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  1. Re:Those French... on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 1

    Double-hint for the original poster, the french also made the statue of liberty -- she's on their coins too.

  2. Re:Ape which kills fully grown lions? on A New Species Of Giant Ape? · · Score: 1

    You ignore the thousands of undiscovered species in the world's jungles and rainforests.

    Yes, larger more populous creatures have mostly been discovered but most biologists would tell you there are grubs, insects, small birds, etc. that are discovered still on a regular basis.

  3. Re:Mod parent up! on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 1

    I took one with me to download pictures off my camera's memory card whenever it filled up. Saved a lot of money on memory cards.

  4. Re:Is slashdot editing anything like survivor? on Colorado Researchers Crack Internet Chess Club · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can edit your personal settings to not show stories by him though.

  5. Re:First Rule on How To Build And Maintain A Good FAQ · · Score: 1

    I work as a computer consultant and this happens to me all the time. More often than not I fire off an E-mail to anyone I can think of at the domain in question stating that I'd love to sell a dozen or more of whatever they make but I can't find a distributor anywhere.

    I've ordered product direct from Taiwan before to avoid this problem, until I found out the company in question sells their products in N.A. with a completely different brand name.

    Just a hint: I found the rebranded items by searching for subsets of their product codes; EV-3006 for example (Elan Vital power supply with PFC).

  6. Re:We need to get our priorities straight on Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online · · Score: 1

    I didn't know Dubbya had been on Slashdot long enough to get ID 59907.

  7. Re:Only English? on Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online · · Score: 1

    The same is true here in Canada. A friend of mine released a few CDs and was surprised when the envelope showed up in the mail requesting a copy of the lyrics and one of the CD itself.

  8. Re:Human's Book Pool on Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online · · Score: 1

    Oh, no! What about the Copyrights
    --
    Rosen

  9. Re:'Greatest and Luckiest of Mortals' indeed on The Greatest And The Luckiest Of Mortals · · Score: 1

    You believe too much that you read in your HS/College textbooks. Do a little real historical survey of the scientists of his era and before him and see how much he gets credit for that he did very little work on.

  10. Re:Exchange ? on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Outlook has problems.

    I use Cyrus-IMAP over qmail. Trace the IMAP connections with ngrep and when you get a timeout form Outlook, check the dump output. One version of Outlook attempts to keep using a connection after sending a 'QUIT'. Recompile with the 'QUIT' command no-opd (bad, but wfm) if that's the case.

  11. Re:Exchange ? on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Red Hat has been pointing out that redistribution of the files within their distributions containing the "Red Hat" logo or other trademarked or copyrighted symbols is not legal -- these files must be removed or replaced.

    Fwiw.

  12. Re:Which version of 2.6??? on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 1

    What *exactly* doesn't work for you?

    I use ide-scsi like the 2.4.x days and cdrecord, cdrecord-ProDVD from the FTP site as of when 2.6.8.1 was released.

  13. Re:Meanwhile on Worker Fired For Running SETI On State-Owned PCs · · Score: 1

    I'd love to fire anyone who runs cutsey screen savers they download off the Internet. They're often virus-infected and/or droppers or trojans.

    Screensaver asks for password ... screensaver wasn't password protected in the first place ... screensaver phones home.

    Aside from that they cause an over-use of computer resources -- graphics hardware, cpu cycle time, etc.

  14. Re:Simple thanks on Doom 3 for Linux Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I much prefer going to a big computer retailer and asking for Linux software.

    Not because I like paying Electronics Boutique prices, but because it makes them tell the publishers "we're getting requests for Linux software".

  15. Re:Exchange ? on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A lot of people give me a hard time because I sell people Dell servers with Red Hat Enterprise 3 on them as their back-end and Dell desktops running Windows as the clients.

    My clients love it -- they get a desktop they recognize and the stability of a Linux server while not paying licensing to Microsoft for anything beyond the Dell MS tax.

    For what its worth, yes, some of them even run Open Office on Windows.

  16. Re:Which version of 2.6??? on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's just FUD. I use 2.6.8.1 at home right now with Fedora Core 2 and it runs cdrecord and cdrecord-ProDVD fine on my combo DVD/CD burner.

