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  1. Please Excuse Me If I'm Wrong, but... on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the business version of 3.1 caleed "Windows For Workgroups"? To my knowledge, the only ones called NT were 3.51(or somewhere around there) and 4.0(the start of the .0 plague quickly spread to/from AOL).

  2. Re:Why not? on Would an Ad-Sponsored OS/Desktop Work for OSS? · · Score: 1

    You raise an excellent point in support of such an idea. But I doubt that it would be as simple as:
    ./configure --noads make sudo make install

    This would be more like it:
    ./configure --yes_I_visited_the_site_the_secret_password_is 1.40272E10 yes n|make yes n|sudo make install

    Then I wouldn't support the project. An optional screensaver would be perfectly reasonable.

  3. Nothing New on Nintendo Hires Walking Gamers · · Score: 1

    School uniforms have been walking advertisements for years. Bout time someone made ads less dorky.

  4. Re:I *hate* to see this... on Are You A Friend of Gnome? · · Score: 1

    I know your pain.

    I had seriously high hopes for plex86. The financial problems of the author were almost enough for me to boycott mandrake. I suppose that when I get my sun workstation in a few months, I'll be glad that bochs is still around. I may just contribute to that project, with a "loader". I am a java programmer, but I had better make it kaffe compatible. Sun made one shitty installer for Java. I had to add the bin directory to my path manually. The good folks that make kaffe have an excellent package built, but java compatibility is only slightly better than the M$ vm. As a rule of thumb, if it works with J++ and is portable, then it will work in kaffe. All of my server code works with kaffe, but my applets/applications don't :(. I suppose that swing just isn't supported.

  5. You are a Windows user, so I'll keep this simple on Will Instant Messaging Ever Unite? · · Score: 1

    Trillian=3 or 4
    Gaim=11

    Trillian=free as in beer
    Gaim=free as in a beer recipee

    Gaim also has kickass features like spellchecking, and it sends the data raw, so you can send script tags to netscape messenger users and run js on their client. BTW, you don't need to sell your soul to download.cnet.com to get Gaim.

  6. Can you make your windows box stable on Video Games Found To Decrease Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    enough to FlameCrypt4 by Flame Entertainment (a Java program) in Windows without decription anomolies on any text over 20 characters in length?

    In fact, there were so many problems, that we had to rerelease FlameCrypt 3 for our windows users. We are now in the process of porting the visual basic encryption code to Java, and making the encryption library J++ compatible so that it can be compiled as an activex control and used with the old interface.

    Why the hell can't M$ conform to standards. FC4 works perfectly on Linux and OS X, and we have had no complaints from any operating sytem other than Windows.

    Oh well, my rant is over. I need to get back to work modifying FC4 to work with Windows. Or blowing my braincells away in FF-VIII on my playstation through xawtv. The latter will certainly frustrate me less.

  7. Re:Works perfectly. Killer app. on Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Great, now my pos WinDos workstation can access the Linux server that I setup at work.

    Is there any hope for an integrated mode? (X windows alongside normal windows?)

  8. yep on Lego Trebuchet · · Score: 1

    it's /.ed. Too bad.

    It serves them right for using IIS.

  9. Absolutely on Is There Such a Thing as "Too User Friendly"? · · Score: 1

    User Friendlyness is in direct inverse porportion to Efficiency.

    Using zsh and urpmi I can tell my computer to download and fetch a program in second. Using kde and rpmdrake, it will take at least ten minutes. Using MSIE and download.com, I am looking at twenty minutes or more.

    Using my own tools I can fix my car. But if I take it to the mechanic, and pay him to fix it, it will take much longer. I have to wait for him to get around to it. He is getting paid by the hour, so he is in little to no rush to get it done. (Yes, I am aware that the majority of mechanics give the good ones a bad name.)

    Key combos are often faster, and much more efficient than a mouse. I am running 6 local consoles, and 4 X servers on my system. Doesn't that say something?

