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  1. Re:Firefox and Windows 98 on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    With comments like that, I can see why you are called an Anonymous Coward.

  2. Firefox and Windows 98 on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so glad I didn't "update" to Win XP.

  3. UPS broke my HP laser printer ... I had insured on UPS - Your Computer Repair Depot? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the package for $300, which was a few dollars less than it was worth. They paid the claim almost a year later. UPS seems OK for most things, but I will never send anything fragile or irreplaceable by UPS again.

  4. Re:Phone numbers won't dissappear because.. on DNS Inventor Predicts Future of the Internet · · Score: 1

    People do still need to talk, but the conversations are shorter than they used to be on wired phones. My daughter and her roommate, age 23, don't have a house phone in their apartment. They each have their own cell phones and get their internet at work. And I've noticed I'm using my cell phone more and the house phone less. Almost all of the calls that come in on that phone anymore are telemarketers.

  5. Black & Decker electric mower works great on Building A Homebrew Robotic Lawnmower? · · Score: 1

    with a 100-ft cord, I can do the whole yard. I love mowing the lawn. Yeah, I know I'm weird.

  6. I've been using SpamAssassin about 6 months on Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And it has just now learned to filter out almost all the spam. IIRC, SpamAssassin said it would learn what to mark as spam after a couple hundred obvious spams and the same number of obvious non-spams. I still get the occasional false positive.

  7. Re:LaTeX; Word; WP5.1 on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Absolutely. And if for some reason you can't or won't use LaTeX, WP5.1 is a good choice ... I remember when WP5.1 first came out, I thought it was bloatware, but I now know that compared to M$ Word 95 which I'm forced to use on the job, WP5.1 is a marvel of efficient programming.

  8. First time being first! I would love to use Linux on Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... but I'm a corporate captive to M$ where I work. If I had the space for another puter at home, I'd get a Linux box. And with Torvalds moving there, Portland is going to get even cooler.

  9. A semi-famous short story writer passed ... on Your Data and Cyber Business After You're Gone · · Score: 1

    ... several months ago. He was in a Yahoo group for short story writers. His daughter logged on from his computer and told us he had died. We hadn't known until then.

  10. It's not just the insurers who know ... on The Good and Bad of Data Collection · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... your medical history, but the people who transcribe your doctor's dictation ... these people may be doing the transcription in countries where the U.S. privacy laws are unenforceable. Consider the following scenario as detailed by David Lazarus in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 2004: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2004/04/02/MNGI75VIEB1.DTL

  11. Links on the csscore.com website don't work ... on Core CSS (2nd ed.) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... something about a database error. Too bad, I wanted to see the property tables. I love CSS, but I probably wouldn't buy another book about it. I've learned most of what I know from meyerweb.com and csszengarden.com.

  12. First 10 programs to install on Windows on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    For Win98 2nd edition: EditPlus, WS_FTP95 LE, Winamp, Adobe Reader 6, Panda Titanium Antivirus, Norton Utilities (not the antivirus), Irfanview, Pixie, mIRC, and the old DOS utility program List.

  13. Why some geeks leave the house on Why Do Other Geeks Leave the House? · · Score: 1

    To buy lottery tickets.

  14. A Commodore with a 300-baud modem ... on Best BBS Memories? · · Score: 1

    and a program I typed in from a magazine article! That was in 1988. I formed strong friendships with several people I met on one particular BBS, and was engaged to two different men from there.

  15. Caffeine addict? Yes! on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 1

    I'm a caffeine addict and not afraid to say so. I started with No-Doz when I was 15. I'm 52 now and in very good health. I generally take 1.2 to 1.6 grams (200 mg x 6 to 8) of caffeine per day, sometimes a little less. There was a time when I used it more heavily. If I don't get my caffeine I can't think, not surprising since caffeine speeds up the synapses. I can tell you, I never would have been able to accomplish nearly so much without it. Evidently there are a lot of us caffeine addicts out there, and they don't all rely on coffee and cola. Every drugstore I've ever seen sells No-Doz and Vivarin. Simoniker, I don't understand from your message exactly what it is you're afraid of. Is it the idea of being addicted to something?