    For what its worth, I compile my own kernel with my own options, but no patches applied.

    Also, it runs Wine fine, and I play Morrowind regularly with it.

  17. Re:Lucas, Meet Jobs. Jobs, meet Lucas. on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you but at least Sharp was also making a Newton device with a different name. For the record, Sharp manufactured the Newton for Apple.

    Also, the Palm Pilot only began once the Newton was going away because the company needed a platform for their software (which was originally a replacement script system for the Newton).

  18. Re:I'd love to see Apple PDAs on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware · · Score: 1

    I'll say it again -- Apple was too early to market.

    Your modern tablet PC barely has the features the Newton had 10 years earlier. A tablet PC wins based on colour support and hard drive, but it *still* doesn't have the (incredible) software on a Newton.

    I'm not sure what they should have done, but I owned an original Newton in 1995 and nobody believed it was a handheld computer. "Like Star Trek?" they kept asking. Yeah. Like Star Trek.

    Who's gonna go out and buy something they don't even know exists? Most people didn't even have Internet or a home PC yet, but Apple was releasing a handheld.

    I'm impressed at how early to market they were, and how fast the CPU was even, but the market really wasn't ready yet.

  19. Re:Jobs *is* finally right in 2004: smrtfons not P on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware · · Score: 1

    I hate to disagree, but I do.

    Phones are the *wrong* place for this technology. How often have you been on the phone while walking down the hall and wanted to enter a reminder in your calendar on it?

    I want a small handheld full-screen device like the Newton (I own two) that has oodles of storage and processing power. Removable storage is key too.

    My phone should interface easily with my handheld using Bluetooth (or something) for addresses, schedules, etc. as necessary. They should sync the way we've been syncing handhelds with computers.

    My computer should recognize the presence of my handheld and sync with it wirelessly as well, by Wifi or Bluetooth (or, if necessary, a cable which includes charging ability).

    I want my handheld manufacturer to make a nice little set of earbuds that can turn my handheld into an music player either with its native sound support or via an add-in card. If I'm on the phone a lot, my bluetooth headset should double as an earpiece for my music player when I'm not talking to someone.

    My phone is then unnecessary unless I want one -- my bluetooth headset can connect directly with my handheld if I buy the GSM card for the handheld in question and I drop my SIM card into the GSM card, plug it into my phone and snap my bluetooth headset on and leave my handheld in my pocket unless dialing.

    I *hate* holding a phone in my hand. Why would I want it to be my PDA?

  20. Simple thanks on Doom 3 for Linux Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks a lot ID. I bought Quake ]I[ for Linux (aluminium tin edition) and will buy a copy of Doom 3 as soon as you actually ship a Linux boxed set. In the mean time, I'll play the demo and leave my download tracker running.

    PS, thanks for using modern technology, as always, even for your downloads.

  21. Re:And to think... on Space Station Turning Into a Trash Heap · · Score: 1

    "Wow, its nice being out here, all this empty room. Nice being able to move around freely ... not necessarily where I want to go of course ... wish I had that jetpack they promised me. I wonder if I'll run out of air or drift into flying space poop first? Gee, the inside of that cramped space module sucked, but at least it had air."

  22. Re:WTF?? on Firefox 0.10.1 Released, Fixes Security Hole · · Score: 4, Informative

    For all the people who didn't bother reading the last article ...

    Firefox 1.0 has *not* been released yet.

    The current (Firefox 0.10.x) is a preview of what will become 1.0 when it is released (thus PR).

  23. Re:Other corporations? on Keeping Microsoft Happy · · Score: 1

    Its not like the USA is up to its eyeballs in debt or anything.

  24. Re:Next poll topic! on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 1

    I have two 80GB hard drives and a 40GB nearing "full" status. I have two other 40GB drives for offline backup of "important" materials.

    I also have every E-mail and Fidonet message to or from myself since 1989 ;-)

  25. Re:Voting records on Part Of The Patriot Act Shot Down · · Score: 1

    That "true" conservative is what I value here in Canada. People get upset at their cuts and attempts to pay off the debt here. In the US, it seems "conservatives" are about racking up debt.

    I'm not a bit american politics person but it seems the american libertarians are closest to our conservatives.