User: gst

Apple patented the wheel?

On: Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel

Ha! Apple should be happy if they aren't sued because of patent infringement. The australians patented the wheel before them.

Re:why google is flawed

On: Google's Weakness, AltaVista's Strength

wrong.... yes... google doesn rate your page upon the pages which link to your page.

but the higher the pages which link to your page are rated, the higher your page is rated.

this means if you just link from geocities pages which are "bad" rated themself (cause there is no content), links to your page doesn't give you any advantage.

Napster, Gnutella, Freenet, ...

On: Courts Gives Napster 72-Hour Deadline

ok - napster evil - napster shutdown

gnutella - can't shutdown one central host - users who are offering files on gnutella will be sued - maybe high charges to "stop the masses"

freenet - the next problem - but they can't locate the people who share files - forbidding the use of freenet is the best solution

what will be next? just let's switch of the net.

jabber

On: Official AIM for Linux

i would suggest jabber instead of this aol or this icq crap. it's open, free (the protocol and most clients + the server), and everybody can set up his own server (like everybody can set up a mail server).
and... of course you can still contact icq or aol people through your favourite jabber server.
the urls:
http://www.jabber.org/ for the open source software.
and
http://www.jabber.com/ for a non-free windoze client (but the offer a stable server...)