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  1. Aquaman on Internet to Pakistan Goes Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn, where is Aquaman when you need him?

  2. keepass.sourceforge.net on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone used this product at all? http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ If so would you care to comment on using it?

  3. Re:Problems With Undirected Charity on Who Should Help LinuxFund Distribute $126,155.29? · · Score: 1

    I have a LinuxFund card as well. I agree, let the OSDL or FSF administer the fund. That seems like a natural action (assuming they would want to manage something like this).

  4. Re:If this is true on Fighting Cancer with Math · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought I'd send a quick response to this. You can't get a nobel prize in Mathematics. I'm not sure if they could get one with this research for medicine though. I'm guessing it's that possible. Peace.

  5. Re:It is because it is stable. on Linux to Replace Solaris at Duke · · Score: 1

    CentOS gives you free updates and RHEL doesn't.

  6. Re:Centos 3.3? Why? on Linux to Replace Solaris at Duke · · Score: 1

    I agree. If you look at the CentOS forums you'll notice a lot of people are using (and Linux newbies) it for desktops. I'm not sure why they don't just use Fedora, Ubuntu or something else for their desktops, but they don't.

    Either way CentOS does come with gnome, X, etc. by default so there isn't anything that stops you from using it as a desktop OS.

  7. Re:Upgrade to 5 on PHP 5 Power Programming · · Score: 1

    My host telana.com runs PHP5. It actually has a really nice setup running php as your user rather than 'www' or 'nobody' and it doesn't run in cgi or safemode either.

  8. re: communists on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >where he described anyone who doesn't support >ever-increasing intellectual property laws as >"communists"

    Lawrence Lessig on The Tyranny of Copyright

    "We are invoking ideas that should be central to the American tradition, such as that a free society is richer than a control society," he says. "But in the cultural sphere, big media wants to build a new Soviet empire where you need permission from the central party to do anything." He complains that Americans have been reduced to "an Oliver Twist-like position," in which they have to ask, "Please, sir, may I?" every time we want to use something under copyright -- and then only if we are fortunate enough to have the assistance of a high-priced lawyer."

    NY Times Jan, 2004
    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/2 5COPYR IGHT.html

  9. Re:Using PHP on Apache 2.0 right now. (MOD PARENT on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 1

    Very cool solutions. There seems to be a lot of ppl bitching about it that have been modded up. Someone please Mod this up so people can find out about these two solutions.

  10. Re:Audio and stuttering on Half Life 2 Stuttering Bug Official · · Score: 1

    I thought it was stuttering because my computer wasn't fast enough (1.3ghz duron). Mine DOES tend to happen around new audio though. It's enough to be annoying, but not to ruin the game.

  11. Re:They just lost 3 sales. on TiVo Plans More Functionality Reductions · · Score: 1

    "Why? Were you planning on building a huge library of PPV movies and blacked out NFL games?" I agree. Why not boycot PPV movies & NFL games instead?

  12. Re:Ripoff on The Last Starfighter--The Musical! · · Score: 1

    Remember in StarWars when Luke kept loosing his quarters playing that video game, till he learned the force... Oh wait, that's in the next remake of Return of the Jedi...

  13. Re:better colors on Pricing a Software Product · · Score: 2, Insightful

    thanks :)

  14. Re:Yes it is on Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech · · Score: 1

    You are right, but until we take measures to end the two party cartel which has a stranglehold on our democracy our only choices will continue to be the lesser of two evils.

  15. this fixed wireless for me w/XP.. on Linux Unwired · · Score: 1

    from: http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1080251780.html

    If your connection is dropping and you're not being asked to connect to another network, make sure that you have not checked the "Enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network" checkbox, as this can also cause problems (but was not the root cause of this issue).

    ---

    I'm not sure what IEEE 802.1x authentication does exactly, but turning it off in XP made wireless stable. Before that I could be really close to the wireless hub and I would be randomly disconnected/reconnected every few minutes.

  16. Re:XP dual-install seems like selling point on Xandros Releases Open Circulation Edition · · Score: 3, Informative

    I tried Xandros out. It can resize an NTFS partition and read from it, but not write to it.

  17. Re:What's that Arch thing the guy is talking about on Fedora Core 2 Review · · Score: 1

    "GNU Arch [gnu.org]. It's not a distribution. It's a version control system like CVS or subversion."

    NO. It IS a distribution. I tried out their 0.6 release and I was impressed. Arch Linux isn't for newbies (you need to manually edit config files), but is the fastest distro I've tried yet and has a really nice package manager called pacman.

    Take a look here: http://archlinux.org/

  18. Re:"Surfing on lava"? on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you would have RTFA you would have noticed that Anakin uses Jar Jar as a surf board.

  19. Re:Nintendo clearly won this year's E3... on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: 1

    "Zelda 4 Swords is a Gameboy game!!! Bitching about having to own a Gameboy to play Zelda 4 Swords multiplayer is like bitching about having to own an XBox to play Halo multiplayer." They are going to release it for GC. Sorry about the confusion there. I wasn't referring to the GB game.

  20. Re:Nintendo clearly won this year's E3... on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: 1

    You might be rigth about FF:CC. I just wish they would make games that were designed for more players but don't require the Game Boy.

    Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance was great and didn't require a GameBoy. I borrowed my brothers PSII and my GF and I played BGDA II and that was fun as well.

    I suppose my needs are a little different, because I'm looking at playing the games with two people instead of four. I still think they could have made Zelda work with out requiring Game Boys for multiplayer play.

    I do think Nintendo is guilty for not doing more to make multiplayer games w/out requiring a Game Boy and that makes me mad.

    Why can't you play more than one player on Mario Golf tourneyments? I'm not sure if Nintendo made F-Zero, but you can't play that two player in grand prix mode either. Fortunately they DID do Mario Cart right and it doesn't require Game Boys for multiplayer play.

    I guess I should have worded my post differently. I haven't given up on Nintendo, but I will think twice next time before I get their next system. I do like their games because they are fun, but I'm not excited about paying another $200 to play them.

  21. Re:Nintendo clearly won this year's E3... on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: 1

    I gave up on Nintendo when they started to require that I have a Gameboy to be able to play games multiplayer (FF Crystal Chronicles & Zelda 4 Swords).

    I DO own a Game Cube (and like the games) but next time around I'll think twice before getting another Nintendo.

  22. Re:Troll Posts asside, Apple seems stupid here... on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason that people aren't pissed is because each new version of OSX is a lot better than the previous version. It just keeps getting better and better.

    As long as the new versions are faster and offer new and innovative features I doubt that MacOS users will care too much.

  23. fun? on MMOG Subscription Winners, Losers Analyzed · · Score: 1

    This article just seems to say which ones have the most subscribers. Does anyone want to take a stab at organizing them by how fun they are?

  24. Re:flooding on UK Releases Global Warming Report · · Score: 1

    Well sort of... There is a lot of frozen ice at the top of mountains, etc. For instance Glacier Park (in Montana) is expected to lose all Glaciers in the next few years (20-30) due to global warming. I think that land based ice is probably where the difference comes from.

  25. Re:Slashdotted already? on HDD Assault Cannon · · Score: 3, Informative

    kicks-ass.net is a domain one of the free dynamic DNS places use. It's probably hosted on someones DSL... :P