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  1. Re:How's it smell? on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    They had some biodiesel powered city buses in Toronto as part of a pilot project and as far as I can recall, their exhaust smelled more like movie theatre popcorn than french fries

  2. Re:almost right on Mandrakelinux 10 Now Available To All · · Score: 1

    and I didn't realize there was a separate repository just for the cooker RPMS...doh!

    I'm getting outta here while the karma is still good!

  3. Re:almost right on Mandrakelinux 10 Now Available To All · · Score: 1

    everytime I post a URL on slashdot, a space gets added in the middle! Doh!

    (I REALLY have to learn to type)

  4. Re:Excellent Distro!!! on Mandrakelinux 10 Now Available To All · · Score: 5, Informative
    urpmi.addmedia waschk http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/Man drake/10.0 with hdlist.cz

    to add Gnome 2.6 to Mandrakelinux 10

    http://www.thebrix.org.uk/

    is a site that lists all of the "nonofficial" RPM packager sites for Mandrakelinux

  5. Re:Exhibit Number One on Ruling Clears Way For Lindows Trial · · Score: 2

    this post is refering to MSwindows 1.0 (DOS executive) If you ever used DOSSHELL, well, that is basically a stripped down version of Microsoft windows 1.0 And that did come out in 1983, but at the time there were still other DOS taskmanager apps out in the wild.. a lot of 'em

  6. long planned PR Stunt comes to fruition? on RIAA Forgets to Make Royalty Payments · · Score: 1
    "Spitzer also thanked music industry attorney Bob Donnelly, who originally brought the matter to the attention of his office and then helped identify ways to resolve it."--reading that I wondered if Bob approached the State AG on purpose knowing full well that they (the RIAA) would soon be launching a full scale attack on internet downloads.

    They have spent the last 3 years now "fighting internet downloading to make sure royalties go to there artists" and sooner or later someone was going to point out that they have thousands of unpaid royalties on the books. By approaching the NYS AG, they are quite nicely sidestepping this and at least not looking quite so much like hypocrites.

    Make no mistake, this decision was a win/win for the industry and the State