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  1. Re:Cheap WiFi on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 2, Informative


    Nothing more required than a bit of knowledge and experience.

    here's the tools

  2. Re:Its GBP! on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 2, Interesting


    My Passport is for

    "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"

    Code of Issuing State : GBR

    Nationality : British Citizen

    Please note, fingerprinting yankees, that it also says :

    Her Britanic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.

    You'd better watch out, we'll be sending some Royal Guards to sort you out!

  3. snoopy on What Network Sniffing Tools Do You Use? · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Re:Anything left to kick around? on SCO's Motion to dismiss Red Hat's Complaint Denied · · Score: 1


    perhaps he was deluded into Americana by the opium

  5. Re:Anything left to kick around? on SCO's Motion to dismiss Red Hat's Complaint Denied · · Score: 1

    How odd, I had imagined Lord Byron to spell traveller in his native tongue.

  6. Re:i'm so confused on Linux Based HD DDR used on Starship Troopers 2 · · Score: 0


    nope, it's called "humour" :)

  7. Re:yes, ..yes they do on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 1

    I found this document on the net, is it about you ?

    <<attachment document.doc>>

  8. Re:yes, ..yes they do on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 1


    yup, I'm getting good at it these days

    you see, this is a forum, and you can say anything in a forum

    if you dipped into you pocket instead of sponging you could look at all my posting history and see it's not all like that.

    Karma: Excellent

    do I *really* have to explain why whitelisting doesn't work and therefore *shouldn't* be part of the protocol?

  9. Re:yes, ..yes they do on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can't understand why e-mail never evolved to allow ONLY whitelists in the first place.

    then you are a bit dumb

  10. adwords on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 1

    I bet that you'll see adwords based on the content of the emails and the storage part is related to the click through rate on those subjects cross referenced with said content and against your personal profile.

    Does orkut server adwords? As a non-member I don't know

  11. Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck. on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1


    go ask my latin teacher

  12. Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck. on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1


    hehe interesting point, I hadn't really considered that.

    You missed another one though, it should be 'try to meet I'

    perhaps one should say 'please refrain from attempting to introduce yourself to my person'

  13. Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck. on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1


    No, I would say "please don't ever try and meet me"

  14. Re:pc speech on EverQuest Sequel Gives Voice To NPCs, Original Turns Five · · Score: 0, Troll


    j00 suck0x

    the winner is the one that has the most fun, moron

    perhaps EQ was a bit too hard for you, putting shaped blocks into holes sounds much more your thing

  15. Re:Que ?? on EverQuest Sequel Gives Voice To NPCs, Original Turns Five · · Score: 0


    yeah, just like they send you the images for rendering every polygon

    muppet

  16. re: bugware on Bluesnarfing At CeBIT 2004 · · Score: 1

    get rid of their expensive bugware. Linux forever ;)

    s/\./,/

  17. I wrote my own on PHP Template Engines? · · Score: 1


    with simple @keword substitution

    as for performance hit : zero, nada, zip

    Because I cache the output of my pages and the forms I use for editing the database entries clears the cache as necessary so I can write my php as un-optimized as I like which places the optimium time saving where it counts - developer time.

  18. Re:IBM 1 TSG 0 on IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case · · Score: 1


    The guy that kicked off the Patent Portfolia at IBM now works for Microsoft doing the same for them

    IBM didn't start bad things with FUD, they supplied Holleriths to the third reich

    http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

    Watson was awarded Nazi Germany's highest honour for his work at supplying sort algorithms and personnel to oversee the classification into Juden and non-Juden, you didn't think the sorted 10 million Jew out with pencil and paper now did ya?

  19. Re:Finally! Ultimate convergence on A Linux 'Ecosystem' For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Are you in some sort of time warp ?

    digital sounds instead of beeps have been around for at least 3 years if not mp3

    usb plug! wtf. hello? wireless comms is what we want, not wires!

    128Mb of flash ! jeesh, my phone can *already* take 512Mb of MMC

    rs232 port, blimey

    try this irda-rs232 convertor in your headless box http://www.cooldrives.com/irconcabrsir.html

    Who will be the first to solve the cell-phone/QWERTY keyboard hardware design problem

    A Logitech/Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard should have that covered, though I've not tried one.

    So, in summary, all the things you dream of have been around for about a year, wake up son! It's happening NOW!

  20. If you want faster builds on Optimizing distcc · · Score: 1


    build smaller things

    the record for compiling a plan9 kernel is 15s

    I built & installed the kernel and the whole distributed userland in 45 mins on a Duron 800Mhz.

  21. Re:Give Amazon.com the finger on Amazon Awarded Cookie Patent · · Score: 1

    >It's like the old joke of adding "with a computer" to anything and calling it novel.

    see, you missed a trick there, these days one takes all those patents wiht 'on a computer' in them and add 'on the internet' and viola, one patent portfolio.

  22. drooling on Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated] · · Score: 1


    Not everyone is drooling at that prospect.
    To quote my favourite anarchist collective :

    "The nature of your oppression is the aesthetic of our anger."

  23. Re:What I'd like to see in a shopping search engin on The New Yahoo!, Google, MSN Et Al. Battleground · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://froogle.google.com/froogle/merchants.html

    Google crawls billions of webpages every month, so you'll likely be included automatically in Froogle's index of sites. If for some reason your store is not showing up and you would like it to be included in Froogle, please submit a data feed. Doing so will ensure that your entire product catalog is included in Froogle, and it will also allow you to control the freshness and accuracy of your product information. Feeds can be updated as you add new products, change prices, offer special promotions, or discontinue products.

  24. Dead you say ? on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1, Funny


    http://www.google.com/bsd

    The requested URL /plan9 was not found on this server.

    oh well, I can wait.

  25. what are these "pop-ups" of which you speak? on Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money · · Score: 0


    Some kind of junk breakfast cereal?

    Oh, is it part of the world of commerce?

    Sorry, my OS doesn't do advertisment, it's not aimed at "consumers" for whom using it is an "experience".