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  1. Re:Slackware! on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1
    amen brother.

  2. Re:Gentoo on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    My favorite distribution is the one that my customer is paying me to like.

    Oh, you mean windows?

  3. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1
    Can I assume you are an earlier poster? Don't bother correcting my spelling if you don't want me to correct it...then you won't have to waist your time and mine by complaing all the time.

  4. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1
    No, I tried and failed to find it.

    Try this :

    It's not quite as good but it has downloadable sheets as well. They are in PDF format.

  5. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1
    Nooooooooo,

    purposeful not puposeful

  6. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1
    Sorry, here is v2.0

    I found a great site with downloadable hand writing sheets in my final CS year. It had a sentence fully in hand (thatch-writing), with lots of sentences below with dots, so you could practice again and again. It was really good as it calmed me for the exams. I felt like I was back in playschool writing my lovely curly and puposeful writing. I actually felt like taking up caligraphy. There is something spiritual about this writing, something we are sadly losing in the computer age. I did it to reconstruct my ability to write in time for my exams as my writing was awful before. Afterwards, not only could I write better, I felt happier, like a return to serenity. Sounds gay? Yeah I was surprised too but I can't knock hand writing. We should all do it

  7. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1
    :/

    I found a great site with downloadable hand writing sheets in my final CS year. It had a sentence fully in hand (thatch-writing), with lots of sentences below with dots, so you could practice again and again. It was really good as it calmed me for the exams. I felt like I was back in playschool writing my lovely curly and puposeful writing. I actually felt like taking up caligraphy. There is something spiritual about this writing, something we are sadly losing in the computer age. I did it to reconstruct my ability to write in time for my exams as my writing was awful before. Afterwards, not only could I write better, I felt happier, like a return to serenity. Sounds gay? Yeah I was surprised too but I can't knock hand writing. We should all do it

  8. Re:I use both ati and nvidia on Linux successfully on ATI at the Top Graphics Chip Maker for 2004 · · Score: 1

    impressive, ... most impressive ..

  9. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I found a great sight with downloadable hand writing sheets in my final CS year. It had a sentance fully in hand (thatch-writing), with lots of sentances below with dots, so you could practice again and again. It was really good as it calmed me for the exams. I felt like I was back in playschool writing my lovely curly and puposeful writing. I actually felt like taking up caligraphy. There is something spitiual about this writing, something we are sadly losing in the computer age. I did it to recontruct my ability to write in time for my exams as my writing was awful before. Afterwards, not only could I write better, I felt happier, like a return to serenity. Sounds gay? Yeah I was surprised too but I can't knock hand writing. We should all do it

  10. Re:Aha on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    such as 'struggling to concentrate[on repelling Linux]', 'not a natural leader[at repelling Linux]', 'struggling to keep control of a confusing world[of Linux]' and 'an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure[of Linux]', equally apply to Mr Gates.

  11. Re:I use both ati and nvidia on Linux successfully on ATI at the Top Graphics Chip Maker for 2004 · · Score: 1
    Yes, but by taking the iterative approach, I have a copy of my drivers in /root you probably have to have an internet connection if you need to reinstall. I don't. Im assuming you're a FreeBSD user or Gentoo if you're using portage. It is a convenient tool - too convenient ; )

  12. Re:I use both ati and nvidia on Linux successfully on ATI at the Top Graphics Chip Maker for 2004 · · Score: 2, Informative
    echo "media-video/ati-drivers" >>

    /etc/portage/package.keywords

    echo "media-video/ati-drivers-extra" >>

    /etc/portage/package.keywords

    emerge -Du media-video/ati-drivers media-video/ati-drivers-extra

    sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run

  13. Re:Personally on ATI at the Top Graphics Chip Maker for 2004 · · Score: 1
    the proprietary [Linux] nVidia drivers kick the ass out of ATI's.

  14. Re:Personally on ATI at the Top Graphics Chip Maker for 2004 · · Score: 1
    Soon there will be a card that is built for Linux. Opengr - the open graphics project's chip

    I use an nVidia fX because the proprietary nVidia drivers kick the ass out of ATI's. Hopefully that will all change though!

  15. Re:It's nice to be optimistic but... on The Future Is Open: The OpenDocument Format · · Score: 1
    Yeahhh, lets convince Gates that he's waisting money on software and to put his finances in the truck hauling industry!

  16. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 2, Insightful
    But actually, thre is nothing to see here - same crap different submission.

