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  1. Re:More Junk Fax^H^H^HPrintouts? on IETF Working On New Printing Standards · · Score: 1
    That'd most definetly fall under the unsolicited fax law, which is sufficently harsh and results in fines of $500 per fax and who knows what else..

    I don't think spammers would have the balls to do that, much as how unsolicited faxes are very rare.

  2. Re:Square already did this on The X-Box: An Emulator's Dream Platform? · · Score: 1

    Neat! Any news if there's an american release? It would be fairly trivial for one to use a CD-R and see what other roms worked with their emulator.. :)

  3. Re:an honest opinion on Tim O'Reilly Confirms BSD Publications · · Score: 1
    It's growing in total users, however.

    That's the important part.

  4. Re:Whose copy is it? on Download The Human Genome · · Score: 2
    Take any two people, regardless of race. Their DNA is 99% similar. For every functional (no errors in chromosmal replication, etc) human our DNA is 99% identical. And of that 1% that differs, only 10% of that (.1% of our entire DNA) are introns, the rest being extrons that are of no known value as the sequences they code for will never be translated to protiens as they are removed in the creation of mRNA.

    Frankly, the point is it doesn't matter the race of the people. Only .1% of our DNA codes for _all_ of the attributes that make us different- eye color, skin color, hair color, etc. And we haven't even yet mapped all of these loci.

  5. They should have tested more operating systems on Linux Beats Win2000 In SpecWeb 2000 · · Score: 1
    Hell, the freely available BSDs as well as BSD/OS are the "traditional server operating systems", why didn't they test those too? And why not Solaris?

    Take a look at the actual lists of tested OSes. They certainly could have tested more! :) Settle more than one eternal argument!

    Anyhow, for the list:
    1.AIX 4.3.3
    2.AIX 4.3.3 + APAR IY09807
    3.AIX 4.3.3 + IY06844
    4.Compaq Tru64 UNIX V4.0F
    5.HP-UX 11.ACE
    6.Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
    7.Red Hat Linux 6.2 Threaded Web Server Add-On
    8.RedHat Linux 6.1
    9.Windows 2000 Advanced Server
    10.Windows 2000 Server

    Three AIXes and not one Solaris or BSD. Sheesh!

  6. Re:Amen!!! on XFree86 4.0.1 Released · · Score: 1
    With many problems with your console driver going to graphical mode and hanging, the system can be left in an unusable state.

    You may so that's no problem if you have a serial console around, but not everyone has such. Hence some bug reports don't contain all of the information they need :P No information from the debugger such as backtraces, etc.

  7. Re:Question to FreeBSD users on XFree86 4.0.1 Released · · Score: 1
    cokane has recently brought a 3dfx driver (tdfx) into 5-CURRENT. This along with dfr's agp driver should yield an optimal experience for 3D acceleration. Of course, I've yet to hear any reports of how this combination works. Both drivers are still fairly new. My advice would be to wait a few months and see how things fall into place...

    No, 4.0.1 is not yet in ports. There aren't even offical tarballs yet, remember? You can always track http://freshports.org/ to see when it arrives.

  8. Re:Information for Debian users only. on XFree86 4.0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Slashdot? Reliable? Who are you kidding!?

  9. Re:FYI: ATI Rage 128 & derivatives now work. on XFree86 4.0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Whee! I was debating to try to upgrade or not, and now I think I'll make the leap.

  10. Re:Xfree86 4.0/Direct 3D architecture on XFree86 4.0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Linux already has the pimpled faced mainstream suburban teenagers. When was the last time you were at a LUG?

  11. Re:My opinions... on Plugging Holes In The GPL · · Score: 1
    The USL lawsuit didn't exactly try the BSD license..

    But unlike the GPL, the BSD license is very simple in its nature and there frankly isn't much to try. Having a lax license lets you not worry about legal issues, and get back to coding!

