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  1. Re:They advertise P2P to original cd buyers on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 1
    there Kazaa with latest spyware technology comes :) So, as I must be punished to buy original cd, I am spyware infected...

    Well, you coul use eMule instead of Kazaa - no spyware there :)

  2. Re:Anti-Beastie FUD on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're in the US, that would be why. No protection on the UK/US versions...

  3. Re:haha on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 1

    If putting a Beastie Boys CD in my PC caused it to install Duke Nukem Forever, then I'd be down the record store right away...

  4. Re:Importing Favorites. on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 2, Informative
    My problem is finding "Compose ONLY in plain text" in Thunderbird. If it's there, I can't find it.

    It's under "Composition and Addressing" on the account settings. You don't get asked whether you want it on or not when setting up the account, either - you have to go in after setting it up and tweak it there.

    Bad Thunderbird. No biscuit!

  5. Re:Alas..... on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked, neither was Windows. And IE is an integral part of Windows, as various antitrust cases have shown.

    It's rather like selling a car with a stereo that randomly electrocutes you when you change tracks, and saying "the stereo was free with the car, so tough"...

  6. Re:Wonder How Microsoft Will React on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Tools > Account Settings and then the Manage Identities button should be right in front of you.

    This is in 0.7, so it looks like it got added to the program but not the change list...

  7. Re:Quit acting like goddamn babies... on Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout · · Score: 1
    Pfft.

    Real men use zsh.

  8. Re:A good espresso machine. on Building a Better Office · · Score: 1

    One word: catheters.

  9. Re:An atmosphere for great coding on Building a Better Office · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Absolutely. Besides, if everyone's in one great big open plan office, the sales team's phone calls will be disrupting the coders, too.

    Plus, making sure the sales team can get the customers to and from meetings without having to go past the programmers reduces a lot of pressure from above, in the form of "tidy your desk", "wear a tie", "stop calling Windows a retarded pile of goat droppings every time something crashes" and so on, since the customers won't be encountering it :)

  10. Re:one of the reasons they prospered w/the PC? on Next-Gen Xbox To Lack Backwards Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    Well, in a sense, there is: the Zelda bonus disks run Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask through an emulator, I believe.

    This means there's nothing to stop Ninty releasing the first Paper Mario as a bonus disk with Paper Mario 2 (hint, hint :)

  11. Re:Compared to web-based e-mails? on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1
    What's the benefit of using mail clients such as Thunderbird or Outlook over web-based e-mail?

    I'd say the fact that your messages are safely on your box, rather than at the mercy of someone who could decide to shut up shop overnight, is a fairly major benefit...

  12. Re:TiVo uses Linux too! on Linux PVRs Highlighted · · Score: 2, Informative
    TiVos, possibly the most closed PVR system available.

    I think Sky+ probably has it beaten... I certainly don't think there's anything like the range of hacks available for that one...

  13. Re:Feelings on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    We can't get Mountain Dew in the UK any more, either.

    They released it over here a few years ago, but it vanished about a year later. Not enough non-geeks buying it, I guess. Fortunately, we have Red Bull...

  14. Re:BBC viewpoint on BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative Commons · · Score: 1

    Close - it's 120 quid. Or less if you have a black-and-white set. I wonder how many of those they sell these days?

  15. Re:Gloomy... _TOO_ gloomy... on Future for Web Standards Pondered · · Score: 1
    Oh, really?

    Granted, it doesn't have all the features of the IE version (no PageRank-o-meter, for one - although I'm not exactly crying in my beer over that one) but it's out there...

  16. Re:pick where you live on Alternatives to Cars? · · Score: 1
    Moving in order to reduce the commute, use bicycles, or use public transportation is often a reasonable (and possibly money-saving) option.

    I'm guessing that you rent. Try doing that when you own the place - ISTR a recent article saying it cost around 17,000 pounds to sell one house and buy another - your country may vary, of course.

    Not to mention the fact that selling a house and buying a new one can take months - by which time, your darling employers will probably have decided to relocate...

  17. Re:I'd never buy one of these! on Plextor First With A 12x DVD+R Drive · · Score: 1
    about:config

    Set browser.blink_allowed to false.

    Job done.

  18. Re:I think we know what to say.... on Futurama: Can it be True!? · · Score: 1

    Or "Bite my red-hot glowing ass! Wait a minute... red-hot glowing ass? I'll be right back!"

  19. Re:Dude, where's my shares? on Firmware Upgrades For Everything · · Score: 1
    Determine who approved the working "Supports Feature X", and divide the fines equally among the approvers manager, the manager's manager, ..., the board of directors.

    ...who then give themselves nice juicy pay rises to offset the loss, or allow themselves to claim the fines as expenses - then stick a pay freeze on the lower ranks so that profits aren't affected, natch.

  20. Re:Mozilla "hacks"? on Designing Websites - What Browser to Code For? · · Score: 1

    Use the title attribute of an img tag to display a nice long tooltip when the mouse pointer rests on the image. Opera, IE et al will create a multiline tooltip and display the whole text. Mozilla will display about 60 characters and then truncate the rest. This is bug #45375, opened in July 2000. No hurry, guys, nobody uses tooltips, after all. I certainly don't want to try and rewrite half of the TiVoweb modules so they'll work properly with Moz...

  21. Re:heh! on Which Screw Goes Where? · · Score: 3, Funny

    MCSE == Minesweeper Consultant / Solitaire Expert...

  22. Re:All Negative Sum Jobs should result in unemploy on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 1

    How about if we set the hit men on the spammers?

  23. Re:Security Breach on Dear Sir: Your Credit Card Number Has Been Owned · · Score: 1

    [puts on sysadmin hat]

    "You DID have backups, didn't you?"

  24. Wow on Is This Moon Three? · · Score: 1

    So that's what Nethack meant when it said "be careful - new moon tonight"...

  25. Re:Additionally... on Why Does XP Auto-Connect to sa.windows.com? · · Score: 1
    True, but I definitely remember the installer asking me if I wanted to install Talkback when I installed Mozilla.

    Disabling the XP error-reporting requires tinkering with the Group Policy editor or mucking about in the registry if you're using XP Home, as that doesn't even have the Group Policy editor. You certainly don't get an option to disable it at install time...