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  1. Ha on Corel Linux Only For 18 and Up · · Score: 1
    They're only hurting themselves by doing that. I am 15 years old and I first installed Linux on my Powermac at age 13. If Corel is going to do that, they're going to lose a significant portion of their potential user base (the 'teenage hacker' faction) to other Linux distros or even other *nix based OSes which are minor-friendly. Not that its going to stop people under 18 from downloading it, anymore than telling them software and MP3 piracy is illegal.

    I'd still be curious to know how much of Corel's source code was written by people under 18...

    - Matt
    --
    43rd law of computing:
    Anything that can go wr
    /usr/games/fortune: Segmentation fault (Core dumped)

  2. Yet another example... on Australian Government Cracks Down on Net Users · · Score: 1
    of us trying to deal with the internet as a medium. Our laws were not prepared to deal with something as wild and untameable as the internet. There is no one person in charge, anyone can create a website and say whatever they want, be it as profane and/or obscene as they want (provided they're willing to pay), with just a small knowledge of HTML (and even now one can use programs like GoLive or FrontPage to create them) The question of how much and what kind of regulation should govern the net is something the governments of all hi-tech contries (such as the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, the UK...) need to get straight.

    The internet is the exchange of information between computers, no one needs to be consulted before content goes live to the net, as it does with TV, literature, radio, or pretty much anything else. Its a free-for-all, and its at the forefront of American culture, which is one of the first times a totally unregulated medium has been as such.

    I certainly hope the US has more sense than Australia

    - Matt
    --
    43rd law of computing:
    Anything that can go wr
    /usr/games/fortune: Segmentation fault (Core dumped)

  3. Wow on Debian FreeBSD Distro? · · Score: 1
    That is an extremely daring project...having used both FreeBSD (extensively) and Debian (remotely on a shell server box I was helping admin until it died). I definately think there some logistic problems with it. I am going to try hard not to ignite another BSD/Linux holy war, but among the BSD community I have talked to there is the general feeling is that FreeBSD is more solid and easier to support because of the single distribution idea, which is the model followed by NetBSD and OpenBSD as well. I shutter to think how they, and perhaps the people trying to help Linux newbies, would feel if suddenly there was a Debian/FreeBSD hybrid running around. Also there are the obvious problems with the conflicting liscenses of Linux/GNU and BSD...I seriously doubt it would get off the ground because of that alone; not to mention all the others snags that would come with trying to outright merge BSD and Linux. I know its not quite as outlandish but look at what Apple tried to do with BSD and MacOS -> MacOS X. People who have used it said it felt decidedly "weird" I have a feeling this Human/Alien- er Linux/BSD hybrid would suffer the same fate

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    43rd Law of computing:
    Anything that can go wr
    /usr/games/fortune: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  4. Huh? Where do you live? on AM Frequency Hinders ADSL Capacity · · Score: 1

    I live in Portland Maine, and we have RoadRunner (Time Warner Cable). I routinely get speeds of 250-300k/s to major sites...I've heard @Home is bad but I have not experienced such problems with RR...