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  1. No palm pilot on Windows 95 in 4.47MB · · Score: 2, Funny

    but I have OS 8 running on my Sharp Zaurus. (thanks basilisk and xfree!)

  2. If you wanted traffic on Community Involvement for an Open Source Project? · · Score: 5, Funny

    you should've linked directly to your project from the slashdot post. (We all know that slashdot is really just a front for the real estate mafia.)

  3. these days? on 11-Pound Model Plane Vs. The Atlantic, Again · · Score: 1

    These days we ignore anything larger than an eagle on radar, under the premise that any plane of war would be masked to appear much smaller.

    This plane will be shot down before it leaves US waters.

  4. AOL also "blanket blocks" on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but of my sites, only one has any members from AOL.

    I called them, and reached an agreement whereby they would allow email from my server if I agreed to put my name, address, and phone number on nonexistant mass emails. I have never done mass emailing. Needless to say, they didn't follow the agreement. Email still doesn't get to AOL users, and I have to give them their passwords manually through AIM.

  5. transplanting? on Apple Public Source License Now FSF Approved · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this mean that it's possible(legal) to transplant Darwin's SMP capabilities into OpenBSD's PowerPC port? Firewire support? Cheapass-iBook-winmodem support?

  6. cheaper on Beginning Java Objects · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you're REALLY a cheapskate, you'll convince all of your friends to learn Java. A month later, you'll have every "24 hours", "21 days", "for dummies", etc book ever written about the language.

  7. originality on RIM Loses NTP Case, To Pay $53 Million · · Score: 1

    The whole idea behind the patent system was that you'd have a monopoly on your idea UNTIL someone improved it significantly. It seems to be ignored in technical patents where a portion of something is patented, and improvements are ignored.

  8. in html on RIM Loses NTP Case, To Pay $53 Million · · Score: 3, Informative
  9. Gentoo on PowerPC? on Gentoo 1.4 Final Released · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried the X86 version, but the PPC version had outdated, buggy, packages by comparison to Sid.

    The LiveCD is great; Gentoo-like, but without X on startup. I keep a copy handy for when MacOS overwrites my bootloader.

  10. Soilant White? on Meet Martin Taylor Of Microsoft's Open Source Test Lab · · Score: 1

    It's made out of people!^?^?^?^?^?^?^?lawyers!

  11. Clippy on Meet Martin Taylor Of Microsoft's Open Source Test Lab · · Score: 3, Funny

    is the real father.

  12. sawfish on Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test · · Score: 1

    That's a feature of sawfish, not GNOME.

  13. TWM rules! on Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test · · Score: 1

    Low memory footprint, familiar Windown 3 interface, and fast reaction times all combine to form one bad-ass environment.

  14. Linux on Gateway Portable MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    that probably(99% chance) means that it works with Linux 2.4, OS X, etc.

    Having an MP3 player act as a usb drive has the advantages of being cheaper, easier to develop, and multi-platform compatible.

  15. only if on Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you license SCO software, use Linux, or come withing 300 feet of either. In any other case, Microsoft owns it.

  16. KDE/GNOME/etc is much more useable than XP on Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do I make a window always-on-top in any version of Windows? No way that I know of unless the application supports it.

    How do I get virtual desktops in Windows? Litestep, the best way I know of, involves replacing explore.exe, the brunt of Windows's interface.

    How do I locally display just a single application (such as a systray program) without viewing the entire screen of the remote system? VNC/TerminalServer doesn't come close.

    How do I update every single installed program from a single command entry without rebooting in Windows? (OK, maybe that's not relating to the GUI argument.)

  17. I'm sorry! on Smart Kindergarten · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm also the one who's been using the T1 line for updating my own private Debian/Sid mirror daily.

  18. They are already killing the little guy on Replacing SMTP? · · Score: 1

    AOL won't accept email from my mail server, which has never sent a single spam, because other sites on the subnet are spamming.

    What we need is a system based upon asymmetric cryptography, whereby I can sign your public key to note that I want to receive email from you. Anything that looks like mass mailing could be tested for a signature.

  19. MMC on New High-End HP Calculator? · · Score: 1

    The size is perfect in that you can leave a card in a device and forget about it, like the 256mb one in my Zaurus. Compared to the expansion cards for the hp48, these things are cheap as hell.

    The Zaurus developers had a great idea when they decided to include both SD and CF slots, so that I can have tons of storage as well as wifi access.

    I really hoped HP would include a lot more ram, or some form of UNIX behind the scenes. I suspect that the HP49 rom that is being emulated can't handle more ram because the Saturn chip was limited to a meganibble.

    A 49gx will come along soon enough. With luck, they'll give it a metal case, 64mb of ram, a CF cardslot, the ability to boot memory cards, and a 400mhz processor.

    Does anyone know of a graphing calculator style keyboard I could use with my zaurus? I could use the numeric keypad from my Apple Macintosh 512ke, but I prefer something lighter. Maybe I could sacrifice my 48sx for one...

  20. in ten years on There Is No Single Instant In Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    When it's discovered that the FOOBAR-300295 chip accidentally measures all speeds as 3E11, major advances will finally be made.

    Space ships will be able to go faster than light by *gasp* continuing to accelerate. We'll be able to speak with family members on Mars through a loop of particles moving faster than light, by dropping a packet on one end to be picked up on the other.

    You pitiful Earthlinks will also discover, by process of elimination, that the electron tastes like Grape-Aid.

  21. build your own on Ricor PVRs To Hit Russia · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm sure a sound card, video capture card, and video card could be thrown into a pentium2/ultrasparc/powerpc with Linux for all of those features and then some.

    A router/pvr/fileserver should sell well in the US if properly advertised.

  22. Sun tax? on Sun Microsystems, SuSE Link Up To Sell Linux · · Score: 1

    How does Sun handle Solaris development costs? Will they sell me an SMP sytem with Linux rather than Solaris?

    (I know they have a free download of Solaris 9, but it doesn't run on SMP systems.)

  23. Would a 4 proc SS1000E help you out? on New Testing Version Of Linux 2.6 · · Score: 1

    I recently acquired one at auction. Contact me if you're interested in it.

  24. programming on Predicting H.S. Dropouts With Pervasive Databases · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I always stayed up until a few hours before I had to go to school last semester. I nearly failed French.

    At the same time, I was working on an extremely educational (to me at least) programming project and some web sites.

    Would my school's system see my drop in French test scores as a sign of impending doom? Would it correlate that with the departure of Jane Doe, who dropped out due to a pregnancy and accuse me of being the father?

    Had I been sidetracked, I never would have had this site of mine on this slasdot article. I wouldn't have gotten a local computer store to invest time/money in my first commercial program.

    You can't reduce anything as complex as a human being to mere comprehendable numbers. Anyways, this new system sounds like it'll be great fun to mess with.

    (On another note, it's hilarious how schools are scared to put a picture of a student on the school's website without a notorized rights waver, yet they jump at the chance to make a national database of students.)

  25. why bother? on SSH or VNC From Your Cell Phone? · · Score: 1

    My zaurus, running OpenZaurus, came with a terminal and the ssh command.

    If I was stuck with a phone as a terminal, I'd probably write a curses script like this one to give me functionality without typing on such a painfully slow keyboard.