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  1. Re:Coming soon... on Grow Your Own Replacement Bones · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mods: this may not be a funny post ... it reminds me of this vampire girl at my school. She filed her teeth into fangs. I can only imagine my high school after these body modifications become more cosmetic than anything else....i mean a third of the girls had fake stuff already.

  2. Re:So Many Things wrong with this Picture on SCO Spreads Rumors About IBM Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Informative

    That makes scox current price attractive for short sale. currently my message from etrade is that they can't find any shares to borrow:
    Your sell short order cannot be processed. Short sales in this security are not allowed, as we were unable to borrow the shares.
    hmmm the market isn't as entirely clueless as most of us think.

  3. Re:Yes, we've heard of it. on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    while were on this thread you have to view carrots handbags cheese for a rather delightfull yet annoying ditty.

  4. Re:Red Hat is still priced for perfection on Red Hat Vs. The Lawyers · · Score: 1

    What's really funny is that i am short on rhat because of some speculation that the p/e was waaaay to high. I thought i'd make like 10-20% quick, but then all this other stuff started happening. It kind of makes me happy, or at least serendipitous.

  5. Re:For the second? third? time? on Is Dell Just Testing the Market? · · Score: 1

    I guess hp is pitching mandrake now as well. It was a surprise to me to see that. I thought that they were going to preload suse, but I guess i'm out of the loop.

  6. Re:Doesn't mean people are happy with it... on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 1

    hmmm I wonder how that works. I've had no trouble on my mac ever copying cd's. I usually just use cat. As in cat /dev/disk1 >> /User/..../file.iso ( i usually umount the cd first though). and then burn the iso. Has worked every time for me. I do the same thing with dvds, but the macrovision kicks in if i just use the dvd player that comes with osx. so i just use mplayer, which handles it fine.

  7. the link for his email on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 1

    has BUTNOSPAM in it in the link he provided, but the link from his username doesn't. hmmm that sounds less effective.

  8. Re:Unresolved bugs. on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interestingly it does OO is great in a homogenous environment. I work at a large size corporation (5000+) that has just switched EVERYONE to OO. there have been some glitches moving things over, but most of them had to do with excel file macros etc. Now that it is very uncommon to recieve a .doc,ppt, etc file from anyone inside the company, I just don't think about the MS software anymore. All it takes is for someone higher up to have a little vision and a reason to control expenses, and this could be your company soon.

  9. Re:Are they hiring? on Novell Makes More Open Source Moves · · Score: 1

    I had to laugh a little as i read this....not because it was funny, but because I was ironically reading this post at Novell in Provo on my G5 because my XP machine was having issues and my Suse machine was set up so nicely that i lent it to my team to be used at brainshare today. I am now thinking of using the G5 (usually just test with it for compatibility issues) as my main machine. (OS X by the way...if i didn't need to test with it.... it would be debian or yelllowdog)

  10. Re:sad day on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    is it really that sad? I'm an American, but I'm also just another human on the earth. National borders will come to mean less and less in coming years, and the global villiage will become more of a reality. I'm not saying that anyone should abandon his/her heritage and become bland, only that the American dream was a dream (in some cases became a reality) of our grandfathers, and the new dreams should be a little more open. It's still a dangerous world, but America is part of that anyway, so what does it matter where you are, as long as you can have the quality of life that you're after?
    well I guess that a little preachy... I'll just go back to emailing my Indian counterpart now about how to use the software tools i sent him.

  11. Re:Is it just me... on Utah Leads the Way Toward RFID Privacy Legislation · · Score: 1

    As another mormon in utah I think that some of that knee jerk reaction is fully justified. I think that most Utah natives are "peculiar" if you know what i mean. I kind of take pride in the fact that we're a little backward from what most of the rest of the US is like. Sometimes it is the strange ideas that make the most sense, given enough time, and other times they are still strange.

