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  1. see my earlyer post. on German Free Software Group asks Gov't Say No to MS · · Score: 1

    that is look here
    nmarshall
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  2. Link to FFII on German Free Software Group asks Gov't Say No to MS · · Score: 2

    here is a link to FFII
    and the Open Letter it's not too long and a good read.

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
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  3. Re:I don't know how far I'm straying off of topic on The Onion on Robots · · Score: 1

    i bet there are more that feel the same.
    that most of the "work" we do, it just to keep us bizy. so that we can justify our lifes and so we dont start to wonder why life sucks so much. IMHO we are moving to a world that needs less "work" done by humans. for example the internet seems to be replacing alot of jobs, like bank tellers, and car sales men, etc...
    hmmm, better stop ranting and get back to "work"...

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  4. worked for me... on Ask Slashdot: Linux and IDE CD-ROM Changers · · Score: 1

    ...i have a 4 slot IDE CD_ROM, to get it working i read some of the doc/cdrom, somewhere there is c program in the doc's that lets you change cd slot.
    i had a bash sript that would ask me which slot to change to (used xmessage ). guess it's time to go and hack gnomes cd_mount_app to change cd slots...


    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  5. What Problems? on On Red Hat Bashing... · · Score: 1

    ... have you had with RedHat6.0?
    so far it's been the fine for me. ( other then geting my ppp up NOW there's something that could use some work!!)

    i just whated to know what problems others are having cause im about to lend my CD to a friend new to linux. and dont want him scared off...

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  6. more on bob wilson and bucky fuller on Review:Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, + Mysticism · · Score: 1

    first this is wilson's site.
    and for more on R. Buckminster Fuller
    also bob wilson's The Illuminati Papers explains Quantum physics, etc in easy to digest terms...
    PBS.org has some info. on bucky. ( try seaching for "Buckminster Fuller" )
    wish i had more time to write but i should be working...

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  7. Re:Back to your old game on Deep Magic: Matrix, Menace and Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    "Deep Hack Mode" can be thought of as a diffrent state of consciousness. as VR can too; now they both differ. just as drunken consciousness differs, and lsd consciousness differs.

    i as far as i know none of these states of consciousness exist anywhere, other then in your head. but ask an lsd triper if she, perceives herself "in" the same space as she was before she droped asid. then ask someone who has just played a VR game, where have they been...

    in my experance, both will tell you they have been to other worlds and seen "some werd shit".

    while the hacker in "Deep Hack Mode" doesnt perceive himself as going anywhere he does some times forgets just how he programmed, or maybe it's who the fdisk wrote this code, not i cause __fill in the blank__ . its the change in consciousness that is the diff.

    well, anyway like most of my rants i have lost myself and have work to do.
    but IMHO HERE or what is real and not, seems hard to tell but i do know that i can perceive things diffrently and i sometimes think this means more then where or why.


    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  8. look to the stars... on Cloned sheep shows signs of premature aging · · Score: 1

    ...yes you are right, the planet couldnt take it.
    but if you live FOREVER why not just take a trip to someother star? ie the problem of dieing could be fixed, after it is lets look for more! (problems to fix) anyway how meaningful is your or my life when we dont get to see but a little of Universe? i what to go crusing.. and look for some hot space chicks to fsck....

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  9. Re:Telsa Talkshow Wanted :) on Linux Expo Wrap Up · · Score: 1

    i too like her writes... but what would she write about for /. ?
    not technical stuff, maybe psychologcal that is:

    "...David Weeks' writing in the UK on eccentricity as a definable trait -- I learnt some stuff about this a few years ago, and it's amazing how many hackers share the traits he defines as shared by eccentrics."

    i for one would like to know more... wonder if she reads /.

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  10. Re:Mozilla is Extremely Slow on Mozilla as GTK Widget · · Score: 1

    first Mozilla spits out debugging info so yea it is slow loading etc...
    but try some of the tests ie. Debug / ViewerDemos.
    now resize mozilla see how fast it is at rendering tables? also try some more tests.
    arent the css tests kewl? wouldnt it be nice to write webpages to spec. in that you would know they are rendered right.


    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  11. Where do i signup? on Cloned sheep shows signs of premature aging · · Score: 1

    ....Immortality doesnt scare me, just if people keep there up this insanity they call living. that scares me.

    ever note that most of the genral media gives little or no attention to immortality research? hell, the last star trek moivie tryed to explane why immortality hasnt happen was just sorry. im starting to think that most people would rather die then live, forever.

    anyone have an ideas one why the commen WoMan, doesnt give a damn about immortality?

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  12. no, John uses M$ word or make M$-HTML on "Trekkies" the Movie: The Other Force · · Score: 1

    no, John uses M$ word or make M$-HTML.
    now does this mean that John is werking for M$ no, just that he must not care that he is making BAD HTML, cause there could be no way he wouldnt know that MOST M$ software isnt freindly to non-M$ software, and write for /.

