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  1. Re:Marketing and LOTR crap on Return of the King Coming Sooner to DVD · · Score: 1

    Saurus? Who the feck is Saurus?

    If you want to know why the eagles didn't intervene until the end, read the books.

    Still, I think you're the lowest slashdot-id-number troll I've seen on here, well done.

  2. Re:Of course on How To Hire Great Open Source Developers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you, Captain Obvious!

    +1 Insightful? Wow...

  3. Re:RSS acronym on RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1


    Actually, it's not an acronym :-)

  4. Logic? on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mr Aucsmith went on to prove that 1=2, that black is white, and promptly got himself killed on the next zebra crossing...

  5. Re:The thing I hate most... on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 5, Funny

    > some kind of 7337 hacker

    teet hacker? that sounds painful!

  6. Re:Ask Slashdot? on Developing a Standards-Compliant Web App? · · Score: 1

    No, it got the "joke" - I was just pointing out why it was wrong. It's a commonly held misbelief that slashdot produces HTML 3.2 code. It doesn't...

  7. Re:Ask Slashdot? on Developing a Standards-Compliant Web App? · · Score: 1

    The problem with slashdot is that it *isn't* HTML 3.2 (a STANDARD!) compliant - if it was, it would validate. It doesn't.

  8. plural on Full X11-Based Distro For PDAs · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "Sharp Zaurii"... ;)

  9. Re:Don't copy your cover letter out of a book... on Joel Rants About Resumes · · Score: 1

    Although if I'm not mistaken, that song was copied from The Hobbit, not LOTR...

  10. Re:oo, shiny web site on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's just javascript and css - the javascript darkens the rgb values of the text progressively in a setTimeout(), until it hits the maximum. not very Accessible, but looks pretty...

  11. Re:Out of the way UK communities on UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship · · Score: 1

    No, that's the second-best thing.

    The best thing is more free porn than you can eat

  12. Re:Out of the way UK communities on UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship · · Score: 1

    Then it may amuse you to know that I no longer live in Liverpool.

    I moved to Milton Keynes :o)

  13. Re:Out of the way UK communities on UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship · · Score: 1

    In the absence of hordes of raving Basingstoke residents, I shall have to tackle you alone.

    Have you ever been to Liverpool, or did you just watch an episode of Harry Enfield's television programme once?

  14. Re:Out of the way UK communities on UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship · · Score: 2, Informative
    I assume this means backwards places like the Fens, Channel Islands, Welsh valleys and Liverpool. It might help to teach them what a computer and electricity are for first.
    Hmm. Would this be the same Liverpool that was recently made European City of Culture?

    Agree with you on the Channel Islands though :-)
  15. They didn't block it on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the linked forum posts:

    1) your mail server is NOT BlackListed! If you look at the listing it is at level 2 the [2] means level 2. Read the SPEWS FAQ. No one blocks on level 2 listings.

    Level 2 listings are netblocks which are watched carefully for evidence of abuse, usually because the adjoining netblocks are in use by spammers, and because the provider (NAC in this case) is ignoring complaints about the abuse, or is doing nothing to remove the abusers.

    2) There is something you CAN do other than rant, which will not do you any good at all; and that is to complain to NAC about their spam-friendly policies. It's NAC's hosting network abusers which is the problem. If the listing is upgraded to level [1] then there will be a problem getting your e-mail out; if this is intollerable, the ONLY solution would be to change providers.

    3) If NAC persists (usually for a prolonged period of time) in it's disregard for the rest of the Internet, by allowing our mailboxes to be filled up by their customer's garbage, then many system administrators including myself, will choose to refuse mail from larger and larger portions of NAC's IP-Space, IMHO this is a perfectly reasonable choice. It puts presure on the service provider not to host spammers, something, which in the long run will help stop spam.

    Understand, that SPEWS does not block anyone, all they do is make available a list of spam-friendly, and spam-supporting providers. Many systems will choose not to communicate with providers who support spam operations in a direct effort to hurt spammers by denying them access to providers.

    Yes I run an ISP, and YES we use SPEWS as one of many BL's we use to eliminate UCE/SPAM from our customer's mailboxes. Spews comes in seccond only to spamhaus.org in it's effectiveness. We receive less than 10 spams/day across a user population of over one thousand. Spews alone is responsible for about 30% of the blocking.

  16. Re:solution on Using IRC for Electronic Meetings? · · Score: 1

    You missed step 2.

    Profit!!?!?!

  17. Re:Too Old on Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rumors · · Score: 1

    Nonsense - Christopher Lee (Saruman in LOTR, Dooku in Star Wars Eps 1 & 2) turns 82 this year, and he actually runs around acting, rather than sitting in a chair shouting at people, and writing woeful dialogue, which is essentially George Lucas's role.

    Sure, the main actors from the original trilogy have aged 25 years or so, but if the new trilogy were set 25-30 years after ROTK, your problems are solved.

  18. Re:Dilbert is funny, witty. on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Office is pretentious and boring. Is one of those things that only Brits get I guess.
    American huh?

    This may help.
  19. Re:Screenshots? on First Preview of GIMP 2.0 Ready for Testing · · Score: 1

    Story: "New version of application released."

    Poster: "Does anyone have any screenshots of it?"

    Mod: "+1 Funny" (!)

    Please, help me out here!

  20. Re:Screenshots? on First Preview of GIMP 2.0 Ready for Testing · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain why this was modded funny?

  21. Re:Word to Yahoo! (and Google, too) on Yahoo to Dump Google · · Score: 1

    Yes, but with Firebird you can open links in a new tab (or window) by middle-clicking* on a link, thus saving valuable mouse clicks ;)

    *nb. may not be fun if you still have a 2-button mouse

  22. Re:Word to Yahoo! (and Google, too) on Yahoo to Dump Google · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sounds like you need a browser that supports tabs.

  23. Re:Similar tool for Debian on Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD · · Score: 2, Informative

    you need debootstrap. now is not the best time to be looking for the rpm, as people.debian.org is still down after the brk() attack, but the relevant section of the install docs is here.

  24. The old ones are the best on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1
    our 130 proc Beowulf cluster
    Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
  25. A polite introduction on 55 Operating Systems On A PowerBook · · Score: 1

    kraker, meet sarcasm.