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  1. Re:Dyson. on Review: Eufloria · · Score: 1

    "Eufloria" sounds like the sort of thing that penicillin was made for.

    As in "Oh shit, I hope that hooker I just screwed didn't have eufloria!".

    Way too much punctuation in that second sentence, btw.

  2. Re:Only removed from default install on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    IMO F-Spot needs a few more basic editing tools before it works. Meat-and-potatoes paint-style editing, yes. Layers, not so much.

    GIMP needs an option to use a single-window interface or a multiple-window interface. The earlier poster who touched on SDI tabbed interfaces may be onto something there.

    Tabbed GIMP would be a step up from multiple windows.

    GIMP is a good program as is, but the interface is frustrating.

  3. Re:1E3*1E5=1E9? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    A billion millions should be called a "billiard", the possession of which means that the party of the first part may play with his balls in his pockets.

  4. Re:THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS on URL Shorteners Get Some Backup · · Score: 1

    Sears sells bosons, they carry the Edmund Higg-ery line.

  5. Re:I like the Ras Al Gul approach on Recovering the Slums of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Off-topic: Did you ever play Battlezone on the public servers?

  6. Re:Run Linux on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Managed to convert both my wife and mother-in-law to Ubuntu within the past few years and there are very few problems. The only extensions I install in Firefox on their machines are Flash and AdBlock Plus.

  7. Re:30 seconds on Intel's New E-Reader For the Visually Impaired · · Score: 1

    How do the blind people know where to point the camera?

  8. Re:Reinventing the wheel on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... we who worked in the lab all loved that KB.

    Can a keyboard handle that much love? Seems like it would get sort of... sticky...

  9. Re:a FOSS project that requires extensive hacking on Drupal Multimedia · · Score: 1

    I run free software almost exclusively, and even I LOL'd at that.

    It applies to so many web apps that I can think of, it is almost not funny. Almost.

  10. Re:What can you expect on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 1

    I expect that, before long, we will all be like we were in 1985... copying audio by putting a player and a recorder face to face in a cabinet muffled with bath towels. Except that the recorder will have a chip in it to detect watermarks in digital media and refuse to cooperate. Makes me wish I hadn't sold all my reel-to-reels on eBay.

  11. Re:In-place upgrade, or fresh install? on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    You should burn the gparted CD image and delete everything off the drive except your home directory, then repartition the drive and reinstall.

    gparted works very well, even with NTFS.

    It should even be included on your LiveCD.

  12. Re:Reproductive "success" is not genetic. on Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women · · Score: 1

    Also, if dwarven females are that ugly, there you have an immediate selection pressure against them taking over.

    Not so. HORNY trumps UGLY.

  13. Re:When you have a machine from that era... on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 1

    I ran Debian Hamm on a machine with similar specs circa 1997.

    You will need a box of floppies.

  14. Re:It says: 256MB RAM... on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    The specs on the machine I am posting from, according to Xchat's sysinfo command:

    os[Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686] distro[Debian lenny/sid] cpu[1 x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (GenuineIntel) @ 5.00GHz] mem[Physical: 503.0MB, 30.0% free] disk[Total: 35.3GB, 30.8% free] video[ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY] sound[Allegro - ESS Allegro PCI]

    The machine does well with half a gig of memory. I usually have Liferea, Thunderbird, Xchat, Pidgin on 4 IM networks, Rhythmbox playing, Firefox with several tabs open, sometimes Evince with a PDF.

    The only real memory hog is Firefox.

  15. Re:Are you surprised? on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 1

    I own 2 spittoons, both of which I use.

    They are made by 2 different manufacturers. One is a regular 1 gallon brass spittoon, the other is a quart-sized plastic one from Skoal.

    So there, Mr. Smarty-pants. :PpPpP

  16. Re:Bean Sprout Farming on Moving Away From the IT Field? · · Score: 1

    Sounds promising.

    What qualifications and checks are in place for sprout farming?

    In other words, what government assholes do you have to deal with in order to farm sprouts?

  17. Re:9.10 is really nice on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    O.k., going to try out the current 9.04 via liveCD and see what shakes out.

  18. Re:Luck not shot down on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    Or someone would have told all the fighter aircraft to stand down.

    I mean, it happened 8 years ago.

    Right? Right?

  19. Re:9.10 is really nice on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    Upgraded one of my desktop machines (Dell Dimension 2400) to 9.04 and it was a deal breaker due to the Intel graphics issues.

    Ended up going back to 8.10

    Has the Intel graphics problem been handled yet?

  20. Re:glamour shots? on Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior · · Score: 1

    Looks like she is standing behind a windows covered in hot grits.

  21. Re:Didn't think App Store piracy was that big on App Store Developer Speaks Out On Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    IF.

    If, if, if.

    IF my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle.

    She doesn't, and she isn't.

    But let's go ahead and structure our lives around the assumption that she does, shall we?

  22. Re:similar to? on Universal Phone Charger Approved By UN Body · · Score: 1

    My wife's new phone has a micro-USB port for the charger, but the only way to add data is via a micro-SD card.

    My Motorola RAZR V3r is mini-usb, as well as my chi-pod and the digital camera that I use at work. One charger to rule them all, one charger to bind them.

    With the seem editor and file manager in moto4lin I can tweak the RAZR as much as I want, as a result of which I have avoided getting a new phone for several years. Motorola doesn't make RAZR anymore, afaik.

    Mini-USB is convenient and I wouldn't mind seeing it in everything. The micro-USB doesn't seem as robust, but it may simply be unfamiliar.

  23. Re:Explained by a Simple Formula on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    How can you attack something that is free?

    I mean, the cat is out of the bag as soon as the software is released, right?

  24. Re:Wonder why women are so uncomfortable... on Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event · · Score: 1

    More likely to be jealousy disguised as disgust.

  25. Re:as they would say on FARK.. on Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event · · Score: 1

    I prefer breasts.

    Bring on the feminist breasts!