User: Part`A

Re:Doubt it would work in the US ..

On: Disposable Cell Phones Arrive

And how is that different to how it works in the rest of the world? =)

Re:No, it does not

On: FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm

My ISP does that, ii.net (au), blocks 80, 443 and some others I think with a html form to unblock them.

Re:Not a very good deal

On: VIA Introduces A New Laptop Motherboard

Cheaper laptops have to follow standard I guess as they can't ask anyone to put special effort into making sure their software works for them.

Killing a ICQ account

On: AOL Bridges AIM and ICQ

There is an option in ICQ to unregister your number, if you can be bothered that will kill that account permanently.

Re:Disk buffers & memory subsystem updated??

On: New Linux 2.5 Benchmarks

Know what? This is pretty much the same problem I have in windows. Copy a CD worth of data across the network, and then I find that all my programs have been swapped out of memory...

Re:That is nothing

On: New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN

While that comment was moderated as funny, following the link seems to take you to a real ibm page that gives you real information about how to emulate a mainframe on your thinkpad. Insane...

Re:Very impressive

On: Google Ad-words Poetry Project

They determine how words should be spelt according is what's out there, i.e. they form a dictionary based on the contents of the web. This allows us to search in just about any language.