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  1. Re:Mediaone? NO WAY! on The Joys Of Big Business; or Why AT&T Long Distance Sux · · Score: 1

    STay away from RCN! I live in Maryland and it took them over a month and ten missed deliveries to get me a land line. To their credit, they did offer to pay my cell phone bill for the down time.

  2. Whoa, RMS, ESR, Torvalds? on Red Hat Claims They Started The Open Source Revolution · · Score: 1

    Wow, they were all Johnny Come Latelies. What about Berekely and Joy, Allman, and the rest of the BSD tradition? What about MIT and X? What about UMich and Maryland? And CMU? Wow, RMS, ESR, and Torvalds just jumped on the bandwagon.

  3. Re:grrr on H-1B Visas Increased In 96-To-1 Vote · · Score: 1

    Because when the vote was taken 200+ years ago, German only lost by one vote. So the founding fathers decided to drop the issue completely rather than force English upon anyone.

    Besides, Clinton lied to a jury, you trust anything he says?

  4. Re:grrr on H-1B Visas Increased In 96-To-1 Vote · · Score: 1

    English is not currently, nor has it ever been, the offical language of the United States.

  5. Re:Wouldn't it be nice if OpenBSD could cooperate? on TrustedBSD Interview in Boardwatch · · Score: 4

    TrustedBSD is not a fork in the traditional sense. It is a stream of parallel development and nearly all the patches will eventually be incorporated into FreeBSD when they are proven reliable.

  6. Hello, can we at least try to know the law? on Sega Pushes ISONews, and They Push Back · · Score: 2

    It is not a consitutional issue. They are not a government organization. Your first ammendment rights do not mean squat because they do not exist in this case. Read the first and fourteen amendments for more information.

  7. Re:A plan of a attack and a gripe on Cisco Patents NAT RFC? · · Score: 1

    The murder rate and taxes are not that bad. In fact, my taxes are cheaper than when I lived in Ohio.

  8. Re:Where have water levels risen? on Water On The North Pole · · Score: 1

    Doh, for some reason I thought that all the ice would be submerged. I stand corrected.

  9. Re:Where have water levels risen? on Water On The North Pole · · Score: 1

    Water actually expands when freezing and I think is the only substance to do so. Therefore, the sea levels will lower when the ice melts.

  10. Re:Question on Loki And BSDi Team Up For BSD Games · · Score: 1

    Most people have found that Linux applications run a bit faster under FreeBSD.

  11. Can you imagine... on IBM Develops Quantum Computer · · Score: 2

    a beowulf cluster of these? :)

    Come on, I deserve karma for posting it on-topic and using my real name :)

  12. Re:Porting to Linux? on 986MB/s With BSD And Gigabit Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Some of FreeBSD is distributed under the two-clause license. Not all of it is.

  13. Re:Porting to Linux? on 986MB/s With BSD And Gigabit Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Actually, you cannot release BSD code under a GPL. BSD's clause 3 conflicts with the GPL's "no additional restrictions."

  14. Re:science follows science fiction on CNET And MozOffice: Mountains And Molehills? · · Score: 1

    No, the LASER was invented in 1949 and Star Trek first went on the air September of 1966.

  15. Re:***FUCK*** the sysadmin. on Sys-Admin Appreciation Day Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    No, this isn't true either. I am a programmer by training but a sysadmin by profession. Sure, it takes me a bit to hack DNS, but all the programming theory comes in handy during upgrades.

  16. Re:Slashdot.org cluster on FreeBSD 4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    For a time, the ads server was FreeBSD. I do not know if this is still the case.

  17. Re:uhh...correction... on July Issue Of FreeBSD 'Zine Released · · Score: 1

    No, Solaris is based on SVR4 which was a combined 4.2BSD and AT&T System V kernel.

  18. Software License on Go.com Content Engine Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    It is nice to see that "Open Sourcing" does not automatically mean the GPL. For those of us who beleive in the GPL's forced-redistribution, this is a pleasent change.

  19. Re:uhh...correction... on July Issue Of FreeBSD 'Zine Released · · Score: 1

    Look out your window.

  20. Re:uhh...correction... on July Issue Of FreeBSD 'Zine Released · · Score: 1

    Could we see some proof that FreeBSD is a code fork from Solaris?

  21. Re:since they are no relevant posts here... on July Issue Of FreeBSD 'Zine Released · · Score: 1

    Despite the fact that I am giving the troll above me some shit, this is true. Linux is a Minix fork. This is fairly well-documented. Linus evaded the license the same way Berkeley did. He just rewrote the entire mess from scratch.

  22. Re:since they are no relevant posts here... on July Issue Of FreeBSD 'Zine Released · · Score: 1

    Similarly, Linux isa code fork from Minix and Minix is more update including a license ensuring free redistribution, a very small, and easy to use system that can be understood by even an undergraduate and can run on even an 8086?

  23. Re:Great.. on New ASUS Drivers Help Cheaters? · · Score: 1

    On a wireframe Breakout I created I pulled over 800fps on a 286/12. But that was back when that was fast :)

  24. Front end website? on Deja Linking Ads Within Usenet Posts? · · Score: 3

    So what if I created a website which was a front end to Deja? It rerouted searches and displays to Deja, but filtered out the ads? Would this be illegal? How would it be different from them adding the advertisements?

  25. Grandfathered Articles on Deja Linking Ads Within Usenet Posts? · · Score: 3

    Articles archived before the news header should be exempt from advertisements since there was no way for their authors to opt out.