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  1. Re:but then on (Solar) Power to the Masses · · Score: 1

    Actually, Mr. Ashcroft has nothing to do with other countries. He's just an Attorney General. You might be confusing him with Mr. Powell, Mr. Rumsfield, Mr. Cheney (if he sicks his head out of his secure location and sees his shadow), or Mr. Bush.

  2. Re:It's the deterrent, stupid. on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    Not all judges are elected. Some are appointed.

  3. Re:repeat after me on Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List · · Score: 1

    Who ever said you had to adjust your life to a series of aliases? If your name is unlisted, nobody can find your real name/number. If it's under a different name, nobody can find your real name/number. The only difference is that you save $2 a month and you get an easy way to know when to hang up. You can still give out your number to whoever you wish.

  4. Re:repeat after me on Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List · · Score: 1

    An easy partial solution is to just put your name under a different name. If you put your name unter CmdrTaco but your name is really huntz0r, anyone calling for CmdrTaco can instantly be hung up on because you know where they got your name.

  5. Re:Problems? on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1

    I only ever played on PS2 game on the network (TMB:Online), but I never had any problems with playing or hosting a game using NAT.

  6. Re:Problems? on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1

    I use YIM at home and at work and don't have any problems. Both places use NAT. Home via a Linksys router, not sure what work uses (CICSO maybe?)

  7. Re:It's the deterrent, stupid. on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    You don't know averages very well. If the average is 80 MPH, and you have someone going 55 MPH, then you could have 25 people going 81 MPH. I wouldn't agree that the average highway speed is 80 across the country around the clock, but in large urban areas, I could see mid to high 70s at times.

  8. Re:It's the deterrent, stupid. on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I watch Law and Order often. Even if the jury nullifies, the judge can set aside the verdict and rule on his own if he finds that they jury disregarded facts.

  9. Re:Why even try? on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Killing Jesus worked out pretty good. Good thing that he doesn't have any more followers around anymore.

  10. Re:I've got some experience with VoIP on VoIP Beats Conventional Phone Service In Iraq · · Score: 1

    So she can call him. Verizon is $.14 a minute/$3 monthly fee. 10-10-987 is $.03 a minute/$.39 connect charge. I could talk for over 5 hours on $10 bucks. I live in the US. I once paid $4 for a coke at a movie theater. If you don't want to pay that much, do buy it.

  11. Re:Let me get this straight on IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution · · Score: 1

    I'd bet that if you get them off the record, most of the trades that you see are just ordinary people exercising their stock options that have made a dollar or two. The amount of shares that have been sold are negligable to the total numbers out there. The trades represent 8/10ths of 1%. If you were in their shoes, what would you do if McBride, Sontag, and Canopy decided to screw over the company?

  12. Re:Let me get this straight on IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution · · Score: 1

    And 1.25 MILLION dollars since June 20th represents about 8/10ths of 1% of the total value of SCO. Not exactly earth shattering news. They did 1.3 million today alone. The VPs don't even have a controlling interest in a company. The Canopy Group owns over 50% of the company.

  13. A real question on Ask Bruce Perens About Linux and Open Source · · Score: 0

    Are you the real Bruce Perens? What's your /. UID?

  14. Re:Obsolete? on Romancing The Rosetta Stone · · Score: 1

    Right...215.4 million Americans speak only English. 28.1 million Americans speak some form of Spanish (with or without also speaking English). I wouldn't exactly say 13% is "well on the way". English definitely isn't going to be the next Latin. The majority of science, technology, aviation, and computers is English based. It isn't going anywhere soon.

  15. Re:Wow. on MCI Accused of Long-Distance Call Accounting Fraud · · Score: 1

    Yes. I work part time for a telco consulting company that finds money for the telcos. They look at the system and find places where billing is non-existent. A friend who works there has found multiple millions of dollars in billings basically lying there waiting to be found.

  16. Re:Very simple reasons on Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea · · Score: 2, Informative
    Most people complain about the lack of driver support in Linux and BSD but its positively nonexistent in SCO. USB, SATA, Firewire, Sound, Video, high end nic's, backup devices the support isn't there. VMware and Virtual PC both won't support SCO. effort.

    USB is present in SCO. OpenServe 5.0.7 has support for keyboards, mice, floppy, and mass storage (both optical and magnetic). Sure it doesn't do your digital camera, but that doesn't belong on a server.

    Serial ATA is still in it's infancy and more support will be added, but it is supported. I beleive that you are correct that firewire is not currently supported.

    Sound really isn't an issue for a server. When was the last time you saw a rack mount 5.1 surround sound system?

    Video is supported with SCO. Sure your high end ATI 9700 Pro All-In-Wonder with quad DVI output isn't going to be optimized, but once again, it's a server. A low end graphics card would be more then enough for a server.

    As for NICs, sure high end nics are supported. I'm sitting across from a 10/100/1000 BroadCom Gigabit card running fine. SCO's HCL for gigabit NICs includes Intel, Broadcom, 3Com, Compaq, and IBM. I'm sure there is a "high-end" in there somewhere.

    As for backup devices, I'm not really sure what you are thinking about. Tape drives are supported. CD/DVD recorders are supported. These are probably the most common server archival methods.

    Depending on which version of VMWare, the only qualified guest OSs are Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, Netware, and FreeBSD. I don't see IRIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Xenix, or AIX? It's not the OS's responsibility to make sure it runs under VMWare. SCO runs on actual hardware. If VMWare doesn't emulate the hardware exactly as the OS would see it, whose fault is that?

    My current employer currently uses OpenServer. It currently works for us. Sure a "free" OS is appealing. Yes SCO looks like an ass lately. And you are correct that SCO driver support isn't the greatest...you just have to be choosey on what hardware you purchase.
  17. Re:The SCO Linux Game on Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    It actually appears to just cycle between those three in that order. Try poking the penguin as fast as you can 3 times. It will just cycle.

  18. Re:Cloture in the Senate on House Overturns FCC Media Consolidation Plan · · Score: 1

    But it still has to have 51+ votes to pass

  19. Re:Phone numbers? on Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back · · Score: 0

    As opposed to all the non-Soviet Russians? :)

  20. Re:it doesn't matter on House Overturns FCC Media Consolidation Plan · · Score: 1

    50-60 votes? You have to have a mimimum of 51 votes for it to pass. I'd say he would have to have in excess of 66 votes for the bill just to think about not vetoing it.

  21. Re:Let's make a deal on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some friendly advice a friend once gave me:
    During the first year, put a penny in a jar for everytime you have sex. After the first year, take a penny out everytime. The jar won't ever be empty

  22. Re:The scary thing on SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    I'm an idiot. I just took a glance and thought that I was in the same tree that I was looking at earlier. Those trees had the actual source RPMs and the linux source was not one of them.

  23. Re:Uh, no. on SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    you forgot, (9) All the above. Not one option is necessarily mutually exclusive from the others.

  24. Re:The scary thing on SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    I don't see the kernel rpms there. I thought the same thing that you did earlier, but I couldn't find the actual kernel source.

  25. Re:The scary thing on SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    The old SCO joined up with Caldera transfering the unix side of the business to Caldera and spinning off Taranella and it's business. Candera released OpenLinux. Caldera then went back to the name The SCO Group. For a while it was still legally Caldera, but was d/b/a The SCO Group. It has since officially changed names to The SCO Group. So I think that legally they have released OpenLinux as the same corporation that they were. Changing names won't change that fact.