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  1. Re:One problem... on The Institute for Backup Trauma · · Score: 1

    They're highly credible, they leased their most expensive machine back to the company they bought it from.

  2. New buzz-word... on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 1

    ... near-shoring.

  3. Re:history search - Try this... on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: 1
    ISYS:hindsite

    Index and search previously visited web pages - without bookmarking them!

    You saw something on the web, but you can't remember where, and you didn't make a bookmark. ISYS:hindsite offers Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer users the unique ability to perform full text searches on the contents of previously accessed web pages.

    http://isysdev.com/products/productsuite/hindsite/ index.html/
  4. ISYS... on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: 1
    ... is by far better than these search tools.

    You can search 125+ file formats, including pretty much every office file-format, SQL databases, Email, PDF, MP3 and the list goes on.

    It's ligtning fast and will index GB's of data.

    If search is really important to you, ISYS is where it is at; http://isysdev.com/

  5. Hang on a second... on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 1

    If numbers themselves are infinite in number (there must be in order for prime twins to be infinite), doesn't it stand to reason that all "types" of numbers are also infinite? So what's the big deal? Am I missing something here?

  6. Re:Torrent bah! on Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community Ready For Download · · Score: 1

    Only 2744 hours 12 min 14 sec for my download to complete, that's if it ever gets started! If you can't start the download, you can't upload. Therefore your proportional download rate is zero. Just sayin'

  7. Re:Audio player XMMS on Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards Announced · · Score: 1
    It would also be nice if the playlist window could remember where you were last looking / where the last file you played was, instead of reverting to the beginning of the listing every time you restart it.
    It works like that for me. Perhaps you need to install an later version??? I am running 1.2.7.
  8. Re:Cool, but nothing new on 2.4GHz Wireless Video from Model Rocket · · Score: 1

    Say what?? What about my 2nd amendment right to bear arms? ;)

  9. Did anyone else notice? on Linux Most Attacked Server? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The story on the frontpage started out with "Anonymous guy who can't remember his login sent in a story from the BBC that says..." then after clicking the Read More link it read "Anonymous guy who can't remember his login sent in a story from the Globe And Mail that says..."
    The polls are acting weird too.
    Somethings up with the caching at planet slash methinks.

  10. Biting the hand that feeds it? on SCO's Open Letter to Open Source Community · · Score: 1
    "In fact, this issue goes to the very heart of whether Open Source can be trusted as a development model for enterprise computing software."
    Knowing that SCO sells enterprise systems based on software developed by the Open Source community, and also trying to obtain licence fees from Linux users, doesn't this statement sound somewhat odd?
  11. Re:Telstra on Telstra To Put Linux On Desktop · · Score: 1
    Not to mention how they ripped off millions of mum and pop investors with the whole T2 failure.
    No they didn't!! It was a case of greed and ignorance on the part of inexeperienced/first-time investors. I bought T1 shares but it was gonna be a cold day in hell before I bought T2 shares, people just didn't think/do their homework.
  12. Old News - Soya used in 30's on Corn-Based Plastic · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Henry Ford made car panels from soybeans in the 30's.

    Henry Ford and His Magic Beanstalk

    From the article:
    By late 1937 Ford's research laboratory, under the direction of youthful, self-trained Robert Boyer, had developed a curved plastic sheet Ford hoped would replace steel in automobile bodies. A few weeks later the magnate called in reporters, jumped up and down on the unbending sheet and triumphantly exclaimed, "If that was steel, it would have caved in." He added "Almost all new cars will soon be made of such things as soybeans" and that the most prosperous era in American history was "just around the corner" because industry was opening up a "whole new field for agricultural by-products."

  13. Re:Netscape/Mozilla on What if Microsoft went Open Source? · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I'll bet that Microsoft has ten times as many developers working on IE as Netscape does."
    I'll bet Netscape doesn't have any developers working on IE!!!
  14. If that's the case.. on Long Computer Sessions Could Cause Blood Clots · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I must be due for a heart atta

  15. Re:What Paul Thurott has to say about this leak on "Longhorn" Alpha Preview · · Score: 1
    "this file system will let Microsoft's search tools work across a wider range of storage devices, including the file system, Active Directory, SQL Server databases, and Exchange Server data stores." Sweet!"

    Nothing new, ISYS has been doing this for years!!!

  16. I've witnessed something similar... on Ants Invade iBook · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ... about 10 or 11 years ago I was working for a large hotel chain. And I recall there being an ant infestation in not one telephone but most of the telephones on a particular floor it was something like 25 of the 30 or so rooms on that level that we affected.

    The interesting thing was they must have been using them for quite a while because many of the phones had damaged circuit boards in them which caused the phones to stop working, this is how the infestations were discovered initially. We had recieved no reports of ants in guests rooms from guests or housekeeping staff prior to the failures. A coincidence, perhaps. But very strange just the same.

  17. I'd agree, except... on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1
    ...there I many instances where web based apps that you speak of only work for not just Windows based browsers, but for IE specifcally a case in point is: Online banks, retailers shut out Linux, Opera, Konqueror fans.

    I realise that is the fault of the developers who built the site, but it does go a long way in dispelling what I wish was not the case, MS did win the browser war, how? They are keeping people on Windows first and foremost and secondly a large number of people have to use their browser if they are to go about their daily online activities.

  18. Re:Let's all say it together: on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1
    Yep, same for me. Yeah there is The Gimp, but I am just so used to PS and I find The Gimp does not have all the bells and whistles that PS has.

    I would like Dreamweaver available for Linux too, but I can live without that, text editor and a browser would suffice, again I'd miss the bells and whistles that DW has but I can live without them more comfortably than I can with the ones missing in The Gimp.

  19. I dunno... on The Boeing 727-200 Airplane Home · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...I just don't think this idea will fly.

  20. Re:SearchKing... of ads on Google Sued over Page Ranking · · Score: 1

    php.net is ranked 2 and 3 when I do a search for PHP.

  21. Re:conserning Asutralia on Microsoft: No Xbox for You! · · Score: 1

    Mod this post up!! He/she is right on the money.

  22. Re:Yet more jobs for the boys on Boeing Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1
    Hmmm, let me get this straight the defence budget bought the USSR to it's knees because they ran out of money quicker.

    Based on that logic, if all the enimes of the US' stopped spending period the US should run out of money spending it on perceived threats in no time. Paving the way for the enemy to waltz in take over the place.

  23. I wonder if... on PGP 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... they will ever develop "Really Good Privacy", PGP is just too M$'esque for my liking ;)

  24. Re:It's about time on Pictures Leaked of 3 new Palm handhelds · · Score: 0

    Here, here. I am certainly one of the price sensitve customers. If it does address book, calendar/scheduling and note taking I'll be taking a look at the Zire when it's released, that's all I need.

  25. Forget the 11MP camera, what about... on Canon Mistakenly Announces 11-Megapixel Digital Camera · · Score: 0
    ...the prosumer level camera mentioned in the PC Mag story:
    "The release mentioned a second new digital SLR known as the EOS 300V, also due for unveiling at Photokina. According to Westfall, this model is identical to the Canon Rebel Ti, which was announced in the States on August 27. Canon expects that this camera, likely to be priced at an astoundingly low $1000, will "become the world's number-one selling SLR camera."
    That's what most of us should be focusing our attention on, a digital SLR for the rest of us, sweet. Although my Olympus C-2100UZ is great, I do long for inter-changeable lenses, c'mon Canon release it already!! :)