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  1. Re:Quick Find on Firefox 3 In Alpha · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, I had a spot of bother getting /. to display this in the first place and didnt notice that slight corruption.

  2. Quick Find on Firefox 3 In Alpha · · Score: 5, Informative

    Put the following in your userChrome.css to revert to the old Find Bar:-

    /* Use the old-style / and ' QuickFind Bar behaviour */
    #FindToolbar > * {display:-moz-box}

  3. What the attraction of Betas? on Halo 3 Beta Sign Up Starts Dec. 4th · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't understand the clamouring to be part of a Beta test.

    Is it just so that you can brag you got to play the latest game before others? If so, I'd rather play the *finished* game rather than one which may well have a large number of errors and omissions.

    Perhaps it's so you feel like you are actually making a difference in the development of the game, but with the large numbers of people Betas tend to get opened to these days I cannot see how a single person can make that much difference.

    R

  4. Re:Interns on What Not To Do With Your Data · · Score: 1

    I used to love typing that into a workstation, but not pressing enter.

    One user had the habit of clearing the screensaver by hitting Enter over and over...

  5. Offline MSN messages? on A First Look At Gaim 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Does this new build support the Offline Messages you can send in the main MSN client?

    I find this incredibly useful, and is the one reason I keep the official client installed.

  6. Boycotts don't work on Lik-Sang Is Out Of Business · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Boycotts are often called for but they just don't work.

    Even though this move against Lik-Sang is outrageous, it turns out that people just don't care enough to deprive themselves of entertainment.

  7. Pac-Man...? on Fox And Universal Say Goodbye To Halo Movie · · Score: 1

    I cannot begin to imagine what a Pac-Man film would look like....

  8. Re:WTF? on Virginia Spammers Go To Jail, And Pay For It · · Score: 1

    Its not quite the same since you do not have to pay for people to put mail through your letterbox. You do have to pay to receive email

  9. Nothing better to do? on WoW - The Game That Seized the Globe · · Score: 1

    There are SO MANY things better to do!

  10. URL FCixer entension will sort this on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just install the following extension:-

    http://www.efinke.com/url-fixer/

    Corrects common .com typos for you.

  11. Re:How do I own a copy? on Valve Opens The Portal · · Score: 1

    Why dont you just view it as buying Portal and getting Episode 2 for free?

  12. Less Seeds? on Microsoft Acquires Winternals and Sysinternals · · Score: 1

    How exactly does rarring the files result in less seeds...?

  13. Re:I, for one, welcome our new SF2 overlords! on August 2nd Release For Street Fighter II · · Score: 1

    SF2 was hardly balanced. A good Guile player would beat a good E Honda player every time.

    The only balanced matches were with identical characters.

  14. Re:What about toxic smells? on Practical Applications of Smell Recordings · · Score: 1

    I never thought I'd see a site advertising Stench Injection Products...

  15. Re:Link dead already on The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming · · Score: 4, Informative
  16. Re:SCOTUS? on Supreme Court to Rule on 'Obvious' Patents · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well it was in the subject line. What more do you want?

  17. Re:Agreed; Silence is Golden. on Mandriva Appeals to Users for Bookend Audio Bits · · Score: 1

    My Asus motherboard (forget the model number right now..) will play sound clips from its internal audio if something goes terribly wrong during boot time. It will tell you which piece of hardware it thinks is faulty.

    The best thing is that you can upload your own sounds into the BIOS to give those error messages extra meaning.

  18. Re:One thing on Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger · · Score: 1

    Wny should they care if you care?

  19. Automatically clicks Unsubscribe links in Spam? on BlackFrog to Take up BlueFrog's Flag · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From their wiki:-

    Okopipi will automatically click the "opt-out" or "unsubscribe" links contained within the emails and/or report the spam to the appropriate authorities.

    I thought that it was generally a bad idea to click unsub or opt-out links in Spam messages since it only server to prove they have a valid email address and the receipient actually reads Spam messages.

  20. Re:Boring on Will Wright's E3 Spore Presentation · · Score: 1

    Thats pretty much al you do in The Sims, which ended up being one of the most popular games of recent years sales-wise.

  21. This was mentioned back in January on Warner Bros. to Sell Movies Over BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Its was on The Register and blogged http://www.boringbutgood.com/blog/archive/2006/01/ time_warner_to.html back in January...

  22. Re:A typical week on Mal'Ganis on On World of Warcraft's Network Issues · · Score: 1

    I've not played WoW myself( other than the free beta prerelease) but do you seriously have to wait upto 30 mins just to log on to the game? That'd eat up all my gaming time right away!

  23. Re:Anticipated... on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    How does this support the website? If you're still not seeing the ad, then you have no way of clicking it to support the site.

    Or, is the Support Websites list like a whitelist that allows ads on the selected sites?

  24. Re:Cheating on Gold Buying - Time Saver or Cheating? · · Score: 1

    Which is precisely why people buy in-game currency with real world currency!

    The value of the time taken to amass such wealth normally is far more than the cost of just buying the stuff.

  25. Re:Cheating on Gold Buying - Time Saver or Cheating? · · Score: 1

    You charge yourself to design your own websites?