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  1. Windows ME System Restore on Billennium's Over - Anything Break? · · Score: 1

    http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q 290/7/00.ASP

  2. news:clari.news.front_page is "up" on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked · · Score: 1

    EOM

  3. Re:GNU UNIX on Caldera's Almost-Linux Skips The Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    GNU/Caldera Open UNIX 8

  4. And I just got hooked on T2! on Dynamix Closed Down? · · Score: 1

    Damn, if those servers go, it's back to Rune.

  5. Re:Frequent Flyer's Principle on Books on Demand · · Score: 1
    And we'll all suddenly be more literate too.

    More likely the latest edition of "Big Uns".

  6. Re:Uses for this machine on Books on Demand · · Score: 1
    what do you want the bookstore for?

    Browsing. Otherwise you might as well use Amazon for the books.

    And if there's a magazine I'll buy without browsing, I'll already have a subscription.

  7. Tell the pilot... on Stealth Aircraft Useless? · · Score: 1

    to stay off his/her cell phone.

    They make us on commercial flights.

  8. Re:An idea to get rid of regions... nice try, but. on An End-Run Around Region-Free DVD Players · · Score: 1

    Not everyone lives on base.

  9. Re:The New Feudalism on Technology And The Fast Food Nation · · Score: 1
    My god is this true ... every last one of my friends who didn't go to college -- work menial job after menial job (read: guitar center, Wherehouse, CompUSA etc.) to buy pot, their videogames, and make payments on outrageously expensive vehicles.

    OK. You see it in your friends that make less money. But can you see it in yourself, too? It's clear your want-disguised-as-a-need isn't cars, but maybe it's Playstations, computers, home theater, etc. I doubt that the original poster was limiting his observations to the economic underclass.

  10. Stretching on What Do You Do To Relieve Lower Back Pain? · · Score: 1

    Are you tall? My doc said tight hamstrings
    are a very common cause of LBP in tall people.

    My LBP was cured by some simple stretching.
    My doc gave me a photocopy of a few simple
    stretches, I won't try to describe them here.
    There's probably something on the web somewhere.

  11. Re:Linux-compatible printers on HP to Use Debian for Linux Development · · Score: 1
    The Lexmark Z32 driver is crap.

    It's a custom, non-standard install which

    • only works with lpr (no cups),
    • forces you to call the printer "lexmarkz32", and
    • only works out the parallel port (the printer also has USB).
  12. Re:Flying. on Recepies For A Good Night's Sleep? · · Score: 1
    I had the same thought -- 6x28!

    There have been times when my cycle got later and later until the easiest way to get back to "normal" was to pull an all nighter. I'm not talking about college craming or work pressures. I had no external reasons for these all nighters.

    Discovering melatonin stopped this for me. I don't use it regularly though, just when I start to drift.

  13. Re:poorly written? on Noir · · Score: 1
    His eyes returned to the screen, again and again, until he had read the entire quote, as painful as it was -- pain he imagined as worse than childbirth in the desert -- and he knew that he must not read this book.

    This isn't even a sentence:

    First from across the room, as he had felt the first tremors of fear move out from his gut, then inches away, then less than that as it had stood right in front of him.
  14. Somebody's already done it. on Laptops That Support FreeBSD/Win/Linux/Solaris? · · Score: 1

    There's a good chance that a 'new' laptop will be too new to get a perfect install with the latest RedHat or whatever. You'll have to futz with the X config, or the audio, or APM, or something.

    That said, you probably won't be the first and someone will probably have posted the answers you need on the web. My last 3 laptop installs went like this. Search google for your model name and "linux".

    You might want to pick a major brand name to increase your odds. Or do the search before you buy.

  15. Re:Deja-google on Google Acquires Deja · · Score: 1

    Nah, that was Kajagoogoo

  16. DSL is a SNAFU on DSL Woes · · Score: 1
    Getting DSL usually involves coordination between three companies, the ISP, CLEC, and ILEC. It's not in the best interest of the ILEC to play well. When all the CLECs are bankrupt, they can sell DSL to their end users, meanwhile the end user gets lousy service. This is why cable modems are kicking DSLs ass with the end users.

    The technology is good, but the whole industry is going down the drain because these politics make it hard to deploy. Some CLECs have recently filed bankruptcy. The DSL box companies are in trouble -- check out the stock performance for PDYN, CMTN and others. The DSL chip companies could very well be next.

  17. One detail I'll miss on Gamecenter Gets Fragged · · Score: 1

    I rarely game and rarely shop for games. But the one thing I liked about gamecenter over all the other sites I saw was that you could sort the game reviews by their rating. I don't want to read every review for a given catagory of game. I want to read about the top few. Why can't other sites figure this out?

  18. Re:This sounds like a case for the Geek Mafia! on GeoWorks Patents Wireless Web Browsers · · Score: 1

    We need prior art.
    Lots and lots of prior art.

  19. probability on Space Object May Be Killer - In 2030 · · Score: 1
    Astronomers have confirmed that object 2000 SG344 has a 500-to-1 chance of hitting earth in the year 2030, a much higher probability of impact than any object before it.

    Higher that those that *did* hit earth?

  20. NIST Net on Free WAN Emulators? · · Score: 1

    Free. Good.
    http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/

    -troy

  21. Courtney gets it! on Courtney Love Sues for Her Share · · Score: 1

    Wow!

    Courtney just made a fan out of me.
    I will be "buying" whatever she does next.

  22. WebTV on Are Set-Top Boxes A Solution For Novice Users? · · Score: 2
    I hooked my computer-illiterate parents up with WebTV (classic). It works well for them.

    You should probably be there for the hookup and to teach basics like navigation.

    The only problem I had was trying to answer questions after the fact. (They're 700 miles away and I don't know anyone with WebTV nearby.)

    I can't imagine rolling your own and coming up with something easier to use with low maintainance.

  23. Re:Low earth orbit on Astronauts In Florida For Space Station Mission · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's in an orbit that requires it
    to be boosted periodically.

    And the US is the only country with the
    money/technology to boost it.

  24. Re:Still about protecting rights. on Crypto Advocates Favoring ... Regulation? · · Score: 1
    In case anyone's not been paying attention, right now our rights as coders and geeks are under attack...by corporations. It's not the FBI that's collecting information about misfits in high school, it's Pinkertons. It's not the Congress that's censoring web sites, it's Cybersitter. It's not the NSA that's stepping on software development, it's corporations like the MPAA, Microsoft, ad infinitum.

    Yeah, but the corporations (MPAA) are passing laws with the help of the government.

  25. Rehab, Rehab, Rehab on Update on Jason Haas Car Accident · · Score: 1

    There are things in the brain that they can't go in and fix, but aggressive rehab makes a world of difference.

    My father had a stroke last year and the improvement made with aggressive speech, occupational, and physical therapy was amazing.

    You may be tempted to take him home from the hospital and have visiting rehab-ers. Check him into a full time rehab center. They'll schedule a full day's rehab work for him and the difference is significant.

    Stay strong.