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  1. Installation countermeasure on Slashback: XPiracy, Panel, Gentoo · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is fairly easy to make a windows installation boot disk that will include the first service pack. It's just a matter of overwriting the original i386 tree with the one from sp1.

    Why would the trick not work for sp2 ?

  2. Meh on SuSE 9.1 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    Mandrake has gone 10.0 for what ? two months ?

  3. Re:In related news... on Estonia Embraces Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 2, Informative

    First it's Luxembourg and second, it's 5000 times greater than the City of Vatican

  4. Logo on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released · · Score: 0

    I understand the mental association between a pigeon and mail, but in which way is a pigeon a thunder bird ?

  5. Prior art on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1
  6. ah yes ! HR 25 ! That one ! on No EZ Fix For The IRS · · Score: 1

    More explanation please. Also a bit spin please. Will it make the rich poorer/richer ? the poor richer/poorer ? the midclass poorer/richer/larger ?

  7. Re:Here's a good one... on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 1

    Try the same with COBOL. Forget about SQL, we can only MOVE searched keys, run a READ, the framework will translate it back to SQL for us. No joins. Integrity constraints ? Never heard of. Normalisation ? What's that ? We even have horizontal tables, with a clever folding mechanism. That's my job for the last six months. But wait, now they want me to do OLAP on it.

  8. Re:Circumference on Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Your multiplications by and division by 2 pi were sooo necessary. As for me I am glad I can use units especially crafted to measure the earth, instead of some stupid tyrant's left toe.

  9. Re:No improvements? What about Vert. hold! on Fifty Years of Color Television · · Score: 1

    What ! You got rid of transistors ?

  10. pot. kettle. black on Debunking the Trillion-Dollar Space Myth · · Score: 1

    Hi, USians, Europe speaking.

  11. PR rating on Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    These PR ratings are misleading. I benchmarked it against 2.6.3 and unsurprisingly it was in no way 0.0.1 better.

  12. Re:Better, cheaper, available now on Aircraft Maker Will Produce Electric Cars in 2006 · · Score: 1

    The problem with a smart is that you can buy a real car for the same price. As as seconf car in a household it should be fine.

  13. Re:Invasion of Privacy! on The Universal Card · · Score: 1

    You're lucky. In my country, the fascist government forces me to carry a card with my name and my address on it ! And know what ? When I go to an administration or something, they require me to SHOW IT OMG !

  14. Re:Wow! Can't wait. on Rockstar Announces GTA San Andreas · · Score: 1
    What about GTA: London?
    Imagine the cops chasing you "Dear Sir, will you kindly follow us to the police station to discuss a matter concerning you ?"
  15. Re:I know it's been said before... on Rockstar Announces GTA San Andreas · · Score: 1

    He *could* see the difference between reality or fantasy. Or did he perhaps hit a living bear with his wooden hockey stick ?

  16. well it was 4 years ago on Fired Via Instant Message · · Score: 1

    n/t

  17. Re:SCO: Code of Mass Infringement will be found on SCO Lists Specific Code-Infringement Claims · · Score: 1

    Oh ! I guess the next step is to DDOS www.microsoft.fr for being skeptical ?

  18. Bleeding edge on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 1
    The databases have been around for years, but technology has only recently enabled the state to assemble and review the information in a time-efficient manner
    SELECT IRS.PAIDTAX, CENSUS.INCOME*TAXRATE
    FROM IRS,CENSUS
    WHERE IRS.SSN=CENSUS.SSN

    Wow, dude ! This Relationist Datatable thingy is really neat !
  19. Meta on Sim City Inside The Sims - Russian Doll Effect? · · Score: 3, Funny
    The Sims franchise has gone meta
    It's been meta for ages. How you think we are able to play Sim City ? Well posting isn't everything, now I will go peeing for 2.5 hours, eat a sandwich for one hour and have a chat with each of my friends for 2 hours, because even a long-term relationship will fade if I don't do this every three days, and that will get me to lose my job
  20. OMG WMD on Ask About the Iraqi LUG · · Score: 1

    What flavour of Embedded Linux do you Weapons of Mass Destruction run on ?

  21. Re:SCO Memorabilia on SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses · · Score: 1

    Memorabilia ? Don't we want to forget about SCO ?

  22. Belgium is broadband paradise on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    I'm paying 43 EUR a month for cable modem.

    For that price, I get a pityful 128 kbits up, but a royal 4 megabits down. Sadly "capped" at 15 Gigs a month : I pay 8 EUR for any extra 10 Gigs, with no bandwidth penalty.

    Before that, I paid 40 EUR for the same upstream, and a downstream of 1 megabit (was contractually 750 kbits but whatever) that was with no reason upgraded free to 3.3 megabits. ADSL.

    Before hating me, read on : for a year now, I get woken up not by a pityful 5$ chinese analog radio, but by my 300 Watt computer that downloads national radio streams from the net. Until some months ago where I decided I wanted more porn and more warez, I took the high quality stream. But forgetting to deactivate the autowake function was too frequent and one month I ALMOST hit my max so I downgraded to lower quality radio.

    In France, the same companies that operate in Belgium hype pityful 128 kbits Downstreams of the same price in Belgium.

    Remember that in Belgium, local PSTN calls are not free (about 2$ an hour, about 3$ in peak hours, so broadband is really a great added value compared to dialup.

  23. Re:Obligatory Gandhi quote, updated: on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    Sad but wasn't Gandhi *precisely* shot just after they won by a someone of his own side ?

  24. Re:First they laugh at you on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    Sad but wasn't Gandhi shot just after they won by a someone of his own side ?

  25. Nothing new on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 1
    Sir Winston Churchill said the following about the declaration of war to Japan :
    Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
    I doubt legal droids at SCO are fine enough to read Churchill's fine litterature, but whatever.

    Here's the actual, slightly offtopic war declaration :
    Foreign Office, December 8 [1941]

    Sir,

    On the evening of December 7th His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom learned that Japanese forces without previous warning either in the form of a declaration of war or of an ultimatum with a conditional declaration of war had attempted a landing on the coast of Malaya and bombed Singapore and Hong Kong.

    In view of these wanton acts of unprovoked aggression committed in flagrant violation of International Law and particularly of Article 1 of the Third Hague Convention relative to the opening of hostilities, to which both Japan and the United Kingdom are parties, His Majesty's Ambassador to Tokyo has been instructed to inform the Imperial Japanese Government in the name of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that a state of war exists between our two countries.

    I have the honour to be, with high consideration,
    Sir,
    Your obedient servant,
    Winston S. Churchill