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  1. Re:Kaylee... on Firefly Movie Gets The Green Light · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. Morena Baccarin is classicly beautiful, so much so that even my wife can't take her eyes off her, but Kaylee just has that certain something...

    Maybe it was the smudge of dirt on her nose, I just don't know.

  2. Re:Ms did this before on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 1

    HA HA that link is so funny. A guy at the time of the RAV acquisition saying "there's no way that microsoft are entering the antivirus market", then the first related story at the moment is "Microsoft moves into antivirus realm". D'oh!

  3. Of course you know they didn't write it themselves on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 2, Informative

    We used RAV Antivirus for our Qmail installation for about 3 ro 4 years. Smashing product, updated itself every hour over ftp, kept us free of iloveyou, anna kournikova, all the way up to mydoom, netsky and bagle et al, and most of all CHEAP. But, last september, they posted this message, announcing that they would be ceasing new sales and terminating subscriptions at their next renewal because they had just been bought by Microsoft. I Immediately thought Hmmm, how long before we get Microsoft Antivirus. Looks like I was right.

    So, those of you who are worried out Microsoft's programming prowess, fear not. Your PCs will be protected by a romanian team with 10 years experience.

  4. I found the exact opposite on Carpal Tunnel- Laptops Better than Ergo Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    I was using the same laptop exclusively for about two years, and I was starting to get pains in my wrists. Then I found an old IBM keyboard from 1985 - you know, the big heavy ones with steel bases. Within a day or two the pains had gone away (I think I caught it early)

    So maybe the lesson here is to vary your keyboards regularly? Use the laptop for a month, then a standard keyboard, then an ergonomic keyboard. Then you don't get set in one position.

  5. Re:Keyboard shortcuts on XFce Desktop 4 Released · · Score: 1

    you can do that in the following file: /usr/share/xfwm4/themes/default.keys/keythemerc

    heh. What I read was "key the merc", that well known pasttime in the dodgier areas of large cities worldwide of adding racing stripes to the sides of large teutonic cars...

  6. Stop torrenting corporations! on The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer · · Score: 1

    xfce is slashdotted to hell and back, but an akamaized movie trailer has THREE bittorrent streams? Goddamn.

  7. E-Ink Again? on Paper Capable Of Playing Videos Developed · · Score: 1

    Oh for God's sake.

    Will you just hurry up and SHIP IT! They've been going on and on about this for as long as I've been reading /.!

  8. Re:PHP Script that generated reports on Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? · · Score: 1

    No, I had an epiphany that I could create a set of standard documents in a new directory when someone sets up a new job, and put job details in them at the same time.

  9. Re:PHP Script that generated reports on Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? · · Score: 1

    Thank you

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

    Yours was the first of many messages on this theme that I saw, and you just made my life a whole lot easier. I had one of those "if we did this, then we could do this, then this, then this..." epiphanies.

    Thank You!

  10. Re:Only a month??? on Barnes and Noble Drops Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're having a one-month fire sale of all those copies of ebooks they bought, so that they aren't left with loads of stock in their warehouses.

  11. Re:Happy meal toys on Chinese Moon Base by 2012 - or 2006? · · Score: 1

    "Made in Glorious People's Republic of the Moon".

  12. Re:real Unix owner on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1

    I'm Brian and so's my wife!

  13. Re:Solution? on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 1

    Well that just wouldn't be very accurate, would it. I always heard that a litre of water was exactly one kilogram. All you need is a measuring jug, and robert's your mother's brother.

  14. In Soviet Russia... on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...Soyuz rescue YOU!

    Oh, wait...

  15. MicroBSD is Dying! on MicroBSD Is No More · · Score: 1
    In other news:
    • MicroSlashdot is Dying!
    • MicroApple is Dying!
    • MicroStephen King is Dead!
    • MicroNatalie MicroPortman with MicroHot MicroGrits down her MicroPants!

    That's all folks!

  16. Hey Everybody... on Red Hat Linux 8 Bible · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... Guess what Davorg got for Christmas!

  17. Gotta love the name... on FCC Approves 802.11b Phased Array · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Terminator: The .45 Long Slide, with laser sighting.
    Pawn Shop Clerk: These are brand new; we just got these in. That's a good gun. Just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss. Anything else?
    The Terminator: 802.11b Phased Array rifle in the forty watt range.
    Pawn Shop Clerk: Hey, just what you see, pal.

  18. Northwest Airlines? on More On Airplanes And Internet · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else notice that Northwest Airlines website is NWA.com? I mean, geez, them guys is WHITE!! Either that, or Dre and Ice have free flights for life...

  19. Anti-Abortion sites? on Google Complies with Law, Excludes 'controversial' Sites · · Score: 2, Insightful

    such as this one? Or this?

  20. Re:Upgrading from 7.3 status on Red Hat 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of another menu item that has the programs you use most, either 10 items or 2 per "standard" menu. Sort of like a recent documents folder, except items are weighted to stay there if they are used often enough.

  21. Re:Or the I-Opener? on Microsoft foils Xbox hackers with new Config · · Score: 1

    Hehe. That's like that episode of Friends where Monica dates the high school guy:

    M: Oh my God! I'm Joan Collins!

    HSG: Who's Joan Collins?

  22. Re:KDE and the new America on KDE 3.1 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    And that funny brown cheese that they eat at breakfast. Very nice, tastes a little like toffee, but a little strange nonetheless

  23. Re:i have a small software business on Starting a Software Business in Today's Economy? · · Score: 1
    Horse Breaders? Is that like a breaded chicken fillet? Yum!

    Sorry dude...

  24. Opportunity for FreeDOS? on Dell To Offer Windows-Less PCs · · Score: 1

    Since Dell is making a fair bit of extra profit on each machine (the computers will cost the same as one with Windows preinstalled), I wonder would Dell make a small contribution to the FreeDOS project for each PC sold? I mean, even a couple of bucks at the volumes these Dells will probably sell at could mount up fairly quickly...

  25. Re:Performance on MySQL 4 - Is it Stable? · · Score: 1
    PS. wtf if the third line indented by one char?

    it's the <br>'s, for some reason they started doing that a month or two ago...