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  1. Re:Consolidation, nothing more on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 1

    Come on fhwghads...

    Copy all of the stuff from the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins folder into the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\optional folder and you won't need so many migs and megs of memories just to play them.

  2. Careless? on UCSB Student Engineers Grade Hack · · Score: 1
  3. The race for '08 is on already? on Senator Clinton Slams GTA · · Score: 1

    So Hilary is asserting herself as a centrist by decrying immoral video games at the same time as Jeb Bush is asserting himself with the christian right by meddling excessively in a private family matter.

  4. "Warning: Picotux should not be taken internally" on World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack · · Score: 5, Funny

    See? Because of me they have a warning.

  5. Re:For those who don't know.... on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Identical article, but shows that the coverage is even bigger than you might initially expect if you weren't familiar with Fairfax.

    It's spelled firefox

  6. Re:numbers on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Or Leisure Suit Larry 4 for that matter...

  7. Re:The Interview on Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users · · Score: 1
    He was just making damn sure

    From In France, Jacques LeFevrier left nothing to chance when he decided to commit suicide. He stood atop a sheer cliff and tied a noose around his neck. He tied the other end of the rope to a large rock. He drank some poison and set fire to his clothes. He even tried to shoot himself at the last moment. He jumped and fired the pistol.

    The bullet missed him completely and cut through the rope above him. Now freed from the threat of hanging, he plunged into the sea. The dunking extinguished the flames and made him vomit the poison. He was dragged out of the water by a kind fisherman and was taken to a hospital, where he died of hypothermia.

  8. Re:Not Lazy. on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, I was stuck with a 486DX266 for quite a lot longer than I would've liked to have been. It was a brand name one from an era where brand name meant quality components instead of fake cache chips and was actually rather fast for what it was, but in order to decode an MP3 I had to use players which would allow me to decode in mono and in some cases only decode at 22050.

    This is of course long before I had ever used linux, and for all I know the experience of playing MP3s on a 486 in linux could be entirely different, but MP3s + 486 + Winblows = glitches, skips, crackles, pops and not a whole lot of CPU left to do anything else.

  9. Re:Dupe (mostly) on Google Planning Web Browser? · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person who doesn't have a problem with the Slashdot dupes? I don't check the site every hour of every day. All to often I visit the site and see an interesting article which I have never seen before, only to find five thousand mostly lowly moderated comments about how 'the dupes are taking over' or somesuch.

    Really, it's not that bad!

  10. Payphones gone and replaced with... on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    BOOTH: "Please choose mode of death. Quick and painless, or slow and horrible".
    FRY: "Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call."
    BOOTH: "You have selected slow and horrible"
    BENDER: "Good choice!"

  11. Re:Amazed? on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 1

    I was fascinated by the typewriter too. My old man had this magnificent antique Remington that he left on the table one day... just long enough for my 3 year old fingers to indelibly smash "I hate the plant on the table" into the roller forever.

  12. Re:Linux, the open OS. on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "because I started at 12 myseld"

    You know it's time to get out of the house when instead of reading "myself" you read "mysqld".

  13. Re:IE? on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 1
  14. Obligatory Red Dwarf reference: on Cognitive Enhancement Drugs · · Score: 1

    Rimmer: Lister, what's this? Learning drugs? They're illegal matey!
    I'm afraid you're in very serious, grave, deep trouble, Lister. Where did you get them? I want names. I want places. I want dates. Lister: Arnold Rimmer. His locker. This morning.

  15. Re:My foolproof encryption method on Plausible Deniability From Rockstar Cryptographers · · Score: 1
    100 PRINT "Good day Mr. Cheney. What would you like GW Basic to say?"
    200 INPUT A$
    300 PRINT "GW Basic says: "; A$
    400 GOTO 100
    foolproof. just don't press CTRL-C and it's uncrackable too.
  16. Re:Been using this for a while on Portable Firefox and Thunderbird · · Score: 2, Funny

    A friend of mine does tech support at a local university. He got a call from a philosophy professor, and upon asking 'Do you have a PC or MAC?' was greeted with the reply 'Neither. I use a terminal which connects to the mainframe.' He went and had a look and discovered that he did indeed use a terminal connecting to some mainframe that my friend didn't even know existed. This guy used his terminal for email and word processing, but he also used it to design web pages!

    He seems quite happy with his new eMac though.

  17. They're nice and shiny, but... on RF Connector Chess Set · · Score: 1

    give me one side of shotglasses full of vodka and one side of shotglasses full of sambuca any day.

  18. Re:hotmail OR popups on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    All of the hotmail formatting options don't appear in firefox... or at least, last time i checked they didn't. can't really check from here as hotmail is blocked.

  19. Re:Better the losing side. on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    One wonders whether the open source nature of the firefox project will be a blessing or a curse in this instance.... the curse being that the flaws will be easier to find, and the blessing being the strong likelihood of vulnerabilities being patched in a timely fashion.

    On balance, I think I'll stick with Firefox.

  20. Re:Compatibility? on Digital Retro · · Score: 1

    Or Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE, ME, XP

    not to forget 1, 2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, NT3.5, NT4SP1 through 6, 2000 Server, 2003 Server, XP Home, Media Centre Edition

  21. Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    "the next rouge state to be liberated"
    This reminds me of yesterday, watching the big blob of red growing and growing on the CNN map...

    Do you think it would be possible to go in and liberate a few of those rouge states?

  22. Re:The Oldest Slashdotting.. on Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack? · · Score: 1

    Under heavy load? ATTACK!

  23. Re:No on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 1

    hahahaha! I WISH I had mod points for this one!
    they have the diebold ATMs down under as well... I must confess to being more than a little concerned when I noticed.

  24. The race is on... on Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650 · · Score: 1

    Even if the jury is still out about whether emulation is cheating, someone with access to a 50mhz mac could possibly have this thing booted in three and a half days...

  25. Re:and maybe next year... on George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award · · Score: 1

    and how could we forget his services to the music industry?

    picture yourself... on a boat... on a river...