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  1. Re:Still no existence of a spell-checker... on The Treo 700p Confirmed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Definately!

  2. Re:Solution on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 1

    Shure ships 3 sizes of plugs with their earphones. You get 3 of each type--foam, soft silicon, and hard silicon.

  3. FreshAir interview on Synthesizer Pioneer Bob Moog Dies · · Score: 5, Informative

    Terry Gross interviewed Robert Moog back in 2000. The interview is available online here:

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=1113447

  4. Re:APT and RPM... on Progeny Ports Red Hat's Anaconda To Debian · · Score: 1

    This is a common misunderstanding. APT is not a packaging format. It is a front-end to managing installed packages. It supports DEBs on Debian and has been ported by Connectiva to provide support for RPMs on RPM based systems. You are using the Connectiva port with SuSE, so you can't install DEBs with it.

  5. Re:Sears is still 2nd, petronas is 3rd on Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1
    I was under the impression that 1 World Trade Center held the title for "Tip Height" due to the communication tower on top of the building. I seem to recall a news story that the Sears Tower just recently added an addition to its communications towers to eclipse the height WTC1 had held prior to its destruction. See here:

    Destroyed buildings diagram

    Tallest buildings diagram

  6. Correction of Correction... on Motorola To Release Linux and Java-based Phone/PDA · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have to follow the incorrect grammar in the story heading ("there's pictures"). So accordingly, it would be

    There was pictures.

  7. Re:I'll have to see the bandwidth tests first. on A Sound Server For X · · Score: 1

    Did you try it without the spectrum analyzer and scrolling text? I would imagine that XMMS is very bandwidth intensive because of its ultra-dynamic display.

  8. Re:The proliferation of video cameras. on SOHO Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    True--as far as I know only the French documentary crew happened to film the first plane hitting the tower. But within minutes of it happening, there were scores of cameras pointing at the disaster.

    So it would be reasonable to assume that any sort of a UFO event lasting more than just a brief instant would likely be captured by a number of cameras.

  9. XFree86 4.2.1 for Woody on MandrakeSoft Files for Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Did you update Woody to XFree86 v4.2.1? Try adding one of these to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (taken from http://www.apt-get.org):

    # (Verified) Xfree 4.2 for Woody (Added 2002-11-28, last checked 2003-1-15)
    deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386/ ./

    # (Verified) XFree86 4.2.1 backport (Added 2002-11-28, last checked 2003-1-15)
    deb http://people.fsn.hu/~pasztor/debian woody xfree

  10. Re:green bay packer stock on Could Mandrake Sell Stock To Users Who Love It? · · Score: 1

    $200 for a nice looking certificate to hang on your wall proclaiming you as a Packer shareholder and lifetime admittance to the annual shareholders' meeting at Lambeau Field during the summer. If you are a true Packer fan, it isn't a bad deal, even if it will never make you rich.

    I don't know if Mandrake's following is quite so loyal though.

  11. By continuing to innovate? on AOL vs. Microsoft in Desktop War? · · Score: 1

    By continuing to innovate, Microsoft is effectively phasing out the need for third party applications.

    Innovate? I think it should say integrate!

  12. Re:Failure of Free software on Mandrake 8.0 Comes Out · · Score: 1

    This is not a way to run a successful business in the long run.

    It depends on how you define "successful". Is Mandrake ever going to be a huge multi-billion dollar corporation? Probably not. Can they make enough money to fund themselves and their activities going forward and have a huge following of devoted users who love what they do? Most likely yes.

    I think most Mandrake users would consider the company very successful by the latter senario.

  13. Re:This is... on Silicon Graphics Will Put Linux On Origin · · Score: 1

    Thank ex-CEO and now Microsoft President & COO Rick Belluzzo for that one.

  14. Re:FYI on Silicon Graphics Will Put Linux On Origin · · Score: 2

    Actually, the whole "We are now SGI, not Silicon Graphics" thing was a policy from the much despised ex-CEO Rick Belluzzo. Bob Bishop, the current CEO, interchangeably refers to the company as Silicon Graphics and SGI.

  15. Re:Mandrake 8.0 beta is best for the home on Mandrake 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    My Mandrake 7.2 was up 74 days until shut it down last night to upgrade the CPU. It has been plenty stable with my hardware.

  16. Re:Debdrake on Stormix Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    While Mandrake itself is KDE2-biased with regard to its default desktop environment, the configuration tools are all written using gtk+.

  17. Re:Others on Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' Available On DVD! · · Score: 1

    Sorry, typo in the tag, it should link to here.

  18. Re:Others on Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' Available On DVD! · · Score: 1

    Tim Hunkin hosted The Secret Life of Machines, not James Burke. The videos are available here.

  19. Re:How to set up a Linux system for mothers... on Corel Looking To Sell Linux Operations? · · Score: 1

    I did a similar thing with my grandmother. She used to have Win95 installed, but was constantly messing up the system because she'd get lost in the interface and just start clicking on things or would try to 'fix' her problems by messing with stuff in the Control Panel.

    She now is running Mandrake 7.1 with a custom version of the IceWM that I configured. She can connect to the internet and check her mail and play her games card and mahjongg games, so she is happy. The interface was hardly different from that of Win95. Best of all, she can't mess things up because she doesn't have the root password and I can do remote administration from my home/work 100 miles away if need be. She's perfectly content and I'm happy not to be constantly having to make house calls on the weekends to fix her computer.

  20. Re:Ughh! on Xfce: Alternative to GNOME/KDE · · Score: 1

    > Why dont they just go ahead and call it XFeces.
    XFeces??? What a sh*tty name! ;-)

  21. Re:Not on any of the mirrors on Red Hat Linux 7 Released · · Score: 2

    > they sink every 24 hrs usually
    Hopefully this won't be a problem much longer, as VA Linux
    is reportedly working on a new line of airtight/waterproof
    servers.

  22. NewDeal for your 386SX on 1.6GHz Athlon Computers, Via Announces KT266 chips · · Score: 1

    If you haven't tried it already, download the NewDeal
    Office demo from NewDeal and give it a whirl.
    Amazing what it can do on a low-end machine! There is
    even a VNC viewer available to connect to your Linux box.

  23. Re:Tivo has a NIC well sort of on Thoughts On An Open TiVo · · Score: 1

    TiVo outputs an analog NTSC signal, so hooking
    the other end up to your computer via a cable
    modem is the same things as running a regular
    analog cable or antenna signal in. In other words,
    you still need a tuner to convert the analog
    signal into something that can be dislayed
    on your computer screen.

  24. Re:Sludgy..? on Neither Stable Nor Unstable: A Midrange Debian? · · Score: 4

    How about "`slushy' rather than frozen".

  25. Re:"complete architectural overhaul"??? on Intel Pentium 4 NetBurst Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    However, the sentence reads "THE company", not "A company".
    So contextually, the arguments against you are correct. :-)