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  1. Re:It Gets Worse on Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented · · Score: 1

    Plus it clearly states that the settings and auditing infomation is remotely stored in a relational database.

  2. Re:No Discovery Channel Down Under? on Methane Bubbles Could Sink Ships · · Score: 1

    It has certainly been mentioned on BBC's Horizon at least ten years ago.

  3. Re:Fascinating on Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing · · Score: 1

    As a graduate of University of Leeds, I can tell you that I would be surprised if the course was dominated by MS technology. AIUI the lecturer was my project supervisor and very much a unix user. He is also a C++ and Java lecturer. There are others in the department that are very vocal about the fact that university courses are not training courses. I trust the department will do the right thing.

  4. browsers mentioned on Saving Bandwidth With Standards-Compliant Code · · Score: 1

    It is cool that for a site aligned with MSN, that they mentioned chimera, safari and (imho most importantly) konqueror. We have arrived.

  5. Re:Wrong wrong wrong on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 1

    Okay. I was clearly given wrong information when I was in AU.
    http://www.newscorp.com/operations/newspapers .html

  6. Re:All of em on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and sheep for a government

  7. Re:Try Australia on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that the SMH is owned by Murdock. He also owns Fox in the US, Sky, The Sun, The Times and various other media in the UK. I would not trust anything owned by Murdock.

  8. php.net on Community-Driven Documentation for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    I was always impressed by the documentation on php.net. They have (had?) a copy of the documentation but you could add comments to to bottom of every page so you could add extra information. While this won't help you write the documentation, it would certianly help keep it up to date and help you add, modify or remove areas.

  9. Re:Small Claims Court on When Cable Companies Break -Your- Cable Modem? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Small claims court is the way forward. It should cost you between 30 and 120GBP, but I'm sure you could claim that back.

    Send them a letter and invoice (not email) saying that they have 14 days to pay or you will start legal procedures. It may be worth sending them a polite letter first asking for payment before threatening them. Do explain to them that you believe them to be in breach of the Computer Misuse act. Don't forget to quote the year.

    IANAL

  10. patent attack? on Human-Mouse Hybrids? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this the thing mentioned on /. a while ago about some scientists attacking the patent process by using it against itself, by trying to patent an idea with was so hideous that if it got a patent, people would question why it got one. If it failed to get one, it would show that there is a limit to patents on gentic research. All in all a win-win situation.

  11. Re:Other questions on Cathy Rogers Responds Without Crashing · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was a section about this on Robert Llewellyn's page about Scrapheap challenge.
    http://www.llew.co.uk/home/

    BTW Cathy come back. All is forgiven. Can we have someone who knows what they are talking about. Who gave Lisa Rogers the job anyway.

  12. Re:What I'm waiting for on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 1

    david root% grep-available -s Package . | wc -l
    10215

  13. Data export on Data Protection in the UK? · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, If a company exports data to a country without eqivelent or better data protection laws they are committing an offence under the act. I can look up more information if you are interested.

  14. Re:Grrr on Paging Eliza: Patenting IM Bots · · Score: 1

    Net::AIM and Net::IRC would appear to be bot-writing tools. Not dummy easy, but tools none the less

  15. www.wimsbios.com on Finding BIOS Upgrades? · · Score: 1

    very useful site for finding bios and finding what motherboard you have.

  16. Re:I saw it in Melbourne! on "Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must of been a very good swimmer then.

  17. Hope it isn't the one in Sydney on Buy a Russian Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    If I won the Buran from Sydney, I would be very pissed off. It is in a terrible state, with people scratching their names in the heat shielding. It looks really shabby.

    The museum around the shuttle is a very low budget affair. It cost about 15AUD to get in to see it. You then get to see a short video, and then walk in to the hanger.

    The actual shuttle is much smaller that I thought it was going to be. There were several information stands around with very biased information on. They did explain that they used a ship to transport it to Sydney and then craned it onto the quayside.

    Then you sat and watched a very pointless 3D video. I was very pissed off at that point, because I'll never get those minutes back and had no relevant information about the shuttle and there was no reason for making it a 3D movie.

    The last bit was the chance to walk along a platform over the shuttle, allowing you the chance to look inside the shuttle. That was probably the best part of the whole experience. It was a shame that some people had damaged the heat shielding.

    We walked very quickly through the gift shop muttering about how much of a rip off the whole thing was.

  18. Re:Not the first time on Attack of the Clones Cut in UK · · Score: 1

    Having searched the BBFC's website, it appears that Straw Dogs was refused classifaction.

    http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/c2f b0 77ba3f9b33980256b4f002da32c/8d77311a51941369802568 f900272cd1?OpenDocument

  19. Copyright Law on Headhunting Laws? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe this would come under copyright law. You may be able to sue the company for breaching your copyright. You may have to prove date and ownership of copyright and you need to say on the CV that it was copyrighted to you.

    If you lived in UK/europe, you could use their Data Protection laws.

  20. Re:Aussies on Samba 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The M1 bridge over Meadowhall impreses me. I'm impressed it hasn't fallen down yet.

  21. John E Davis on Category: Unsung Hero · · Score: 1
    JED wrote some of the software that you and Sven (and myself) love:
    • Slrn - possibly the best news reader
    • JED - good text editor including support for folding
    • slang - alternative to curses and scripting language used in mutt
    http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html Sven would come a close second.
  22. Re:The Source code for that mandelbrot set. on Web: 19 Clicks Wide · · Score: 2

    One of the interesting applications they have at caida is the graphical traceroute that plots the physical location of the hop on a map. www.caida.org/Tools/GTrace

  23. Re:MP3z on 420 Gigabyte Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    probably wrong, but about 9.8 months on the smallest

  24. Re:Freeware community? on C't NT vs Linux benchmarks : Linux wins · · Score: 1

    I think this was a problem with the translation. There was several mentions of "retranslate" when I think they meant "recompile".