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  1. Re:About time on IIS 7.0 Learns a Few Tricks from Apache · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think he forgot the 'r' up there...

  2. Re:UI suggestion on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say there's anything forcing you to middle-click -- it's simply a convenience available to you if you choose to use it. There are plenty of other methods of performing those same tasks, including using icons, the menubar, or right-click contextual menus.

  3. Re:UI suggestion on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's great! Now my browser is opening itself up to http://www.wisp2005.com/, http://www.url2.com/, http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/GME/URL3.HTML, [not found], and http://wiki.zope.jp/URLn. Got any other bright ideas, mister?

  4. Re:UI suggestion on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 1

    Ooooh! Now I can pretend I'm playing Neverwinter Nights when I'm really playing Firefox. Thanks!

  5. Re:UI suggestion on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 1

    Funny. My copy of Acrobat has the main titlebar X in the corner (the close app button), with another set of min/max/X buttons in the menubar (for the current document).

  6. Re:UI suggestion on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've personally found middle-clicking to be the way to go. Takes a day or two of getting used to, but it's a very handy feature. Middle-click a link to open in a new tab. Middle-click a tab to close it. Plus it works in Opera and half works in Safari (it only opens new tabs - thankfully each tab has a close button in Safari).

  7. MSN + AOL on Microsoft to Buy Stake in AOL · · Score: 1

    Why do I get the feeling the Masons are behind this?

  8. Re:I am not excited on XBox 360 Launching Nov 22 · · Score: 1

    How can you be so excited about a console you know practically nothing about?

    Oh, c'mon. We know that it will be a black rectangle and that it will have nifty controllers. Isn't that enough?

  9. Re:Queue Apple Apologists in 3... 2... on Apple Fails Due Diligence in Trade Secret Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except NT1 and NT2 never existed. They started counting at 3.1. (And to think that people trust them to create spreadsheet software to handle their finances!)

  10. Re:Use a bike on Promoting Telecommuting During the Gas Dearth? · · Score: 1

    I hear you. Sometimes they make the most simple of stretches totally impassible...

  11. Re:Doctors smockters on Doctors Sue Patients for Online Complaints · · Score: 1

    I work for a medical publication and deal with practicing and research MDs and PhDs all day. After seeing their abilities to read and follow simple directions, I'm scared as hell of going to visit a doctor again...

  12. Re:Dr. Kevorkian on Doctors Sue Patients for Online Complaints · · Score: 1

    What's the problem? He helped do wonders for my family!

  13. Re:Use a bike on Promoting Telecommuting During the Gas Dearth? · · Score: 1

    Tis true. It's worth getting up early and going out for a ride some Saturday or Sunday morning. Take your time and slowly wind your way to work. I'm sure you'll find there are lots of little sidewalks and paths/trails that go between the business parks and residential areas. You may end up taking an extra 1/2 mile detour here or there to connect them. But in the end, you'll probably find out that those parts make the commute that much nicer just because it's so peaceful and serene out there sometimes...

  14. Re:Reasons to move to Australia: on 12Mbps Powerline Broadband Trial Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I just finished reading Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country (great read btw). From what he says, it sounds like there's a whole lot down there to potentially be afraid of (depending on your temperament)...

  15. Re:I'm not an expert... on Office 12 Exposed · · Score: 1

    "If it's not broken, don't try and fix it."

    Then again, this IS Microsoft...


    Which means that yes, it was indeed broken in the first place...

  16. Re:GMail = Google Mail on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not to mention that you could access mail.google.com more or less since the service was introduced...

  17. Re:Two letters on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...humans have a HUGE oral tradition.

    I sure wish I could get some of that oral tradition...

  18. Re:5 1/2" floppy on How Do You Use Your Spare Drive Bays? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point is that there was never such a thing as a 5-1/2" disk. There were 5-1/4" disks and drives, though. And you guys call yourselves geeks?!?

  19. Re:Lots of Work on Preserving Old Research Notes and Documents? · · Score: 2

    You don't want to spend money on physical storage, yet you're asking about a service that will do the job of scanning for you? Here's a hint: for the cost of hiring someone to do this job for you, you can rent a small room at a self-store place for 15-20 years.

  20. Re:Cant WE mop up some of the CO2? on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1

    Thank you! Yes, there are nasty storms from time to time. Always have been, always will be. The difference is that we have more and more people and structures in harm's way as time goes on. That's the reason storms seem to be getting more destructive.

  21. Re:Ahhh yes, computer speaker ratings on 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know · · Score: 1

    So how the hell can these little speakers handle 300 watts?

    They simply add up the wattages of all the speakers. Chances are what it was a 5.1 set rated at 300 watts. This could break down to 30 watts for each satellite with a 150W sub. Of course, those are all peak ratings, too...

  22. Re:Full of himself... on ESR Gets Job Offer From Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't we get some open source advocates with charisma?

    Sure, but they'll only have a 10 or 11 in wisdom and intelligence...

  23. Re:could be a trend on ESR Gets Job Offer From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If you can't beat em, buy them!

    And then beat them when they're chained to the desk!

  24. Re:Everything takes 5 years on Linux Five Years Away From Mainstream · · Score: 1

    So they're five years away still, just in the wrong direction...

  25. Re:That's nothing on A Review of the iPod nano · · Score: 1

    How does one encode that? Ogg? Apple-Loss-Less? WMV? MP3?

    Well, clearly WMV is the best choice for this...