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  1. No... on Earth to...Earth? Are you there? · · Score: 1

    You can't be a US president unless you were born in the United states, therfore Claming you would be US president would be impossible. His claim, though rediculous is possible.

  2. too much w2k stuff on Iomega's New Unix (Optional) NAS Appliance · · Score: 1

    I've been hearing way too much positive stuff about win2k. Everyone seems to excuse windows 2000 by its stable, and nice. Come on, this is a Unix site, and we don't need that kind of nonsense. If you can make a good device on win2k, you can make a better device on Linux, period.

  3. Great joke on Linus Retiring from Kernel Dev · · Score: 2, Informative

    I saw it and said, "WHAT!?!?!?" good post man. I have a feeling Linus will stop hacking the kernel after he's dead.

  4. they don't deserve it. on Apple Cuts Off Under-18 Darwin Developer · · Score: 1

    Apple could do otherwise, they're just a mean company in general. The shareholders don't need to know about a expert programmer who is a minor, and neither does the board.

    Show him some appreciation? I hope they do, but they won't.

  5. Shut up! on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "A beutiful mind" is a movie based on a anti-semetic book, and the film retains lots of the anti-semetic elements. Israel and Great Briton and Japan are our only somewhat-powerful allys, and it would be STUPID to loose Israel in such a strategical position.

    With websites all over claiming that Israel is terrorizing the palestinians, and the media against Israel (I bet you never heard Arafat is recieving money from the EU, and then gives it to his terrorist networks...).

    A lot of nerds liked it? Get a life! Lots of folks on /. are not nerds.

    This will probably get moderated down even though it has sense, contrary to the parent post.

  6. Re:how many geeks buy a premade machine? on More on Dell Dropping Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I agree. No true geek would get a computer pre-built. I built my first one when I was 12.

    Laptops? I didn't build a laptop from scratch, but I did get a non-working one. Maybe a little too much wait, but I got a 486 75mhz w/2.1gigs, 20mb ram for about $150. In the process I aquired another machine just like it with less ram and hd space.

    I have a feeling I'd do the same thing in a "Corporate" envirenment. You still have to setup the computers on-site, and setup the operating system. I'd probably start with "barebones" though.

  7. Nah... on 7 Years of 3D Graphics · · Score: 1

    My radeon 7200 will kick your v2 sli any day. I only paid $50 for it too. Just find your deals right and you'll be fine.

    Voodoo2 was a revolutionary card for it's time, but it's been 4 generations scince then. Time to get a real card again.

  8. VIA strikes back! on 7 Years of 3D Graphics · · Score: 1

    Maybe the whole video thing is VIA sending a message to nVidia. "W3 0wnz j00!". VIA kicked nvidia in the motherboard arena, and is fixing to knock them in the video area.

    More power to them.

  9. $1 per word on Sony's New Bi-Pedal Robot · · Score: 1

    60,000 words, luxury car cost == 60,000 dollars. Somehow it seems a bit high.

    Oh yeah, Sony is always overpriced :-)

  10. Re:SOOO? on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 1

    The article was on wired I think. The icebergs split up, and trap the penguins on mainland, or at least some were. They then couldn't get to food, so they are starving. I like penguins that's all, not a Envirenmentalist phreak.

  11. SOOO? on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 1

    What did it do to the "Envirenment" of Antartica? This does sound like a huge sheet of ice.

    I just heard that penguins (real ones, not linux geeks) have been dieng in Antartica. How would this breakage effect them?

  12. In the mean time... on Internet Use Becomes More Purposeful · · Score: 1

    We find that .com's are going out of business while Game companies are Thriving like never before. Perhaps people are starting a trend toward "getting serious", but it doesn't seem like it's showing in the business sector yet.

  13. Re:Coffee PC at Thinkgeek... on Hardware Review: Rio Central · · Score: 1

    Because, it's cheaper, AND smaller than the rio central, that's why. Using a custom built machine is obviously the best choice, but many people would be deterred by the size. I wouldn't buy one, but I wouldn't consider a rio central either.

  14. Re:-1 stupid. on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Actually, Microsoft decided they wanted bo make everything stupid so they left. IBM didn't decide to just kick them out, they left. The AC who replied to you was correct, HPFS was being done by IBM, not M$.

  15. -1 stupid. on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 1

    When will it work on Linux? YESTURDAY.

    Windows XP includes ntfs, so it's not a msdos based fs, they stole ntfs from IBMs' HPFS.

  16. Coffee PC at Thinkgeek... on Hardware Review: Rio Central · · Score: 1

    There's a PC at thinkgeek for $999 it uses a 1ghz processor, has 256mb ram, has cdrw, 20gig hd. It has all ports. It's small too, 6" square.

    I wouldn't doubt that you could replace the 20gig hd with a 80gig, which cost right at $100 on pricewatch.com

  17. FREE EMAIL!! on Rubber Band Machine Gun · · Score: 1

    It's a cool address, so it might be interesting. You can get @backyardartillery.com address free.

    Here [backyardartillery.com]

  18. He's a celebrity... on Homer Hickam Speaks Out For Fission Rockets · · Score: 1

    So he speaks to people dumb and smart. Sure, many people complete HS physics, but most of them forget everything.

    I am under the impression that he's just dumbing down his speech so everyone kinda understands. That or he's thinking about Mars' atmosphere.

  19. Let companies pick. on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    You're talking about different companies using your datacenter, so why not just let them pick? Of course, you will be the people who have to deal with the machines, but I'd leave it open to them. Of course, you would have a criteria for the naming.

  20. No... on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    That's 3993! You must have learned math from Cowboyneal. 4000 - 7 = 3997, they should put that in the next poll.

  21. When will it be affordable? on HP DVD+R Writers Examined · · Score: 1

    That's the question I have, when will it be affordable? DVD writers currently cost around $500, there's a few standards, and the disks cost $30. I'll stick with my CDrw for the time being.

  22. Answer: no. on Washington State Debates Taxing Software Creation · · Score: 1

    Unfortunatly, it is anyway. We pay sales tax on these products, and the question is, should it be double-taxed?

  23. Re:Darwin came AFTER Hurd. on RMS Says Hurd Could Be Loosed in 2002 · · Score: 1

    I don't think we should put so much blame on HURD, though obviously they ARE slow. Apple doesn't have the same kind of standards in their products that GNU does.

  24. Why? on EFF Takes Bnetd Case · · Score: 1

    Why is Blizzard opposed to a open source battle.net server clone? Do they have any ads on battle.net, or are they just being dumb?

  25. XHTML on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard to use XHTML. In fact, if your past code is html 4.01 compliant, you won't need to change much at all. You need to add a / at the end of all tags without ending tags. I.E. , .

    XHTML must be valid for it to work right, that's the only major difference. There's also a separate standard for frames. Unfortunatly, according to the W3C, the tag is invalid in Strict XTHML, so you run into problems aligning things with Strict.

    Slashdot could make their site HTML compliant if they weren't so lazy, and they could make it XHTML/XML compliant too. You are right on on the chances though.