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  1. Re:mp3 on Magnatune - a Non-Evil Record Label? · · Score: 1
    Not everyone is as intelligent as slashdot readers...

    Thank Jebus!

  2. Re:should update the Linux cookie file on TCP/IP over Bongo Drums · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This has nothing to do with Linux. Of course you're probably trolling anyway and I fell for it. Shrug.

  3. Re:Linux is only lacking in the apps. on Linux Advocacy From the Trenches · · Score: 1

    Basically apps don't have an installer, they are distributed in a directory, with all the binaries, files, etc. in a directory that you copy to install. The Finder treats the App Directory as one file (Dbl click on the app dir, it launches the program). You drag it to the trash to delete it, drag it to the desktop or applications directory, or home dir, or what have you to "install" it.

  4. Re:Linux is only lacking in the apps. on Linux Advocacy From the Trenches · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which I think the solution should probably be ROX / OS X style App Dir type installions.

  5. Re:Some things for most people: on Geek Eye for the Average Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even after finding all the codes to add the DVD, VCR, stereo, etc., the "mode" orientation of the remote drives me crazy.

    So its EMACS then is it?

  6. Re:predictions for folks in IT are easy on IT Career Horoscopes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doncha mean:
    Gemini: You're gonna die a virgin, twice.
    Apologies to Chris Rock.

  7. Re:DVD Knoppix? on Knoppix 3.3 Is Out · · Score: 2, Informative
    Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?

  8. Re:NAT & firewall on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 1

    But doesn't NATing kind of force you to have a firewall in a sense? At least for machines behind the NAT? How do you route incoming connections unambigously? Pick a random box on the NAT LAN? Duplicate the packet and send it to all the machines? I think to have NAT you must have a firewall at least for new incoming connections.

  9. Re:uh right... on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    You could conceivibly build galeon for W2K.

  10. Re:Patch delivery mechanism on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 1

    its not really acceptable for a home computer either. If those lines are in a cron job apt can't ask you the questions it occasionally needs to ask you.

  11. Re:Let's throw a little blasphemy into the mix. on British Court Issues Bizarre Copyright Ruling · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you also have to prove Nietzsche wrong, or IOW that god is still alive? Or at least he died recently enough for his copyright to still be in effect?

  12. Re:Step one: on IEEE to Standardize OS Security Components · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ah yes Linux is the most secure os ever. And bzImages work with every bootloader too. (funny, yaboot doesn't seem to like them. I guess when your computer doesn't boot at all its pretty secure).

  13. Re:Um, have you ever actually read the novels? on Bay of Souls · · Score: 1

    He's description is extraneous. You could just read it as imagine if William Gibson wrote a Bond novel. I think he is aware that's a Bond-esque plot he was just describing the plot of this particular novel.

  14. Re:Annoyingly Enough... on IBM's New Linux Advertising · · Score: 1

    According to Mplayer its DivX. It does play in mplayer btw. I don't know ab out Xine or anything else.

  15. Re:Video? its here on IBM's New Linux Advertising · · Score: 1

    yes it is. Did you not notice the play video button? Sheesh. Here I'll make it easy: mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf You can also just do
    $ mplayer mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf

  16. Re:Mandrake 9.1 on A Galaxy of Possibility: Mandrake 9.1 ProSuite · · Score: 3, Insightful

    much as the windows world has zip? How can you compare rpm and zip? rpm = packaging system, zip = archive / compression format. It would be better to compare rpm with MSI.

  17. Re:doesn't linux already come with a standard UI on Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability · · Score: 1

    ksh, bash, zsh, tcsh, etc..? Which one is standard? (Ok, practically every distro has bash by default, but still.)

  18. Re:Why? on Running Mac OS X Natively on Pegasos · · Score: 1

    Really? That seems I dunno, counter-productive. Look Cocoa! Objective-C! Oh, but the finder is still based of off OS9-era APIs. But what do I know. I still don't actually have one of my very own.

  19. Re:zsh and BASH? Not me... on Apple Switches tcsh for bash · · Score: 1

    Thats a nifty trick. Thanks.

  20. Re:KDE & KDE apps on What to Expect From Qt 4 · · Score: 1

    Could probably make it headless for that matter. Just have it in the session startup scripts and it would exit when everything else did.

  21. Re:Psychology plays a role on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1
    * Isn't afraid of computers
    ok...
    * Willing to use a command line
    Not neccessarily
    * Knows what a partition/hard drive is
    As above.
    * Comfortable with various GUIs
    You don't have to be comfortable.

    You'd be suprised at the number of non-techie friend's computers I managed to sneak various distros onto. (Mostly Debian). But its definitely reaching the point where if you don't want to think about most things you can pop a Mandrake or redhat CD in and click next a couple of times.

  22. Re:hmmmm... on OpenBSD's Packet Filter Gains OS Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    iptables + nmap -O? Maybe... You could write some overly-complicated script. When someone goes to connect have nmap do an OS fingerprint scan on them and then if you don't like the results add an iptables rule based on their host.

  23. Re:Windows... on Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was obviously a typo. He probably meant Windows 200K.

  24. Re:Yay on HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux · · Score: 1

    Enthuisum == Flamebait?

  25. Yay on HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    go pchdtv.