was getting right... on Death of CDE & Motif? · · Score: 1

    What you describe is IRIX's window manager called 4DWM. Indeed it does have nice drag and drop functionality. Motif has nothing do with that though.

  3. TV Commercial? on Red Hat Deserves Award for ... Most Awards? · · Score: 1

    The Winter holidays are coming shortly. Isn't it about time for a professionaly produced heart warming commercial from "The Internet" about the virtues of Linux?

    Maybe something with a wide variety of ethnicities from around the world running Red Hat Linux?

    It would be beautiful!

    -- Torment

  4. Re:Wrong approach on DVD Situation Takes New Turn · · Score: 1

    I dissagree. Making the software available for people outside the UK or US, where these arcane copyright laws do not exist is the purpose. Just because the UK says it's illegal doesn't necessarily mean that it's illegal in Canada for example.

    Maybe someone in a more enlightened country will take up maintenance of this software.

  5. Still waiting... on VDSL Demoed · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna have to wait for the VVDSL!

  6. I agree, but you can take a Palm Pilot :) on The Rise of Technology / The Fall of Trees? · · Score: 1

    Just dump (no pun intended :) to your Palm Pilot, and you can have all sorts of stuff to read on the can...

  7. RealVideo of ICMB on The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle · · Score: 1
    Boeing has a really cool Real Video of this thing in action (kinda), you should check it out if you have the Real Video plugin working...

    Exoatmosph eric Kill Vehicle - Boeing in Motion 98

  8. GPL on Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important? · · Score: 1

    Linux is where it is today because of the GPL. If you undermine the power of the GPL, you have weakened Linux and the community.

  9. Well fix it then! on Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important? · · Score: 1

    Linux is where it is today because of the GPL. If you undermine the power of the GPL, you have weakened Linux and the community.

  10. EH?! on Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important? · · Score: 1

    > KDE apps run perfectly on a GNOME desktop and
    > visa-versa.

    I just love running multiple widget sets concurently though, don't you? All that wonderful memory usage... Why won't everyone just use GTK+ ? It's completely GPL'd on all platforms. Just use it ok?

  11. Re:PUT AN END TO PUBLIC SCHOOLING! on Internet Tax Moratorium Over? · · Score: 1

    >And what do you base this crap on?

    Schools with 1600 students running around with kids packing guns.

  12. PUT AN END TO PUBLIC SCHOOLING! on Internet Tax Moratorium Over? · · Score: 1

    Close the public schools! They are horrible and detrimental to kids anyways! Private schooling baby!

  13. NO! Your dumb! on Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important? · · Score: 1

    Did I say anything about Win/QT ? NO! Whats wrong with just using GTK+? It's GPL'd throughout, that means that whatever platform it is ported to is GPL'd as well! (Win/GTK+!). If people would just write their apps in GTK+ we wouldn't have this stupid issue in the first place!

  14. Maybe not? on S.u.S.E 6.2 English released · · Score: 1

    I just looked at the XFree86.org page, they say if you want the latest stable release to grab the newest 3.3.x. I believe the pre-4.0 is their development tree.

  15. Where to get a b&w pinhole cam for $50? on Wal-Mart Sells Home Spy Gear · · Score: 1

    ???

  16. register.com whois / Helpful info on register.com on NSI Modifies "whois" Agreement · · Score: 1

    # whois yourdomain@whois.register.com

    word of warning about register.com -- They automatically have your MX (mail) records setup to send to their siteamerica.com email hosting "service" They want to charge some ungodly amount of money per year for this "service". Your not currently able to change your MX record with their web based administration tools (they tell me it's coming in a month or so!). So you have to email them. They say to expect a response within 48-72 hours, but are usually much quicker.

    I thought they weren't that great, but from what I'm hearing about NSI, they seem to be the lesser of two evils

  17. ACK on IBM Releases VisualAge for Linux Preview · · Score: 1

    That was one of the worst registration forms that I've seen in a while!

  18. Mount all disc's at once with /dev/changer on Ask Slashdot: Linux and IDE CD-ROM Changers · · Score: 3

    Yes, thats right, you too can mount all the discs in your cdrom changer at once with the /dev/changer device driver. There is a kernel patch available here for Linux kernel 2.2.9. Hopefully this driver will make it into a kernel source tree near you!

  19. Arkeia! on Ask Slashdot: >2GB Backup Software for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Check out Arkeia here.

  20. NT as well! on SGI open-sourcing XFS · · Score: 0

    Oh yeah baby

  21. Re:I did. It crashed on quake3 twice on Thompson Critical of Linux · · Score: 1

    HAHA your a FREQING IDIOT! OOhh boo hoo!! My Quake3 TEST (ALPHA SOFTWARE) crashed TWICE! It must be EVIL LINUX!! Freqing whining TROLL! Go home to your mommy!

  22. Linux is simply to muscular! on AOL Considers Linux? · · Score: 1

    ..."and even without the Windows licensing fee, a hardware company would still have to pay the relatively high prices for Intel chips, Jupiter's Card said."

    What?! They previously link the Empeg for a Linux based computer that runs on StrongARM chips and now it (Linux) only runs on Intel chips?!

    Come on people!

    Not only that, but the kernel is now running on the Motorolla Dragonball processor (used in the Palm Pilot lineup).

    People need to start checking their facts!

  23. Why should I care?? on Cringley predicts Microsoft Audio will triumph · · Score: 1

    But then you don't get CD Quality!! People only transmit 128kbs or better MP3's for a reason. If people wanted to spend a shorter amount of time for less quality they certainly can with MP3! But for CD Quality, this MS Audio 4.0 is pretty much the same file size. Why would you switch to a MS player that doesn't have the same nice interface as your favorite MP3 player? Thats why we have so many different MP3 players to choose from, BECAUSE MP3 is a open standard!

  24. Ummm... Duh! on SGI Name Change · · Score: 2

    The new logo was posted in the quickies a while ago... Here it is...

    http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+ PEND+3+950865+0+-1+-1+F+1+2+1+MS%2fSGI#Cgi Bottom

    I tried to put it in a real link but the Slash parser for some reason put a space after the "S" in "SGI"... Hmmm

  25. Printing tool on CDE vs Gnome · · Score: 1

    I told the author about the misinformation about the printing tool, there is a printing tool under the administration submenu in gnome.