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  1. Re:Thank You on Red Hat Proposes Alternative Settlement To MSFT · · Score: 2

    If you don't activate it after 30 days, you can't login to the system. When logging in, it gives you the opportunity to activate, but if you don't it puts you right back at the login screen.

  2. Re:You got lucky on Friendships in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 2

    Work is all about competition, alot of the people you think are your friends really arent, and its not worth the risk. Money first, Friends second.

    It is the people that truly believe to succeed in life you must live by this creed that are whats wrong with this world.

    I've worked in a large corporation doing software development. But I got out quick. That sort of insanely competitive environment is good for no one, except someone that believes Money First, Friends Second is the way to go. I work 95% out of my home office now, and while I miss some of the interaction of any office, I certainly don't miss the corporate environment.

    No matter what, I have always put Friends First, Money Second. And at a rather young age, I'm making nearly 100k/yr. I put Money Second and took a paycut in doing so. But odd how things worked out--I'm now making much much more than I was and I'm doing more enjoyable work in a less stressful environment.

    Maybe it would be good for you to find a small company to work for. Small offices don't suffer from the same kind of competitiveness, and the positive experience might do you some good.

  3. Re:operating radius? on 802.11g Approved By IEEE 54 mb/s on 2.4 gigahertz · · Score: 2

    It works on the same frequency, so technically the range should be the same.

  4. Re:A PS2 with different games on XBox Released · · Score: 2

    Heh.. I don't remember where I found it, but I've got a copy of Netscape 0.93. Single executable, no extra libs or anything. I wanna say its about 800k. It is just horrid at rendering any page designed within the last few years. Something like gnu.org or the light version of /., maybe. Every now and then, I fire it up, just for nostalgia's sake.

    Funny thing is when I just tried to open up the regular version of /. with it on my Win2k box, it crashed Netscape. Ahh, the good ol days.

  5. Re:Read your own links. on Apple Patent Blocking PNG Development · · Score: 2

    Heh.

    oops.

    :-)

  6. This patent is already licensed Royalty-Free on Apple Patent Blocking PNG Development · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Shit man, click links people. I clicked on the link to the W3 page (http://www.w3.org/2001/07/SVG10-IPR-statements.ht ml) and right there at the top clearly stated:

    Update: Adobe have updated their license to clarify that it is, indeed, Royalty-Free.

    Talk about quick overreaction. Maybe check out the links and info before posting a story next time?

  7. Re:Proper Pronunciation of "UPS" on How Not To Ship Computers · · Score: 2

    No no, you put your business out of business by not choosing a delivery service who was more than inept.

    Obviously it wasn't one single shipment problem that caused your real problems, but a number of successive problems. Just like the old adage goes, "screw me once, shame on you; screw me twice, shame on me".

  8. Re:NT vs Unix. on Portable Coding and Cross-Platform Libraries? · · Score: 2

    My guess (and what my impression was reading the post) is that the submitter has to use NT, presumably because whatever systems it has to run on currently run NT.

    Just be glad its not the other way around and they're not migrating from Unix to NT.

  9. Re:My opinion... take it or leave it. on Byte: FreeBSD vs Linux Revisited · · Score: 2

    No flames here.. just a little nitpick:

    (There isn't much - both are just micro kernels. _Anything_ can be implemented over them.)

    Mach is definitely a micro kernel, but Linux most certainly is not. Although it does have a few characteristics of a micro kernel, at the end of the day its still technically a monolithic kernel.

  10. Re:I made the switch on Byte: FreeBSD vs Linux Revisited · · Score: 2

    Heh.. Ever tried doing this in a Mandrake install? The first time I installed Mandrake 8.1, I said what the hell and selected the individual package selection. What a fuckin pain in the ass, lemme tell ya. Almost everything is selected to install by default so you have to go thru several hundred if not a thousand packages checking off all the useless bullshit. It helps to not have any general categories selected before doing the individual package selection, but there is still plenty of shit after that.

    I want my installer to only have the most minimal set of packages to install (kernel, shell, libs) and then let me add on the individual packages I need (compiler, tools, etc). I guarantee that would take a whole helluva lot less time than selecting the packages that I don't need.

  11. Re:freebsd support? on Firewire and Linux? · · Score: 2

    Considering the market freebsd is generally intended for (servers) and the market firewire in general is intended for (desktops), it's gonna take one super dedicated freebsd developer with an itch for firewire before freebsd sees anything even close to even Linux's mediocre support.

  12. Re:Alan Cox hijacked development on The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox · · Score: 2

    I totally agree with whoever said it first-- the whole changelog crap was stupid and childish. While simply refusing to travel to the US would have been sufficient, he went farther, thereby abusing his position to get his political statement across.

    Not travelling to the US would be avoiding jail. Not releasing a changelog because he's scared of the DMCA is 100% political.

  13. Re:How hard would it be to make one of your own? on TV Networks Sue ReplayTV · · Score: 2

    IIRC, the TiVo's are powered by a single PPC chip. Obviously the single chip is capable enough to handle whatever encoding/decoding is necessary, and beyond that it runs waaaay cooler than an Athlon, eliminating the need for a cpu fan.

