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  1. Re:120 miles is a far way away on Choosing Your Next Programming Job — Perl Or .NET? · · Score: 1

    Amen! In Chicago I commute via bicycle all year.

    Consider how much of that debt you can pay off by not owning a car. Depending on your car, mileage and insurance jurisdiction this could easily add up to many thousands of dollars a year. Plus you don't need to throw away money at a stupid health club if you ride a bike to work. There is another pile of savings you can use to pay down your debt.

    One of the great things about a job search for me is explaining to recruiters and hiring managers that any job which is not biking distance from my home ( 15 miles) is out of the question.

  2. Re:UserLinux was never going to work on Bruce Perens on UserLinux and Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Sounded pretty bad until I got to the "KDE is out" part.

  3. Re:oh c'mon! on Yahoo Purchases Konfabulator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but what if it happens to be true?

  4. red hat is boring and corporate on First Mandrake 9.1 Review Out · · Score: 1

    I get sleepy just flaming it.

  5. Re:Uhhmmm... not very well researched on Mozilla, Gecko, Netscape, And Their Future At AOL · · Score: 1

    I think we were talking about the AOL client for Mac OS X, not Apple's web browser Safari.

  6. Re:Name Changing on Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is reported to be removing ".net" from the name of their next server OS which has had several names since we originally heard about it under the code name "Whistler". See this article for a few more details. Less confusing is a laudable goal. If Microsoft has to confuse us a bit along the way, well, that is just par for the course isn't it?

  7. derelicTV screwed its dsl customers on Russian Student Arrested For Revealing DirecTV Secrets · · Score: 1

    in a fit of petulance over its failure to gain approval to merge with EchoStar. I can do little but rub my hands together in glee as I ponder their misfortune.

    Perhaps there really IS such a thing as karma.

  8. Re:Thinking in Java on General IT Books? · · Score: 1

    The contents of the book are as ugly as anything I've ever seen. Really really butt-ugly, nearly unreadably ugly. But the cover of the current edition (3?) I find quite beautiful.

  9. Re:docbook does work, and works well on Writing Documentation · · Score: 1

    One can generate rtf output from DocBook also, for those whose target audience includes m$word users.

  10. Re:Coupla questions on Apple OS X, BSD and Jordan Hubbard · · Score: 1

    The teminal is not so great. It does an appalling job of color support.

  11. Re:Watch out for those pop-up advertisements... on New Cell Phone Typing Solution · · Score: 1

    I'm glad this was mentioned. It reminded me to test the no-pop ups feature of Mozilla. It worketh!

  12. American Spectator? on A Map to Nowhere? · · Score: 1

    wtf? You might as well start citing Reader's Digest...

  13. s/vodka/gin/ on Hemos The Iron Chef · · Score: 2

    Try substituting Gin for vodka in your next batch of Bloody Marys. It's really yummy. Some contend that this version, called a Red Snapper, predates the Bloody Mary.

    And whatever you do, never skimp on the ingredients. You can afford quality ingredients - your tastebuds will thank you immediately and your head will thank you the following morning. Bombay Saffire, for example, is excellent in a Red Snapper.

    Angostura bottles a brand of Worcestershire Sauce which does not list "anchovies" on its list of ingredients. It is also a lot less salty than it's better known competitor. I prefer it, but who knows if that is just me or my years of vegan brainwashing talking. (and of course, who knows _what_ is in the "Natural and Artificial Flavor.")

    Here is what I do:
    (I never measure anything)

    Fill a glass completely with ice.

    Pour in the liquor until it's 1/3 to 1/2 full.

    Dump in a healthy pile of celery salt.

    Add tabasco or similar hot sauce ( I prefer the Louisiana[tm] brand - it's not so tart) to taste. (you can always add more, but you can't take it back out once it's in there, so start easy).

    Lots of (a tablespoon or two) worchester sauce.

    Squeeze in the juice from a 1/4 lemon.

    I usually stir this up at this point and then-

    Top off with tomato juice ( or better yet, V-8, the low sodium variety - because we are already putting celery salt and worcestershire in this thing.)

    Garnish with lemon and whatever veggies you have laying around. The celery stalk is fine of course, but anything that will fit in the glass is good - a big old carrot stick, string beans, whatever. Ideally the garnish rod can function as a stirring device.

  14. Re:Whats the point? on Where Can I Get Free, Read/Post Usenet Access? · · Score: 1

    Filter! usenet is the only hope for a peoples' internet, so you old timers need to adjust and get involved in fixing it, rather than just give up.