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  1. Re:YMMV. Gentoo's easier for me on Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    Woody's install floppies had a shell on the alternate terminals, which was crippled beyond use. It took half an hour to figure out where the basic tools were (they weren't in $PATH) and that was all you had.
    In it's first incarnations, gentoo's livecd had a shell, which included SSH. If I was confused,
    ssh desktop
    BitchX irc.openprojects.net (it was called that at the time) /j #gentoo

  2. Re:Agreed on Compaq... on HP Shipping Turbolinux HP in Asia · · Score: 1

    Correct spelling is "Ms Satan and her Daemons, May they burn in the fires of hell forever, amen"

  3. Re:Think long-term stability... on Heavy-Duty System Administration Utilities? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I mean, it can't even change the screen resolution on the fly!


    ctrl+shift+(numpad Plus/minus)
  4. Re:Alternative root servers on Verisign Considers Restarting Sitefinder · · Score: 1

    because
    Aich Tee Tee Pee Slash Slash Slash Dot Dot Org

  5. Re:The stupid people on Google Asks Booble To Cease And Desist · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    How dumb can people be and still be accounted for as people?

    Up until you're stupid enough to vote republican, you're still a person.
  6. MOD PARENT FUNNY! on Northwest Sued for Divulging Customer Information · · Score: 1

    Mod parent funny.
    Shoot mod who modded parent troll.
    Some people... /me sighs.

  7. Re:Hold on a tic... on JRR Tolkien: Return Of The Domain Name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who are looking for porn know where to look. Porn sites who buy domains that have nothing to do with porn should be outlawed. If not because they make it harder to find things that should be on those domains, then because they make it harder to find porn. ;-)

  8. Re:Complaints on Israel v. Microsoft, Next Round · · Score: 2, Informative

    Call me a pedant, but Apple Israel offered to foot the localization costs, not Microsoft Israel, the difference being that releasing the source to a subsidiary is completely different from releasing it to a competitors subsidiary.

  9. troll. on Reverse/Server-Side Proxy Caching for Windows? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd like to mod the submission a troll because it has the audacity to imply that there might be a good solution for the microsoft platform. Obviously no one but a microsoft apologist troll would make such an assertion.

  10. Re:But wait! on The Return of S3 · · Score: 1

    1) Install a 2.4 series kernel with RivaFB drivers enabled.
    2) Install nVidia drivers
    3) reboot into your kernel with frame buffers enabled (ie: vga=791)
    4) switch between console and X
    5) Acknowledge that some things are simply accepted as fact, and don't require links for hard proof when everyone less yourself has experianced them.

  11. Re:The english language is not static on 20 Years of Virii · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is more accurate to say that ENGLISH has evolved for just that reason, as (at least) French and Hebrew have government institutions perserving the status of the language. You might recall a recent story about l'Acadime Francais coming up with a word for "e-mail"... The French language doesn't evolve because it is basically illegal to teach the language in a way that isn't endorsed by the Academy.

  12. Re:IMO on Israeli Ministry of Commerce Picks OO.org Over MS · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I will agree that the lack of support for Hebrew in a marginal product is more than likely a spurious complaint;


    spurious? As the story you linked to states, Not supporting hebrew on the Mac version of Office is tantemount to abusing their monopoly in Office to prevent users from switching to Mac operating systems.
  13. Re:I guess it's cool on Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed · · Score: -1, Troll

    From the alt.religeon.computers Faq:
    #
    Is Windows an operating system?
    Microsoft says Windows is an operating system, but they also said that OS/2 was the most important operating system in the history of computing. It doesn't matter what they call it, since everyone buys it anyway.

    Linux users say that Windows isn't an operating system, but they also tend to hold the position that UNIX based systems are a better substitute for more people, and that programmers should give up all monetary aspirations and live as hermits. It's easy to hold those views when mommy and daddy are paying for MIT. Note: As of 1999 it is now even easier to hold these views when the public capital markets are picking up the tab.

  14. Re:Won't Somebody Think of the Children? on Texas High School Gets iBooks · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry.
    I know a good therapist, do you want his number?

  15. Re:Finally another Linux partner on Gateway Forges Partnership With SuSE · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link where I can download ISOs of RHEL (since RH 9 is no longer supported)? If it is in the same category as slackware, these should be easy to locate, IE through linuxiso.org...
    Thanks in advance

  16. Re:Interesting spec on the Nucleon web site on Bicycle Tech Drivetrain Advances Showcased · · Score: 1

    Around here we use a little thing we like to call "English" to express ourselves. You might want to try it sometime.

  17. Re:ROFL on Nonexistent Windows OS Superior to Panther · · Score: 2, Funny

    excite
    tr.v. excited, exciting, excites

    1. To stir to activity.
    2. To call forth (a reaction or emotion, for example); elicit: odd noises that excited our curiosity.
    3. To arouse strong feeling in: speakers who know how to excite a crowd. See Synonyms at provoke.

    It sure as hell is stirring activity and it's DEFINITLY arousing strong feelings in me

    I find palladium very exciting. Exciting me to acquire plastic explosives, but exciting none the less...

  18. Re:You can't rewrite the laws of physics... on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chemistry as an independant field of study is becoming obsolete. What doesn't fall into biology (namely organic chem) is going to fall into physics very soon. There's simply no need to seperate the two.

  19. Re:I wonder if... on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1

    Neither-
    It's simply a lack of advancment in research.
    Laptops, MP3 players, and most other such devices use Lithium Ion batteries, which are sorely due for a replacement. Most people's complaints are not that they don't last long (The batteries in this Dell are rated for 500 discharge/charge cycles each) as much as they are heavy and don't hold enough of a charge. This machine, for example, can't be on for more than 4 hours (or something like 8 with the screen off) if both of the bays have batteries in them, which is grossly insufficiant. Also the batteries weigh in at 1 pound each, almost a third of the weight on my back. Corporate greed would lead to batteries that can keep a desktop powered for a week without recharging, but can only be recharged 10 times before they blow up with the machine they're attached to (so you get to buy a new machine too!)

  20. Re:No more encryption? on Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan · · Score: 1

    REVOLUTION!
    imagine the geeks being deprived of such beautiful toys. you think they would stand for such abuse?

  21. Re:No more encryption? on Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan · · Score: 1

    more likely, powers of 2
    ie, a 4096 bit key would be referred to as 2^12

  22. Re:This isn't P2P on P2P Contact Info Service From Napster Co-Founder · · Score: 1

    napster WAS p2p, there was mearly a server logging transactions

  23. Re:Hot damn on Linux 2.6.0-test9 Released · · Score: 0

    you need a new version of modutils
    that's all, AFAIK
    also Gentoo bitches if you don't have devfs enabled, and it's OBSOLETE in 2.5+

  24. this HAS happened on Can WINE Compromise Unix? · · Score: 1

    someone did this, with one of the outlook viruses, I think it was KLEZ, and I remember it made slashdot
    basically it's programmed to look for an SMTP on localhost if it doesn't find a default one in the registry, and it started sending viruses out
    so um
    yeah

  25. OpenOffice on PDF Writers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Openoffice can not only write PDFs, it can also read data from a mySQL (or other ODBC/JDBC compliant) databases.
    I don't see any reason not to use it out of the box for such a purpose... or am I missing something?