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  1. Good bye, and thanks for all the fish on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I think I've been reading /. for over eight years now, ever since around the time I first started using Linux.

    Thank you

  2. Re:The new part of this on New Malware Imitates Browser Warning Pages · · Score: 1

    I've had many a chuckle when running Galleon or some other Linux browser and seeing it pop up a well-imitated IE error page.

    They don't. IIS by default uses error pages that look very much like IE's. Newer version of firefox and all versions of Chrome ignore them (I think it does a file size test)

  3. Re:Aren't these people supposed to be scientists?? on NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apparently they can't be bothered to pick up a textbook and learn that Redi and Pasteur proved it doesn't work like that a couple hundred years ago.
    It's call the law of biogenesis.
    Stop spending tax dollars trying to prove your Theory when there is already a scientific law disproving it.


    Because, you know, a scientific "law" is the absolute truth........
    Wikipedia happens to say that the law of biogenesis is "that modern organisms do not spontaneously arise in nature from non-life." Really, what makes you think that we are talking about modern organisms? This "law" is just meant to codify that the common wisdom of the day, that flies will comes from rotten meat, was incorrect.

    Aside from a creationist perspective, you need some kind of abiogenic beginning, and this research helps us understand how this might take place.

  4. Re:Features I'm Looking For in My Next Phone on 18 Android Phones, In 3 Flavors, By Year's End · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't use SIP over a data plan. The latency would kill the conversation.

    You're right that 3G probably can't do it. The higher bandwidth comes with a tradeoff in latency, which is why the standard GSM (which has something like 14.4 kbps) is used for voice despite its weakness for any kind of data.

    I don't know much about the data plan breakage, but T-mobile does allow unrestricted access on the dns port, so you may want to try setting up a vpn on your asterisk server on port 53.

  5. Re:"HP's Linux" on 1 of 3 Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks Sold With Linux · · Score: 1

    The 1gig limit is likely there so that they can remove highmem.

    Seriously, whats the problem with the vendor customizing the kernel for the machine? It would be nice if it was clearly documented and easy to switch to a himem kernel, but maybe it made a difference

  6. Re:It's a wash on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    When I see Linux software being sold in my local retailer, that's when I'll know Linux is being taken seriously as an all-purpose consumer desktop OS.

    Been to fry's or microcenter lately? Hell, even best buy sells and advertises the nokia n810

  7. Re:A bigger question on The Secrets of Firefox about:config · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Perhaps these tweaks are hidden because they are *not* worth doing?

  8. Re:What's The Big Deal? on Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    No!!! The software license only lasts as long as the copyright, to ignore the expiration of copyright is part of DRM

    Then again, copyright is lasting longer and longer, but still

  9. Re:The South would like a word with you. on Real ID Act Poses Technical Challenges · · Score: 1

    Oh please, I got US history finals next week, This may have contributed to the start of the civil war years later, but it certianly showed that states could boss around the federal government (that might be debatable, but when all was said and done, the tariff ended).

  10. Re:Another GOOD reason not to run IM! on New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    For some reason, people who talk about IM like its actually optional today seem like 60+ year olds who don't see the point in getting email or how people were probably like when telephones started being common place

    If your in high school, you most likly have a computer, and probably 99% need it for IMing. If you remember the sterotypical cheerleader girl in that cell phone commercial who chats alot, just imagine that teens do that over aim or msn now more then cell phones when they're home.

  11. damn on Google Plans To Destroy Unindexed Information · · Score: 1

    wow, so since i was the one who told this guy about it (it was linked to in another /. post on another topic, probably the euro-related one), does this mean i get some of the credit for tricking the /. editors too??????

    btw, linolium didn't know wat the onion was b4 today, i guess canadans don't get it

  12. Re:Poorly Chosen Language on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 1

    If your cd drive isn't supported by the livecd, then I think it tries to boot up but then drops you into the ash shell to 'fix your shit' (to use the gentoo livecds words). Personally, i consider the sense of humor a good thing :P

  13. Re:etc-update STILL sucks on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    stop trolling and start use dispatch-conf (included in portage).

    IIRC, most of the alternatives that don't use X are simple scripts (like dispatch-conf and etc-update are anyways), so why make a whole package for something u can just slip into ~/bin (or w/e is in your $PATH) ?

