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  1. Re:I've had enough! on Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    I did that on purpose for my father and it worked. Later on I told him he could directly enter the address in the bar.

  2. Re:Get Real Tools on USB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 1

    The only multi purpose tool that I can use as a normal tool is a Gerber. I have a Leatherman, but the overall quality is not good enough.

    Go with Gerber. They are ugly but useful.

  3. Re: Are they writing off the cost? on U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off · · Score: 1

    You are allowed to charge for the distribution of GPL-ed software. You can make profit on that. Give these away, say they cost real money and get a tax benefit.

  4. Re:psycho-acoustical what? on Legislators Looking At Peer to Peer Monitor · · Score: 1

    And: would it work with DRM? Can they block/recognize files which are "locked" with DRM?

  5. Re:Muzak on Legislators Looking At Peer to Peer Monitor · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can let them clean up my harddisk too :-).

  6. Re:Full Text -- Translation on EV1 Servers CEO Responds To Customers · · Score: 1

    Criminals get smarter these days...

  7. Re:Impossible on Toward a New Kind of Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    You would decrease cache hits, but increase branch prediction hitrates.

  8. Re:Debian avoiding the new release?? on XFree86 4.4 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will be another three years before it enters stable. I still have time :-).

  9. Re:ECE on Computer Studies w/o Excessive Coding? · · Score: 1

    I know many people who chickened out of EE, straight into CS...

  10. OT: +1 funny on Correlation Between Stress and Technology? · · Score: 1

    it actually took me a few seconds to grasp that... Funny.

  11. Re:Flame me if you want... but... on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    script fu definately sucks. It probably works, but I didn't get it to work (and yes, I know scheme/lisp already). The documentation really fell short of giving meaningfull examples which are complex enough to actually say something.

    I settled for convert since what I wanted to do was possible with that too. Too bad because I liked the idea.

  12. Re:Unless on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    I'll take my chances with the Nobel prize winners' opinion anyday in my life. Politicians lie all the time, but scientists hardly get their reputation with lying.

  13. Re:Obsolete? on Morse Code Enters The 21st Century · · Score: 1

    That would be "mayday mayday mayday [destination call sign] [your call sign] [emergency description] [action taken] [position of vehicle] [other information]" (for aircraft at least).

  14. Re:Stupid Question on Morse Code Enters The 21st Century · · Score: 1

    >I don't know about underscore or backslash

    The emacs mode doesn't know these characters, so I guess they don't exist ;-).

  15. Re:this is pathetic on Defending Open Source Security · · Score: 1

    Is there a howto on these sort of techniques? I haven't come accross that yet, but I would like to know more...

  16. Re:Best point is the last on Defending Open Source Security · · Score: 1

    I haven't RTFA, but the same is true for closed software. Spyware anyone?...

  17. Re:creative cluelessness on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1

    that would be "dummy mode on" ...

    [From the bastard Glossary:

    DUMMY MODE, n. The mode in which a user, overcome by technical terms, will believe, and/or do, anything he or she is told.]

  18. Re:quote on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1

    USians are outnumbered 4:1...

  19. Re:blaming the users? on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1

    No they don't. Computers are still made with programming languages and my win95/98 skills still work on w2k (I skipped a few years of windows).

    I currently work on a helpdesk which should clue you in on my standing on the level of understanding from users. They often don't care.

  20. Re:Outstanding!! on Review of Silent 400w Power Supply · · Score: 1

    mod parent up please...

  21. Re:Choice quotes on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    For once, you being an anonymous "cow"ard makes sense. I would like to be anonymous too, if I were you :-).

  22. Re: Linux, the last OS? on IBM Supporting Linux On Power Processors · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you are inhaling, but there are good reasons to skip linux in a HW/OS design cycle. You would have to think outside the processor box "as we know it" though.

  23. Re:Not related to work... on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    I still see this every day at "my" helpdesk. Clicking a VNC shortcut twice can be too much.

  24. Re:My short job last year on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 2, Funny

    are you part of a BOFH story?

  25. Re:the Netherlands... on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    Those providers make a percentage from the amount the telco charges you... Second, their helplines are very expensive.