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  1. Re:Wear & Tear on Strategy Shift In The Air For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Metal Gears often require periodic lubrication, plastic gears generally don't. Metal also corrodes, plastic does not. Metal does not always last longer then plastic.

  2. Re:I Wonder... on Phone Numbers Go Locationless · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm is lost on some...

    It's probably time to change my sig anyway.

  3. Re:I Wonder... on Phone Numbers Go Locationless · · Score: 1

    email me and I will send you a free month coupon for packet8.

  4. Re:Marketing vs IT on Same Part, Same Supplier, Different Prices · · Score: 1

    I swear by Clear Care. It's a peroxide based solution that has to neutralize overnight so your contacts have to be out for at least six hours. I wore a pair of two week contacts for damn near six months and they were a little more irritating, but not bad. This solution really helps with dry eyes and I find it very convenient. I used to rub my contacts religiously, but would occasionally tear them, this solution cleans them as well as rubbing with no rubbing.

  5. Re:Low End Trend? on Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings · · Score: 1

    My wife and her neice already do this. I loaned my neice a laptop with SuSE installed on it. She still pisses and moans about it, but she wasn't able to provide a single concrete example of why it annoyed her, other then she thought it was like a generic windows.

    The only reason my wife insists on Windows is that one of her favorite sites has a built in editor that only works in Internet Explorer. So she won't even use firefox.

  6. Re:what about you? on What Are the Best Web and Email Hosts? · · Score: 1

    If you want to run your own mail server with very little hassle, check out ClarkConnect. Their 3.0 version just came out and looks really cool. I've used their 2.1 and can verify that it is really simple to run.

  7. Re:Microsoft Word 2000 is VERY quirky. on Microsoft Office Formats Not Really Being Opened · · Score: 0

    To do this in Microsoft Word, install an extra-cost package.

    ...Or you can install pdfcreator for free, lets can the FUD. PDF integration is not really that great of a selling point.

  8. Re:And what alternative do you have? on Intuit Disables Features in Quicken To Force Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Join a Credit Union, almost anyone can nowadays. They have better service, better rates, and you are a partial owner. You also don't have to put up with all the merger crap that seems to be business as usual for most banks.

    I will never join another bank again.

  9. Re:One or t'other... on Microsoft's Longhorn Faces Antitrust Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    SuSE has the best hardware detection IMHO. It's my favorite because it also seems to make it very easy to configure wireless.

  10. Re:30 days suspended - NO jail time on NYT On The Internet And Child Molestation · · Score: 1

    I just think it should be an option, obviously left up to the judge. This shouldn't be mandarory because then a rapist will just kill their victim, less chance of getting caught with the same penalty.

  11. Re:30 days suspended - NO jail time on NYT On The Internet And Child Molestation · · Score: 1

    This is the problem with death penalty alternatives. People point to murders and say that they only got 25 years or whatever. I see tons of cases where somebody is put away for life or a similar long time and released early by some later parole board. Life impronment just doesn't work. The person who was killed is gone forever! The killer should also be removed from this world.

    I also say bring back the death penalty for rape.

  12. Re:In a strange way, it makes me feel better on The Forgotten Huygens Experiment · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but the best part of you ran down the crack in your mother's ass and got washed out of the sheets.

  13. Re:keep screwing the little guy on The Coming Expensing of Employee Stock Options · · Score: 1

    The only real impact this rule change will have is to make it more difficult for very early stage startups to attract and retain quality employees- which is great for everyone, except entrepreneurs

    This is good for entrepreneurs. They will have to think harder about what ideas they launch. No more lemonade stands on the internet, oops guess that ideas sucks. Oh well, I just burned through 10 million in VC dollars, but that's why it was a corporation, no personal liability.
    In this situation, the workers are left holding the bag, the VC's are out money that could have funded ideas with real potential, and anyone with stock in the company lost their money.

    There's nothing to stop somebody from keeping their company privately owned and guaranteeing employees part ownership, this is a more honest and healthier way to run a company.

  14. Re:This one too: on Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005 · · Score: 1

    I had a helluva time getting wireless to work on my thinkpad 770z. I tried several cards and had problems with most of them.

