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  1. Re:Get a Gateway on Going, Going, Gone: IBM Sells PC Group To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    Why not a Cardbus-like standard for LCD displays?

    What's wrong with SVGA or DVI? Almost every laptop has one.

  2. Re:.edu price on Dell Calls For Red Hat To Lower Prices · · Score: 1

    So I have to say you, definitely.

    Says the AC nitpicking posts intended to be humourous. Get a life.

  3. Re:.edu price on Dell Calls For Red Hat To Lower Prices · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's okay. u.r.id10t, so all is cool :-p

    He got double modpoints, and screwed up both posts though. Who's the ID10T's now? ;)

  4. Re:RedHat screwed on Dell Calls For Red Hat To Lower Prices · · Score: 4, Informative
    As faras IBM is concerned, Suse is the only linux.

    Someone better tell IBM that then:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux now pre-loaded on xSeries!
      Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux on xSeries is now even easier. I November 2003, IBM introduced bundles of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with xSeries servers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 may be ordered when purchasing BladeCenter and xSeries servers. Offers are available with a "No Support option", which will allow the customer to purchase support from IBM Global Services. Also available are offers with 1 year of Red Hat support. Every copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a one year subscription to Red Hat Network. Now, customers can buy either Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES or WS 2.1 pre-loaded on x205, x225, x305, x335, and x345 servers in the US. For all other models, Red Hat Enterprise 2.1 Linux will be included with the server and installation will be performed by the customer. In 2Q04, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will be available via similar offers.
  5. Re:.edu price on Dell Calls For Red Hat To Lower Prices · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Slashdot puked on your link. here is a good one.

  6. Re:Interesting.... on Linux Server Sales to Reach $9.1 Billion by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, give them some credit. They had to change some graphics too. ;)

  7. Re:Interesting.... on Linux Server Sales to Reach $9.1 Billion by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Many of these tools can/are(!) ALSO be used on Solaris systems as appropriate/preferred.

    Try out Solaris 10, it's pretty funny to see the default desktop. It must have taken those Sun engineers hours to search & replace Gnome with Java Desktop.

  8. Re:Dubious on Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes · · Score: 1

    You win. Proceed to the nearest goatse display to collect your prize.

  9. Re:Dubious on Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes · · Score: 1
    it was written in VB5.5 (not even 6 or .NET) for Windows, in 2004.

    I don't blame you for not RTFA, but its in the first sentance of the Slashdot headline for christ sakes.

    • In the year 2000, Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney...
  10. Re:Ok on Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes · · Score: 1

    Now... how the hell does one "flip votes" on voting machines that are free of remote conectivity?

    Install the program locally maybe?

  11. Re:Ok on Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes · · Score: 1

    You mean like a plummeting dollar, a failing economy, a losing war, an unprecedented transfer of money to the wealthiest few, thousands of war deaths, and a dismantling of civil rights and our constitution?

    Don't forget alienating your allies, and imposing illegal trade sanctions on your largest trading partner.

  12. Re:And now for the Canadian perspective on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, why am I living here again?

    Probably because there's much more to life than the weather. The economy is great, the dollar is rising, government deficits are almost non-existent, health care is free, crime is low, people are friendly, etc.

  13. Re:And now for the Canadian perspective on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    (greetings to a fellow Winnipegger ;)

    I think that might have been my fault, I lived in Calgary the summer before, and that one (2003 or was it 2002 now that I think about it) was even worse than this summer here. I don't mind a little rain, but snow in July is just too much to deal with.

  14. Re:And now for the Canadian perspective on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    I've lived in Edmonton, you're not fooling anybody. I do miss the Purple Onion though, $5/pitcher can get you mighty pissed on a student budget.

  15. Re:Spyware / spam prevention on Spyware Removal is Big Business · · Score: 1

    with the original one button mouse. Could I trouble you for a solution to that problem?

    Fork out the $10 and buy her a real mouse you cheap prick, Christmas is coming.

  16. And now for the Canadian perspective on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 4, Funny

    by the middle of this century every other summer could be even hotter than 2003.

    Excellent, it sure sucked where I live.

  17. Re:Spyware / spam prevention on Spyware Removal is Big Business · · Score: 1

    "I can't print, it says I have to be root!???"

    Complete bullshit.

    "I moved a window partly off the screen and now I can't resize it!"

    Also complete bullshit, that happens in Windows, but in Linux you hold Alt and resize with middle mouse button. I'm sorry if your parents aren't smart enough to deal with that, but in Windows, if your screen is at 640x480, you can't even get to the OK button in the display properties dialog.

    "How do I type a letter?"

    In a word processor?

  18. Re:Spyware / spam prevention on Spyware Removal is Big Business · · Score: 1

    where's Word and what happened to Outlook?

    They're right there where it says "OpenOffice.org Writer", and "Evolution".

    The only thing worse than a free software zealot is a proprietary one.

  19. Re:Spyware / spam prevention on Spyware Removal is Big Business · · Score: 1
    The short guide:

    • Install Linux - You'll get Firefox by default, no spyware, no viruses, etc.


    It really is an ideal solution for mom & pop. With the added bonus that you can just ssh in and fix problems if needed.
  20. Re:free weatherbug? on NOAA Adopts New Net Policy · · Score: 1

    You mean like gweather, which has been part of GNOME for what 5 years now?

  21. Re:Traditions change on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1
    You are very wrong about the origin. Indian did come from Columbus, but only because he didn't realize where he was.

    • Inhabitants of the Asian country of India; sometimes called Asian Indians to differentiate from American Indians. See Demographics of India.
    • Those aboriginal peoples of the Americas first misidentified by Christopher Columbus who thought that he had reached the East Indies.
    • Some U.S. Natives call themselves Indians, although this may be considered offensive. It is considered more correct to refer to American aboriginal people as Native Americans. In Canada, First Nations or Aboriginal People are the preferred terms, though Indian is also used by many within First Nations communities. Others believe the idea of Indians (or Native Americans or First Nations) represents a Eurocentric point of view and consider themselves members of a tribe or nation, identifying only with the name of their tribe in their own native language; often this name is a word which translates as, "the people".


    I live in a community that is almost entirely composed of aboriginal people, and I've never met anybody who wasn't offended by being called an Indian. Thats the only reason I said anything at all. That and the opportunity for a gratuitous insensitive clod usage presented itself.
  22. Re:Traditions change on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1

    a number of indian tribes sided with the British

    What do the citizens of India have to do with Thanksgiving?

    Native Americans are not from India you insensitive clod.

  23. Re:Enabling WebDAV on Apache on WebDAV with a Quota? · · Score: 1

    Using suitably enabled clients you can view, open, edit and save files directly into the filesystem of the Web site as it were of a remote website.

    Wow, FTP.. Again.

  24. Re:You ain't kidding on World of Warcraft Reaching Record MMOG Sales · · Score: 1

    Tuesday night they had freaking wait lines just to join certain servers

    I wonder if we'll see a fork of bnetd by someone in a nonpersecuted country. Or does it work with World of Warcraft already? Google shows many mirrors around the world.

  25. Re:Important to note on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 1

    Nah, pussies use keygens. Real men use Linux.