    As I daid and am tired of saying:

    censorship bears the legacy of copyright. For example, the custom of printers and authors to have their name listed with their creations began as a law demanding this practice, not to ensure the originator due credit, but in order for the king to keep track of disobedient writers. Brendan Scott (2000)

    In the end free/open software will triumph, Raymond attests; "[...] because the commercial world cannot win an evolutionary arms race with open-source communities that can put orders of magnitude more skilled time into a problem" The high innovation rate of free software has been stressed by many others and is one reason for recent interest by companies in the movement (DiBona et al., 1999).

    This is part of the power of Open Source: it creates this kind of unifying pressure to conform to a common reference point - in effect, an open standard - and removes the intellectual property barriers that would otherwise inhibit this convergence"43. (Young in DiBona et al., 1999, p. 124.)

    Taken from here.

  17. Re:but seriously on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 1
    missing link here

  18. but seriously on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 3, Interesting
    We need to pay attention to this. And whether you like it or not, copyleft/GPL avoids having to deal with this problem:

    Interesting:

    censorship bears the legacy of copyright. For example, the custom of printers and authors to have their name listed with their creations began as a law demanding this practice, not to ensure the originator due credit, but in order for the king to keep track of disobedient writers. Brendan Scott (2000)

    falling costs is met with more computer capacity for a sustained price, and therefore that new computers never will reach the poor majority (Stallabrass, 1995)

    "The justification for the patent system is that by slowing down diffusion of technological progress it ensures that there will be more progress to diffuse... Since it is rooted in a contradiction, there can be no such thing as an ideally beneficial patent system [...]" [60].

    Yes I do lean towards marxism and no, this is not a anti-capitalism rant although this article [firstmonday.org] does point out the obvious (for some) that we have moved from feudalism to capitalism and are GRADUALLY moving towards something else.

  19. Re:First Post? on Microsoft Posts Record Earnings · · Score: 2, Interesting
    [millahtime]Alternatives are targeted at the tech savvy and are not marketed well enough.

    I think its more creating non tech-savvy groups than appealing to the non tech-savvy:

    Excludability is the power to prevent usage of a desirable utility, and is required for the property holder to force payment of the user (extract exchange-value). ..."The contradiction that lies at the heart of the political economy of intellectual property is between the low to non-existent marginal cost of reproduction of knowledge and its treatment as scarce property"[23].

    23. May, 2000, p. 42.

    A technology supporting the property regime must build a black box not comprehensible to the smartest user, and convenient to operate for users with the lowest possible skill. Users must be deprived of their technological knowledge that grants them control over the product, or else they will bypass the security systems [34].

    34. Operation Sundevil, a nationwide law enforcement campaign in U.S., directed against the hacker community (Sterling, 1994), should be seen in this light. However, direct repression against highly skilled users plays only a minor though complementary part in the agenda of securing the system from independent subjects. Its real momentum lies in lessening the skill level demanded of the average user, as is expressed in the deceitful phrase 'user-friendly technology'.

    Yes I do lean towards marxism and no, this is not a anti-capitalism rant although this article does point out the obvious (for some) that we have moved from feudalism to capitalism and are GRADUALLY moving towards something else. It doesnt matter how much money companies like Microsoft make. In order to change with the time, the company and otheres like it will change significantly towards the open model. They will still have allot of money but just money as long as they dont change. That is because Information Technology and the software organisations that grow on them are not manufacturing dependent or dependent on central control...and therefore cannot be conform logically to the analogue of property..

  20. Re:No matter ... on Microsoft Posts Record Earnings · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeahhhh, all Microsoft employees will be begging on the streets in no time

  21. Re:well on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1
    heheh ;)

  22. Re:Useless? on 1.7 Billion Digits Of Pi On CD · · Score: 1
    pi is just an infinite spiral represented as a number, designed to keep idiots amused. Nothing to see here, move along ...

  23. Re:well on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1
    CBS:FOX::Linux:SCO

  24. Re:Pentium 6 on New Intel Trademark Filed · · Score: 1
    Or maybe it's Penitum 5 Dual Core? "Pentium V, 2 Inside"

    It is. Since, AMD announced their dual core architecture, Egypt, the race is on for Intel to deliver their offering.

    I always had a feeling they'd swich back to Roman numerals. They started out Roman:

    Pentium II

    Pentium III

    then, their math got lost went - Pentium 4.

    Pentium V - the redemption?

  25. Re:well on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1
    Can we up the bar a LITTLE?

    Yes, lets up the bar to Fox news and have completely uncorroborated bs....