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  1. Re:O'Reilly on Good Database Design Books? · · Score: 1

    And, your local library may have a Safari subscription available for you, so you can get them *all* online (mine does, aclib will in theory cover anyone in Florida...)

  2. Re:"destructive device" on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Destructive devices are NFA items and are covered/controlled by the BATFE. The same BATFE that ruled that a shoe lace can make a machine gun ...

  3. Re:What is needed is 2 levels of FDA on Stem Cell Tourist Dies From Treatment In Thailand · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, many of these studies (at least drug related ones) use a double blind test, so while you may be taking "the risk" and hoping for "a cure" you can end up with nothing more than false hopes and some saline injections.

  4. Re:Guns don't kill people... on UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, there was one murder done with a registered NFA full auto a while back... it was a police officer who did it (shot his wife). Of course, police are exempt from NFA requirements, so he could've gotten one thru his department instead of as a private purchase.

  5. Re:In other news on Guggenheim To Showcase YouTube Videos · · Score: 1

    Ah, the googleheim musem... has a nice ring to it...

  6. Re:So you know they're there on Tearing Apart a Hard-Sell Anti-Virus Ad · · Score: 1

    But is your name Dave?

  7. Re:Slashdot is NOT helping here... on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    My client is not the suspect you are looking for...

  8. Re:Cisco Packet Tracer on Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking? · · Score: 1

    One of the biggest advantages to using Free software for education is being able to have the students set up the labs at home.

  9. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    With deployment time under your belt (and thanks for your service) you should have first hand experience with what an armed populace with small arms and some improvised explosives can do to a modern organized army...

  10. Re:I don't "get" Zappa on Frank Zappa's Influence On Linux and FOSS Development · · Score: 1

    Of course, he's done his own interpretations of classics as well. Came across a recording of his version of Ravel's Bolero and it is quite nice...

  11. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    There are 4 boxes...

    Obviously the soap box is bringing this to attention. Now we need the ballot box and jury boxes to be used. If all else fails, the ammo box.

  12. Re:print & digital on Son of CueCat? Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    For some things, like text books, manuals, howto type books, etc. having the paper and electronic version would be great. O'Reily did this with one of the "animal" Perl books - buy the one book, get all 6 on CD.

    For enjoyment reading I think I'll stick with a paper copy...

  13. Re:More Alcohol and Less Drinking? on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Kaliber by Guinness? It is a NA that is actually like a real beer...

  14. Re:DOS Is dead use visual basic on For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I agree, if you are stuck on ms stuff then VB becomes your "shell scripting" language of quickness.

    This being /. though, I'll have to mention a small customized LiveCD (think DSL sized) with a (perl script | python script | brainfuck implementation | emacs extension | vi/vim script | whatever) with i/o to the user being prettified by some shell/exec stuff with zenity or by developing a graphical app using qt/gtk/whatever. Distribute as a business card cd or a bootable usb key. Have the marketing dept come up with some video, etc. to put on it, make it a bigger CD.

  15. Re:Google is part of your problem on Installing Linux On ARM-Based Netbooks? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you ever use www.google.com/linux or www.google.com/bsd ?

  16. Re:Google-itis on Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" · · Score: 1

    Nah, thats what fark.com and foobies.com are for

  17. If you do this, be careful on John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you do this, be careful - you may get paired up with a partner named Bitterman who is a Marine ... and end up fighting the Strogg

  18. older palm tops work well too on When Internet Radios Get Affordable · · Score: 1

    Older palm tops like my Nokia 770 work well too. I have an old P75 with Debian and Darwin Streaming Server installed, plays my mp3 collection non stop on a few different play lists, I use the Nokia as a radio while mowing the lawn.

  19. Re:Elimination of Load Times? Unlikely on Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    So maybe the thing would be to have a cartridge with a large capacity split into multiple sections, one of which would act as directly addressable memory to hold maps, textures, and other non-changing data stored the way the host OS would expect to access it.

  20. Re:Not for everything. on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 1

    Of course, when porn goes to HTML 5 and its video, everything else will follow.

  21. Re:Good thing on Canonical Explains Decision to License H.264 For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Some of us may not be using open source because it is open, but rather because it works and works well for what we need/want/desire out of our computer use.

    I personally have no issue w/ non-free specialized software like the adobe stuff if that is the tool needed to do the job. I guess you could say I should own a mac, but unfortunately my willingness to use non-free stuff (if it is the best/only tool for the job) exceeds my willingness to pay big $ for the hardware to run it. So I go with the free (gratis) stuff that works well on inexpensive commodity hardware.

  22. Re:Microsoft missing an opportunity on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have the original Loki port of one of the mechwarrior games. It played very well on modest hardware with no issues for me.

  23. Re:Does it still overwrite the MBR, no choice? on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 1

    Hasn't done it in a long time. You do need to pick "advanced" on the last screen which will let you decide to participate in package survey and where to install the boot loader.

  24. Re:Improved driver support on Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux · · Score: 1

    Except printer drivers are PPD files, plain old text.

    micro vs. mono doesn't matter, since I assume that with a micro kernel you could still have loadable modules, just like with the monolithic kernel in Linux. And distros ship with just about all of the modules available and compiled for the sake of the end user.

  25. Except... on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except it isn't released yet. On hold due to a bug in install process that doesn't detect dual boot set ups properly...

    Release party on IRC server: irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-release-party