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  1. Re:is that the version number or the price paid? on EBay Admits To Bad Call On Skype · · Score: 1

    In honor of /. 10th anniversary, may I be the first to tell you "You must be new here?" :)

  2. Re:happy birthday slashdot! on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 1

    Why recreate the bookmarks each time?

    I simply keep a copy of bookmarks.html and cookies.txt around and, so far, it's gone from NT 4.0 to Solaris 2.6 to Windows 2000 to Red Hat 9.0 to Windows XP and survived ok. My /. bookmark has an add date of 4/3/1998 but I know I was reading it when it was still Chips n' Dips.

  3. Re:Like they needed help on Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd really like links to your version of KDE that uses GTK instead of the QT libraries.

  4. Re:Comcast support on Does Comcast Hate Firefox? · · Score: 1

    Well, my Windows box at home has the clock in the top right corner of the screen since my task bar is on the top. You gain geek points for using Linux but lose them for inferring that only a Linux DE can place the task bar at the top.

  5. Re:Oh, for chuff's sake on The Dusty Concern for the Mission to Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd be glad to volunteer. Sure, my family would miss me, but they could also say "he's one of the first people to have visited another planet" for the next 1000 years or so.

  6. Re:emerging fields: on Which IT Careers Are Hot and Which are Not? · · Score: 1

    Well, if I was correcting the original with my big red pen, it'd go from Which careers on IT are actually more in demand and which ones not? to Which careers in IT are actually more in demand and which ones are not?, but then IANAGT.

  7. Re:Article is vandalised on Linux 2.6.20-rc6 Kernel Performance · · Score: 1

    Um, be a good net citizen and block kontera.com with Adblock or Adblock plus. You are using Firefox, right?

    Hell, Ad Block Pro is _so_ enthusiastic about it, it almost feels like the days before banner ads. :)

  8. Re:Disable/Uninstall Components? on Seamonkey 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Um, how about Firefox 2.0 + Chatzilla + Firebug ? They seem to do what you want.

  9. Re:physics of railguns on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, a little googling turned up this which seems to explain it better without of the nasty physics technobabble. And this is how to do it yourself.

  10. Re:Correlation... causation on Does Income Inequality Matter? · · Score: 1

    The fact that "my household has two incomes, but my wife doesn't make any more than I do" means that you actually make a lot more money than you think. Assume you both make $20 per hour and work full-time, that's $99,480 before taxes which in any book is a lot of money since the median income in the US for a family of 4 is less than 60K.

  11. Re:12. Documents and App Instances on the Dock on 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Or even better, get a decent virtual desktop application from Windows like virt-dimenstion which is Free or Virtual Desktop Manager from Microsoft and free or even pay for one.

    I do it at work. My mail client is one desktop, my editors are one another, web browser on a third, etc, etc.

  12. Re:Dada21 on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I stopped reading his drivel when he suggested that computer programmers be paid no more than minimum wage because of the decline in quality workers.

  13. Re:Where's the BSD girl? on Top Ten Geek Girls · · Score: 1

    Except she ain't the BSD girl, Ceren is.

    Yours is just a teen model in a devil costume named Sarah or Peachez depending on who you ask. And that 2nd link is definitely NSFW.

  14. Re:Not in my office on Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive? · · Score: 1

    I'll trade you. I have a Latitude D600 and a Dell 1501FP. I finally gave up and got glasses since I can't get a bigger monitor and I'm tired of having headaches every night.

  15. Re:MUSD? on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I read it as Million United States Dollars. That being said, I would have written is as US$12,500M.

  16. Re:Cue law suit in three... two... on Hardware Hacking a Voting Machine in 4 Minutes · · Score: 1, Informative

    Since in Greenwood v. Califonia the SCOTUS ruled "a warrantless inspection of garbage left at the curb for collection does not constitute a fourth amendment search that intrudes into a Reasonable expectation of privacy", most courts say no. However, there might be an appealable verdict if the garbage was the only evidence

    IANAL YMMV.

  17. Re:Slashdot seems to think so... tsk tsk on Apache down, IIS up · · Score: 0

    Perhaps you should pay attention to the fact it's http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=19&id=135 5 throwing the .Net error.

  18. Re:You couldn't pay ME £250 to go see Maddon on Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts? · · Score: 0

    If you really mean "(one of whom plays at directing movies)", she has 3 kids.

  19. Re:12 hours? on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 0

    Here, here. I taught myself enough Java to hack together a socket-based string manupulation program for a class in college in about 3 hours :)

    Prior to that, my only Java experience was installing it on Sun's.

  20. Re:What Global Warming? on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 0

    Um, if you're going to be a spelling Nazi, at least get it right, since "privileged" is the correct way to spell it.

  21. Re:miniseries? on Rewriting Environmental Science · · Score: 0

    Um, no, V is for http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/. Faye Grant didn't need to shave her head. :)

  22. Re:-- oh and that they read Digg... :-) on Teenage Blogger Finds Gmail Hole · · Score: 0

    You'd have to define knowledgeable? I consider myself a knowledgeable coder and I read digg. And, no, "knowledgable" doesn't mean HTML, it means C, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc.

  23. Re:Flaws at linux? on Linux Desktops Send NASA Rovers to Mars · · Score: 0

    > TFA also says that the NASA is a SUN shop, and they are still using Solaris
    > 8, and they have no doubt to switch to Solaris 10. So this means that they
    > have 6 years old hardware? Becose, I dont think that new SUNs hardware is
    > supported by Solaris 8...

    Actually, that's wrong, the newest Sun hardware is supported by Solaris 8. For example, this:

    $ uname -a
    SunOS xxxxxx 5.8 Generic_117350-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890

    is one of the US-IV's with CMT.

    I had to remove the real name since the company I work for objects to that kind of stuff in the wild. :(

  24. Re:So wait... on Crank Blogging, Like Phone Calling, Now Illegal · · Score: 0

    Bzzt, TFA says anonymous posting.

  25. Re:Who wants to eat crow? on How The U.S. Government Undermined the Internet · · Score: 0

    I stopped paying attention to his drivel when he posted this where he implied that paying IT workers over minumum wage was a bad thing.