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  1. Re:From TFA on Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey · · Score: 0

    I have found this approach work more than once, but it always took me a few hours to days to find some obscure usenet post and another and another to find out how to make something work. I'm not exaggerating, when I say it takes more than a few days, and you eventually give up hope after reading other users wtih same problems and there are no fixes. For example, I have been trying to make my JSP code read my resourcebundle files, on Linux/Tomcat and it just won't work. (I'm not providing details here, because I'm not asking for tech support, just wanted to give an example for one of these frustrating problems I've encountered.) I've read through the Apache, Sun and numerous other websites and usegroups but I never found something that worked and I actually found other people with the same problem, who tried the posted suggestions, but still didn't work. I'm doing my PhD dissertation entirely during open-source tools, in spite of my school being ready to provide me the commercial software, as a matter of principle, but it has been leaving me totally stumped once in a while. I dont want to deal with software bugs, when I should be concentrating on my research. Oh well, you need to be a little masochistic when you are a big fan of something.

  2. I dont need Microsoft... on Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature · · Score: 0

    ...to create Static. My cellphone already does it.

  3. Re:I'm confused on An Independent Study on Offshoring IT? · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure if Bush wants to protect American jobs by preventing outsourcing, but this article says the Republican party outsources their call centers for fundraising, and this article denies it. I don't know whose version to trust.

  4. Oh brother... on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If one of these cameras tape what happens in your bedroom, and both you and your gf think "big brother is watching", does that make you both siblings, and you're commiting incest, and big brother can put you in jail for that?

  5. Honest!!! on The Science of Word Recognition · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was reading what was written on her T-shirt!

  6. Re:This is a very bad idea... on The Indian Info-Rickshaws · · Score: 1

    What is the correct verb for 'pulling a rickshaw'?

    Masturbation?

    Masturbation is a noun. The verb is 'masturbate'.

  7. Re:This is being done by Republican-SUPPORTERS, ri on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 1

    Who the hell is this 'Kelly'...and what is he running for?

    I can see you're a foreigner, but Kelly is a 'she', not a 'he'.

    Or may be you're an American, thinking that only men can run for President.

  8. Re:Yeah and? Stupid criminals go to jail. Old stor on Blaster Variant Creator Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    Couple of things, though off topic:

    It's Gandhi, not Ghandi.

    India is not at war with Tamils. Tamils are the people in the state of Tamil Nadu which is a part of India.

    Some Tamils emigrated to Sri Lanka a few centuries ago even before India became a republic. These people (Tamils in Sri Lanka) are Sri Lankan citizens and not Indians.

    Some of these Sri Lankan Tamils (a militant group called the Tamil Tigers, aka LTTE) are at war with the Sri Lankan government.

    Better brush up your history and geography.

  9. Re:Is it ironic, hypocritical or neither? on Computer Security for the Home and Small Office · · Score: 1

    Open source software != free of cost.

    Any book or article is open source anyway - you can read it completely, unless it's a research article that publishes only the results and not the raw data.

  10. New BSOD message on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 1

    "The program has performed an illegal operation and the patient will be shutdown"

  11. Best way to measure the actual monetary value... on Kansas AG Rejects Settlement Discs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    of a given CD - find the closing bid on a brand new CD of the same title on eBay + shipping cost, and ask RIAA to use that as the monetary value of the CD. I wont be surprised if they dump 1 million of these CDs instead of 1000 in that case.

  12. Re:Perhaps make it more user friendly.. on Passwords - 64 Characters, Changed Daily? · · Score: 1

    Damn, mod parent funny guys. :D

  13. Re:As a Canadian... on Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada? · · Score: 1

    But they can turn you away because their Surgeons left the county or don't want to treat high risk cases, due to high malpractice insurance and frivolous lawsuits.

    Neurosurgeons don't treat

    One more...

    Every time a tort reform bill is put forward, it gets shot down in the Congress. I'm in the medical profession too, and it sickens me totally.

  14. Re:who cares? on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm a doctor, and it's a case of elephantiasis. The larvae (microfilariae) of the parasite (Wuchereria bancrofti) get into lymph vessels and block lymph flow. So, the body part doesnt get drained of lymph, and it swells much. It's common in legs, but rarely seen in male/female external gennitalia. It's easily treatable with an antibiotic though.

  15. Stupid techies at the ISP on India Blocks Yahoo Groups Over Political Content · · Score: 1

    Let me not discuss democracy or free speech, but what the ISPs might have done. Last time I visited Yahoo groups, which is about an year ago, the URLs were of this format. Example: 'Linux' group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux So, the stupid idiots blocked the whole domain instead of a certain path. To block kynhun, block http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kynhun/ and not the whole domain. Idiots.

  16. Re:Cingular... on Major Problems with Cingular Network · · Score: 1

    Genious is a great misspelling too, genius. That would make a great company name too.