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  1. Re:Non-story? on Virginia Health Database Held For Ransom · · Score: 1

    well i am with you .there should be a min. knowledge level / skill level to be on the net . dumb stupid things will always happen , but they DO NOT need to be the norm.

  2. Re:The 'what' era? on The Sewing Machine War · · Score: 4, Funny

    one of my ancient relatives married that General that burned Atlanta .. Now my daughter lives in Atlanta . i keep threatening her that i will tell her friends that .

  3. re on Rogue Anti-Malware Pushes Fake PCMag Review · · Score: 1

    I guess i am going to have to buy a new " NO I will not fix your computer " t-shirt from think-geek http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/itdepartment/388b/

  4. re on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 1

    and by 2038 NOBODY should still be using a 32 bit Linux , for that to even matter. But 1234567890 == fri 13 is a bit of fun

  5. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    "but GIMP.. not even techie friends of mine could figure that one out." i worked for 10 years in photo darkrooms and within 2 days i learned how to use Gimp , back in `01 . It is very strait forward and makes MORE sense than PS

  6. Re:Fermilab... on Open Source Software For Experimental Physics? · · Score: 1

    a old version of rhel4 and wont run on a lot of new hardware

  7. fedora on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 1

    as a long time fedora user i would suggest using CentOS on a production server and not fedora fedora has a 1 year lifespan ( the current is fedora 10 ) CentOS has a 5 year life span( CentOS 5.2 is the current )

  8. re on Mapping Planets and Moons In 3D With Stereophotoclinometry · · Score: 2, Informative

    nothing that new i have been making maps for Celestia for quite a few years and for the most pare the imaging is just NOT available to be able to do this the Japanese craft to the moon can http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.htm it uses a forward and backward looking cam. to do this the "Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera" can http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM8Q2PR4CF_index_0.html the mars HIRISE can http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/anaglyph/ but in all cases so far only a small patch of ground is able to be maped will get better in time.

  9. developed on it to run on Fedora Core 8

    they do know fedora is now 10

  10. re on Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software? · · Score: 1

    i always liked the oldie but goody AWStats http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

  11. Re:Even after image manipulation? on Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model · · Score: 1
    just run the photo through" greycstoration "

    greycstoration -restore ???.jpg -nu 3 -dt 30 -iter 3 -std 2 -o ??.png
    convert ???.png ???.jpg

  12. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    saying "OH-SHIT after they used the -y in yum to remove something , like part of X11 .

  13. Re:Oh, come on... on Microsoft Quietly Previews PC Advisor Repair Tool · · Score: 1

    No Fedora 9 for the very new person .? What is a terminal? and what is this bash thing ?what do i do after the text login ( unsupported ati card) ... and the list goes on ...

  14. re on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 5, Informative

    well at least it is public here in the US the govt. still says that the NSA is not spying at the "NSA controlled a secret internet spying room in an AT&T facility on Folsom Street in San Francisco" quote from http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/rights-group-su.html see: http://news.cnet.com/AT38T-sued-over-NSA-spy-program/2100-1028_3-6033501.html

  15. re on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1

    the whole thing is on the MS patch tue. program .The us educational system needs to be forked and released under the GPL 3 .

  16. Re:That's ok on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    Hay i got family on both sides of the Detroit river ,and it was only a small part of Canada that was thinking maybe if Quebec did secede that they might think about joining the US

  17. re on Chicago Law Firm Sues Over Hyperlink To Trademarked Name · · Score: 1

    what is next Example for a forum post -------- Have you done a "ALL Mighty Search " to look for it

  18. phone home on Microsoft Says IE8 Phoning Home Is "Pretty Innocuous" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    there is a reason why when i boot into my little used xp install i have things like " mshearts " ( all preinstalled MS games) and media player, and crash report form calling home they do not need to call MS and give them "who knows what".Except i do know what it is when excel crashes my tax info and like

  19. MS or Apple on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 3, Insightful

    well is it Apples fault OR is it MS Vista that has the problem . Apple would have debugged it on a vista box , But it is posable that a vista update killed it .By mistake or on purpose ,your guess is as good as mine.

  20. Re:BEHOLD.... on Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B · · Score: 1

    what do you mean WHOOOSH i like Paul Harvey .They are very interesting stories

  21. Re:SATA, not IDE on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    vinyl maybe , I still have some hard plastic 78 rpm disks for a hand cranked Victrola from 1910 i think .Well sometime about then

  22. re on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    there is " damn small linux " http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ you could even install it in the /boot partition of fedora as a backup os

  23. Re:Here's a Summary! on Linux Alternatives To Apple's Aperture · · Score: 1

    i find i use nip2 for a lot of my work . when built from source it can import all of the formats that image magick can and works with 8 bit /chan, 16 bit/chan and 32bit/chan images . but i manly use it to import a .fits image exported from ISIS of the Cassini imaging data ( iss)

  24. Re:It's like this every year. on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 3, Funny

    it has been so long that i forgot about those 235 patents

  25. Re:April Fools? on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 1

    [quote]"implement ODF" [/quote] oh yes but 1.1 the buggy version and NOT the current 1.2