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  1. Re:A truly free browser for Linux on Opera Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I will grant you that this version of Opera
    is useless at this point in time but Amaya?

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  2. Re:It's not like it matters on RealNetworks Sues Streambox.com · · Score: 1

    Get a life!

  3. Re:French and English Also on Brazil Bans Doom, Duke Nukem and 4 Other Games · · Score: 1

    Get a life!

    It's not because some moron minister says some
    bullshit that it is likely to go anywhere.
    I'm sure it'd be good to have some good games
    in French but the odds are that they'd be
    speaking some weird dialect from France that
    no French speaking person here in the USA or
    in Canada could understand. Any ban of English
    only games would create a huge black market.
    Most kids in Québec know enough english to play
    just about any American games and almost no
    one know the weird slang used in France.

    The Québec prime minister is married to an
    American lady and I would be surprised if he'd
    want to deprive his kids of good American games.

  4. Re:Xconfigurator on Configuring Monitors in X · · Score: 1

    It works for some and not for others. I have
    never been able to get Xconfigurator to give me
    an acceptable setting, something that would not
    give me a black screen or no sync.

    Sax works for me.

    As for sndconfig, same thing. I ended up
    buying the commercial sound driver.

    sndconfig is only good for a handfull of sound
    cards and doesn't recognize a lot of sound cards.

  5. Re:Hopefully... on FOX.com Apologizes to Linux Users · · Score: 1

    I think it was more stupidity than incompetance.
    To be honest you should put the blame on Shockwave
    and RealAudio who don't have working Linux
    versions yet.
    At Shockwave's site the plugins for Linux don't
    work. I had the plugin 3.0 and upgrade to 4.0
    with no changes. As for RealAudio they say that
    we should have a working G2 version by the end
    of the millenium or early next millenium.

  6. Re:Corel Linux??? on Linux Distributions Rated on CNet · · Score: 1

    >Sure it's got a decent GUI installer,

    Was this meant to be a joke?
    I fail to see what is decent about an installer
    that destroy your partition table.

    >a GUI boot screen,

    Took me a while to figure out how to disable
    that bug.

  7. CD from Corel, Does it also blow partition table? on Linux Distributions Rated on CNet · · Score: 1

    I am curious to know if the version sold by
    Corel blows the partition table as well as
    the iso version released on the net.

    I don't know if it does it on all the large
    hard disk but I know of at least the 8.4G from
    WD (1027 cylinders in LBA) as well as the 14G
    from IBM.

    I had to recreated a blank partition table using
    fdisk on SuSE CD and reinstall everything. It is
    lucky that I had backed up my valuable data.

    I wrote to Corel about it and they have never
    responded.

    I find it very irresponsible to release such a
    trojan horse and rather amusing that CNET makes
    asses of themselves by listing this trash as
    the best distribution.

    If you want a good distribution look at SuSE
    6.3. Take note that the graphic install is
    buggy but the good old yast works and doesn't
    crash as the graphic install does when you
    want to put lilo on the root of the partition
    instead of the MBR, the moron team of that
    graphic install might be related to that
    of Corel's team. Aside from that SuSE 6.3 is
    great.

  8. Re:SHVA on Live Streaming Network TV Online - in Canada · · Score: 1

    They are on the net, accessible in the US in
    case that you wouldn't know.

    The FCC does prohibit us from receiving
    Canadian TV except what we could get off the
    air.

    I think it has a lot to do with getting back
    at Canadian cable TV who steals signals from
    the USA and black out the US commercials to
    put canadian commercials.

    The internet may force the two groups of morons
    in Ottawa and Washington to remove the stupid
    border in the TV industry.

  9. Channel 25 is the only one that interests me on Live Streaming Network TV Online - in Canada · · Score: 1

    I'm sure those folks don't give a rat's ass as
    to whether or not we watch their TV. The problems
    they have are the mother fuckers in Ottawa and
    Washington who can't get to an agreement on
    US and Canadian culture content.

    The CRTC and FCC prohibits us from watching
    each other's TV.

    I asked a few days ago to dish if they plan
    on providing us the French lineup of ExpressVU
    and I was told that the FCC prohibits them from
    doing so. They would love to sell me the service
    but they can't legally do it. You can still
    subscribe to expressvu if you have an address
    in Canada and are billed there but if they
    ever find out that you actually live in the US
    they cut you off. Not that they would not want
    to sell you the service but because the
    governments forbid it.

