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  1. Re:local perspective on Shuttle Set for Launch on Dec 18th, Says NASA · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but this sounds a bit too much like the Challenger transcript.

  2. Re:September 11 vs Columbia on Shuttle Set for Launch on Dec 18th, Says NASA · · Score: 1

    Wow, that was inspiring! You should get a job as speechwriter for the White House.

  3. Re:Keiiiiboard on One-Thumb Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Except that Keiboard isn't English, it's Japanese written in romaji.

  4. Re:Pictures on site on One-Thumb Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Katakana colour model names would be used where we would put objects that we associate with the colour e.g. "Sky", "Forest", "Sand") Kanji for colours would be used to describe the actual colour of the unit.

    For example: Buruu-gata keiboardo wa aoi-iro desu.

    (The "Blue" model is blue-coloured)

  5. Re:Keiiiiboard on One-Thumb Keyboard · · Score: 1

    "Keiboard" is the literal transliteration of the Japanese name.

    It's a contraction (as Japanese love to do) of the full description of the product: "Keitai denwa gata kiiboardo" = "Portable phone size(style) keyboard".

  6. Re:Download QBasic from Microsoft for Win2K/XP on The Little Coder's Predicament · · Score: 1

    Well, duh..

    These are *DOS* applications and QBASIC runs on any version of DOS/Windows as it doesn't do the check.

    My reponse was in answer to the implied question: Where can I get QBASIC now that they don't include it with Win2K/XP.

    We still have a couple of QBASIC apps that gather or format cost data for online systems and our phone system.

  7. Download QBasic from Microsoft for Win2K/XP on The Little Coder's Predicament · · Score: 1

    QBASIC can be downloaded from Microsoft as part of the old DOS utilities package.

  8. Re:Software glitches of the future on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    Oh, as in:

    "BIDI-BIDI-BIDI, What a body!".

    Surely you remember that?

    And what you did alone in your room afterwards?

  9. Re:pet rodents the world over are cringing on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    Wrong end.

    Two Words: Richard Gere.

    I know, I know, see snopes.

  10. Re:Oh, my lunch! on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    I think the problem is that the paranoid schizeophrenic American population finds it easier to believe in aliens invading than believing that Europa has water.

    "How do they know?, we never even went to the moon!"

  11. Re:Wow V.. now I feel old on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    "Flash! Ahhh-ahh. Savior of the universe!"

    I wonder if Macromedia has any plans for this...

  12. A MUCH better hotel room... on A Night in the Hotel of the Future · · Score: 1

    This is a hotel room in which you can relax:

    Ryoukan

  13. No. Apple cuts a cheque... on iTunes Indie Meeting Notes · · Score: -1, Troll

    As in, there should be checks and balances to avoid people spelling cheques wrong.

    I know, I know, it's the AMERICAN WAY!!!!

    It's still wrong.

    Looks like Apple got e-music right, though.

  14. Re:Truly a life defining moment... on NASA Launching Two Mars Rovers in June · · Score: 1

    A previous generation had the Apollo moon landing as a life defining moment..

    That was MY generation!

    (sigh)

    I feel old.

  15. Re:Question for CUPS experts... on CUPS - Common Unix Printing System · · Score: 1

    Yes, it mails the job but the filename of the document that is being printed is lost. The Windows spooler generates a random spool file name and sends that to the Samba print share which then sends it to cups. The only things that are retained are the username who sent the job and the workstation from whence they sent it. There is no way to parse out the original filename.

  16. Re:troll food: 12 step printer configuration on CUPS - Common Unix Printing System · · Score: 1

    As root

    Problem #1. I want my users to be able to add a printer. They should not need to be root.

    For our 180 Windows users I have an "Add printer" icon that displays the shared printers on our Samba print server. They right-click and choose Connect. This installs and configures the printer on the workstation including downloading the applicable driver if required.

  17. Re:Question for CUPS experts... on CUPS - Common Unix Printing System · · Score: 1

    It almost sounds like you missed the sarcasm. I had a similar thought when I first saw your command string, something only a Linux geek would be able to comprehend.

    We actually have a similar requirement for our PDF printer. However, I would like to be able to capture the Word document filename that is being printed and email it back to the user in PDF format. Right now all I can do is give them machinename.PDF or username.PDF.

  18. Re:CUPS is part of the 'killer app' trilogy on CUPS - Common Unix Printing System · · Score: 1

    Great idea. Getting a clean duplication of Windows printing abilities is a pain as the docs out in the world are outdated, inaccurate and too Unix-side oriented to help an admin who's trying to support put a nice Linux back-end on a Windows front-end.
    For example the following topics should be covered:

    1) Native Windows Drivers vs Using a Generic Postscript driver and CUPS as the RIP.

    2) Setting up Point-and-Print driver downloads properly with Samba and CUPS. (and why the drivers still may not work properly afterwards)

    3) Job control security for Windows clients.

    I still haven't found a good explanation of the interaction between Samba and the CUPS API.

  19. Re:Call me a stick in the mud... on Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed · · Score: 1

    What's the matter? Can't you read the local maps that are posted near every train station or ask the local koban?

  20. SOT: So how do I brwose this code on Linux? on IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version · · Score: 1

    From our new accounting software's web interface that they say will only require you to use a "common web browser":

    <object id="MSXML4" classid="clsid:88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e 5" codebase="../../msxml/msxml4.cab#version=4,10,9404 ,0" type="application/x-oleobject" STYLE="display: none"></object>

  21. Re:The Apollo Program ... on Chinese Moon Base by 2012 - or 2006? · · Score: 1

    but, usa is 'just' a collection of people from all over the globe anyways

    For anyone who wants to know, this is the primary difference between the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. tries to pretend that everyone, even if they just immigrated, has no connection with any other country once they become a citizen.

    Canadians acknowledge the reality that our culture is made up of a conglomeration of the rest of the world. We are proud of our country, we *like* our country. But we don't go around telling the rest of the world that we are *better* than they are.

  22. Re:The originality is in how... on Game Originality: Any Left? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The originality comes in your setting, your imagination and adding your own flavor ...

    Maybe Baz Luhrmann should be designing games?

  23. Re:IP != The Net on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 2, Informative

    Read my subject again, you know what "!=" means right?

    The article *title* "Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net" implies that Telus will be using the public Internet.

    The *article* says several things but doesn't clearly state for non-technical readers that the network that Telus will be using for this VoIP service is their *private* network. The article talks about the poor quality of previous Internet phone call implementations without qualifying that assertion with something like "but Telus will use their own network instead of the Internet."

    Others have pointed out the same thing. The title is misleading.

  24. Re:IP != The Net on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 1

    Read the subject.

    The article title implied the traffic would be on the public Internet instead of Telus' own network.

    And yes, I've worked with the technology too.

    Convincing my firm to get rid of their 20 year-old Rolm switch is a different story.

  25. Makes more sense with better grammer on Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program · · Score: 1

    Kazaa says, "On track to be most-downloaded program"