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  1. Goooo! on Meet Linux Kernel 2.6.2, 'Feisty Dunnart' · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had images turned off when looking at the dunnart link, so i could read that it was a marsupial. When I enabled images, as it was coming through I saw a thumb but mistook it for a penis... and immediately thought of Richard Gere

  2. On the other hand on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    Aside from all the anti-MS stuff, what really is the good of being knighted anyway? Just so that the women can ask "Is that a sword in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

  3. Re:DOSemu on DOS Emulation Under Linux - a Simple Guide · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there were SX-40s

    AFAIR Intel made SX-33s and DX-33s and AMD made both SX and DX 40MHz 386s
    I used to sell them

  4. Re:What if you've got multiple cards? on Radio Credit Cards Move Closer · · Score: 1

    When you call MasterCard or Visa customer service, you are generally forwarded to the card issuing company. MasterCard and Visa, etc are only companies with products that other organizations use. This is often a bank or could be any other card issuing company with a license from MasterCard or whichever company.

    The purchased item in dispute is a 'challenge' to the vendor. One of the theoretical purchases would be challenged and it would be up to the vendor to prove that you purchased the item twice. If you wanted your MasterCard to make the purchase, you would contact the Visa issuing company (directly or indirectly through Visa customer support -- it is usually much faster to NOT call Visa/MasterCard direct... call the place you got the card from) and they would issue the challenge. When the vendor cannot prove you purchased the item twice, the (Visa) issuing company would credit your card account.

  5. Re:I dont trust snopes anymore on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    DOH!

  6. I dont trust snopes anymore on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    Since noticing the article on Snopes about Mister Ed actually being a zebra, I found it hard to believe their explanation behind it was valid.

    A simple google search reveals that the horse was a zebra only sometimes.

  7. The value of a piece of paper on SCO Selective About Linux Licensees · · Score: 1

    Not condoning SCO's activities but people buy pieces of paper in the form of stocks and bonds, or insurance, etc all the time.

    It's what you get for that piece of paper that counts.

  8. Future Safety Issues on New Method To Generate Electricity from Water · · Score: 1, Funny

    "...mobile phones or calculators which could be charged up by pumping water to high pressure."

    Now we will see people becoming concerned about phones exploding under pressure bursting our eardrums, ruining hairdos, saturating women's clothes... wait, that could be a Good Thing

  9. wow! on 7th World Solar Challenge Underway · · Score: 1

    Where is the 7th World?

    How do we challenge it?

  10. Re:I had a feeliing it would get posted to slashdo on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    So, cocaine is your problem.

    When reading your whining, I was thinking the same thing as what someone else wrote on here: You need to learn to market yourself if you want to make money. You can hope all you want that you're going to make it big but it never happens unless you actually do something about it.

  11. But does it still waste space? on Tom's Hardware Looks At WinFS · · Score: 1

    I guess this is still on topic but...

    I noticed NTFS wastes a lot of space with its MFT. Creating a batch file to test NTFS shows how space is not recovered when creating and deleting even a small number of files. I figured it out after I noticed 600MB of file space missing on an empty drive that I moved all files from. After reformatting and copying them all back, only 90MB was used by the MFT.

    [begin]
    echo "----------------- 1:" >>AAAA
    dir AAAA >>AAAA

    copy AAAA BBBB1
    copy AAAA BBBB2
    copy AAAA BBBB3
    copy AAAA BBBB4
    copy AAAA BBBB5 ...........

    copy AAAA BBBB497
    copy AAAA BBBB498
    copy AAAA BBBB499
    copy AAAA BBBB500

    echo "----------------- 2:" >>AAAA
    dir AAAA >>AAAA

    del BBBB*
    echo "----------------- 3:" >>AAAA
    dir AAAA >>AAAA
    notepad AAAA
    [end]

    Running this in a directory more than once will show space is not lost but the first time I lose between 30K and 400K.

    Can anyone using WinFS and NTFS see a difference?

