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  1. Re:Vista isn't that bad on Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims · · Score: 1

    I don't care about the latest Volvo steering wheel. Only the rear wheel drives... and the C70 drop heads... are worth a damn.

  2. Re:Impossible. on Simon Pegg to Play Scotty · · Score: 1

    Sunset Boulevard http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/

    First person POV and he is found dead at the start. Doesn't stop him narrating.

  3. Encrypt it on Gmail Vulnerability May Expose User Information · · Score: 3, Funny

    With ROT 26

  4. POP on New Version of Gmail Being Tested · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or just use a POP client.

  5. Re:watts per what unit of time? on Method for $1/Watt Solar Panels Will Soon See Commercial Use · · Score: 1

    I think you are misunderstanding what a Watt is.

    A Watt is 1 Joule per second. It already contains a unit of time.

    If the panel produces 1 W for an hour then that is 1 W/h If it produces 1 kW for an hour then that is 1 kW/h. If it produces 1 W for 1000 hours then that is 1 kW/h.

  6. Re:Creationism equals intelligent design? on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    Intelligent Design advocates will not specify who did the design which is how they tried to get round US laws on keeping religion out of schools. If they do not claim it is was a god then it is not a religion.

    It is all guff of course.

  7. Re:Old ones on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 1

    It's not a Windows NIC card! Anyway, that one lives in a Volvo 940. I don't think it's been connected to a computer for at least a year, probably longer.

  8. Re:Old ones on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 1

    I got mine in Feb 2002. Still works perfectly.

  9. Old ones on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 4, Funny

    My old 5 gb iPod just jumped in value.

    Not that I'd sell it.

  10. Re:.Mac service on Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS · · Score: 1

    .Mac did start out free and then became a paid for service about 5 years ago. That was a bit naughty. I had friends and family set up to use it and then suddenly it was pay up or ship out. I know they never promised it would stay free but they also never said they would start to charge for it.

    I still like it though.

  11. Re:iPhoto Events - Brilliant... on Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about searching for text within a document when you say a feature which Win 95 had and Apple tout as new? Sometimes these messages can be difficult to de-convolute.

    Search for text within a document was in pre OS X version of the Macintosh OS. Spotlight made it better but it was already there. I can't find a reference to when it came in but it was pre Sherlock as well. There was no index, you just sent it to search inside documents. In those days I had a 40 mb drive so there weren't many docs on there. It took a while but it worked.

    Here is the oldest reference I can find to this kind of technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSearch but that was not what I was using. This did use an index, as did Sherlock.

  12. Re:Fantastic idea on Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers · · Score: 2, Informative

    He was called Dave Allen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Allen_(comedian)

    I used to see him when I worked in Kensington, late 80s, early 90s. He stayed near RBK&C offices just off Kensington High St.

  13. Re:Apple should give us another cube on The Next-Gen iMac With Brushed Aluminum In August? · · Score: 1

    The tray loading G3 iMacs didn't have video out unless you opened the case and disconnected the monitor. Slot loading G3s had a video port behind a panel on the back.

  14. Re:I didn't get far... on iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Nearly, it was Mr Jellinek's daughter.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Jellinek

  15. Re:But why do we need these in the first place? on Unsticking Yourself From Your Security Application · · Score: 1

    Helmets are about as useful as Norton for road cycling:

    http://www.cyclecraft.co.uk/helmets.html

  16. Re:GSM network on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 1

    In the Scottish highlands there could be other reasons for phones not working outwith the altitude.

  17. Re:GSM network on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 1

    I regularly walk up hills between 3-4500 ft in Scotland and I can use a phone up there... usually to call someone who is at work that day.

  18. Re:Mac in the Enterprise. on Why Consumer Macs Are Enterprise-Worthy · · Score: 1

    Set them up with a managed account. Click the Parental controls tab. Click the Configure button beside Finder & System. Click on the "This user can only use these applications.". Then decide how you are going to populate the list.

    The user gets a folder of allowed applications.

    Works for a four year old and he can find a way round most things by hitting enough keys.

  19. Re:Mac in the Enterprise. on Why Consumer Macs Are Enterprise-Worthy · · Score: 1

    You can make a white list of allowed applications, it's a standard thing. I do it with my kids accounts.

  20. Re:A Trap for Idiots on Is Vista a Trap? · · Score: 1

    The original, 1998, iMacs were a bit more difficult to upgrade the memory and you couldn't add an AirPort card. One slot required you to unscrew the bottom of the case and remove the HD as I recall. The second slot was under a daughter card. I've done them both and that's why my mum's original iMac runs Tiger.

    My 2002 G4 800 iMac has picked up more RAM, AirPort, bigger HD and dual layer DVD burner. Even that only needed a screw driver, thermal paste and an hour or so.

  21. Re:Nothing really unusual about it on Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT · · Score: 3, Informative

    European Volvo mirrors have a faint vertical dotted line about 2 cm from the outside edge. To the outside of this line the mirror is convex and gives you a better view of the blind spot.

  22. Re:Mostly rubbish on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    Wrong again, it's EFI.

    That's what they sell. The reasons for doing it that way are well understood. If you want one buy it. If you don't then stuff your sorrys in a sack.

  23. Re:Mostly rubbish on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    OS X doesn't require a serial number. Never has.

  24. Re:Amusing Premise, Moronic Reasons on Apple, the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Take one of the bottles out of your fridge and chill.

  25. Re:Amusing Premise, Moronic Reasons on Apple, the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    >>two monopolies battling one another

    Two monopolies?