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  1. Frist prost on Old-school Nerdy Comics · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nobody's posted a comment in the past hour while this has been on the front page? A world record?

  2. Node on E2? on Eleventy What? · · Score: 1

    There was a node on E2 about this, but I couldn't find it after searching for a few minutes. Anyone remember the title?

  3. Re:Lzip Compression on 56k Times Five: Myth Or Moneymaker? · · Score: 1

    Where are my mod points when I read a funny comment like that one?

    Don't worry, lzip comments have already been modded up thousands of times.

  4. Re:Mac OS X does not have vector icons on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1

    (1) Idesk doesn't have CVS
    (2) Vector icons have never been implemented in idesk

  5. Re:How? on Texas Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration · · Score: 1

    How will this save money?

    Well, they won't have to pay licensing costs but it'll all even out as they have to train employees to use crap (to-the-user) alternatives to the software they had a year ago.

  6. Wow! on X vs. XP.com Site Launched · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, a new trolling site. Congratulations, and how news worthy.

  7. Make sure... on Quake II Mods for Engineering Students · · Score: 3, Funny

    Make sure you have big guns to blow everything up.

  8. Re:Sierra Games still work! on Multiplayer Space Quest in a Browser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's a little dated, and yes, those damned boxing robots are still friggin impossible, but it works.

    You can easily defeat the boxing robot challenge by slowing down the time.

  9. Register? on Introduction to User-Mode Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can a tutorial that requires registration get accepted?

  10. Re:I don't know what they are talking about... on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 2

    I am using SMS to relay this message and ...and your POST request managed to get through?

  11. Re:Oh boo hoo... on Mozilla Project Hurt by Apple's Decision to use KH · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Gecko is spelled:

    G-E-C-K-O

    I just felt bad for you pronouncing it "gecho" all the time.

  12. Re:My proposal. on Recycling Pay Phones into Terminals · · Score: 2

    How about a new category / icon for duplicates? That way I can just set my preferences to ignore them!!

    You make it sound funny, but it's actually a great idea. If a story is found to be duplicate, it's topic icon can simply be changed and be ignored by users that hate duplicate stories.

  13. Re:IRS on Employee or contractor on Contractors on Salary? · · Score: 2

    Can you cite a reference for those rules? I need one for my files.

    Sure. Just click on the comment ID, then File, Print...

  14. Re:A few holes on First Human Clone Born? · · Score: 2

    6) Profit!

    Bzzt. This year's meme is IN SOVIET RUSSIA, ...

  15. Re:some? on Kroger Testing Fingerprint Payment System · · Score: 2

    Actually they always laugh, because unlike some people they can get a freakin joke.

    Can you please explain the joke?

  16. Re:If Microsoft makes Flash proprietary... on Microsoft To Acquire Macromedia? · · Score: 2

    Flash has its uses:

    Windows RG
    Monkey lander

  17. Re:really? on Dvorak: Linux too much like Windows · · Score: 2

    There is no second mouse button, you have to command+click the object.

    That's strange, I got a two button mouse and plugged it in. Now I can right-click on pretty much everything I can click on.

  18. Re:thought on Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room? · · Score: 2

    You're looking for a 403.

  19. Re:Good on Linux for Home Electronics · · Score: 2

    Now i can finally run linux on my electrical toothbrush... w00t

    And you'll never get cavities again?

  20. Tornado... on Escape from California? · · Score: 2, Funny

    and I'm pretty much just waiting for the earthquake to hit and wipe it out.

    I'd love to move to the midwest

    Oh great, then a tornado will destroy your house.

  21. Re:To summarise the question on Promising Markets for a Startup Company · · Score: 2
    1. ???????
    2. ???????
    3. Profit!


    Hey, at least this one was clever. Why the troll moderation?
  22. Re:I read their site a little more closely... on Will Your CD Player Tell on You? · · Score: 2

    Very true, but how the hell could you have the data tracks switch between unplayable and playable states based on whether you agree to an EULA?

    Some software decodes it?

  23. Re:Yay on nVidia Posts First Linux Graphics Drivers for Opteron · · Score: 2

    NvAGP "0" in XF86Config in the Driver section

  24. Re:Just export a Word doc to HTML on Obfuscated HTML Contest? · · Score: 2

    I took a cut at modifying deMoronizer.pl to take the MS Word crap out of their generated HTML. You can find it at http://xcski.net/decrap/deCrapifier.pl_txt

    Thank you. I've been looking for a script like this.

  25. Re:Well ... what is it? on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 1


    Results

    The string 1234567890 did not occur in the first 100000000 digits of pi after position 0.


    Pi-Search page