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  1. Re:I must be using Debian for too long... on Using Mozilla in Testing and Debugging · · Score: 1

    Pah! Real men type apt-get install mozilla-snapshot, not mozilla

  2. Re:Feature requests OT on Using Mozilla in Testing and Debugging · · Score: 1

    In additional to the parent, CTRL + Page Up can be used to go forwards, and CTRL + Page Down backwards.

  3. Re:Man... on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 2, Funny

    ERROR: Unknown variable "girlfriend" encountered at line 1.

  4. Re:Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL on Build Your Own Database-Driven Website · · Score: 1

    Wow, you learn something new every day! Thanks!

  5. Re:Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL on Build Your Own Database-Driven Website · · Score: 1

    I thought it was known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)? This is quite amusing when you realise that on a Windows based platform, it has the opportunity to be come WIMP (Windows 2000, IIS, MySQL, PHP). It would be funny if it wasn't so depressing.

  6. Re:Good for Germany. on Germany Places Command & Conquer on Restricted List · · Score: 1

    I don't know what the opinion of the common people in Japan is, but their government certainly gave its full backing to the current war in the Gulf.

  7. Troll Ahoy! on Germany Places Command & Conquer on Restricted List · · Score: 1

    It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.

    <troll>
    So, will GWB be refused a visa next time he visits Deutschland?
    </troll>

  8. Re:Helpful? on Open Source for Dummies? · · Score: 1

    Well, T F M or rather, Ms, already exist, so perhaps it might be an idea to W T F M on how to R T F Ms? That way, there would be no problem asking people to R T F M because there wouldn't be a lack of understanding on how to do it in the first place.

    That said, said people would have to R T F M on the topic of how to R T F M as to understand how they could R T F M in the first place. Doing that, IMHO, is the hard part.

  9. Which Shell? on Which Shell Do You Prefer? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Royal Dutch?

    "When you absolutely, positively have to murder every Ogoni protester in the Niger Delta, accept no substitute."
  10. Helpful? on Open Source for Dummies? · · Score: 1

    I recommend giving each user a report 60 pages in length, and on pages 28, 29, 30 and 31 print in enormous letters:

    R T F M

    Then after they have digested this report, introduce them to the delights of man. :)

  11. Re:unbelivable.. on BBC on Website Slow Downs · · Score: 1

    It's not about who went in first. The objective of the war is to liberate Iraq, not conquer it, and therefore NO member of the military of ANY country should be raising their country's flag.

  12. Re:Advice to troops on Updates on War in Iraq · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you got Robin Cook's (former Leader of the House of Commons, and former Foreign Secretary) recent resignation speech on C-SPAN (I think it's available from the BBC), but I think you'll have to go some way to find a better speech.

  13. Re:Try Australia on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 1

    FYI: Rupert Murdock also owns the New York Post.

  14. Unbiased War News? on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I recommend looking to The Onion. It is, after all, America's Finest News Source.

    In all seriousness, I shall probably be checking the BBC's web site regularly (News Ticker (Win32) | RSS), as well as buying a decent newspaper for greater depth and insight.

    Of course, for those committed to both sides of the argument, I recommend visiting Al-Jazeera with the use of a Arabic-English translator. Apparently, Al-Jazeera will soon be launching an English language service (e.g. the end of March).

  15. Re:Google on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 1

    well, the aussies are OK

    If your frame of reference for bias is whether or not said country is involved in hostilities in the Gulf region, then I should point out the Australian media is hardly likely to be unbiased, since they're involved as much as the USA and the UK.

  16. Re:Painkillers on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he doesn't need or want the money?

    I, and a lot of people that I know could happily pass up 11,000,000 GBP*, but passing up the opportunity to snog Kirsten Dunst is a crime of the highest magnitude, and one which deserves Mr. Maguire to be given a prostate examination by Dr. Octopus. With all eight arms.

    * NOTE: This is a total lie.

  17. Re:Oracle is preferable to me & my company. on MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs? · · Score: 1

    Plus it's got that great JDBC driver that some guy wrote (name?)
    Mark Matthews?
  18. Re:Cool :) on Fooling NMAP for Whatever Reason · · Score: 1

    ... and I thought telnet was port 23, not 22...

  19. Re:Separating Content from Presentation a Good Thi on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 1

    Just did it... That is TOO cool. :)

  20. Re:Style Sheets on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is that they don't include it elsewhere.. So in order to share documents in the style intended by the user, it must be saved as the proprietary format.

    IMHO, this ensures the user will opt-out of the XML format, and stay with the proprietary format. As I posted above, if Microsoft are going to do this, then they should bundle an XSL document with each XML document.

  21. Re:Separating Content from Presentation a Good Thi on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think this means that there is no stylistic information in the document, rather that the style information is contained within the proprietary code segment of the document.

    If Word documents all utilised the same style for various elements, it'd all be hunky-dory. However, users like their choice of a 50pt purple serif font for a title to stand, so the formatting information MUST be included with the document.

    Perhaps a better format would be a zipped file that contains seperate XML and XSL documents...

  22. Re:I'd still rather have an iBook on Lindows Releases Inexpensive Subnotebook · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm getting really sick of the comments that seem to attach to any story about any product X talking about how you should use Y or Z instead.

    Well put. So, vi or Emacs? ;)

  23. Re:Graphics chipsets on Lindows Releases Inexpensive Subnotebook · · Score: 1

    I'm in no way a graphics expert, and I mean in no way, but I noticed the following text on the store page:

    Integrated Savage 4 AGP 4X graphic core (up to 16MB Video Memory)

    Not quite Doom III territory, is it?

  24. Re:My favorite part of the review... on Managing RAID on Linux · · Score: 1

    Eh?

    david@debian:~$ dict panoply

    Ah. Interesting...

  25. Re:A bit late... on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 2, Funny

    More like another elusive scoop.