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  1. Re:What's a good alternative for people stuck with on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 0

    Definitely foobar 2000. A fine example of function over form. It's got shedloads of features but uses native GUI widgets, meaning that it loads in the blink of an eye.

  2. Re:Just SEVEN?! on Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth · · Score: 0

    Presumably you split the byte up, send a bit to each person, and keep the leftover for your sandwich on Thursday.

  3. Re:Rendering slashdot on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Or, to avoid a round trip to the server, hold down Ctrl and press - then =. This reduces the font size by one step and then increases it back to how it was. The page layout gets fixed in the process.

  4. Re:Workaround. on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 0

    One small modification - the value should be changed from 0.10 to 1.0, not the other way round, as you suggested.

  5. Re:Everything but the internet on The Real da Vinci Code · · Score: 0

    And the PeteDotNu-Mega-Brain-Ray-Duplicatifier! Da Vinci stole my idea on that one, and no mistake.

  6. Re:Their concern is for controversy and "hits." on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 0

    Groan. Wrong thread. Sorry.

    It's 9:15am in the UK.

  7. Their concern is for controversy and "hits." on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 0

    Their concern is for controversy and "hits."

    Ah, not at all like mainstream journalism at all then.

  8. Re:Why Mars? on Evidence of Glaciers on Mars? · · Score: 0

    "Earth isn't always going to be habitiable for us, especially the way we're treating it." I don't think that Mars would be much of an improvement.

  9. Re:Calling all readers with mod points on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: 1

    Because they know that there are people out there who still find that kind of thing funny.

  10. Calling all readers with mod points on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I implore you to mod down anyone who mentions Soviet Russia.

  11. Re:0.8 to 0.9 Upgrade Freezes on Thunderbird 0.9 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah, go on, live dangerously. Back up your profile first, and see what happens.

  12. Re:buggy? on Thunderbird 0.9 Released · · Score: 1

    It's got a few bugs, but it's reasonably solid. I've been using it since 0.6, and the only bugs that I've discovered have been niggles rather than complete turn-offs. The worst one was in 0.8, where deleted messages wouldn't always get moved to the Trash. It didn't really bother me though, as I'm not the sort of person who deletes stuff that they may then later want to retrieve.

    The usual comments about it being more solid than Outlook Express apply, of course.

  13. Re:Too fast... on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our liquid crystal overlords.

  14. Re:Get ready on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I wish that I hadn't used up all those mod points now. I think one of the options should be -1 You Think You're Funny.

  15. Re:Fans vs. customers on UK Record Industry Sues 'Major Filesharers' · · Score: 1

    Genuine fans would want their favourite artists to prosper. Though most of the price of a CD does not go the artist, they still get a percentage.

    The BPI are not targetting fans, nor customers - they are targetting leechers, who want to possess as much as they can without paying for it, and demonstrators, who want to see artists dealing directly with the public without the middleman.

    Artists aren't forced to get record deals against their will. They made the decision to give the majority of their earnings to a third party, in return for publicity and management.

  16. Define "movie" on MPAA Piracy Survey - Junk Research · · Score: 1

    At my most cynical, I can almost hear the chaps at the MPAA saying "Animated GIFS? Why, they're like little movies!"

  17. Re:Making ghost images on The Cost of Computer Naivete · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't find it in the Start menu! Hay-ulp!

  18. Richard Morgan on Broken Angels · · Score: 1

    Altered Carbon was a truly astounding debut novel, but I felt that Broken Angels was just the same book again. I couldn't possibly comment on which is better, as my tendency will be to favour the one which I read first, but the two books are very comparable. Michael Marshall Smith, however, is a different kettle of fish. All of his pre-2003 stuff is essential reading to anyone who likes the scent of that which they call cyberpunk to rise from the pages.

  19. Re:I really want to like Thunderbird on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Good idea, but I suspect that I may have had this problem when I was running 0.5, which didn't have an installer. In which case my original question is bobbins anyway.

  20. I really want to like Thunderbird on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...apart from the fact that its presence on my hard drive makes my computer freeze and reset sporadically. It could be just coincidence, but I did a total reinstall of Windows two weeks ago, and everything was running fine until I reinstalled Thunderbird two nights ago. Now it's back to it's usual ways. Surely it must be a coincidence? Does Thunderbird alter any highly important system files when you install it?

  21. Re:You were right... on Excel Clone for Linux Now in Beta · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So I should be getting +3 insightful any second now...

  22. Won't last long... on Excel Clone for Linux Now in Beta · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Plenty of images on that page. I give that web server ten minutes.

  23. I remember seeing this in a film once on Legoland Introduces Wi-Fi Tracking for Kids · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if the kid walks outside the park boundary... kaboom! Right?

  24. Reminded of... on MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bill Gates: "Buy him out, boys."

  25. Re:Scene from Ghostbusters on TCP Vulnerability Published · · Score: 1

    Ah, good point. Probably had to put them in manually.