    On the PPC track, for some reason I remember reading a recent story or post on /. about a set-top box barebones kit that used a PPC chip. Obviously something like that would be a great start in creating a custom TiVo clone.

  14. Re:Very nice... on Netscape 6.2 · · Score: 2

    It doesn't appear that anything works in the Windows version of Moz 0.9.5. I tried ctl-tab (the windows standard method of moving between tabs), shift-tab, and ctl-shift-tab, as well as ctl-pgup and ctl-pgdn with no luck. I wonder if anyone else using the Windows version has figured this out ?

    On another note, when I went to make sure I was running 0.9.5, I got the following:

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5

    What stands out to me is the incorrect platform-- I'm running this copy of Moz 0.9.5 on Win2k. At first I thought that maybe the Windows version is compiled on Linux boxes, but that still didn't provide any insight as to why X11 is mentioned. So anyone know what gives with this ?

  15. Re:Standards are both a blessing and a curse. on Mega-DVDs -- 100GB Apiece · · Score: 2

    As usual, I could be (and probably am) wrong, but I thought current generation DVD uses a blue laser, whereas this new techology uses a violet laser (which has a shorter wavelength, IIRC, thereby giving you more data density)...

  16. Re:Future Concerns? on RFPs And Open Source Projects? · · Score: 2

    www.elance.com

    Dunno if its still around, but at the last place I worked (a software development house), we farmed out more than a couple things to people we found on elance. I never had to deal with the account, so I don't know if we ever had to pay for it or anything, but if your project is important enough, that won't matter anyway. Either way, check it out...

  17. Re:Workaround.... on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 2

    This is the useragent string from a win2k box running IE 5.01...

    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

  18. How are they blocking ? on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 2

    The guy from Opera in the article said they changed the browserid by 1 char and they were able to access msn.com ok.

    So are they blocking specific browserid's or are they blocking everything but a couple specific ones?

  19. Success Varies on Tom's Hardware KVM Roundup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had a Belkin 2-port for a long time that worked nearly flawlessly. The only problem I ever had with it was switching away from an X session and then going back would cause the mouse to go haywire to the point of needing to restart X. Not sure if this was the fault of X or the KVM switch, but either way it was annoying. :-)

    A few months back I was looking through uBid.com and found a 4-port KVM that had plenty of features (more than the Belkin, at least) and even included 2 free cable sets. I had never heard of the brand (Genie), but I figured at only $100, it was worth a shot to get all my machines hooked up to the KVM and thus ditch an extra monitor. And luckily enough, it has performed flawlessly. It still irks me to remember how much I paid for the original 2 port Belkin (almost $300 a couple years ago) now that this "cheapo" one is working so well, but its also good to see the good features and stability of the higher end KVMs coming to the lower end of the price range.

  20. Re:Not that it matters.... on Ban on Internet Taxes to Expire · · Score: 2

    Maybe for the likes of eToys and Furniture.com. Look at the money going through eBay. Or the volume of visitors that PriceWatch.com gets. E-commerce is well-suited to several types of businesses (computers, electronics), but obviously not so well-suited to others (toys, furniture).

  21. Re:Ohio on Ban on Internet Taxes to Expire · · Score: 2

    There's a few things that suck about living in a place like Vegas. But the fact that I don't even have to file state taxes sure isn't one of them.

  22. Re:Chinese Support on Ars Technica OS X 10.1 Review · · Score: 2

    Weird.

    Under IE on Win2k, I see a bunch of font boxes where his sig appears to be. But on my G3 running OS X 10.1, using the included IE as well as Mozilla 0.9.5 and OmniWeb 4, I don't see boxes or characters of any kind.

    So what are you doing to see his sig under the english version of OS X? :-)

  23. Re:Understating the Advantages on Ars Technica OS X 10.1 Review · · Score: 2

    And I third that! Ha! Seriously, 10.1 is a god-send compared to 10.0 when it comes to speed and UI usability on my mac. I've got a G3/266 MT with 192mb ram and it runs OS X 10.1 very nicely. As well, OS 9 apps now run acceptable enough that I hardly ever find myself needing to reboot to OS 9.

  24. Much Better info on Digital Camera Wristwatch · · Score: 2

    Rather than relying on the PR, rely on the specs.

    http://www.casio.com/watches/product.cfm?section=1 6&product=4102&display=10&cid=5107

    At the bottom, in small print, it specifically says:
    ** Batter life is shortened by using imaging functions and data communication functions

    How much it shortens battery life, who knows. But you can be sure it takes a whole lot more juice to power the imaging and comm functions of that watch than it does to power the clock.

  25. Re:if they really wanted to stop spam on MSN Forces Outlook POP · · Score: 2

    Simple. Spammers know that not every email address out there is going to be or at least have a real (dictionary) word in it. Therefore, spammers looking to harvest addresses create lists of millions of generated names that are generated in such a way as to be pronouncable (ie, enough vowels in the right places) but that don't necessarily mean anything. Sometimes, mail is blindly sent to these lists and sometimes the lists are validated somehow first. But either way, it didn't take someone selling the name or the name appearing on a web page somewhere for it to end up on a spammers list.