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  1. Re:The greatest threat to Windows... on Image Handling Flaw Puts Windows At Risk · · Score: 1

    ...is in booting up your machine.

    ......with Linux

  2. Re:FUD??? Coined by Gene Amdahl on Fighting FUD with Humor · · Score: 1
  3. My list of Linux desktop companies on Dell Releases First Consumer Product with Mandriva · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Buy 1000 $500 laser printers on New IBM Ultra Fast Printer · · Score: 1


    ...and print 1000 pages at once.

  5. Services Temporarily For Unix (STFU) on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1



    They are going to stop it so it's now temporary.

  6. Re:NEWS FLASH, free software, no viruses on An Open Source Guide For The Average PC User · · Score: 2, Insightful


    The "average" PC user doesn't give a flying fuck about the "Open Source" movement or Linux or whatever.

    The MAJORITY of "average" PC users,
    at least the ones I've met,

    actually like

    free software

    no viruses.

  7. Re: or maybe the Russians just hedged their bet on Climatologists Wager on Global Warming · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    1. Spend another $10,000 on cheap Siberian tundra
    2. Global warming
    3. ????
    4. Profit

  8. Re:Science? on Carmack's Throatless Rocket Engine · · Score: 4, Insightful


    but he doesn't work for NASA

    Neither does Burt Rutan.

  9. Pictures on 190 Million Year Old Dinosaur Embyro · · Score: 5, Informative
  10. Coffee on More Evidence for Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 2, Funny


    Hey, my coffee's getting cold.

    Would you mind nuking it for me.

  11. Throw out Dell. HP, and Gateway on Got Spyware? Throw out the Computer! · · Score: 1



    Buy your next computer from a supplier that offers you a choice other than Microsoft

    otherwise you will just have more of the same.

  12. Fretting noises on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1



    Part of the guitar "experience" is the subtleties of human fingering like noises of sliding up and down the strings etc.

  13. Re: In Texas on Half Of Businesses Still Use Windows 2000 · · Score: 0

    In Texas only old people use Windows.

  14. Re:See if you can get a Wireless connect built on Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link? · · Score: 1

    That's Senao not Senoa

  15. Re:See if you can get a Wireless connect built on Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link? · · Score: 1

    I did something similar. I used a pair of Senoa 802.11 access-point/bridge radios with some big dishes at each end for the bridge. I had to put up a 60' tower at one end. The whole setup getting someone else to do it ran about $1500+. You can use a Linksys WRT54G with the free Sveasoft firmware for your customers.

  16. etch is next on Debian Sarge Coming Soon · · Score: 5, Informative
  17. Re:They will defend the US to the point on Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, where do you suggest that we move to?

    I don't know. I've heard some interesting things about New Zealand. I'm sure it has its drawbacks too.

  18. They will defend the US to the point on Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...that no one will want to live here anymore.

  19. Thomas Edison and DC current on Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas · · Score: 1


    Here is a prime example.

    Thomas Edison was violently opposed to AC
    even though AC was much better for power transmission.
    Edison thought that everything should be DC.

  20. Re:Nice planning. on Indian Government Keen on Open Source · · Score: 1

    Great woo hoo I got a CD. Now all i need is a pc, monitor and keyboards.

    If you're building a Windows machine
    then the hardware us the cheap part.

  21. Re:Knoppix and Best Buy (Grub bootloader) on Using Computer Stores to Spread Open Source? · · Score: 1


    I did the same thing, but to just a couple of machines.

    The funny I noticed
    is that one of the Best Buy display machines
    was using a grub bootloader.

  22. With lasers like that, on Building the World's Most Powerful Laser · · Score: 1

    Who needs nuclear weapons.

  23. Re:Eeeeww (We need an alternate spelling for SPAM) on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    To differentiate between the two maybe we should use a different spelling like SPHAM or SPAGHM or something like that.

  24. apt-get update.... on Updating Free Software in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Or you can just use synaptic.

  25. Re:It's the apps, stupid! on Roadblocks to Linux in Education · · Score: 5, Informative

    Were's the vertical education apps, for all education levels?

    You can start browsing here.

    http://richtech.ca/seul/