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  1. Re:Use the right tool... on Root Password Readable in Clear Text with Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    It's the same CD; you just have the option to install normal or server Ubuntu when you boot from it.

  2. Re:Nortons AV did this to me once... on McAfee Anti-Virus Causes Widespread File Damage · · Score: 1

    Were you using Mozilla, Netscape 6.x/7.x, or Thunderbird? I've been told of that problem on the first two and experienced it on the latter -- even though that installation of T-bird 1.5 had the option to let antivirus scanners remove individual infected attachments.

  3. Re:Why Movies Suck on Movies Losing Popularity at Box Office · · Score: 1

    Isn't Peter Pan under perpetual copyright of the British crown?

  4. Re:Innovative dick comparison on Intel Unveils New Chips to Battle AMD · · Score: 1

    P-100s had a 66 MHz bus and a 1.5x multiplier. The 50 MHz bus was used only on the P-75 and the rare 486DX-50.

  5. Re:Bah, this isn't about terrorism on Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    That's not how it worked for me. I got my first credit card just after I turned 25. When I checked my FICO score several months later, having made all of my CC payments on time, it was about 670 to 680.

    It's been a year and a half; I should check my score again now that I'm married, have a larger credit line, and have been making car payments for a year.

  6. Re:Ya' know, I'm starting to think... on President Defends Global Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Pfft. When did he ever /not/ do just whatever the hell he wanted to, or what he thinks his god wants him to (not that it makes a difference)? Name one time he's /ever/ changed his mind even when it's obvious to anyone but him & his buddies that he's wrong.

  7. Re:Funny on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    Getting a Constitutional amendment passed doesn't seem very damn temporary to me. It has to be passed by 2/3rds of both houses of Congress plus 3/4ths of the state legislatures.

  8. Dupe tag on Google Moving PRC Records Out of China · · Score: 1

    Who's the idiot who keeps posting dupe tags on non-duped stories? There should be a kind of meta-mod on tags.

  9. Re:Tax Instant Refund Scam; Loan, not Refund on H&R Block Goofs on Its Own Taxes · · Score: 1

    You forgot "most stupidist". Drop the most (because it's redundant) and it's spelled "stupidest".

  10. Re:dell... on Another Ars Ultimate Budget Box · · Score: 1

    You'll get better performance with Ars's Sempron processor and GeForce 6100 graphics, though.

  11. Re:PowerGlove only #7?? on Top 10 Worst Game Controllers · · Score: 1

    The Inty controllers were delicate, though. You couldn't subject them to the kind of abuse that a NES brick controller could take.

  12. Based on heart containers on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 1

    It was actually dependent on how many heart containers you had. It's possible to get the white sword without ever venturing inside a dungeon.

  13. Re:Of course they will. on Simplified Disk Encryption Coming to GNOME · · Score: 2

    If you've actually got proof that there's a backdoor in PGP, then prove it. I think you're full of shit.

  14. Re:TrueCrypt on Simplified Disk Encryption Coming to GNOME · · Score: 1

    You are correct. There should be a moderation option "Wrong/Stupid".

  15. Re:Turn about is fair play on IBM Subpoenas HP, Baystar, Sun & Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The anti-trust trial in no way hindered the rollout of Windows 98.

  16. Re:Radical Idea on What Do You Want in a Job Website? · · Score: 1

    Please break your postings up into paragraphs. That was difficult to read.

  17. Re:Jesus Christ! on Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names · · Score: 1
    You write... like William... Shatner.

    http://www.guidenet.net/resources/wanker.html

  18. Re:I shouldn't post this but... on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 1

    ROTFL. I need to share that with my non-gaming-but-likes-Zelda wife.

  19. Re:The SAVE feature on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 1

    You didn't have to die to save. There's a button combination on the second controller that you push to access the Continue Save Retry menu. Google is your friend.

    I didn't know that when I was a kid, though. I had one savegame that listed me as dying 255 times. :-)

  20. Re:Short list 'o memories on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    Red clouds? I can't remember what you're talking about.

    Don't forget how tough those Blue Darknuts were. It was a tossup whether a pack of those or of Blue Wizzrobes were nastier.

    I still have my gold cartridge and the battery works (!), but I've taken to emulation because even with a new cartridge connector I still have to fellate my NES carts.

  21. Re:Locked Down USB Ports! on Beware the iPod 'slurping' Employee · · Score: 1

    ITYM policies and enforcement. $CORP can have a policy saying that you can't use USB sticks and the like, but they've got to have s/w to help enforce it.

  22. Re:Anti-competitive? on Microsoft To Offer Free Wireless VoIP · · Score: 1

    Which will never get anywhere while Republicans run things.

  23. Re:A simple test on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 1

    Don't forget gratuitous use of Latin terms that nobody outside of the legal profession understands. I think it's a way to keep the common man out and ensure the need for lawyers to interpret laws.

  24. Re:Technology Exposes Reality on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 1

    Yes. My paternal grandparents and my wife's paternal grandparents all write poor English. The former and her GF graduated high school in the early '40s (the men served in WWII), and her GM has an 8th-grade education due to needing to take care of the family.

    Archaeologists have found poorly-spelt graffiti and other examples of bad writing that they've used to approximate how Latin and other ancient languages were actually pronounced. Literacy was much lower then, sure, but same principle.

    I think it comes down to education and how much a given culture values it. In the case of our GPs, good writing skills weren't valued as much because they weren't going to use that for doing farm work.

  25. Re:Only one way to go on Being School District Admin? · · Score: 1
    Oh yeah, don't take their Ms Office away, they can't use it, but don't take it away.
    Yep. IME the idea is that "everyone uses MS Office" so therefore the school districts must put it on their underpowered PCs so the kids get familiar with it. Get 'em while they're young.