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  1. Guess Exeem Lite is the end of Exeem on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which is only good news as the poliferation of spyware is just a waste of everyones time and and invasion of privacy.

  2. I avoid Sony on Sony Admits MP3 Error · · Score: 1

    I hope they do make a move to more compatable hardware and I hope they realine their pricing too.

    Sony have been trading on their brand for too long and the higher prices are hardly every justified.

    I simply avoid Sony because I know it work very well with other manufacturers products and I'll be paying a higher price for the same product.

  3. Who are Intelsat? on Intelsat Loses Another Satellite · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well I didn't know so for others here is a summary of Intelsat

  4. This simply doesn't work. on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've got domains that I have left inactive for year then re-added them to dns and set up mail accounts for them and the spam comes in immediately.

    Spammers simply aren't diligent when it comes to maintaining their list, they don't remove bounced emails (as they have spoofed all the headers anyway so they don't receive the bounces) they don't remove the address from domains without MX records or no reponding hosts(as they send all the spam from botnets that don't report failures back anyway).

    I don't know what this guy did but he is thoroughly mistaken.

  5. Video search? on Coming soon: Google TV? · · Score: 4, Informative

    What you mean like this?

  6. When I find out who they are on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 0

    I will be boycotting them.

  7. Do simple things on The Economist Tackles Complexity in IT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People tend to make things over complex if you let them. Bosses want that technology they read about in whatever PHB read these days. Such and such wants some TLA to do some other TLA.

    I know it's hard but you have to tell them that these things don't add any value in and of themselves. You want the simplest possible system that will solve the problem at hand. Really, nothing more, don't implement something because you may want/need it tomorrow 'cos when tommorrow comes it won't be right (and if it is, hey, you can implement it then).

  8. Great idea... on UK to Privatize Radio Spectrum? · · Score: 4, Funny

    because privatising british rail and british telecom went so well.

  9. Competition on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why does one have to 'kill' the other? Why can't they stay in a state of equilibrium goading each other to improve?

    Why do people always assume one product has to erradicate all the competition and become the only product of it's type.

  10. Documentation? on Fedora Core 3: Worth The Upgrade? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, this is the first thing I check nowadays when evaluating software. If the documentation is bad you can wasted days, weeks, months trying to resolve problems - frankly I value my time too much. So can those in the know profer some opinions on the quality of the documentation?

  11. If this were true... on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 1
    Look I dislike M$ as much as the next guy, but if this were true then it would become immediately obvious to Google as they would be receiving a huge number of page requests from Microsoft. It would become even more obvious because they would be of the form

    site:example.com


    Doing this for say 100,000 domains would be noticable but would not even scape the surface of what's on the web.
  12. Analogy on Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows Forensics
    crack whore at the gynecologists

  13. Re:Spotlight? on Google to Launch Mac Version of Google Desktop UPDATED · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Competition on this can only be a good thing - more choice for the consumer, and it will push both Google and Apple to make better products.

  14. Re:Linux Version on Google to Launch Mac Version of Google Desktop UPDATED · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Whilst I wish what you were saying was true all the statistics I have seen place Mac around 2-2.5% and Linux 0.5-1.5%. Could you tell us what stats you are basing it on?

  15. Re:Java Update Bug on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Solution is to uninstall your old version before installing the new one. This process will keep all your profile information and so on so it's not too much of a drag. It only effects the 1.4 JRE too so you could just upgrade to the 1.5^H^H^H5.0 JRE

  16. Re:Will it support on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's really annoying I know. A workaround is to do ctrl++ then ctrl+-. So control and the plus key followed by control and the minus key.

    I never gotta the bottom of whether it's ./ or FF fault. Anyone know?

  17. What Debian good for... on Updates From Debian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not that familiar with Debian so I'm wondering what's Debian's unique selling point? What does it do that others don't?

    My impression of Debian rightly or wrongly is a rather conservative distro with a very rigid/ideological view on which licenses the will package.

  18. Here's an idea.. on Google-branded Firefox? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Mozilla Foundation should register mozsearch.com then start buying up shares in Google but denying they have an interest in search... it would serve absolutely not purpose but it would create a hell of a lot of hype and speculation.

  19. Only be a good think on Google-branded Firefox? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If this gets Firefox on more desktops, replacing IE it can only be a good thing for standards compliance, competition and the decline of the IE monoculture.

    I'm still strugling to think why they would want to do this, perhaps that have some cool XUL applications in the offering.

  20. UK on Sony Quietly Opening Retail Stores · · Score: 1

    Just been into a Sony store in the UK and it was the biggest load of over priced mediocre equiptment I have ever seen. Why do Sony think they can sell mid range products for top range prices - marketing I support - more fool the consumer.

  21. Compiler Flags on First Looks at Athlon 64 4000+ & FX-55 · · Score: 1

    They test with a lot of binary only pieces of software. Wouldn't the compiler and the compiler flags that these binaries were created with make a hell of a lot of difference? - I don't know - I'm asking.

  22. Where is that Murphies law article on Hibernate in Action · · Score: 1

    I'm working with Hibernate now and I desperately need to read the documentation to find out how to do something and you lot have gone and bloody /.ed the site.

    The doco is very good but I think some of it needs updating. A lot of it still refers to the hibernate.properties which I believe is deprecated in favour of xml configuration. For example I still haven't been able to get the SqlExport ant task to work with the xml conf even following the documentation - however I only tried for about 10 mins. I will RTFM when the site is alive again.

  23. Re:Must be hard... on Third World Research, Development & Innovation · · Score: 0, Troll

    Democracy? Sonia Gandhi got elected, pressure groups forced her out and replaced her with their un-elected leader. That's no democracy.

  24. I don't believe it! on Scientists Define Murphy's Law · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jesrad writes "A mathematician, a psychologist and an economist commissioned by British Gas have finally put into mathematical terms what we all knew: that things don't just go wrong, they do so at the most anno.... 503 service unavailable

  25. Is there a linux version? on AOL Builds New IE-Based Browser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone had to say it....