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  1. Re:It's inevitable on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 1

    Didn't Australia vote to become a republic?

  2. Re:Get a dose of reality; Microsoft is gonna get b on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 1

    How about having a 21st century WORKING desktop?

  3. Re:$20 Billion in the Bank = nice income stream on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 1

    And what would that leave for dividends?

  4. Re:Fuck Off Microsoft-Haters on MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux · · Score: 1

    And users like you are keeping Microsoft in business, so you get what you deserve.

  5. Re:Investors on HP CEO Carly Fiorina to Step Down · · Score: 1

    But what spreadsheet has a programming language as nice for numerical work as the language in the 48GX? Stack based (no need to declare variables), a large library of numeric functions, a beautifully minimalist syntax, what do you want?

  6. Re:What kind of MBA retards are in charge of the on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    So the amount of RAM that a RAM slot can take is a function of the CPU? Hmm. . . I did not know that.

  7. Re:Just look at the size of a word document today on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1

    What about PSTricks?

  8. Re:What kind of MBA retards are in charge of the on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    But would the slot even accept a 512 meg card?

  9. Re:How in the world did the Roomba close the door? on Household Emergent Behavior? · · Score: 1

    It could a door hard enough to swing all the way in and then bounce back shut. While the door was thus opening and closing, the Roomba could enter the room

  10. Re:Just say no! on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    Can I get that Dell with Linux instead of Microsoft Windows, at a lower price to reflect not getting a license?

  11. Re:That's not a proprietary window manager. on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    KDE? On 128 meg of RAM? I could barely get it to run on 192. Of course, it's only a 233 MHz Pentium I.

  12. Look on the bright side! on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    But it still counts as a Linux machine sold, and if the MS Windows is pirated, it doesn't count as an MS Windows copy sold.

  13. Re:What kind of MBA retards are in charge of the on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    Because some PC's can't take 256's?

  14. Re:What kind of MBA retards are in charge of the on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    Is there another RAM slot? I upgraded my Averatec by replacing a 128 meg RAM card with a 512, so I don't mind the physical swapping. But is it possible?

  15. Re:This is a CTO?!?! on Ret. World Bank CTO on Desktop Linux TCO Facts · · Score: 1

    Does Internet Explorer have browser tags?

  16. Re:I saved $65 on Ret. World Bank CTO on Desktop Linux TCO Facts · · Score: 1

    He may have wanted a link to the store that sold the PC.

  17. Re:Apples to oranges. on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4 · · Score: 1

    Actually, using psplot in PStricks requires one to enter a little raw PostScript. If you want to draw a graph of y=3sin(2x) from x=0 to x=360, you have

    \psplot{0}{360}{x 2 mul sin 3 mul}.

    Where the last braced expression is in PostScript. Thank goodness I know RPN

  18. Re:Using biometrics isn't so simple... on Password Security Panned · · Score: 1

    And if someone wants the BIOS password to my laptop, I'd die before revealing it. Not that I value my laptop that much, it's just that I forgot the BIOS password. :-)

  19. Re:Surely... on Password Security Panned · · Score: 1

    But not all passwords are equally strong. Also, the requirements would leave at least 6,450,000,000,000 possible passwords (assuming that the "required" characters occurred
    in the first four places) as you have 4!*10^4*72^4. Granted, that's still a reduction by a factor of 100.

  20. Re:Java was expressly NOT derived from C++ on A Brief History of Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    ABC is related to Python by sharing a common developer, Guido van Rossum. Guido claims that ABC and Modula 3 were the main influences on Python.

  21. Re:Annoying on BBC Bill Gates Interview Part 2: Security · · Score: 1

    Roughly 1 gram per cubic centimeter?

  22. Re:Desktop security vs Server security on Microsoft Claims Linux Security a Myth · · Score: 1

    Could one not have Samba mangle the filename in such a case?

    And why would show the person the door, instead of thanking her for the tip?

  23. Re:Slashdot...for americans only ?? on Indian Moon Mission to Have Landing Component · · Score: 1

    I thought he threw his medal into the Ohio River to protest the Vietnam War.

  24. Re:Desktop security vs Server security on Microsoft Claims Linux Security a Myth · · Score: 1

    And why would you name a file -rf?

  25. Re:Development Environment? on Microsoft Claims Linux Security a Myth · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a job for GNU emacs.