  10. Take That BACK!!! on Review: Men In Black II · · Score: 1

    Minority report kicked ass. Even if they could've chosen a better name.

    I sorta missunderstood the doctor scene. If what's his name put the doc away, then why did the doc operate. Did I mention that I can't remember names very well?

  11. Re:I don't really think Apple will lose any sleep. on New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS · · Score: 1

    Good. UNIX for people that bathe regularly is one of the things our society needs most. I'll stick with Linux, but it's great to know that idiot-proof UNIX exists.

  12. Re:I plan on Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'll join you. Does anyone know why galeon can't translate the page using the google "translate to english" bookmarklet?

  13. Re:Relevant Simpsons quote... on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 1

    In the episode where mensa took over springfield they tried this. "Take note, metric time approved at 2.5 on 2002.51348."

  14. M$ Outlook Would NOT Be Protected!!! on New Chips Keep Tight Rein on Consumers · · Score: 1

    M$ Outlook worms are nearly all scripts. Scripts, being run by the interpreted, which will be authenticated, won't be effected by palladium.

    If they go through with this, I'll start boycotting any PC, winshit or otherwise. (Thank goodness Linux can be ported to Sun and Mac systems.)

  15. True Definition.... on 2600 Drops DeCSS Appeal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Morals don't define what is made legal... Money does.

  16. True. on Coursey on Palladium · · Score: 1

    I have several friends and relatives that I've converted to dual boot. My dad will be moving to a Linux only system when he gets broadband. My boss at work can even use it.

    If Palladium gets integrated into all x86 compatible systems, we can move. We can move to Sun or Macintosh systems with out losing any of our open source software.

    If I unwittingly buy a system with Palladium, I will find a way to rip it out. If I pay for it, then it is mine. And those damn heartless corporations that disagree with me can sell proprietary binaries to hell!

  17. Is NetBSD acceptable? on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    Cause I could probably do that.

  18. Miranda Rights vs Copy Rights on Copyright Battle Over Nothing · · Score: 1

    You have the right to remain silent, except where excluded by the copyrights of others.

  19. Why bother? on Cracking Down on MP3s at the Office · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just turned 16. I started my first job 3 weeks ago. I have admin access to every server where I work, and my workstation. I have root on the Linux system that I set up for the company. I simply FTPed to my system at home and downloaded all my oggs. I then installed WinAmp, and everything is fine. My bosses(I have two) are both complementing how hard I work.

    What employers need to realize is that things like a dress code, and crummy music hurt job performance. A friend of mine at work can do four times the productivity that he does, but as he says, "I'll give them better work when they treat me better." While I don't doodle and such during work, I do understand where he is coming from.

  20. Ok, but... on Kernel Summit Wrapup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When will the ability to run a .class file from a command line be part of the kernel? That is what I care about.

  21. Re:Mirror on Two Towers Teaser Trailer · · Score: 1

    I have "url spoilers" turned off, so I actually fell for your joke. That is on localhost.

    I have put a working mirror up on my 100mb/s file server. Here it is.

  22. I told them. on Just How Much Privacy Do We Have? · · Score: 1

    I told them to use cyphered analog rotational fequency walkie talkies. But did they listen? NO they didn't.

  23. Neat, now I can get that nueral implant. on Printing Chips · · Score: 1

    And let Big Brother spy on my thoughts at all times.

  24. Great. on Surveying New Wireless Technologies · · Score: 1

    Mom & Pop businesses have never tried to cheat me. Corporations do it every chance they get, most likely more often than that.

  25. FINALLY on Tribes2 Patch for Linux Out · · Score: 1

    When will Loki be resurected!? Their descent 3 and myth 2 ports were excellent. Too bad we were all so damn thrifty that we bough used copies, and copies existing ones.

    We should have bought a new copy. We should have helped them along. We failed them, they didn't fail us.