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  1. Re:Gates gave us opensource. on Paul Allen's Microsoft Experience · · Score: 1

    This stability stuff is pretty annoying. Any system can become unstable if you don't pay attention to your drivers, extensions, etc.

    I use a Yikes! G4 for elecronic music and design. It has been running 9.2 for 5 years without a rebuild. It has been running continuously for four months without a restart. I use it every day.

    I guess your results may vary, but this box has everything going wrong for it already and I have no trouble with it.

  2. Re:We all know why on Google's X Files Vanish · · Score: 1

    So is Yahoo!

  3. Re:Actually... on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    No, the preparer is not allowed to write off anything that there's no documentation for. That's why the preparer has to sign the form as well.

    If the preparer has committed fraud unbeknownst to you, there is recourse with the preparer. Of course, you will end up owing what wasn't paid, but you're not going to jail...

  4. Charges? on Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin? · · Score: 1

    I can't find the pricing without agreeing to the Ts and Cs. I think that's kinda sketchy...

    Screw 'em.

  5. Re:Cast? What cast? on Solar Super-Sail Could Reach Mars in a Month · · Score: 2

    What I want to know is...

    What happens to anything that gets in front of this microwave beam? I remember reading about the early days of radar where birds would fall from the sky when flying too near the towers.

    MMMMMMM, pigeon....

  6. Re:Public needs to change to make the change... on Firefox Seeks Full Page Ad in New York Times · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uhh, pages that render poorly in Firefox are more likely due to poor coding on the page rather than the browser. Every instance of poor rendering that I've seen has been due to someone coding a page to work specifically with IE (asp, etc). If IE was w3c compliant, and developers wrote compliant code, you would see most of that garbage disappear.

    IE development is dead, anyway. You can wait all you want.

  7. Re:A wise choice on XAML Development Today, But Not From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    My Marklar's new marklar has marklared the marklar for a new marklar.

  8. Re:Put it in neutral! on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, the more I think about it....

    I call Shenanigans.

    This guy wanted to go 120mph in his car.

    Prolly had a hooker in the passenger seat, too.

  9. Re:Put it in neutral! on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OK, this is disturbing. So, the car was started without the ignition key. Great. How does that stop you from turning it off? How do you turn it off normally? Do you just wait for the fuel to run out?

    This same thing happened a few years back with some woman in a Volkswagen. Turns out she never tried to turn the car off, or take it out of gear.

    This driver should get cited for failure to maintain control of their vehicle. This whole story stinks of someone complaining about the car when, in fact, they are a moron.

  10. Re:solaris fan on Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way UltraSPARC Chip · · Score: 1

    Not to mention getting to appear opposite Bill Murray and Mickey Rourke!

  11. Re:$5k on Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM · · Score: 1

    yeah. whole thing got all screwy on me. could have been funny.

    i'm never posting again.

  12. Re:$5k on Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM · · Score: 1

    That was supposed to say, "But I have a(n) (inert ethnicity) friend."

  13. Re:New business model, buy patents and sue. on Altnet Sues Record Industry Over File Hash Patents · · Score: 1

    No, you don't lose. If there's evidence of this technique in use before the patent was applied for, then the patent will be retracted.

  14. Re:Unlikely on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    Awww, don't worry. Your post probably went right past your sysadmins face.

    Expect a hand on you shoulder in 3..2..1..

  15. Re:Too bad... on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 1

    Bzzzt. You can't be more wrong.

    I was an AP on CFH for two years. The callers were screened and directed to not do stupid stuff before they went live, but they were not scripted.

    We got a few thousand emails a week. I read most of them to find things to read before the credits.
    Sorry to hurt your feelins(sic) Troll.

  16. Re:One thing about photoshop! on The Gimp from the Eyes of a Photoshop User · · Score: 1

    jiminy christmas....

    i didn't think wrapping the word shift in 's would make it disappear.

    where's that darned preview button?!

  17. Re:One thing about photoshop! on The Gimp from the Eyes of a Photoshop User · · Score: 1

    You mean, you actually click on the Toolbar?

    Infant.

    + G

    Start doing that and you'll go WAY faster. You pull that pointer to the toolbar crap in a real production environment, you'll be looking for a new job real soon.

  18. Re:This is a non-story on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    The government indeed has a right to know how you're driving. You are licensed to drive. Operating a vehicle is not protected in any constitution. You want unmonitored freedom to travel? WALK.

    I personally don't mind having the black box. The only time it'll be used is if I bite it, anyway. Maybe they should hold even more info. That way, when you purchase a car, it'll tell you right away what it's been through.

    Bring on KITT!

  19. Re:The sound of silence on The Pure Software Act of 2006 · · Score: 1

    Or, how about World B Free?

  20. Re:The sound of silence on The Pure Software Act of 2006 · · Score: 1

    Lovechild? ...counting to twenty...

  21. Re:Standards on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is common practice for real estate people to set the prices too high. If no one takes the property, there is money to be made at tax time for the incurred "loss"

    My mom does it all the time.

  22. Re:Slashdot reaction on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    ARE YOU THREATENING ME??????

  23. I Dunno, people on Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call me crazy, but it looks like 72dpi to me.

  24. Re:[OT] Americanisms on Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Canadian bigotry never dies.

    I say shat, too.

  25. Re:You Know You're a Geek When... on Factual 'Big Mac' Results · · Score: 1

    Let's get everyone to drive SUVs, scrap the highways budget altogether and THEN see what can be built.