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  1. Re:Definition of Kotex on Science Askew · · Score: 1

    Replace Kotex with Victoria's Secret.
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  2. Re:Why remake it? on Douglas Adams Written Dr. Who Episode Goes Into Production · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Tom Baker Married the actress that played Romana.
    [pause]
    Lucky bastich... [g]
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  3. Re:Webcast on Douglas Adams Written Dr. Who Episode Goes Into Production · · Score: 1

    "The Osbournes" are broadcast on MTV -- a CABLE channel -- you insensitive clod.

    --Double clod if you're British - Ozzy certainly wasn't born in the US.
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  4. Re:Command post! on Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Yep, Unclear missiles are powered by Unobtainium, a derivative of Fictionite.
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  5. Re:What A Mess... on Redirecting NASA · · Score: 1

    Dude, too much SHOUTING! (covers ears)

    Your ideas seem sound, but PLEASE limit the use of your caps...
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  6. Re:No no no. You just don't understand. on Text-Console Based Word Processing? · · Score: 1

    Good points.

    How about writing docs in HTML? I know Bluefish uses GTK, anybody else know a good HTML editor that runs in Text mode?
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  7. Re:Trends on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit. Methinks your G-force figures are on crack.
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  8. Re:Trends on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Both of my 1st-generation Parallel drives are still going strong. I just recently got USB and internal IDE models as well.

    I stick to 100MB models though, they're cheaper.
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  9. Re:Trends on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1

    [PoliceAcademy] "That's MISS Moderator to YOU, Dirtbag!!"
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  10. Re:Trends on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Dude, just their home dirs?? If you lose /etc you're up shit creek...

    *** Begin /root/bin/bkpcrit
    #!/bin/sh
    # Backup critical files (hopefully)

    dest='/mnt/zippy'
    mount $dest

    [ -e "$dest/NOTHERE" ] && echo "$dest NOT MOUNTED" && exit 99

    # "If" checking for NOTHERE file...

    dest=$dest'/linux-p233'
    echo $dest = PK
    read

    mkdir $dest

    # Copy this bkp script to zippy
    cp $0 $dest
    cp ~/localinfo.dat $dest

    time {
    tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-ETC-suse.tar.gz /etc
    tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-rootbin-suse.tar.gz /root
    tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-davesrc-suse.tar.gz /home/dave/src
    tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-davebin-suse.tar.gz /home/dave/bin
    tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-usr-local-suse.tar.gz /usr/local
    tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-var-adm-inst-log.tar.gz /var/adm/inst-log
    }

    ls $dest -al
    df $dest
    exit

    Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 and beyond David J Bechtel

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
    as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
    of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

    The GNU Copyleft

  11. Re:Watch out for Mr. Fujistu on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1

    At first I thought you were quoting something like "all your base" - then I got the joke...

    Unfortunately you seem to have POKEd a random bit of memory and so#$%@#%^*$%^ACKPTHTT
    NO CARRIER
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  12. Re:Watch out for Mr. Fujistu on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Stay the Hell away from Mr. W. Digital, as he is a Fiend of the lowest Stripe.

    Max Torr and C. Gate are MY heroes.
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  13. Re:Worse yet on Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked · · Score: 1

    "Trooooooooll!! ...In the dungeon" (faint)
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  14. Re:Big deal on Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked · · Score: 1

    I think they should get Jerry Pournelle to replace Harris. Whaddaya think?
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  15. Re:bzip on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1

    'Strue. I used to use bzip2 all the time, (putting up with HOURS of compression for backups, even on a 900MHz AMD) until I found out that gzip defaults to 60% of its max compression. I switched to gzip -9 for everything and the compression isn't that much different from bzip2, plus it's a lot faster.
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  16. Re:Are zips still relevent? on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up +5 Informative!! [g]
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  17. Re:Are zips still relevent? on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1

    That's all Fine Well And Good, until you get an error. By *not* compressing certain parts of the archive, you can search for known-good data and recover parts of the zipfile.

    pkzipfix / afio, anyone?
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  18. Re:you could say the same thing about.. on The Significance of Anime · · Score: 1

    ...And if you do it while calling random people and bugging them, does that make you a Crank Yanker?
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  19. Heh! on Operating Systems Are Irrelevant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Boy did I get modded down QUICK! :P

    Ah well, my /. karma was too high anyway. Every so often you need to freak ppl out and do something unexpected.

    Greetz and Hot Natalie Portman!
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  20. Re:Kick to the behind on Go Stand By the Stairs, So I Can Protect You · · Score: 0

    I DON'T know why, just DL'ed the game and haven't even played it yet, but reading your post made me laugh SO damn hard I've got tears coming out of my eyes!!
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  21. What?? on Operating Systems Are Irrelevant · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP *ever*??

    I am Blogg and YOU are not!!
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  22. Re:not vulnerable by default on Vulnerability In Linksys Cable/DSL Router · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jennifer Tilly is your AUNT?? Dude, she's HOT!
    :b

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  23. Re:Not too much of an issue- wrong on Vulnerability In Linksys Cable/DSL Router · · Score: 1

    Could you please post your five lines of iptables?

    Thank you.
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  24. Re:So that's what happened to me 3 weeks ago... on Vulnerability In Linksys Cable/DSL Router · · Score: 1

    Geez, this was on Ars Technica like, a week ago...

    Go ahead, mod me offtopic...
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  25. Re:You need to have... on Required Practices for a Network Operations Center? · · Score: 1

    Dawg, you ain't NOBODY unless you got at *least* a 4-monitor split-video screen!

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/01/2324 20 7&mode=nested&tid=137
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