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  1. re on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    well wowway ( wide open west) has been doing this sense day 1 after i gave Comcast the boot an example for a rand. address http://www5.search.wowway.net/search?qo=346ghty5.com&rn=Hvs4Wx6Env6cPfc and overrides Mozilla/SeaMonkey's setting for Google

  2. re on Particle Swarm Optimization for Picture Analysis · · Score: 1

    well i do get a very big laugh from CSI and there " enhanced photos " 1) start with a very good shot 2) degrade it and say it is the orig. 3) show the true orig. image as the "enhanced" one i still like greycstoration , pde_TschumperleDeriche2D , and pde_heatflow2D

  3. Re:Duh on Spies In the Phishing Underground · · Score: 1

    the only add i see is the one to get the weekly news letter oh!! the joys of addblock plus , no-script and a host file with 16,875 add servers pointed to 127.0.0.1

  4. Re:Good in some ways... on Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th · · Score: 1

    i did that when IE 7 first auto installed . The Uninstall dose NOT fully remove ie7. 7 broke h&r block Tax Cut , and visual studio .net and they were still broke after uninstalling 7 . I was forced to do a full reinstall of xp to fix it .

  5. Re:So how could MS lose with this scenario? on OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops · · Score: 0

    but olpc needs to do this for the LEAST $$$$ cash possible

  6. Re:Not all code needs to be made visible on OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops · · Score: 0

    "In Microsoft's eye( Sauron )" so is Linus Torvalds the "ring barer "

  7. Re:Simple. on OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops · · Score: 1

    i run a duel boot xp and Fedora 8 --soon triple Gentoo seeing as the MS windows installer DOSE NOT SEE MY FEDORA 8 INSTALLATION and will gladly( Very,very gladly) reformat my ext 3 HD to ntfs . The M$ installer thinks that there should be ONLY ONE and ONLY ONE os on a box

  8. Re:Um.. . . on OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops · · Score: 0

    i am not even sure the hardware will handle windows 98 let alone a watered down win xp

  9. re on Saturn's Rings Are Ancient · · Score: 2, Interesting

    just a screen shot of Saturn's rings i posted in a diff. forum
    http://img181.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc37&image=55459_satring_122_37lo.jpg
    the image is 1024x718

  10. WD drive on Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives · · Score: 0

    why bother buying one in the first place . Use your old or new box as a LAMP server edit the httpd.conf to only allow user/password from friends and family( or as a normal server ) and be done with it .

  11. Re:Well... on Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable · · Score: 0

    as i was reading i was thinking how nice it would be if the psychohistorians from the Foundation trilogy + 3 prequels were here

  12. Re:Screenshots on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 0

    when www2.adhost.com tries to call home and put an add into the web page i am reading , mozilla will loop back to me and when the add is not found skip it and go to the next. That one also will not be found So the upshot is no adds are displayed from the 16,070 add servers in the hosts file

  13. Re:Oblig on Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter · · Score: 0

    A very short game . The radiation will kill you in 5 min.

  14. Re:Screenshots on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 0

    I'm logged in with Mozilla-SeaMonkey with Add Block Plus ,and i see no adds but seeing as my hosts file is 602.9 KB ( ex. 127.0.0.1 www2.adhost.com ) I'm not to surprised

  15. re on Good Ways To Join an Open Source Project? · · Score: 0

    just my 2 cents but start by getting active on the programs ( web site,forum,mailing list) for example i have been doing maps for Celestia for 3+ years and some minor debuging find a program you use and LIKE and go from there

  16. Re:Stellarium on SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps · · Score: 0

    I use boath Stellarium and Celestia ,even make maps for Celestia .Boath of them are Great bits of programing and , for me a must on my fedora box
    ( even on the M$ hard drive )

  17. re on MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers · · Score: 0

    This is why i run Fedora 6 , and only use MS for the 3 games i like and the 1 in-painter program I use .It runs on the nvidia gpu and the cpu and is written in .net .

  18. re:Microsoft Votes to Add ODF to ANSI Standards Li on Microsoft Votes to Add ODF to ANSI Standards List · · Score: 0

    well they are working to add ODF to word 2007 see http://sourceforge.net/projects/odftranslator/ so who knows !!!

  19. Re:Why does the law punish attempts at all? on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' · · Score: 0

    at times while DLing a video (bitTorent)thay are not always labeled correctly, so part way through i will have mplayer play what is there . And low and behold it is the wrong vid . I then run sherd or srm , in bash and it's gone . this would be VERY illegal, and a bad idea

  20. RE: Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC on Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC · · Score: 0

    for me i much prefer to type in the Admin. account password when ever i type in "su" .instead of allow or deny . That way I [and I alone] know that i am in superuser mode . And in that mode I know not to do anything STUPID.

  21. Re:Not very long... on Censoring a Number · · Score: 0

    well seeing as the sig. of the post has the 16-hex-pairs number in it ...

  22. Re:The ISPs were right all along on Boston Bans Boing Boing From City Wi-Fi · · Score: 0

    Comcast i bet , i ran a server for 3 years from home

  23. Re:No Poll? on Dell Opens a Poll On Linux Options · · Score: 0

    found it at on the blog here http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/03/13/ 7985.aspx and a link to the poll http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/cor p/linux?s=corp but it is the standard " what do you use the box for " poll.

  24. Re:Upgrade on Vista's EULA Product Activation Worries · · Score: 0

    I do like " yum update " and fedora 6 is " New "

  25. Re:Shortcuts are nothing new on Vista's Limited Symlinks · · Score: 0

    Why would anyone WANT M$'s version of " ln " MinGW ln is just fine in windows