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  1. Not just dual boot but on Will Vanderpool Make Linux More Popular? · · Score: 1

    How about Dueling BIOS?

  2. Here's a little background on Will Vanderpool Make Linux More Popular? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From March of this year:
    Dvorak Thinks Apple Will Switch to Intel

  3. Re:Try this one... on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 1

    AC, Why yes indeed it does mean recurrent. But it also means long duration or always present.
    I provide this reply as a service just so you don't have to live life misled on this point.
    Try looking it up: Mirriam-Webster or dictionary.com

    As some wise person once said, "Don't taunt the "happy fun ball."

  4. Re:Try this one... on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 5, Funny

    lose conciousness from chronic brain death

    I suppose no one can rightfully argue with you on the point that death is chronic.

  5. Re:This reminds me... on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 1

    Here is an example of a googlewhack that I found at least a year ago which is still one:
    pontificates+glacially

    Usually, when a googlewhack is posted, it is no longer a googlewhach, hence their rarity.

  6. With our luck on Is Google's Future: Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    we will, instead, get a depressed robot named Marvin.

  7. Re:Here was my response. on CCAGW Misreads Mass. Policy, Open Standards Generally · · Score: 1

    Each Massachusetts computer using linux is $200+ that is not shipped out of state to a large corporate sinkhole. This money can be spent on important things like rebuilding roads and schools.

    Yup. Instead Massachussetts can use the $200+ per computer to go help pay for another large corporate sinkhole, the Big Dig.

  8. Re:w00t!!!! on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1 · · Score: 1

    the power of brand naming has led them to think of any replacement as inferior. So I'll be installing it on the machines of all friends and neighbors who aren't computer savvy enough to notice the difference

    So it sounds like they know just enough to be familiar with MS Office, but not enough about the "world of software" (simply as a user, mind you, not as a geek), so that they have closed their minds to alternatives. I suppose it just goes to show that a little knowledge is dangerous.

  9. Re:such a shame on TRON Enters Alliance With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that the T-engine Forum is like Pete the Puma when he and Bugs Bunny are having a social tea?
    [Microsoft] How many lumps do you want?
    [T-engine Forum ]Oh, three or four.
    [Microsoft]Wham! Wham! Wham! Wham!

  10. Re:Out there, but rare... on Have You Personally Used an Honest Head Hunter? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had a fellow from Winter Wyman place me in three consecutive companies between 1999 and 2001. First company I left voluntarily after a year to switch tracks, then second two bombed during the fall. He was very professional and seemed to honestly try to balance meeting my desires in placement with expectations of my prospective employers. I don't know how other people feel about Winter Wyman, but I felt that I was treated professionally by them. I really don't have any other experience with recruiters.

  11. Re:More canidates should do this on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1

    Before I get a comment on it, Yeah, I know he's not a presidential candidate, but as a senator, he does have to campaign.

  12. Re:More canidates should do this on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 2, Funny

    Especially John Sununu. They could have the slogan If you GNU Sununu like I GNU Sununu...

  13. Re:web standards are really only half the battle. on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Shit, I forgot the r on poor. Better?

  14. Re:web standards are really only half the battle. on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Ok, I misspelled his name, its Jakob Neilsen. Sorry

  15. web standards are really only half the battle. on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To add to this, one can follow all the rules making pages comply yet still provide poo usability due to ill-thought layout and navigation on top of a good framework.
    For starters, if you're not familiar with him, here is Jacob Nielsen's site. He is usability guru formerly from Sun.

  16. How slashdot can help on India Blocks Yahoo Groups Over Political Content · · Score: 1

    Well, with the number of slashdotters that like to mirror sites in the discussion, we can easily mirror this yahoogroup.

    Hmm, Then India would have to block /. too. I wonder how that would bode for India's geeks?