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  1. Re:Nope. Wont do a thing to stop it. on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 2, Funny
    Actually, in Canada the law requires that you check if you are over 19.

    How often do I have to check? Can I just do it once, on my birthday, or do I have to check again everytime I go into a bar?

    More to the point, how do I know I'm not lying? Should I ask to see photo ID?
  2. Re:I just want 1.4stable... on GIMP goes SVG · · Score: 1

    Agreed! I use 1.3 from Debian unstable because I'm picky about only using GTK2 apps unless I absolutely *have* to use something else.

    Apart from the odd crash when I try to edit graphics at the same time as having Epiphany, XMMS, two gVims and GAIM open when I'm doing web design, it runs like a dream.

  3. Re: INACCURATE TERMS on GIMP goes SVG · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a development release - it'll probably get fixed fairly soon.

  4. Re: INACCURATE TERMS on GIMP goes SVG · · Score: 1

    Have you tried the development version? (x.3 I think) - they've GTK2ed the interface, and made it a lot easier to use.

  5. Re:The Tried and True Way on How Do You Manage Requests in Your Organization? · · Score: 1
    Post-It notes left on my monitor... :-(

    Hey... when did we hire a new person for IT?

    Guess the memo must have un-stickied itself and fallen underneath my keyboard.
  6. Re:My favorite pen is one I can liberate from on When Word Processors Are Out: What's The Best Pen? · · Score: 1

    If you're in the UK, take a walk down to your local Learn Direct centre - I work in one, and we've got some nice freebies receently.

  7. I wasn't fired. on How Were You Fired? · · Score: 1

    I just walked out. It was the crappiest job I've ever done - formatting hard discs all day, every day for a refurbishing company.

    Every now and then I'd swap out some dead RAM, or stack machines on palletes.

    Thankfully I now I have a job I love doing, where I actually get to help people get somewhere in life, instead of screwing them over on over-priced hardware.

  8. Re:i hate to say it, but.... on Wireless Audience Response Systems? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the UK, you could just tell the audience to send text messages, and give each member a unique ID that makes sure it's coming from them.

    You could probably even not pay them back for it... seems if it's got "SMS" in the idea, people will think it's excellent.

    (No... I'm not getting pissed off with everything being done by text message. Including a pilot scheme by the police to allow calling them with text messages.)

  9. Re:Openssh/WinSCP (Re:Try a three-tiered approach) on Changes in the Network Security Model? · · Score: 1

    It's not a subject I know much about, but I do follow a few mailing lists, and I'm fairly sure I saw mentioned there a shell that would only allow SCP activity, without actual shell acess.

    Try searching the archives for debian-isp.

  10. Re:Digital Cable on Cable Companies Reject Tiered Pricing Model · · Score: 1

    Why thankyou. I don't understand the concept of networking.

    What I meant was I didn't know how the data got to the cable box - whether it was via the RF modem (never heard of them before), or the standard cable network.

  11. Re:Basic Internet w/cable? on Cable Companies Reject Tiered Pricing Model · · Score: 1

    Just stick a DHCP server on the cable box - if you're using the basic cable internet service, you probably havn't got a network to screw up with it. So long as you make sure it's simple enough to disable the DHCP server if neccesary, it seems like a solution to me.

  12. Re:Digital Cable on Cable Companies Reject Tiered Pricing Model · · Score: 1

    In the UK some people are already using ethernet connections from their cable boxes to get broadband internet access... I don't know how it works, but I do know a friend of mine has a network cable running from their cable box to their computer.

  13. Non-DnD MUDs on What MUDs Do You Play? · · Score: 1

    Can anyone suggest a non-dnd style mud... I'm thinking something along the lines of Fallout by Interplay.

    I just can't get into fantasy style MUDs... too much heresoothing for my taste :P

  14. Re:The obligatory SCO post. on IT's Most Outrageous Markups? · · Score: 1

    Why didn't I think of that one? I've been throwing my machine into inifinite loops all night, and I missed that!

  15. Re:When will it be in the kernel? on The Design Of The Google File System · · Score: 1
    Must be 12pm - the updatedb script it running.

    Someday I'll set that to a time when I won't be sat at my computer developing.

    Maybe 11am.
  16. The obligatory SCO post. on IT's Most Outrageous Markups? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would everyone who just though of mentioning SCO's markup of 699% please add their post below.

    And before the trolls turn up, I know 699% of nothing is nothing, but it was the best I could do at this time of night.

  17. Re:Schedules on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Go into a word processor and add common word misspeelings to their dictonary.

    Another fun one there is to use the autocorrect feature in Word to change the odd word to something similar looking with a completely different meaning.
  18. Re:Society gets dumber by the minute on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 1

    Dunno why, but when you said "providing a more aggressive alert when the battery reaches a certain level." I had an image of it hitting you in the chest.

    [-1: Fucking stupid.]

  19. Re:Nice office... but who is going to pay for this on The Bionic Office · · Score: 1

    I second the working out of town call there.

    I think my current office has the best of both worlds - it's in a mixed use area, but is *right* on the fringe of the city centre (ours is the last road before the blocks of offices above shops), which makes it convineant for those "hey, it's payday!" moments :P

  20. Re:Any experience with this on a slow computer ? on XFce Desktop 4 Released · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what user accounts are for? So that every user isn't stuck with the settings that the last person to use the computer wanted.

    Just create yourself an account, and your wift an accout, and you can happily coexist in the world of multi-user computing.

  21. Re:Does this ver. solve the WinXP security "featur on Samba 3.0.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about. I'm running Samba at home, and my XP boxes can pick up the shares on it just fine.

    You may need to add smbpasswd entries for the machines users, but other than that, it should be ok.

  22. Re:Swaret Kicks! on Slackware 9.1RC 2 Out, Mandrake 9.2 Soon · · Score: 1

    Wow. That doesn't sound at all like apt-get.

    Why don't they just manage Slackware packages with apt?

  23. Re:In soviet Russia... on Kazaa Sues Record Labels · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, cliched joke tells you.

  24. Re:Right about now.... on Home-brewing a 1.2TB IDE to Firewire Monster · · Score: 1

    Wow... that's some big access logs hes being hit with then ;)

  25. Re:Might have hit the right market... on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 0
    Michael Robertson sucks, and so does his sucky Lindows.

    Wow, way to show your maturity.