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  1. Re:The problem is with the RPM format... on APT - With Your Favorite Distribution · · Score: 1

    i am running 2.4.14, been running 2.4 on a debian box since 2.4.1, runs great, in fact i have had no problems that weren't my fault since then, sure i'm runing unstable but that doesn't mean the packages are going to crash or anything, it means things are still going to change, nothing has been frozen

  2. Re:PGP, secrets and authority. on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    how do you get on ebay if without a computer... what about if you don't have an address, can't afford the electricity or to pay for an isp...

    also remember $100 is like a month's worth of food for me, i take eating over a computer any day...

  3. Re:Older (386, 486) hardware? on Why iptables (Linux 2.4 Firewalling) Rocks · · Score: 1

    i do that for my firewall... i'm not waiting for the kernel to compile on p-90 when i have a k6-3 400 sitting accross all of 5 feet away

  4. Re:as big as jupiter? on Planets In The Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    not necessarily, remember the inverse square law, jupiter may have a lot of mass but the "surface" is a long way from the center of mass so the gravity that you would feel is not anywhere near what you could feel if you had a jupiter mass the size of the earth. I don't have a link to this but i read once that a person who is in good shape would be able to work under the gravity that they would feel at jupiter's surface.

  5. Re:Creation of the Universe on Why Does The Universe Exist? · · Score: 1

    you do realize i could copy what you said verbatum replacing universe with God...
    personally i go for a combination of the two, but i can't prove my belief to you any more than you can prove yours to me

  6. Re:Hard to read on Is UNIX An OS? · · Score: 1

    1. there is a differance between communism and socialism, nader is far more socialist than communist
    2. there have been no true communist states as marx described them (that i can think of)
    3. communist china is still around

  7. Re:Hard to read on Is UNIX An OS? · · Score: 1

    and you say that is if it where a bad thing

  8. Re:"De-orbited?" on Mir Likely To Be Deorbited [Updated] · · Score: 1

    i prefer the term crash and burn

  9. Re:Making bucks off someone else's rep on Typosquatting · · Score: 1

    and then when you ordered they ran to mcdonalds and stole the food you ordered

  10. Re:documents on reserve on Metallica Vs. Harvard · · Score: 1

    no there are restrictions on fair use saying what it can be used for for instance education, plus you aren't supposed to copy the full thing, just parts

  11. Re:Why schools pick an environment on Coding Classes & Required Development Environments? · · Score: 1

    if you can code what does it matter if it is paper or a text editor? with the paper tests they test the ideas and concepts and if you have some minor syntax mistakes it really doesn't hurt your grade... at least that is what it is like where i am

  12. Re:Not just dialup ... on Official AIM for Linux · · Score: 1

    my roommate did this, why he knew aol, his email was through aol and he travels all over the country b/c of family issues what other service can he access anywhere in the nation including his dorm room?

  13. Re:Oh, the irony. on Slashback: Behaviorism, Attrition, Elimination · · Score: 1

    if sci-fi movies have tought me anything it is when we find the aliense they will help us out, or kill us all. either way problem solved

  14. Re:the book was good... on The Battlefield Earth Contest · · Score: 1

    dickens is not in my opinion a good writer, good stories but horribly written. tale of two cities was painful to read, well thats what you get when you pay an author by the word, horrible drawn out discriptions that do nothing for the story

  15. Re:Arrogant, misguided geeks... on AOLization of America · · Score: 1

    c'mon are you that blind to the possible benifits of a system that you don't like? my roommate uses AOL for a very good reason, he travels alot b/c to help with his family buisness and school. AOL has local access numbers everywhere he goes, so he only needs that one account that he can use almost anywhere.

  16. Re:Hydrogen engine for laptops. on Solar Cells For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    what happens when you burn hydrogen H20... what do hydrogen fuel cells react the hydrogen with, oxygen, so once again you get water, the thing is instead of putting in water, you put in hydrogen... the hydrogen is generally seperated from the water elsewhere

  17. Re:More money = better grade at the end? on Laptop Exams? · · Score: 1

    you forget that college students generally don't have the money lying around to by a laptop, yeah its a small percentage of the cost of tuition but many people are barely making tution with loans and grants. take my roommate, he can only afford to be here b/c of grants, loans and scholorships, none of these appy to buying a computer.

    the school provides labs, he uses one of my computers, so he doesn't have a problem, if schools want to have open computer tests then level the playing field, use a lab, don't require the people to bring their own

    btw what student can afford wireless net access, hell i have 3 computers (including a laptop) and i don't have a wireless modem, let alone service for it

  18. Re:Lots of things are wrong with it. on What's Banned On Your Campus? · · Score: 1

    i have a friend who talked to someone who works at NTS who said they monitored Napsters port was using more like 50% of the bandwidth so they had a choice, ban Napster or bandwidth limit the dorms, i agree with their decision, i can get mp3s elsewhere,

  19. Re:They need to add more value to the albums! on Pirates Steal Negative $1,400,000,000 from Music Industry · · Score: 1

    easy to fix that problem, i wanted a song from one of my enhanced cds on my computer but couldn't find the tracks until i accidently loaded windows cd player and suddenly they appeared, this has worked on 2 different computers so i d/n think its a fluke

  20. Re:Yet another theory to explain life... on Quantum Evolution Poses Challenge to Darwinism · · Score: 1

    minor problem with your statement, many christians, including me, see no conflict between the two ideas, in fact the catholic church declared evolution a non-overlaping magistrate (i think thats right) back in darwin's day, in otherwords they didn't believe that they conflicted, instead they just explained different aspects of the same thing.

  21. Re:WHO CARES WHAT LINUX WAS WRITTEN IN!! on Obfuscated C Code Contest Begins · · Score: 1

    c'mon scheme is fun... o wait i still have nightmares about it... while working on our final project we pulled some late hours and when we actually slepted we dreamed in scheme, talk about scary

  22. Re:I don't see the big whoop about this. on Cell phones used to track traffic · · Score: 1

    people were more voting against the other to then for Jesse

  23. Re:I doubt it... on Microsoft looking for FreeBSD Skills · · Score: 1

    i know a few including myself who are working on it. i have a laptop that boots linux and win98 and i try to use linux whenever possible so i can learn my way around it and as soon as i can save up enough i'm going to build a box just for linux, i can't make the full switch yet as i need my 'puter to do things for school and sometimes i just don't have time to stumble around an os that is new to me to do something i can do in 2 seconds under win98

  24. Re:But will there be a big crunch ?? on Reverse Time Could Explain Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    yeah, i haven't gotten the hang of mondays yet

  25. Re:My thoughts? on U.S. is "Just About OK for Y2K" · · Score: 1

    sorry any nuke coming at us won't be able to be shot down in time, remember the discussion awhile ago about the ABM treaty, no NMD (nuclear missle defence) for the us, even if we did the testing is like less then 1/7 and that was with nukes with a know tradjectory (sp?). feel real safe eh? shouldn't matter, the us and russia share (norad's i think) nuclear missle detection system.