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  1. Re:Not as versatile as a normal multi-button mouse on Review of Apple's "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1

    Go to Applications and click on safari you will get an option to "Show Package Contents", how do you do that without click or right clicking?

  2. Re:Non-security fixes in Firefox 1.0.5 on Flurry of Security Patches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right Click "open link in new window" works:)

  3. Cool, Linux PDF readers can be tracked now on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux · · Score: 1

    Just got to love how the new "Track who is reading your PDFs" works in 7. At least I will know how many people are reading my doco on Linux now.

  4. Re:OS included? on Free Software on a Cheap Computer · · Score: 1

    They may be cheap in the US but here in OZ a 1.42 GHz mini mac with 1 GB RAM and a superdrive with no wireless or keyboard is AU$ 1,624 or US$ 1,254

    I can by a Dell laptop for that.

  5. Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    Are cash registers different in the US? here in Australia we have 5c,10c,20c,50c,$1 and $2 coins as well as $5,$10,$20,$50 and $100 notes and all the shops kmart etc. have all denominations.

  6. Re:It's unfortunate on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 1

    At our Uni all incoming and outgoing ports are blocked on the student subnets, students must use a proxy and authenicate though a PIX fire wall which then tracks thee amount of data downloaded which comes off their monthy quota, anything over quota is chaged for.

  7. I Was hoping to be first post but; on PowerBook As A New Kind Of Human Interface Device · · Score: -1, Troll

    All I can say is what a Wanker

  8. Re:Page Size on Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released · · Score: 1

    Don't you guys have a holiday that you call 4th of July?

  9. Re:Page Size on Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released · · Score: 1

    Don't you call one off your holidays the 4th of July?

  10. Beagle on Linux on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1

    Just wish I could run Beagle on Linux it requires an inotify enabled kernel and the patches haven't made it in to the mainline kernel yet.

  11. Re:Quoth TFA on One Year on Mars · · Score: 1

    Since the US and Mecca are both in the northern hemisphere Mecca cannot be straight down.

  12. Re:China Cracks Down on Freedoms... on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Your right but I prefer the Oxford definition here

  13. Open source CMS on Open Source Content Management Discussion? · · Score: 1

    squiz is very good.

  14. Re:Interesting opportunity on HP Dumps Linux for Windows XP MCE in New Media Player · · Score: 1

    None of them.

    I want multiple digital tuner card support (eg record 2 or more programmes at once), HTML/WAP
    iterface to programme the device remotly. And most of all to be able to play back on my TV.

  15. Monitoring the US Election on Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online? · · Score: 2, Informative

    this is a good one click on "US 2004 Pres Election Flag" banner

  16. Re:Jst a asmall nitpick on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    You should have gotten over it. You guys seem to have one in the end. Most of your Presidents seem to come from the south :)

  17. Re:Novell will do alright in the Linux market on Novell as Open Source Hero? · · Score: 1

    They have more than that the big thing they have is a directory service.

  18. Re:Superior Beings... on Daleks Exterminated From New Dr. Who · · Score: 2, Informative

    Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
    shows a Dalek hovering
    up a flight of stairs

  19. Re:Looks pretty slick... on New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who cares about the jog wheel it can't even play mp3's

  20. OH no not the metric imperial thing again on New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry Dave I cant do that

  21. Re:Microsoft not to blame on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 1

    I the Coastguard for UK is not running it then there is a real problem. What are they running ?

  22. Microsoft not to blame on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 1

    Come on guys if the sysadmin had done his job there would be no problem. Microsoft has a free product called SUS server. If you have this and point all your client machines at it thay will all be kept up to date with the latest patches.

    We do this at our UNI and had zero infections. Where as the state government did not and was stuffed as shown here

  23. Re:After seeing the prices they are asking, on A Ready-Made MythTV Set-Top Box in Australia · · Score: 1

    Its two hours away where did you get 7?

  24. Re:Article on New Documents Shed Light on Microsoft's Tactics · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [mab@pluto mab]$ echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
    rika

  25. Re:Yes but what if we don't run Windows.... on New Online Music Service For Australia · · Score: 1

    Unlike in the US. "state-swapping" is illegal in Australia. Only those that own the intellectual property can change a product's physical state, such as turning a CD's tracks into MP3 files.