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  1. Re:Midwest? on Big Retailers Timid About Selling Linux Boxen · · Score: 1

    it is interesting that all the stores seem to be far away from Redmond, WA!

  2. Bad copy protection on Sony's New Nagging Copy Protection · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Once I bought a CD with really bad copy protection. It wouldn't even play in a regular CD player... Until I burned a copy of it!

  3. Re:What about Sony / BMG's existing DRM? on Sony's New Nagging Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    And I listen to most of my music on my MP3 CD player, so I have to rip all my music to MP3s. I almost never listen to the original CDs.

  4. Re:Waiting... waiting... on Hackers, Meet Microsoft · · Score: 1

    There is also a net.net, a info.info, a museum.museum, a edu.edu, a gov.gov, and a org.org, but no biz.biz, name.name, cat.cat, jobs.jobs, mobi.mobi, post.post, travel.travel, pro.pro, aero.aero, coop.coop, int.int, or mil.mil

  5. Re:Question is.. on Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Just make it into a compressed file. They will never know!

  6. Re:Better? No. on Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Most files that go out via BT are very well compressed.

    Many ISOs are not compressed. I guess that means that the only thing 20-30% faster will be Linux ISOs!

  7. Re:Nothing new on $70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    Logitech also has a tilt wheel.

  8. Re:Tactile feedback on $70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    The tactile feedback on my mouse is too loud, especially when scrolling up. A touchpad would not have this problem.

  9. Re:Laptop touchpads have this as well on $70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    Dell laptops have that too. It is great so I don't have to click and drag a scroll bar while using a touch pad.

  10. Re:Reason? Money. on Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Until the 5 yer old finds the little button on the side that lets you open the top cover and see the tape!

  11. Re:Cause... on Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Does the average DVD player even have a clock? If it does, I'm sure it would have a battery backup.

  12. Re:Main Site News on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was on the main site a few hours before it was on Slashdot. You just had to push refresh.

  13. Re:The author of this web page ... on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    I noticed no horizontal scrolling issues in Firefox at 1024x768.

  14. Re:Check your computer... on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    I have a 5400 (or maybe even 4200) RPM drive.

  15. Re:Worthless ... on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    This would be an accurate comparison if Office came preinstalled on someone's PC, but then they wanted to install OO.o .

  16. Re:This sounds wrong on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    I didn't use the loader because I don't run it often enough to want to keep it in RAM.

  17. Re:Business plan on CueCats vs. Common Sense Marketing · · Score: 1

    Even better, buy 2 million, hack them, and sell then as a barcode reader for $5 each!

  18. Better? on New MS Shell Will Not Be In Longhorn · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure which is better, Longhorn on time, but wit hno new features, or longhorn delayed a fey years, but with great new features. I think delayed is better.

  19. Microsoft developing on MS Unveils Beta of New Image Editing Program · · Score: 1

    I think Microsoft has realized that they can't develop good software, so they have turned to another solution... Money! Toey buy out small companies and take their technology! Like what they did with Microsoft AntiSpyware and Giant.

  20. Re:Thanks, M$-bloatware! on MS Unveils Beta of New Image Editing Program · · Score: 1

    pretty soon you'll need a gig of RAM and 20 GB of free hard drive space to play Solitaire

    But, you will have nice ultra-high-resolution images on each card, even if monitors will never be able to display that much resolution!. I can't wait until they include Clippy in Solitaire!

  21. Re:Which distros can resize partitions? on Test Driving Linux · · Score: 1

    One thing I'd like to do, that I haven't figured out how to do yet, is to take an existing dual-boot (XP/Debian) system, resize the NTFS partition, and also resize the ext3 partition by the corresponding amount.

    I would like to do this too, but with Win 98/Fedora Core 3. Knoppix+QTparted won't detect it for some reason.

  22. Re:Which distros can resize partitions? on Test Driving Linux · · Score: 1

    I remember using Xandros to resize a FAT32 partition, and I know Knoppix can resize partitions with qtparted, but I haven't used it.

  23. Re:TI-85 on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Manny calculators convert decimals to fractions, but the feature was supposedly disabled in these.

  24. Re:ruined on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 1

    Other people who knew should have kept the old one, but changed the color.

  25. changed on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HP just changed to TI in the post!