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  1. Maybe Outlook import has improved on Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives · · Score: 2, Informative

    Several versions ago, I tried to import all of my mail from Outlook (8 years worth, not ready to abandon my mail archive yet), and Thunderbird did a horrible job of it, preventing me from switching mail platforms.
    I'll give it another shot with this version, as I would love to be able to get away from Outlook once and for all.

  2. Re:The patent problems... on Fedora Core 5 includes Mono · · Score: 1, Informative
    There is information straight from the monkey's mouth regarding the patent issue.

    You should read that information before making any comments about patent issues.

  3. Debian? on Microsoft Lauds Scrum · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any word on whether Debian plans to adopt this development method?

  4. Be practical on How Would You Improve SQL? · · Score: 0

    If there are 100 columns, but you only want to select 99 of them, just select * and ignore the unwanted column. It'll be faster anyway.

  5. Re:"wooing windows programmers" ?? on PHP Succeeding Where Java Has Failed · · Score: 0

    Actually, Microsoft offers their "Express Edition"s of most of their developer products as free downloads.

    Visit the site for more information.

  6. Re:Greek? on Ancient Greek Computer Reconstructed · · Score: 0

    Are you sure that they counted their years backwards? I thought it was just us "modern" folks counting their years backwards...

  7. tmpfs documentation on NetBSD Summer of Code Summary · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The tmpfs is a good project for many reasons, and one big one is because of the documentation. Documenting the "hows" of making a filesystem is something that I find fascinating.

    I once wrote a ramdisk driver from scratch on MacOS 7; it would have been nice to have enough documentation to actually write a new filesystem to use on it instead of HFS.

  8. Home / SOHO Routers on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Most of them have flash firmware, and can probably be adapted to work with IPv6.

  9. Re:Free Tickets on Ohio Linux Festival 2005 · · Score: 0

    There is no charge for admission. If you are talking about transportation, Ohio is easy to get to from just about anywhere!

    Or maybe not, I'm not sure. I live in Columbus, so it'll be easy for me to get there, anyway...

  10. Re:Per Square _inch_? on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 0
    Perhaps they are using really big inches?
    No, I think they are using those newfangled "metric" inches.
  11. Re:It's novelty, not design on Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic · · Score: 0

    Well, I have a flip-phone (err, communicator), so I just slam it shut. That's how you hang up on 'em & let 'em know just how you feel!

  12. No hard disk for WRT54G on Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use? · · Score: 0

    There is no disk controller in the LinkSys router, but you might be able to hack the firmware to use a network attached disk (it DOES have a few network connections 8^), but then the cost of the NAS is such that the whole solution would probably be impractical. A Soekris box (as mentioned elsewhere) or similar would be a better solution, perhpas.

  13. Re:It's the Klingons! on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 3, Funny

    While that may be true, young one, it is still entirely possible that representatives of the Klingon Empire were in the vicinity, undetected, long before "official contact" was made.

  14. Re:Penguicon?! on Ohio Linuxfest Registration Now Open · · Score: 0

    Well, you have invited Ensign Crusher as a guest. Perhaps if you were to invite me, then you would get more publicity.

  15. It'll be okay on Google Creators Interviewed by Playboy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Noone buys it for the articles anyway.

  16. Hits me right where I live... on Kensington Laptop Locks Not So Secure · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just arrived home from an out-of-state family reunion, where I had my ThinkPad locked to a picnic table with a Kensington lock, to find out that my computer was not nearly as secure as I would have thought. My wife points out that there were pens and scissors there, too! They could have taken my preciousssss!