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  1. Re:It's Garner Vs. Paramount on Seagate Says Ex-Employee Can't Work For Competitor · · Score: 1

    Cuold you summarise this for the non-Americans among us?

  2. Re:CFCC on World's First Linux Computer In A CF Card · · Score: 1

    An acronym has to be pronouncable as a word, ie ram, rom, twain. things like cfc and tla are not acronyms

  3. Re:huh? on Is the 80 Columns Limit Dead? · · Score: 0

    good god, you were actually talking about vi, I assume when anyone says vi they really mean vim.

  4. Framebuffer on Is the 80 Columns Limit Dead? · · Score: 1

    sing the framebuffer thingy I get a 1280x1024 command line, so I get miles of columns for code. surely now this can be used instead of crazy vt100 or whatever

  5. Re:My favourites on Annual Big Brother Award Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    God bless the british media

  6. Re:emerge karmawhore on Gentoo for Mac OS X Released · · Score: 1

    Would a GUI installer with hardware detedtion not be good for beginners with a gui frontend for userland application installation for portage?

  7. Re:Copy protected CD? on Copy Protected CD Makers Attempt iPod Support · · Score: 1

    Scrophular Fever, own a recording with the King's own touch!

  8. Re:This is fine and well, but... on Ars Reviews AirPort Express · · Score: 1

    I was correcting the poster above me with his names of places which weren's actually countries. I was not making a difinitive legal statement.

  9. Re:This is fine and well, but... on Ars Reviews AirPort Express · · Score: 1

    That's Norway and Turkey.

  10. Re:Helicopter parents on A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering · · Score: 1

    ./er, it's clearly someone who's where you are.

  11. Re:D00d! on Reduce C/C++ Compile Time With distcc · · Score: 1

    Well, there are 2 I can think of,
    "An eye for an eye and the whole world is blind" or "I believe concentration camps are a good idea" and when they were explained to him, "If everyone in concentration camps killed themselves there wouldn't be a problem"

    One of those is a sensible one, oh, such a great man he was.

  12. Breaking Compatibility on SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real question is, will this help the project, or will it harm it when the classic is phased out, those users looking for a pretty screensaver who installed the software one day when they were bored are unlikely to upgrade, that said however, the way that it can now be used for any project means that more causes can benefit without having to write the software themselves.

  13. Re:Bleeding Edge on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nah, it looks like the kind of feebck you get from crappy sellers, he's trying to get us to use Fedora instead of the hallowed Gentoo, and thus is unworthy of uttering the words "bleeding" and "edge" within 3 sentences of each other

  14. Re:One word . . . on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Due to a combination of Beer, Coffee and NetHack, lectures were missed, assignments lost in the darkness, and I failed the year by 0.1 marks :'(

  15. Vim on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    The only program I really use in console mode has to be vim, purely because in a gui, the menus are cluttersome, and late night hacking requires coloured text on a black screen, not for any practical purpose, but it makes this script kiddy feel 1337 (well, slightly)

  16. Re:fortune! on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a program that is viable for enterprise systems, we just rename it to fortune-500

    --

    Any spare gmail invites could do better than ending up at rjw16@st-and.ac.uk

  17. Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure whether running solaris on the servers has gone to their head, they may well be stuck in the past, where everyone used text, and web sites wer black text on a grey background, or maybe they're still in the whole dialup BB mode, which is odd cos we get 100Mbps net connection...

  18. Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A million eh, my uni only allows 2mb, so I'd be incredulously grateful if you'd wing one towards rjw16@st-and.ac.uk,
    ooh, now to see if the uni spam filter works or will I have to rely on thunderbird.

  19. Re:Here's a spoiler on Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties · · Score: 1

    Try the American Civil War

  20. Re:They... on Lindows becomes Lindash · · Score: -1

    or rather D b

  21. Re:Constitution vs. freedom on EU Poised to Attack P2P File-Sharers · · Score: -1

    I think that had more to do with the attack on pearl harbour than the europeans.
    And how many Japanese had to die for you to try out your new toy?

  22. Re:Where did they get their stats? on Grokster/Morpheus Hearing Recap · · Score: -1

    What if the format is vynal (sorry, bad spelling), tape, or mini-disk. The easiest and highst quality way of getting these songs on to your PC is by getting them from someone else.
    And in britain, technically copying for personal use is illigal, so having any music files on your pc is wrong. The laws suck, and until they're properly tested then the definition of legal is ambiguous.

  23. Re:Not quite. on Grokster/Morpheus Hearing Recap · · Score: -1

    You have to pay SCO $699 for the privilage, so I just use naked girls instead

  24. Re:Sun Java Desktop on Registration For Linux Desktop Summit Now Open · · Score: -1

    Ahem, "doesn't seem as complete", read: Non standard implementation.

  25. Re:Misleading/slanderous headline on Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do you honestly suggest that it's a good idea to invade china?
    Are you mad?
    We'd lose too much and gain what?, a few more citizens?
    The days of empire building are over, and trying to take over and then control/liberate 2 billion people is infeasable, and China would probably win on home soil unless we used nukes and killed everyone.
    That could be why we don't seem to care about China.
    It's cos we're sane