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  1. Can GNU ever be UNIX? on Can GNU Ever Be Unix? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that GNU's Not Unix!

  2. Out in the cold on Apple Forcing Panther Upgrade for Security Patch · · Score: 1

    "It is not a friendly thing to tell your customers to shell out a lot of money to stay secure," said Thor Larholm, senior researcher for software security firm PivX Solutions. "It would be a dangerous precedent, if they did."

    Why? Microsoft does it!

  3. Re:My own experience from No Windows to XP... on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows · · Score: 1

    I believe Mozilla (at least the version of Firebird that I'm using) by default has a search box in the toolbar. If you click on the icon on the left of the search bar, the first option other than "Find on this page" is Google. It's pretty cool, but I don't know if it's an exact equivalent to the downloadable IE Google bar.

  4. Re:Hey Mods on Get Paid To Crack? · · Score: 1

    Instead, we get something modded up that is far worse than that insipid goatse.cx picture.

    You just did it, too! I went to goatse.cx because YOU DIDN'T WARN ME. Now my retinas are reduced to a smoldering heap of charred eye tissue. And to think people complain about links that remove Windows Media Player.

  5. Ah, crap. on 30th Anniversary of the Microcomputer · · Score: 1

    I see it's time to upgrade.

  6. w0rd on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    I didn't even know there were projects on the Upper West side. Then again, I walked into like three wrong classes at school today. Thankfully, Ebeneezer RIAA wasn't there waiting for me with a lawsuit.

  7. Re:Do you really need support? on The Increasing Cost of Red Hat Linux? · · Score: 1

    That's the best idea anyone on this article posted yet. High school Linux geeks are where the brains are. ;o) I'd totally take that job. And get really fat from all those Twinkies, but what the hell.

  8. Re:In my experience and my (not so humble) opinion on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    I'm fifteen now but I used Apple II's until about fifth grade in 1998. (I went to a cheap grammar school ;) I remember sitting there at the Apple II and being able to drop a floppy disk in the drive and have it load up instantly, then going home to my dad's Windows 3.whatever or 95 box and wondering why it was so much slower even though it was newer. And it didn't have that little game where you answer a math problem and depending on how hard the problem was, your little character would hit a baseball and you would try and win the baseball game. I miss that game.

  9. IOGear on New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways · · Score: 1

    IOGear already has something like this. Check it out at ThinkGeek.com: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards /5e45/

  10. AMD on AMD Buys Pre-VIA Cyrix Media-GX Division · · Score: 1

    Don't AMD me, you silly bastards. AMD my Cyrix MediaGX 150MHz processor back to life!

  11. SCO on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    "Okay, I may be down, but I'm going to (attempt to) take all you goddamn Linux users with me! For no particular reason!"

  12. Re:Now that's one of those Ask Slashdots even I ca on Desktop Linux Sliding in Under the Radar? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How are we supposed to have an intellectually enriching conversation with someone who doesn't even understand adverbs?

  13. Unofficial Linux installations...? on Desktop Linux Sliding in Under the Radar? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's preposterous! You have to get a LICENSE first, remember?

  14. Cool on Evangelizing OSS in the Caribbean · · Score: 1

    Ya mon. Me do dat open source 'ting.

  15. Re:99% of Geeks?? on Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    I've seen the exact opposite; IE crashes more frequently than Mozilla for me.

  16. Great! on Sen Hatch Would Like To Destroy Filetraders' PCs · · Score: 1

    Well, it's just like that ancient civilization that may or may not have existed according to several small, unimportant non-Western religions. You steal something, you get your hands cut off. You download copyrighted materials, you get your computer "remotely destroyed," you poop in Sen. Hatch's shoes, you... that remains to be seen.

  17. Bill Gates, Entertainment God? on Bill Gates, Entertainment God? · · Score: 1

    I think it's obvious at this point that it is Bill Gates foremost priority to take over the world. First it was Windows "Me" (an obvious insinuation that he is the most important person in the world) Now he's trying to steal your toaster by programming it to march to Redmond. A few Sunday mornings from now, you will have no toast, and Bill Gates will have twice as much toast as he would normally have. Think about that.