  12. Re:Not a moon mission on India Plans Moon Mission In 2005 · · Score: 1
    There's no first step if you leap.

  13. Re:Four G4s? on Multiprocessor G3/G4 Boards · · Score: 1

    At the recent SMP meeting about FreeBSD held at Yahoo, there were 3 people there from Apple Computer. Feel free to speculate.

  14. Re:More goodness for free software on Yahoo Will Use Google Instead Of Inktomi · · Score: 1
    That may be true.

    But you should note that it looks to me as if they're using Google technology: not actual Google resources. Hence they should be able to run it under any OS. Let's just wait and see.

  15. Re:double-irony? not really on Gnutella Copyright Enforcement? · · Score: 1
    guess they're to 'leet'

    You should be running it through a grammar checker!

  16. Re:Inktomi Financials on Yahoo Will Use Google Instead Of Inktomi · · Score: 1
    I've got 3 customers and my market cap is 20 bucks!

    Does that B scare you?

    I'm sorry, I couldn't resist :P

  17. Re:More goodness for free software on Yahoo Will Use Google Instead Of Inktomi · · Score: 1
    Google is running FreeBSD on many of their internal boxes.

    Unfortunately I can't prove this to you. I've been told this from more than one staffer at Google. There _is_ http://www.google.com/bsd you know.

    If someone from Google sees this comment, please come forward so I don't look like I'm crazy :)

  18. Re:More Crap on How Holographic Storage Works · · Score: 1
    Yeah! I want my video phone, my hover car, and my electronic windowshades! Let's not forget the bionic implants, paint-on monitors, etc.

    After all, it _is_ the year 2000.

    On a serious note, holostores have been worked on forever. You need to be a bit more patient. My book on digital storage predicts they'll be in widespread production by 2015-2020. This seems reasonable.

  19. Re:An unavoidable side-effect of development model on Has Linux Development Become Too Political? · · Score: 1

    NetBSD and FreeBSD were never the same project. With people not satisfied with 386BSD's maitnence, they started their own patch kits. That's quite different from a fork, it was two people with different projects

  20. Re:Open GL support on Programming OpenGL Articles · · Score: 1

    Where can I obtain these drivers?

  21. Re:Open GL support on Programming OpenGL Articles · · Score: 1

    Do you know how far PI's work is coming with 3D support for the Rage 128 cards?
    I own one, and would love to see hardware acceleration in action.

  22. Re:Thanks SourceForge on XFree86 Enters Wondrous World Of CVS · · Score: 1

    Actually, my project (chessd) isn't using the sourceforge CVS repository, and with good reason. They don't let you log into the box with the repo itself. Even as the project lead, I still cannot do basic actions on the repsitory. Given the fact that CVS does not cover _all_ possible actions, such as renaming and some directory management, the inability to access the repository locally is a severe crutch. We basically only use sourceforge for web and mailinglists- and half of our webpage is done here at my location. Really the only thing that they provide well that most people don't want to setup themselves are mailing list, and I guess the bug reporting stuff (which we dont' need yet, the list of bugs is managable enough for mailing list)

  23. Re:Could slashdot editors watch their grammer on Gnutella Copyright Enforcement? · · Score: 1
    Haha that's great.

    I was going to post my own response to the to(o) folly, but instead you beat me to it. This situation gets better, however. You mispell "grammar" using the ever-so-popular "grammer" instead! I love the irony. I'm going to hope that was on purpose. Thank you very much for that, you've made my day. :)

  24. Re: 1st Amendment [OT] on Jackson Sends Microsoft Case To Supreme Court · · Score: 1
    but Louis Farrakhan is not similarly labeled a left-wing Muslim.

    I don't know what crowd you hang out with, but Farrakhan is seen as a whacko by everyone (regardless of race) and _is_ labeled as a left-wing religious fanatic.

    Nation of Islam? Show me the Nation of Islam on a map! :)

  25. Re:Assuming you aren't a troll... on StarOffice 5.2 Released · · Score: 1
    Better than no Ferrari Dino at all.

    Take what you can get!