  14. Re:A simple solution on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    You'll find this is true at the larger free wifi providers like Panera. You can use their wifi for only as long as your battery holds out at which point you can still sit and stare at a blank screen if you so desire.

    I hope this isn't an official policy...........I've asked the panera people where a power plug is, and they tend to perfer helping me find a half-hidden plug then sweeping up pastry crumbs

  15. Re:How can both Larry and Sergey say one quote on The Philanthropic Arm of Google · · Score: 1

    joint press release?

  16. i think this is what he means: on Linux on the Tipping Point · · Score: 1

    He thinks that people are advocating linux because of hte legend of linus as a robin-hood like figure against the evil forces of big corporations, while saying that its not really true, linux was developed using alot of ideas from unix, with the empethsis in the article being that unix-derivied OSes are more suporior then linux (and therefor windows)

    His argument is that while everything beats windows, linux in particular is only known above other unices because it has the quasi-religious loyality.....i guess people can't argue again that fully, if microsoft decided to revive xenix and made it all open source and changed everything we know about them, would anyone trust them as leaders instead of linus?

    Its ashame he didn't read http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/ap pa.html before, when linux started it was really meant to fill a void none of the other unix-like OSs were, and downplaying linux as offering no technical advantages over BSD and solarix is pretty insulting and biased

  17. Yes, graphing complex functions quicker on Overclocking Calculators? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i'm sure the fact that theres more games then math programs in ticalc.org's asm sections will tell you what the extra cycles would be used for......

  18. appliable to other things? on Sony Ordered to Pay For Dual Shock Tech · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What if everyone who says Linux infringes on their patents gets a ruling that Linus must pay them a dollar for every kernel he sells? Its like nullifying the effect of software patents on F/OSS

  19. Re:Great quote from the article on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    RMS says its ok to charge money for software, as long as you give the customers the same rights that you have (which take away most of the reason for selling except if you bundle in tech support). And he said he would quit his job if he had to use non-free software, didn't say he beliefs everyone should have that kind of devotion to his cause. His views are extreme, but not as extreme as what your making him out to be.

  20. hm... on Identity Theft from University Computers · · Score: 1

    It makes you wonder if its worth it to steal someone else's SSN when you apply for a state university, with both berkeley and this one compromised...........better your SSN then mine, if you don't mind ;)

  21. Re:Too Much Technology on Leapfrog Talking Pen · · Score: 1

    You hiporcrite!!! WE should not endorse the evil technology by which parents are using as an excuse of not teaching their children themselves. We should get rid of all books, all schools, all inovations that arn't from as far back as recorded history goes! Even the tedy bear makes it too easy to learn! Burn them all!!!

  22. Re:hmmm. now I'm slightly interested in linux on Tuning The Kernel With A Genetic Algorithm · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the other OSes besides linux, but you would need to manually compile your linux kernel to get this in, Gentoo provides a program to compile it for you, with other distros you can just use the config file their kernel (should be /proc/config or /proc/config.gz) as a base (if you've never compiled and used your own kernel before, um, find some guides) and patch it with all the [patch] links at http://kerneltrap.org/node/4493

  23. Re:One Problem on Software Firms Lobby for Stronger Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of perfectly legal uses of P2P, but lets face it - the vast majority of it isn't.
    The vast magority of murders are illegal, but I'm quite sure suspected murders have a lot of rights, atleast before the patroit act.

    Seriously, if you have a "good reason" to think that I am taking your possesions, does that give you the right to demand personal information about me so you can hunt me down and sue me for so much that the legal fees would make it impossible for me to do anything except settle? These are regular citizens, not police force or feds, they don't want to send you to get you off the streets and into a rehab for music downloaders, they just make an example out of you in hopes that the fear caused will ofset part of their damages.

    You are right that criminals are caught this way. But file sharers are not criminals, they fit the defintion of pirates and copyright infrigments, but as you said, its a civil matter, and nothing whih I think huge coporations should have their own police force to enforce

  24. MONO? on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, um, isn't this the kind of thing we can run under mono without having to deal with wine regressions? Didn't M$ just help linux and windows users alike here by using .net?