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  1. Re:loud clickety click... on Blank Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I once had one of those keyboards with function keys on the left. I wish I still had it...

  2. Re:Is it true? on Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation · · Score: 1

    Europe doesn't end neither at German, nor at Polish border...

    Interestingly, when the media was having their pope-a-palooza last month, one of the commentators on CNN claimed that the next pope would definitely be from Europe, "unlike his predecessor." Apparently, he forgot Poland...

  3. Re:Extract from the Api on BBC Launches APIs · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be thinking of RealPlayer ;)

  4. Re:While it was rushed... on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    It means that politicians would add unrelated junk to the bill. For example, if the "murder law" was up for renewal, and a politician added something to it, say, expanding the ability of authorities to wiretap people, then anyone who voted against what the politician added would also be voting in favor of legalizing murder. I'm sure you can see how that wouldn't be good for a politicians career. That's how "Real-ID" got passed. It was added to an Iraq war spending bill, and nobody voted against it because they were afraid of losing votes for voting against spending money on Iraq.

  5. Re:gets the imagination going on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the lesson in all this is that you should never study.

  6. Re:10 times more heat? on The Not-So-Cool Future · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on! Celsius is not an absolute temperature scale, so your calculations are completely wrong!

    100C = 373K
    10x373K = 3730K = 3457C

    Of course mine aren't any less wrong ;)

  7. Re:I want animated program icons on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    You can set progman.exe as your default shell. There's a registry key (I don't remember exactly where it is, though) that has the setting for the startup shell. It was easier to set, though, when it was just a setting in win.ini...

  8. Re:I want animated program icons on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    Those bastards! Yet another reason to not install SP2.

  9. Re:I want animated program icons on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    Well, WinXP still has Progman.exe, if you like that kind of thing...

  10. Re:I remember when.. on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 1

    A couple weeks after 9/11, I went to Canada with my father, and while waiting to enter Canada, the car was closely looked at by the Canadians, and they gave us the third degree on entering. When we returned to the border, the American border guard simply asked us if we were American citizens, and let us in.

  11. Re:If... on Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mars supposedly has a face on it (which turned out to be a pile of rocks)... so Earth needs a giant breast.

  12. Re:Bad English on Metafor: Translating Natural Language to Code · · Score: 1

    "Time flies like an arrow."
    "Fruit flies like a banana."

  13. Re:Here's an Idea on History Flow Shows How Wiki Articles Evolve · · Score: 1

    What? Slashdotters actually RTFA? Impossible!

  14. Re:This whole thing is ludicrous on Open Source As Legal Time Bomb · · Score: 1

    My eyes are burning! That's worse than a goatse link!

  15. Re:Misses the real problem on State-Sponsored Solitaire? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but we're talking about workplace computers, which, assuming the admin is competant, are less likely to allow installing something like that.

  16. Re:More, the same day on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    4-20 is April 20, not March 20.

  17. Re:Yes, but... on WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix! · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure you meant to post this link...

  18. Re:yawn on Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out · · Score: 1

    But what if a troll posts an IP address instead of a domain name of tubgirl or goatse? The hosts file wouldn't protect you.

  19. Re:Out of the way...... on Hobbit Movie in Four Years? · · Score: 1

    6. Hobbits are real, Netcraft confirms it.

    Shouldn't that be, "Netcraft confirms: Hobbits are dying"?

  20. Re:robot girls... on Arm Wrestling Robots Beaten By A Teenage Girl · · Score: 1

    Robot: 00101110011001011010111101011011010110101011010101 2

  21. Re:NO! on Phishers Face Jail Time Under New U.S. Bill · · Score: 1

    That's nothing! Yesterday, the former mistress of the son of Qusay Hussein offered to split $20M with me!

  22. Re:Advertising Opportunity on Microsoft Robots to Watch Kids · · Score: 1

    But maybe "Windows good" is better than "Survivor good! Big Brother good!" And besides, the kid might think "Windows good" refers to windows in a house, and not Windows in a computer...

  23. Re:Is solaris still used often? on Take A Look At Solaris 10 · · Score: 1

    It is... Although, ironically, in my case the Xorg was the one with the messed-up display: the fix (on the old laptop...) was to change to Xsun. Weird...

    Exactly the same thing happened on my desktop computer... No matter how many times I ran xorgconfig, Xorg refused to run. I switched to Xsun, and it has worked just fine since then.

  24. Re:Is solaris still used often? on Take A Look At Solaris 10 · · Score: 1

    I think it's probably 256/128, because when I installed Solaris on my 256MB desktop computer, it gave me the text-install-in-X.

  25. Re:Pretty Good... on Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control · · Score: 1

    It may sound like a broken fairground organ, but it still sounds better than anything put out by the RIAA.