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  1. Re:If you honestly think about it ... on Microsoft Officially Announces Anti-Virus Product · · Score: 1

    When (as if) your OS of choice achieves even a fraction of the market share that Windows has, then we'll see viruses for that too. Don't pretend to yourself that Linux, BSD, OSX or whatever it is you use has no security holes, it's just that noone's interested in them.

  2. Re:Weird results from Inktomi on Google Vs. Yahoo: When We Last Met... · · Score: 1

    I'm glad they don't have an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on hotbot.

  3. Re:/. prediction in article itself on Top Ten Dying Game Genres · · Score: 1

    If you want to see last drops of performance being squeezed from a system, look to the GBA.

    Check out the links from this article: 3d Games on GBA

  4. Re:Bigger is not necessarily better. on The Contiki Desktop OS for C64, NES, 8-bit Atari, · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. The expansion pack came out long after Goldeneye and the developers had to code specifically to use it. Goldeneye didn't benefit at all from the use of the expansion pack. Perfect Dark did, but not Goldeneye.

  5. Re:So... on SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole" · · Score: 1

    I had this on an old installation of Win98 (or maybe 95)... did a clean install and it happened again. In the end it turned out I had a dodgy SIMM... replaced that and it worked fine.

    I'd suggest finding, and running, a memory tester. Try memtest86.

  6. Re:Alan Moore on League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Trailer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Read it once, then read it again, in conjunction with this.
    I'm just about to start again with the annotated guide...

  7. Re:Compromise needed on Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    With everyone due to have atleast 3 points by the end of this year

    I take it you're referring to some kind of average? If so, that's just plain scary.

  8. Re:The PDF File is NOT Secure on Cross-Site-TRACE · · Score: 2
    The essence of the license at Creative Commons is:

    • Attribution. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees must give the original author credit.

    • Noncommercial. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees may not use the work for commercial purposes -- unless they get the licensor's permission.

    • No Derivative Works. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform only unaltered copies of the work -- not derivative works based on it.

    The last term would imply that the lack of security is either an accident, or Cory trusts us to abide by the license. He certainly doesn't intend us to change the text...
  9. Re:Just fine by me on Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, and last time I checked (on Opera 6.05 with Pop-ups rejected) www.kazaalite.com was also using the very technology this article is talking about.

    So where are you going to get your 'comprehensive host file' now?

    Luckily the back button (sometimes followed by a quick 'stop') seems to get round the redirection with no problem.

  10. Re:somewhat OT on When Good Interfaces Go Crufty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Noob Windows users tend to install everything in the default location specified by the installer. Usually that will be c:\Program Files. Very few things I've installed recently defaulted to anywhere else.

  11. Re:The way I see it.. on Non-Invasive Networking - HomePNA vs. HomePlug? · · Score: 1

    If the house is going on the market soon, I'd say there's no question that you should go with wireless... If you're going to be moving out in a matter of months, your new investment will move with you, without any effort.

  12. y to other people comme on Your Genome Scanned While You Wait · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First first firsty firsty first.

    hhahahahahah

    suck it
    linux l00zers

  13. Re:and we're different from Linux geeks how???? on The Nation of Macintosh? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because you tend to bang on about the hardware and the look or the design a lot too, whereas linux geeks use (generally) the same boring old grey plastic boxes that everyone else uses.

  14. Re:Can you imagine RMS giving the interview? on BBC Interviews Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Still something missing in your plan.... hmmm...

    Phase 1: Solve 66% of the problem
    Phase 2: Solve 33% of the problem
    Phase 3: ???
    Phase 4: Profit!!!

  15. Re:History of patents on EBay Subject of Patent Action · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn... we (the UK) should have patented the idea back in the 1400s.

  16. Re:all these repeat stories on EBay Subject of Patent Action · · Score: 1

    Apart from this one, you mean?

  17. Re:Hmm... on Rare Virgin Shark Births Reported in Detroit · · Score: 3, Informative

    It says in the write up it was a white spotted bamboo shark. These 600,000+ noobs don't even read the story these days before K-whoring, let alone the article.

    HTH.

  18. Re:So you code everything twice? on Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... · · Score: 1

    The more knives you have, the less often you have to wash up.

  19. Re:opera rocks.. on "Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud · · Score: 1

    I love these Opera threads... there are always so many new tips and tricks that I can't be bothered to read the 'Help' for.

    Thanks for showing me another one.

  20. Re:Greatest band of all time? Time for a new poll? on The Who's John Entwistle Dead · · Score: 1

    Aw c'mon... *please* can we have the Beach Boys in there?

  21. Re:Cheers! on KaZaA Collapses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah.. a good point. It's not *easy* to get the files off kazaa, you have to know what you're looking for, and you often have to fill in with parts from a.b.cd.i

    Part of the fun is tracking down that last elusive rar file you need.

    Anyway, got all my GTA3 parts now, so off to burn some ISOs... :)

  22. Re:Cheers! on KaZaA Collapses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, I know... That's why I have over a thousand CDs, 100 DVDs, and two shelf-fulls of games including 3 of the ones I listed above that I bought after having tried the downloads.

    I know the value of entertainment, I also know what it feels like to pay through the nose for garbage, overhyped software.

    Colour me troll, I guess, but that first guy bit so hard, I couldn't help it.

  23. Re:Cheers! on KaZaA Collapses · · Score: 4, Informative

    many gnutella clients allow you to download from multiple sources.

    Which, specifically? If I like it, then this Kazaa user will bring all his files to Gnutella.

    My experiences of Gnutella recently (using Limewire) have been that there are few files, most of which you can't even begin to download (file unavailable, retrying in 10..9..8..7..etc), when you are lucky enough to get one, it's incomplete, or not what it says it is. It's okay for music, but even then doesn't have the selection that's available on Kazaa.

    Compare and contrast to Kazaa from which I have recently got RTCW, Spiderman (movie and game), Fifa World Cup 2002, Freedom Force, Jedi Knight II, and am currently getting GTA3.

  24. Re:Bad idea on "The Sims" Online, and on the PS2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You need to compare something like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 on the PS2 and the PC. Everyone, even Sony fanbois like you who have seen and played the two games running side by side admit that the PC version kicks seven shades out of the PS2. It even adds to the console version, a more complex online environment accessible through a standard 56k modem, skinnable characters, the ability to change the music, downloadable parks, etc. etc. I'd bet good money that the Sims games are better on the PC too for more reasons than just the graphics.

    Noone who got motion sickness from PC gaming would go out and spend £250 on a graphics card anyway, because they wouldn't be playing the games that warrant it in the first place.

    Oh! Look Score 0... you're a troll! Silly me.

  25. Re:Robert the Bemused on "The Sims" Online, and on the PS2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We did exactly the same thing. Well, tried, anyway. She just went loopy, crying over the gravestone in the garden, the house became haunted, and whether as a direct consequence or not the kitchen frequently caught fire since the incident occured.

    Also imagine our remorse when we finally got round to reading the instructions and discovered that Sims are basically polygamous and we never needed to kill the poor fellow in the first place.

    Hmm... all this Sims talks makes me want to reinstall it tonight. I think I will merge it with my current obsession (THPS3) and create a fantasy world of Tony Hawk's home life. Anyone have a model site with skate park apparatus?