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  1. Re:It may be a new build... on Longhorn M4 Build Review · · Score: 1

    yes. and slower than the last pile of poo no doubt.

  2. Re:Shouldn't Have Even Been Posted on Windows vs. Unix Revisited · · Score: 1
    Statements by a Unix evangelist has no business being reported as news.

    At least the article has some facts to back up the analysis, which is more than most news stories parroting MS's hype about .net etc.

  3. spin cycle on Priest Brews in Washing Machine · · Score: 1

    ausge-(burp)-zeichnet!

  4. guess backups are not a concern on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL · · Score: 0, Interesting

    pg is great, but it still requires a shutdown to perform a backup (pg_dump and dumpall are exports, not backups).

  5. ig farben on BASF Shows Off Some Tantalizing Nanotech · · Score: 1

    BASF = Badische Anilin -und- Soda Fabrik

  6. toss real on Hiding Your Choices And Saying You Made Them · · Score: 1

    you can get extensions for mplayer (a linux player that supports mp3, wav, quicktime, real etc) audio and video formats. If you have windows, lol.

  7. ausgeseichnet. on Robocoaster · · Score: 1

    those kooky germans.

  8. wake up and smell the polystyrene on 30 Years Since Last Man on the Moon · · Score: 1

    The Space Age is over. The age of superstition and mass domestication is in full swing.

  9. BINGO! on Updating Quickbooks Forces Online Membership? · · Score: 1

    That is precisely what ms is up to. '.net services' etc. Ms is betting the farm on moving to a services hosting model.

  10. au contraire... on Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison · · Score: 2, Informative
    There simply isn't any kind of video editing software available for Linux that is even remotely affordable

    FREE native linux video editing: cinelerra
    scalable, too.

  11. Re:Question for you all... on PostgreSQL 7.3 Released · · Score: 1

    postgresql $0 - oracle EE $40,000 PER PROCESSOR.

  12. soon, but not yet. on PostgreSQL 7.3 Released · · Score: 1
    Actually, until postgresql provides point-in-time recovery, it is not suitable for 24/365 operation. (supposedly this is coming in release 7.4).

    other than hot backups, postgresql is the open-source dbms, with almost all of the scalability and features of the leading commercial dbms's, and will probably surpass them just as linux has long ago surpassed the x86 competition in operating systems.

  13. linux for laptops on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1
    There's no prevailing need for windows anymore. I use linux (only) on my laptop, openoffice, aim for linux, and the browser interface to our office exchange server, and am able to interoperate with all of the office systems and other users.

    And I save my company about $800 per year in software costs.

  14. just say no on Microsoft Antitrust Judgement · · Score: 1

    there is no reason for any enterprise to run M$ any more. My laptop runs rh 7.3, openoffice, aim for linux, phoenix. I have no m$ on my box.

  15. perversion of standards on Tim Bray on Microsoft Office · · Score: 1
    Look at the HTML format currently output by the ms word application.... it is a read-only and unneccesarily complex implementation due to massive bloating of embedded formatting.

    Clearly, any adoption by ms of open standards is an attempt to co-opt the standard.

  16. microsoft fabricating news? on Microsoft PR Rep is the Switcher · · Score: 1, Funny

    microsoft fabricating their news? I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

  17. hmm on Declaring The Death of Metatags · · Score: 5, Funny

    interestingly, the article html contains meta name="keywords" content="metatags are evil, metatags must die, death to the meta tags"

  18. self-immolation on Universal Music Hit with Anti-Piracy Suit · · Score: 1

    let the games begin!

  19. re: testicles on Passenger Profiling: CAPPS II · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, the etymology of 'testicle' and 'testify' is not a coincedence. Many old cultures (the ancient jews, for example) used the threat of crushed testes as an ajunct to interrogation in court.

  20. Re:Neat Trick... on Firefly Premieres Tonight · · Score: 1

    let's start by NOT HAVING SOUND IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE. And someday, someone will stop foretelling the invention of gravity paint and will actually put a centerfuge up there (a la 2001).

  21. elliptic curves? on OpenSSL Gets Cryptography Gift From Sun · · Score: 1

    what about the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture? If openSSL would include that with elliptic curves we could solve Fermat's last theorem on our PDA's...

  22. Re:it's not about not paying for the software on HP Publishs First Linux TPC-C Benchmarks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you left out the part about m$ lying through their teeth...

  23. Re:isn't it odd on Microsoft Word Security Flaw · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Far more likely that macrotheft knew all along about this bug (or was it a feature?) and is using this opportunity to 'patch' in something that will render openoffice inoperable.

  24. lets call a spade a spade on Microsoft Word Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Microsoft? Macrotheft!

  25. Re:whats up with the picture? on 75th Anniversary of Television · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, Farnsworth was supressed by a monopoly led by an arrogant meglomaniac who tried everything (lawsuits, nuisance patents) to crush Farnsworth. Sounds like MacroTheft, doesnt it?