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  1. Re:WTF??? on Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel · · Score: 1
    He is an OIL MAN. It was a joke, get it? Oh, that's right, conservatives are too busy playing with other people's money to have a sense of humor.

    I voted for the winning guy (gore), to bad voters don't elect presidents, just the electoral board.

  2. Re:Alternative Fuel Vehicle Tax Break? on Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel · · Score: 1

    I don't think diesel engines can qualify for AFV becuase they put out A LOT of particulate matter in the exhaust. But it's still all good, with veggie oil you wouldn't have to pay the state tax on petrol.

  3. Re:No free fry oil in Dubya's America! on Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel · · Score: 1

    Wax is a Lipid, just like Vegetable oil. You can refine oil into wax.

  4. No free fry oil in Dubya's America! on Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel · · Score: 5, Informative
    "you can get your fuel free from restaurant deep-fryers."

    Most restaurants with friers, dump the old oil into a large bin out back. Every few months a tanker truck comes and picks up the oil. Then they make crayons and other shit out of it. Point is, restaurants get money for their old oil. Why would they give it away?

  5. Re:Is there a dead body in your trunk? on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 1
    Couldn't you just change your private & public keys to new ones after they take the old one?

    Or better yet...keep all the stuff you don't want anybody to find on an offline computer. Nobody, can sneak into it, if it's not on a network. And when it does need to be in a network(for file transfer or whatever), plug the cable in the back and turn on the network services. When done, turn off networking and unplug. It's IS the ONLY gaurentee against people looking at your 'finacial' records.

  6. Is there a dead body in your trunk? on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Ah...no Mr. Police man.

    Then open the trunk, or give me the keys.

    No, I have rights...you can't look in my trunk! NO!

    ____________________

    Excuse me Mr. User.

    Yes, Mr. NSA man.

    Are there terrorist messages in your email inbox.

    Ah...no Mr. NSA man.

    Then un-encrypt your inbox, or give me the private key.

    No, I have rights...you can't look in my inbox! NO!

    ________________

    I'm confused. What is the difference between these two scenerios? Sheesh...they check your trunk when you cross state/country borders. Just don't do terrorist/pedo/cracker shit, and you should have nothing to fear. uh, right?

  7. Re:Old and Modern...SR-71 on New Supersonic Jet Test Less Than Successful · · Score: 1
    ...The SR-71 Blackbird is older than the Concorde, and still looks faster and sleeker than the Concorde or 99% of anything else out there. Queen Amidala even copied the design for her spaceship!

    Plus, the SR-71 would leave that anglo-french beer can suckin' it's con trails.

    GO USA!

  8. Re:Rampant stupidity on Mandrake Hits Wal-Mart(.com) · · Score: 1

    If they were buying the machines to replace the OS, then why wouldn't they just buy the OS-less varsion in the first place? Hmmmm, perhaps you are the stupid one after all.

  9. Re:Just did a first time install this weekend... on Top 10 Things Wrong With Linux, Today · · Score: 1
    ...of RedHat 7.3. I had some trouble during the install (wouldn't install from cd's), but after HDD install it booted into KDE and I was ready to go. I've never used KDE or installed Linux before, but I use a linux webserver that I'm not the admin of. So I know some commands and how to get around the file system.

    First Impression...Looks nice, but the screen flickers and my NIC is in loopback mode. No problem, there should be some info here in KDE on how to change the refresh rate and get DHCP going...somewhere...around...here...NOPE!

    Go to windoze boxen and go online to linuxnewbies.com...after some looking...EUREKA! Editing XFconfig-4/modes is how to change the resolution. Now for that NIC. Use the ifconfig command...OK. Typing ifconfig -a and I get something to the effect of:

    YOUR IN LOOBACK MODE
    TUFF LUCK CHARLIE
    CONSULT BROWN BOOK W/COWBOY AND HORSE ON COVER

    Now if I could just figure out how to diseminate information from O'Reilly books, I'll be in business.

