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  1. 802.58.75.84 on 802.11g... It's Official · · Score: 1

    Damn it - they add many for dots to these standards people will be trying to ping them.

    Pleeeease could we try to think of real names for things that are memorable - Bluetooth isn't going anywhere for now, simply because people can remember it's name to ask for it.

  2. Re:asda on Wal-Mart Enters NetFlix's Business · · Score: 1

    The last two letters stand for dairy association - can't remember what the first two are (and too lazy to Google it.)

    It was originally a chain of stores owned by dairies around the country. Now it's owned by Walmart (and in contrast to the Walmart in the US, is the best option around the UK at the moment)

  3. Re:Egyptain Religion is Weak... on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1
    Wonder why those people weren't interviewed about those statements afterwards.


    Well... have you ever tried interviewing someone once the worlds ended. It's just inpractical.
  4. Re:C4H5N20 - No need for sponsors on Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the other two steps.

    Step 5: ???
    Step 6: Profit!

  5. Re:Why is CVS overkill? on Groupware for Small Consulting Organizations? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The submitter of the article suggested Sourceforge themselves, but thought that it was too much for what they needed.

  6. Re:Dang, a few days too late. on Turning The SEGA Dreamcast Into A Linux Router · · Score: 1

    Possibly... but then you have to pay for broadband adapter as well.

  7. Re:Beowulf cluster on Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers · · Score: 2

    And ironically you also managed to make your modding to redundant a redundant activity, due to your redundant mentioning of how you modded a non-redundant post redundant.

    (And if that gets through the lameness filter, I will personally eat your hat. 5 times to ensure redundancies)

  8. Re:More importantly.. on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    If you were suffering from a case of cheesy joke-itis (I am :P) you could say:

    "That is, you can usually tell the uncompressed text says "usually""

    I'm sorry.

  9. Re:I think this is good on Research: Mobile Phones Disrupt Aircraft · · Score: 1

    It's not a supposedly - a friend of mine is in at the moment, and left her phone on by mistake... she realised when the cubicle across from her found that the heart monitor they were using wasn't working.

    When she turned the phone off, it miraculously started again.

    So remember - turn off those phones as you go in the front doors, and don't turn them back on again until you've left the building.

  10. Re:What My Organization Did: on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did you really just suggest using Windows on /.?

    I suggest you find yourself a nice little cabin somewhere in the mountains to escape the rabid hordes of trolls about to attack you.

    [Disclaimer: I admin a Windows network at work ;)]

  11. Re:Thats not the "ink" software people want. on Running Linux On Acer's C100 Tablet PC · · Score: 1

    I may actually have got my facts wrong there - I'm not sure if the software that comes with our whiteboard actually uses the MS engine, but it does bear a striking resemblance to the software with Office XP.

    Whatever it is though - I want more of it ;)

  12. Re:wonderful on Running Linux On Acer's C100 Tablet PC · · Score: 1

    Well I'm thinking... but I'm not really sure what has to do with anything.

  13. Re:Thats not the "ink" software people want. on Running Linux On Acer's C100 Tablet PC · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know if you've ever actually used the MS ink software - we use it here for interactive whiteboard we have, and the character regognition is stunning.

    I can scrawl something onto the board (never a particularly inspiring sight), and it will usually interpret it how I wanted it to - the times it didn't, you wouldn't fault a human for reading it wrong.

  14. Re:Start of something bigger? on New AIM Offering "end to end" Encryption · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you, but Outlook Express (everyone's favourite mail client) has supported digital signatures for as long as I can remember, and nobody seems to care about them there - why will this be any different?

  15. Re:*All* the limitations? on The Death of Bluetooth? · · Score: 1

    It's also good for PDA internet access... using IR you had to line everything up, and then once it was done, hope a heavy wind didn't push them out of alignment.

    With Bluetooth I can leave the phone in my pocket so long as it's turned on, and use the PDA from my hand.

  16. Re:Has anybody considered on SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence? · · Score: 1

    But if you don't own the code in the first place, you can't place it under GPL.

    Using your logic... I've just place Windows under the GPL - enjoy that source everyone!

  17. Re:Simply put: I don't. on Properly Contributing to Open Source While on Company Time? · · Score: 1

    Go work for a charity - I'm at one now and it's the best work enviroment I've been in.

    The pays not so good, but that just means it's the people who really love their job that are around, rather than a bunch of hangers-on. And any code I write (at any point in time, mine or theirs) has my name in the copyright statement.

  18. Re:GTK+ Native or X-Windowed? on Gentoo's Portage to be Ported to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    My guess is that it'll be up to you, via the usage of USE flags. If it's anything like the native Linux version, you'll be able to set the GTK flag, and it'll build with gtk for OS X.

  19. Re:Why did he have to release it at nullsoft.com? on Justin Frankel Resigns From Nullsoft · · Score: 1

    That's not slave labour in the slightest... look at the copyright statements in the code.

    They say Nullsoft.

  20. Re:Slashdot won't like this but... on Justin Frankel Resigns From Nullsoft · · Score: 1

    This is gonna get modded OT, but I have karma to burn, so I'm gonna say it anyway...

    What's with the "I could care less" fashion at the moment? Read what you just said!

    You said that you care to a certain degree about the subject... the opposite meaning to the phrase "I *couldn't* care less"... which means you don't care in the first place, and therefore would have to care a negative ammount to care any less.

  21. Re:Long Decline Anyway on Justin Frankel Resigns From Nullsoft · · Score: 1

    Always wondered about that...since its part of an employment contract. Since i'm no longer employed, it should not be in affect. The fact that i'm paid is inthe same contract..so if that keeps in affect, maybe my pay will too ;-)


    If it's anything like the clause in NDA for some beta testing I did of Eve (mmm... Eve), it applies for a set of ammount of time after employment ceases. In the case of the Eve beta I'm not allowed to develop an MMORPG for another year and a half.
  22. Re:Why did he have to release it at nullsoft.com? on Justin Frankel Resigns From Nullsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    He may well have a contract that says anything he develops is the property of AOL - meaning that he wouldn't be allowed to publish it anywhere without their consent.

  23. Re:Still on the .NET path to Hell on Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman · · Score: 1

    The idea is that options are just *saved* in the gconf database - there should still be a way of changing them in apps.

  24. Re:Ximian and money? on Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman · · Score: 1
    and I think certain portions of their Red Carpet update service (if memory serves).


    I believe they have a "high-speed" update service, which also includes a few apps not included in the standard Red Carpet set.

    They also sell an enterprise edition of Red Carpet, which allows system administrators to define their own software sets for Red Carpet on their clients - looks rather like MS Systems Management Server (or more likely the Software Installs section of group policies, since I'm assuming you'll have to build the RPMs by hand.)
  25. Re:Still on the .NET path to Hell on Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman · · Score: 1
    god forbid in their rush to shove all their heads up Bill Gates' arse they ever go back and fix the fragmented hideous cludge that is GNOME.


    Admitedly it could use a bit more work to integrate things like XMMS, but I really like the Gnome themes system... it has the right combination of power, and simplicity.

    For the casual user (for example a secretary running XD2 on her desktop at work), you can have complete themes, that will change your Metacity/Icon/GTK themes all at once.

    For the user with a little more time (for this one read "the helpdesk guys, with nothing better to do") you can change each of them to find the perfect mix.

    I'll re-emphasise that more integration would still be nice though (developers: how about allowing application to add themselves to the themes settings... so you could have Controls/Icons/Windows Borders/XMMS for example.)