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  1. Sure, up arrow, backspace, backspace, anykey, anykey, enter.

  2. Re:They're Trying To Milk Subscriptions on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "The Romulans are now in the war, and all it cost was the self-respect of one starfleet officer." (paraphrased)

  3. Re:They're Trying To Milk Subscriptions on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "The Romulans are now in the war, and all it cost was the self-respect of a starfleet officer." (paraphrased)

  4. Re:Prediciton on Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I forsee a lot of alert drunks in the future.

  5. Re: shameless plug on Review: Puppet Vs. Chef Vs. Ansible Vs. Salt · · Score: 1

    I have seen it but couldn't figure out what it does after reading the docs. Seems like a make alternative. I can't think of a better name unfortunately.

  6. Re: shameless plug on Review: Puppet Vs. Chef Vs. Ansible Vs. Salt · · Score: 1

    packaged ;)

  7. Re: shameless plug on Review: Puppet Vs. Chef Vs. Ansible Vs. Salt · · Score: 1

    If anyone is looking for an even simpler solution, I've package up my own project and open-sourced it. It's called pave, and has few dependencies, just PyYaml and fabric:
            https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave
    Would love to get more feedback.

  8. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    The return on "investment" is not primarily to benefit you or I (taxpayers), rather to enrich the class that owns government contractors. You can bet they've raked in trillions from the debacle. There's plenty of money to be made whether the oil flows or not. When it does they make even more.

  9. Re:Google WTF are you doing? on Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft · · Score: 2

    I agree with the sentiment, but XP is a bit dangerous and will get worse.

    My advice... back up the important files and install Xubuntu.

  10. Because of.. on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    1) Cloud hosting/SAAS/PAAS

    2) Outsourcing.

  11. There's a big difference ... on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    between CS, MIS, IT, and (whatever degree is appropriate for a web or enterprise code monkey). Math above algebra is a nice-to have rather than a necessity for everything but the first.

  12. Not True on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 1

    Just tried it and not true. I can see the ads fine. Clicks? Maybe not.

  13. One size doesn't fit all on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    There's probably at least two optimum sizes, one for big people (usually men) and small people. As the market matures, there will likely even be more.

  14. Re: horrified on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's basically true, though I've not seen every issue on the page.

    The interface got better over the years, such as on v6, but there are still numerous poorly designed features. Yes I say design, not bugs. For example, the lack of horz scroll bar that has to be enabled in a menu. Someone or multiple someones went out of their way to fuck that up *on purpose.*

    Many of the "features" persist I believe out of spite. The one that bugged me the most was the fact that preferences were spread out over multiple places. To change a setting, you'd have to search all of them.

  15. Re:Keywords! on Firefox 13 Released, Debuts Brand New Tab Page and Homepage · · Score: 1

    There's a much easier way... I didn't find it myself until about a year ago (after many years).

    Anyway, so right click in a search box, such as at the top of slashdot ^^. Pick the menu item "Add a keyword for this search." Type "s" or similar in the keyword field and now you can search slashdot with only, "s beowulf cluster"

  16. Unlikely on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    People not interested in facts aren't persuaded by them.

  17. Re:Only a video game? on World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    It's not the most action packed sport for sure ... but it is accessible. You only need one ball and some empty space. Of course baseball's a bit dull to watch as well, though I do enjoy playing it.

  18. Re:SpinRite on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Test Storage Media? · · Score: 2

    You misunderstand ... Spinrite exercises the drive and the drive heals itself. Steve's pretty clear about that.

  19. There were some rough patches ... on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    But the latest FF seems pretty stable to me. I'd go straight to the latest release and get the status 4 ever extension.

    If you can't handle that chrome is great choice too.

  20. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Houses can be sold. Assuming he didn't buy at the peak, no financial ruin necessary.

  21. Web startups, VFX, scientific computing, mobile on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Oh, and cloud computing ... linode, ec2 ring any bells?

    Every day on hacker news I read about how hard it is to find good people... and almost none of them are on Windows.

  22. Re:Cyber attack? on Zappos Hacked: Internal Systems Breached · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then the hackers drove away on the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY ... in a YUGO, oops... equivalent of a CYBER-CORVETTE.

  23. Works just fine on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    I use Linux mostly these days, but keep XP on my older box. It works fine and is snappy.

    When I boot Seven on my newer box I cringe at what they did to the control panel and explorer ... I just wanna knock heads together when I have to click five extra times to do something than it took in XP. Makes me sick... and yeah XP works just fine.

  24. Re:Keep away the UI "designers"! on Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    Where's the up mod when ya need it?

  25. Re:Firefox is to blame on Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser · · Score: 1

    You'll also need the status bar extension.