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  1. Re: Classic Slashdot on Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost · · Score: 1

    I only look at /. when I'm really bored. It's a been a long time since it was worth reading on a daily or even weekly basis.

  2. Re: Classic Slashdot on Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost · · Score: 5, Informative

    Aren't there?

  3. Re:erection on Squadron of Lost WWII Spitfires To Be Exhumed In Burma · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Re:Depends on the account on Google's iOS Gmail App Pulled · · Score: 1

    When you give an application to Apple to test, if it involves accounts you have to give them working logins. So it could be the test logins worked OK, just not some (or all?) general logins.

    It was failing as soon as it started, way before you could enter any account details.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dynamitedotorg/6306722740/in/photostream

  5. Re:Link on PuTTY 0.61 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use Kitty instead. Having said that, clickable links don't always work correctly.

  6. Re:An hour? on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 1

    Call that low?

  7. Re:Sounds like someone 'famous' is out of cash on Twitter Sued By British Soccer Player · · Score: 1

    Stating the obvious but:

    septic = septic tank = yank = americans.

  8. Re:Fair use? on CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator · · Score: 2

    Correct, we have no fair use right at the moment.

    You're not going to get prosecuted for format-shifting for personal use, but it's not actually legal in this country.

  9. Re:welp.... on Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic · · Score: 2

    hotfile.com is on the IWF list, hence the transparent proxy for that domain.

  10. To add some context on TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Tivo haven't actively sold the boxes in the UK for about 8-9 years now. This isn't a modern service being canned, it's effectively a legacy system.

  11. Re:£149? on TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1 · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you get that from, the Virgin V+ HD box is free (well, a once off £50 activation charge) for new customers, and as an existing customer I can get one for £70 including the activation charge.

    We're not talking about the V+ box though, this is the new Virginmedia Tivo box.

  12. Re:Just for viewing? on Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack · · Score: 1

    A PS3, even a mini, is too noisy to play music disks or movies in your living room.

    Mine isn't. I can hardly hear it at all when it's on, and that's with it sat about 8ft in front of me under the TV.

  13. Re:How does this differ from Truecrypt? on Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you set up Truecrypt in portable-mode on a USB key so it acts like these off-the-shelf keys, then it needs administrator privileges to work. That's a big problem for a lot of people.

  14. Re:So only XP is out of luck? on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    Or as in our case, buy new PCs and load an XP image. I suspect there are a huge number of companies doing this. We've no fixed plans to go to Windows 7 any time soon.

  15. Oh god no... on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    ...anything but the ribbon.

    I still can't find anything I need in Office 2007, IMO the ribbon is the biggest backwards step in usability ever.

  16. Re:Think back 17 years on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 4, Informative

    I still have music CDs that I purchased in the 1970's that are still usable :)

    A pretty good trick since they weren't commercially available until late '82 :)

  17. Re:Toshiba Libretto on Designing The Ultimate Netbook · · Score: 1

    It had a screen resolution of (if I remember correctly) 1024x600

    It was 800x480 on the 100CT, which I found to be it's biggest downside. I've still got one at home somewhere.

  18. Re:1999 called and wants it's... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Foxconn apparently.

  19. Re:Low UID? on Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, when was the last time you've seen an ID with less than 5 digits?,

    Now :)

  20. Re:I don't even bother to erase mine. on Memories of a Media Card · · Score: 1

    He'd need a zoom lens if he were very tall - or if otherwise his dick or parts of it were very distant from the camera.

    Nope. You are making the naive assumption that zoom = telephoto.

    A zoom lens is just a lens with variable focal length. It could be a wideangle or telephoto lens.

  21. Re:Keywords: Government. Health Care. Disaster on Biggest IT Disaster Ever? · · Score: 1

    The problem is less the lack of money and more the HUGE number of administrators - the current ratio is approximately 1:1 i.e. one administrator per doctor+nurse.

    That's not the fault of the NHS though, it's the fault of the government tying everything up in endless paperwork and bureaucracy. You need those administrative staff just to keep up with the reporting that's required.

    Unfortunately people aren't patients any more, they are an inconvenience to meeting an unrealistic government dictated target.

  22. Re:depends on how you look at it on Biggest IT Disaster Ever? · · Score: 1

    [i]I imagine if you're the company getting paid the $24 billion, the project is a tremendous success.[/i]

    Except for the problem that it's payment by results, and there haven't actually been many results yet :)

    The suppliers get paid when systems go-live, and very very few systems are actually live. Most have been postponed until the software actually works properly.

  23. Re:I've been here too long... on The Internet Not for Old People · · Score: 1

    They're not allowed to walk in the street. It's called jaywalking.

    Not here it isn't.

    Oh I forgot, the internet doesn't exist outside America does it :)

  24. Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for on Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? · · Score: 1

    I've NEVER EVER seen that message

    Lucky you. Would you like a medal?

    Just because you haven't seen an error, doesn't mean it isn't a known problem.

  25. Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for on Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? · · Score: 1

    I lied, it looks like it's now available.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095/