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  1. Re:Requires Sharepoint Server? on Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    Then how is Office 2007 better than Office 2003? Is the difference worth the upgrade?

  2. Re:If they don't, who can on Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights · · Score: 1

    d) Some apps really need to be installed 'globally'. For example, an innocuous app like Winamp installs global hooks to support its global shortcuts.

    Is it a good idea for such apps to do this?

  3. Re:Linux Users on Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights · · Score: 1

    Isn't it implemented in the programs themselves? On Apache, there is a brief start as root to open Port 80, and then it drops root and runs as a different user.

  4. Re:"Unusual practice" ... wtf. on Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights · · Score: 1

    How would you play an FPS using a screen-reader?

  5. Re:"Unusual practice" ... wtf. on Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights · · Score: 1

    That INI file? Who said that there would only be one? Wouldn't you have an INI file for each user in that user's home directory?

  6. Re:Apache on Portables as Servers? · · Score: 1

    That's worse than mine. I have 20GB (for Linux) and 632 MB of RAM.

  7. Re:I always run as a user on Running Windows Without Administrator Privs? · · Score: 1

    I've played some commercial games on Linux (Railroad Tycoon II, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Heroes of Might and Magic III, etc) and have had no trouble playing as a regular user.

  8. Apache on Portables as Servers? · · Score: 1

    I run Apache on my laptop (locally). Seems OK

  9. Re:Cure to Eternal September? on New IM Worm Installs Own Web Browser · · Score: 1

    And after the noobs stop paying for internet service, how much will it cost the rest of us?

  10. Re:what do you really want to teach? on Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE? · · Score: 1

    And how difficult is it to use emacs?

    emacs foo.c

    start typing

  11. Re:More Anti-China propaganda. on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    Diluting the value of the dollar would make it harder for them to maintain an "advantageous" trade balance (nor would hoarding dilute the value). Hmm. . . I don't recall the Chinese compelling the US to run such large deficits.

  12. Re:Hmm... on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    You don't like formatting your postgres output in LaTeX?

  13. Re:... after all people never get viruses ... on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    I might try to open it in OpenOffice.org on my Linux box.

  14. Re:Favourite quote on CNN Sits Down With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Workplace Amicable Relationship Promotion Meeting.

    WARP'M?

  15. Re:The Beating Drums on CNN Sits Down With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Except that he isn't citing Thomas Hardy, so he is free to find crowds maddening.

  16. Re:Yay! No more pinko software! on FreeBSD Vows to Compete with Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the NRA uses BSD? Hmmmmm...

    Get some of those BSD CDs.

    Pull!

    Blam!

  17. Re:Executive Pay *Is* Too Low ... on Sarbanes-Oxley Costs Exceed Benefits · · Score: 1

    What if the county reassesses? Which value (original or reassessed) goes in the books.

    Sorry, I'm not an accountant.

  18. Re:And in the next release.... on Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why I was skeptical!

  19. Re:Yay! For the USA! on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    If the American people are willing to die for freedom, then why does the Bush Administration reduce our freedom to protect our lives?

  20. Re:And in the next release.... on Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will include a program that determines if another (arbitrary) program will halt if run with no input.

    Miscrosoft solved the Halting Problem? Why am I skeptical?

  21. Re:Just once... on Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification · · Score: 1

    Why does such a person need to have Samba installed?

    When did Microsoft use Samba for file sharing?

  22. Re:Causation? on Women Get Lots of Info From Male Faces · · Score: 1

    That may be the point of the study.

  23. Re:STop H1Bs!!!! on Mainframe Programming to Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Is that spelling intentional, or did you mean "insightful"?

  24. Re:Lame... on More Headaches from Vista Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hasn't Microsoft announced that Vista will be available for business users in November?

    http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsVista/vista- availability.html

    from link:

    In a press conference call last Tuesday, Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division co-president Jim Allchin announced that Windows Vista will be available to business in November 2006 and broad consumer availability in January 2007.

  25. Re:You mean ed users on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 1

    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed

    Does that mean that ed causes depressions?