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  1. Re:i have a bigger problem ... on Building PCs - How do you Choose Your Components? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try the gay bars, no more girl problems!

  2. Re:A problem I had recently on Maintaining Windows XP System Performance? · · Score: 1

    Yes it is 4000DPI slide scanner, sounds like Agfa make one even worse!
    At max settings I think each slide can be about 117MBytes TIFF
    I pop it down to A3 size @ 330DPI they then come in at about 5MB JPEG

    So there you go, to beat an 35MM SLR you need a 23Mega-pixel digital camera!

  3. A problem I had recently on Maintaining Windows XP System Performance? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nikon slidescanner attached via FireWire; couple of years old and every now and again gets put on a new machine, scan time improve but the after all the updating both windows and Antivirus etc do suddenly slows.
    Ask around, do dependancy checks run spy+ no great insight
    Then a friend says "What anti-virus you use?"
    "AVG, you know the free one"
    "ARGHH dumpit, replace it with something else"
    Turns out AVG puts some drivers into the pipeline so it can scan ethernet,USB and FireWire, so everytime the scanner sent a glob of the slide this software was checking to see if it was a virus!

    And yes this continued AFTER I removed the 1364 network stuff, I even go as far as trying another card

    My scanning speeds have droped from 5 mins a slide to 1.35mins, do you know how much more of a life I can have!

    So have a look at device manager, choose view->devices by connection & tick hidden devices box, right near the top you'll see among much else you Antivirus drivers, some dumb some not so dumb

  4. Re:Sensationalist Journalism? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 0

    You said it yourself
    Some of us will be immune
    Host and parasite co-evolve
    Just 'cus you don't belive in evolution won't make it go away
    6 BILLION + humans, you have to go all the way down to the insects before you that many
    Please, WWi & WWii & 1918 flu and still 6BILLION +
    Wake up

  5. Re:Here's the standard operating procedure on How To Get Into Programming? · · Score: 0

    Yeah 6502 assembler, makes RISC chips look like fat bloated command hogs

  6. How about QBASIC? on How To Get Into Programming? · · Score: 0

    Its free with MSDOS
    The editor is simple without being hostile like vi (pukes up)
    An old version will actualy compile, the last one did not, not that it makes much odds
    Has on-line help for its small set of features, loads of sites try google's groups for a list
    More important it avoids GUI, which is what a newbie should do!

    Failing that try FreePascal (FPC) runs on nix & windows, Pascal is stupid easy to learn just as useful as C (but with less ()**/==!=&), you can start with CLI progs and work up to a GUI

    Or real old school Fortran try phortran, an Eclipse with GNU fortran stuck on Nice IDE Nice easy lingo, don't try to write any text stuff with it!

  7. IT sucks, get rich become... on Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal? · · Score: 0

    IP lawyer

  8. My fault on How the Lisa Changed Everything · · Score: 0

    I said it was poo poo to a large british bank
    Yeah so i was drunk!

  9. mine... on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 0

    shutdown -h -now

  10. Re:And... on Owning Your Own IP at a Company? · · Score: 0

    Ah the worker Bee syndrome
    (Also Ants etc)
    Humans should evolve to this;Special, obey, defend the base etc.. ah but sex!
    'Tis thy undoing!

    Hint:
    Bryan "Adams" Knows Nothing

  11. Gosh on Government Love and Hate for Video Games · · Score: 0

    Reading the replies its like you all have a problem with the female form and violence

    I mean is there anything else worth looking at?

  12. Like this sort of stuff? on Wikipedia's New Archnemesis · · Score: 0
  13. Re:Really only two... on Novell Expects Vista to Spur Linux Adoption · · Score: 0

    The old MSDOS based Windows : Notepad could only edit files 64K Also you will find WordPad (previously WRITE win 3.x) can use fonts, bullets, read/write RTF where as notepad is ASCII only Write also made a quick fudge of a binary viewer, wordpad sometimes gets the hump and refuses to do this (as in "Ah this .iso is in fact an mpg4 video, lets look ha hardcore pron, where's the sacking book?") Now one can use Notepad (in NT/2K/XP) 'cus it can cope with big files (4GB at a guess 'cus 2^32?) But it still only does ASCII/UTF-8

  14. Hang on... on Floating Nuclear Power Station · · Score: 0

    Like some of the others here:
    My house cost more than that...

