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  1. Re:Microsoft contract on More On The Open Sourcing Of Iraq · · Score: 1

    Microsoft or Halliburton? -- Just because they dont do software shouldnt stop them from winning the contract. :)

  2. Bluetooth on iPod Your BMW Officially Launched · · Score: 1

    They should have a little bluetooth dongle that jams on and then you can control and hear it via the car's stereo over bluetooth.

  3. Mac OS on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 1

    This article is about Word for Mac. Then the comments talk about Office XP. Did the submitter even read the article?

  4. Re:Speculation on RIP G4 PowerMac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hopefully, Apple will one day offer something like the eMac without a built in monitor.

    They did and it was called "the cube."

  5. Re:I stay off of windows because it sucks! on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 1

    You could probably just plug your camera in and then mount /dev/sda1 to somewhere to get the pics off of it. As long as you have USB support enabled in the kernel.

  6. Raid? on 60GB iPod Coming? · · Score: 1

    We had that story yesterday about ArsTechnica putting those USB drives in a raid config. When is someone going to set up a couple of ipods in a raid config?

  7. Resume on A Former Microsoftie Forecasts Microsoft Doom · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Did anyone else feel like part of the article was more of a resume than an article about Microsoft?

  8. Re:heap overflows -- how does this work? on Security Updates, Notices for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not really at some "unpredictable" place.
    l0pht article

  9. Themes on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 1

    You know, it seems to me that Apple picks a theme when working on thier new minor releases.

    Just think, 10.2 = Configuration. It had like Rendevous

    10.3 = Consumer Usability
    Garage Band
    iChat AV
    Expose
    Fast User Switching

  10. Re:100,000 winning caps were not produced! on iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked · · Score: 1

    ... you are correct, 100,000,000 were produced.

    you do know you need to buy the pepsi bottles with the yellow caps... not the blue ones.

  11. Re:On Pepsi's iTunes Contest on iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked · · Score: 1

    I have actually never seen one of the itunes bottles either here in Jersey.

  12. Re:Spatial Nautilus on GNOME for Grandma · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... I prefer it to the annoying one-window-per-folder Windows Explorer

    Umm, one window per folder = spatial folders. Windows explorer has the panes with the tree on one side and the contents on the other and when you click on things they open in the same window.

  13. Re:please explain on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: 1

    This is EXACTLY the reason some people call the GPL a "viral" license. You must distribute your source code since you are building on a GPL'd project.

  14. Re:EMac / IMac WO Monitor on Apple Revises eMac · · Score: 1

    Yea! That's what we need, g5 cubes! Nevermind the heat problems with the old ones, these new g5's run super cold! Seriously though, if they can fix the heat problems with the cube design, or even have a different case design and a way to buy it without a monitor built in, that'd be great.

  15. Re:Evaporation... on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    This may sound dangerous, but we do the same with CO2 - which is more lethal to anyone entering the room and possibly to the environment (global warming) as well.

    I dont think CO2 is dangerous unless you are getting in INSTEAD of oxygen. In which case anything is dangerous... Nitrogen, or even Water for example.

  16. Re:How is this Constitutional?! on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    Tell that to New Jersey. There are tolls on every major road on your way out of the state.

  17. This guy completely missed the point on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    ESR was writing that as a regular person trying to figure it out as an example of things that could and should be made easier... then he says with "This setup alone is sort of funny -- Linux Advocate Struggles to Configure Printer" It's not that he couldnt figure out the printer, it's that your GRANDMA couldnt figure it out.

  18. How is this different... on Mobile Wifi Backpack · · Score: 1

    How is this any different than any other ad-hoc wireless network?

  19. Re:very much been there, done that on Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House · · Score: 1

    Bizzarely enough Henry Ford (IIRC)...

    I think it was Tesla actually... I could be wrong though.

  20. Re:Need? on Lycoris Shipping Linux OS For Handhelds · · Score: 1

    (people's jobs depend on how good the software is).

    Come on... Windows is not open and look how crappy it is.

  21. Re:So... on Congressional Committee Approves Database Bill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better yet, copyright your body and, if you have blue eyes, sue anyone else with blue eyes for copyright infringement.

  22. Re:What? No NTP? on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not only your mac, but every mac in the country (world?) should have the same time. By default, OS X has a NTP client (and has since like system 8) and it points to time.apple.com IIRC.

  23. DMA on FreeBSD 5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone needs to turn on DMA.

  24. Re:Porting to the PPC ... on FreeBSD 5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it doesnt work at all?
    http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html

  25. Re:BSD packaging systems on FreeBSD 5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, the Kernel is not FreeBSD's kernel... OSX uses Mach. Just the base system comes from FBSD. The utilities and stuff like that. Also, there are a lot of pieces even in that base that are modified for OSX. As for the package manager. The fact that Fink is like Apt from Debian linux doesnt matter. you could write a thing that uses ports on OSX (and actually, I think there might be a project like that). They just did it that way because that's what they wanted to do.