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  1. Re:This is good news on ATI PCI-Express Devices Revealed · · Score: 1
    Obviously AGP slot..

    *donk*

  2. This is good news on ATI PCI-Express Devices Revealed · · Score: 1, Interesting
    For multi local XF86 user configurationss and people with multi-monitors.

    One of the biggest problems at the moment is the expense of (and difficulty finding) PCI video cards backed against the fact that motherboards rarely have more than 1 pci port.

    So perhaps in the future we easily add 4-5 PCI Express video cards to our machines.

  3. Re:Why ? on IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux · · Score: 1
    It can read the current generation of Office documents, for the most part. The biggest problems I've encountered in it are with documents which were saved with the "protection" option enabled to make part of it read-only. There seem to be quite a few of those out there. OpenOffice can't read them at all. Irony is that this misfeature is trivial to remove for anyone who has MSWord/Excel.

    I just use Gnumeric. This works fine for protected Excel speadsheets I get from my suppliers.

  4. Bart's pebuilder meetup day on Live Windows Bootable CDs for Sysadmins · · Score: 3, Informative
    One thing I would like to mention is that there is also a meetup site for Barts Pebuilder:

    http://pebuilder.meetup.com

    Also don't forget the slashdot meet.

    http://slashdot.meetup.com

  5. Very useful on Live Windows Bootable CDs for Sysadmins · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm a self-employed call-out computer tech (and yes that is the only way I could get work ;) and I use Bart'sPE very often in my job and find it a very useful tool.

    You come for the NTFS support and stay for the win32 API. By far the other most useful things are the virus scanner and the networking support. You can easily detect all nics that XP will support outof the box or create a plugin if it doesn't

    It's great for fixing Windows machines that won't boot. While I would prefer to use Knoppix and systemrescuecd BartsPE is usually more suited.

  6. Re:huh? on Diamond Age Coming Soon · · Score: 0
    Your sig doesn't make sense a Zealot is basically:
    "A member of a Jewish movement of the first century A.D. that fought against Roman rule in Palestine as incompatible with strict monotheism"

    I don't think they even had Linux back then.

  7. Only if... on The Trouble with RFID · · Score: 2, Funny
    your stupid enough to forget to rip the tag off your shirt after you buy it.

  8. Re:Commercial Biasing? on Virtual Dummy To Try On Clothes · · Score: 1
    Me?.. Buy a dress? That will be the day.

  9. So they will just get more sophisticated on Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas · · Score: 0

    and the server side scripts will check that the IP that the image was served to is the same one that signs up for the free e-mail.

  10. A flaw in a Microsoft product? on Flaws Threaten VoIP Networks? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If that's impossible than this isn't slashdot.

  11. Re:Version 2.0... on Debian World Domination Plan · · Score: 1

    My bets are on Windows FX. Either that or Windows 2005/6/7 but not as likely.

  12. Re:Total Perspective Vortex on You Are Here (On Earth) · · Score: 1

    Quite the opposite. I left tiny in comparision and alone being so far away from even the closest star.

  13. Then maybe on Internet Archive Opens Crawler Code Under LGPL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OSDN can decide to open source source forge...

  14. Re:Yes but what if we don't run Windows.... on New Online Music Service For Australia · · Score: 3, Interesting
    "Tought shit" we don't have to use their music service either.
    I don't believe the business model of the future is selling tracks online although the licenses will be sold (ie for commercial broadcast or public playback such as in clubs) for artists that decide to charge for commercial use.


    Most music will be free for most people and the artists will make money through sponsorship, merchdising and concerts.

  15. Re:better place on 96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I tried but your friends had them all booked out for their depraved... gawd knows what...

    All six of them!

  16. Re:Unintended Consequences: Less New Medicine on The Opening of Biotech · · Score: 0
    There is nothing to stop other instituionts like universities or purpose build foundations (perhaps sponsored by people suffering from diseases in question) from doing the research.

    Afterall, check out thinkcycle.org for an example of an MIT birthed initiative.

    There are also distributed projects to find cures for cancer and AIDS. I'd prefer contributing my spare clock cycles to a project where I know the end product isn't going to be controlled by one company. regards, Chris Caston

  17. Re:yeah..they all need more double adapters on Need... More... Power... · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sure a spaghetti mess of powerboards and double adapter is all good and well until you blow a fuse.

  18. I think it's slashdotted.. on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 1

    "Document contains no data" Seriously is there something like Bit Torrent for whole websites? regards, Chris

  19. Re:So what we need really is.. on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 0

    Thank you for your reponse. The open source business experiment doesn't guarantee success. It is for all practical purposes an experiment.

  20. Re:So what we need really is.. on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Stupid as I may replying to my own topic, but Nudge looks like it may be a good plac to start. Anyone know of any others or have more ideas? http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/ regards, Chris

  21. So what we need really is.. on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    An open source search engine run by a business with an open source business plan. We should trust closed source business plans as much as we trust closed-source software.

  22. Re:in Soviet Russia on First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer · · Score: -1, Redundant

    d'oh, c'mon you'd do the same if you saw the article and no comments. I use Debian okay and did try out the installer when it was in alpha!

  23. in Soviet Russia on First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Debian has trouble installing you

  24. I believe there is already a such a service on Google Expanding To IRC? · · Score: 2, Informative

    and believe it or not it's called xgoogle.com

  25. Re:Proof the IP6 is dead!! on IBM To Run VoIP On Linux · · Score: 1

    SIP addresses are like e-mail addresses sipuser@host.com I think is this much easier to remember even compared to POTS numbers!