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  1. Oh noes! by Caspian · · Score: 0 · on Japanese 'Minerva' Robot Lost in Space

    They lost Minerva??? But she's so ... so ... minky!

    (preparing to get modded (-1, Furry)...)

  2. Wouldn't it be a shame... by JessLeah · · Score: 3, Funny · on International Bigfoot Symposium

    ...if there really is such a thing as Bigfoot? I'd rather have the only real-world furries be a mink, or a skunk, or a vixen. :)

  3. My first post-college job by TheHaas · · Score: 1 · on Good Job Experiences?

    Even though my first job out of college didn't pay much, it was great experience and I traveled all the time. For two years of my life, I traveled all over the US and to three other continents. Though business travel isn't always glamourous (The airlines lost my luggage twice in one trip) and the works wasn't all that wonderful all the time, either (Milwaukee isn't all that great at 3am). I'm married now, and all that travel wouldn't sit with my wife very well. I'm with that company still ("again", actually, after brief time with a dot-bomb). I'm a QA guy now, and making more money. But I will remember my travel-days as a lot of fun.

  4. My DSL experience... by Aqualung · · Score: 1 · on On the Reliability of DSL Providers...

    I've had great experiences with DSL here in Nebraska. I get it through a local provider binary.net. They're a little more expensive than most of the other places in town (by 5 to 10 dollars a month or so) but on the upside there are NO monthly useage quotas (the other ISP's range from 1 to 2 gigs/month), have very few useage restrictions (no porn sites is about it), have competent admins who are all either Linux or BSD enthusiasts, good customer support and very reliable.

    I think in the two or so years I've had DSL I've had maybe one outage that was the ISP's fault (router blew up), most of the rest are due to upstream issues with their NSP's or the local teleco, but those are also few and far between. To top it all off, since they're an under-advertised ISP in town and a little more expensive, most of the other DSL customers either sign up for the local teleco's plan or go with the town's major ISP. Which of course means less people hogging my bandwidth, which is always good.

    As a disclaimer, I should add that I've never used cable (Time Warner, formerly CableVision has been unusually slow in rolling out digital cable/cable internet here in Lincoln) But from what I've heard cable internet quality of service provided can vary drastically from location to location. It also looks like the cable service they're going to roll out here is going to be even slower than the 384/128 that my "bargain-bin" DSL service offers. Hope this helps...

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    Dave
    MicrosoftME®? No, Microsoft YOU, buddy! - my boss

  5. Outlook sucks by TheHaas · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft looking at mail client for UNIX

    I hate to say it, but Outlook is terrible! I can rant all day on it, but I already did that. Check out: http://www.binary.net/thehaas/t houghts/outpuke.html.

    In short - it's a memory hog, it causes my Win95 machine at work to crash more often, and it is nasty and non-inititive to configure.