  12. Re:How to beat MSN on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 1

    So that's why so many sites are screwed up in previous versions of Opera....

    What are you talking about? It's caused by sloppy web designers and HTML code that make their sites for IE, using all the bugs in THAT.

    I create all code by hand and make it work in Opera first because it's based on strict standards. Then I will modify anything that looks different in IE or NS so that it looks and works the same in any of these browsers.

  13. Re:Surreal... on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're using another version of Opera that changes all the scores and ratings

  14. Re:I love this on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 1

    What kind of screen resolution is 852x768?

  15. Maybe it's bin laden on Cross-Site-TRACE · · Score: 2, Funny

    lets blame him anyway

  16. I'm so tuff on New Mad Max Film · · Score: 1

    I'm so tuff, I went up to Mad Max and said "Hey Max! You're not mad, you're just stupid!" -- George Smilovic

  17. Re:Seriously, who is going to use this? on PPC Amigas Go On Sale · · Score: 1

    The sound on ST's was very tinny even if it did have built in MIDI. At least you had a range of MIDI options for Amiga, not that many people even needed MIDI

  18. Re:Ugly GUI on PPC Amigas Go On Sale · · Score: 1

    V1.3 ROMS and earlier had a 256k ROM. I like to think back to the original A1000 -- no other computer can multitask so nicely with just 256k RAM.

  19. Re:I had a sour experience with Individual/Catweas on All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives · · Score: 1

    The only difference between Amiga drives and standard 1.4MB drives is the /CHNG (Diskchange) line, which is Pin 2 on Amiga and Pin 34 on PC drives. I used PC drives when replacing Amiga drives because they were 2-3 times cheaper. Just swap the lines on the drive cable and it works perfectly.

  20. Re:website support on mod_perl Developer's Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Thats funny. You're saying author posted a review to /. and reloads the page repeatively as fast as he can for a few days until /. makes it public with the specific intention of trying to get first post, or at the very least, to post the information in the parent of this thread. puhleez

  21. Re:Maybe I'm wrong.... on Power Your AMD Via Tesla Coils · · Score: 1

    I've seen that huge fan before too. However, I figured he put it there as an expression of how much cooling it might need. I'm still suspicious though. The second pic looks like you can see a slight reflection of the arc but the top pic doesn't seem to brighten the shadows of his garage like I thought it would.

  22. Re:Third-Moon a Disturbing Libertarian Myth! on Is This Moon Three? · · Score: 1

    You believe it was a hoax only because you WANT to believe.

    http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.htm l

    Don't be so gullible.

  23. Re:this reminds me of a trick for telemarketers on He Writes Back · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I can be bothered, I listen to their whole sales pitch to keep THEM on the phone for as long as possible and get their hopes up for a sale. Time is money to them and its all a numbers game. It gives me satisfaction that I'm at least helping them make less money in some way.

    A friend of mine would wait until they pause for you to say something... so he pauses and says ... "and then?". They remain silent for a second so he says "aaaaaaaaannnd theeennnnnnnnn??"

  24. Cheaper and easier on Build Your Own UFO · · Score: 1

    For years, every Christmas, New Years, birthdays, or other celebration that involves many people and copious amounts of alcohol, we set off to make UFOs out of very large garbage bags and a simple heat source. It's a lot of fun trying to glamorize them and still make a successful launch.

    Try joining two 140 litre bags to make one big bag and line the inside lower circumference with aluminium foil with a couple of green and orange glow sticks to add a mysterious glow in the sky.

    It can be dangerous at these lengths though because it might get stuck in a tree or just die out and drop on a house somewhere (no I haven't set any houses on fire). They usually either don't work though or fly higher and higher until they disappear.

    It makes you wonder how many people see them on New Years especially, when thousands are partying in the streets looking at fireworks and see some large glowing undeterminable object flying by.

    hehe

  25. Comedian on Raisethefist.com Raided · · Score: 1

    "This is Los Angeles after all. We always go in to protect ourselves. We don't go in with slingshots," said McLaughlin.

    Mc Laugh lin