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  1. If you're going to live under my roof... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 0

    Get your own internet. If you're going to use what the school is giving you then you have to deal with their network restrictions. With what your parents are paying for you to attend college you shouldn't put their money at risk circumventing network security at the school. Buy your own internet access if you want to fark around.

  2. Is it even yours? on What Do I Do About My Ex-Employer Stealing My Free Code? · · Score: 1

    Was it ever your decision to make it open source? This sounds like work product to me, which means your previous employers owns it. Unless you have something in your contract that states you retain ownership of your code, it is theirs to do what they please with. Get over it.

  3. Re:Why is spam evil? on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 1

    If he's selling insurance he's contributing to society. He's generating jobs and tax dollars. That's what we need.

  4. Re:Why is spam evil? on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 1

    just think of how many people on this site have to spend hours trying to fix/update/manage their server's spam filters.

    Just think how many people have jobs because of it. But yeah, I get your point. It would make more sense for everyone if we further curtailed speech and laid off a bunch of IT guys.

  5. Re:idiotic laws on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 0

    It's pretty simple to filter and it doesn't "strain" the net. I don't think I've gotten more than one spam email a week for the past few years and my email address is all over the internet. It's a non-issue people like to make into an issue.

  6. Re:Why is spam evil? on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately its troll mentality turned towards civics... Where the techie crowd was once the first to rise to the defense of free speech, lately the trolls have taken over and want to regulate speech in all forms.

  7. Re:Spam action doesn't get less useful on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah... no more troublesome free speech! Won't everything be so much nicer when all speech is regulated?

  8. Re:Drama Queen or Troll? on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Seriously, who greenlighted this article? How in the world did this self serving pile of crap make it through moderation?

  9. Re:What does this have to do with spam on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 0

    That is one messed up website...

  10. Debian Sparc on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This has been floating around the debian-sparc mailing list all day... there seems to be quite a few pissed off users...

    I suppose that if the Debian devels are pig headed enough to have a meeting like this without inviting anyone from the sparc community, it really says something about what users they care about.

    I've been saying for years that Debian/GNU is _the_ Server OS. A look at the proposed Arch support would leave one to believe that they want to re-vector themselves as _the_ desktop os.

    The slow and steady release schedule that debian has stuck to is great for server and other enterprise uses but does leave a bit to be desired for the desktop, look at the void being filled by ubuntu, progeny and mepis on the desktop.

    I suppose I knew this day was coming, #gentoo-sparc currently is a better source of tech support than #debian-sparc is on freenode....

    I really didnt want to switch to gentoo, but unless I want to go the BSD route that seems to be the only viable option.

    Can someone send me a 4x5" gentoo sticker that I can use to cover the red swirl sticker on my truck?

  11. What it's good for? on Zope X3 3.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    People keep asking what its good for,....

    http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZopePowered/

    Among the list of sites powered by zope.... NATO, SGI and AARP amongst others....

  12. Flourinert on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you decide to try the second posters solution, I have some spare cans of HFE if you want them. Get ahold of me here if you do!

  13. atleast they host well.. on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=adti.net 9 servers at adti.net All running freeBSD


  14. isnt this old news? on Build Your Own Stun Gun · · Score: 1

    I pulled this phile off a chicagoland area bbs in 1993 or so...

  15. doesnt seem too far off... on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 1

    Well, I am one of the product tester and the last kit they sent me recommended a 1.5 ghz Proc 512megs of RAM and an 8 gig drive. they only send it out on DVD too....

  16. Re:Templates on Scribus 1.1.6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    well, thats where users groups come in... These are things that the community comes up with, I dont know how many "templates" I have for Indesign and Quark that I am going to convert to scribus... I got my first batch of templates from community sites and people I worked with, they will just get modified and reused...

  17. Re:Templates on Scribus 1.1.6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    you scabby fool! You've obviosly never worked in an environment where an app like this comes into play.

    Go into any commercial print shop, pre-press house or color bureau anywhere in the world and say that. They've laugh you out the door.

    Everyone in the industry knows that all the Microsoft apps are broken. They are 100% unusable when it comes to commercial printing.

    Commercial printing isnt your mothers inkjet, I'm talking about heavy equipment heidelbergs, ryobi's etc...

    Either way, if you send an MS document to the RIP server of a press, what you get is dropped characters... its really annoying, the becomes th or t e whole sentences can vanish...

    Plus, there is absolutely 0 color correction options. Dont expect any type of color matching from an MS document, and to top it off, every printing firm I've worked for has charged a $25-50 fee for working with MS products. This is on top of all the other charges...

    So in manner of a Publisher document running headlong into Harlequin RIP Server...

    F ck y o, nex time know wh t you are tal ing about first before y u open your mouth!! !

    .

  18. only 5? on How to Build a Search Engine · · Score: 5, Informative
    The poster left out vivisimo.... lately its been all I use...

    and to the post above this.. what does 2 trillion hits matter against 2 million if they cant get what you really need up onto the first page

  19. Re:Compatability Issues on First Look At S-ATA Optical Storage Drive · · Score: 1

    I dont know where you shop, but at my store, SATA cables are 1/3 to 1/2 the price of rounded IDE's....

  20. Great last mile solution.... on UK Approves of 5.8GHz For Rural Broadband · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is great, we need to see it here in the States. This would help with Last mile issues out west or in the farmlands. Or, I could use this from my apartment and still get a signal at my favorite bar.... I like that...

  21. Stacking the deck of Fax Cards on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 1

    I dont know, most of my customers are it consultants building systems for other people. The concept of the fax server is still here, and alot of my customers are still using one.

    Whats really surprising is that the platform of choice recently for a fax server seems to be winblows server 2003...

  22. They still sell well... on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a dozen or so customers coming in every week looking for Fax/Modem Cards... Most of them actually just refer to them as fax cards and dont seem to even know that it is a modem, or that there even was internet before braodband, but oh well....

  23. Its all about the browser.... on Best Original Games of 2003? · · Score: 1

    I've been completely and totaly addicted to BattleMaster It takes me back to the good old days of BBS door games. Long live Nostalgia!

  24. Nothing new really.... on DVD-Rs go 8x · · Score: 1

    This isnt really breaking news.. My store has been stocking the optorite 8x DRD+/-R/RW drives for about a week now... $219.99

  25. making a raid.... on Mirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences? · · Score: 1

    You can easily make raid controller from a standard IDE controller, including one embedded in a mobo by simply soldering on resistor in place... do a google search for it.... tweak3d also has some instructions...