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  1. Re:Nope on Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground · · Score: 1

    Yes!
    I have another predictions available (commercially), at 20 and 50 years. The latter are definitely the most accurate.

  2. Nope on Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground · · Score: 1

    By the end of the decade, the world will have exploded due to either the fall of meteorites or total nuclear war.
    There won't be nor electricity nor Apple nor Microsoft.

  3. Now we can compare! on Google Launches Trends · · Score: 2, Funny
  4. Post to Slashdot on Vista the Last of Its Kind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you see before the post-to-slashdot link at the bottom of the page? It simply posts the story to slashdot, using the submit.pl page, filled with its story.
    What do they expect?
    That by flooding/spamming, their story will be accepted? It seemed to work!

  5. Re:Thanks on TiVo Wins Permanent Injunction Against EchoStar · · Score: 1

    Zatznotfunny, Zatzinsightful!

  6. Re:plenty of prior art on New Super-sized Customer Database for Amazon? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, there is plenty of prior art. Sadly, IBM did it first:
    http://news.com.com/Probing+IBMs+Nazi+connection/2 009-1082_3-269157.html

  7. Re:If this is the same on Firefox Analyzed for Bugs by Software · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the story looks more like a sladvertisment than anything else. These tools can't neither find all bug in your code nor swear that those it finds are real bugs. At best, it helps to follow "good practices" and be more precautious. I have been confronted to these kind of tools before and what I disliked most, and the bad understanding of project managers. They definitely are the only ones who get excited about it!

  8. We have a winner !!! on The Face of One AOL Searcher Exposed · · Score: 1

    5031621 can i connect to aol useing linux 2006-03-20 23:13:49 5031621 can i connect to aol using linux 2006-03-20 23:14:36 1 http://yolinux.com/ 5031621 how do i connect aol with linux 2006-03-21 17:35:01 1 http://yolinux.com/ 5031621 how do i connect aol with linux 2006-03-21 17:35:01 2 http://yolinux.com/ 5031621 how do i connect aol with linux 2006-03-21 21:09:08 3 http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/ 5031621 aol for linux 2006-03-25 23:28:02 1 http://yolinux.com/ 5031621 linux 2006-04-19 13:10:43 5031621 how do i add a modom to a linux system 2006-04-19 13:11:25 5031621 how do i add a modem to a linux system 2006-04-19 13:13:55 2 http://www.aboutdebian.com/ 5031621 linuxmodoms.com 2006-04-19 21:11:18 5031621 linux games 2006-04-26 21:29:56 1 http://www.linuxgames.com/

  9. Re:Nothing we can do! on The Face of One AOL Searcher Exposed · · Score: 1

    Another (though quite unlikely) explanation:
    They just found out they couldn't find good enough algorithms to learn from this bunch of data and preferred to have zillions of curious people browse through it, and tag the corpus for them!

  10. Re:What?!?!?! on Proxy Sites Offer Secret Passage to Myspace · · Score: 1

    I'm not a kid anymore...
    I happen to be writing my PhD right now, and as you may guess I shouldn't be writing this message! I can't help but think ubiquitous Internet access is not _always_ a good thing, and I think having no computer in my childhood helped me save time for studies.
    With the multiplication of portable devices, I think it should be better to have no wireless in classrooms (but in the cafeteria).
    There are (old, replace netscape with firefox) guidelines: http://us.geocities.com/andrewbroad/cs/cs710/advic e.html


    netscape.pl

    #!/bin/perl

    use Time::Local;

    $day= (localtime)[6];
    $hour= (localtime)[2];

    if ((($day < 5) && ($hour < 17)) || (($day == 5) && ($hour < 15))) {
    print ("GET TO WORK!!!\n");
    } else {
    exec("/usr/local/bin/netscape");
    }

  11. Internet @ School on Proxy Sites Offer Secret Passage to Myspace · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder why kids have internet access at school. Do someone really want them to have ADHD since childhood? Aren't they supposed to learn something while they sit in waiting to be online back home?

  12. Re:Change your product key on Options for 'Fixing' A Pirated Copy of Windows · · Score: 1

    Thanks... It's exactly it. I didn't spend too much time of this, but thanks to Microsoft's KeyUpdateTool, I could change my license number. But... now I need to activate it, which fails because this number is supposed to be pre-activated! I love copy protections.

  13. Re:Change your product key on Options for 'Fixing' A Pirated Copy of Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes, the restore partition exists, but I don't want to waste three full days of work to restore it properly (I got a complex installation of MSVC + Ocaml + LablGL + LablGTK + some Unix utilities compiled for Win32 but without MinGW which is incompatible with MSVC, etc.). I include also one full day to update properly an old XP and an old (legit) Office 2K...
    For the other reply, it's my only Win32 machine sitting around *nixes... and I dream could just apt-get dist-upgrade this f*ing Windows.

  14. Re:Change your product key on Options for 'Fixing' A Pirated Copy of Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes. I am in the exact same situation.
    I bought a used laptop on ebay (an IBM T40 for the curious), which comes with its legitimate licence sticker.
    But, for some reason, the previous owner has reinstalled XP with a googled serial number.
    I tried to change the key using Microsoft's KB instructions, but it didn't work. Nor with several "tools".
    So, I am definitely stuck or does a solution exist?

  15. Re:Coral Cache Link on Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Coral _Cache_ is slashdotted already. Damn, after that you won't say screenshots don't attract crowds... even if they're fake.