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  1. my favorite - 4X CDROM on When Users Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    My relatives asked if we had any spare CDROM drives as they had just bought some new software
    that required 4X CDROM and they had only one.

  2. yes, but only &deity. on Should DNA be Patentable? · · Score: 1

    see subject

  3. mirror on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault · · Score: 1

    can be downloaded from http://www.wireplay.com.au/files/?action=details&i d=1197

  4. Re:Knifed in the back? on Ballmer, Gates on Microsoft's Future · · Score: 1

    That is a Bill Gates interview, who are you kidding ?

  5. Re:Knifed in the back? on Ballmer, Gates on Microsoft's Future · · Score: 1

    IT was MS that wanted 286. When IBM made 2.0 themselves it ran on a 386.

  6. demo on The Sound of Safety? · · Score: 1

    The appears to be no demo, according to their demo page you can arrange a preview either at their site or they can come to you.

  7. Re:Telstra: Australian for ISP on Telstra BigPond Passwords Leaked · · Score: 1

    I wonder how you order one of those in a bar?

    "A schooner of 4X please"

  8. Re:Why NOT Jedi? on Slashback: Things, Stuff, Items · · Score: 1

    If their legal system is based on the British, they might not even have a constitution.

    We have a constitution, just no rights under it.

    I usually put "Multi Solipsist" and they haven't fined me yet,

  9. Re:Passports? on Customs Forms for Moon Rocks · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it "Shuttle Down" by Lee Correy ? Lee Correy being a pen name for one the senior NASA blokes, first published in Analog IIRC

  10. Re:In three words: "Depends on Usage" on Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money? · · Score: 1

    But this discussion has been on /. before... I just can't seem to find it in the Database :)

    This discussion is on /. every 3 months

  11. Yeah but what bandwidth can you get ? on Microsoft Critiques Australian IT Policies · · Score: 1

    for $74 we are capped at 512 kbs dl and 128kbps ul.

    Also no servers of any kind allowed.

  12. Open Source SAPDB on Open Source Databases Revisited · · Score: 1

    anyone looked at SAPDB by SAP ?

    They claim Enterprise strength, Free and source available April 2001

    Binaries available now at www.sapdb.org

  13. Re:Rampant Ranting ON on First Great Star Trek PC Game? · · Score: 1

    I know it's hard to believe but there were games before Doom ;-)

    You mean wolfenstein ?

  14. Re:For that matter.... on Revelation Space · · Score: 1

    Philip K. Dick, esteemed author of The Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer and others, was the Chief Biologist on the CIA's MK-Ultra project, though he got a little carried away.

    Crap, PKD wasn't a biologist. His main interest was Pyschology and his works are notable for their lack of technical accuracy.

    Don't get me wrong, "A Scanner Darkly" is one of my favorite books.

  15. Re:Not surprising, but not a big deal on IE "Persistence" Tracks Without Warning · · Score: 2

    My personal hate is a numbered list where I want 1,2,3,3a,4 and Word wants 1,2,3,4,5.

  16. Re:There must be more to this story on Australia Orders Olympic Web Site Accessible to Blind · · Score: 1

    They were the ones who bought the damn thing in the first place

    Nah, The Premier purchased them, along with with his high priced mates, we are simply paying

    Allan, 1000M from an Olympic event, and hating it

  17. Re:There must be more to this story on Australia Orders Olympic Web Site Accessible to Blind · · Score: 1

    If you were "australian" you would spell it with an "A". QED you Ain't !

  18. Re:Shit eating on Red Hat 7.0 Beta Is Out · · Score: 1

    Who was it that had a shit eating fetish. It was some big rock star...

    One was Frank Zappa, though he denies it.

  19. Re:Wow, Linux is even better than I thought on Linux Beats Win2000 In SpecWeb 2000 · · Score: 1

    (Is what it should have looked like.)

    Considering it out performs Win200's webserver with this

  20. Wow, Linux is even better than I thought on Linux Beats Win2000 In SpecWeb 2000 · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Good luck to him on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 1

    In one of Goddards original designs he had 3 engines that were mounted on a frame which held the engines away from the body of the rocket, I thought that this had solved most of these problems

    But it has been awhile so I could easily be wrong

  22. Re:Good luck to him on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 1

    Sorta clever too.

    This is what Goddard originally thought also, but evidently it had problems so IIRC he switched to tail exhaust with some stablising mechanism.

  23. Re:Might spur on others on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself

    I don't want to "trash the earth NOW", and nothing I said could even remotely be misunderstood like that.

    Guess you must be an idiot.

  24. Re:Might spur on others on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 2

    Considering that space travel is still suffering from the Challenger explosion, yes you are correct. But when there is a success, people usually forget the failures.

    So good luck to him, he can't really do that much harm, but if he succeeds he will do much good

  25. Might spur on others on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 4

    This is good.

    If he succeeds, it will convince others that space is really within our grasp. It might kickoff some real commercial attempts to get there