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  1. The real question is: on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    How many IQ points do you drop when you subscribe to the Guardian?

  2. Re:there are better distros for this on Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old Computers · · Score: 1

    I'll try it

  3. Re:there are better distros for this on Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old Computers · · Score: 1

    How about DSL linux ?

  4. Re:there are better distros for this on Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old Computers · · Score: 1

    Puppy has a floppy option 22 floppys AAMOF I am going to use that method to *Try* to put Linux on an old Gateway Handbook

  5. Re:But Why? on Mandriva (ex Mandrake) LE2005 hits FTP mirrors · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of comments over at Mandrake er Mandriva club ..mostly negative would be a gross understatement.

  6. there are better distros for this on Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old Computers · · Score: 1

    Damn Small Linux (knoppix based 50Mb d/l
    http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
    Puppy Linux (about 100MB)
    http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
    both have GUI , Puppy has Firefox and dillo
    both will run on just about anything

  7. But Why? on Mandriva (ex Mandrake) LE2005 hits FTP mirrors · · Score: 1

    did they pick a name like Mandribble..er Mandriva?

  8. Re:YRO? on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    I'm just curious, is this article here because of the hardcore geekiness of requesting money in $2 bills, or is it on here because it's a chance to bash Best Buy?
    --
    Both are good and sufficent reasons

  9. Re:Next Time... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 2, Informative

    Won't work $50.00 is the legal maxium that they have to accept in pennies...of course 5000 pennies can ruin their day too

  10. Re:Pronounciation on Mandrakesoft Changes Name to Mandriva · · Score: 1

    In english it too easily becomes Man Diva
    or a male goddess
    Please change it to somthing that is not so phunny

  11. Re:Why epiOS? on VIA Epia SP 13000 Review · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Same Blinders as Always(not always) on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 1

    Of course ,however technologies do not spring forth full grown. We are in the baby steps stage of the hydrogen economy The internal combustion engine has had 100 years of development fuel cells have only been around about 30 years most of the time as a lab curosity H2 can also be cracked out of anhydrous Ammonia the waste product being a good fertilizer

  13. Re:Slashdot Geeks Scoff At Free Registration Rule on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 1

    DETROIT, April 1 .
    says it all

  14. Re:Could a turbine inprove gas mileage? on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 1

    Almost the last radial engines made were on the Lockheed Constellation they were mechanically supercharged but the interesting thing is that the exhaust gases were fed through a turbine and the power was fed through a viscous coupeling to the crankshaft (mechanical nightmare)

  15. Re:Same Blinders as Always(not always) on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 1

    Honda did set up an experimental filling station for fuel cells run entirely by photocells
    http://world.honda.com/news/2001/c010710.html

  16. Re:What's their angle? on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    Well that's Sony for you great well built electronics with a lot of propriety features
    I got burned on a Sony minidisk player never again
    Want to buy one cheap? :-(

  17. Re:Obligatory French Military Link... on French Response to Google is Microsoft · · Score: 1

    "- War in Indochina
    - Lost. French forces plead sickness; take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu"

    We can see here how the author is smart and cultured.
    It's Dien Bien Phu, no Dien Bien Flu.
    Besides, must I remind the great US' victory in the same country ? (Indochina = Vietnam for those who gone into US' public's school)
    ovouisly they didn't teach you in your french school about puns

  18. Re:What's their angle? on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    Easy just replace your CD player with an MP3 capable one burn a disk (about 10 albums) and
    CRANK IT UP (cheaper than an ipod too and no DRM
    ps if you are as cheap as me use CD/RW

  19. Re:I call Bullstuff on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    KPIG in watsonville CA even the commericals are funny

  20. Re:Researchers...When Pigs Fly on Microsoft Silently Backs Favorable Presentation at RSA · · Score: 1

    We will all be carring heavy duty umbrellas
    And everytime I see one of these "Research Papers" I reach for mine

  21. Re:Any comments from Florida Institute of Technolo on Microsoft Silently Backs Favorable Presentation at RSA · · Score: 1

    unfortunately all academic institutions fake research the pressure for money makes it hard to turn down a "grant"

  22. Re:Chesley who? on Four Inducted Into SF Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    Go to a used bookstore and see if you can find a mid 60s issue of Analog look at the over
    if it knocks your socks off ..it's probably him

  23. Re:Chesley Bonestell's "Atomic War" paintings on Four Inducted Into SF Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    Next to Boris one of my favorite illustrators Remember those fantastic covers he did for Analog magazine in the mid 60s? BTW why is John W. Campbell on the list without him most of the people on the list would have never been published

  24. Re:Spielberg? on Four Inducted Into SF Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    Yeh Great isn't it :-)

  25. Re:Spielberg? O_o on Four Inducted Into SF Hall of Fame · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've seen Jurassic Park but is Jurassic fucking Park the p0rn version?