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  1. Re:PaysForSure? on Samsung Steals the Brain Behind the iPod · · Score: 1

    Probably, I was more amused by it being listed on the spec-sheet as PlaysForSure/Janus

    Janus being the 2-faced Roman god of gates and portals
    http://www.pantheon.org/articles/j/janus.html?esc

  2. Re:xp emu for 98 on Ars Technica Reviews Intel iMacs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What about *shock* installing XP?

  3. Re:what's on Web 3.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Despatch war rocket AJAX to bring back his webserver.

  4. Re:The decaf coffee on Phase Change in Fluids Simulated · · Score: 1

    There's a reason I drink coffee.

    If I wanted a hot mug of brown sugary water then I'd make a mug of hot brown sugary water.

  5. Re:Excellent on Sneak Peek at IBM 'Viper' DB2 Release · · Score: 1
    Is your copy of Postgres missing the string datatype?


    Or do you just need something thats buzzword compliant :P

  6. This isn't the meme you are looking for on Microsoft Proposes RSS Extension · · Score: 1

    Well that post took a while to appear.

  7. Re:Not new on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    Ventilators? I've seen something very similar used as signage outside garages, with large loud writing vertically down the rotational centre of each side.

  8. Re:why don't you.. on 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts So Far in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Though you only have to play russian roulette once. For instance, how many pccard wifi doodads do you need?

  9. Yeah but on Gravitational Wave Detection Imminent? · · Score: 2

    when do we get our impeller drives & Warchowski sails?

  10. Re:Mr Samba? on 'Mr. Samba' Talks About Samba's Future · · Score: 1

    Mr Samba, Send me a file
    From a server on which I can rely
    I must use windows here
    but the server's a tux ... but thats as much as I can remember
    (To the tune of Mr Sandman, as well as I can remember)

  11. Re:The Air must Flow on How to Keep Your Computer Cool · · Score: 1

    Damn, I was going to post that, ah well.

    I see fans within fans.

  12. Re:why not..... on Sci-Fi on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess Spielburger has proved that some things shouldn't be messed with.

    Pendragon Pictures (UK) have produced a version of WOTW which is *shock* *horror* based closely on the original book
    http://www.pendragonpictures.com/WOTWKEY.html
    It was released on film and DVD over a month ago and I've yet to hear of it showing :(

  13. The count above is wronng on Ten Years Of The Linux Counter · · Score: 1

    The count quoted above is at least 20K out, I'm number 142831

  14. Re:I live in the UK, on Oops, Dave Barry Does It Again · · Score: 1

    No, its t'other way about, as long as companies like Powergen, Sky and the like can make extra sales with these underhand tactics, they will continue to exploit agents to flog customers with unwanted goods. But we don't have to put up with it, anyone in the UK can sign up with the TPS (our equivalent of the US DNC list, but one that works) and sue the pants off any of these companies.

  15. Re:Cool on Beyond Pringles: 802.11 Antenna From A Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    802.11b - There is no spoon.

  16. Re:How do you... on How to Become A Spammer · · Score: 1

    And sharpen the edges first

  17. Sounds famiilar on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like Dr. Zippermeyers Whirlwind Cannon, an experimental German WW2 weapon/device. http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Hagelkorn/Germany/Luft kanone/luftkanone.htm http://autonomous.org/soundsite/texts/weapon.html

  18. Re:Halon systems aren't illegal, but.... on University of Twente NOC Destroyed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We've got a couple of server rooms at work with big (5ft tall) CO2 extinguishers, you have 10 seconds to leave the server room after they activate.

    Strangely enough, there are no servers in there, just hubs, routers and comms gear.

  19. Re:so does this mean.. on SuSE Linux will run Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    they stopped doing that by version 8.0

  20. Re:Reliability problems. on The Next Spruce Goose · · Score: 1

    From the look of it, as 8 bladed props are very unusual, I think that each engine bay would hold 2 (maybe more) engines with 2 contra-rotating props.