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  1. Should I bother with my CCNA and CCNP, on 3com to Compete with Cisco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or can I get the same certificates from 3com for 30-50% less work and knowledge?

  2. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't. the new version removes a lot of sluggishness from the startup and page rendering. The 8 meg download and one minute install is more than worth it.

  3. Re:Cheap on Palmtop Nirvana? · · Score: 1

    I think you nailed it on the head with that one. Aside from 5a and 5b, it would fit my needs perfectly. The cellphone part is not as important to me either, but I wouldn't complain over the extra features.

  4. Re:Begging to be bought out on SCO Caps Legal Expenses At $31 Million · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I almost feel sorry for their shareholders.
    If they weren't comprised of the SCO board of directors, that is...

  5. What exactly is a larger slice on SCO Caps Legal Expenses At $31 Million · · Score: 5, Funny

    of total annihilation?

    Sounds like a sound investment to me!

  6. Re:Well... on Philadelphia Considers Free Citywide Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    Just wait for a 'balls-4-vowels' store to open up. Then you, Oklahoma, and Alabama will be swimming in them.

  7. Umm, lots of people can spend your money better. on Philadelphia Considers Free Citywide Wireless Access · · Score: 2

    You would overlook roads, sewer mains, snow removal, garbage pickup, and a million other 'little details' that you already pay people to take care of for you. You aren't paying taxes so much as you are paying rent.

    Private solutions may be the best solutions, but private monopolies arent. They are worse than public sector companies because they measure their bottom line by profit, not results. They won't invest in large-scale projects like this, otherwise they would have built the telephone infrastructure, the railroads, the streets, the sewer systems, and a myriad of other things that needed to get done.

    Private solutions are working now, because we built the infrastructure, then gave it to them to make money on. When the infrastructure has to be replaced, these private companies are going to go tits-up, we'll pay for it in taxes, and then they'll come out of the woodwork to take over and make a buck.

  8. Re:Well... on Philadelphia Considers Free Citywide Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    Would you be happy if they started donating old equipment to impoverished families? How about just splitting the ten million between all the homeless? Or how about buying $10M worth of powerball tickets and distributing those?
    It's a cool project, and may do important things like revitalize economy so that those people can get jobs, or get better paying ones.

    Hell, it's a better idea than how I would deal with those two social issues. I'd just hire the poor to hunt the homeless and gun them down in the streets. Effective, but not the nicest solution.

  9. why! on Tech Turnover Rate Lowest Since The 80's · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's a nut loose on the keyoard.

  10. And all at once on Tech Turnover Rate Lowest Since The 80's · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was a global sig of releif.

    We made it through guys! Good job!

  11. Shareware is a BIG issue. on Does Shareware X-Chat for Windows Violate the GPL? · · Score: 1

    His release of it implies ownership. If I 'bought' a copy of his X-Chat program, and then turned around and gave it to you, Would I be in violation of his copyright? But then is it his copyright to enforce?

    See the problems?

  12. Re:Totally on Windows Not Expected Secure Until 2011, Says MS · · Score: 1

    Stop saying bad things about us, or we'll kill another person that you don't know or have any relation to, aside from the fact that they share the same profession.

    I mean it!!!

  13. Re:hidden methods on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    PRI are digital lines, Primary Rate ISDN lines to be exact. You can set the Caller ID on those to be whatever you want them to be, although I'm not certain if you can do that dynamically or not. I'm pretty sure it's up to the PBX to provide that information.

  14. Re:next president on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 1

    But only for an hour. After that, it's a Volkswagon Beetle until you fork over another $29.95

    Trust me on this one.

  15. Re:They may be getting Indigo, on Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know. But then the comment would have been completely offtopic and irrelevant, rather than completely offtopic and somewhat irrelevant.

  16. They may be getting Indigo, on Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS · · Score: 1

    But are they getting Fezzik and Vizzini as well?
    Or is that for 2007?

  17. Re:First Post on HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner · · Score: 1

    I'm so glad that somebody got that.

    That particualr quirk is the only thing keeping MS on my laptop. If they could get that working, my Averatec'd get a facelift and an upgrade immediately!

  18. Re:I am surprised.... on HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not really. Getting hibernate to work on a laptop, as well as any exotic functions requires quite a bit of work/digging. The vendors have the resources and knowhow to create the software for it, since they built the hardware.

    Servers I'll install myself, Desktops I'll install myself. I control the hardware that goes into them. Laptops however, I don't have so much control.

  19. First Post on HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner · · Score: 4, Funny

    From my Suse/HP Laptop!

    YESS! Now to hibernate!

  20. Re:Death From Above on Space-Age Houses · · Score: 1

    Gotta dump the septic tank somewhere.

  21. Jumpjets on Space-Age Houses · · Score: 1

    Melt snow and lift superlight structure all in one shot! Plus you can move to a better neighbourhood at will.

    Eskimo crackwhores hanging around? Fire the boosters!

  22. Re:Lame excuse. on Classroom Bullies On The Internet · · Score: 1

    Because Nazis are, well, um Nazis, and most people don't know what fascists are, but are certain they heard the word in a Hitler documentary.

  23. Re:Different From The Old Days on Classroom Bullies On The Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh fuck off. Like that happens. If I ever run into you on the street, I'm going to make you eat those words.

  24. Re:Front Page? on Sims 2 Goes Gold · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we have a chance at having a life.

    Right inside our computer!

  25. Re:I just want the LCD on New Disposable Digital Cameras with LCDs · · Score: 1

    Not exactly with these, but a 6" LCD in one's case has been done, and it is one of the most impressive mods I've seen. Especially the one in the case side.