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  1. Re:One argument they could use... on Verisign Sues ICANN Over SiteFinder · · Score: 1

    Except I believe most of these still return HTTP 404 - if they don't, that's broken, but I've not particularly noticed any which don't yet.

  2. Re:How much for JUST the rights to listen? on One Man's Check From The RIAA · · Score: 1

    I'd expect that UK ;aw/practices with radio are different to those in the US...

  3. Re:Who cares? on Stores Neglecting Old Videogame Packaging? · · Score: 1

    Hmm... Pretty much is DVD cases for all games (where I live at least); PC games, GC games, Xbox games, PS2 games, all use DVD cases...

  4. Re:Argh!! It's "hear hear" not "here here"!! on FCC Supports Neighborhood Radio · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine that people who don't speak English as a first language tend to pick up on inaccuracies better than people who do, as when learning a foreign language one tends to be more aware of homonyms than a native speaker.

    That's my impression anyway.

  5. Re:Source code? on MPAA Prevails Against 321 Studios' DVD X Copy · · Score: 1

    mencoder's a part of mplayer, so yes, source is available.

  6. Re:Office next? on Microsoft Forces wxWindows To Rename · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not a trade mark lawyer, but this page seems to imply that there's no need for the word "Microsoft" to be used...

  7. Re:kazaa, bittorrent, emule/edonkey? on Microsoft Warning Leaked Code Traders · · Score: 1

    The thing about freenet is that it's high-latency; once you've got a route to the file, in theory it should be as fast as the people uploading to you.

  8. Re:My question is.... on Indian Techies Answer About 'Onshore Insourcing' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm not arguing that; just the parent stated that Asians aren't Hindus - and I pointed out that there are Asian Hindus.

  9. Re:My question is.... on Indian Techies Answer About 'Onshore Insourcing' · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Asians are not Hindus

    Asia's a continent, Hinduism is a religion. One of the main areas of Hinduism is India. India is in South Asia. Therefore a vast number of Asians are Hindus...
  10. Re:Not illegal in China,India,Asia,Europe,Scandina on FBI on the Windows Source Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Huh? IANAL, but I believe it's totally illegal here [UK], if only under copyright law.

  11. Re:So the question is on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks for pointing that one out, hadn't RTFM properly before...

  12. Re:So the question is on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1
    The Linux kernel's a touch bigger than that:
    [dave@tc4 ~/linux-2.5.74]$ make clean
    RM $(CLEAN_FILES)
    [dave@tc4 ~/linux-2.5.74]$ du -h|tail -n 1
    222M .
    Note the above was with 2.6.2-mm1
  13. Re:Small server they've got there on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I do know of what is apparently a source. Not tried it, because I don't want to touch it and hate warez, but the neowin.net article wouldn't point to any sources...

  14. Re:Small server they've got there on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    /me points to the star by his name...

    I was getting a load of errors before it was subs-only.

  15. Re:Small server they've got there on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    It was slashdotted before it was posted to slashdot.

  16. Re:dumb question on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think I once read they were some kind of food. Or something. :/

  17. Re:Anti-virus software? on MyDoom.C Making Its Way Across The Net · · Score: 1

    Here you are, HTH.

  18. Re:Um. on Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Which engines? Every engine I've looked at crawls pages if no robots.txt is present at the time - I've got pages with no robots.txt on the site in Google and AllTheWeb.

  19. Re:Kernel 2.6 on Knoppix 3.3 Update, 3.4 C't Edition Are Out · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't even have to do that; make moveold will move the old modutils to [filename].old, then you can make install and not have to worry about which modprobe to use - it automatically starts insmod.old etc when it detects a 2.4 module.

  20. Re:No, not yet. on Nokia Takes Control of Symbian · · Score: 1

    Even if Linus wanted to change the kernel's licence, AFAIK he couldn't. Unless he stripped out everyone else's code, or got them to OK the licence (extremely hard - would Caldera cooperate in this case?), or got everyone to assign copyright to him, it would be breaking copyright law to release it under an incompatible licence.

  21. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 on Configuring the 2.6 Linux Kernel · · Score: 1
    Red Hat 9 release notes - see:
    Red Hat Linux 9 includes the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL), a new implementation of POSIX threads for Linux. This library provides performance improvements and increased scalability for i686 or better processors.
  22. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 on Configuring the 2.6 Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Red Hat's had NPTL since RH9 - so a bit more than LFS and perhaps Gentooers.

  23. Re:A better idea. on Who is Responsible for Advice Labels on Games? · · Score: 1

    There are warnings when TV shows contain strobe lighting over here - usually along the lines of someone saying "Please be advised that this programme contains strobe lighting and (insert other cautions)"

  24. Re:Joe-Job on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the case of spammers (as the easiest example to use) it's when a spammer sets the From: address to be from an anti-spammer, or just someone they don't like, so they get all the bounces and complaints.

    It can also be where the spammer sends out spam for another web site, which was unrequested - giving that site a bad image.

  25. Re:Changelog Translation on Meet Linux Kernel 2.6.2, 'Feisty Dunnart' · · Score: 1

    So kinda like a typical NEWS file? Yeah, it'd be a good idea to have one of those, it gets annoying grepping changelogs...