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  1. Re:Maybe my grandchildren will see the result of t on 25 More States Oppose MSFT Antitrust Dismissal · · Score: 2

    You are naive. Microsoft has controled the bar, not raised it.
    You can only honestly say that you have no idea where the bar would be, or how that bar would be measured. I believe it would be higher if Microsoft never existed.

  2. By grid Location on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 2

    The way I do it. I have a X and a Y axis. I now have a valid horizontal location. A1 being the first through BC240 being the last one in our DC. The next digit represents the vertical location A-AM

    So a1a.myserver.com is the first server on the first grid location bc240am.myserver.com will be the last server on the last grid location.

    This works well for us.

  3. Re:Oh the IRONY! on Bug in zlib Affects Many Linux Programs · · Score: 2

    If you read the redhat advisory you will see. And we are talking RedHat here Dude.

    * Relevant releases/architectures:
    Red Hat Linux 6.2 - alpha, i386, i586, i686, sparc
    Red Hat Linux 7.0 - alpha, i386, i586, i686
    Red Hat Linux 7.1 - alpha, i386, i586, i686, ia64
    Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386, i586, i686, ia64
    *
    Followed by the direct link to the updates for all the above distributions dude !

  4. Re:Oh the IRONY! on Bug in zlib Affects Many Linux Programs · · Score: 2

    Well lets look.

    Linux:
    1. Flaw Found
    2. Flaw fixed for current and previous distributions.

    Windows
    1. Flaw found
    2. Flaw claimed to be feature
    3. Large Corporation bothered by flaw
    4. Flaw patch developement begins.
    5. Beta release of flaw pack
    6. Beta 2 release of flaw pack
    7. RC1 of flaw pack
    8. Flaw pack released for new OS products
    9. 1 month later flaw pack released for most widely used OS version.

  5. No news here on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 2

    We have always had plans. Or in other words, control.

  6. Re:Linux GUIs slow? on Gnome 2.0 Beta 2 Released · · Score: 2

    All it would take is to preload all of your apps the way windows does, but that would increase instability.
    For example here is a preload application for openoffice with the preload app openoffice starts in 1 second. The same thing can easily be done for mozilla etc. Galeon starts for me in 1.5 seconds. If gnome is so slow why can I record a CD at my cd-recorders max speed listen to wolf fm, edit a report, browse the web, and do so many diffrent things at once without fear.

  7. Re:KDE is the most unstable thing in the Linux on Criticisms of KDE 3 Release Process · · Score: 2

    What I am told is, that is too much too fast for our company to consider using kde as a target platform. So keep it up and we will never be allowed to develop for KDE.

  8. I already emailed my Congress Woman on Webcasters and Record Industry Both Appeal Royalty Ruling · · Score: 2

    Expressing my concerns, that the rates are meant to remove the pioneers "Small Business" in order to make room for Large Corporations. Here is how it works, you innovate, someone else sees it, and proceeds to force you out of business. I guess it is too hard these days to offer better services.

  9. KDE is the most unstable thing in the Linux world on Criticisms of KDE 3 Release Process · · Score: 1, Troll

    That is as the API goes, spend a few hundred hours making your apps work on kde2, a few months later have to spend a few hundred hours making your apps work on kde3, a few months later....... This is bad for kde and bad for linux.

  10. Because of profit on Why Batteries Haven't Kept Up · · Score: 2

    Battery distributers make profit from selling batteries at a large markup. Why would they fix that?

  11. We already play games. on PC Games To Help Public Policy Initiatives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or didnt you know that Enron had a code of ethics Manual.

  12. Re:Why must hardware cost more than software? on ESR Says as PCs Get Cheaper, Windows Will Die · · Score: 1

    I have been on 6 out of seven continents. I will skip going to Antarctica. I have 18 years in the USN Pacific Fleet. My assertions have some basis. You on the other hand are word challenged. Last time I looked was only a couple of months ago.

  13. Re:Why must hardware cost more than software? on ESR Says as PCs Get Cheaper, Windows Will Die · · Score: 1

    You are the idiot, and you assume allot. Last I looked most of India, China, Phillipines, Africa, South America etc have phones and power. They just will not buy any software when free software exists.

  14. Re:Why must hardware cost more than software? on ESR Says as PCs Get Cheaper, Windows Will Die · · Score: 1

    You are a member of the 8% of the Earth's population that is relatively wealthy. If you were part of the 92% you would know the answer.

  15. Re:Seriously on Microsoft Seeks Dismissal with 9 Dissenting States · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You assume 41 states are against this. That is how they "MS" wants you to read that. I havent heard any of the 41 states complain.

  16. I heard that last years MS virus related expenses on Who Is Liable For Software With Security Holes? · · Score: 1

    Cost US business just over 10$ billion.
    but they would also say that my use of Linux/FreeBSD last year cost MS over $250,000. (That is only a few servers)

  17. MS is know for its ..... inovativeness on HTTP's Days Numbered · · Score: 1

    NOT.
    They know that eventually IIS will lose. How do they make that a non issue? They redesign their^H^H Internet, so that the other products wont be used either. When they try this move there will be a new anti-trust law suit.

  18. Re:Slashdot/US government censorship on The Futility of Censorship · · Score: 1

    No, it is against the law to threaten the president. Free speech entitles you to your opinion, and you can voice that in many ways.You can NOT threaten the president. You can say anything you want about him. You can lobby against him. You can vote against him. Where the threat is made is of no importance, it is Illegal.

  19. Censorship not required. on The Futility of Censorship · · Score: 1

    There are so many screaming idiots on the Internet that their voices are effectively muted.

  20. Re:Allow me on Linux 2.4.18 Released · · Score: 1

    Logon to slashdot
    Click on preferences
    Click on homepage
    check the stories you dont want to read
    scroll down to the bottom of the page
    click on "save"

    Was that hard?

  21. Overclock it? on Self-Warming Jackets · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I boost the voltage a bit, and cover my body with high quality thermal grease....

  22. Walmart thinks there may be some truth to it. on Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Walmart is selling computers without windows.

  23. MS is planning on losing the desktop. on RMS Asks Miguel to Explain Himself · · Score: 2, Informative

    MS knows that they can not make money off of selling the various windows platforms, and if this was their sole product they would be in deep red.

    They haven't made a profit from their OS division in over 7 years.
    Faced with this and other facts you will find out that .NET has a few main objectives

    #1 is cash flow, this will be accomplished through various licensing schemes and levels of use with the Passport Portal system and with monthly services such as .NET Office. Vendors will pay for levels of use like the 3% on credit cards. There will be various levels such as bronze, silver, gold and platinum

    #2 To rid themselves of the need to make a OS. Why do you think they are lobbing for laws that require digital content management, If all OSs had DCM then it would work with #1 This is just trying to make the point the only reason they make windows and it's aborted registry is for DCM.

    #3 Microsoft will not care what OS you use as long as you use .NET applications and services. Big Picture may form here. They are probably funding XIMIAN. I do not know any one paying for redcarpet or purchasing Ximian Gnome Box sets.

    This may also explain why they are sensitive to the names of various Linux Distributions.

  24. They own the code they provided on Beta-Testers and Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    They do not own code to:

    It needs to feel crisper
    We want it more Friendly
    I want the menu to say ?

  25. Maybe. on A Quick Peek at Longhorn · · Score: 1

    If the filesystem is a database, Then maybe MS Backup/Restore just might actually work
    ...Then everyone will buy new tape drives
    ...which will lower tape drive cost.
    ...Then I can buy a new tape drive.