    In this case, the arguments about the local
    stations don't hold water as there are no
    French language stations in the USA.

    Dish would provide me with one French station
    (TV5, international TV) for the price of all
    of the Canadian French language network at
    expressvu.


  10. Does it trash the partition as well as Corel? on SuSE 6.3 Released Today · · Score: 1

    I hope this graphic install isn't as buggy as
    that of Corel. Hopefully I can have a normal
    install, I sure hell don't want to be stuck
    in a graphic boot as is plagued Corel Linux.

    Under Corel the loading of the graphic kdm
    was done after the boot at level 2. Normally
    you switch to level 2 to get the system back
    to sanity but Corel forced the graphic boot
    even under level 2.

    Removing the offending kdm script fixed the bug
    but it was quite annoying to have to look for the
    solution to the graphic boot.

  11. Re:WTO? The truth about it. on Anti-WTO Riot, State of Emergency in Seattle · · Score: 0

    You seem to know very little about world trade.
    Free trade in the world guarantee that the best
    products are produced at a competitive price.
    Each country makes the products that they're
    best at.

    Contrary to what you think we get a good income
    and good living conditions in the US, the best
    country in the world. To think the contrary is
    a symptom of stupidity and ignorance.

    We in the US as well as most countries in the
    world benefit from a free market place.

    The criminals in Seatle are for the most part
    unions brainless jerks, basket weaving university
    graduates and other morons. Hopefully they will
    get what they deserve. Free speech doesn't mean
    that you are allowed to destroy other people's
    property.


  12. Re:Protecting the kid's safety perhaps ... on Corel Linux Only For 18 and Up · · Score: 1

    You fail to read the text and just went by
    the title so you could easily qualify in the
    category that you try to imply that I categorize
    kids.

    Have you read a bit you would have realized that
    my critic was at Corel and not at the kids.

    If my son trashes the computer he will awould get
    it him trouble. Installing Corel Linux trashes the
    computer, isn't that clear enough?

    I was being sarcastic about the age restriction.
    Restricting downloads to lower than 18 isn't
    something people should be concerned. How
    the heck can they enforce this?
    As usual the crowd on slashdot went bunkers.


  13. Protecting the kid's safety perhaps ... on Corel Linux Only For 18 and Up · · Score: 2

    Considering that an install of Corel Linux
    is very likely to blow your partition table
    unless you have nothing else on the drive,
    this could protect the kid's safety.
    How do you think a pissed off father will react
    after the kid destroys all his data and has no
    idea how to recover those data?

    Actually they should restrict the download to
    people who use winblows only.

    I installed Corel Linux on a 14G hard disk. It
    refused to install on a freshly formated partition
    and I, in a stupid move let it remove that
    partition and recreate it. It messed up by a few
    cylinders and ended up making my hard disk
    impossible to be seen by Partition magic or fdisk
    from winblows. OS/2 could see the other partition
    but couldn't do anything with the hard disk
    because the partition had been blown. If I had
    installed on a logical partition it is very likely
    that I would have had to reinstall SuSE without
    the benefit of saving my data first.

    I ended having to reinstall everything. Luckily
    I was still able to boot SuSE with a diskette
    and could see all the data from there. SuSE
    fdisk would tell me that someone messed the
    partition table and was unable to do much with
    it. I backed up everything and recreated a clean
    partition table. A complete repartitioning and
    reinstall was done on the 14G hard disk.

  14. Re:Bad Euros. on Possible EU Embargo on Pentium III · · Score: 1

    Privacy? This is a serial number. People need
    to wake up to reality. I've always put
    identificationnumbers in all the products I've
    made so I could have an idea as to what problem I
    might have when a customer bitches.

    I'm sure Intel's interest is similar. Look at the
    overclocking issue for instance, this serial
    numbering scheme is a dream come true. You now
    can see if you're getting screwed or not.

    As to people using this to classify you during
    installation of whatever is another issue. If the
    processor's serial number wasn't used, something
    else would be.

    The only ones who should really be concerned would
    be the ones using stolen software installed under
    an OS who uses the serial number to track the
    criminals. I think those methods could be
    destroyed in a court challenge since entrapment
    is not admissible and you need a search warrant
    if you suspect someone of stealing from you.

