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  1. Re:Replace Idiot with Incompetent on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 1

    I asked that in a technical interview once.

    Answer (in a broad Scots accent): "That's eh, when it aw kindae spreads oot across the page, eh?"

    He didn't get the job, but in hindsight it's a great description of an inheritance class diagram.

  2. Re:MiniDLNA on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 2

    worth mentioning that it also shares >14000 tracks of music plus photos as separate "shares". Music can be browsed and searched easily using Banshee from Linux laptop and WMP11 on work laptop.

  3. Re:MiniDLNA on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have MiniDLNA running on a raspberry pi with 1TB self powered usb disk attached. This is connected directly to the router in a cupboard under the stairs.

    Then use an XBox 360 or PS3 as the client connected to the TV.

    I do have similar issues with mkv files which the server sometimes sees and "advertises" and sometimes doesn't (i'm guessing based on file exension?) and which the XBox sometimes can decode and sometimes can't (based on enciding?). I haven't determined exactly what the cases are for when it works and when it doesn't.

    I am not doing any transcoding on the server but I'd consider it to be a system that works well.

  4. Re:the problem with titanium on New Technology Produces Cheaper Tantalum and Titanium · · Score: 5, Funny

    Face it, there's probably enough keywords there to have triggered alarm bells at the NSA anyway.

  5. Re:Umm, yeah on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 2

    Funnily enough, The doctor mentioned in the article deliberately infected himself with a stomach parasite for Channel 4's "Embarrassing Bodies" TV show last year.

    http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/18/doctor-infects-himself-with-parasites-for-health-experiment/

    Cleared up his allergies no end

  6. Re:Independent: the best #horsemeat Twitter gags on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    I think I had one of their burgers last week too.

    I've still got a bit between my teeth.

  7. Re:Solution.. buy hard drives! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    I've just hit exactly this problem over the weekend where my WS Elements 2TB USB drive has completely failed on me. I _just_ have enough space to create a new backup on an internal drive but I'm getting antsy until its replacement arrives.

    I've only had problems with WD drives but that's because I keep buying them based on the reliability of their WD Passport portable drives. I'm on my third Passport now and never had a problem, but I've had return-to-manufacturer level problems with two WD My Books and now the WD Elements.

    I'd just, independently, come to the same conclusions listed above which is to buy a second equivalent capacity disk from a different manufacturer and alternately cycle the two backup disks.

  8. Re:Hemos Says: "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fi on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 2

    I think it's fair to say that the average uid in the comments on this post will be the lowest in the last few years... possibly the last decade.

    Talking of which...

    Hey Rob, if you're not using it any longer, can I have your user ID? Mine is pathetic.

  9. Re:Best Android Tablet ever? on Android On HP TouchPad · · Score: 1

    Something like the zMooth app which allows gestures to emulate the android hardware buttons could be a starting point for the lack of physical buttons on the HP.

  10. Re:It seems good on Reaction To Diablo 3's Always-Online Requirement · · Score: 3, Funny

    You probably wouldn't say that if you loved in a remote location...

    I've loved in what I thought was a remote location, but apparently behind the sand bunker on the 17th isn't remote enough.

    I'm before the judge on Tuesday :o(

  11. Re:Google are evil bastards of the 21st century on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    Or you could not put your real information in?

    Phillip.

    Hi Steve!

  12. Re:Tunnels of Doom on The Best Video Games On Awful Systems · · Score: 1

    But the TI99/4A wasn't an awful system at the time. In fact it was awesome.

    It wasn't a big seller in the UK but I had a TI while most friends had a ZX Spectrum.

    There weren't as many games on cassettes available, or listings to type in from magazines, but the cartridge system totally blew away anything the home computing competition could do.

    Parsec stands out.

  13. Old News on Jet Packs, Finally On Sale · · Score: 1

    The BBC had an interview with the creator of commerical jet packs earlier this year

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGB0csAEs08

  14. Re:Wait, what? on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    There are any number of real life sports teams who have purple and orange strips.

    Gryffindor's Quidditch team spring to mind.

  15. Re:PEBCEK is the issue... on Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law · · Score: 1

    Test Case AB03-001:
    Step 1: Place face on right side of keyboard facing left.
    Step 2: Roll face towards left.
    Step 3: Roll face back towards right again.
    Step 4: Lift face.
    Expected Result: Program should remain in valid state for user entry. No fatal exception.

  16. Re:XBox Live points is definitly a game on Microsoft Facing Class-Action Suit Over Xbox Live Points · · Score: 1

    Aaargh! Why has slashdot removed all the carriage returns from the post?!

  17. Re:XBox Live points is definitly a game on Microsoft Facing Class-Action Suit Over Xbox Live Points · · Score: 1

    Wow, I think your question's serious, but your .sig suggests it might be sarcasm and I'm a fool for taking it seriously... um. I guess it's a reference to Superman III and Richard Pryor's scheme to skim off the fractions of a penny from everyone's salaries still held in the payroll computer. Either that or Clark Kent has been trying to sell a famous London bridge to an American. He "has a friend" who can arrange transport.

  18. Re:HHii!! on Displayport V1.2 To Take Giant Leap Over HDMI · · Score: 1

    It's not the parallax, it's the distance between your eyes which is wrong, you caveman!

    My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather was a caveman, you insensitive clod!

  19. Re:HHii!! on Displayport V1.2 To Take Giant Leap Over HDMI · · Score: 5, Funny

    II aamm ppoossttiinngg tthhiiss ppoosstt iinn 33DD ffoorr tthhoossee ooff yyoouu wwiitthh DDiissppllaayyPPoorrtt vv11..22 33DD SStteerreeoossccooppiicc ddiissppllaayyss.. HHeelloo!!

    I have a headache. Please check the parallax in your post.

  20. Re:1,000 years? on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    Five years!? You do realise they're not actually coffee coasters?