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  1. Re:Retail customers get screwed on support? on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 1

    It is possible to register all 5 machines. You can then buy a single entitlement for $60/yr. You can then switch the entitlements between machines. However, only one entitlement would be active at a time.

    A subscription gives you 'priority' access to ISOs and updates via the web interface and up2date. Nothing is mailed to you.

    As for the short support period, I think Redhat X.X is targeted for workstation whereas Redhat Enterprise has lots of support.

  2. A PVR tells ad sellers who is watching on Nielsen to measure TiVo usage · · Score: 1

    Every since that AOL-TW exec said that PVR users are thieves I've been thinking he's got it backwards. Sure a lot of people fast foward through the commercials, but what about the ones that rewind to see in interesting commercial? TiVo can sell that information. You can't get that from regular TVs. PVRs give you hard data that you never had before. The networks should use it to their advantage.

  3. Re:Dangerous Precedent? on Linux Trademark Domain Crackdown · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that is correct. I thought OSI or some other org tried to trademark OpenSource, and the request was denied. Linus does own the Linux trademark. As for those domains you listed, those are for sale.

  4. Eliminate top level domains on ICANN Registers Improper Domain Names · · Score: 1

    I just don't see how adding more TLDs would solve the problem of companies grabbbing them all. Eliminating TLDs would force people to think globally when they create a business name or identity. I don't think that would be a problem either. I've never heard of there being a IBM or Microsoft or Sony in other countries besides those that have those companies. I imagine those companies register their names in all countries.

    I think this would even give power to the little guy, since he only has to spend the money to register one domain.

    This wouldn't elimate the legal battles for domains for companies that have the same initial, but either would new TLDs. Adding more TLDs would just slow down the process, as the registrars check your creditials, to see if you really belong to that category.

    And what happens if your '.org' grows up and suddenly is part of a public company? Are you automatically changed to '.com'? :)

  5. Re:Can we Really fork linux? on Bill Joy, ESR, RMS and more on SCSL vs GPL · · Score: 1

    Another example of forked code is Nedit. It's a great X based editor. But someone wanted certain features that the original author wasn't ready to do, so he forked. After those features proved useful, the original author folded some code back. Nedit even forked a port to NT, which the original nedit probably won't support ever.

    So there's 2 versions of Nedit, and those versions make everyone happy. So that are plenty of people willing to encourage forking too...

  6. unpack fails for me for tp 5.5 on Borland Releases Old Turbo C, Turbo Pascal for Free · · Score: 1

    Anybody know were I can get a program that can unpack the arc files?

    unpack caused win98 to close the dos window!