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  1. Re:The only solution ... on Stubborn Spyware Removal Advice? · · Score: 1
    Reboot from a freedos or linux boot floppy.


    [snarky on]
    So what you're saying is that there's no way to do that from a command line in WINXP?
    [snarky off]
  2. Re:Ain't gonna happen on Independents Push For Second Firefly Season · · Score: 1
    With how poorly Fox treated Firefly


    Poor treatment of Sci-Fi at FOX is hardly new. Alien Nation got screwed over pretty badly by them, too, back when the channel first came out, and they've been poor handlers of just about everything else like it since...
  3. Re:Where do I begin... on There is No Open Source Community · · Score: 1
    Again, you miss the point. If he has been assigned to develop an application that is going to run on Apache/Tomcat, then someone already approved Apache/Tomcat to be used. So why does it need to go through a re-approval process?


    Probably because he wasn't the person it was approved for in the first place? Several places I've worked at have limited accces to certain programs to certain people only, and in order to get access to new software, you have to go through an approval process, regardless of whether or not it's installed on someone elses machine or not...
  4. Re:Interesting on Paul Allen the 'Accidental Zillionaire' · · Score: 1
    Forget Gates, Allen is the asshole behind Microsoft.


    How can he, when he left the company?

    Gates is still there. The company still does Evil, Nasty things (tm). Ergo, Allen is not the asshole behind Microsoft.
  5. Re:No words will fix the problem. on Firefox Secrets · · Score: 1
    You said, "Care to post bug #s?". That's really, really disgusting. After this long discussion, and you calling me a troll, you are demonstrating once again that you didn't read what I posted. I already posted a bug number and extensive discussion! That's the behavior I have seen over and over again with Mozilla and Firefox developers: A total lack of willingness to let someone else lead.


    I haven't seen the bug number in this thread. Maybe he mised it as well? Care to repost the bug number?
  6. Re:"nonesevent" not in google on A Solution for the Ten Letter Acrostic Puzzle? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    However, the word nones is.

    From m-w.com
    Main Entry: 4none
    Pronunciation: 'nOn
    Function: noun
    Usage: often capitalized
    Etymology: Late Latin nona, from Latin, 9th hour of the day from sunrise -- more at NOON
    : the fifth of the canonical hours

    A google define:nones query results in:
    # n the old Roman calendar, the ninth day before Ides. The 7th of March, May, July and October and the 5th of other months. See Calends, Nones & Ides
    www.highdown.reading.sch.uk/highdown/pupil/time/ca lendars/terms.html

    # the 5th or 7th day of the month, depending on the month, in Roman dating
    medievalwriting.50megs.com/glossary2.htm

    # ninth day before the ides (hence 5th or 7th of month, since Romans counted both ends of the number series).
    www.stockton.edu/~roman/fiction/vocab3.htm

    # the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m.
    wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

    Looks to me like this isn't a single word, rather a compound word. Perhaps it should be hyphenated, if written out...

  7. Re:Umm, Forbes, you forgot Tony Stark. on Forbes Fictional 15 · · Score: 1

    Given the curent list, I believe this is limited to characters:
    a) in our curent time frame (thus, no future based scifi) and
    b) Movie/television characters (Unc'a Scrooge counts since he's been in movies and tv shows).

    That's just my guess, anywho.

  8. Re:Only two problems... on The End Of The Light Bulb? · · Score: 1

    They also don't work on dimmer switches, in my experience. Or at least so far none of the ones I've had do.

  9. Re:The judge's bias on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Certainly, it's possible and probable that the judge was thinking that the cases often had endings that didn't further the goals of objective judicial justice. But to start making sweeping statements about a particular plaintiff at the very beginning gives too much of an appearance of predjudice.


    And there is no reason that the judge couldn't disqualify herself from the actual trial, once she's given the defendant the chance to actually defend herself.
  10. Re:TSR & faulty memories killed the Gen Con yo on Gen Con Indy 2005 In A Nutshell · · Score: 1
    WotC did not put up any new barriers to running a game at a convention.


    Indeed. It seems to be quite easy. I wasn't able to go this year, but last year I ran a Forgotten Realms adventure, my first ever adventure at Gen Con. It was pretty easy to get going, though there was a bit of confusion as I inadvertantly left off AM or PM for my timeslot....

  11. My girlfriend and I... on Parents 'ignore game age ratings' · · Score: 1

    are both video game players. We are both concerned with what her 10 year old son plays.

    His father, however, is firmly of the "sit down and shut the f*ck up" generation, and doesn't care that his son plays GTA:VC, etc, when his kids are there.

    Sure, we let him play Halo (though he wasn' supposed to....), but at least I've played it, and know what it's like.

    GTA, True Crime, and those others...well, we do what we can.

  12. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    SG1 season 8 isn't out yet, but it should be by the time the next network season starts, if last years pattern holds...

  13. Re:Minor nit on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25 · · Score: 1

    You're presuming that he can put in a window AC unit. Some places (esp. rental places) prohibit adding window air conditioning units. This MAY be the most efficient way for him to do this.