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  1. I second that on Category: Most Improved Kernel Module · · Score: 2

    No other kernel project deserves a reward than the ALSA project. They have brought advanced sound to a millions of Linux users.

    Am truly gradeful for the boys and girls who code for the project. Enjoy, and thank you for giving a voice to my linux box.
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  2. A few links and a few more happy Nvidia users on Nvidia Releases Xserver and GLX for GeForce 256 · · Score: 2

    Hello,

    It seems like they released accelereated 3d drivers not onl gor GeFORCE 256, but also for the rest of their product line. Including Riva 128, Riva 128ZX, TNT/2.

    You can fetch these drivers from this link.
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  3. Musing... on Part of Ender's Game Script Posted · · Score: 2

    I loved Ender's Game. And Loved it the way it was orginally. Buggers becomming something else? How else would it Ender's game be unique? and the brutal murder of that fat kid being taken out?! I dont believe that.. that was one of the msot deeply emotional bits of the whole story, the realization at the end the way he mirroed it by killing the other kid.. truly unique piece of writing, I wish it would remain as it was. Bean is my hero btw! So is ender.. but ender was almost robotic..
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  4. Re: Question of owernship.. on MSFT thanks Linux Programmer for paying $35 Fee · · Score: 2


    Record created on 02-Oct-1996.

    Database last updated on 28-Dec-1999 13:02:57 EST.



    This looks like the first payment. And a domain name is surely not like paying (lease) for a car/home. Once you pay for that period, you own it untill the end of that period. With a car, you get to own it only after you pay out your lease not after paying one payment for the duration of how long that payment is in effect. If you dont pay then it would be taken away from you and someone else would be given the chance to use it.

    Maybe if it was a second or next payment it would have seen more logical. But m$ missing out of the first payment?
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  5. Question of owernship.. on MSFT thanks Linux Programmer for paying $35 Fee · · Score: 2

    Since he paid for the domain registration, wouldnt he have a final say on the domain? If he refuses to accept any payment microsoft made ($35), wouldnt he be the owner of this domain? And have a final say as to where it should point?

    I believe M$ owes this dude more than $35. A personal check from BillG would be most appericated. :)
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  6. Doesnt it run windows CE? on 386 Based Linux Powered Telephone · · Score: 2

    But did you see the bit about Windows CE on this page? What does it mean in english?

    Scorpi il nuovo !Windows CE! --?!
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  7. Who said it looks ugly?! on Aibo Gets Competition: NEC's R100 · · Score: 1

    Just forgot to add this
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  8. R2D2? on Aibo Gets Competition: NEC's R100 · · Score: 2

    Does that look like a distant relative of our favorit robot? Maybe after a few revisions R100 might as well become the adam of R2D2.

    Now some interesting things you can do to with R100..

    Train it to recoginze your pets.. dogs and cats.. Rover and Tom (ok forget the cat)

    Now program R100 to control the doggy. Have fixed times for doggy to eat, take a dump, roll over and play dead, play ball and so on.

    Oh R200 comes with weather proof industrial quality tires and is certified as the first robot driver. So it can take your dog for a walk (And scoop up the poop afterwards).

    speculations are endless......
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  9. Re:Flamebait? No. I think not... on Richard Stallman Calls for Amazon Boycott · · Score: 2

    It wasn't an offical letter as such. It was just a note telling them, that I've stopped doing biz with them. I don't feel I was speaking in behalf of anyone else when I wrote it.

    Other than that I don't have to explain myself to a flamer.

    Enjoy.
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  10. You have lost one member on Richard Stallman Calls for Amazon Boycott · · Score: 2

    To: feedback@amazon.com

    Dear Sir,

    Due to you US patent (5,960,411), I have decided to join the current boycott of
    Amazon that Richard Stallman ( http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html )
    encoraged. Untill such time as this patent is revoked, I would not buy any product
    from your site, neither would I encorage anyone to purchace anything from there.

    Thank you.


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    /., please be polite in your mail to feedback.
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  11. Re:They missed the fact that Corel IS Debian on Linux Distributions Rated on CNet · · Score: 2

    True,

    The fact that Corel Linux is based on Debian should be put on the front page and right below the words "Corel Linux" not in some obscure appendix. All that corel linux is .. is a buch of really buggy, non conforming tools that are only useful for installing the distro. After that debian and KDE takes over.

    Also on distro ratings/reviews, I think the community on it's own would do a better job than some junior journalist at C/Net. What I propose is that C/NEt and other present distributions (maintainser/user-community) with a document to list pros and cons of their own distributions. In this way the distribution creators would get to rewiew their own distros and give their own views on what is good with their distro and what needs work on. After that C/Net or who ever is in chrage of the reviewing process can collect all the self-reviewed stuff and put it on a web site. (Also the reviews could be exchanged between distributions so that they could peer-review and make sure that no microsoftish claims are in).

