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  1. Re:It's not that it's hard on Fighting FUD with Humor · · Score: 1

    I really hope you got RH6 when it was *new*, not like last week or whatever...

  2. Re:I call BS. on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Yoy should have read a bit more closely, this was in one of their Japanese offices.

  3. Re:Wine for OSX on No WINE Before Its Time · · Score: 1

    But if you add code to the kernel to recognize that a binary file is a Win32 PE, you know to give it to Darwine. Apparently, Mac OS X/x86 uses a similar method to determine that a file is a ppc application and pass it to Rosetta.

  4. Re:quake 4 linux on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 1

    id has *always* used OpenGL ever since they started writing hardware-accelerated graphics engines. A DirectX 9-capable video card would support OpenGL 1.5 as well, which is what Doom 3/Quake 4 needs. But most average gamers have never heard of OpenGL, so saying "OpenGL 1.5-compatible video card" would confuse users to no end.

  5. Re:What the..... on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 1

    Anybody else find it a bit hypocritical that the video requires the VMWare codec, whereas Microsoft's own Virtual PC also allows one to record video?

  6. Re:I'll give $5... on SpecOps Labs offers $10,000 to Emulator Developers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    God damn that's a huge bonus. I had to write a Revolution emulator for a 286 in 45 minutes using Microsoft Fortran. And I got paid 50 cent for it.

  7. Re:first time? on Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Release · · Score: 1

    AFAIK for NT 3.1 MS bought a commercial TCP/IP stack that happened to be BSD-derived, which was fully legal. TCP/IP was then rewritten and I assume that by NT4 it was all Microsoft code.

  8. Re:Copycats ounce again.... on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 0

    Linux version != Linux distro.

  9. Re:OS X on BSD Certification Group Releases Roadmap · · Score: 1

    Actually, FreeBSD *is* in the OSX kernel, take a look.

  10. Re:Product Liability on Creative Zens Ship with Worms · · Score: 1
    The beta of LongHornn aka Vista includes an anti-virus built-in. What does this say of the product quality?

    For that matter, what does it say about the users?
  11. Re:AMD64 on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1

    No, it executes the windows partition boot code (chain1 in bsd terms).

  12. Re:that sucks on Crunching the Math On iTunes · · Score: 1

    1?

  13. One word on Building Secure Computers? · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD.

  14. Re:Isn't it odd? on Yellow Dog Linux Finds New PPC Hardware Vendor · · Score: 1
    Isn't is odd that the only time something is described as having "a lot of life in it" is when its pretty apparent the thing is dying? Why not be a little more honest say something is "not as dead as it appears"?


    BSD? :P

    Dead parrot sketch? :P
  15. Re:gaim on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1

    opps, the "someone IM me" part was supposed to be in fake HTML "pathetic mode" tags, but /.'s crap HTML parser must have ruined it. let's try again:

    [pathetic mode]someone IM me[/pathetic mode]

  16. gaim on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, works perfectly in gaim.

    someone IM me

  17. Re:Not meaning to sound dense..... on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 1
    .pak files

    they're pk3s, which are just renamed zips, quake 1 and 2 used paks...
  18. Re:Not meaning to sound dense..... on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 1

    On Windows, you'll need Visual C++ 7 (aka .net), or a tool to convert the projects to Visual C++ 6 format to use that. On Linux, you'll need to perform some hax to get it to compile at all. On Mac OS X, you'll need Xcode, but it doesn't work.

    No, you can't play the game with just this, it's only the source code, not the data (levels, maps, textures, etc).

  19. Re:Do stores still have the game? on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 1

    It's not much of a game if all you have is the code.

  20. Re:Austrailia on Linux Trademark Protection In Australia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OT I know, but I have to say this one thing to people like you that say our president wasn't elected: whether or not Bush was really elected is not valid right now, as he gained a majority vote for his second term. So don't go around saying Bush wasn't elected, he technically was elected the second time around, it was fair as per the US Constitution, whether or not you like it.

    (i could go off on a long rant about how it's like heresy to not be a bush-hater on the internet but that's for another time)

  21. 80,000,000 users? on Firefox Hits 80,000,000 Downloads · · Score: 1

    There's some debate on how this relates to actual Firefox usage, and I propose we do the following: to track how many people are using Firefox, why not just check how many unique conenctions there are to the update server (that notifies of new versions of extensions/themes/the browser)? It always does that, so it would provide a much closer estimate of how many people actually run Firefox for their main browser.

  22. The offending code is... on Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare · · Score: 1

    #include
    if...else
    return
    void
    int
    the list goes on...
    I can't believe these SCO lowlives would steal from innocent Linux programmers like that.

  23. If you out something in f/oss on your resume... on Using F/OSS and Unpaid Experience to Find a Job? · · Score: 1

    Make it something everybody can benefit from, like C++ in tcc. People will notice if 1) it's faster than gcc/g++ and 2) it can provide the same functionality. Maybe give the person/people interviewing you a little demonstration on how fast gcc/g++ is compared to your enhanced tcc.

  24. omg on Indiana Schools May Purchase 300K Linux Computers · · Score: 1

    This is going to be a first encounter with Linux for anybody who uses this - students, teachers, etc. Why not use something that gives a favorable impression? Even if it entails paying somebody to customize Debian/Slackware for use in a school enviornment they could do much better than Linspire.

  25. Re:No Services on Boot? on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 1

    I hope you mean Administrator privileges, considering that by default all user accounts have the privileges of the Administratot, unlike *nix, where nobody can have root's power unless specifically set that way. (wheel group and no sudo password)