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  1. Whatever can you mean? on S3's DeltaChrome Graphics Chip · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Mid-range ATI/Nvidia cards are already dirt-cheap as it is.

    S3 isn't going to make a dent unless they can seriously compete with what ATI/Nvidia have out on the top-end market.

  2. SWAT comes back to mind ... on VeriSign Sued Over SiteFinder Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    one hundred meeeellion dollahs!

  3. Re:Hmm on Booting Linux Faster · · Score: 1

    Consumer electronics built on embedded Linux wouldn't start 300,000 system services when powered up.

  4. I have just one thing to say ... on Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament · · Score: 1

    suck it up ... and wait for Doom 3

  5. So, what's the version of Gnome Office again? on StarOffice 7, GNOME-Office 1.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    2.0, as specified in the article title, or 1.0, as specified in the article text?

  6. Re:Verisign just DDOSed itself on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    If there is no MX record, (nearly) all MTAs will send the mail to the A record that the domain name points to. So your point is invalid.

  7. Re:Verisign just DDOSed itself on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not really true. The daemon that runs on the SMTP port of the server with the IP(s?) in question will automatically close the connection once the DATA directive is issued by the client making the connection.

  8. What about spyware? on New VOIP App. Profiled · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'd only use it if I could be reasonably certain that it wouldn't be some spyware-riddled infested crapware like Kazaa itself.

    Which, since it's from the same guys as Kazaa, I would certainly expect it to be.

    Color me uninterested until accounts of user experiences pop up all over the internet with an overwhelmingly positive response.

  9. DVDs on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I don't buy CDs at all, yet I regularly go out and spend $20 each (or more) on DVDs nearly every week.

    Simply put, in my sole estimation, DVDs are worth my money--music CDs aren't.

  10. It's really very simple ... on GeForce FX Architecture Explained · · Score: 2, Informative
    Gamesdepot had a short one question one answer session with Gabe Newell, then John Carmack himself on Nvidia shader performance: clicky!

    The proof is in the pudding.

  11. Re:Well, it's a start on Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows · · Score: 2
    On a related note, how long is it going to be until SCO is mentioned in these comments . . .
    I bet they're dodging SCO by tossing out the Mandrake CDs without pre-installing it.
  12. Re:Business Orientated Positive Feature on Microsoft Prepares Office Lock-in · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If OOo had this feature before MS Office, I bet you could have enticed quite a few businesses over from the Office series jsut based on IRM.
    Except open source is generally stuck into a copy-what-MS-has mode, because MS is one of the biggest R&D spenders in the industry. Generally, that does mean MS is at the forefront making the innovations.
  13. Re:Welcome... on KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report · · Score: -1, Troll

    That, combined with the recently revealed knowledge that Trolltech is partially owned by the same group that owns SCO, provides ample impetus for all societally concerned Linux users to choose GNOME.

  14. Re:Blame the user on Increased Software Vulnerability, Gov't Regulation · · Score: 2, Informative
    A good idea for MS would be to not make their stuff so userfriendly that it automatically executes every virus attachement that it comes across but instead would warn the user by default.
    The default behavior for Outlook, Express, has already been to do this. It is certainly not Microsoft's fault a select subset of individuals aren't patching or are smart enough to be purposefully circumventing their attachment protections but are dumb enough to run attachments anyway.
  15. Re:Just Great on Gates Says Windows Reliability Is Greater · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They already don't allow executable attachments by default.

    Nobody seems to be patching their Outlook Expresses.

  16. Re:Please. on Gates Says Windows Reliability Is Greater · · Score: 1
    Every time they've tried to be pro-active in these issues in the past a crowd of people like certain whiners on slashdot have excoriated them for doing it. They've had enough.

    There's only so much of damned if you do and damned if you don't they're willing to stand up for, and they've reached that limit.

  17. Re:No? on Gates Says Windows Reliability Is Greater · · Score: 1

    You mean something like the ptrace vulnerabilities that show up throughout all of 2.2 and 2.4 to 2.4.20?

  18. Re:thor's howto: on How To Upgrade Linux To The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 1
    Well, to be pedantic, it would actually be:
    apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.0-test2-1-386
    And for some reason there's only one package for "386", no "686" or "686-smp" or any of the other myriad variations.
  19. Re:thor's howto: on How To Upgrade Linux To The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 5, Informative
    Of course, that would be:
    apt-get install kernel-image-2.6
    Might as well get it right, eh? :)
  20. To some extent ... on Razor Blade Games? · · Score: 1
    "consoles" are already given away with the games. Tiger Toys sells (used to sell? I haven't seen a Tiger box in awhile) those cheap plastic handhelds with cheap LCD stickmen games.

    I doubt we'll ever see the day when something like the PS2 or XBox is given away alongside a game, at least during the period of prime profitability for the console. They're simply too expensive to produce to be given away.

    Unless they're being obsoleted, I suppose, and then bundled into cheap bargain bin packs.

  21. OpenLindows.com? on OpenLindows.com: Wherefore Art Thou? · · Score: 2, Troll

    Surely the best thing to do with that domain is to redirect it to www.debian.org? Or maybe knoppix.org at a pinch.

  22. Re:redirect "my documents" on Executive Secretary In Every Computer · · Score: 1

    That won't happen if you're redirecting "My Documents", has nothing to do with where your profile directory is actually stored.

  23. Re:Anti-spam zealotry is a good thing on AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking · · Score: 1

    "There's but a thin line between many an enemy and many a friend," Bijaz said. "Where that line stops, there's no beginning and no end. Let's end it, my friends."

  24. AOL's mail filtering on AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking · · Score: 1

    I would agree that their filter is overzealous in this regard. Their method of filtering by magic numbers is far less reliable than filtering by inconsistency.

  25. Re:Here's my rant on human stupidity... on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1
    So true.

    I changed my local XP account type from "Power User" to "Restricted User" a while back.

    Haven't been inconvenienced in any serious way other than a "Run As ..." every now and then.