  15. Evolutionary psycology on Pornified · · Score: 0

    Why do you think about sex so often?
    To maximize the chances of reproduction

    Anybody who is feeling they think about sex "too much" to be "normal" is certainly confused

    The too much is bad for you idea is just that an idea, a meme a story a narative

    So whats EP got to do with it?
    The author is a WOMAN
    Bingo! A example of sexual selection
    "I will mate with the man who thinks about sex the least
            a Becuase thats difficult
            b Reduce chance of being cheated
            c Conforms to my peer's expectation"

    You see even an apparent anti-sex, "show some moderation" tome like this has at its heart a sexual selection function
    Imagine a world with no sex
    imagine a world without us

  16. all your bones... on Technology In Katrina's Wake · · Score: 0

    Are bleached in the sun

  17. Re:*sigh* on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 0

    Oh crap, those fun-de-mentals post to /.
    Like shit on a blanket, going to take some cleaning

  18. Re:This guy just CBF trying. on Unilever Ditches Global IT Linux Migration · · Score: 0

    I think you will find its not this mans job to know
    His the manager, he tells other what he needs and asks them what they need to get it
    Then he goes back to the bean-counters
    He should have enought knowlede to know when bullshit is in the air
    I think he used the term Religion, a class of bullshit I hate in a throw a tantrum way, as God only knows

  19. Re:I wonder. on Unilever Ditches Global IT Linux Migration · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Listen man I have had a few Hondas in my time
    Honda ain't Linux thats for sure; it's a professional company*
    Honda, thank fuck, isn't OS X**
    Honda is kind of OpenVMS, certainly not as "stolen" as Solaris**
    Daewoo might be like windows in this car == os tosh, I know I sent one back after a week

    *Amatures don't get paid, pros do
    ** BSD clones, nay "Distros"

  20. Re:Okay...How do I install these things... on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1

    You can use Disk Manager to re-claim the partion Right-Click My Computer & select Manage... Disk Manager is under Storage if its not obvious Another way I sometimes used was to put FreeBSD over the linux partion & then Fdisk/mbr but that may no longer work.

  21. Just for the record... on Zotob and Mytob Worm Authors Arrested · · Score: 1

    I caught this worm Yes I uninstalled Fedora 3 and replaced it with W2K (Boot time reduced by 1 minute, wireless card now works) Noticed extreme activity on the NIC, being a laptop I can see the LED. "Strange" Say I, "Flashing away like fu**, I wonder..." Sure there we are in services, ps/2 mouse service, do me a favour wtf is this bullshit! Identify, disable remove etc about 1 hour after infection. Yet I run SpyBot/ADWare blah blah blah they EVENTUALLY spot it (Tuesday, I got it last Sat) BUT Firewall: disabled 445 NOT 443, which looks the same when you KNOW what your looking at! I did read some stuff about uPnP last year and thought "What a ... for a lightbulb" This is Intel doing not m$! well okay I will go for wintel Anyway, no great harm done, thats being done by the undetected worms in all those SUN & Linux M/C between me and that GaySexPronUberMachine Everyone knows Linux is coded by irrate *nix programmers no longer required by SUN microsystems becuase stealing 386BSD was soooo 1990's

  22. Bit off topic on Researchers Create Radio Controlled Humans · · Score: 1

    I love Real
    It works
    You can turn off rather easily all those adverts
    Consumes less CPU than FLASH(tm)
    less clumsy UI than WinAmp

    I don't do WMA/V via M$ media player, thats the road to virus hell...

    My HK$6

  23. 1165 replies? on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1

    Hey changing to INTEL only got to 845 by now!

    What next Apple branded Windows XP?

  24. First time Ive seen on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    First time in all these past years where they have written about these websites and given a URL!
    The Times is owned by Murdoch (whos son jacked his job in this weekend) who also runs the SUN tabloid which has barked on and on about how the secret service listen to their phone calls etc etc
    Hey careless talk cost lives you brain dead OZ!

    If I ran that secret service I would go out of my way to make it look like someone else did it, I would not allow a SUN reporter within a 1000miles of my ops or I would feed them a load of tosh.

    If I ran that terror group I would go out of my way to blame the British Empire and its crock-nosed spiteful crusaders!

    And who owns the domain?...oh NO ONE OWNS THE DOMAIN!
    (Made-up tosh)

  25. Fudge on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 1

    I clicked the donation link but the site appears to have been slashdotted, will try again later

    A fool and his money are easily parted