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  1. Buh? on How Not to Build a Cellphone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "A cellphone should auto-format phone numbers with parentheses and hyphens when you enter them in the address book. When the cursor is in a number box, like ZIP code, the keyboard should automatically start typing numbers. The owner should not have to press the alternate-symbols key."
    I, for one, don't want hyphens or parentheses in my phone numbers, and my zip code starts with a G, so I wouldn't want my keyboard to type numbers in my zip code field.

    "A locking feature, which prevents the buttons from being pushed accidentally in a purse or pocket, is nice. But it should be optional. And one button press should suffice to unlock it; two in sequence is just annoying."
    Sort of defeats the purpose of locking the keyboard if it can be unlocked with an accidental keypress.

    "...looking stunning in your hand..."
    Uhh, what? Are phones in the US really that ugly that this plain-at-best handset is judged stunning?

  2. I've said it before... on Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? · · Score: 1

    ...and I'll say it again.

    Vinyl for mixing.
    CDs for listening.
    MP3s for walking.

    And that's all I have to say about that.

  3. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long have you been waiting for that?

  4. Re:O RLY? on The Future of Trusted Linux Computing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A sufficiently motivated whatnow?

  5. Re:Steal from the RIAA- BUY USED MUSIC! on Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial · · Score: 1

    Your fiendish plan may backfire...
    By buying used CDs, you're inflating their resale value, which makes buying _new_ CDs a more attractive proposition, from an economic standpoint.

  6. Re:Organize a pants-shitting. on How To Address A Visit from MPAA Senior VP Rich Taylor? · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of this classic.

  7. Packages on Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA · · Score: 2, Funny

    # cd /shared/pkg
    # pkgadd -d . SUNWzlib
    pkgadd: ERROR: no package associated with <SUNWzlib>
    # ls | grep SUNW
    # ls | head
    JAVA1251f
    JAVA1394h
    JAVA1394x
    JAVA5ttf
    J AVA5xmft
    JAVA5xplx
    JAVAa2psr
    JAVAa2psu
    JAVAacc r
    JAVAaccu
    # echo Bastards
    Bastards
    # pkgadd -d . JAVAzlib
    Processing package instance <JAVAzlib> from ......

  8. Re:A billion light years... on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    Who's Albert Hall?

  9. Re:Oblig... on Diebold Voting Machines Audited by California · · Score: 1

    2 444 66666 8888888

  10. Re:Backyard ant experiment on Robot Unravels the Mystery of Walking · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is either a sign of a misspent youth, or excessive post-grad funding.

  11. Re:sounds way of low for home users on Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe · · Score: 1

    Here's the interesting bits from my server logs:

    Browser; OS Hits %

    NS6; WinXP 41221 36.4 %
    IE6.0; WinXP 30390 26.8 %
    NS6; MacPPC 13339 11.8 %
    NS6; Linux 5413 4.8 %
    IE6.0; Win2000 4719 4.2 %
    NS6; Win2000 4526 4 %
    IE7.0; WinXP 2103 1.9 %
    OP8.50; WinXP 1591 1.4 %


    Most traffic is from a Digg story ages ago, though, so it's probably heavily biased towards the NS6/Firefox

  12. Re:About TomTom on TomTom Admits Satnav Device Infected With Virus · · Score: 1
    Calm yourself.

    'This message brought to you by X' posts are jokes. Someone who's been on /. all these years should know that by now.

  13. Re:About TomTom on TomTom Admits Satnav Device Infected With Virus · · Score: 1
    FWIW, I own a 'TomTom One' and it's really quite impressive.

    This message brought to you by me.

  14. Re:About TomTom on TomTom Admits Satnav Device Infected With Virus · · Score: 3, Funny

    This message brought to you by TomTom International BV.

  15. Re:Yeah but on Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Security and driver updates are still free.

  16. Re:DIY on EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email · · Score: 1

    Pipex in the UK don't block ports, or at least not on static IPs.

  17. Got to be... on The Last Games You'd Play? · · Score: 1

    Xenon on the Atari ST.
    Best game ever.

  18. Re:Real geeks only please on Top Ten Geek Girls · · Score: 3, Funny
    That's some impressive bandwidth.

    Did I say width? There's a joke in there somewhere.

  19. Re:Real geeks only please on Top Ten Geek Girls · · Score: 1

    Lots of I/O, but no MIPS

  20. Re:SMTP.... on Patches For Pine Going Away · · Score: 1

    sendmail, postfix, exim, msmtp...

  21. Re:noob on Video of Fedora On PS3 · · Score: 1

    GUI = Gee You Eye GNU = Gee Enn You SCSI = Skizzy SQL = Ess Queue Ell People must be pissing themselves laughing at me. But I don't care.

  22. Re:Mutt's a pain in the ass to set up for SMTP. on Patches For Pine Going Away · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, but perhaps the reason that Mutt is the way it is, is to avoid becoming 'huge and bloated and memory-sucking and such'.

  23. Re:Mutt's a pain in the ass to set up for SMTP. on Patches For Pine Going Away · · Score: 1

    You want fetchmail .

  24. Re:Mutt's a pain in the ass to set up for SMTP. on Patches For Pine Going Away · · Score: 1

    If it's just SMTP support you need, then install 'msmtp', and use it instead of sendmail. The configuration involved for msmtp is a three line rc file.

  25. Re:^H Explained on Nigeria Widows Lose Their Fortune · · Score: 1

    Now that is news you can use. Does that work with ksh and sh?