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  1. Marines... on Just Add, Umm, Water · · Score: 1
    always claimed to be full of piss and vinegar... now they can prove it...

    MRE??? Allegedly according to the troops it stood for "Meals Rejected by Ethiopians"; now stands for "Meals Rejected by Everybody"...

  2. Re:If we can put a man on the moon ... on Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen · · Score: 1
    "Then why can't we put those pictures up on a site that can withstand a good slashdotting?"

    Should have been there the day before it made it to slashdot then... like I did ;)

  3. Would Ford sue you??? on UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal · · Score: 1

    No, but try making a claim on the warranty... or getting insurance... one of the questions you have to answer for car insurance is is the car modified from standard??? tell the truth here and your premium will be set very high. Lie and after the accident, the insyurance assesor will discover this fact and ... oopsie... you won't have any insurance cover because you have made a false statement.

  4. Re:This is one case where I was rooting for micros on Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case · · Score: 1
    "Of course, we've all graduated to BSD (hint: the new secret),"

    speak for yourself buddy... those in the know are moving to Plan 9... BSD is just so passe...

  5. great... on Sculpting Interface Prototype · · Score: 1
    just what we need for interfacing with the looking glass desktop... all those moaning about how we had no real means of interacting with 3D desktop objects can now shut up...

    and now we can have the satisfaction of being able to "crumple up" a file when chucking it into the recycle bin and you can slap a program window when it starts misbehaving... just want two gloves and a virtual keyboard and you could get feedback when you press a virtual key...

  6. Dirty tactics... on Red Hat Vs. The Lawyers · · Score: 1
    1. Get your employees to buy shares in rival company.
    2. Wait for them to restate earnings and have their shares drop.
    3. Get those employees to launch class action.
    4. ...
    5. Profit

    So who's really behind this class action then??? Awfully convenient isn't it...

  7. Backup copies on Pro Photographers that Will Sell the Copyright? · · Score: 1

    scan the best prints as a personal backup copy... That's what we did with the 10 by 8s that we had from the baby photos done by a mall photographer...

  8. 55 decision models... on Matrix Decision Making · · Score: 1

    so you will need one just to decide which one to use then...

  9. Re:Nitpick: That's "Areostationary" on GPS on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Correct... and because of that, the preceding "Mars" is redundant leaving us with just "Areostationary Relay Satellites", or ARS for short... sounds to me that someone high up is desparate to avoid them being refered to as "Arses" by the engineers etc...

  10. Re:$4 billion?!?! on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis · · Score: 1
    "Excel was stolen from VisiCalc and Word was stolen from WordPerfect."

    Come now!!! If that were the case then the products would actually work properly...

  11. Choice??? on Books that Changed Your Life? · · Score: 1
    The way you've phrased your question makes it seem that the student has no choice in the prize... and that you're making the choice for them.

    Why don't you make a good list of choices available and tell them to choose from that list sufficiently before the actual event so that you have the book ready with the prize certificate already in the book for the presentation. That's what happened with all book prizes I've received. I was offered the choice from shortlists of some ten to thirty books. Including such gems as "How to make friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. A real life changing classic that one is.

  12. Re:How to install Windows XP in 5 hours or less on NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide · · Score: 1

    Five hours!!! that's a bit optimistic isn't it???

  13. Re:Finally we have someone like DELL doing it on Dell to Ship Linux Desktops in Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yes, they don't retaliate with the OEM pricing... just reduce the "market development funds". Do a google search on "market development agreements" and microsoft.

  14. Re:as html on Professor Creates His Own Cisco Manual · · Score: 1

    If you use the other link provided in this article then you can download the latest version as a pdf... duh...

  15. Re:The cold hard truth on Appeals Court OKs Microsoft Antitrust Settlement · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "Someone joked about how we would say "I'm taking my Microsoft to the Microsoft to get more Microsoft." Thankfully that's probably not going to happen now, despite MS's pile o cash."

    Microsoft get to "print" their own money these days in the form of vouchers...

  16. Re:I wonder... on Canadian High Court Says ISPs Don't Owe Royalties · · Score: 2, Interesting
    if all the ISPs are doing is providing a SPAM filtering service for their customers, then they've only got to make it an opt-in service for it to be non-discriminatory... the mail carriers have a postal preference service when it comes to junk mail, the phone companies operate a do not call list that cold callers are supposed to respect... both of these require the customer to opt-in.

    I would also expect the ISPs to include other ISPs amongst their customers, so they could get those to opt-in to bulk filtering of email being passed on to them and vice-versa opt-in to receiving filtered mail from other ISPs

  17. Re:Useless for now, because... on Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    at the moment maybe... but just might be the kick in the pants to spur a mass influx of developers to get the Kaffe project up to speed and the get the GNU Classpath expanded, cos Stallman was certainly on target with his "Java trap" article... and there's an awfull lot of people who will not want something as special as this Looking Glass to have to rely on non-free java runtimes.

  18. +5 insightfull??? on Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    mods on crack again... serious outbreak of the old "if microsoft windows doesn't have it then there's no point in it" type of comment to anything positively different in the way of UIs. The only reason we're not seeing any posts berating the use of multiple desktops with pagers these days is because Microsoft is bringing them finally to the market in the form of Longhorn... after having had them hidden away for a long time now as an unnofficial tweakUI app. The moaners have got to go with the flow now as it's been decided for them that multiple desktops are now in... and I've just wasted my ability to moderate any posts in this topic...

  19. Re:correction on PCs Use More Sick Days Than People · · Score: 1

    note the word "average", which implies that a heck of a lot of offices out there have far worse figures for PC absenteeism... your's are just at the other end of the curve and you should be patting your IT guys on the back for being so far to the good end of the metric.

  20. Re:Lo-tech method on Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool · · Score: 1

    looks like they got that one from watching Scooby Doo 2...

  21. Re:tough love on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I "bill" my parents and other family members... They still come to me because I do a good job at much lower cost than it would be taking it to the shop... but they don't get a free ride off my back. Same as I don't expect a free ride off my brothers' backs... one's an electrician, the other's a plumber... we just have our own internal special family favour tokens that represent hours worth of time.

  22. Re:Why alternative browsers may not be possible on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1
    nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft... ha ha... there's nothing like the warm "comfortable" feeling some IT managers get when they discover all their eggs are in a proprietary "locked-in" basket...

    Unfortunately, that warm comfortable feeling is transient as it's now sliding down the insides of their pants.

  23. unbelievably stupid stunt on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    considering the number of aircraft that have been lost to loose articles in cockpits/control runs etc. If an engineer loses a tool or whatever in the cockpit, there are a heck of a lot of checks that have to be gone through before the aircraft can be cleared for flight.

    "I will explain in aircraft engineering terms how critical loose components are in flying control systems. If on an RAF aircraft we lose a washer or a nut the size of my little finger nail in an engineering procedure, that aircraft is grounded until the component that big (indicates) is found, even slightly smaller than that, or the most thorough engineering examination, often lasting about three days, is carried out before that aircraft is allowed to fly again."
  24. Re:SuSE ISO torrents on SUSE 9.1 Personal ISO Available For Free Download · · Score: 1

    go to www.suprnova.org and do a search. There are torrents out there for them already... and very well seeded they are too

  25. Re:SuSE ISO torrents on SUSE 9.1 Personal ISO Available For Free Download · · Score: 1
    410 Gone

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    is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.