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  1. Re:You forgot the ZX! on PSP Emulation Madness · · Score: 1

    Sony will be releasing the tape drive add-on in the first quater of next year.

  2. Kill MS? on Cheap Solid State Computers Could Kill Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't cheap solid state computers be a little blunt and heavy? Surely an axe would do the job better? No software needed either.

  3. Get Yer Torrents on LUGRadio Live This Summer · · Score: 1
  4. I have one on Searching for a Satellite Pager? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Any suggestions?


    Yea, sleep in the server room.
  5. Re:Obvious on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Kids these days do not know the difference between a program and a file. Double clicking on a file is "starting the program", they often don't know where exactly on the filesystem they have saved their file, they don't know what a file type is (Text file? That must be Word, right?) and I could rave on. I see this every day, and it is absolutely maddening.

    You know this to be the case when you have to describe a terminal as 'a little black box'.

  6. I have a better idea... on Microsoft Demands Removal Of Longhorn Images · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...give a four year old some marker pens (primary colours) and ask them do draw a UI. There's your screenshots. :)

  7. I have already done this: on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 0, Redundant
    $ md5sum 02_bel_amour_bel_amour.mp3
    fda9582ef957bfaafc3533 b8760446ba
    $ cp 02_bel_amour_bel_amour.mp3 new.mp3
    $ md5sum *.mp3
    fda9582ef957bfaafc3533b8760446ba
    fda9582ef 957bfaafc3533b8760446ba
    Nothing new here, move along please.....
  8. Re:Already done on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    Completely taking the point out of a distributed network....

  9. woohoo... on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome Paris into our community with open arms and hope that..... hold on.....

  10. Re:Have it your way on A9.com with Syndicated Search · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's already possible. Try going to Google.com and rightclicking in the main input box (where you would type your search query) and you should see a "Add a keyword for this search..." menu item.

    If you click this the bookmarks dialog will appear. Add a name (Google) and a keyword (g) and you will be able to search google by typing:

    g "Linux TCO"

    In your URL bar

  11. Obligatory joke... on Web Browsing on Your PSP · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think he's running his webserver on it too. *bows head*

  12. Re:Media player removed, but expect to play media on EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows · · Score: 1

    1) There are many car manufactorers, not just one. 2) Most of them don't build the 'default' sterio. If they do the components are from a third-party.

  13. Didn't make it to air.... on British TV Station Offers Downloads · · Score: 2

    Fifth Gear /did/ make it to air. It's rubbish, but it made it.

  14. Worry not.... on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 2, Funny

    ....DVD Jon has come up with a crack already, just from the text of the article! :)

  15. Home brew games? on UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal · · Score: 1

    I expect it's a very small proportion of modchip users that use the chips for this purpose. I'm glad they have become illegal, they do nothing but damage to the gaming industry and everyone involved.

  16. Bad mistake on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once installed windows 98 .... ME .... nooooooo!!!

  17. hhhmmm.. on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage? · · Score: 1
    But is yet another source-based compilation system needed?
    No, but why not? It's all the choice we have that makes OSS as good as it is. (It gives us the oppertunity to bulk post RTFMs at newsgroups too :) )
  18. Re:B.E.OS on Ten Years of BeOS · · Score: 1
    Pity it will also inherit that inherent ugliness that XFree86 seems to bring with it.
    XFree86 Doesn't have a look. The toolkits that sit on top of it do.
  19. Your proiblem... on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...is the lack of a standard toolkit. Keep an eye on X.org. I only really work in terminal appart from web browsing. When I copy a url from a term I have to remember to have left the URL bar in firefox bare. Otherwise I end up selecting it to delete the text in there.... you see whats happening anyway :)

  20. Great news.. on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...if they can accept this then there is still hope for my application: "Use of the letter E (used in upper or lower context)."

  21. Re:I never understood the Bittorrent thing... on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I'm sorry, but relying on people's altruistic behavior is plain stupid. Why not put it on a P2P network like eDonkey?
    Because, you idiot, eDonkey works in much the same way. No-one uploading mean you don't get the file.
  22. Wow... on World's Fastest Supercomputer To Be Built At ORNL · · Score: 3, Funny
    The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."
    Outlook with no slowdown!
  23. Re:You've got to be kidding me... on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1
    And this whole time I thought it's only in America you can sue someone over something so silly as in getting burnt by your hot coffee...
    Spilling hot coffee doesn't put hundreds of companies out of business and stifle competition.
  24. Re:Generic description on Passport to Nowhere · · Score: 2, Insightful
    instead of buying into groupthink, how about explaining and citing examples?
    I use Windows, Linux and Solaris every working day. I can put up with Windows on the desktop but on the server it's a joke. Crappy error logs (IIS), amazingly bloated (Windows Server 2003), almost unscriptable (Windows Server 2003), un-modular (Windows Server 2003), Security issues advertised daily... the list just goes on.
    I could easily come up with Linux examples supporting the same statement. In fact, Slashdot posted the study showing Linux was the most-breached OS on the net.
    Was is sponsored by any chance?
  25. Generic description on Passport to Nowhere · · Score: 3, Funny
    Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime
    Sounds like a generic description of MS products.