    Hmmmm...go to page 522, 'Configuring TCP/IP with Ethernet'...Hey that sounds right. 10 pages in, nothing about DHCP clients...guess I'm fucked!

    I wish it was easier to get some examples or tutorials about Linux from online/books. The elitists seem to keep the info pretty cryptic. I have no ego so after I learn enough, I'll make a site with REAL examples and steps, not processes.

  10. What if Anakin... on Robot Wars · · Score: 1
    ...destroys the mothership(ok, satellite), and then the MINUMA goes down. What are they gonna do then?

    Send Jar Ja...I mean Wesley Crusher to the rescue!

  11. Re:New War for ACs to fight? on A Lawyer's View on the OpenGL Patent Mess · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Since they bought the patents from another company (Sillicon Graphics Inc.) they are obligated NOT to alter the license, from it's original form. However, Microsoft feels obligated to force thier inferior tech on consumers, so they WILL change it to favor DirectX.

    Then a court will have to compell Microsoft not to alter the license. Microsoft will basically have to prove the license is invalid. Which would make the patents invalid (i think).

  12. Re:Terrorist threat from cameras on Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions · · Score: 1
    Roman Alphabet?

    Did you mean Phoenician? That's the alphabet used in the english language.

  13. landoverbaptist.org...if you like the onion... on Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites · · Score: 1
    ...check out this site.

    "go home everybody...go home"

  14. Re:Compassion for the artists? on Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle · · Score: 1
    The truth is, though, that they only want to help themselves, and as such, there isn't much we can do about it.

    Hey! Your a consumer, exercise your consumer rights buy not buying RIAA endorsed products (like CD's). Support the artist directly by going to their shows, and bootleg the hell out of their music. If you can get the CD directly from the artist, then do it.

    The only way to make them change is to stop supporting them. I'm glad the Artists are finally seeing this as well, without them bailing too, it would never work.

  15. Re:..to look like Janet on Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle · · Score: 1
    If you ask me, he wants to look like Janet. She has a little button nose and lighter skin tone. Jacko changed his nose and skin tone to match hers. It is so obvious.

    Never heard of a skin disease that can turn your skin blotchy like that after adolesence. The only thing I've ever seen that can leave huge light blots on black skin is healed 3rd degree burns. But I'm also a high school dropout...so what do I know.

    And is it just me or does Donatella Versace look like a bad sex change op.

  16. Re:The sadder truth. on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 1
    Preach on Brotha!

    I've found JS support in Mozilla/NS6 to be pretty sketchy sometimes.

    In NS6.1, I would load some html to an iframe, then load the iframe.innerHTML to a div for display. It worked fine in NS4 and IE5, but NS6.1 url-encoded all href's in the innerHTML. I had to write an ugly hack to fix it. Now, NS6.2 doesn't do that...so I have to go back and remove the hack from 4000 pages of content. No big deal with a PERL script, but still.

    I hate to say it too...but IE IS a superior browser to anything else...as far as DOM and javascript support go.

    I wrote a WYSIWYG web editor for some of our clients to use, and it only runs in IE5.5+. It uses the CONTENTEDITABLE keyword found in MSHTML. At first I started writing it using javascript (the code for the arrow up and down keys was lotza fun!), but cross-support was to difficult to maintain. So, I went with the IE only solution. IE is ubiquitos enough that it doesn't bother the clients to be forced to use it.

    M$ sucks donkey dingles, but COM is a really cool architecture.

  17. Pig Feathers... on Chicken-Feather Chips · · Score: 1
    ...might work better than chicken feathers for semiconductor applications.

    ...insert Pink Floyd lyric here...

  18. Re:The sad truth...ignore boss on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 4, Informative
    This exact thing happened to me. I told my boss about coding for different browsers. He said as long as it worked with IE and AOL he didn't care.

