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  1. Re:Dear Cliff, on Which Instant Coffee? · · Score: 1

    Yes, however, what he SHOULD HAVE said is that espresso has less caffeine per volume of beans, because that is indeed true. The extra roasting reduces the amount of caffeine in the beans.

  2. Re:Maybe the patent office never heard of Wes Cher on Computer Solitaire Patented? · · Score: 1

    I remember playing solitaire on computers before the early 90s. My grandmother had "Bicycle Solitaire" on her 286.

  3. Re:Boch CAN run Windows XP as a guest OS on Bochs x86 IA-32 Emulator 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    And you are suprised at this... WHY?

  4. Re:I am split on Columbia Disaster Anniversary · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, we sure as hell better get there before the damn commies do.

  5. Re:Can't Beat 'em, don't wanna buy them... on Google Asks Booble To Cease And Desist · · Score: 1

    That would involve quite a bit of squinting, yes?

  6. Re:Can't Beat 'em, don't wanna buy them... on Google Asks Booble To Cease And Desist · · Score: 3, Informative

    From what I can tell, Google caches the text, but the pictures are loaded off the original site. If the site is down, you get red Xes/torn picture icons.

  7. Re:Very good homes... on Virginia Tech Upgrade: PowerMac G5 to Xserve G5 · · Score: 1

    I couldnt fit too many under my desk/in my dorm room, but one or three would be nice...

  8. Re:An issue for Windows users mainly on PKWare and Winzip Reach A Secure Zip Compromise · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, if it wasn't for the ability to have tar run the archive through b/gzip for me with the -g or -j flag, I would probably just use plain tar files. However, it is convenient enough to just stick the j in, so I bzip all my archives.

    That said, when I used to use Windows, if I needed an encrypted ZIP file, I zipped it up with 7-zip, and ran the resulting zip archive through PGP to encrypt it. Archiving and encryption are separate. However, a flag for tar to run the final archive (after bzipping) through GPG would be nice. Otherwise, I would have to be un-lazy and type out a longer command, or be really un-lazy and make a wrapper script. And I am too lazy for that.

  9. Re:Congratulate "Sir William" and move on on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 3, Informative

    Err... KBE

  10. Re:Congratulate "Sir William" and move on on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    He would be "William Gates, KRC" or somesuch, would he not?

  11. Re:umm ... obvious solution? on Wireless Keyboard w/o a Wireless Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Well, I could see where a wireless keyboard could benefit you. You could use it while sitting on the couch/bed/whatever. However, that is a bit harder with a wireless mouse, due to the requirement of a flat surface for it. A keyboard you can use in your lap. However, what WOULD be nice, is a wireless keyboard with a built-in trackpad or (preferably) trackball.

  12. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1

    I realise there are harvesters that scrape yahoo.com and get the mail off. I used one for a while. But I decided to start using the email address I had through my ISP because it was less of a hassle.

    So I should have to give up broadband because someone is blocking my email? That is rediculous. I pay for my always on internet connection, reliable email service, and high speed. I should not have to jump through hoops just because somebody on the same isp as me is sending some spam. Blacklist the guy sending spam, not everyone on the entire ISP. If you can't find a way to do that, go to the ISP and get their account shut down due to violation of TOS. Broadband iis not that much more than dialup. If I were to switch to dialup, I would need to get a second phone line, and a modem. Combine that with cable tv, and cost for an ISP, and it comes out to a cost of about $10 more for me to have broadband. I am quite willing to pay an extra $10 a month for several times the speed of my old 28.8 modem. I upgraded from a 28.8 connection to AOHell to a 1.5 megabit cable modem connection.

    I should not have to switch ISPs, jump from smarthost to smarthost, or go through another free email address every 6 months, just so people can recive my email. Luckily, this is not the case. I do not face any of these problems. But all it takes is one idiot sending out spam from his comcast email, and someone to complain about it, and my email, along with everyone else that has comcast as their ONLY BROADBAND CHOICE, cannot send email to half of their friends and family.

  13. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1
    1. Webmail sucks. Yahoo was OK until they dropped free POP support. When that happened, I moved to using my ISP for email.
    2. Then I need to find someone to smarthost, and possibly pay for it.
    3. Name one broadband provider for where I live (a few miles west of Ann Arbor, MI) other than Comcast. And no, I cannot get DSL.

    Yahoo had a good idea: filtering by default, with the ability to remove the filtering if you didn't like it. Except, there should be an option when creating an account to turn it on or off, rather than having to dig though options.

  14. Re:Hmm, 30 Casio vs 35,000 Rolex on NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches · · Score: 1

    Yeah, really. I am very happy with my $25 Timex Expedition analog/digital watch. It has an analog dial, with a little window at the bottom that is a digital watch.

  15. Re:again with the linux.... on NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches · · Score: 1

    Not only american cars. We had a 1987 Honda Prelude with an auto that as soon as it warmed up (about a block from our house) it would downshift into second and stay that way. We got rid of it and bought a 1996 Saturn SC2 with a 5 speed.

  16. Re:Coffee vs. Soda? on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1
    I don't know how much sugar you put in your coffee, but I somehow doubt it's as much as the 170 calories worth of high fructose corn syrup you get from a can of Coke.

    Yeah, really. The amount of sugar in Coke is rediculous. Two teaspoons of sugar in a 10oz mug of coffee is too sweet for me. I usually put in one teaspoon. Sometimes less. Although I have seen people shovel four or five teaspoons of sugar into a cup of coffee. Yech.

  17. Re:Letter "U" does not belong in Flavor on Coffee Flavored Breakfast Cereal · · Score: 1

    Must just have to do with living in Michigan then,eh?

  18. Re:/. subscriptions? on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I got a $100 amazon.com gift certificate. Does that count?

  19. Re:Letter "U" does not belong in Flavor on Coffee Flavored Breakfast Cereal · · Score: 1
    Americans, despite anything shrub might tell you, are not the final word on everything.

    LOL thats great! Living in America, I miss out on the rest of the world's nicknames for our leader. "Shrub." LOL

  20. Re:ide-scsi on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm... I just use a SCSI cd burner...

  21. Re:Mirror =) on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    lol Will the CEC be mad at us for using so much bandwidth?

  22. Re:Thanks a lot, Sherman on Kazaa-lite Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I actually saw it happen. SOmeone down the hall transfered their music collection to someone else's computer by yanking his hard drive and running down the hall with it lol.

  23. Re:Powerbook dropped down the stairs on What's the Hardiest Hardware You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    Im just suprised it still works...

  24. Re:Powerbook dropped down the stairs on What's the Hardiest Hardware You've Seen? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A kid in my dorm has dropped his powerbook g4 several times. One time it fell off his lap, and hit the edge of a table leg on the way down, taking a chunk out of the table leg, and wedging it between two parts of the case. Another time, he dropped it off his desk, and it hit something on the floor right on edge, putting a dent in the side of the keyboard area. Then, it slipped out of his backpack, tumbled down a flight of stairs, and bounced through the railing to fall an entire story. It hit the railing on the way down, denting the edge of the laptop, and finally landed corner first on the concrete floor. He has the bright spots on the screen, two mashed corners, two dented sides, a dent in the side of the screen area, and a slightly bowed screen. And it still works perfectly, other than one of the USB ports being mashed beyond recognition, and some creative application of a 20 pound instrument transformer to bend the metal far enough to insert the charging plug.

  25. Re:Its a form of vapourware...... on The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of · · Score: 1
    Is that the cost of the IP licence on 'Birdman'??

    I wouldn't be suprised.