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  1. Re:Ask the British on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    Birts rarely understand it, and Americans are thick by comparrison

  2. Re:Hold it right there Dr. Smith... on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    Yes, thanks be to the 7 American pilots in the Battle of Britain when Britain really might have been invaded by the Nazis. By the time Jul 1941 came arround we'd settled into an impasse

  3. Re:Obvious: on Piimpin' Out Your Corporate Office? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We use Open Plan Office

  4. Re:Common reply: on Piimpin' Out Your Corporate Office? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cubicle? You're living the dream mate!

    I get a desk with no partitons seperating my from everyone else in the office, although I can hide behind 5 (count em) monitors.

    Of course friends in other departments envy me. They get to share a hotdesk with 5 other shifts. I have a calender on my desk, they have a tiny locker to keep their toolkit in

  5. Re:With a negative SNR, what's the point? on Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin? · · Score: 1

    I spend a lot of time in uk.railway and uk.transport.london, SNR is very high. uk.transport's fine to, althoguh plenty off on-topic trolls to brighten the mood (Duhg)

    Sure many groups are just spamfests, but groups rarely vanish after they've been created.

  6. Re:no one will make use of this.. on Inside Windows XP Reduced Media Edition · · Score: 1

    the "reduced media" XP will be cheaper

    99.95 rather then 99.99?

  7. Re:Don't knw if anyone realizes this... on British Rail Moving Forward with Sat-Nav/GPS · · Score: 1
  8. Re:It's not British Rail on British Rail Moving Forward with Sat-Nav/GPS · · Score: 1

    Private companies did build the network - Who do you think funded Brunel and co?

  9. Re:Best of the 'inappropiate comments' on Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code · · Score: 1

    /* You are not expected to understand this. I know I don't. */

  10. Re:Scientific payoff on NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble · · Score: 1

    A telescope on the far side would pretty much be the only point in the universe with no EM interference from Earth.

  11. Re:Once again... on Court Docs Reveal Kazaa Logging User Downloads · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you trade pirated media on the service, then neither you nor it are "reputable"

    What? Like Gold Dubloons and Pieces of Eight?

  12. Re:From the patent text: on Microsoft Seeks Latitude/Longitude Patent · · Score: 1

    But would you grandma be pleased when she gets a link "Meet us at the mall at location 'cvnt5d1ck5'", which would be a vlaid coordinate. I wonder who live there.

  13. Re:Doomed when it was moved to Friday on UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    March

  14. Re:Define professional on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1

    All professional means if you get paid for doing what amatuers do for free.

  15. Money ££$$ on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1

    How much do you want to spend? Do you want a RedHat enterprise support contract? Can you sell not only linux to management, but Debian? What happens when you're no longer there to keep everything running? Having your own favourite distro-de-jour might be well and good, but what happens when the next sysadmin comes along and wants to change.

    Personally I'd suggest Redhat or Debian, Redhat for the name, Debian for apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Suse is probably the only other candidate.

    At work we have a horrible mish-mash of systems, differing kernels, differing version. It's a nightmare just trying to keep track of them all, as they and they were all installed as someones pet project, usually begining life on a desktop machine before being moved into the appsroom. One of the latest projects is running on mandrake with three file partitions - /boot (800MB?!), /var (including a mysql database), and / (everything else). Oh, and swap. No /tmp mounted tmpfs.

  16. Re:Fuel on Solar Super-Sail Could Reach Mars in a Month · · Score: 1

    A higher mass mean's it'll take longer to get there, but you'll still get there. Double the mass, double the time.

  17. Re:Right, and I have a bridge I'd like to sell you on Nanotech Brings Battery Life Extender for Mobiles · · Score: 1

    At any rate, no electron could cross the electrically INSULATING battery case

    You sya that now, but what if you crank the p.d. up to 1GV?

  18. Re:Mac Mini Cluster?? on Colocate Your Mac mini · · Score: 1

    when calling someone an "idoit", it would be best to spell it correctly

    He did spell it correctly

    A Doit is
    1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. --Shak.

    2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.

    And iDoit is, naturally, The iApple iway iof ispelling idoit.

  19. Re:Who needs 53 keys? on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    (UK keyboard) a-z 1-0 ESC ` - = , . [ ] ; ' # \ shift and space.

    50 keys.

  20. Re:Maybe some day on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 1

    They dont. Start times in London are staggered from arround 8AM to 10AM, some even earlier/later

    Of course most people are in for the 8:30/9:00 starts, but then why bother getting up an hour earlier when the train fare is the same?

  21. Re:Become your own grandpa on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    And therefore know that nothing can travel afaster then the speed of light.

    Of course, if you increase the speed of light there's no problem.

  22. Re:Maybe some day on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So? Arround 10 people a day are killed on UK roads, doesn't stop us driving.

  23. Re:Astronauts? on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 1

    No.

    Taikonaut is an bastardisation by people who think they're multi-cultured by bolting words from various roots together. Perhaps you should read the link you posted.

  24. Funny on 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled? · · Score: 1

    You know, it was wierd. Just a few hours ago I was mentioning how I hadn't seen an episode of *any* Trek for over 6 months. As I type this I'm looking at my DVD collections - Firefly, SG1, Futurama, Friends, Family guy. All complete series (well, not SG1 S8, yet), 3 shelves of them.

    Then another couple of shelves of movies.

    My entire Trek collection? Star Trek 2 Directors cut, and Free Enterprise (which doesnt count!) I dont even have any downloaded episodes on my on-line storage, aside from the first episode of a fan-made series.

    I used to love trek. Day in, day out. I even went to a convention. I've seen TNG, and to lesser extent, DS9, so many times that there are very few episodes I can watch again. I dont have this problem with my SG1 et. al. DVDs. The only thing I can think of is "trek wasn't that good".

  25. Re:Just Make a Reboot Movie on Disney Plans Tron Remake · · Score: 2, Funny

    reboot was a great program, have you played the game? It's installed on many computers, even servers, by default. You need to be root to play it in many cases though