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  1. Re:Whee on Communicator Is Losing The War..... · · Score: 1

    Maybe you have seen that persons sig about Gates' Law, and that sure makes you look like an idiot when you feel that what you just said is a good thing.

  2. Re:Netscape and bugs on Communicator Is Losing The War..... · · Score: 0

    " The only reason I care about IE is that it has less bugs."

    Well I did a tech support bitty for someone when they were installing IE4 when it first came out, because Microsoft said it was the second coming of Christ, and when they rebooted thier computer to complete the install (why does an html browser need the os to be rebooted to install it?), they said thier computer just sat thier and did nothing. Well I had to deal with this hands-on, and sure enough, a boot disk said there was no c: or d: etc. Fdisk showed two non-dos partitions. Thats right. IE4 repartitioned thier hard disk into two unusable partitions and she lost everything. I will never touch any version of any IE for as long as I live. Feel free to submit your own hellish IE stories below this post, for the entertainment of the IE loving community.

  3. Re:Read It, Heard it, Bought the T shirt on Microsoft Clarifies Linux Myths · · Score: 1

    Please don't call it X-Windows. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft, who has nothing to do with the X Windowing System.

  4. Re:Um really on CNN Installs Linux · · Score: 1

    They are obviously "power users" since they are installing win98 on a dual slocket celeron system, with that second cpu doubling as a space heater.

  5. Re:better off without it. on CNN Installs Linux · · Score: 1

    Can someone clearly explain to me how RedHat is so "user friendly" and "easy"? I tried RH6 (twice in fact) and I can't beleive that this is the distribution that is the flagship of the Linux "World Domination Tour" I prefer back to basics like Stampede and Slackware myself, and have a better time understanding the install process as well. As far as the article that this thread is for, if the guy doesnt know what a kernel is, or what linux is even for, why is he even installing it?

  6. Re:Penix? I'll call your bluff! on Jesux is a Bad Pun · · Score: 1

    Theres alot more guys than girls? Last time i checked, and i'm no biologist, p(male)=p(female) at the reproductive stage, oh and latest stats on human population studies show that there are marginally MORE women than men... I find your last statement to be somewhat inaccurate.

    M/24/single (laff)

  7. Re:Sour Grapes - linux lost on PCWeek "Hack This Page" Cracked · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more, Red Hat is a terrible distribution, I can't use it, and I have been using Linux for 3 years, primarily Slackware, but I have tried them all and Red Hat hits rock bottom by far.

  8. Re:MS Net Computer and what it would do to servers on New Microsoft Strategy · · Score: 1

    Please note that the X consortium requests that we not use the term "X-Windows". Their preferred naming is "X", "X Window System", "X Version 11", "X Window System, Version 11" or "X11".


    my god how many more times are you people going to say X-Windows

  9. Re:The lack of Newness in NC on New Microsoft Strategy · · Score: 1

    Please note that the X consortium requests that we not use the term "X-Windows". Their preferred naming is "X", "X Window System", "X Version 11", "X Window System, Version 11" or "X11".

  10. Re:Shame. Lawyers anyone? on Corel Linux Beta License Violates GPL · · Score: 1

    Isnt Corel canadian?

  11. Re:SysVish inits on Yet Another BSD vs Linux article · · Score: 0

    Amen brother. God forbid if Slackware ever develops into SlackHat. rpm --uninstall slackhat* (laff)

  12. Re:MediaOne Agreement on Yet Another BSD vs Linux article · · Score: 1

    I have rogers@home in the Vancouver, BC, Canada area, and its explicitly stated that it is forbidden to run any kind of a server on your @home connection, and if one is found you lose your service. This includes and is not limited to: telnetd, sshd, ftpd, httpd, icecast, any online game server .... so basically using *nix on your cable connection is forbidden, and I recieve portscans from @home routers about once every two days, which I have since denied. (ipchains)

  13. Re:this i'd like to see... on KDE 1.1.2 is out · · Score: 1

    I for one abhor rpm, I wont waste the space to explain why.

  14. Re:fractal, anyone? on Gaussian Distribution being questioned · · Score: 1

    amen brother

    http://www.indep.k12.mo.us/THS/student/aforreste r/mandelbig.html

  15. Re:What the curve looks like. on Gaussian Distribution being questioned · · Score: 2

    from the second article:

    "The reason the systems behaved in the same fashion, they agreed, was that they shared a feature known as self-similarity. If an object is self-similar, it means it looks the same when viewed from far away or nearby. One example is the cauliflower: just as it is made up of individual florets, so each floret is made up of still smaller florets. If you were given a picture with no sense of scale, you could not tell if you were looking at a whole cauliflower or just one floret."

    I grepped the article for "fractal" and not once was it mentioned. Gee I'm pretty sure thats the term used for what the author describes, or is the target audience so simplistic that the proper terms have to be dumbed down?

    Fear the popular press's interpretation of mathematical research data, especially when they need to mention Jurassic Park in the body of the story.

  16. Re:Slashdot hypocracy bigger than usual on Update: MS Says Hotmail "Security Issue" Resolved · · Score: 1

    Linux is not RedHat

  17. Re:Does Linux properly support PII motherboards? on World's smallest PII motherboard? · · Score: 1

    I get that error on all my Maxtor udma33 ide hard drives on pentium1 boards.