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  1. Unfair distinctions on ESRB Changes Oblivion's Rating to 'Mature' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is the ESRB now adjusting a games rating based on post-release modifications? Have you seen what topless Oblivion is like? You have to be pretty desperate to get off on those lumpy misshapen breasts.

    And, since they have started this crusade, why hasn't the Sims 2 been pulled and modded Adults Only yet? That has far more explicit mods and in-your-face sexuality. Hell, the only way to get ahead in that game is to have sex, and that only gets a Teen rating still?

    If the ESRB is going to keep pulling this, all game makers should just slap Adults Only labels on their games and let the parents figure out which ones are safe for their kids, like they are supposed to be doing in the first place.

  2. Re:Highly suspectful site. Do NOT give any detail on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Seems to be listed quite prominently and thoroughly at aws.amazon.com.
    I don't know what the deal is with the dodgy looking registration but
    that doesn't all look like part of a phishing site to me.

  3. Re:Doens't appear to have ALSA yet ... on New Red Hat Linux Beta: Severn · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can already confirm this based on constant Rawhide monitoring. There is no ALSA. None, nada, zilch.
    If you really want it, grab a test 2.6 kernel.. even a RedHat one maybe and install the ALSA libs yourself or from freshrpms. You won't have to worry about modules suddenly breaking (much) as RedHat has
    already had the forsight to include the 2.5 modutils code. You can flip between kernel versions with RedHats modutils package installed without difficulty. I know, I've done it.

  4. Re:slight correction... on New Red Hat Linux Beta: Severn · · Score: 1

    Umm, no.. according to the releases notes and the files in the beta directory, GCC 3.3 is the standard. GCC 3.2 is ALSO available. Learn to read.

  5. Re:Stupid question on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 1

    Umm, this really isn't any different then source rpms. Customize an /etc/rpmc and /etc/rpm/macros then rebuild whatever rpm's you like from scratch.

    I go the extra step of modifying spec files to suite my personal needs but that isn't always needed.

    It's a bit more work, but Gentoo is hardly unique.
    95% of my system has been compiled from scratch using redhat srpms. Rawhide is too slow to update things for me sometimes as well, so I just download the newest tarball, update the specfile and I'm all set.

  6. Stay really up-to-date with RedHat on Red Hat 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    And use Rawhide! They update once or twice a month. So just rsync every other week for
    maximum efficiency and update! I've only ever had one bad experience with running rawhide. And that was when they switched to using the iproute2 tools and I didn't have the kernel setup to use them so lost networking for about a day before I figured out what the hell was wrong.

    Just make sure you backup your /etc/ dirs and anything else of importance as occasionally
    they will clobber over your config files, but they are generally pretty good about making
    an .rpmsave or .rpmnew version.