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  1. Re:I guess that makes it Mac OS eX? on Confessions of a Mac OS X User · · Score: 4, Funny

    More like Mac NOSeX...

  2. Re:OSX is not open source on Confessions of a Mac OS X User · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "When in fact Apple is more closed source and proprietary than both of them combined"

    ???

    How can you be "more closed source and proprietary"? I'd love you hear your explanation, including specifics where MS products are "more" open source and less proprietary.

  3. Re:Sacrilege! on Macintosh 2004 Case Mod · · Score: 1

    Not true, my old G3 used to play GTA all the time through VirtualPC.

  4. Re:FYI: There is a built-in streaming media server on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is very lightweight if all you're serving are MP3s. I run a number of streams from my computer and the CPU load never goes over 1% (dual 867 G4s).

  5. Re:My Beef With Apple on A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer · · Score: 1

    "Oh, and on your G5 can you play medal of honor"

    Yes.

  6. Re:Blow-up doll on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't get it.

    Nor do a lot of men... hence the invention of the Real Doll.

    Badum-pu-chi!

    Thanks folks, try the veal...

  7. Re:Of Serials: Matrix, ROTK, and Harry Potter on The Matrix Trailers, Reloaded and Re-Encoded · · Score: 0

    A lot of people would say James Bond is occasionally still entertaining. The best ones are scattered throughout the series (with the last arguably being Goldeneye).

  8. Re:nemo on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The men want to have sex with the women and possibly have a chance at repopulating."

    Ummm, if you replace "rape" when saying "have sex with" and "a woman and a child" when you said "the women" then you'd be a little more accurate.

    The fact that that premise not only doesn't bother you but is being used as a way to mock the movie is highly disturbing.

    28 Days was not only a very good movie, but it also has the rare quality of getting better every time you watch it.

  9. Re:Emulators on 55 Operating Systems On A PowerBook · · Score: 1

    "inside virtualpc, running either virtualpc for windows or vmware"

    It would had to have been vmware, since attempting to run VirtualPC within itself only produces a humorous error message.

  10. Re:Wait a damn minute.... on CRIA Prepares To Sue P2P Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    No. There are very strict laws about magical beings in Canada.

  11. Re:WMD detector on Nominations for 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    where did all the chemical weapons documented after the Gulf War go?

    Chemical weapons have a short shelf life. They would not have lasted 12 years anyhow.

  12. Re:Shakespeare vs Brian Herbert on Canadians [Will] Pay Levy on MP3 Players - Updated · · Score: 1

    "And besides, Mozart died poor and was buried in an unmarked, pauper's grave.

    Thank you. That's all that was needed to be said. Copyright is about money and only money. That's why this tax is being made an thats why a lot of people do a lot of things.

    Peace.

  13. Re:Torrents on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    I download stuff at 2 Megabytes per second usually. I get my linux isos in 350 seconds.

    Wow. I bet that gets the ladies all wet and anxious. You must be swatting them away like flies with bandwidth like that.

  14. Re:Microsoft security on If Microsoft Built Cars... · · Score: 4, Funny

    And on the dash are 3 new buttons between AM/FM and the volume; Control, Alt, and DELETE.

  15. Re:Good News? on New Remote Root in Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    root isn't enabled in Mac OS X.

    Either use sudo or enable it via /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager (Security->Enable Root User).

    It is recommended to only use sudo.

  16. Re:engraved iPods could be a problem on iPod Users Get Official Battery Replacement · · Score: 2, Informative

    "After all, they are charging 99.00 USD for a battery. And that is what they are doing, their is no other way to get a new battery"

    For $50 and you can install it yourself.

  17. Re:Shortsighted on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    what's cool is that they can scale it down.

    Exactly! Just like I can scale down Gentoo to make it operate on any system!

  18. Re:Then how can they say millions... on Millions Delete ALL Music Files? · · Score: 1

    Statistics 101

  19. Re:Clarify on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: 1

    How is that ironic?

  20. Re:there will be backwards compatibility on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is no way they are discussing the G4... since Motorola, not IBM are the manufacturers of it.

  21. Re:Where were those G5 going?!? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 2, Informative

    They no longer develop IE for Macintosh. But they still do Office and now they are the developers for Virtual PC (something that doesn't work on G5s just yet).

  22. Re:Wrong! on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 1

    Read the post I was answering.

    "on one of my servers and .. it locks up. Force quit - try again. It locks up."

    No crashing. No MS bug report.

    I don't have an answer for your problem. Sorry. When you add a large quantity of music to iTunes for Windows it will become unresponsive, but if it doesn't actually crash (as in close the window and bug report starts up, like it did for you) you can just wait it out.

    I don't expect iTunes to fly through 15 gigs of mp3s and sort them all on the fly, but I do expect it to not completely choke on it.

    I actually did. It does very well in this respect on the Mac side, and I think it is a huge problem on the Windows side. Not impressed with that at all.

  23. Re:Wrong! on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It wasn't locked up, just temporarily disabled. If you gave it a couple minutes, you would have had your entire library loaded in iTunes and never had to worry about it again.

    Patience.

  24. Re:Yay, typical Slashbot misquotes on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm lead to believe that it being an urban myth is an urban myth.

    And soon this too will be an urban myth.

  25. Re:and here's where the other $18 million is going on Bureau of Engraving and Printing Issues New US$20 · · Score: 0

    !gnissarrabme woH