    That would be the honest way to do it.
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  12. Your solution would be to RTFM on XFree86 Release Update: 4.0 in Q12000 · · Score: 2

    before posting. Plesae. read everthing.

    Also, when you post, make sure you put a proper title in your subject.

    Good luck.


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  13. M$ Y2k plan? on Windows NT 4.0 C2 Evaluation finished · · Score: 2

    >The article is dated a year ago. From the site:
    >Last updated: December 02, 1998

    That's exectly what I noticed (others who went there were using IE?) with Netscape on Linux.

    I have been told that some companies have gone back one year just to counter the effects of the y2k bug. This could mean that (possibly) the web site sections of microsoft might have decided to set their year as 1998 (Since it's not such a critical dept) and go on. I did see the 1998 as well, wonder why others dont see it.
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  14. Re:s/slink/potato; s/potato/slink/ on Interview: Ask the Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1

    If you replace the word 'slink' with 'potato' using the sed synatax (or bastardrized apt synatax) and then replased all occurances of 'potato' with 'slink' you'd be left with a passage that only talks about potato :) Much more confusion IMHO :P
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  15. Three cheers for Bruce Perens on Novell License Draft 1.0 Submitted for Review · · Score: 2

    I think we should give credit to where it's due :)

    Thanks
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  16. Re:Web cams on Where Carmack Goes Next · · Score: 1

    Actually there is a whole genre of games that does it. The only one I recall is mind storm(?) that came with my sister's quickcam. it worked pretty ok with my bt848 card as well.. nice.. cute :) good for exerciing.. bascially you controlled a space ship with your whole body.. move your body from side to side.. or flap your arms (ahem wings) .. and so on
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  17. Woody to your rescue! on Debian Freeze Rescheduled · · Score: 1

    I use potato on all my boxes including the ones at work.


    Enjoy
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  18. Re:Perk/TK front end to readseq on New Genetic Information Web Portal · · Score: 1

    Ah thanks very nice.
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  19. Perk/TK front end to readseq on New Genetic Information Web Portal · · Score: 1

    Hello Folks,

    I'm writing a perk/tk graphical front end to readseq. If anyone in the biosci field is interested in this small application let me know. (post a note under this).

    Enjoy.
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  20. Re:So is it space dude? on Debian Freezing · · Score: 1

    Ha, I've been idle on there for about a few years. See how long \broken has been idle.
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  21. So is it space dude? on Debian Freezing · · Score: 1

    Ponder,

    What shall be the code name of the next debian unstable distribution? have we run out of all cool toy story names? (oh toy story 2 is on the horizon). How about cowboy, or maybe a little twist, gunslinger! ha! space dude sounds fun.. or maybe extraterristal. Debian ET sounds nice too.

    Any ideas as to what it should be called?

    Yes /broken is an entity
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  22. Re:Evolutionary pressure... on SlugBot, the Slug-Powered Slug-Hunting Robot · · Score: 1

    I suggest mating the Slugbot with the Flybot
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  23. Porting Quake as a front end to SlugBot on SlugBot, the Slug-Powered Slug-Hunting Robot · · Score: 2

    (PrezRelease)

    IDOT softarware, annoucned today that they have ported their higly acclaimed game to the Slugbot hardware. This port was done with the help of the Linux kernel and AC's including AC. Quake for Slugbot features among other things (to help censors) gore levels, ability to switch weapons to salt sprinker and the mega salt water spourt .. affactionaly called BFG31337. Quake for Slugbot is also modular and users could make their own modules to compliment all that which was included in QFS.

    In other news, Microsoft decided to enter the Slugbot OS market and would unveil a new OS entitled Slugggin-dos. With the slogan, "The only Microsoft Product that Lives up to it's name".

    {end}
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  24. WOW.. what can i say on SlugBot, the Slug-Powered Slug-Hunting Robot · · Score: 2

    This is truly Unique..

    A slug terminator! And the thing comes with a GPS and costs less than one! ha, this is one gadget to have.

    On slug temrinations, I've found that if you mix some salt in water and pour over them, a really weird thing happesn to their bodies (ahem. they dissolve.. this has something to do with Osmosis.. very neat experiment).. Try it.. but be ready to watch solid ooze into slime real quick..

    Slug Feast!
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  25. This is true on The Porn - MP3 Connection · · Score: 1

    I watched NIN's "broken" (please dont tell the authorities) and beacme a serial killer. I would like to stress that I was forcked to watch Trent Reznor scream and make sorts of throaty noise. Also this guy did a bobbit act on screen, which deeply influenced my um.... nevermind
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