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  1. Re:Nice... on The Clueless Newbie Rides Again · · Score: 1

    Forgot to answer your other question. It does run a little slower. I don't notice any slow down in windows but under wine I occasionally notice a little jumpiness but only when there's a lot going on, but again that's just barely noticeable. my system is just an AMD Athalon 64 3700, 2G , GeForce 6600 w/128MB, nothing special

  2. Re:Nice... on The Clueless Newbie Rides Again · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Nice... on The Clueless Newbie Rides Again · · Score: 1

    I'm using feisty and I use World of Warcraft running under WINE. Basically add the repository for WINE apt-get update, then apt-get install wine and your ready to download the installer and run it just like it's under windows. There are a couple of tweaks you need to do after it's been installed. basically disabling one option in WINEs faux registry w/regedit and editing one config file within the WOW directory.

  4. Re:Not bad at all. on Zero-60 in 3.1 Seconds, Batteries Included · · Score: 1

    Just need two wheel drive.

  5. Not New on New Generation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells Powers Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look up (MCEL) Millenium Cell, They've been doing this for awhile. I believe the chemistry for this has been around a while too lazy to look it up tho. Platinum Catylitic mesh, and Borohydride The fuelcellstore has a nice little generator --G

  6. Articel Update on Underground 'Cold War City' For Sale · · Score: 5, Funny

    SOLD

    I hear some company by the name of, The Umbrella Corporation, just bought it.

  7. Hmmm, Madrid comes to mind on Lockheed Martin Hardware to Protect NYC Transit · · Score: 1

    which would allow cellular phones to be used in case of emergency

    ...or to use cell phones to detonate those backpacks full of explosives.

  8. Re:This is AI? on DARPA Contracts For AI Technology · · Score: 1

    It's just a new form of input/output.

    With some nontrivial tasks in-between. Definately a hard task getting a computer to understand written word with a sense of I. In my opinion I think it's hard to look at Artificial Intelligence as something that can answer questions in a way that I could relate to as a person. Unless it was exposed to all the same sort of inputs, in terms of senses and environment, to develop that level of understanding --G
  9. Re:No. on New Radar Sees Through Walls · · Score: 1

    Beat me to the post, just wanted to add that this would probably be really good at finding rats in the walls of my crumbling apartment. --Greg

  10. Whose going to sue SCO? on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    Well SCO is obviously in breach of the GPL, but who is going to sue them for it?

    How many open source programmers are willing to bring a class action lawsuit against SCO?

    More importantly it would have to be people who actually authored code. I believe they are really the only ones with a right to sue.

    Maybe the eff could organize this.

    As usual IANAL though.
    --G

  11. Re:This is News for Nerds? on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like a good Poll Idea.

    How many Slashdi are:

    Employed In Tech
    Employed In Retail
    Employed In Fast Food
    Contractor
    Unemployed
    Cowboy Neals My Surgar Daddy

  12. Re:Send These bastards To Jail on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 1

    Form 144 SEC filing

    From the SEC

    Other Securities Act Form: Form 144

    This form must be filed as notice of the proposed sale of restricted securities or securities held by an affiliate of the issuer in reliance on Rule 144 when the amount to be sold during any three month period exceeds 500 shares or units or has an aggregate sales price in excess of $10,000.

  13. Re:Send These bastards To Jail on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 1

    When there's actual evidence that fraud has occurred? Execs excercise stock options all the time.

    This is true. I guess congress is going to have to enact some more laws on this one. This is similar to a pump and dump scheme but, they're not promoting the stock directly. It seems more like they conspired to defraud by dangling the carrot, of all those licensing revenues. With the full knowledge that this is all a load of crap. They have already altered their story numerous times, and if they REALLY believe what they have been shovelling, they would have released the offending code. --Greg

  14. Send These bastards To Jail on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There Stock price was less than $4.00 before this crap, and now it's over $17.00. I guess there BS is worth something more than the effort of all the Open Source Programmers who actually wrote code. Another shinning example of the Amerikan dream. Not too mention Michael P Olson(VP) has filed for a proposed sale of more than half his outstanding ownership(30K) shares on 11/11/2003. Wow when is somebody going to prosecute these people for fraud. IMNSHO --Greg

  15. Re:For how long? on Mastering Light · · Score: 1

    I think this is more like a musical instrument for light. Instead of the air vibrating and having it's frequency altered, light is vibrating and having it's frequency altered. The crystal is basically a resonant cavity for light. IMHO --Greg

  16. Why does innovation matter? on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    If linux gets the job done with a high level of reliablility and low cost. Why should I care if it doesn't look pretty. I'm not trying to pick up chicks with my linux box. All I know is that we don't have any money in the budget to get the job done using commercial products , but linux will do the job, and do a good job at that. In terms of innovation, the majority of IT tasks are fairly standard anyway. Resources have to be managed, files backed up, and routine things that can be automated are automated. That's about it, only when something new needs to be done that stresses the bounds of the hardware or the protocols your using, do you have to think about stuff like clustering or some other "innovative" solution. It Works, My .02 --Greg

  17. Re:Some Ideas... on Malicious Distributed Computing · · Score: 1

    If you have root access on a machine, what's to stop you from using assembly acode to, do stuff you're not supposed to do? A call to bind() wouldn't allow you to connect two processes to one port but, If you knew where in memory you needed to point your process to, then why not? The hard part would be locating the address of the sockaddr struct for the service you wanted to hook into. Besides those problems the server you were humping would probably be spitting out tons of error messges.

  18. Some Ideas... on Malicious Distributed Computing · · Score: 1

    The communication is the hard part, as soon as this thing gets known, every sysadmin worth his paycheck will block the ports it communicates on. Is there a way to double up processes on one port? If so you could say hook into the port for say, sendmail or something, and then have the worm ignore the sendmail commands, and parse the worm commands. Or you could have several ports listening all the time, UDP style, and have worm node (A) fire off a number that corresponds to the next port that worm node (B) should receive it's next set of commands on. This should get around that pesky admin. I must say I have to agree with the author, that slow and steady will probably win this race. Tally Ho. --Greg

  19. How did you defraud the United States? on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1)How did you defraud the United States or one of its Agencies?

    2)How much did you spend on a lawyer, or did you use a public defender?

    I thought Corporations weren't considered part of the US government.
    --Greg

    Sec. 371. - Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States

    If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

    If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor