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  1. Free anti-crudware on Vista May Put Anti-Spyware Companies Out · · Score: 1

    Well, even free anti-crudware wasn't able to put paid for anti-crudware companies out of business and why would miscreants suddenly stop writing crudware anyway?

    Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?

  2. Re:One small step on Xbox 360 Backup Discs Bootable · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hmm, I guess one problem is that no-one cares...

  3. Re:Thats nice, but on Internet Explorer Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does actually - Codeweavers sees to it.

  4. Re:"All modern Linux distros" on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    Well, nobody said that you *have* to upgrade X. You brought all that pleasure over yourself... :)

  5. Re:Not Troll, I Swear on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I installed Windows Web Server the other day on a garden variety Dell PE750 server, and it did not have the required ethernet driver for the Intel 1GB ethernet port. I had to reboot with Knoppix, to download the driver from Intel's web site and save the file to a USB stick, then reboot Windoze to install it...

  6. Re:MOD PARENT UP (more) on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    I call bull on that. No geek will ever call anyone 'you idiot'. They may call you any number of other derogatory things, but 'idiot'??? No - never - that word is simply not part of modern slang...

  7. Re:Not Troll, I Swear on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    Knoppix, Puppy Linux, Mandriva One, Ubuntu Live...

    Any Linux LiveCD does exactly what you want!

  8. Re:You don't get it: CLI commands are easier than on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    Tripple click, middle click, enter

    Sounds like tap dancing...

  9. Re:Ubuntu craze on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    Got to agree there. All modern Linux distros are pretty darn good and super easy to install and maintain. I regularly use Mandriva, Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu - they have all pretty much caught up with Mandriva, which used to be the ease of use leader. However, Mandriva diskdrake is still the best. Installing an encrypted software RAID with a journaled file system is super easy with Mandriva and almost not worth trying with any other distro.

  10. Re:Then/Than correction on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it is funny to see someone use than the right way, however, using then exclusively instead of than is not wrong, just archaic. Go read some William Shakespeare and you'll notice that the word than doesn't exist in Elizabethan English.

  11. Re:It's not age, it's the unknown on U.S. Internet Growth Stalling · · Score: 1

    I find cooking very easy and variety is no problem: McDonalds, Arbey's, Subway Sandwiches, Dairy Queen, A&W, Tim Horton's, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, Dominos...

  12. Re:That's me on U.S. Internet Growth Stalling · · Score: 1

    I don't have Internet - I use Firefox...

  13. Worldcom on U.S. Internet Growth Stalling · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The *real* reason for the slowdown in growth is that Worldcom/MCI is not fudging the growth numbers anymore. Previous growth and usage numbers were pure BS, now it is only partial BS...

  14. Re:Posession of a controlled substance on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 0

    Cocaine isn't necessarily illegal. You can buy cocaine in a drug store. It is part of many common cold and head-ache medicines. It is widely prescribed by dentists and doctors. So testing people indiscriminately for cocaine use is always bound to be controvercial.

  15. Attit00d... on What Would You Demand From Your IT Department? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First, I think you have to read a little booklet by Dale Carnegie: "How to make friends and influence people".

    Making demands and staging revolts is only going to get *you* fired. It won't resolve any of the technical problems.

  16. Impulse shoppers on eBay in 'Buy It Now' Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Every female armed with a credit card must be contravening the 'buy it now' patent... *duck!*

  17. Re:Then != than on VENUS Satellite, The Next Eye in the Sky · · Score: 1

    Actually, in Elizabethan English, 'then' is used exclusively and means the same as 'than' - there is no 'than'. Go and read some plays by William the Shaky Spear Man.

    Technically, Elizabethan English is Modern English, so the use of 'then' instead of 'than' is not as wrong as you believe, just old fashioned... :)

  18. Re:Lame Excuse on VENUS Satellite, The Next Eye in the Sky · · Score: 1

    Well, spy sats are good enough to see the expression on your face, so be careful where you do your pr0n surfing...

  19. Re:Nortons AV did this to me once... on McAfee Anti-Virus Causes Widespread File Damage · · Score: 1

    Yeah, McAffee did that to me once and I could not put the file back either. That was the last time I use McAffee...

  20. Re:Bullshit! All men are the same! on The Twists of History and DNA · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind though that people create history - history doesn't create people.

  21. Re:11 Million? on Fossil Rises From its Grave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmm, I thought the general American consensus was 6000 years?

  22. Re:propaganda on States Pass Thousands of Info Restriction Laws · · Score: 1

    No need to wonder, just tune in to CNN and VOA.

  23. Re:Soon To Be Followed By... on Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Speaking of tigers: "If you have a tiger by the tail and it wants to run away, you should let it..."

  24. Re:Hope it doesn't rain.... on Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The size of the population doesn't matter. A people driven system is scalable to any number of people. India is the world's largest democracy. They also use pencil and paper.

  25. Re:FRISCO on Open-Source Router to Take on Cisco? · · Score: 1

    Well, uhh - how is this different from Linux or any other nix? Making a router is an almost trivial task nowadays