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  1. Re:Welch? on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless, a lot of Welsh people don't care to be called British, on the grounds that "Britain" is almost universally identified with "England". Some don't care, but enough do that it's worth being careful about it.

  2. Re:Welch? on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    Wales is a principality of England (unlike Scotland).

    Prove it.

  3. works for me on Linux Support on USB Palm Pilots? · · Score: 1

    I'm a very happy bunny, syncing my Tungsten E to both JPilot and gnome-pilot, as the mood takes me. This is on Debian unstable running Linux 2.6.

    Things to beware: when you plug in your palmtop, it'll create two /dev/ttyUSB devices. You want to put the second one into your apps (so it creates /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1; you use ttyUSB1).

    Secondly, if you sync to multiple apps, don't try to run more than one at once, as it will make the dye run. Don't do this.

    If it stops working for no reason, check that it hasn't got itself tied up and created two sets of devices (so you think it's ttyUSB1, but it thinks it's ttyUSB3, for instance).

    I believe I pulled most of this information out of http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO. html , which is rather good.

  4. egads on Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't help but be quite distressed that I see a blinky ad for Microsoft right below this story.

  5. Re:Thanks, Neal! on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    The thing about the anti-pickpocketing sign is actually true - it was a campaign a few years ago across the London Underground network, but it was discontinued quickly for exactly the reason you stated. :)

  6. Re:That's it. on SCO Says They'll Sue A Linux User Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    > And this one time...

    ...at band camp?

  7. Re:Esperanto? on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 1

    Mi parolas (aux lernadas) Esperanton, kaj mi scias, ke lian Esperanto estas ne tre bona. Sed gxi estas bona filmo.

    "I hope when you come the weather will be clement"?

  8. Re:So you don't realize you are a slimeball? on DoubleClick Taken to Court · · Score: 1

    She was in a parked car.

  9. Re:Criminal-worshipping and slashdot on Jon Johansen on ABC World News Tonight · · Score: 1

    If you believe that the innocent have nothing to fear, then you're a fool.

  10. Re:Linux users have no right to play DVD on DVD CCA Emergency Hearing to seal DeCSS · · Score: 1

    Hell, I own a DVD player and have ever since they came out in the UK. I bought a PC DVD-ROM drive the week before the UK launch of DVD, and later on picked up a standalone player for my home video setup. I must have 60 or 70 DVDs by now.

    Am I buying any more? No way. Not until we win these cases, and possibly not even then. In fact, I'm not sure I'll even set foot in a cinema for the time being, at any rate.

    I loathe piracy. I view it as common stealing. I don't even record films off the TV, unless they're something obscure that I can't buy a copy of. I have no interest at all in trading copies of my DVDs. I do have an interest in playing them on my Linux box. And I view reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability as being thoroughly legitimate.

    Rachael, wondering if Compaq would fund the defence ... yeah, right.

    http://www.drmach.demon.co.uk/encore.html

  11. Re:Recall notices on Lightsabers Recalled · · Score: 1

    "Acid burns lead to *suffering*", shurely. :)