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  1. Re:Don't throw stones... on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 1
    I'm not so sure about that. On each side of a semicolon, there must be a complete sentence.

    Else I'm simply not talking to you.

    That doesn't sound like a complete sentence to me; a comma works just fine there.

  2. Re:Python has been used for this. on Developing Games with Perl and SDL · · Score: 1

    I think it was Temple of Elemental Evil.

  3. Re:Wouldn't dentists fight this? on Fight Tooth Decay with Electricity · · Score: 1
    I haven't had a cavity since I was six, yet the dentist gets $140 twice a year from me (and my insurance company).
    That's the *bare minimum* that the dentist charges, not including cancellations ($50?)

    So let's pretend that everyone paid the bare minimum. Let's say they get that every 1/2 hour from 8:30am to 11:30am, and from 1:00pm to 4:30pm. My dentist's schedule looks like that, and every spot is filled months in advance, so there aren't too many gaps. That's 14 x $140, or $1960/day, minus expenses. Say that's 48 weeks in a year, 5 days a week, and it's suddenly $470400 that the office takes in in a year. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't mind taking in that much just to clean people's teeth.

    Think of what dentists could charge to have this done.

  4. Re:Solution, Seeks Problem... on Sun Considers dual-sourcing Solaris Under GPL3 · · Score: 1

    There already is a GNU/Solaris distribution (called Nexenta).

  5. Obligatory... on Installing Windows with Recent Updates? · · Score: 1

    Get your install CD solution here.

  6. Re:got milk? on Interview With Gary Edwards of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1
    Read it!

    You do know where you're posting, right?

  7. Re:Reason #10: Firefox updates are a pain in the @ on Firefox Momentum Slows · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not a Firefox dev, but I can tell you that the upcoming 1.5 version has incremental update support.

  8. Re:Let's see some more bootloaders! on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1

    Contrary to what's listed, GRUB does not require a timeout.

  9. Wrong question aka nit-picking on Can Open Source and Commercial Software Coexist? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The question should be "Can Open Source and Proprietary Software co-exist?"

    There exist companies like MySQL AB and Trolltech who are commercial, but are "Open Source."

  10. Punch! Sock! Pow! on Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta Underway · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't it look like Tux just got a beating?
    http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=388&slide=22

  11. Re:let me explain something about longhorn... on Longhorn Beta Begins · · Score: 1

    Just to clarify... "Avoir les cornes, not "Avoir les klaxons," right?

  12. Re:If only... on EU Closer To Rejecting Software Patents · · Score: 2, Informative
    You better try calling or faxing them then.

    Taken from Groklaw:
    The amendments FFII view as most important are the amendments to Articles 3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2 and 6a. By the way, FFII says that MEPS are apparently no longer reading email about the directive. You can only reach them in Strasbourg by phone or fax.

  13. Re:Questions on Hoary Hedgehog Ubuntu 5.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Try the LiveCD first. If that runs, then the install will work.

  14. Oh crap on Burn Grass, Get Green Biofuel · · Score: 1

    I can't believe I just clicked on a Roland Piquepaille link. :(
    Hopefully he doesn't get paid for the ads that are Adblocked. (only the Google ads show up on the page)

  15. Re:Yet... on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 1
    This is marked "funny," but I don't see the error. Does that mean Word's grammar checker is better than you think? ;)

    Test your apostrophe usage here.

  16. ufile.ca for Linux users on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ok, so it's not open source, but at least you can use it on GNU/Linux.

    All the tax software in Canada that I've found is for Windows, and I was upset when Intuit said I had an unsupported browser (though it works at my workplace running Firefox on a Windows machine).

    But ufile.ca works under Linux, so that's where I choose to spend my money.

  17. Re:Linux server revenue almost equals M$-Windows on Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% · · Score: 1
    Not quite.

    That $49 billion is for the year.

    Assuming that UNIX and Windows servers made up 91% of the market, the revenue for the quarter was about $10.8 billion.
    So that puts Linux at $1 billion (9%), with Windows at $4.6 billion (43%), and UNIX at $5.2 billion (48%).

  18. Re:Example of a site that has it on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 1

    It's sites like that that I will e-mail the webmaster of the site and tell them that I will never go to their site again unless the annoying ad is removed.

  19. Re:Disgraceful FUD on BBC on Euro Patent Restart Demand Repeated by Parliament · · Score: 1
    Well, either they changed it, or you linked to the wrong article.

    The only reference that I could find to "open source" is this one:

    But opponents of the bill said that it could stifle innovation, be abused by firms keen to protect existing monopolies and could hamper the growth of the open source movement.

  20. Re:A lot more could certainly be done... on Study Finds Windows More Secure Than Linux · · Score: 1
    I just did a quick apt-cache search for jail, and the three relevant results that I got were jailer, jailtool, and makejail, all tools to make a chrooted environment for daemons.
    This was on an Ubuntu system, but those tools should be available for pretty much any Debian-based distro.

    I haven't tried any of them, but it seems pretty trivial to use one of them to make a jail for Apache.

  21. Source code? on Wind River Completes Embedded Linux Metamorphosis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does anyone know how Wind River Systems is going to make their source code available?

  22. Re:*hog on Ubuntu Linux Live CD Release · · Score: 1

    I know that you're joking, but the release after Hoary Hedgehog is actually Grumpy Groundhog.

  23. OK, mine's a little bit slower, but... on 8Mbit Broadband to Become Available in the UK · · Score: 1
    I pay $29.95/month Canadian (£12.92/month) for 3mbps down and 800kbps up, with unlimited bandwidth, and I can run servers (they told me that I can't have an open relay, though).

    Of course I had to buy my modem, or pay $5 extra per month, but whoopty do.

  24. June 2005?! on Talking with Timothy Miller · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to buy one!

  25. Re:Pentium M will catch up ONLY when FSB goes up on Centrino Mobile Equals Desktop Pentium 4 in Speed · · Score: 1

    I believe it's based off of the Pentium Pro cores.