    Honesty will guarantee that you will not get
    into trouble no matter what kind of shit Microsoft
    or any other morons put in the PCs.

  15. Re:First look on Corel Linux on New Mozilla, Corel, and Napster Releases · · Score: 1

    Actually it is kind of nice. This is the first
    install ever of Linux which identify all my
    hardware correctly. The graphic is beautiful,
    it actually looks just as good as the one on
    winblows.

    There are a few things though that I didn't
    appreciate in the install.

    1-The fdisk that they use.
    I had preformatted partitions to use and I had
    to remove the partitions to get it to accept
    (anti moron mode I guess). It turns out that
    I had to back up because it would have changed
    /dev/hdb5 logical to /dev/hdb3 primary, it would
    then have been a challenge to boot back on
    SuSE 6.2 considering that fstab would no longer
    match as all the partitions except for /dev/hdb1
    would move one. I then just mounted a 988M
    partition at /dev/hdb2

    2-The boot loader takes over, bad move Corel
    since I prefer the OS/2 boot manager. I must
    find an easy way to correct things.

    3-English only install, strange considering the
    big thing they make about their multilingual
    Word Perfect. No option whatsoever to change the
    keyboard during install. I have to try to remember
    where the keys are on the US keyboard, a pain in the ass it is.

    In conclusion, it will be a lot of work to
    clean up after the Corel install but despite
    that I think this distro is impressive. They
    will give the evil empire a run for their money.
    What they did is probably acceptable for Joe Blow
    but there should be an avanced install mode for
    those of us who don't want to run the install
    mode for morons.

    Anyone got any idea how to easily recover the
    correct setup, meaning OS/2 boot manager the
    only one in charge? you'll find my EMAIL at my
    website

    Thanks for any tip.

  16. Re:I love it. on The Post-Microsoft Era · · Score: 1

    "a corporate friendly president"

    Those who claim to be such people also kiss
    ass to the most extreme SOBs.

    I rather have a president who kiss ass to the
    morons by asking for a stupid V chip than some
    president who kisses ass to fanatic fundies
    who preach hatred toward so called non believers.

  17. There is an alternative --> Deer hunter's revenge on Onward, Christian Geeks · · Score: 1

    There is always Deer hunter's revenge.

    I was looking for that game at Walmart
    and all I could find was the Deer Hunter's
    game. My son found one at last. There must have
    been 10-20 or more of the Deer hunter game
    while there was only one of the good game.

    It show you the lack of taste of some people.
    In light of that you can be assured that a
    Christian game would sell very well.

    That Deer hunter's revenge is a good game to
    get. They have the calls kind of like in the
    deer hunter game except that they are human
    calls. For instance one call is some lady
    saying "I'm horny and I got a pizza" That
    brings in a hunter when you press on the
    call button and all you got to do is shoot
    it. The deer is the one with the gun ...

  18. Perhaps he's got twelve fingers, my cat does! on Mars Orbiter Lost Over Metric Conversion Error · · Score: 1

    I work in Engineering in the US and we work
    almost entirely in the metric system. We have
    to do conversion to the brits system for the
    general population who is too dumb to be
    able to accept to get out of middle ages and
    use a modern measuring system.

    Whatever happened with Nasa shows the ridicule
    of the whole thing. It is clear in all of our
    contracts with the US government that we deal
    strictly in metric. For a contractor to use
    the wrong system of measurement in a contract
    is purely idiotic and heads should roll.

    The funny thing is that the USA was one of the
    first to sign the switch to the metric system
    last century along with France.

    Since congress listens too much to idiots the
    complete adoption may take another century.

  19. Can you play those with QuickTime? on New G2 RealPlayer Alpha · · Score: 1

    You claim that Quicktime is better but can
    you answer these questions?

    1- Does it play the shows on this page.

    2-Does Quicktime run on Linux?

    If you can't have a yes for both of these questions the next word that comes to mind
    is moron.

  20. Re:What I want to know is.... on Microsoft Plays Linux Games at Work · · Score: 1

    And you'd probably be working 8 days a week or
    at least trying to. Ever heard the term unpaid
    overtime? or temporary worker?

  21. Re:Umm... on German Law Firm claims Linux Trademark · · Score: 1

    I think it's national unless you file in each
    country.

