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  1. Re:from a Lancaster native on PA Seizes Newspaper's Computers · · Score: 1

    So he's eccentric and interesting ? thats grounds for what ?

  2. Games (nt) on Is the Home Desktop Going Away? · · Score: 1

    Game

  3. Re:The day is here already.... on The Great HDCP Fiasco · · Score: 1
    J.K Rowling merely has been granted an exclusive (but temporary) lease by the U.S Government

    She's english you dipshit

  4. Re:Accurate? on 'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com · · Score: 1

    Presume you're refering to Jurrasic Park.

    There actually was a version of unix from Apple that ran on macs - it was called AUX (Maybe it was related to AIX ?)

  5. Re:Next..Next... on Music Should Be Heard But Not Understood · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fredrick Pohl
    The Midas Plague
    http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/midaswld.html

    Excellent story, looks like he did some followups - must checkout my local library

  6. Bad UI Bug on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1

    Clicking the home button *always* loads the home page in a new tab, regardless of preferences.

    And yes, it has been reported, a while back

  7. In answer to the question on Libranet On The Rocks · · Score: 1, Insightful
    But on a purely selfish level, is there anyone out there who can help save my favourite distribution?"

    Unlikely - linux users are much bigger on mooching off other poeples work than actually doing it themselves, oh yeah and boasting about what radical open source freedom warriors they are.

    You nailed it with the selfish word.

  8. Re:What about the bible ? on Is the Earth in a Vortex of Space-Time? · · Score: 1

    Well something that complicated (I can't understand it !) could hardly have evolved.

  9. What about the bible ? on Is the Earth in a Vortex of Space-Time? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope they gave equal time to bible researchers, all answers can be found there.

  10. There is no stem cell controversy on Scientists Grow Blood Vessels Using Skin Cells · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just some researchers trying to make radical improvements in medical treatments and a bunch of religious whackjobs

  11. Re:There's another OS besides Windows? on World Community Grid Releases Linux Agent · · Score: 1

    Win98 ? great comparison, tell me about running 3D accelrated X games on linux kernel 1.x then.

    Command line tools for listing & killing processes plus a bunch more - try sysinternals.com, great set of utilities.

  12. Re:Google desktop on Google Desktop 2 Live · · Score: 1

    Yah, I've installed it, tried to like it, just can't find a use for it. Its being uninstalled now.

    I don't like this aggregated crap, I prefer using the various specialised simple tools i have for search, news etc.

  13. Re:Papers? on The Microsoft Singularity · · Score: 1
    brilliance in the service of evil is still evil

    See this way too often on slashdot. You stupid fuckers have no idea of what evil is, you'd crap your pants if you ever ran into a real nutter.

  14. Re:What's a "potentially dangerous" animal? on Microchips for Dangerous Animals? · · Score: 1

    I agree - of great use for tracking animal abusers and may provide some deterrent factor.

    I live in AU to - all our pets (6) maybe 7 now ( we're suckers for rescue) are chipped.

  15. Great on Autonomous RoboFish at the London Aquarium · · Score: 1

    robot fish porn ...

  16. Re:What sort of security vulnerabilities.. on Flash, Meet Sparkle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you install Firefox Plugins ? because they have just as bad a security model (ie. none) as ActiveX

  17. Re:Wrong countries on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    To quote NZ's greatest PM - To raise the average IQ of both countries

  18. Re:You are full of crap. on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    Wrong - I'm testing it and it most certainly uses "Ask jeeves" in it search toolbar.

    Doesn't bother me - I never use the integrated toolbars anyway

  19. Re:density of power use on Yet Another Method Of Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    Care to cite that ? I live in Australia and have never heard of these "hundreds" of towns with self-sufficent wind generation

  20. Re:Mod parent down on Comparison of Java and .NET security · · Score: 1

    It might be a real word, but the grand parent still used it incorrectly

  21. Bzzzt! on Is Your Boss a Psychopath? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Clinton had empathy. Perhaps he was the narcissist described in the article, but the US was better off for his presidency

    Whereas Bush - he's the poster child for psychopathy.

  22. Re:Why psychopaths exist... on Is Your Boss a Psychopath? · · Score: 1

    Psychopaths are overwhelmingly male

    Wrong - its roughly 50/50 - its just less noticed in women because they tend to the less obvious forms of abuse, ie. emotional and psychological.

  23. Re:Broadband? on U.S. Broadband Access Falling Behind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yup - still looking for Wally - oops, WMD's

  24. Re:Hula - usual Open Source problems on Exchange Alternatives Round-up · · Score: 1

    Hooray for google. Searched on hula and aclocal problems and google found a link in the hula mail archive which solved it. Needed to change automake to 1.7 (from 1.4)

    I remember running into these issues on mandrake 9.x, I surprised they're still there. Unfortunaetly I also remember upgrading automake broke other configure scripts.

    Ah well - thats Linux for you - swapped DLL hell for configure hell.

  25. Re:Hula - usual Open Source problems on Exchange Alternatives Round-up · · Score: 1

    Looked interesting, then spent hours trying to install before getting pissed off:

    Despite running exactly the same systems as the install instructions (Mandrake Official 10.1):

    Install instructions assume you are building & installing as root.

    Install from Source Tarball
    - Configure failed with dozens of aclocal errors
    - So no makefile ..

    Install from SVN trunk
    - Same as tarball

    Goody - there's a RPM for Mandrake 10.1 !
    - Bummer, the linked download site no longer exists.

    Lets search the user or developer mail archives for info
    - Oh yeah - they're not searchable

    Screw this. Back to exchange.