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  1. Re:How is it abusive? He shouldn't sue at all on Mandriva Fires Founder Gael Duval, Who Plans to Sue · · Score: 1

    Well if you intend to do that you'd better return the Statue of Liberty.

  2. Re:Con Trick? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 1

    22/7 is Pi is infinetely correct. 3.141 etc IS an approximation.

    Why do you say it repeats every 6 digits? Example please.

  3. Con Trick? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 1

    Why would I need to memorise Pi when I can easily calculate it on the fly?

    Sounds like a con to me.

    Its is merely 22/7 after all. Lets see;

    22/7 is 3 remainder 1.
    1/7 doesn't go, so add a zero.
    Make a point.
    10 / 7 is 1r3. So we have 3.1
    3/7 doesn't go so add a zero.
    30 / 7 is 4r2. So we have 3.14.

    Does anybody see a pattern emerging here?

    To go to any number of significant digits I use LONG DIVISION.

    However I could be making a basic mistake here, maybe to testing regime is more sophisticated that starting from the beginning.

  4. Re:Not just the graphics explaining the gap! on Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work · · Score: 1

    I am right in remembering that those mid nineties releases were billed in the UK as "The only time you will be able to by them, they will NEVER be on sale again"?

  5. Microsoft p2p network technology on Windows XP SP2 Impressions · · Score: 1

    I the update directory of the unpacked download there is a file named spnpinst.exe. Its properties state "Peer-to-peer Custom Setup".

    Anybody know what this is about? I notice that group policy now has entries cover p2p and clouds.

  6. Perimeter Security Alert on Nursing Homes Go High-Tech · · Score: 1

    And the next step will be a perimeter security field where if a resident tries to go outside it a sub skin syringe will activate and put them to sleep.

    Spooky.

  7. Re:Can't you use a regular old phone? on Cross-Platform VoIP Software? · · Score: 1

    But the interface on these darn POTS phones is confusing.

    And how the hell am I supposed to remember that Mikes phone number is 555-4545 exactly?

    Why on earth wasn't POTS based on RFC's! They should be using sip:mike@bt.com not these stupid TELEPHONIC NUMMERS!!!

  8. Re:Asterisk on Cross-Platform VoIP Software? · · Score: 1

    An alternative to Asterisk and very easy to setup is the Ondo SIP Server which is free, and the Ondo PBX which is not free but has various flexible licenses available.

  9. I welcome broken compatibility on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 1

    I call on Micro-Soft to lock down Windows real tight and break as many applications as possible.

    The effect would be to drive people to Linux and open source.

  10. Re:Fixing tumbling not as easy as it seems... on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed · · Score: 1

    Was the weightlessness on this trip a product of being at the top of a parabolic trajectory, or was it 'true weightlessness' of being faraway from the mass of Earth?

    I was thinking that in the first instance that this kind of weightlessness 'hey look, I am weightless, I must be in space!' such as a 747 during astronaut training, is easier to achieve than the latter.

  11. Re:Suburb of Stockholm, Sweden on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the time taken to tell me about your area. I was shocked! when you said Stockholm, it was not a situation I expected to hear of from that place.

    Regarding mental institutions (is that politically correct!). In the 1980's the UK government brought out a policy of "Care in the Community", which sounds rather like what you write. Weekly stories of bizarre killing. Former mental patients pleading to be detained for treatment. And in the 1990's, "a mental patient that is so damaged to be beyond treatment CANNOT be detained as they can only be detained for treament".

    Regards TZ

  12. Office 2003 installation fun on OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Today I gave up trying to figure out why when I installed Office 2003 onto an XP machine whilst logged in as admin, then logged in as another user, the software did not appear to be installed.

    This pissed me off no end. I ended up making the target user an admin, then installed as them too.

  13. Re:Bad neighborhood. on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 1

    Fascinating, and I understand your point.

    Could you tell us a little more about where you live? Have you always lived under these conditions?

  14. Re:I shouldn't laugh... on International Space Station Gyroscope Fails · · Score: 1

    The EVA mission wont take place until the summer, when the weather will be better, and warmer days have arrived.

  15. Re:Sensationalism... on International Space Station Gyroscope Fails · · Score: 1

    I bet Bruce Willis could fix it in 5 minutes...

  16. Shaving? STEALING! on Computerized Time Clocks Susceptible to 'Manager Attack' · · Score: 1

    In the '80s I worked in a supermarket in the UK for about 3 years. I had started there working part-time, minimum 16 hours per week to help me through college.

    Well I started doing more and more hours, eventually stopping going to college all together (I had become an alcholic at this point I needed all the money I could get).

    Anyway, after I had been there about 18 months, I was working about 55 hours per week, although still classed as a part-time worker! One day I decided to take a detailed look at my payslip. I was shocked to find that the previous week I been paid for around 36 hours when I had done 56!

    I asked the boss about this, and he said that he couldn't afford to pay me for all the hours I worked, and that his boss told him how many hours he could pay people for collectively each week. Therefore he divvied it out each week the best he could. Further, I had never once been paid extra for Saturday work (time + 1/4) or everbeen paid at the 40+ overtime rate.

    I kept working there another 18 months though, as we used to get a few perks, and I enjoyed working there.

    It was my first job.

  17. Re:thats easy on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have you tried the driver for the x73 off the linuxprinting.org site?

  18. Re:How about Corel Draw? on Corel To Test WordPerfect For Linux · · Score: 1

    >Just a thought, but with an XML-based file format, maybe tossing in a reveal-codes like feature could have a new potency.

    Could you expand your thoughts on reveal-codes? Nothing springs to mind on how xml-reveal-codes would provide an punchy breakthrough.

    Examples please.

  19. Re:Terrorism and nuclear facilities on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1

    >You'll either get SAMed or the containment building will likely survive the impact.

    So do these SAM batteries actually have firing orders available against commercial airliners?

  20. Re:Consequences of cheap nuclear power? on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1

    Isn't that to stop the wind blown uranium particles from collecting on the garments?

  21. Re:"Seamless Information Exchange" on Microsoft FUD Machine Aims at OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the OO team are working on a plugin for Office so that Office can import OO files?

    This would enable companies to more easily integrate with OO, and reduce fear.

    And seeing as OO can already import Office formats, perhaps it wouldn't be too hard to do the reverse.

  22. Re:Clippy says... on Microsoft FUD Machine Aims at OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    The lastest edition take a rp at Microsofts Clippy http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/nowshow.shtml

  23. Re:BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY! YOU WILL EMBRACE MYSQL! on New SQL Server Release Slips to 2005 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I got stuck a while back when I found out that you couldn't, at the time, INSERT into a table with the source data being a SELECT from the same table.

  24. Re:Horrible Name on New SQL Server Release Slips to 2005 · · Score: 1

    The bosses at work always call it ess-queue-ell server.

  25. Re:Serial numbers are easy to find on Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    And sometimes they put the wrong codes on there...