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  1. Use your laptop as a second monitor on A Dual Monitor Experiment · · Score: 1

    This is funky

  2. Re:Google on Can My Desktop Make It in the Big Leagues? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google Info

  3. Apostrophe Abuse on 3DMark05 System Benchmarker Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > and is sure to bring your system to its knee's

    Knee's? What? Is that supposed to mean more than 1 knee?

    FFS.

    Dammit. Slashdot has been trying to market itself as being more professional recently. See here. Editors should do their jobs.

    Go and buy a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

  4. BBC Monitoring on New Trailer For Upcoming Hitchhiker's Episodes · · Score: 1

    > Let's hope the Beeb's live streaming media setup can cope with the mother of all Slashdottings!" See for yourself: http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/

  5. Heh on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: 1, Funny

    I like the fact that the skinner's got a "backup" of Vice City in the F: drive... :-)

  6. Re:No really! on GPS Slowly Changing How Things Are Done · · Score: 5, Informative

    You laugh, but in England there's already a service that lets you locate mobile ("cell" in your 'Merkin lingo) phones without using GPS: http://www.fleetonline.net/

  7. Re:I'll bet the biggest is Google... on The Biggest MySQL Cluster, Ever? · · Score: 4, Informative

    How google works. Enjoy.

  8. See also some stuff from last summer... on NES PC · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/27/155322 6&mode=flat

  9. This sounds like fun.... on Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003? · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/28/22056/9730

  10. Deja vu? on Illicit Leaky Capacitors Killing Motherboards · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/175121 0&mode=flat

  11. If I can remember this on /. why can't the editors on DIY Segway-Style Balancing Robot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    October last year .......

    To think that this site sold for millions. Jesus.

  12. spamarchive.com on SpamArchive.org Launched · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've owned spamarchive.com for ages.

    Want it? - I have no use for it.....

  13. Re:Excellent! Now I have something to do at work : on Perl 5.8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    DBD::Oracle is an utter whore to get compiled & running on a HPUX box.

  14. Re:if only.... on Managing and Using MySQL: Second Edition · · Score: 1

    Oracle is free for non-commercial use.....

  15. Monkey! on Microsoft Eyes UK Digital TV Provider · · Score: 1

    I just like the Monkey Testcard! :-)

  16. I can see it now..... on Using Images as Passwords · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Hundreds of trolls scaring the crap out of people by using the goatse.cx image as their password.

  17. It gets better.... on Gum Chewing Found to Boost Brainpower, Memory · · Score: 1

    Beer makes you cleverer!

  18. Another /. article on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 1

    There's an older slashdot article with more info about Longhorn here.


    Aren't the new /. ads really annoying? I think so.....

  19. Free Subscriptions on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    I think everyone with a UID 15,000 should get a free sub :-)

  20. I don't blame them on No Solaris 9 for x86 · · Score: 1

    There's an ever increasing amount of hardware to support, which means pumping loads of cash into development, & they sell it for next to nothing (weren't they giving it away free a while back?).

  21. Re:Of course nothing is unbreakable on Oracle 9i Isn't Quite Unbreakable · · Score: 1

    > Must be my really low user id

    Nah :-)

  22. Just because MS is involved doesn't make it bad on Petreley on Ximian and Mono · · Score: 5

    There's a good article on kuro5hin about this very issue......

  23. Re:US suits incompatible with Ru airlock. STANDARD on ISS Airlock Installed · · Score: 2

    Erm, they needed this airlock... From a BBC news story: "Up until now, whenever astronauts on the ISS have needed to go outside the platform, they have had to go through a docked space shuttle. Unlike the orbiter, the station does not have a proper airlock to allow astronauts to safely make the transition from a pressurised environment to the vacuum of space."

    (From http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1 439000/1439568.stm)

  24. Transitive Software on Dynamic Cross-Processor Binary Translation · · Score: 4


    Here's the homepage for the company - Transitive Software
    (Apologies for the Karma whoring)

  25. Mirror Here on Furby Bounty Paid · · Score: 4

    Mirror Here - The main site's slashdotted.