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  1. Slashdotted at 3 comments... on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 1

    Slashdotted already.

    Hopefully he wasn't running Solaris 10...

  2. Re:Cut down on Novell Linux Desktop Released · · Score: 1

    As to "small but works" single CD installs, MEPIS got my vote when I installed it last week, _very_ slick, and it is actually a Debian system.

    MEPIS is also apt-get upgrade worthy, unlike Knoppix, that has always gotten hosed when trying an apt-get update/upgrade cycle.

  3. Re:Some sanity--- Please mod up! on We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin · · Score: 1

    Please mod parent up. My points vanished

  4. Re:Thinking of a Dell/SuSE Solution? on Dell Teams Up With SUSE · · Score: 1

    ...Oh, lets dump it after a 3 day test because Mary Jane in accounting didn't like the fact the menus item in OO/org wer in a different order than in Word.. Jeesh...

    You can eventually hire a consultant to say anything you want in a report, as has been demonstrated repeatedly. ...and who takes out a full page (or 2 page) ad in that rag every month, page 2&3 IIRC?

    Consider your sources.

  5. Re:Why use Water?!?-Fluorinert is GOLD on Considering Watercooling Your PC? · · Score: 1

    Flourinert FC77 costs $450 for a 14 lb can, which is about 1 litre...
    (Fluorocarbons are HEAVY)

    Go ahead and buy that vapo-chill system.

  6. Re:Um... No. on AMD's Personal Internet Communicator · · Score: 1

    A 366Mhz Geode is not going to suck anywhere remotely near the power required by (anything else)

    In a LOT of places, solar/wind or bicycle generator power *will* be able to run these.

  7. Shouldn't the title be "Nasa 0wn3d by Murphy?" on Murphy's Law Rules NASA · · Score: 2, Funny

    `nuff said...

    Note the "law" doesn't just torture NASA exclusively, it just rears its head very visibly in their case.

  8. Ill dance on iNTELS grave when... on Intel Scraps Plan For 4 Ghz P4 Chip · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They liscence Hypertransport...

  9. Re:If this is the wild west on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Larry, Moe, Curly, and Shep?

  10. Re:One Method that worked for me... on Anatomy of a LAN Party? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Somebody mod parent up please.

  11. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they'll release a *BSD based *OS* for X86, with a KILLER search engine feature...

    Of course MS couled do the same, but I dount they will quite naul the search the same way...

    GoogleOS anyone?

  12. Re:I'm wondering... on Microsoft To Share Office Source Code · · Score: 1

    Well, if what they modify is GPL, they don't have to worry about that, unless they are distributing their mods...

    What one does in-house is ones own buisiness as far as the GPL is concerned.

    Besides, all one would have to do is modify an input and output filter here and there, assuming MS source actually would really help.

  13. Ignore trollish:MOD UP: Interesting link on Using Games to Improve Medicine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The link is facinating research, looks like they may have nailed T1 diabetes and possibly many other autoimmune diseases.

    By accident as usual.

  14. Re:Duke Nukem 3D on Linux! on Liberated Games Launches · · Score: 1

    Now that the source is available, Duke Nukem IS "forever"

  15. I HAve to try... on The U.K.'s National Health Service Licenses JDS · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post??/

    Finally something for Sun to crow about.

  16. Re:Since the post was rather questionable on Free DVD Recording Tool For Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    One word: DMA.

    hdparm -iI will reveal all.

    Also try a UDMA 66/100 (80 wire) cable.

  17. Re:thoughts on TiVo-like Application for XM Radio Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Please tell slashdot this moron professors name, so we can reeducate him, if that's possible.

  18. Re:You can watch the series first on After Petition, Farscape Miniseries Trailer Online · · Score: 1

    Time to add a 250G drive to my Mythtv setup...

  19. Re:Can we get a non-pdf'd link please? (no text) on Gosling: If I Designed a Window System Today... · · Score: 2, Informative

    What, you cant run xpdf, or kpdf, or gv, or even (if all else fails of course) use the free Adobe PDF viewer?

    Jackass...

  20. Re:Open Patents: How to fix the system for $50. on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would prefer a ~6 month public comment period, after full public disclosure.

    Also infers requirement by PO to listen and follow up.

    It's going public anyway...

    cheap, almost free, and if noone cares, it gets approved.

    Also would disseminate the "new" ideas, which is the REAL point of patents in the first place.

    One more requirement: must be comprehensable to the average HS graduate, and provide FREE links to all references. (implies HTML)

  21. Re:Watchout Frys... on Best Buy Sued By Ohio · · Score: 1

    Dude, I have been shopping at Frys for years...
    Other than the MFR not handling the rebates right, I have never had ANY issue, and Frys hardly has control of the rebates.

    Frys ads always say "w $XX mail in rebate"
    I just never buy items w/mail in rebates, unless it's great deal without it, which happens.
    . Simple.

  22. Re:problems on Telly MC2100, a Linux-based PVR/Media Center · · Score: 1

    Anyone with $600 and ANY Linux experience can have a decent dual tuner (PVR250) HW mpeg Athlon box built from retail parts running in 2 hours, recording shows in mythtv, on a 250G drive. Suggest Nvidia 440 MX w/svideo+dvi out.

    Install Mandrake 10, and google for "easy urpmi", "thacs" and "PLF" add the sources (including main and contrib) , and "urpmi mythtv-suite".

    I highly suggest a broadband connection, and avoiding ALSA on NForce2 hardware.

    I also suggest an Antec Sonata or Overture case, as they have 120mm fans, which are quieter AND move more air.

  23. Re:Score - Dave: 1 Most slashdotters: 0 on Microsoft Windows: A Lower Total Cost of 0wnership · · Score: 1

    I am hoping thousands of PHBs come into work Monday AM waving this a pr00f that Linux costs more ...

    It will be hysterical;-0

  24. Re:Gnome isn't too big, nor is it ugly... on Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8 · · Score: 1

    OK...But have they fixed the bit where it randomly crashes every 5 minutes?

    Not meant as a troll, that is exactly why I gave up on Gnome years ago, and started using KDE.

    Every time I upgraded RH (several versions, we're talking years here) I gave gnome a shot, and every time something (button click/standard app/config tool) caused gnome to leave a smoking crater within 5 minutes.

    I NEVER had that problem with KDE. If I wanted flakey, I'd run Windows.

  25. Re:My wish: Case insensitivity on The Linux Filesystem Challenge · · Score: 1

    Reality collapses, of course, Right?