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  1. Total Commander on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 2, Informative

    A perfect file manager. No mouse needed, fully customizable, packer and filesystem plugins.
    For the Linux side use for example midnight commander.

  2. Re:Multitasking? on Will Vanderpool Make Linux More Popular? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you'd take a look at the graphic from the article you will see that there is some sort of "OS" indeed below Linux/Windows/whatever. They call it Hyper-OS.

  3. Re:Hmmm, 200 lines out of millions on SGI Compares Linux & System V Source Code · · Score: 1

    Oh, now I get your point, thanks for the explanation.

  4. Re:Hmmm, 200 lines out of millions on SGI Compares Linux & System V Source Code · · Score: 1

    A little problem might be if the people "reasonably copying" the code to Linux haven't given credits to SCO or whoever.

  5. Explanation on Nobel Prize for Medicine For MRI · · Score: 4, Informative

    For all us laymen who don't know what MRI means: Google Glossary Search knows more!

  6. Google Zeitgeist on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am sure the next Google Zeitgeist will show numerous searches for candle truck or speaker bracelet in October 2003. And nobody at Google will have an explanation for this ;-)

  7. Re:The association? Why not some home numbers? on Oops, Dave Barry Does It Again · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.ataconnect.org/boardofdirectors.htm http://www.ataconnect.org/staff.htm Someone get the white pages for the US and find out address and phone numbers please!

  8. Not just a new number.. on Oops, Dave Barry Does It Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    It seems they don't just need a new phone number (again!) but soon they'll also need a new (additional!) web server ;-)

  9. Re:BMW does it on U.S. Court: Lexmark Can Tie Rebates To Refills · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right, the choice is in the consumers' hands and the open market could theoretically solve this. The problem many people tend to miss: People are dumb. Very dumb indeed. No, they don't inform themselves about patents, they don't think about refills when buying the printer. Forget it.

  10. Re:You lost this fight years ago. on More Jail Time For Computer Crime Starting Next Month · · Score: 1

    Very good point. Please mod it up, it is very important, even if you do not like it - it's just true. The etymology of a word only describes where it comes from, not what it means.

  11. Re:Gave it a shot... on Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test6 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since you tried out a development kernel you seem to be a developer or at least part of quality assurance. Therefor you are not allowed to ignore bugs like that and go back to the working version. Instead you have to find out the source of the problem, write a nice bug report and file it. For sheer hard work supply a fix as well.

  12. Re:Doh. on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Certainly one can interpret - or at least phrase - it in many different ways. Some important questions:
    • What about those 5%? What did they dislike about Linux, why did they switch (back?) to Windows? - We need to get in touch with folks who switched from Linux to Windows and ask them these questions.
    • What about these other 95%? Why didn't they switch to Linux instead of switchting to the - probably much more expensive - Windows 2003? What features is Linux missing Windows 2003 can offer?
  13. Re:Tsk, tsk, tsk... on Y: A Successor to the X Window System · · Score: 1

    Not exactly a complete rewrite, but still a step in the right direction: Xouvert, a XFree86 fork.

  14. Useless links on Sobig Worm Attacking RBL Lists? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why do you have put a link to spamhaus into this story? Readers might expect something new, special on their page, click on it and help using up spamhaus' valuable bandwidth.

    No point in providing useless links..

  15. Re:Why the hell is this on Slashdot now? on Sebek2 - A Kernel-based Data Capture Tool · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC the paper was last changed on 13th Sept 2003. So it is quite new. Not the tool itself (as the version number - remember, it was 2 - implies), but this paper about it.

  16. Get the doc! on Samba 3.0.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    ..at O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf!

    Congrats to the Samba Team!

  17. Re:Money? on Kazaa Sues Record Labels · · Score: 1

    Kazaa's business model is quite simpel: Get some money with a cool-sounding name and concept, buy a ticket to the beautiful pacific island Vanuato, release a press release now and then from this island.

  18. Re:A Solution from the Dark Side on Kazaa Sues Record Labels · · Score: 1

    Don't mind, the RIAA and similar organisations have more than enough money to get law enforement after suspected pirates.

  19. Uhm.. on Home-brewing a 1.2TB IDE to Firewire Monster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..actually there are quite cheap external boxes for usual hard drives including a firewire plughole. Cheap, finished - it works out of the box.

    Ok, why get it easy if it can be done complicated as well..

  20. Re:That'll stop them! on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 1

    Obviously you're using Windows Explorer as your file manager, right?

    Damn get a efficient file manager instead of the crap you seem to be using now!

  21. Re:Aaah! My Eyes!! on BeOS Max Edition v3.0 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not needed, it's slashdotted already anyway.

  22. Re:I know, i allways complane on Google Adds Location Targeted Searching · · Score: 1

    It's still just a try - you can't see it on the usual Google search page (like you can see web, groups, images, news..), it's in the Labs at the moment. And I guess the group of people willing to try it out, to test it, is large enough.

    Unfortunately.. I'd love to see it world wide as well.

  23. Shello Powers on Practical RDF · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Shelly Powers the girl from Austin Powers?

  24. Re:Article has nothing to do with RFID tags on RFID Hell · · Score: 3, Interesting

    True that this article has nothing to do with RFID, but just FYI there are many active RFID tags as well. The larger one which are used for highway tolls in some countries for example. Passive tags usually don't have this large range.

  25. NAT & firewall on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can have a good and secure firewall even without NAT, in case you didn't know..