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  1. Re:Direct Copy article on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check the datestamps. Cnet's article was posted the day before.

  2. Re:Those strings can't be right on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    IDCLIP was a lot shorter to type; it's equivalent to spispod but was only in Doom II.

    Modern source ports (like gzdoom) take both.

  3. Re:Plenty of consulting dollars to be spent on Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm picturing the nuttier Republicans responding to Obama asking to set up a WPA-like program. Phrases like "internment camps" would no doubt be used, and believed by the useful idiots.

  4. Re:Why not? on Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned · · Score: 1

    Debian's mainly been herding cats, and there's never been a benevolent dictator a la Linus or Shuttleworth.

  5. Re:Why not? on Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned · · Score: 1

    Quit taking yourself so seriously, snowflake.

  6. Re:Why not? on Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned · · Score: 1

    If you don't have /somebody/ with final say, you'll end up with another Debian that doesn't have any sort of release schedule or anything to distinguish itself.

    Besides, Shuttleworth's financing the distro.

  7. Symantec has a minor but annoying bug on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    SEP11 has a rather stupid bug that causes it to not update its virus-definition datestamp past 20091231. The definitions continue to be updated, but the program complains to the user that it's out of date, and so they panic and bother us until the dumbass Symantec engineers get around to fixing whatever the bug is.

  8. Re:IN SOVIET CHINA... wait, they still are! on China Faces Piracy Suit Over Censorship Software · · Score: 1

    Besides, nobody is trying to say that U.S. law should apply anywhere but in the United States.

    Nobody but the US government, that is. There've been several incidents of countries extraditing their citizens to here to face trial, for violating American law while on foreign soil.

    Do try to keep up.

  9. It works fine for me on Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise · · Score: 1

    I've been running Win7 64-bit Enterprise on my work Macbook 2,1 since August or September. Had to fiddle with it since this machine isn't supported for 64-bit environments, but it worked.

  10. Re:My dept is 'prox 600 computers/3 techs on How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen? · · Score: 1

    OS and Microsoft Office updates are handled by WSUS, and antivirus by the AV server, but we don't update anything else automatically.

    The result is that some users have rather old copies of Flash Player, Java, Adobe Reader, Firefox, etc.

  11. My dept is 'prox 600 computers/3 techs on How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is party due to our lack of automation - Active Directory's not got much penetration outside our area, we haven't got automatic package rollouts/updates, no out-of-band management, and there's no planning WRT buying computers; each dept will buy a machine as funds & needs dictate, with input from us.

    The three of us are desktop support. That doesn't count the sysadmins & netadmins.

  12. Re:Port? Or Dosemu? on Duke Nukem 3D Ported To Nokia N900 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It does run well on DOSBox, and was indeed software-only. The only sort of "acceleration" it offered was the option to use VESA BIOS 2.0 video modes.

    FWIW I can run it on hardware with my Pentium-90 DOS game box & its Voodoo3 at 800x600x8 (its maximum) with acceptable framerates. It's not quite this fast in DOSBox on my C2D E6300 machine, but that's what lower resolutions are for.

  13. Re:Professionalism on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    Black with silver trim, and black boots. Cultivate a really intense workplace persona.

  14. Re:And this is a nearly unsolveable problem. on GSM Decryption Published · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At a guess, they didn't use DES back when because DES is computationally intensive, i.e. slow. This is especially important when you've got a small-for-the-day device that runs on batteries and must provide something approaching real-time performance.

  15. Re:How do you think it works in the EU ? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Missouri also allows county and city sales taxes. It's how the governments pay for a lot of things.

  16. Re:Another easy solution! on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 1

    Seems to work for global warming.

  17. Re:Robots on The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves · · Score: 1

    Taxes?

  18. Re:This attack was perfectly succesful on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    This. Even if this was some idiot sympathizer or a "useful idiot", Quaeda is getting mileage from this.

  19. Re:Fucking douchebag on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It'll be interesting to compare Obama's response to the fear-fear-fear responses from the Bush Administration.

  20. Re:Users of alternative e-book readers rejoice. on Amazon Kindle Proprietary Format Broken · · Score: 1

    Easy enough: loose links to a Goatse pic, and lose links to a reaction-to-Goatse movie.

  21. Re:IPv6 addresses are overly complex on Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dynamic DNS, then. I use that for remoting into my computer and router from other places.

  22. Ask the experts -- what does Netcraft say? on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    Does Netcraft confirm it?

  23. Re:Going to the movies is different than buying on on Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By superior do you mean "volume's too loud" and "a quarter of the audience are self-centered assholes"?

    That's an innovative definition you've got there.

  24. Re:French thunderbirds rock on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 1

    Haven't the time or the programming chops, and I don't care enough to pay someone to maintain an old branch.

    It's a bit different with, say, Debian, who will happily apply security fixes to old software for a few years, but when one is running Windows (in an institutional environment, say), that's not really an option.

  25. Re:That explains... on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 1

    That's more inventive than the obvious "surrender" jokes. :-)