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  1. how the heck do you do... on Clove 2 Bluetooth Dataglove For One-Handed Typing · · Score: 1

    Ctrl Alt Del simultaneously???

  2. Makes you feel small doesn't it... on Earth and Moon From an Alien's Perspective · · Score: 1
    and we know what we're looking at... and what the smudges on the pretty blue & white globe represent...

    mind you, it's a bit of a shock to see just how dark and brown the moon really is... we're dazzled by it and it looks so bright against the night sky...

  3. Re:Microsoft only threat? on Worm Transcodes MP3s To Infect PCs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nowhere in my post did I mention Linux, OS X, or Unix.

    yes you did... here right in the first line of your OP

    Can anyone comment about the possible risk to non Windows machines?

  4. Re:There's a Reason for That on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 1

    Bzzzt... wrong... they do suffer from "frame rate" issues. The mission computer of the system I work with automatically removes the low priority symbols from the HUD and Multi-Function displays if there's not enough time to draw everything in the cycle time allocated. ie, it draws them last normally and if there isn't enough time left, it doesn't bother drawing them and starts from the high priority ones first again.

  5. well it's not as if they want Vista on it on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 4, Funny

    You wish to drop the bomb: Cancel or Allow?

  6. Re:So on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Re-Opens · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do I downloaded mp3s?

    you don't, but this gives you the source with which you can make an mp3 and upload it for the rest of us...

  7. wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole... on Microsoft Releases Pre-2007 Binary File Format Specs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the "license" conditions no doubt will contain several pitfalls for anyone who actually wants to use it to implement a file input/output filter in conjunction with free software... and the other problem is once having seen the specification, you'll never be able to safely work on other free software projects again...

  8. humph..... on Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    now see how fast the identical hardware runs with Linux on it... bet it goes way faster...

  9. No, it doesn't run Linux.... on 'Modern' Computers Turn 60 Years Old · · Score: 4, Funny

    not a hope of backporting to this one...

  10. This is STUPID!!! on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    the main mozilla page makes lots of noise about Firefox 3, yet the direct download links on that page are for v2.0.0.14, I wonder how many others are downloading what they think is the latest...

  11. Walloons... on How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam? · · Score: 1

    who still send out mass mailings with CC email addresses deserve everything they've got coming to them... all those on the CC: list should sue the pants off them...

    BCC, it's there for a reason... Use it guys... I blame Outlook for basically hiding the option and management for not properly educating staff in email etiquette...

  12. Are you running botnets? on Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    no text

  13. Re:Your car is too fat. Uncle Sam needs to trim it on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    wtf with all this twitter cr@p??? almost every article now has someone claiming someone to be twitter or a sockpuppet of twitter...

  14. It's a browser ffs... on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't get excited about browsers...

  15. what we really want to know... on £10 Battery Upgrade For UK Eee PC 900 Owners · · Score: 3, Interesting

    is just how many of those little beauties they've actually sold... after all, there has to be some real reason why Microsoft suddenly blinked and allowed the OEMs to carry on making devices with XP on them...

  16. what I was really impressed with was on UK Prosecutors Say 'Cult' Acceptable · · Score: 2, Funny

    that the policewoman doing the summonsing didn't request him to remove his mask...

  17. Re:I pay for advertisement on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 1

    I bought some DVDs over the weekend only to find that the first 5, unskippable, minutes were advertisements for other things.

    don't have this problem... I play my DVDs using Xine... when I want a menu, I get the menu, when I want fast forward, I get fast forward... no stupid "can't do that" sign.

  18. Re:Times are truly changing on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Either the people here are different now or it is french bashing time. Maybe both.

    place has been flooded with microsoft shills for ages now... I'm convinced Microsoft employs PR hacks to patrol websites to counter anti-microsoft positions and post pro-microsoft posts. There's so many posting in here that they've managed to gain high karma by modding their puppets up at every opportunity...

  19. defective by design... on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 5, Insightful

    shows just who the real "customer" here is... not you... you are the product, delivered to the media conglomerates...

  20. Re:Palm or PocketPC on War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front · · Score: 1

    why not give them a Palm or PocketPC with a bit larger display and a keyboard.

    because there's a scarcity of software available for those platforms that isn't time limited payware demos masquerading as shareware or pay through the nose packages... With Linux, there's absolutely scads of software available to be ported simply by recompiling it for the target chip... also development tools for Palm and pocket PC cost an arm and a leg with limited redistribution rights of the code you produce with them... with Linux, you have the full Gnu toolchain... emulation of the target system is another problem... POSE was great, but Palm yanked the cloth from under developers feet by making the emulation package only runnable on windows... that turned me completely off developing for Palm... I was not able to develop on my platform of choice...

  21. Re:If only... on How Aftermarket Inkjet Ink Holds Up After a Year · · Score: 2, Interesting

    here you go... shredding scissors... who needs electronics...

  22. what's the bets that it's running Linux? on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    .....this is the body .....

  23. do not be surprised if on Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    aid from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation comes with little strings attached that require the recipients to order the XP version of OLPC...

  24. Re:No Windows Clone on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They won't want to have to take the time to learn a new OS.

    well they have to when transitioning from XP to Vista...

  25. 400 Km off target!!! on Further Details From Soyuz Mishap · · Score: 1

    good job Russia is so big then...