    Then I tried SuSE. My wireless works flawlessly. It is a bit of a pain to go into YAST to reconfigure the card when I change locations, but I've been told I can set-up hardware profiles to take care of this.
    The only thing lacking a good way to discover access points. Most of the linux wireless discovery tools seem geared towards cracking AP's. I just want something to tell me when one's around.

  15. Re:Restaurant Plug on Mobile Users Plug-in Anywhere They Can · · Score: 1

    hmmm... If it is owned by Starbucks it's interesting that they provide free wifi at most of their locations. Maybe their doing a comparison between free wifi and pay (t-mobile) wifi. I always recommend Panara Bread to people looking for a place to connect. The shops are always clean and spacious, plus the foods not bad.

  16. Re:Common on IT Practice Within Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If you find out where the updates are installing, both in the file system and in the registry you can explicitly allow users access to those registry keys and folders. Then they will be able to isntall files. I find Sysinternals software invaluable for figuring out where software is trying to write.

  17. Re:How does this translate to the real battlefield on America's Army - FPS Psych Experiment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You thought you were kidding about the plastic surgerysd.

  18. Re:I think so. on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    How come everybody with your views is posting anonymously?

    It's not about pretending something doesn't exist. It's about exposing children to things in a controlled manner. I'm sure when you first started surfing for scat you only opened afew pictures. It probably took you awhile to move on to furries.

    Children need to be old enough to understand things before they are exposed to them. Sex and violence are part of life, but you don't walk down the streets and see people decapitated every day or even every week. The chances of a child being exposed to something like that are slim. Why destroy their innocence before it is necessary.

    Studies have shown that people who have casual sex have less sex on the whole then people in monogimous relationships. Sex isn't evewhere all the time and television sometimes pretends it is. Just because some 50 year old producer has looked at so much porn he can't get it up unless some chick is getting double penetrated while she deep throats a bannana doesn't mean I want to see that. People need to stop pushing the evelope. Rub one off in private.
    Everybody deserves a chance to grow up at their own pace, they might not get to, but they deserve a chance to try.

  19. Re:OMGWTFBBQ! on IBM Puts PC Business Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    Dell D600's are garbage. We have about 40 of them. We use them with the extra battery, which is a different shape then the primary battery.

    From what I've surmised they seem to drain the secondary battery first since that once can be switched to the cd-drive at any time. The problem I have is that alot of the D600's we have won't switch to the primary battery when the secondary is dead, they shut down and have to be powered back up. This sucks! Dell has been less then helpful in remedying this situations.
    They also only have one PCMCIA slot, and I've heard it tends towards failure because it is really jammed in close to the processor and fan (too much heat). If you buy one you also might notice that it doesn't seem to step processor speed properly in XP. Here's a link to a site that talks about the problem and has a patch you can download.

  20. Re:Bad? No way. on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    It's amusing to see somebody using slippery slope arguments and supporting death, in fact cruel and unusual, for a non-violent crime.
    Puts you right up there with the people who wanted to nuke Afghanistan after 9/11, then piss and moan about human right violations.

  21. Re:Improvements in data center technologies? on Half of U.S. I.T. Operations Jobs to Vanish · · Score: 1

    It's always been this way, that 1/2 just happened to be women in the past.

  22. Re:ST Replicator != Molecular Manufacturing on Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator · · Score: 1

    1) you no longer have to grow surplus food aid in one place, then transport it at great oil cost to the middle of a desert - you instead efficiently assemble what you need in-place using the "old" atoms from your last meal.

    So you expect me to eat a turd sandwich?

  23. Re:Indy - not so good on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    I just moved back to Indy this year, found a job that was ok, payed a little less then I wanted, but promised a raise after 6 months. Raise was crap so I jumped to another company and I'm makeing good money.

    I'm not a programmer, I'm a network admin so maybe there's the difference.

  24. Re:Don't let the terrorists win on Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Gee, I hope you never used a credit or debit card and your loyalty card, it's pretty easy find out who you are, you need to habitually trade cards if you really want to hide.

  25. This already exists. on Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like somebody never heard about ClarkConnect. Their distribution is awsome and requires very little user intervention. Everything is done through a web interface.
    I highly recommend it!