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  1. Re:BOM Cost... on Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled? · · Score: 1

    doubt they would sell them at cost, if you remember correctly, apple makes little or no money off itunes, it uses it to promote the sale of ipods. (Was on /. a while back)

  2. Re:Finally! on Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Ill stick with my zaurus + memory cards I just have to swap music every once in a while, but its a much more versatile device :)

  3. The rest take 5d20 Damage (n/t) on Knoppix Tips and Tricks · · Score: 2, Funny

    n/t = no text

  4. I did the exact same thing couple of weeks ago... on Knoppix Tips and Tricks · · Score: 1

    I also have a dell laptop (latitude c840) my hard drive died for the second time a couple of weeks ago, and I used knoppix and a usb memory stick until I got my new hard drive.

    (Dell is fast at shipping stuff, got my hd the next day)

    Due to the relative lack of bandwidth here, and lack of cd's (on vacation) I went ahead and installed knoppix on my laptop, my first experience with debian. And its pretty nice (alas, I do long for gnome though...)

  5. Re:Poor Taste in Title of Game on Postal 2 - Share the Pain Demo for GNU/Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    This game does not make light of postal worker shootings. The main character 'Postal Dude' starts the game working at Running With Scissors.

  6. interesting... on SCO Will Pay You Not to Use Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Depending on the sum, I could be convinced to go BSD I suppose...

    Or better yet, if they pay me enough to buy an apple.

  7. Obligatory sell out reference on IE Vulnerabilities Page Removed · · Score: 1
    Please understand that nobody asked us to take "Unpatched" down. For the reasons we described above, we have taken this proactive step in an effort to be a larger part of a long term solution. After all, that is a critical part of our business, Solutions...it's also part of our company name...so we are putting it into action to see if this will contribute in a meaningful way towards the solution of a problem.

    "Of course we werent 'asked' to take it down, It was suggested, and encouraged with large ammounts of money from M$"

  8. Re:Google to the rescue... on IE Vulnerabilities Page Removed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Something tells me this was accompanied by the greasing of palms.

  9. Re:suck it! on What Counts as Music and Why? · · Score: 1

    Yes that was my statement, sorry for the formatting error, I did not mean for it to appear as part of the websters definition.

  10. Re:suck it! on What Counts as Music and Why? · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to websters: Music \Mu"sic\, n. [F. musique, fr. L. musica, Gr. ? (sc. ?), any art over which the Muses presided, especially music, lyric poetry set and sung to music, fr. ? belonging to Muses or fine arts, fr. ? Muse.] 1. The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear. Note: Not all sounds are tones. Sounds may be unmusical and yet please the ear. Music deals with tones, and with no other sounds. See Tone. Rap contains only beat, and is therefore not music,

  11. Linux port on Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like there will be a linux port after all...

  12. Re:Standard Protocols? on Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express · · Score: 4, Informative

    SMTP and Webmail are two different matters entirely.

    SMTP has to do with how the mail is transfered between servers.

    Webmail/POP3/IMAP have to do with how the end user reads mail in their inbox

    Also webmail is quite capable on non-windows servers

    SquirellMail (Open source imap webmail) is a much better interface than hotmail ever was

  13. Re:So apache no invulnerable then... on FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I'm not of anyone who claims their software is "absolutely secure" and from what has been said so far it is not apache that has been cracked (http) but their ftp server (I am unaware what ftp server they run) What makes people complain about how insecure MS systems is the fact that the insecurities occur much more often than in open source equivilants, and that ms is generally MUCH slower to patch the vulnerabilities

  14. Re:Mirror on Writing with Elvish Fonts · · Score: 1

    Damn it people, he's DEAD, now get over it!

  15. Re:Some Interesting New Products... on Powered by Blood · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, using humans as batteries, now where have us well informed geeks heard about something like this before? What a novel idea.

  16. Re:Even windows can change font sizes on Window Managers for High Resolution Displays? · · Score: 1

    Oops, that should read "Even old ladies buy LCD's" I work for an wisp, and we were doing an install at an old ladies house... She had a 2.4ghz p4, 512mb of ram, a 64meg geforce4 with digital out, and a 600$ lcd with digital in.. She had the lcd on the analog out, running at 800x600 (looked horrible) and played crossword puzzles on it

  17. Even windows can change font sizes on Window Managers for High Resolution Displays? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just change your font sizes, problem solved, every wm imaginable lets you do that.

    Besides, old ladies buy CRT's... they just run them at 800x600 anyway (Looks like shit)

  18. Re:i simply block them on Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick · · Score: 1

    But do we *really* want doubleclick to bite the dust now? At the moment its pretty easy to add doubleclick.net to your hosts file, or galeon block list and effectively cut out 90% of the ads on the net. If there was actually competition for ad serving, it would make things a little more difficult.

  19. Re:Chewplastic.com? on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 1

    I think it has more to do with the fact that he goes to a Polytechnic institute, and that the search engine searched their network

  20. My favoirite weed killer.... on Hi-Tech Weed-Killer · · Score: 1

    Has got to be the Napalm launcher in Postal 2 *evil grin*

  21. Re:Yep on Are Printers What They Used To Be? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to agree, I to still use a 500c to this day. If all your doing is text, they are fast enough, decent quality, and they just dont break. Also its easy to find cheap cartridges, and they have good drivers for almost any os around. I'd pay more for a used 500c than I would most brand new inkjets on the market now.

  22. Re:cough*meladramatic*cough on GTA: Vice City Sells 8.5 Million Copies in 3 Months · · Score: 1

    um unfortunately, no not everyone has

  23. Re:To coin a phrase... on Some Geek Guides for Dating · · Score: 1

    SAD isn't it?

  24. The Tech Circus was great on Scenes From Bob Young's New Tech Circus · · Score: 2

    Me and my suitemates went to the tech circus, and explored alot on the first day. Lots of interesting stuff. But the majority of our time was spent playing UT2003. We met bob young in an interesting manner involving shattering smart mass with a hard cover copy of his book. We won some UT2003 shirts, and finally placed second in the team UT2003 tournament and won free copies of the game a week before it was officially released. Afterwards we stayed and helped clean up to get some staff tshirts, free pizza, and a few thousand feet of free CAT5

  25. Re:Security on One Glimpse Of The Wireless Future · · Score: 2

    NCSU works the same way, also we dont run WEP encryption under the philosophy that its so easily cracked, its not worth the extra overhead