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  1. Re:does not apply.. on Microsoft: The Gatekeeper of the Internet · · Score: 1

    > How many Linux users are going to buy clothes from L.L. Bean or Chadwick's?

    I buy most of my clothes from L.L Bean and their site works just fine with Netscape, Mozilla, and Konqueror under Linux...

  2. Re:I say... on Gaming Companies Being Sued Over Columbine · · Score: 1

    The gunmen were building bombs and drawing plans of the attack in their garages, according to the police. If the parents had paid any attention at all to their children, they might have gotten an idea that something wasn't quite right...

  3. This will never see the light of day in the US. on New Sony Clie: PalmOS Is Back in Style · · Score: 1

    See www.palminfocenter.com for the reasons why...

  4. With no cash registers... on Rebooting The World? · · Score: 2

    All products and services would have to cost even dollar amounts. Heaven forbid that someone would buy something that was 79 cents and wait for the person to calculate the change from a dollar by hand. It seems now that doing math by hand is a lost art. (At least in the US).

  5. Re:Not just Salt Lake on Do You Consider Your Social Life When You Choose A Career? · · Score: 1

    Maryland has the same type of law. Liquor stores can not be open, but bars are open, and you can buy the packaged goods from the bar to take home. The only thing this hurts is the liquor store owners. They have had a hard time changing the law since most of the lawmakers in the state own bars...

  6. Re:HVA? on Spying and Technology: Robert Philip Hanssen · · Score: 1

    CNN has an interview with Markus Wolf from 1998:
    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/21 /i nterviews/wolf/

  7. Needs work, big time! on Ximian's Red Carpet Released · · Score: 1

    I downloaded it onto my RH7 system and went to the Ximian GNOME Desktop channel. It tells me there is one minor update (a newer version of gdm). Selecting gdm and clicking Update Packages, it tells me it needs to remove autorun, kdebase, kdegames, kdemultimedia, and kdeutils, in addition to needing gimp and kdelibs! Why does it want to remove half of KDE for gdm???

  8. Re:who cares? on Mozilla 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    > If you quit Mozilla the start it again (assuming
    > it starts) it's quite fast and.. dare I say it...
    > faster than IE5.5 on machine.

    This is mostly due to mozilla still being cached by the OS in memory, not because of some option to stay in memory.

  9. Re:Now give DC a keyboard, mouse, X & a browser! on Dreamcast Runs Linux · · Score: 1

    Not standard keyboards and mice, but Sega has been selling a keyboard since the release of the Dreamcast (or shortly thereafter), and a mouse is
    on its way, mainly driven by the Q3 and UT ports...

  10. Re:Its mighty cold out there. on Another New (Minor) Planet In Solar System · · Score: 1

    Of course the Pluto mission (Pluto-Kuiper Express) has been 'postponed indefinitely due to cost overruns.' (http://www.astronomy.com/content/dynamic/articles /000/000/000/174tttln.asp
    ). Seems the 'Faster, Better, Cheaper' philosphy took some hits with the Mars failures...

  11. MandrakeSoft a member of both. on Formation of the KDE League · · Score: 2

    With the the announcement on Linux Weekly News yesterday that MandrakeSoft had joined the Gnome Foundation, will they be a mediator between the two groups? One could only hope this would help the two groups collaborate more...

  12. Re:Maybe signals can be picked up again next year? on Pioneer 10 Finally Dead After 28 Years? · · Score: 2

    I suppose that mainstream media will cover this somewhat, considering the number of years that the thing worked perfectly and the historical role it played.

    Yeah, right. This was a spectacular success, not a spectacular failure. Maybe a blurb on page 28...

  13. Re:Time to stop whining on Aristotle, Dilbert And The Working Life · · Score: 1

    I think this is an excellant point. My father worked 3 jobs to help raise his 5 children. I rarely saw him growing up, as he would come home, eat, and try to sleep for an hour or two. It was a decision they made to have so many children (three of us were adopted), and they did what they had to so we had food on the table and presents under the Christmas tree. I have a job now that never requires me to work overtime and pays me very well. My wife and I are expecting our second child, and we didn't even flinch we we got the news.

    Bottom line: Be thankful for what you have!

  14. Re:Bad day Hemos? on Playstation 2 U.S. Release Scaled Back · · Score: 1

    Deja Vous all over again...

  15. Re:Um. on Windows Whistler Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Nothing. But you also don't have to pay $89 (or whatever the upgrade fee will be) to run bash on 2.4...

  16. Re:This is ridiculous . . . . on More Threats From The MPAA · · Score: 1

    Isn't the Canadian government guilty of censorship? I seem to recall seeing a story on the news of some high profile case in Canadain which the government was blocking television stations from the states that were reporting on it, and even arresting people for going into places like Buffalo and buying newspapers to bring back. Or was I dreaming that whole thing?

  17. Re:Does this mean? on On-Line Uranium Auctions · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to leave positive feedback!

  18. Re:Not surprising at all... on Java Rocks On Linux · · Score: 1

    Actually, Veritas has Java-based interfaces for most of their products, including Volume Manager and NetBackup, although I wouldn't call them snappy. And most of Sun's new products include a Java-based installer. Look at Forte Developer 6 for an example...

  19. Re:-1 FlameBait on KDE Developer on the GNOME Foundation · · Score: 1

    > The ability to run some of GTK's themes

    Yea, this would be hard for them to implement in Gnome. ;^)

    > automatic modification of the colors for Motif apps

    With Motif slowly going away, will anyone care?

    >a status indicator for the task bar to show when an application has completed loading

    This, however, is nice...

  20. Re:Intelligent on KDE Developer on the GNOME Foundation · · Score: 1

    We? Why are you afraid to identify yourself?

  21. Re:Missing the point... on Let's Make UNIX Not Suck · · Score: 1

    At least then they are contributing something... How many of us in the "community" (myself included) have contributed anything?

  22. Re: Did anybody here mention these on Classic Gaming Gets Recognition · · Score: 1

    Donkey Kong is still my all-time favorite game. In fact it was because I was looking for a Commodore 64 emulator to play Donkey Kong that I stumbled across MAME. I no longer had to play some weak port. I could play the actual arcade ROM!!!

  23. Re:flipside on Security Through Obscurity A GOOD Thing? · · Score: 1

    Have we forgotten the DeCSS issue already? The
    DVD security through obscurity turned out to be
    incredibly easy to break...

  24. Re:Might spur on others on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 1

    You beat me to it. I don't think the Wright brothers had any formal education about how to fly. They had an idea, a dream, and they just did it.

  25. Re:Go SGI [OT] on UPDATED: SGI B1 Linux Patches · · Score: 1

    Mandrake 7.0 uses postfix by default...