  12. Re:Those Dumb Chairs on Last Great Internet Bubble Auction · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not how i got one ... I just waited for the next round of layoffs, and took one from the corner office.

  13. Re:Scooby Snacks: Think of the butter on SCOoby Snacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ask novell

    well you know Novell and SCO do share a lot of stuff. For example look at the five reasons link on thescogroup.com and then look at
    this

    shared corporate clip art it would seem.

  14. The SCO Group Exchanges Series A Convertible Prefe on SCO Adds Copyright Claim to IBM Suit · · Score: 1

    I know this is slashdot, but is there anyone out there that can explain what this article is saying in moron english? (my vernacular)

  15. Re:slashdoted... on Inside Microsoft's New Digital Photo Project · · Score: 1

    then what was the tag at the bottom : "
    Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573 " all about ? I've never used asp | .net so I really don't know

  16. Re:For the do it yourselfer on Creating A Super-Router (For Free) · · Score: 1

    somebody have a mirror, or text of the seattle wirless link. I think we killed 'em. I kind of feel bad about being a part of their servers demise, but in a satisfying way.

  17. Why use HDTV at all? on What's the Point of Building a Home Theater PC? · · Score: 1

    I have a friend with a good projector monitor for all his entertainment needs. I think that looks like the right way to go if I was going to get a better tv. Of course I'm sure that someone here can point out some technical merits to owning a HDTV

  18. Re:Cha ching? on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    fan that.... just build a better mousetrap. SMTP shouldn't be hard to beat. If you tie together a couple of productivity tools like email/calendar/im/perhaps a file sharing tool and build that over a common secure protocol, i would use and request that my friends join me. It might take a while to catch on or may never catch on, but sometimes good does win (even though it is dumb).

  19. Re:Well yes actually think about it. on A Linux Machine For Your Collar · · Score: 1

    yeah.... that could be the *new* pocket protector. A sure sign that u r a virgin

  20. Re:When all is said and done on Linus Speaks Out, Calls SCO 'Cornered Rat' · · Score: 1

    Unfourtunately I have to concur. I wish I had a great tan and a golden parachute too.

    ps - there are several great reasons for men to have nipples, but I can't think of any reasons that are not erotic.

  21. Re:"Last week at Defcon" on 15-Mile Wi-Fi Shot At 4 Mbps Up and Down · · Score: 1

    well I'm sure that relative to .... well i guess probably there's no way an object could be traveling 18x the speed of light away from the shuttle. Nevermind

  22. Re:Been there... on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Dude.....this is great stuff. I've actually done a little bit of this, only I found that it was much easier to modify (or just outright use) gpl hud than writing something brand new. 9/10 programs that anyone thinks of already have 3 or 4 implementations on freshmeat. You might as well use the "free" weed... or beer or whatever Stallman said it was.

  23. Actually on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    Novell is in Provo....used to be in orem, but now it's in Provo.
    Also... the Deseret News is the absolute worst place to get real news. I
    delivered that paper when i was 14, and I happened to know some of the writers.
    They are BARELY literate people in some cases. Of course the problem
    here will be that the Judge is most likely a reader of the Deseret
    News when he goes home at night to his wife(ves)and 6 children.

  24. Re:Who needs them? on Verisign Certificate Expiration Causes Multiple Problems · · Score: 5, Insightful

    unless your an average user who doesn't read certificates anyway, and will just click yes on pretty much everything

  25. Re:My bet on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    along those same lines there is a
    job opening at Novell currently that reads in part:
    The Integrated Linux Desktop combines SUSE, the
    Ximian desktop (XD2), the Open Office suite,
    the Evolution Client, plus a host of clients
    for traditional Novell services, such
    as iPrint, iFolder, Messenger, GroupWise, and
    others. It will be managed through a
    combination of Red Carpet and Zen for
    Desktops technology. The desktop product will
    release twice a year beginning in June 2004.

    perhaps IBM will trade up a little in June or the end of the year release.