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  1. Re:MS Hardware? Lets hope not? on Microsoft To Make Wireless Networking Hardware · · Score: 2

    If cowboy neal were building them in his garage out of tin cans we wouldn't have to worry about him ruining the future of wireless communication... So the answer to your question is no.

  2. Re:Is there any point to this? on Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer · · Score: 2

    No...

    If you have to ask, then you'll never understand.

    Saying that you're asking because you don't understand is a pretty blatently obvious statement.

  3. Re:avoiding the subject? on Interview With Andreas Pour of KDE · · Score: 2

    I hear you talking, but guess how many people start crying once Red Carpet is pay per use.

  4. Re:avoiding the subject? on Interview With Andreas Pour of KDE · · Score: 2

    I haven't had any problems on Mandrake 8.2 going from 2.x from 3.x

    download RPMS
    rpm -Uvh *.rpm

  5. Re:avoiding the subject? on Interview With Andreas Pour of KDE · · Score: 2

    With Ximian GNOME on the other hand...

    Ximian is a company. Gnome and KDE are not. You've decided to suck Ximian's proverbial teet. Hopefully they're never change anything and make you pay for it.

  6. Re:Why not support the native Linux alternative? on Crossover Gets Quicken · · Score: 2

    It doesn't look like it's at 1.0 yet... They also say kde 2.1 is required. Will it work with 3.0?

  7. I've been running Quicken for a while under wine.. on Crossover Gets Quicken · · Score: 2

    I've been running Quicken for a while under wine... It never ran perfect, just good enough. This might be it though, especially since I can get a discount for having purchased crossover plugin. Codeweavers is a great company.

  8. Re:bsod, etc. on New Way To Grade Decay of Computer Installations · · Score: 2

    Linux and the free BSDs are not bound to marketing departments, tight budgets, irresponsible deadlines, and high turnover.

    Looks like you got my point... That's why I use Linux :)

  9. Re:bsod, etc. on New Way To Grade Decay of Computer Installations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe if it was relatively easy. I don't know of a MS kernel mailing list. Besides, if I'm paying more for the damn thing, I would expect it to be a little more stable than the one put together by voulenteers

  10. Re:I don't think so on Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat · · Score: 2

    Well, I may be in the minority, but if the CFO (my boss's boss) came up to me and said "I think we should use IIS because it looks pretty," I'd call a meeting and help him to understand why a web server shouldn't be chosen based on screenshots. In the end I'm sure I'd have my way because I'm the one with the expertise and he knows that... I read a lot of "Until the president comes up to you and says the wants you to use X because he saw an ad for it in X magazine..." on Slashdot, but I really don't see any of that at my work. Am I really in such a minority?

  11. Re:why? on China to Develop Windows Clone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure they'd also like to plant their own backdoors too... I'm no Microsoft fan, but I'd trust a closed source system from them before one from the Chinese government.

  12. hate to sound like a slashdot weenee on Traffic Shaping on DSL? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hate to sound like a slashdot weenee, but use Linux. It's better suited for such things.

    Ok, you can all flame me now.

  13. Re:1 Million reward on Clockless Computing · · Score: 2

    Yea, I know. I'm just so used to saying "clock" the circuit that's it's kind of synonymous with incrementing or stepping through one cycle... Bad choice of words.

  14. Re:1 Million reward on Clockless Computing · · Score: 1

    Even in "clockless computing" there's still kind of a "clock," in that a new instruction would trigger the operation instead of clock edges.

    If you had a multiply instruction that took maybe 3 clock cycles in a clocked computer, you would still have 3 cycles/events/stages or whatever you wanted to call them in an unclocked computer that the instruction would need to step through. The instruction wouldn't be regulated by the clock, but pushing it through the stages would take a certain amount of time... And there might be ways to "overclock that" if you wanted to call it that... Of course, that's kind of what you said at the end :)

  15. Re:1 Million reward on Clockless Computing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You actually could "overclock it" because such computers would have a maximum speed... Instead of spinning their wheels like todays computers do, they would only clock when they needed to. They'd be able to achieve quicker bursts because all that wheel spinning wouldn't melt the processor.

  16. Crossover? on QuickTime 6 Is Out · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Crossover plugin seems to still be downloading QT5 installer. Has anyone got QT6 running under crossover?

  17. Re:Not one reference to Linux on IPFilter Infriging on Bay Network Patent? · · Score: 1

    for you. get used to it.

  18. Dead? on Is Linux Dead? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Go take a look at what most web servers on the net are running. Notice the big "MS" in front of NBC

  19. Re:it depends on the architecture on How Hard is it to Manage Different Unices? · · Score: 1

    Windows XP (technically it is POSIX-compliant, so I consider it Unix)

    blasphemy!

  20. Ann Arbor Party on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ann Arbor Party... Looks like Taco will be there.

  21. Re:So... on QuickTime 6 Public Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Who the hell modded this as troll?!? It's so true it hurts. If Linux users wouldn't piss and moan about everything on their OS being open source, there might be some more application support. Thank God Nvidia isn't taking Apple's route.

    It's OK to buy software sometimes

  22. Re:why i love my mac on Win32/Linux Cross-Platform Virus · · Score: 2, Funny

    My Linux/Windows Boxes have been virus free because I'm not retarded enought to "Click here for sexy virgins!"

    Actually, on the linux side, Having an inherently more secure OS with almost no viruses out for it helps too... But nothing is totally secure.

  23. assume? on XP Service Pack Does the Impossible · · Score: 1


    I assume this means Internet Explorer and possibly some other apps as well.


    When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.

  24. man.... on Why The X-Box Network Will Fail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We just want the X-box to fail soooo bad, don't we?

    yay slashdot

  25. In other news... on Sometimes, Microsoft is Right... · · Score: 1

    Microsoft also thinks clubbing baby seals is bad too. How could we ever have doubted them before?