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  1. Re:A catch-22. on Constructing a Windows-Less Office · · Score: 1

    1.1.2 I believe, which was pretty quick.

  2. Re:A catch-22. on Constructing a Windows-Less Office · · Score: 1

    Which KDE? Certainly not 2.2.1, which, although useable, is still pitifully slow compared to Win98 on my K6-2 300 laptop w 160MB RAM. I must try the pre-emptible patch and see if that speeds it up.

  3. Re:Volunteer work would be great if you got paid.. on Volunteer Work Abroad? · · Score: 1

    So you think that the doctors that work for Doctors Without Borders are out-of-work hippies, rather than people that have been to medical school for years and are prepared to risk their lives to help others rather than have a cushy job in a US hospital. What a sad, obnoxious little shit you are. Perhaps having a wash more than once a month and actually leaving your bedroom might open your eyes.

  4. Re:Here's how on Next Restricted CD Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I certainly feel entitled to a refund if a corporation sells me a faulty product. Why should they get to keep my money?

  5. Re:there are some 'S's to go with your 'A' on Kazaa to be shut down? · · Score: 1

    The Reg has been calling them that for quite a while now, and I'm surprised that their unauthorised use of the asses of Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen hasn't landed them in court yet.

  6. Re:x-box blah on Nintendo Declares GCN Most Popular Console Ever · · Score: 1

    You do realise you've now opened yourself to 'stop mindlessly bashing Microsoft, I had an intellimouse once blah blah blah' replies.

  7. Re:XBox is pretty popular around here, but abudant on Nintendo Declares GCN Most Popular Console Ever · · Score: 1

    I think Microsoft's survival isn't going to be threatened in the near future.

  8. Re:ISPs should be ISPs! on Cable Co's Want More Control Over Your Network · · Score: 1

    A co-op. Sounds suspiciously like communism to me :-).

  9. Re:preemptable patch on Linux 2.4.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Does this make a noticeable difference to desktop performance, as I'm about to recompile my kernel for other stuff and I might put this in as well if it's worthwhile.

  10. Re:Day Late and a Dollar Short for a Crappy Featur on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI · · Score: 1

    Presumably, though, OS X doesn't require anyone to write a program before it can be used.

  11. Re:Too Incompetent To Keep Their Job on New Microsoft SQL Server Worm · · Score: 1

    But should an admin who isn't allowed to schedule downtime in order to apply the service packs be fired? This latest one isn't like the last in that it can be sorted out in a matter of minutes. The others required applying of security fixes that would have required testing not to mention lots of reboots.

  12. Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? on A Distorted Mirror: Automatic, Real-Time Web Parodies · · Score: 1

    Deceit and lies are not legitimate means of protest.


    And I suppose the people that founded the USA never told a lie (the cherry tree legend not withstanding). Why is lying not a legitimate form of protest? It seems to be a legitimate form of political organisations like the WTO.

  13. Re:The 8080 on Intel 4004 Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    MSDOS, although most of us wish it wasn't.

  14. Re:WRONG on Defining Globalism · · Score: 1

    The way to reduce gun crime is the same way as other crimes such as stealing food were reduced - find out why these crimes are committed and work on ways to stop said crimes. Merely banning guns is treating the symptom, not the disease.

  15. Re:Worse Re:It means the US has taken over the wor on Defining Globalism · · Score: 1

    Yes. Stop eating and walk around naked.

  16. Re:GLOBALIZATION ON WHOSE TERMS? on Defining Globalism · · Score: 1

    Except to achieve such an economic miracle it had protective trade tariffs - the very thing that would be anathema to the WTO and their ilk. Japan would be a very different country today if it's industry was primarily owned by foreigners.

  17. Re:Guinea-Pigs on Business @ the Speed of Stupid · · Score: 1

    That would be true if the history of web-based projects were any different to that of any other IT projects. It is a rare CTO indeed that actually follows the advice from the book "hire smart people and listen to them", instead of hiring plenty of butt-kissers and listening to $8000/day consultants. The technology may be new, but the problems are still the same.

  18. Re:Unknown on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    What hands-off US foreign policy would that be then? The one in the Middle East, South America or South East Asia?

  19. Re:But it does make you think.... on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    Spare us the US-centric bullshit please. People have died and scoring cheap points against the Europeans is not welcome at this time.

  20. Re:CD rips on More Copy Protected CDs? · · Score: 1

    I bought the Crazy Town CD in Australia a few weeks ago and am now quite happily listening to it on my PC.

  21. Re:Flat Rate Wireless on Flat-Rate Wireless Where The Sun Don't Shine (Much) · · Score: 1

    Still doesn't make it a third-world country as the ignorant parent poster said.


    From my very limited experience of Japan, everything is horribly expensive, not just 3G, although the Japanese do get paid a lot more than Americans, so it probably all balances out in the end.

  22. Re:Flat Rate Wireless on Flat-Rate Wireless Where The Sun Don't Shine (Much) · · Score: 1

    Japan has the second largest economy in the world and Britain has the fifth. Hardly third world. Perhaps if you left your bedroom occasionally and got out and saw some of the world you wouldn't be so damnably ignorant. BTW dumbass, Japan has 3G already and Europe is on the verge of getting it, it's only the US that is lagging behind the rest of the world in getting mobile technology going.

  23. Re:Low Linux Budgets ? on Businesses Slow to Adopt Linux · · Score: 1

    Is that a fact? OK, tell me where I can get a job as one, despite having no experience or MCSE.

  24. Re:Fines == Taxes? on EU May Fine Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Since the Soviet Union had no private companies, I fail to see any comparison. Although having giant, unaccountable monopolies were part of the system...

  25. Re:Office XP on StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be wonderful if all computers had 768MB of RAM to use. However, IT departments have to run on a budget, and when you have to upgrade the RAM of a thousand computers, just because Microsoft programmers are incapable of writing tight code, it soon adds up.