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  1. Re:Compatibility pack for 2007 on Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy" · · Score: 1

    It gives at least Office '03 full read-write capability for '07 files (dunno about Outlook .PSTs). It will install on Office XP as well and maybe 2000, but I don't know if those versions are read-only or not.

  2. Re:Just a reminder... on Courts Reject Tech Corporation Bans on Class Action Suits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I tend to sign those things because I've never seen that stuff enforced. If they don't agree to do something, and back it up with "the contract says so", I explain that they're going to ignore the contract, or not do business with me.


    Let us know how that works when you get sued for breach of contract. kthxbye.
  3. Re:Wired: The Eternal Value of Privacy on Privacy and the "Nothing To Hide" Argument · · Score: 1

    That's obviously in code and you're conspiring against the Republic. Fetch the torturer and make him confess!

  4. Re:More like, who re-packages it. on Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases · · Score: 1

    Some NASes still come with Samba 2.x, like the Snap 210 I got last year.

  5. Re:Not an entirely unreasonable concept, done poor on Sprint Drops Customers Over Excessive Inquiries · · Score: 1

    You're nicer than I would have been (but I don't own a business & don't plan to). Maybe I'd give the tire-shine woman money back, but not the senile old bat -- you had to put all that time and effort into trying to fix her problem, after all.

    Did you refund the money they spent on parts as well? Definitely above-and-beyond, if so.

  6. Re:Most of you complaining about incompetent techs on Sprint Drops Customers Over Excessive Inquiries · · Score: 1

    Analog Roaming Mode (do cells even have this anymore?


    Mine does, and I've had it for about two years. Sometimes I'll see it switch to ARM out in the countryside.
  7. Re:Marc Rich... on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    s/elections/executions/

    There, fixed that for you.

  8. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    ROFL. That's the funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks for the laugh.

  9. Re:Cleaning out my garage... on Slackware 12.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It hasn't been that many versions. Patrick skipped from v4 to v7 because IIRC Redhat at the time was v7, and so was Mandrake.

  10. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was thinking of Congress's approval rating, which IIRC is around that figure.

        Non-binding resolutions indeed.

  11. Re:Good News, Everybody! on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    "Whose bush is Clinton having to do with" would be a better question there. :)

  12. Re:Clinton's Pardons on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    Of course he does. Anything that Clinton did that could be remotely tied to what Bush does excuses Bush.

    Now drink your kool-aid.

  13. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: -1, Troll

    France, evidently.[1] They surrendered on getting out of Iraq and on doing anything else meaningful (see "non-binding resolution").

    [1] ObFranceBashing.

  14. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    Try 18%. He has an 18% approval rating


    Cite? 30% or so was the last I'd heard.
  15. Re:This is my single biggest push to free software on Vista is Watching You · · Score: 1

    5) Better controllers. Keyboard, mouse, joystick, throttle, more exotic stuff like rudder pedals or a steering wheel. Console gamepads are too limited and the analog sticks too sensitive for me.

    Or will a modern console automatically grok what a USB PC controller does? (excepting the keyboard, obviously).

  16. Tranquilizers on Pentagon Developed 'Laughing Bullets' · · Score: 1

    I don't know if any other /.ers have been dosed with the stuff, but nitrous oxide didn't make me laugh. Rather, I just felt like I was wrapped in cotton batting and floating, yet fully awake and able to move[1]. Maybe the dental assistant just did a good job of getting the level right.

    [1] Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike being drunk.

  17. Re:Be patient on SWSoft Out of Compliance With the GPL · · Score: 1

    If you expect actual journalism from /., you must be new here(TM).

  18. Re:Also just hours after launch ... on Apple iPhone Dissected · · Score: 1

    How long until we start getting idiots with "free iphone" lines in their sigs or web links?

  19. Re:Nice for businesses on Microsoft to Simplify Downgrades From Vista to XP · · Score: 1

    OK, but whythehell are you going to upgrade that old P4 to Vista? If you hate your wife and kids that much, do the right thing and just get a divorce.

  20. Bad headline on Drugs to Prevent Cell Suicide · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It made me think of something the government would give to Guantanamo prisoners.

    s/cell/cellular/ would have been much clearer (and who cares if some idiot's cell phone autodarwinates?).

  21. Re:Xen and OS X question on Desperately Seeking Xen · · Score: 1

    OK, fine, but let's ignore the legal question (since it'll be the only copy of OSX running) and go technical.

    Will it work?

  22. Re:Xen and OS X question on Desperately Seeking Xen · · Score: 1

    What the hell does that have to do with it? It's a *Macbook*, which is by definition Apple hardware.

  23. Xen and OS X question on Desperately Seeking Xen · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a Macbook soon, and I want to play around with virtual machines on it.

    Is it possible to install e.g. Debian as my host OS, apt-get install xen, and then install Mac OS X inside a Xen virtual machine? This computer has a C2D processor, which supports the Intel VT instructions. I'll also do the same with Windows XP and Vista, and Ubuntu.

    If it will work, how well? Will it be a transparent install so that X can directly access the 3D acceleration hardware?

    Thanks.

  24. Re:Not really a steam car. on The British Steam Car Challenge · · Score: 1

    And on top of that, we've already got insufficient supplies of potable water in places. Imagine how bad it might be if we had to keep our car engines supplied with water all the time.

  25. Re:Not really a steam car. on The British Steam Car Challenge · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's probably just as well that we're /not/ using steam engines in our cars. Water vapor is even better as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, after all.