    We can always change the spelling
    to Linoux, it would still sound the same.

    But then as long as he owns the trademark where
    it counts, meaning the US ...

  22. Re:Code freeze --> new release? on Linux 2.4 Feature Freeze · · Score: 1

    Right now PPP doesn't work at all (2.3.17)
    neither does support for hpfs. The kernel
    won't even compile if you put hpfs in the
    kernel and PPP just doesn't work whether you
    put it into the kernel or in a module.
    I use ppp-2.3.8-14 which is what came
    with SuSE 6.2

    Of course there will be changes before the
    release. Someone would look like a big
    moron if PPP was still not working at the
    release time.

    http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/

  23. Actually I think those ratings are a good thing. on 'Citizenship' not Censorship · · Score: 1

    You guys make too much out of this. I actually
    think that ratings on movies and music is a brillant idea.

    Where I grew up the church was dictating the
    ratings on movies and it was excellent as we
    knew which movies were good and which one weren't
    any good.

    The ratings were rather stricts so if you were
    to be a good christian you had to ignore all
    the good movies.


    There was
    1-Tous --> everybody --- boring stuff
    2-Adolescent --> Teenagers --- see above
    3-Adultes --> Adults --- Half way decent 4-Adultes avec réserves --> for adults but ...
    5-À proscrire --> Forbidden --- Great movies

    Most people watched the movies 3-5 ignoring all
    the other ones.

    A few years later finding out that it backfired
    the church abandonned the ratings and some
    critics ended up doing the ratings for TV
    according to so called qualities of the movies.
    They are numbered 1 to 7, seven being the most
    stupid (usually a lot of flesh). Again people
    watched the highest numbers.

    Lately I heard that they have a new rating.


    You see, those ratings don't mean shit until
    someone actually decides that the movies with
    the nutty ratings will become illegal. This is
    not likely to happen in this country as there is
    too many of us who cherish our freedoms. Any
    such regulation would become null and void at
    the supreme court as violating the constitution.
    Rating are basically a way for us to see what
    the fundies think of movies as it should be
    obvious to anyone they will give bad ratings to
    the very best. In essence these ratings are
    much better than those of the critics.

    A critic is someone who failed in life and
    has vowed to spend his life destroying those
    who succeeded. Since their judgment is based
    on their hatred of certain people it is very
    hard to judge which movie is interesting to
    watch until you actually spend the money watching
    it.

    You see, the new ratings will save us a lot of
    money as we won't rent of buy movies blindly.

  24. Taxes from Canadians are taken at some US sites. on Internet Tax Moratorium Over? · · Score: 1

    Let's assume for the sake of arguments that
    there would be a sales tax on the net.

    --> This would not apply to products going
    outside of the USA.

    As for products going to Canada, many US companies
    are allready charging TPS to Canadian customers.
    This is an arrangement between the Canadian
    government and companies who want to do business
    in Canada. Check Barnes and Noble and JC Penny
    if you don't believe me.

  25. Re:Is this double taxation on Internet Tax Moratorium Over? · · Score: 1

    This is a federal sales taxe like the jackass
    Forbes is promoting. Mr Forbes wants a flat income
    tax and when asked about lost revenues he talks
    about some sort of VAT like the Europeans got
    screwed with. The VAT is the biggest shaft
    a government can do to the population as you
    get taxed on anything you buy or do.

    People shouldn't be too concerned about this
    one at this time for a couple of reasons.
    The elections are very close and congressmen don't
    want to be easy targets at the next elections
    since they know that people are alergic to taxes.

    As for double taxation, if that ever happens
    you should realize that there are precedents
    to that. Look in Canada for instance, they have
    a federal tax called T.P.S. which is about 7.5%
    and a provincial tax T.V.Q. which is about 7.5%

    First the federal tax is calculated and you
    add the amount to the tax. Then you calculate
    the provincial tax on that.

    Even if we were to get that stupid 5% tax we
    would still be ahead of Europeans and Canadians
    who pay 17% and 15% VAT on products and services.
    We would still have among the lowest taxes
    in the world.

    This tax isn't likely to go anywhere, the moron
    who presents the tax project is in the minority.
    I don't think he has much support among his
    fellow democrats, let alone among the republicans.