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  1. Re:HTC Shift ThinkPad X300 MacBook Air Perfect.... on HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook? · · Score: 1

    In the RSS feed, it shows up as "HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook?" I wonder why the plusses don't show up on the actual site.

  2. Re:It's A Fact on IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but our midwestern 1200 sqft houses with three bedrooms, two baths, and all the other amenities only costs $500/mo, utilities, tax, insurance and mortgage included. Compare that to your $900/mo 500 sqft apartment that you still pay a $400/mo electric bill on during the summer.

  3. Re:Amen. on HP Looks To Improve Power Management Coordination · · Score: 1

    Man you must have sucky apples wherever you live. Michigan Fujis are typically much, much sweeter than the usual California navel oranges we get around here. The oranges are typically a bit sour as well, while the Fujis are only slightly tart. Now Pink Lady apples, on the other hand, are very tart, and yet still sweet. Other, more lame, apples like Granny Smith and McIntosh are typically less sweet and less crunchy.

    There, now I've both compared apples to oranges AND apples to apples. LOL

  4. Re:Sinofsky really worries me on 158 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry · · Score: 1

    While the 915 is horrendous, the Brother multifunctions are actually pretty decent, as long as you go laser. They have workable Linux compatibility (not as good as HP but better than Canon's non-support), and both the printer and toner is significantly cheaper than everyone else.

  5. Re:I tried Firefox 3 today on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 2, Informative

    What you really want is Opera. Built-in RSS for most sites (like slash and whatnot), and the speed dial for everything else. Throw in a few customized quicksearchers (like for wikipedia and tpb), and I don't think I've typed an address in manually in like a month.

  6. Re:quantifying the unquantifable! on Taiwan Group Responsible For 90% of MSFT Piracy · · Score: 1

    No, but the real question is, "Does the pope shit in the woods?"

  7. Re: Screening works especially well.. on Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls · · Score: 3, Funny

    ats jus cuz ur slo at it. speed up n get a plan wit free txt

  8. Re:Ah, the "outsourcing" coding model.. on Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually I meant this but posted too soon. It pretty much guards against most things (the shell will do all the escaping necessary). The only thing i foresee a problem with is if names that are legal on one filesystem that are illegal on the other. I don't think rsync takes care of the either.

    cp -aRp "$from" "$to" && rm -r "$from"

  9. Re:Ah, the "outsourcing" coding model.. on Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard · · Score: 1

    That would still have the same problems. Try 'cp $from $to && rm -r $from'.

  10. Re:Within the retail sector... on Ubuntu On Dell After Four Months · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're making in incorrect assumption. It's EASIER to use a package manager. Most distros (and competent admins) seriously frown upon non-package-manager-installed software because of the problems this can introduce. Also, puTTY? Why? Just stick with the Linux/UNIX equivalents that puTTY was made to emulate. (That's right, puTTY was made for Windows users to get unix functionality, not vice versa.)

    Please, tell me one thing that putty can do that ssh, telnet, and xterm can't.

  11. Re:Spending priorities? on Churches Use Halo To Spread the Word, Raise Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    Here in Grand Rapids, MI, there are probably 10 churches per square mile, and I'm not joking. I just happen to live in an affluent area, with several ridiculously lavish baptist, CRC, RCC, and (less lavish) Lutheran churches down the road. This (the number of churches) should come as no surprise when you consider that the CRC and RCC would both founded in GR and that we have Zondervan (the Bible printing company) somewhere on the south end.

  12. Re:Spending priorities? on Churches Use Halo To Spread the Word, Raise Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    For me, probably closer to $20 million.

  13. Re:Tired of this goddamn label on SAS CEO Blasts Old-School Schooling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I seriously doubt you studied either, ever. You probably studied grammars (whereas I learned grammar a couple of times in English and then actually studied it only in Latin class.).