    Now John is it that hard to use someother software? or at lest use the DEMORONISER. now dont get me wrong i like John, well, most of the time... but this M$-HTML is a bad thing. well time to get some work done...

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  13. none, he rolled his own... on "Trekkies" the Movie: The Other Force · · Score: 1

    there is nothing here of intrest...
    see subject...
    end of message.

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  14. Discordian Moderation... on Getting Paid to Write Open Source Code · · Score: 1

    after seeing a score 5 post listed as troll, it looks like the good goddess eris is afoot... or there are bugs to kill.

    makes me smile and laugh... this is almost as funny as this post by a AC, then read the Deliciously recursive reply...

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  15. YOU can't handle the Source... on Slashdot Notes · · Score: 0

    sorry i just had to say it once.
    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  16. a question? was (Re:Abnoxious Politicians) on New York Times profiles John Romero & John Carmack · · Score: 1

    hmm, werd...
    why do these "Parents" HAVE to work so much that they dont have the time to spend with there children?
    what "good" is all this technolgy if you never have time to use it?

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  17. Re:I'd much rather see kids play Quake after schoo on New York Times profiles John Romero & John Carmack · · Score: 1

    but "Starsiege: Tribes" is sooo much more fun. well, only if your team works with you. and Tribes helps with learning to work as a team and teachs how to take orders and give them.


    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  18. maybe, maybe not.... on Review:The Control Revolution · · Score: 1

    IMHO those with "room-temperature-IQ's" do use the net. ever heard of ICQ or IRC? not to said that your use of ICQ or IRC adds to the IQ shortage... but that most of the chat seems to be, a con to get out of making oneself smarter, or: "...increases ability to learn and hopefully perceived intelligence..." maybe by some small chance those with "room-temperature-IQ's", witch can be most of us some of the time, will come to use the net, to use their minds.

    now on control, in my exparance most, dislike others controling them, but they are content cause if they took responsibility they would have to learn how to "...increases ability to learn and hopefully perceived intelligence..." now that seems like HARD WORK. and most have learnt to dislike HARD WORK cause they think that work has to be boring.

    the funny thing about all this, the net seems to make things more open, ie i found linux without anyone telling me about it, ( i had whated to learn how to program and found gnu tools ), in the past i wouldn't have heard of linux. cause in the net there is info on most anything, ie the more i know the more my is IQ.

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  19. maybe... on Review:The Control Revolution · · Score: 1

    but then you can do somethings that will counter said control.

    ie PGP, dont use M$ word, or pentiumIII.

    in the end, computers could make it so that a smart user can't be controled...
    or make us all live in a software prison.
    (witch shouldnt be worst them the cash prison, we live in now, other then it would be easyer to lose . )

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  20. Re:What is your fascination with Pynchon on Salon Interview with Neal Stephenson · · Score: 1

    run. to somewhere that you can get "the Crying of Lot 49". or look in a libary... it's IMHO his best book. but it too short not 200pages. it's like illumiatus but easyer to read / grok.

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  21. Re:`Novel' way to avoid export controls? on Salon Interview with Neal Stephenson · · Score: 1

    i like it.
    but one question...
    how has the time to keystroke all 900pages it in?
    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  22. Re:This is a tad insane... on Quake3 to go SMP · · Score: 1

    the *needing* of 3d acceleration can hardly be scary. how else would one have a fast, good '3d' graphics? and yes one day you will *need* multiple processors to play games but then it's been that games that have made the pc market. that is you dont *need* a super fast comupter if all you are doing is webbrowsing and wordshiting^H^H^H^Hprossecesing [sp]. it's been the games that have pushed the pc's to be better and faster ( well, m$'s bad code too but that altogether diffrent).

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  23. a nice interview... on Salon Interview with Neal Stephenson · · Score: 1

    ...but i would have liked more quotes from neal and less talk. but this 'interveiw' does introduce one to what neal has been upto and does give some good background info. think i will fwd it to some non-techi friends; then maybe i can get them to try to touch a computer...
    but i know that no one but computer geeks and what-to-be-hackers-in-training will read his new book, i mean 900 pages that bigger then illuminatus and that some sex in it so most people could get something from it. ( but then illuminatus has nothing to do with computers, but somehow alot with geeky things )

    hmmm now how will i trick non-greek (we need a better term for this ) friends to read "In the Beginning was the Command Line." cause they ask questions that are answered there and i dont think i can put it as well. hmmm...

    well, time to get back to werk...

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  24. lug's... on Linux.com to go Live Tonight · · Score: 1

    hmmm doesn't tux.org have all the lug's listed? so why dont they (linux.com) just point to them? novalug and dclug have done a good job at building some content, and helping get the word out. hmmm think i better fwd this to the email list...


    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE

  25. Re:Classy prank on Star Wars Hack @ MIT · · Score: 1

    so true, classy prankers seem very rare theses days. too bad there aren't more pic's of it.
    but i really do like the treats that a nice touch. shows how much time they spent on planing this.

    nmarshall
    #include "standard_disclaimer.h"
    R.U. SIRIUS: THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE