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  1. Re:what happened.... on Transforming Orbit Into A Wasteland · · Score: 1

    a Giant used all AeroGel for his shaving...

  2. Re:Leave Me Alone!!!!! on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 1

    For me - completely reverse! DO NOT leave me alone! My performance stalls if I have nobody to talk with.
    If I can explain my problem to a friendly person - I usually can
    find a solution. If nobody is near me - I can spend hours and hours trying to get it solved...

  3. Window, not windows! on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Window please! A real window!

  4. Re:Read the license on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 1

    If you have used "Windows update" from that machine, they could theoretically prove that the unique ID from that machine is in their database of updated software. That means that somebody have used that PC with Windows, agreeing with EULA...

  5. Re:Ever heard of an EULA? on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 1

    BOUGHT? How can they prove that I have agreed to their EULA? Especially if I removed their software from discs immediately after purchase?

  6. Re:The desktop-revolution begins on Spanish Province Dist-Upgrades · · Score: 1
    Hmmm... One thing I really suggest to have in desktop Linux
    is to create it without usual UNIX file permissions (!)

    The system of file permissions wiped out - you are essentially ONE and ONLY ONE user of this system,
    all requests to change file permissions ignored, ls -l has no column with confusing rwxrwxrwx
    and instead of it we can put security labels that you can "attach" to files, programs and directories.
    System then check files against programs for consistency of labels

    For example you can have "Private" directory that you can read only by "Private" password-protected "kdedit-passworded"

    It's much more secure than doing magic with -rwxrwxrwx-

    So for desktop system, you'll have

    1. a smooth non-confusing file system
    2. mandatory labeled (and theoretically secure!) security control
    This will be great!
  7. Re:The desktop-revolution stays where it is on Spanish Province Dist-Upgrades · · Score: 2, Informative
    Did you try new Mandrake Linux for example?

    Maintaining XP is much much worse... especially its OEM stripped mode when you have only one big C drive and a backup CD that allow you to only recreate that big C drive...

  8. Re:Toyota Prius on Hybrid Powertrains and Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    In what state do you live? Do you know in some states you can get a tax refund for using such car?
    Check your sources!
    I was very impressed about Prius and hope to have it my next car.

  9. Eh. This is ordinary news. on Japan Builds World's Fastest Computer · · Score: 1
    My not-so-ordinary-news:
    * 2002-04-19 22:01:44 DOE is buying a fastest Linux computer ever made (articles,news) (rejected)
    Se la vi. I think Slashdot people should be much more interested in Linux computing and problems and achievements regarding that computing than about some ordinary supercomputing Japanese stuff.

    CNN storyregarding that Linux computer...

  10. TCL on Seeking Multi-Platform I/O Libraries? · · Score: 2

    Try TCL.
    For me, using TCL my performance increased by 60%
    (especially when using its [Incr TCL] OO Extension)
    TCL works on most unices, Windows, Mac, VMS, Palm Pilot...
    Tk graphical library is so successful that other languages
    (perl, prolog, python) are using it.

  11. Re:Jeez you guys are friggin paranoid. on Microsoft's Guide to Accepting Donated PCs · · Score: 1

    Can I just DESTROY the license and software?

  12. GNU "Guide" on Microsoft's Guide to Accepting Donated PCs · · Score: 1

    It will be very wise if EFF will issue its own version of guide and try to distribute it to schools as wide as possible...

  13. Re:What about trees? on Goodbye Global Warming!...Hello Terraforming? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, it's a common misunderstanding.
    Trees has breathing, too.
    And the balance from the trees are near zero.
    The most part of CO2 -> O2 is done by phitoplankton in oceans.

  14. Re:Or not on Trouble Ahead for Java · · Score: 1

    Ok. You omitted the following (as Java people usually do)
    ADD:
    1) A pain: install Java
    2) A pain: install CLASSPATH and packets.
    3) A LONG pain - compile.

    How it will look like in TCL
    1) Install TCL (a pain but a little)
    2) Install extensions.(some pain)
    Volia!
    Just copy your TCL files from Linux to diskette,
    copy that to Windows box, start a program - it works!
    NO COMPILATION at ALL!

  15. Re:It's a 1st april fake... only late on Gigantic Bugs in Southern California · · Score: 1
    During that era -- some 55 million years before the apperance of the dinosaurs, over 300 million years ago -- Earth's atmosphere was far less oxygen-rich than it is now; yet many grotesquely large insects existed at that time -- many more than today.
    I heard about absolutely different data
    about oxygen content. We now living in
    much less oxygen content than before
    dinosaurs.
    A paper presented at the 1993 meeting of the Geological Society of America introduced a new theory that the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere some 120 million years ago (Early Cretaceous) diminished significantly over a period of .5 million years. The percentage of oxygen measured in air trapped in amber went from a high of 35 percent to a low of 28 percent.
    Quote is from here:http://www.stonecompany.com/dinoeggs/study/eg gstudy.html
  16. Re:Driving from America to Asia on Driving from Alaska to Siberia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, making a permanent roadway will benefit only US and Chukotka, because
    Chukotka itself has no reliable connections (no hard-surface roads, no railroads) with Russia
    mainland.

  17. Can you assemble a QUIET PC on PC Prices to Rise? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am out of that discussion mainly because
    I use notebooks.
    And the reason why I do it - quietness.
    Is it possible to assemble desktop that will
    have no fans at all and work good?

  18. It's a 1st april fake... only late on Gigantic Bugs in Southern California · · Score: 1

    If you see the photo, it's actually two cut back parts of
    cockroaches, glued together.

    Black cockroaches can be 5 santimeters in length.
    And it's not a news.

    Actually, the reason why insects can not be huge,
    lies in their means of breathing. They breath through pores in
    their skin and have no lungs. So their dimensions are limited by
    their ineffective breathing. The more oxygen in athmosphere,
    the larger insects can be.

  19. Re:Odometer, you mean? on Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together · · Score: 1

    People without automotive backgrouds usually
    talk about that gauges as whole,
    speedometer+odometer = speedometer.

  20. I mistakenly thought... on No-click Mouse? · · Score: 1
    that it was asked about a

    Buttonless mouse! :)

    Seriously, what use can buttonless mouse have?

    Why can you want it?

  21. Wow! I really W A N T to see triangle browser on Browser Becomes Billboard · · Score: 2, Funny

    or circle browser ... or browser that looks like a ship... or a sheep...

  22. I want both... on Could a Pen Replace the Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I want keyboard for entering lots of text and control processes and I want pen for making marks in text and drawing stuff and I want mouse for navigating the screen.

  23. Karma burn! I think it's still 1st of April on Distributed Computing Program Hidden in Kazaa · · Score: 1

    and this is a 1st april's joke....

  24. Re:Why object oriented? on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System · · Score: 1

    The main purpose of such filesystem is to be a primary filesystem,
    that can lie on physical medium. OS can be boot from it. I don't want much flexibility in search operations, I prefer less overhead in data structures, although giving more names and attributes to objects and links than in ordinary filesystem.

  25. Re:More info please! on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System · · Score: 1

    I have at least 2 GUI (one is going to become production and second exsts as a prototype)
    that can really work with such filesystems.
    if you're interested, drop me a note at
    (REMOVE FOR NO SPAM)a_mdl@(REMOVE FOR NO_SPAM)mail.ru