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  1. Re:Headphones on iPod Shuffle Finds Its Voice · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can fast forward and rewind, although you need to read the manual for that ;-)

    Double-click-and-hold and triple-click-and-hold, respectively.

  2. Re:Proof of Concept Slashdot Trojan on Two Trojans For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Hey, nice primes!

  3. Runs like an Egyptian on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    Kleopard. Has a nice ring to it, no? With the Kpyramid theme and everything?

  4. Strengths on Sony Says UMD Is Here To Stay · · Score: 4, Funny

    "'UMD possesses many strengths, from size to form factor to portability,' he says.

    Not only that. It's also rather small, its dimensions are less-than-huge, it fits inside a reasonably sized box, not much space is generally taken by these disks and you can put many of them in one standard shirt pocket. Not to mention it's engineered not to be very big and there are lots of objects that take much more space. Geez, know your product's strengths man.

  5. Re:hmmm on Apple Mac/PC Ads With a UK Twist · · Score: 1

    "Hello, Im a Mac, AND IM A PC"

    So what you're saying is the PC is Death now?

  6. Re:Brilliant -- like DDR but for the arms on Wii Aches - Couch Potatoes Working it Up · · Score: 1

    We need to do something....paranoid parents today won't let them out to play and get exercise like we did....
    Please tell me you're joking. Seriously.

  7. Re:It's all about the interface on Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, you can still do that. On my (unbranded) RAZR I can select a name by pressing number keys or up/down, then choose from different numbers for that person by pressing left/right. It's a setting:

    In your phone book, choose [menu] -> Setup -> View: Primary Contacts.

    Now, every number with a certain associated name will be grouped under that name.

  8. Re:Noisy cellphones, 1 advantage on Polite Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Some of the newer Samsung models do this, it's really quite cool. Vibetonz, they call it.

  9. Re:Feyenoord Ajax on Ajax in Action · · Score: 1

    Funny, that.

    Standen Eredividie.

  10. Re:5 kilotons of force? on Deep Impact Comet-Smashing Video · · Score: 1

    And ofcourse the last sentence in my post should read

    "The kind that sends Climate Orbiters crashing into Mars."

    Sorry folks. I'll stop talking to meself now.

  11. Re:5 kilotons of force? on Deep Impact Comet-Smashing Video · · Score: 1
    Replying to self after reading TFA. The writeup is even worse, it 3 orders of magnitude off.

    Come on. From the article:
    During its final moments, the impactor will take the closet images of comet's surface ever. The kinetic energy that will be released by the collision is estimated to be the equivalent of nearly 5 tons of TNT.
  12. 5 kilotons of force? on Deep Impact Comet-Smashing Video · · Score: 2, Informative
    Nobody knows what will happen when 820 pounds of metal slams into the comet with 5 kilotons of force

    ...Largely due to the fact that nobody knows what the hell the phrase "5 kilotons of force" means in an impact situation, even if we forgive the use of tons as a force unit.

    Or are we talking about an amount of energy equivalent to that released by 5 kilotons of TNT (probable)? Then say so. This is bad science, people. The kind that gets Ariane rockets blown up.

  13. Re:OT: What does "Dutch" mean? on Dutch Gov't Doubles Back On Open-Source Goals · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, sorry.

    Holland is just a small part of The Netherlands. It is also a popular but incorrect name for the whole country called The Netherlands.

    It's in the same league, but not quite the same, as calling the UK "England" or -oppositely- calling the US "America".

  14. Re:OT: What does "Dutch" mean? on Dutch Gov't Doubles Back On Open-Source Goals · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dutch = relating to The Netherlands (country) or it main language.
    "Holland" is just a small part of The Netherlands (2 provinces: South Holland and North Holland combined).

    If you refer to the coutry, its people, or its language, the correct terms are "The Netherlands (Nederland)", "The Dutch (Nederlanders)", and "Dutch (Nederlands)".

  15. Re:Saved Searches sounds good but... on Thunderbird 0.9 Released · · Score: 1

    There are five labels you can attach to the selected messages by pressing [1]-[5] on your keyboard.

    By default, they are named "Important" (Red), etc., but you can edit them to read "Mum's birthday" if you want.

    The limit of 5 is probably a bit low, though, and it does not sync back to my IMAP server, so it could be more useful. Anyway, HTH.

  16. Re:The torrent... on MandrakeMove Final Available for Download · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or try this one: Torrent from Mandrakes site.

    There seems to be no link to it from Mdks site, but the search finds it. Unfortunately, this means that only 54% is seeded ATM.

  17. Re:Opera has lost it's appeal on Opera Releases Version 7 For Linux · · Score: 1

    Try Tabbrowser Extensions from Piro. .

    They provide a lot of options for enhancing tabbed browsing. The behaviour mentioned by you is one of them. Remember shutdown state (also in the event of a crash), display a warning when you try to close a multi-tab window, organise tabs in groups, etc. Les disruptive and much more functional than Multizilla, IMHO.

  18. Yeah, makes sense... not on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    From their own site:

    NEW YORK -- April 22, 2003 - UnitedLinux, the industry consortium comprised of Conectiva, The SCO Group, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux, today reaffirmed that UnitedLinux Version 1.0 supports AMD Opteron processor-based systems. Jeezz...

  19. Re:Philips? Never again. on The Real Scoop On Philips' Streamium · · Score: 1

    I never was able to track them down

    http://www.pcsound.philips.com/download.html#sei sm ic

    3 clicks from the http://www.philips.com/pcstuff homepage.

  20. Re:Great on OS X on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About · · Score: 1

    About the flash: I believe the more recent versions of Flash for Moz support scripting. This wasn't the case until a week or so ago. Check it out.

  21. Re:IE... on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    (...) but the beauty here is that you don't need the source for IE to be able to do all this.

    Check your facts! You don't need the Moz source to develop add-ons/ enhancements/ whatever. You really think people recompile Moz after patching, say, a sidebar panel into the source code? Yeah...

    OTOH, source code availability IS a good thing. Won't (voluntarily) happen with IE...

    (...)but you get it "for free" with IE because it's guaranteed to be installed on any windows system (well, any that hasn't been obsoleted yet)

    Heh. That goes nicely with your .sig:

    (...) (win2k/xp only, for now)

    Any windows system, eh?

  22. Re:So what ASCII value will the Euro be? on The Euro · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think it's alt+numeric 0128: Yup :-)

  23. Re:/. effect kicks in on Itanium Preview And 32-bit Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Those servers wouldn't be 64 bit Intel boxes now, would they ;-) ?

  24. Try these... on Monolith Reappears In Middle Of Lake · · Score: 1

    http://tecfa.unige.ch/pub/sounds/HAL/ Must convert em from .au . They're pretty cool.

  25. Inertia creeps on Walking Around In Spherical VR · · Score: 1

    [quote]But wouldn't the sphere's inertia cause a noticable lag when you start or stop walking, or when you change direction? [unquote] Although it's a bit different, your body 'suffers' from inertia too ofcourse, causing a lag, when starting to move, etc. Although stopping this thing will probably be a bit different from stopping yourself when walking, my guess is that you can adapt your sense of equilibrum pretty quickly.