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  1. Re:This is what Bush needed on New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces · · Score: 1

    The real reason they haven't found him yet is because he's in Pakistan, and U.S. troops can't currently go in there much (for various reasons).

    So are you saying Bush is letting another nation get in the way of our national security? Isn't that the very same thing he's criticized Kerry of doing? Well, I guess it's a growing trend...

  2. Re: This is what Bush needed on New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces · · Score: 1

    We can only hope...

  3. Re:This is what Bush needed on New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Here's a tip: Insulting the person your debating's intelligence is not a valid strategy for winning the debate. :)

  4. Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy on Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..and here comes the science!

    Oh, and at some point France would surrender.

  5. Re:Sigh, so many scumbags and thugs. on Child Porn Accusation As Online Extortion Tactic · · Score: 1

    Obviously because he's biased against the Democrats. :)

  6. Re:In a related find on New Hominid Species Unearthed in Indonesia · · Score: 1

    'mine, mine, get away!! Filthy little grad students!!' Sounds perfectly normal to me...

  7. Re:the Xbox on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Gamecube costs $100 IIRC...

  8. Re:Unemployment on Campaigns Wary About October Surprise · · Score: 1

    No one said he wasn't. I've always wondered why Clinton was a criminal, but Bush isn't, myself..

  9. Re:I don't care on Star Wars DVD Changes XBox Dashboard · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to say something else...Perhaps something like, "I don't have an Xbox, you insensitive clod!"

    I had to, I'm sorry. This is /., after all...

  10. Re:I wonder on Sony Adopts Blu-ray Disc PlayStation 3 · · Score: 1

    Xenogears was a PSOne game. You're thinking of Xenosaga, and IIRC it was one dual layered, one-sided disc. Now you have me doubting my memory, though, so I'll just say it was at least one disc, then. :)

  11. Re:Sounds awesome. on Ubuntu Linux Preview Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wouldn't say Gentoo is "hard" to install. The guide on the Gentoo site is excellent, and even a Linux newbie like me can follow it and get a working system. :) It does take a long time, though...

  12. Re:This just sucks on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    For what it is worth, I have the DNS Client server disabled and suffer no ill effects.

  13. Re:Windows 2000 on Windows XP To Get Longhorn Technologies · · Score: 1

    2000 also includes compatibility mode although you had to enable it manually. At any rate, I've never managed to get it to make a difference in either version of Windows, but that's just me.

  14. Re:Dupe on RIAA Sues More Music Lovers · · Score: 1

    What's next?

    Uh...Profit?
    Sorry, I had to. :)

  15. Re:This is why... on RIAA Sues More Music Lovers · · Score: 1

    That sounds really interesting. I think, though, that the reason that the RIAA, MPAA, FBI, etc can't get you in relation to this service is that trading stuff isn't illegal...

    ...yet. :)

  16. Re:iPod? on Portable Storage? · · Score: 1

    ...except for the tiny detail that Windows is corrupting the data, not the ipod...

  17. Re:Yes on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1

    Then there's always taskkill, which is included in Windows XP Pro and save yourself the download...

  18. Re:To be fair to Microsoft on The Cost of Computer Naivete · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure XP Home will run much better than 98SE on that 300MHz K6-2 with 64MB of RAM I've got lying around...

  19. Re:Reinstall on Deleting Old Windows Update Uninstall Files? · · Score: 2, Informative

    First of all, you don't even need to extract the service pack from the windows xp KBblah.exe file. Just run $SP2_filename.exe /integrate:c:\i386 (note the lack of spaces between integrate, the :, and the C). As for registry tweaks, applications, etc, I highly suggest checking out this site and its accompanying forum. You also might want to look into Nlite, a (beta) tool that can remove those nasty things such as WMP, MSN Explorer, etc from your win2000/XP/2003 installation source so they never get installed in the first place.

  20. Re:no on Big Brother In Your Front Seat · · Score: 1

    Yes, but will such a test differentiate between smokers and those who are exposed to second-hand smoke? :)

  21. Re:SP2 on Windows XP SP2 In Release · · Score: 1

    In this case I do believe you're wrong. SP1 had a similar naming scheme, IIRC, as did Windows 2000 SP4 (again, IIRC).

  22. Re:Who needs 50 GB in a game?! on PS3 To Use Blu-Ray Technology · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can get it even smaller than that using Nlite. I've gotten an XP install down to as little as ~700MB (Knock about 250-300MB off that if you disable system file protection), although I'm not counting anything in the "Documents and Settings" directory in that total...

  23. Re:yeah, and unattended installs too on Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released · · Score: 1

    For my unattended installs I always configure the browser as I like (plugins, extensions, etc) and then zip up the Firefox directory (I use 7-zip compression, but anything will work). During Windows setup I just incompress the directory and Firefox is ready to go. Sure, it would be nice if the installer worked as it should but it is certainly still possible to install Firefox silently. :)

  24. Re:Exactly on What Are You Looking At? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To add to this, my eyes have a condition (I'm not sure what it is actually called, unfortunately) where my eyes actually center to the right of where "normal" eyes would. Basically, when looking straight it appears to everyone else that I'm looking to the right (and slightly up they say, but looking in a mirror I can't see it, but that's probably just me). Looking to the left results in the "normal" appearance of looking left and likewise looking right appears "normal." This behavior was caused by some rather severe retina damage around the center of the eyes, so I guess the eyes recentered themselves to get a better picture. The eye is an amazing thing, isn't it? :)

    Interestingly enough, I also have a tendancy to tilt my head to the left, but I don't know if that is related to my eyes being off-center or if it has more to do with the fact that I only ever use the right eye. This, too, is kind of hard to explain. The right eye has far, far better visual acuity (20/100 in it compared to the 20/400 in the left eye) than the left, and as a result somehow the brain has managed to simply not use the image from the left eye. If I want to I can still look through it, but then focus shifts nearly exclusively to the left eye. If I really work at it I can use both at the same time, but then I find it impossible to focus on any one thing in particular. Bizarre, isn't it? :)

  25. Re:Remove need for patching...by removing IE. on Microsoft to Issue Out-of-Cycle Patch for IE · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With Nlite you can even remove the IE rendering engine. Of course, some things in Windows won't work afterward, but that shouldn't be surprising considering how hard MS has worked to make IE impossible to remove. Take note that Nlite is still very much beta software and has plenty of bugs that need to be worked out, but all-in-all it is a very nice program. Currently it requires the .net framework 1.1, but the author is currently working on a C++ version. I suggest anyone who uses Windows 2000/XP/2003 check it out.