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  1. Re:OSS? Linux? WHY? on Trying to Help a Troubled Network with Linux? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a better idea. Get Linux and slap it on all your windows boxes and be done. For good.

  2. Re:I'm sorry on Creating .NET C# Applications for Linux · · Score: 1

    In a word - bullshit.

  3. Re:but it's non-free on Creating .NET C# Applications for Linux · · Score: 1

    And .net is free and unencumbered?
    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

  4. I'm sorry on Creating .NET C# Applications for Linux · · Score: 1, Troll

    But just use Java. Why play second class citizen in some one elses world. Java was designed to be cross platform from day one and is really supported on all platforms.

  5. In other news on Unreliable Linux Dumped from Crest Electronics · · Score: 2, Funny

    Crest Electronics IT department deemed incompentent, laughing stock of industry.

  6. It's worked amazingly well for me on Do-Not-Call List, Two Years Later · · Score: 1

    I still get calls from companies that i have a "business relationship with" and a few others taking "surveys", but my unwanted calls have dropped from a couple a night to one or two every few months. And now since i'm no longer used to getting interupted i am intensely rude to the people that do.

  7. Great idea! on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Especially considering how well they are managing the nature wildlife such as deer in my area (NJ). I can hardly wait until I have hordes of Elephants eating my garden.

  8. Re:The reverse? on Exchange Alternatives Round-up · · Score: 1

    I have absolutely no idea why anyone would use Outlook unless their company runs Exchange, it's a completely useless atrocity in my opinion.

    I absolutely agree with you. What the world needs is an open source solution to talking with Exchange for those of us forced to use it. One possiblity may be brutus though it does not appear to be usable yet.

  9. Re:They should be lienient on him on Spammer Scott Levine Convicted · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You think 64 years is fair? Are you telling me that his crime is worse than a rapist's? I intensely dislike spammers, but let's be realistic here.

    Ah no, i'd give the rapist 640 years. Spammer still deserves 64.

  10. They should be lienient on him on Spammer Scott Levine Convicted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only give him 1/10th of the maximum.

  11. Re:torrents...anyone? on Mac OS X Running on Non-Apple Hardware · · Score: 1

    There is a torrent file called something like "Vware patched files", has anyone tried this? Is it straight forward or does it require the compicated steps involving installing darwin?

  12. Docbook on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    I switched from html to docbook about a year ago and am very happy. It's xml so it can be edited with anything or you can find editors for it (XMLMIND is ok) and it can be easily translated to pdf and other formats.

  13. Why buy leghorn? on Monad Shell Removed From Vista · · Score: 1

    As far as i can see they've removed almost anything that could be called a new feature. All that will be left is new drm capabilities that benefit M$ and the RIAA. They should give the thing away for free.

  14. BlockHosts on Rundown on SSH Brute Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    I installed this on my server, seems to work well. Basically it keeps track of ssh attempts and after a preconfigure number of failures within a certain period of time, it bans the hosts. Hooks into tcpwrappers using hosts.allow.

  15. Re:Protest Against WHO? Clearly Canada Sucks on Slashback: Archives, Leak, Fanfilm · · Score: 1

    If you aren't in Canada, laugh at them. What else do you expect from a counyty where a pizza can get to your house faster than an ambulance, there is handicap parking places in front of a skating rink, and people leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage?

    You are clearly an idiot.

  16. Re:Confused on Ballmer: 'We'll catch Google' · · Score: 1

    Eventually, (yes the company still exists) but no one buys their music. Because it is sub-par.

    You mean that some rap can be worse than other rap? I didn't know that was possible.

  17. What would it take to do it on the net on P2P and TV · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the numbers would be to make if feasible for a producer to jump the network ship. Take Firefly for example, suppose it costs 1 Million dollars to produce an episode, therefore the producer would have to get 1 Million people to pay $1 per episode to break even, or more likely 2 million people to make it worth their while. Would it be possible to get 2 million people to pay $24 up front to subscribe to a season?

    I might if it was a show I really liked and I'm guessing that a lot of fans of cancelled shows would do the same. Take Enterprise for example, the fans raised a pretty significant amount of money.

    A better idea might simply be to sell stock, figure out the production costs for the season, divide by x to get y and then sell x shares for y dollars. The share holders get the right to view the episodes for free, non-share holders can dl them from iTunes for $0.99. The share holders split any left over revenue from on-line distribution, dvd and merchandising sales.

  18. Re:Fedora Core 4 is great... on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot. Linux generally requires answering some simple configuration questions, install, boot, update and you are done. Windows requires about the same configuration questions, install, boot, boot, repeat, update, boot.

    A typicall windows install requires on the order of 5 to 10 reboots before you get a working system if it didn't get owned on the way.

  19. Useful for home networks? on Red Hat releases Netscape Directory Server to OSS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a small network of Linux and Mac machines and would really like to set up one address book that is accessible to all my machines and all my accounts under both Thunderbird and Mac Mail.

    Would this be useful for this application or is it overkill? What are the other alternatives, I played with openldap using something called abook once and it was unusable.

  20. Yes it will partially work for some select things on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now you know it's a Microsoft product.

  21. Re:Now if we could just get Canadian wine down her on Supreme Court Allows Direct Shipment of Wine · · Score: 1

    Yes Phyloxra (sp?) did wipe out a lot of European grape varieties and I believe that the solution was to graft the grapes onto North American root stock that was resistent. The actual grape varieties (Cab. Sauv., Metlot, Syrah, ..) are all of European origin however. The native grapes that I refered to that the Canadian wineries purged were things like Concord and Niagara. Some of the local native/french hybirds do such as Baco Noir are still grown and are very good.

  22. Now if we could just get Canadian wine down here on Supreme Court Allows Direct Shipment of Wine · · Score: 1

    Some of you might scoff because you have never tried it and it is virtually unheard of in the US. But Canadian wineries are producing some very good wines since they riped out all of the native grapes in the late 70's and early 80's and replanted them with traditional french varieties.

  23. stty dec on What UNIX Shell Config Settings Work for Newbies? · · Score: 1

    This solves most backspace/delete problems for me when using terminal based apps such as vi.

  24. Re:Go Daddy vs Register.com on Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions · · Score: 1

    This sounds like what I want, do they allow the A record to point to my machine? I don't want their hosting service i just want them to direct my domain to my machine. Other people are saything that you have to host your domain with them or user their parked domain feature (what ever that is).

  25. Go Daddy vs Register.com on Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions · · Score: 1

    I have my internet domains with register.com for the simple reason that they provide DNS for me. Can anyone tell me how Go Daddy compares in this area? I'd sure like to pay $8/year insteal of $35.