User: ken_devon

Re:wish I had an ipod

On: CNN Interviews with Harlan Ellison, Bruce Sterling

That link points straight at a 40 meg file. And their web server **hasn't melted**. Amazing, simply amazing.

Re:Killer app for portable media

On: Simple Route To Linux On The iPod

My phone does this now (except for the bit about the price, dag nammit).

Re:IBM wrote a redbook on the topic

On: IBM Desktop Linux Pledge, One Year Later

I use Lotus Notes on Linux all the time (I shelled out for Crossover Office, but wine works too - it's just more work to set up). I runs find to - well, just as good as on Windows anyway.

Re:Linux anyone?

On: Desktop Search Engines Compared

Wow. The timing on this article is uncanny. I installed Beagle yesterday, and I'm already addicted to it - it indexes documents, mail and web pages as they're accessed, and updates it search results in real time.

Re:A quick run

On: The Captains of Nautilus

Yes, it's there already - Alt+F2 by default

Re:Military spending

On: Why Japan Gets the Cool Stuff

This is rubbish. Japan's one of the top ten military spenders in the world. The only difference is, they don't have an army or navy, just a 'self defence force' 250,000 people strong.
- see here:
http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/bureau _ac/wme at98/rankings.pdf

Re:"Linux" package management / GNU utils

On: Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva'

The more recent releases of Solaris 8 do include many of the GNU utilities.

There is also a useful tool at www.sunfreeware.com named pkg-get. This provides an interface similar to debian's apt-get for sunfreeware's collection of Solaris software