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  1. Re:What, no editorial? on Red Hat Recap · · Score: 1

    If it isn't a free pass where do I download the source. If it is gpl'd software I should be able to download it and change it and work with it all I want. I don't want or need support but I was just looking around and I can't find anywhere to get the sourcecode to play with. I would think that is against the gpl in and of itself. I admit I just did a cursory check for the software but I couldn't google it up anywhere.

  2. Re:It's a rule, play by it. on ICANN Cracks Down on Invalid WHOIS Data · · Score: 1

    This could definitely lead to some decent domain stealing and lawsuits. Imagine some of the companies that just forgot to update or something we can end up with all sorts of webpages leading to pr0n

  3. Re:No Blood For Broadband!111!!!! on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    but with wi-fi hotspots everywhere like that what will happen to hte poor chaps with the tinfoil hats? Won't all those radio signals fry their brains?

  4. Re:This is why I dropped Netscape on Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller · · Score: 1

    I dropped netscape because of all the AOL advertising crap built into it.

  5. Re:welll, yes, a laptop-but on MSFTs "iPod Killer" Readied for Europe · · Score: 1

    I bought an averatec for 549.00 brand new with a 40 gig drive and a 1.33 Ghz proc. So yes you can get a low end laptop formuch cheaper. It even has a dvd player and everything works in linux so it was a perfect buy for me.

  6. Re:How smart u are.. on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 1
    I would gladly educate you :)

    Okay I've heard this allot about processors

    it is a lot not allot.

  7. Re:Who actually pays? on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 1

    so how do these licenses work? what if I set up a lightweight server and ran 45 or five thin clients off of it? Do I have to pay for a license for each client or do I just pay for the one license for the server? Can XP even run like this?

  8. Re:bad for economy too on Intellectual Property Laws bad for business · · Score: 1

    Oh you are so very right. There are lots of jobs here that export products. That is why trailer parks are full of people people renting sub standard housing. Do you want to work at a rope factory for $8.00 an hr just so that the company can afford to try to be competitive to a country that has workers producing rope for .75 a day? Work is definitely going over seas, what is left is jobs that many people do just to get by. It is not satisfying work, it is not well paying work, it is just something to feed the kids and get by because they can't afford to get an education or they are just uneducatable. The amount of jobs like this is shrinking all the time and the ones that are out there still do not pay near as much as they need to feed and house the family.

  9. Re:What about Gimp-Print? on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    it had one when I compiled it about 10 minutes ago. Haven't tested it yet though :)

  10. well... on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it works as good as their firewall does, only halfway that is, then the antivirus companies have nothing ot worry about.

  11. Hard Drive diagnostics. on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    Found this site with diagnostic tools for a bunch of different hard drive mnufacturers.

  12. Re:Question on Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy · · Score: 1

    You are saying the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. I thought that nothing can move as fast as the speed of light.

  13. well I won't need to worry about it. on Candidate Ads, Coming Soon To An Inbox Near You · · Score: 1

    I am writing filter rules now.

  14. Question on Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If this shed light when the galaxy was 750M years old, and the galaxy is expanding, this means when the galaxy was 750M years old that galaxy was much closer to where we are now. This would tell me that the galaxy alreay shined light on this segment of space, how is that light still here? How can light shine twice?

  15. Re:bugs, bugs, bugs on IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only problem is that 90% of the office users Think that they need MS Office to be productive. About 2% of those users actually use any of the 'features' or even much more than Word. Most people don't know how to set up a macro or even what a macro is or does. THe only thing that is keeping 100% interoperability from happening is the fact that Visual Basic is proprietary and can not be ported to linux at all. now if someone could develope a wrapper that would have the speed and functionality to be able to use Windows macros then Open Office would stand a chance.

  16. Re:What happens to the world... on DVDCCA Claims Patent on CSS · · Score: 1

    Only Today? do you mean in the last 10 years or are you talking the last 100 years? This has been going on for a long time. Bell has been hoarding important information for a very long time now. Telephones would be twice what they are today if it wasn't for the locked filing cabinets at Bell labs. There have been a lot of lost opportunities because of things like this.

  17. Re:Specialization on Specialized Knoppixes for Fun and Profit · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. Re:I dont think I would hack my car on Hack Your Car · · Score: 1

    I don't know but if you touch a 110 line while grounded properly you may be pretty toasty.

  19. Re:Wireless Network on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 1

    If you have the scripts and everything you are almost there. you could create your very own gui using the qt tools available with KDE and have your chooser right on your desktop.

  20. Re:Groklaw is biased against SCO already on Groklaw Traces Contribution of ABIs back to SCO. · · Score: 1

    sorry guys it was just a bad joke

  21. Re:FBI investigates SCO as author of MyDoom virus! on Groklaw Traces Contribution of ABIs back to SCO. · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I had mentioned this on Slashdot and got put down as a troll. It was an honest opinion I wasn't trolling. Would be funny if it turns out true.

  22. Re:Groklaw is biased against SCO already on Groklaw Traces Contribution of ABIs back to SCO. · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Also they reported WMD's FOUND when infact the questionable site contained pesticides.

    Why do you need pesticides in the desert were nothing grows anyway? To kill those white anglo pests?

  23. Re:Unfortunately on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 1

    You know this sounds like a good idea but it seems like where i go to school you can't even find out what books you need for class until the week before class starts. Makes it kind of hard to find alternatives and to have them sent to you.

  24. personally? on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think SCO did this. I think they put up the money as a front to look eager and they wrote the virus to look like they are being hurt by the big bad open source community again.

  25. isn't it today? on SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement · · Score: 1

    Isn't it today that they are supposed to be giving their proof through a court order? what happened with that anyone know?