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  1. MS settled the suit they initiated on Groklaw Refutes LinuxWorld Story About AIX Sources · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Lindows had to change names due to trademark suits from Microsoft,

    MS paid them $20M to change names after it looked like they were going to lose the very dubious Windoes Trademark. MS sued and pretty much lost.

  2. Re:Pros and Cons on OSDDP: Involving Students With Open Source Docs · · Score: 2, Insightful
    not be as in-depth as if they were written by the persons involved in these projects.

    I don't understand this. Why wouldn't the people incolved in the project add the In-Depth later sparing them for the grunt work and using their knowledge much better. It seems like a win -win to me

  3. #3 might be an option on Free Software Friendly Graphics Card? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Why not contact the number 3 player in the market and see if they are game for going open source.

    What are Matrox and VIA doing these days?

  4. No change in France ? on 30th Anniversary of Pascal · · Score: 1
    What language is the "teaching language" now?

    In France at the PrePa to get into one of the Grand Ecoles it's still Pascal. Incl the Namesake .

  5. Woody Allen Quip on Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years · · Score: 1

    Finland: the country where people sing Night and Day 6 month at a time.

  6. United States Postal Service??? on The Universal Off Button · · Score: 1
    Just because you find it annoying doesn't mean you have the right to turn it off.

    What about PostOffices in Dallas Texas. While standing in line they show Fox TV with all the Pro Bush stuff. The Postmasters position is that it's a free country and USPS can do as they please.

  7. Re:Anand does not know much about SC manufacturing on First Looks at Athlon 64 4000+ & FX-55 · · Score: 1
    use The Inquirer as your data source?

    FYI, spend 20 years in the industry only referencing TheInquirer.

  8. Anand does not know much about SC manufacturing on First Looks at Athlon 64 4000+ & FX-55 · · Score: 5, Informative
    CPU manufacturing is all about yields, if AMD can make more chips that work by increasing the die size by adding a larger cache instead of upping the clock speed, then that's the route AMD will take.

    This is actually the last resort, as the cost of wafer real-estate versus speed increase is low. You rarely do this for raw speed rather for special needs like Servers and the like.

    The increase in the speed for a workstation is probably one speed grade at a cost increase of 30% or so.

    There is two good articles over on TheInquirer about Intels road map and why they have to go the Increase the cache route for 2005. Worth a read. Part One and Part Two

  9. Rinse and repeat 2000 times on Spyware/Adware Prevention In Large Deployments? · · Score: 1

    Maybe not the best advise for 2K users.

  10. DeVry on Three Budget CPUs Tested · · Score: 1
    Why did you buy an entirely new PC and not just a new motherboard?

    Probably DeVry

  11. You forgot the signature line on Slashback: Pong, Economics, Stability · · Score: 1
    Sincerely

    The commision to re-elect the President

  12. Re:I agree: FUCK Bush and Ashcroft on the 2'nd on Indymedia Servers Given Back · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I know it's childish I am just letting out steam.

  13. I agree: FUCK Bush and Ashcroft on the 2'nd on Indymedia Servers Given Back · · Score: 5, Informative
    I am spending my Slashdot Karma just to be able to voice my anger at this administration.

    They have made a pigs breakfast at everything from The economy, environment, egual rights, Civil Liberties.

    Not one fucking thing have they managed to succed in. Not ONE.

  14. No need on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 1

    It will run on their own POS (Not Point of Purchase) so it will most likely be down regardless of /.

  15. IBM's rule during WWII on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 0, Troll
    International Business Machines" (clearly a front for the communist and/or nazi party)

    Unfortunately the latter assertion was close to true, during WWII. See TheRegister or just google. Lot's of stuff out there

  16. Re:PopFile on Stichting Spamvrij (spamfree.nl foundation) Closing · · Score: 1
    That's interesting and scary. My mail goes thru 2 filters upper level filters before hitting me. One at the forwarding level and one at my ISP (comcast)

    I turned the filter off at Comcast once and saw no real difference.

    This level of spam that your graph shows should be nuked differently. Zombie killing or turning off whole subnets once in a while.

    Before Bayesian filters came available I nuked all Hotmail and aol extensions at my mailserver.

  17. Re:PopFile on Stichting Spamvrij (spamfree.nl foundation) Closing · · Score: 2, Interesting
    What is the problem with a false positive? IF you have Magnets from everyone you normally interface with it has to come from someone that you do not normally correspond with

    If really important that person most likely has other means of getting hold of you and relaying on email is folly.

    What I am trying to say is you have to amortise the problem of one false positive with the effort involved in getting better accuracy. Not worth it and most likely not doable.

    By the way a mis-directed email does not mean Spam but often is Personal stuff that goes to a Subscribe or Business bin.

  18. Ask the Folks in Florida? on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    If you ask the Florida folks that is being hit by ever increasing Hurricanes I would say Yes, but they indirectly decided to scrap the Kyoto accord so on balance I would say no it doesn't matter.

  19. PopFile on Stichting Spamvrij (spamfree.nl foundation) Closing · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I don't understand what the big deal is with spam. I implemented PopFile 6 months ago and I get 99.5%+ accuracy. Less than one piece of misdirected mail per day.

    Keep the bucket simple and have lots of Magnets for the people you normally interface with and Spam is a thing of the past. You can even put the server on a remote location so it is available when you travel.

    You can even redirect your spam to a Gmail account and have it all marked Spam thereby helping Google et al improve their filtering tools.

  20. Re:Bootable Games on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1
    Have you ever used a LiveCD?

    Take Knoppix as an example. If you want to use Wine it will search your hard drive to see if it can find better DLLs(in this case better means original MS files) and use them. If you need a special WIFI driver that is not yet supported under Linux if will invoke NDIS wrapper and use the Original Windows drivers.

    In your case your super Duper new device will have a driver installed on your system that will be available to the LiveCD.

    The argument, so why not just use Windows, is countered by the gamemakes ability to control their own environment.

  21. Re:Bootable Games on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1
    there'd be no possible way to upgrade

    My Ubuntu liveCD went out and updated itself after boot and Internet connection via DHCP was established. If you are directly connected to ISP your get the IP from them plus most cheap routers now has DHCP servers included. Why not do same for games? We are talking DVDs by the way so a few 100megs of drivers seems trivial.

  22. Bootable Games on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Games are still a Windows domain

    Me too I would switch in a heartbeat. however the days of Windows as the pre eminent gaming OS might be numbered.

    Latest rumor out of a major games house (Not sure which one as I got the "tip" at the Linuxshow) is that the game companies are working on using LiveCD technology for games. They can tweak the kernel and the ATI / Nvidia drivers (source code issues goes away since they will be supplying binaries only) and presto you have an almost console type platform for their specific needs.

  23. Hall of Fame on Bright LCD Patent Dispute · · Score: 3, Insightful
    How many companies initiating "major" Patent INfringement cases can you name?

    How are they doing in the market place!

    I can think of SCO, Kodak, Unisys and now Honeywell. I will venture all is not well at the little Honey

  24. Cross platform Opensource Music apps on Desktop Apps Ripe Turf for Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is an interesting writeup about opensource music apps over at News Forge today. Just installed wxMusic and it looks excellent for large music collections.

  25. Go slow on the Kool-aid on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me guess you believe in the bible as well. Must be hard to be so gullible