    He figured his client base would be using whatever came pre-loaded on the machine (i.e. IE), or AOL. After I explained they are the same. He told me not to waste my time with the other browsers.

    Well, I ignored him and made sure my code ran under NS6 and IE5 to W3C specs (CSS and NS4 == TNT).

    A few months ago I proudly showed him an article explaining how AOL would be dropping IE and going with NS in the future. He said I should look into supporting NS. I told him the code already does...scored some brownie points.

    Point is...don't listen to your boss when you know your right. Especially when they are lawyers with money trying to start a tech co. Always do what you know is the right way of doing things, fuck the bosses shortcut suggestions. I've spent the past year showing my boss how clueless he is concerning computers, and now he listens to me.

  19. Re:2 types of hardware...there will be. on New Chips Keep Tight Rein on Consumers · · Score: 1

    If you guys think you'll need to hold on to legacy hardware becuase M$ comes out with a new spec, I think your underestimating your power as a consumer group.

    There will always be hardware for *nix systems. Linux is really taking off. I just got into the whole thing (used a little BSD in '95), and with the newbie perspective, I can tell you more people know what Linux is than don't.

    This will increase dramatically in 3 years. I predict 35% of desktops will be running *nix by 2005 (20% at the least). 3 years ago Linux was...well...shite. Now it's stable and usable by non-uber-geeks like me. I like to be a user, not an admin, so in 3 more years it outta be very user freindly.

    Not only that, but corporate research and development into Linux outta double by next year. So it's only a matter of time before M$ dies, or plays ball with the rest of us. They really have no choice, it'll just take time.

    I have no market research to back up my claims, just intuition and un-biased-ness. If XP was unobtrusive, I'd probably upgrade and not fork my OS. I like to be a user, not be used.

  20. Re:Linus Skyhacker... on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    ...remember him? He was the one who killed Lord Bill in the end, and restored balance to the 'Info'.

  21. Re:Nah..read the rules on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    Close...it IS the product of socialist thinking though. Not that that's always a bad thing.

  22. Re:Mac rules the future! on Coursey on Palladium · · Score: 1

    Apple should really prepare themselves for the sheep migration by selling a Mac for under $350, w/out monitor of course. Not those god awful clones, just a white-trash version that's cheap. Maybe imac hardware w/out screen, just a little cube again.

    For servers, dev work, and surfing - I'll use Linux. For photoslop, flash, DVD/MP3...I guess I'll have to buy a Mac so I can still use those.

    I figure NT4 will be completely useless in a year or so, then I'll get a Mac.

    I have no problem paying for software, as long as it works and installs without a hitch (Macs seem to be good at that). I'm never buying M$ again, becuase it doesn't work half the time. NT4 was my last stop on the BillyTrain.

  23. Re:Nah..read the rules on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1
    It can't be Billy becuase you have to make the results public. M$ is TOTALLY against sharing, so that should tell you it is a private party.

    Maybe its the Chinese gov, and they want to use Xbox's with Linux. The Chinese invented Linux after all (yes, that was a joke).

  24. SecureFX from Vandyke Tech... on SSH-Based Solutions - Looking for Industry Proof? · · Score: 1
    ...It cost $59.95, but it sounds like that is what your customer wants. Software that cost money and has support.

    It supports many other protocols besides SSH too.

    Goto: www.vandyke.com/products/securefx

    I use SecureCRT everyday and it rocks! I've never used SecureFX (thier premier file transfer program), but I get what I need from CRT and it's $30 cheaper (it's a terminal, but has z-modem).

  25. Re: buy a 3DLabs card then... on Doom3 and OpenGL2.0 · · Score: 1
    ...you'll have OGL2 drivers that are fully implimented.

    why?

    3DLabs developed OGL2, becuase OGL1.x couldn't keep up with DirectX anymore. 3DLabs sells high end cards for *NIX boxen, and DirectX isn't available for those OSs, so they extended OGL1.x.

    My GVX1 is still an awsome card, hope it runs doom3.