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  1. Ham Skinner on Hi-tech Work Places no Better than Factories? · · Score: 1

    I find my Ham Skinner (3rd one down) to be much better than my old programmer job. Much less stress.

  2. Tim O'Reilly on Massachusetts Appealing Microsoft Ruling · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd expect nothing else from Tim O'Reilly

  3. TIA use TNIK on Turning Numbers into Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Maybe TIA will use TNIK.

  4. Re:Ever wonder ? on 24 Hours Of Beethoven's 9th Symphony · · Score: 1

    Sony is the copyright holder of "Ode to Joy"?
    I bet it has expired by now.

  5. Buy thing day - tomorrow on Top SciTech Gifts 2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a better idea: Buy Nothing Day.

  6. Mozilla Lite on Phoenix To Change Name · · Score: 1

    Mozilla Lite seems like a good name to me.
    Not flashy but it explains what it is nicely.

  7. Apache threads on An Overview of the Boa Web Server · · Score: 1

    The article says Boas "internally multiplexes the connections" but now Apache supports threads - sounds pretty similar to me.

  8. cool as in beer on Coolest Cluster Ever · · Score: 1
    Its looks like double meaning of the "cool" in the posting is not getting thru to everyone so we need some new terms. How about:
    • cool as in beer
    • cool as in Clint
  9. how about an Ask Slashdot with these guys? on Coolest Cluster Ever · · Score: 2

    I'd ask how hot is the room. The heat pumps move the heat from the CP ... into the room.

  10. David Berlind (of ZDNet) has other reasons on Email (As We Know It) Doomed? · · Score: 2

    He blames the blockers like MAPS... Why spam could destroy the Internet. I don't agree with him.

  11. Re:Fantastic Idea on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 2

    Well, I suppose this could be done for every tech.
    There were no cell phones when I was a teenager
    therefore no cell phones for my teenager.
    Cars were a lot simpler a few decades ago - easier to understand - but worse on the planet.

  12. Re:Wired has a story on this, on Possible Big Boost in WiFi Range · · Score: 1

    A nice detail is that it runs Linux!

  13. Move to Linux on the same box on Moving to Mac Made Easy · · Score: 2

    Of course, with Linux - unlike the Mac - you can
    install it on a new partition and mount your
    old PC stuff inside Linux. No need to copy it to
    the Linux side ever.

  14. Submission on Never Mind The 25th Anniversary · · Score: 2

    I still think of the old song "Submission"
    whenever I see a button that says "Submit".
    I'll never submit!

  15. Re:"Codename Office 11" on Tim Bray on Microsoft Office · · Score: 2
    Your comment is +5 Funny - I'd mod you up if I had the points. Maybe the real release will be "Office XI"

    I like the theory that as soon as a product passes version 10 it has lived too long. There is probably something else that can do the jobs better. Time for some lateral thinking. Probably the case with MS Office.

  16. Re:Email gateway filters? on Striving for HIPAA Compiance? · · Score: 1

    Postfix's body_checks can do it easily.

  17. Re:Now if only.... on RandR Support on XFree86 4.3 · · Score: 2

    Sorry about that - right you are.

    But who has time to read questions in this hurley
    burley fast-paced age?!

  18. Re:Now if only.... on RandR Support on XFree86 4.3 · · Score: 2

    If you click on "OK" there you are
    asked to relogin. So RedHat 8.0 doesn't
    have this feature - if that's what you are saying.

  19. Could be used to make "true" smaller. on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 3, Funny

    On Red Hat 8.0 I get:

    $ wc -c /bin/true
    9752 /bin/true

    That's thousands of extra bytes - eek.

  20. Re:helper program calling on Deciding On The Future of Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree...

    $ cd /etc
    $ ls -l mime*

    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7559 Feb 27 2002 gnome-vfs-mime-magic
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36823 Apr 15 17:47 mime-magic
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99960 Apr 15 17:47 mime-magic.dat
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12758 Jul 21 20:10 mime.types

    and none of these files say what the helper apps is.

  21. Midnight Commander - still? on Red Hat 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I found Nautaulis to be too slow with RedHat 7.3 I installed gmc (Gnome Midnight Commander) and rename the nautilus executable and it booted to use GMC - yeah! Does the same trick work with 8.0?

  22. The dish on SETI to Upgrade Software, Telescope · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the Parkes dish was the one in the nice 2000 movie called The Dish.
    If you haven't seen it I bet, as a Slashdotter, you'd like it.

  23. Recursive licenses!? on OSI Approves Two New Licenses · · Score: 3, Informative
    "The AFL is itself copyrighted (with the right granted to copy and distribute without modification). This ensures that the owner of the copyright to the license will control changes. The Apache license contains a copyright notice, but the BSD, MIT and UoI/NCSA licenses do not."

    So what license is the text of the AFL licensed under?

  24. Re:Rating System on Kazaa Continues to Evolve · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The MPAA proxies would be outvoted millions
    to one. Since there are millions of Kazaa users.
    It would be hard for the MPAA proxies to simulate
    being millions of users.

  25. Make it EZ for people and it might happen on Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications · · Score: 1
    If users setting up their 802.11 connections had a button that said "do you want to securely share your connection with strangers and get paid a bit for it". Paid in money or roaming credits (barter). Then it might happen. But its not there yet. And the telecom's won't like|permit it.

    Of course, there's Sputnik