User: MikeDX

Re:Here's the next (realistic) thing I'd like to s

On: Ideas Unlimited: 11 Suggestions for New Inventions

Actually, those auto-destructing DVDs might work well here if you could get a licensing agreement and the cost per disc gets low enough.

Just imagine a beowulf cluster of coasters!

Re:Trillian seems ok

On: MSN Messenger Kickbans Third-Party IM Clients

Cool, I'll use that then. my copy of MSN Messenger 6.0 seems completely unable to login at all!

Re:real application!

On: What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard?

awesome. thanks mattACK :) I never knew you could do that kind of thing in dos... I guess before windows xp, windows wasnt that bad after all ;)

Re:real application!

On: What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard?

ah this is cool! A command line to list all mp3s into a text file:

for /r c:\ %i in (*.mp3) do @echo %i %~ni %~di > mymp3s.txt

now.. how can we elaborate this for all known drives on the system....

Re:This is do-able...

On: Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version

Collectively I'm sure we could scrape together $7K to have the goatse.cx guy in all his glory on this..

Where do I send the cash? :)

Re:Moral compass?

On: Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version

I would hate to have to relive those all of those "You can enlarge your penis!!" moments, or once again be haunted by "Britney XXX HOT and young CAUGHT J-Lo action action!!".

Man, if they got pron in the install i'm gonna go leech it now!

Re:shutdown /a

On: Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise

I think you need to get the dvd boset for ALL of the security updates

Re:Altruistic?

On: Building a Bigger Search Engine

PIKACHU I choose YOU!

Re:What do you get...

On: Need a Way to Use 225m of Blue Duct Tape?

Science LABotomy... Science students... ah forget it :)

What do you get...

On: Need a Way to Use 225m of Blue Duct Tape?

Q: What do you get when you take roughly 20 Software Engineers, 225 meters of blue duct tape, 240 beer coasters, 4 America Online CDs and far too much free time?

A: A labotomy? :)

Re:All together now....

On: New RFC Adds "Evil Bit"

and after 3, everybody re-submit ALL the homepage news stores and see if we can get an April 1st TRIAD OF CRAP

1..2..3...

Cool!

On: Bioware Releases Neverwinter Nights Linux Client Beta

Sounds like a great reason to install Linux! :)

Another Keen fangame..

On: Commander Keen: 13 Years Later

I run a small games programming community, and recently had this submition from one of my users. Those with win98/win95/dos should certainly give it a try, its full of parodies and general humour and the gameplay is excellent.

Re:Good percentage

On: Forty Percent of All Email is Spam

AOL's spam filters now block 1 billion messages a day

Is this per user?

Re:Interesting, but...

On: Don't Eat The White Snow Either

Actually the term is now "SNOWLOAD".

Actually I think you'll find the term is "SNOWSHIT"

Re:Non human?

On: Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human

I think that Ken and Barbie would be non-human by this criterion ...

I agree, did you ever notice that Barbie never came with Ken? ;)

Re:Another Duplicate....

On: Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets

I once found an old copy of slashdot.org in my cache where the news:dupe ratio was greater than 1:1 :)

Ok that was cruel, but how many of you out there have submitted stories not to be published and then saw dupes and thought... EH?

MikeDX asks: Have we ever had a same story triped or quaped? :)

Re:The problem of asexually reproducing crops

On: Banana to be Sequenced

maybe we will be eating hybrids of other species in the future.

Ohh I hope so! Cross bred cowpig for that breakfast treat, or turkeychicken for sunday lunch!

So how long until

On: Banana to be Sequenced

New McDonalds Banana(tm) made from real(tm) Bananas! Hits our stores?

Re:digital signature?

On: AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS

The promise has been made that the user, or at least the OEM, can add trusted signers.

So does this mean I can remove the microsoft signatures to prevent any microsoft code being run at all? :) Gimme!

Re:Solutions to dupe problem?

On: Sony, Matsushita Back Linux For Consumer Goods

1. In Soviet Russia.. DUPES POST YOU!

2. ????

3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... Beowulf imagines a cluster profit of YOU!

Re:My desktop is my property

On: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?

Of course, it's pretty difficult to enforce a contract that, in order to be agreed to, I've already had to;

1. Purchase the software
2. Bring it home
3. Unwrap it
4. Install it
5. Imagine a beowulf cluster of it.
6. Think about what it would do in soviet russia
7. ?????
8. Profit!

Re:What sort of idiot?

On: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?

I will not mention any more so idiot programmers don't get any ideas on how to do it.

What sort of idiot programmers? :)

Re:Cool

On: META Predicts Linux Software From Microsoft in 2004

Can you imagine a world in which you could choose whatever word processor you like as long as it's Word?

Welcome to the world of 75% of all offices.

You will use the software we provide as installed, or not at all.

Re:Short Replies

On: William Shatner Replies

I say fair play to the man, he could have just replied with a single "beep" :)