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  1. Re:Are there small ISPs in the UK? on Tens of Thousands Flee From BT and Virgin · · Score: 1

    There are, but they're ADSL, not cable.

  2. Re:Adam Smith supported copyrights and patents on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    Humans are apes.

  3. yes on UK Games Retailers Threaten Boycott of Steam Games · · Score: 1

    And are you sure gog.com doesn't include any DRM whatsoever? That shocks me.

    That's the entire point of gog.

  4. Re:Enough with the Apple stories for a bit on How To Get Rejected From the App Store · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work for feeds.

  5. Re:Bright Blue LED on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 1

    My usb mouse has a bright blue LED which stays on even when the laptop is switched off (but still connected to a power socket) so I have to unplug something when I want to sleep.

  6. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? on The Humble Indie Bundle · · Score: 1

    Their similar stunt with World of Goo led me to purchase other games they developed because WoG showed me they were delivering quality, entertaining games.

    What other games have the WoG developers made?

  7. Re:Evince on Foxit One-Ups Adobe In Blocking PDF Attack Tactics · · Score: 1

    I think it is poppler, because that still happens in evince and some other readers I tried (I just found out it was a bug a couple of days ago, rather than just low res scans). I was going to try okular, but I didn't want to install 150MB or so of kde libs. xpdf seems to work better, but has an ugly ui.

  8. Re:Right. on "Lost" and the Emergence of Hypertext Storytelling · · Score: 1

    He had five seasons of material. The only reason the fifth season is "arbitrary" is because there was a good chance that the show wouldn't be picked up for a fifth season, so the main storyline's conclusion had to be moved to the end of season four.

  9. Re:FOSS Contributions on 10% Tax On Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Company A hires you to build a custom piece of software. Once you're done, you just need to make it available for purchase to other companies.

    I should think that not doing this would be part of the contract in most cases.

  10. Re:USB? Software? On a BATTERY CHARGER? on Energizer USB Battery Charger Software Infects PCs · · Score: 1

    woosh?

  11. Re:It's the freeloaders time on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 1
  12. It could be worse. on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 1

    My university is switching to Live@edu.

  13. Re:Bitlbee and other gateways on Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP · · Score: 1

    It works for me in bitlbee (but then I use my own server). However, all the names come up as u09876543562 etc instead of showing the display name, any non-manual way to get around that?

  14. Re:Performance issues off flash drives on Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.6 RC, Nears Final · · Score: 1

    It's the fact that they use SQLite to store so much data.

    Tell me about it. For a long time the data quota on the linux computers at my university was 30MB (for undergraduates at least). I kept going over the quota mysteriously, and eventually found that firefox had created a (hidden) 20MB sqlite file to store data for its "block reported attack sites" function. They've since raised the quota to 80MB, I suspect because everyone else was having the same problem and most didn't work out why.

  15. Re:Shrimp free zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    On the other hand fur allergy is a myth, people are allergic to different types of animals.

    Like how people are allergic to different types of nuts, not just nuts...

  16. Re:Of course it is. on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    Yes, when I started using linux I tried a few commands from dos like cd and dir. It wasn't for a few weeks that I realized ls existed...

  17. Re:It's the tools stupid on HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight · · Score: 1

    I haven't ever heard about it.

  18. Re:Games on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    hamachi

  19. Re:Apples to Oranges on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    I prefer to use something like Texmaker - you can write as much raw latex as you like, but you have shortcuts there if you want them (the quickbuild and export functions are especially useful).

  20. Re:Aptitude is THE DEVIL! on Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration? · · Score: 1

    I used aptitude for a few months after reading that it installed recommended packages in addition to true dependencies. Well, bollocks to that. There are more times when I don't want "recommended" packages (installing exim sucks when postfix is desired, for example).

    So toggle the option to make it not do this, or just use 'aptitude -R'?

  21. Re:LOL: Bug Report on Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around · · Score: 1

    Then why is it marked as stable in 2.6.28? Unless there's some strange definition of "stable" they use there...

  22. Re:WoG Linux version progressing on CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux · · Score: 1

    actually, looking at it they seem to have taken down the files. hmm. sorry.

  23. Re:WoG Linux version progressing on CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux · · Score: 1
  24. Re:WoG Linux version progressing on CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux · · Score: 1

    The Linux version has been (or had been) in open (though somewhat hidden on a mailing list) beta for something like a month. Worked perfectly for me...apart from a few times when X locked up on exiting.

  25. doesn't work on Watch the Obama Inauguration With Moonlight · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Moonlight was compiled with 1.0 support only. This page requires 2.0 support."
    oops?