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  1. Re:Origin of term Ivy league? on Who Needs Harvard? · · Score: 1

    Because when the "new" Universities were opening the ivy schools were in old buildings with ivy growing on them.

  2. Re:Looking at this recently. on Start Your Own Open Source-Based Telecom · · Score: 1
    they go to that employee at home. Provided he/she has broadband at home

    Thats the best reason I have seen for not getting broadband at home.

  3. Re:FYI on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    Why would Intel reverse engineer the technology they have cross licensing agreements with AMD.

    Iirc the agreement is vey much in Intels favour.

  4. Re:one word : document on Security Responsibility Without the Authority? · · Score: 2, Funny

    All of the above and where I work Finance get the old slow equipment so they know why we need to upgrade.

  5. Re:Henry David Thoreau, is that you? on NASA Considering Early Retirement of Shuttle Program · · Score: 1

    The space programme was worth it for WD40 imo

  6. Re:A LOT more new stuff... on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1
    Fashion changes, style remains.

    Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

  7. Re:yep! on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 1

    ...what's to stop the antivirus companies from writing their own virii?

    The competition.

    I read this as the competition from all the established virus writers.

  8. Re:I disagree... on VoIP 911 Emergency Service: Problems and Fixes · · Score: 1
    In the Uk This will work until the phone company use the routing for a line that is being used. I assume it is the same in any where in the world as the basic system means that when the phone company need the routing for a paying customer they take it from an unused line.

    In short dont trust this system to phone the police of fire brigade in an emergency. sorry to shout but I think this is important.

  9. Re:Don't Forget on UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal · · Score: 1

    In the UK almost all guns are banned and acording to an American friend of mine even for sporting use getting a licence is a lot harder here than in the USA.

  10. Re:where are the IPv6 native ISPs? on IPv6 is Here · · Score: 1

    Windows XP and 2003 Server support IP v6. I cant find a direct link to this information but here is a link to a fix for Gigabit v6 jumboframes http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;328892 All right its MS and its a problem but the support is there. So while I agree with your inital comment about chickens and eggs your added MS bashing is off base.

    Totaly unrelated but does anyone else have problems posting whilst running Kerio personal firewall?

  11. Re:Cheapest way to play Doom 3 on Doom 3 System Requirements Revealed · · Score: 1

    I might start a holy war here but ESDF is so much better. You get more keys to the left.

    Best get the flame proof trousers on quick.

    As for the mouse I think three might be in order as I work in a school and will have five work free weeks ahead of me when Doom3 comes out, best get a couple of keyboards as well. Good job I dont have a GF.

  12. Re:Can i ask a serious question.. on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 1
    During the Falkland war six British war ships where sunk and 17 were damaged by Argentinean aircraft. here

    The General Belgrano(sic) was also sunk in the by a British Submarine, yes it was a sonar detection but the stealth ship is also very quiet.

    The Israelis have sunk Arab war ships in the past with radar homing missiles.

    During the First Gulf war the Iraqi's launched several silk worm missiles at the assorted Navies in the gulf.

    Finally why isn't the ability to deploy troops with out being stealthy important enough?

  13. Re:What? You mean like the British army on Future Weapons of War in the Works · · Score: 1

    The German forces during the second world war were one of the best army's the world has ever seen and well worthy of our respect for their ability to fight. At the same time the American army was still rapidly increasing in size and therefore had lots of quickly trained and green troops the British soldiers were on the whole better but not by much.

    On the other hand the Iraqi army was very badly equipped and trained and the coalition troops are all professionals with lots of training. I know training isn't the same as experience but it is better than the troops of the second world war had.

    The US and UK troops are all NATO assets and as such are supposed to be trained to work together against the USSR without too many blue on blue kills. I know you can not stop friendly fire but it should be very unusual.

    Why are our troops killing each other fighting a third world army? If we knew this would be a problem why not work on it before the war and if we knew this was a problem why was it not worked on when we could have been fighting the USSR?

  14. Re:Somethings definitely up with these people on Stopping Overseas Fax Spam? · · Score: 1

    So then I called and said "You're gonna die bitch". And then heard a bunch of women laughing.

    If you they are in the UK and so are you the police take a very dim view of death threats.

  15. Re:no viruses for linux yet because.... on Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows · · Score: 1

    Sorry but I don't agree with your comment. If Linux had 90% of the user base it would have the 100% of the Joe Sixpack users and would have all the same problems. I run both Win XP and Red Hat 9 as a user I don't log on as admin unless I have to and with both O\S's I have missed patches which would have cause big problems if I didnt keep my firewall uptodate (I hope I have not just jinxed my self).

  16. Re:The larger issue is why insufficient funding. on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    I am sorry but if you are going to go into depth about the American political system you can't call it a democracy it is a republic.

    Sorry I am not normally this pedantic but how can I believe your claims if you get the system of government wrong?

  17. Re:PHB on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 1
    Somebody Please put a Head in my Bullet!

    In my experience it is somebody Put their Head in my Butt!

  18. Re:Perception of Value on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 1

    Opps. I should not reply to my self but I hit submit not preview.

    This course and ones I atully took at uni agree that you can price too low. However the people who are moving Linux in to buisness are charging a lot of money for it ie Redhat, or are sys/netadmins and cost a lot of money. This is added value. Apple adds value by the look of their hardware and their Hardware and O/S lock in. Microsoft adds "value" because they control ~90% of the PC market.

  19. Re:Perception of Value on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 1

    I fully agree with the MBA you talked to. I work at a UK secondary school age 11 to 16 and our business studies course teaches this concept.

  20. Re:Germany: 220V - 230V on CE Risks from Argentina's Drop to 209V? · · Score: 1

    The voltage change in Germany was to comply with EU rules. At the same time the UK went form 240v to 230v, I was studying EE at the time and my industrial mentors told me that their suppliers had changed the tolerance on their equipment so that it would work between 210v and 250v over the previous years to deal with this as most countries generators struggle to keep in a 5% tolerance anyway.

    However as mentioned above heavy industry will have problems. I believe but I am trying to remember from a sixth form politics lecture that the USSR (in Soviet Russia...) tried this in the 80's and broke a lot of induction motors.

  21. Re:Way OT on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    Why do we talk about boxen and mices but when somone says Virii all the spelling nazis pounce?

  22. Re:Interesting Tidbit on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow · · Score: 1

    I thought about slashdot.nu in french. Its as scary as the goats.ex man

  23. Re:Guns and games on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    In the UK the Police and the CPS (the people who prosecute criminals) take a very dim view of parents who buy drugs for their children or even parents whose drugs are stolen by their children, even cannabis which normally has a blind eye turned on it by the law now. It is common for the parents mentioned above to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and to have social services monitor their children until they reach the age of 18 if not take them into care.

    So yes it is funny how swapping a few words changes the meaning of the sentance.

  24. Re:Here is why fax won't die on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Sending a fax in my office.

    1: Give document to Jill
    2: Say "can you fax this to [number]

    Emailing a document

    1: do it yourself or it does not go

  25. Re:Enterprise and Open Source on Three Enterprise Operating Systems Compared · · Score: 1

    With Open Source Software, this is not a problem at all; support can be done by anyone that has a brain to understand the source and you pretty much get the guarantee it'll work as long as you want.

    I understand what you are saying but I want a team of people with a lot more than half a brain each supporting my enterprise software.

    As for hardware what hardware can we get for 25 year old systems that use MS DOS, win 3.1 or Win NT 3.51.