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  1. Defrag? on Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased · · Score: 2, Funny
    The most recent readings at the SEP seismograph stationed on the lava dome itself are totally saturated.

    Looks like Mount St. Helens is about to defrag.

  2. weather.com? on Supercomputers Race to Predict Storms · · Score: 1
    If you're in the USA, use weather.gov. Fast & free (well, your tax dollars at work) and best of all, NO ADS!

    Just type in "city,state" or a ZIP code, and you're good to go.

  3. Re:ROT13 - Only once? on Lexar JumpDrive Password Scheme Cracked · · Score: 1

    I would read your obviously dual-ROT13-encrypted post, but then I'd definitely be violating the DMCA.

  4. Re:Of what on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 1

    You misspelled eMacs. ;)

  5. Re:That is a load of crap on Industrial Design Excellence Awards 2004 · · Score: 1

    Reply to myself -- I haven't used a Linux GUI in a couple of years, just CLI, so no menu quits there at all for me. :)

  6. Re:That is a load of crap on Industrial Design Excellence Awards 2004 · · Score: 1

    I've never replied to one of my own posts TWICE before, but for the record, force quit is Option-Command-Escape.

  7. Re:That is a load of crap on Industrial Design Excellence Awards 2004 · · Score: 1

    I can't think of the last time I quit an app in a menu. On a Mac, it's Command-Q (or Control-Command-Escape to force quit). On Windows, I use Alt-F4.

    Even if your right hand is on the mouse, those are left-hand keypresses (on standard keyboard layouts).

  8. Obviously... on Interviewing Your Future Boss? · · Score: 1

    Find out if they read this article on /.

  9. Re:Fire is cheaper on Picking Up the Pieces · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you get your red Swingline back, too.

  10. Re:what if they are chained? on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 1

    Yep, we saw 8 in the 'Early Bird' days, but it's been 2 down/384 up for a long time.

    Official policy is one machine per IP, but RR reps on the Yahoo group linked above have said they're more concerned about how much you upload than how many machines you nat, but they won't troubleshoot a non-spec setup. (Big deal.)

    I have a cow-orker who runs Windows Media Services to stream his music collection to lots of folks at work and other places. He gets a letter from RR about his bandwidth use now and then, and gets his service cut off sometimes, but he's always managed to talk them into turning it back on. I don't know all the details, and I don't want to....

  11. Re:what if they are chained? on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 2, Informative
    As other posts have said, chaining won't help.

    But in your case (and mine), TW Austin reps have said they don't care how many boxes you NAT as long as you're not breaking their 'naughty user' upload threshold. Join the mailing list.

  12. The Reg?! on Registrar Told To Stop Direct-Mail Scare-Tactics · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh, I misread the headline. I thought it was about The Register.

    Well, now that I think about it, it would a BOFHish thing to do.

  13. Re:The relationship destroyer on Bugbear Windows Virus Making the Rounds · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'm waiting for the one where I said really terrible things about someone

    You need to learn what my dad drilled into us as kids:
    "Never put anything in writing you wouldn't want to read aloud in open court."

  14. Re:with only one tuner? on Tivo Quadcard Promises Thousand-Hour PVR · · Score: 5, Informative


    The DIRECTV with TiVo combo units have 2 tuners.

    Record 2 shows while watching something else you already recorded. Life is good.

  15. The Styx Phone on Talk ... Without Speaking · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can hear it now...

    "Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto"

  16. Re:hrm. on Slashback: SmoothWall, Gopher, Be · · Score: 1
    "segue" is a verb [imparitive, intransitive] or a noun.

    "Segway" is a proper noun as of a few weeks ago. Don't worry timothy, i suck at grammar too.

    But the Segway's code name was "IT," which is a pronoun. That's they way I took what he wrote.

  17. Test case on CA Court: Message Boards Are Opinions, Not Facts · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bill Gates has no technical sense and does nothing but steal other people's ideas.

    (C'mon, sue me Bill! I want my name in the news.)

  18. Re:Insulting! on Hiring Open Source Developers for Closed Source Work? · · Score: 3
    Personally, I'm always insulted when people offer me employment. How dare they think that my work is so trite as to be bought and sold!

    And shrink-wrapped like a commodity! I'm an artist!

    Oh, wait, that's supposed to be in a Napster thread.

  19. Court confirms old news on Stored Email Not Protected by Law · · Score: 1

    A simple Google search turned up a story from four years ago. It doesn't address this issue directly, but the gist is the same.

  20. Re:Try new version on AOL vs. Open Source AIM Clones · · Score: 1
    Fire site and binary

    Fire talks AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and MSN.

  21. Re:Are they the only exhibit? on Fraud Museum Showcases Web Scams · · Score: 1

    Inside is a mirror with a sign above it that says: "SUCKER!"

    Or they could mail you a SUCKER! link.

  22. Re:1984? on Robo-chattel? New Legal Challenge to 'Bots · · Score: 1

    And the random line at the bottom of this page (for me, anyway) applies:

    We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. -- La Rouchefoucauld

  23. Why SETI@home on SETI@Home Breaks 500,000 years · · Score: 4


    I switched from distributed.net to SETI@home, and here's why: I know a key can be broken with brute force; I wonder if there's life on other planets. It's the mystery that draws me to SETI.

  24. Re:. . but not the only one on SETI Results By Scientific American · · Score: 1

    Could a race like the Firengi exist (as in advanced technology but primitive ethics) ??

    Ah, you've hit upon Ferengi's Paradox!

  25. Re:Partitioning by Geography is Stupid on U.S. To Re-Administer .US Domain Space · · Score: 2

    Wording changed to the way I heard it many years ago.

    A host is a host
    from coast to coast.
    But no one will talk to a host that's close.
    Unless the host
    that isn't close
    is busy, hung or dead!