  14. Re:Laptop? on '30 Year Laptop Battery' is Unscientific Myth · · Score: 1

    This is doubtful when you consider how fluorescent lights work. More likely is that someone will popularize a mercury free replacement like LEDs.

  15. Re:Laptop? on '30 Year Laptop Battery' is Unscientific Myth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try two extra neutrons. One extra neutron would make it deuterium. One extra proton would make it Helium-2 (which is non-existant).

  16. Re:One universal install method... on How Would You Refocus Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    The reason that Windows appears to not have dependencies is because all the dependencies are included in the package. This works on Windows because all software gets it's own directory and can put whatever junk it wants in it. Under Linux, all software (generally, I know there's /opt) resides in the same standard location, so that if two packages have the same dependency they'd end up fucking each other up. We don't want that. That's why distros have their own packaging systems.

    Furthermore, in the end its much easier to have your distro handle the package management anyway. Have you ever tried to keep up with software updates on a Windows system? Probably not. You probably just stick with the same version while people exploit bugs that were fixed years ago, and random hackers fight over who owns your box. Under Linux, it's a one or two command process to update EVERY package on your entire system automatically. Windows blows it.

  17. Re:Ugh... on Net Neutrality Debate Crosses the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Actually, natural diamonds aren't rare either. If all the diamonds in Africa alone (and there are shitloads in the other continents as well) were mined today, every man, woman and child on earth could have a coffee mug full. They're expensive because all of ONE company (DeBeers) owns or controls all of the diamond mines on earth. The only ones they don't control are the "blood diamond" mines, but they got those diamonds illegalized instead. There's nothing bloody about blood diamonds, other than black people making the money instead of whites, and the whites saying, "Bloody Hell!"

  18. Star Wars Galaxies on Sony Crows About Blu-ray, Upcoming PS3 DVR Functionality · · Score: 1

    'nuff said

  19. Re:Quick answer: No on Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You read that wrong. The last paragraph of the FAQ question clearly states that EXT2IFS cannot acceess an ext3 partition that's not cleanly unmounted and will operate on an ext3 partition as if it were ext2 just like old Linux kernels without ext3 support did.

  20. Re:Maddox on What's Keeping US Phones In the Stone Age? · · Score: 1

    So I take it you typed that message in vi running on your webserver via ssh, then cut, pasted and posted it all on your Nokia E70. Wow. Just wow.

  21. Re:I never thought I'd say this, but... on Will MySpace Disrupt Television? · · Score: 1

    What's really funny is that I read the article for the bad spelling and poor grammar and I was surprised to see none. Article's writing was stuccato. It lacked articles.

    So what was wrong it then?

    The last paragraphs. Entirely composed of sentence fragments. Random words. Sucked.

  22. What about Rag Doll Kung Fu? on There Are No Games So Bad They're Funny · · Score: 1

    The single-player of that game may as well have been a "B" kung-fu movie. (It included one in the cutscreens, complete with beer, pot, and shrooms.) All in all, I think it's probably the most unique game I have ever played. The only real problem I (or anyone else I know) had with it was the complete lack of dedicated server support. You could host your own dojo, but it had to be a listen server, which is ubergay (even gayer than writing "uber").

  23. I can see it now on Rewritable Song Lyrics · · Score: 3, Funny

    New gems like, "Pownt, I owned your ass loser. You suck, I rock"
    and "I love gay sex"

  24. Re:Fork? on Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you CAN get away without the GNU userland. Busybox on top of uclibc or dietlibc replaces the userland (IIRC, all three projects are unrelated to GNU other than through the GPL.). I believe that they all can be compiled with the Intel C Compiler.

    Having said that, I think "GNU/Linux" is lame.

  25. Re:Jargon Jingle. on Judge Says No to RIAA Subpoena Request · · Score: 4, Informative

    My hand goes up. Ex parte is a very common legal term meaning to meet with a judge without both parties being present. Normally, no matter what the motion, when you meet with a judge, both sides get to be present. These subpoenas are being issued with only the RIAA being present.