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  1. Re:2 strings walk into a bar on What is Your Best Tech Joke? · · Score: 1

    Oh, how I wish I had mod points to give you...

  2. Re:next gen consoles on Playstation 3 Gathering Components · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked, there weren't 230 million households in the US. The parent's estimate was pretty accurate.

  3. Re:Offtopic vi shenanigans on Breakdown of Bandwidth Costs? · · Score: 1

    Actually, a few flavours of vi will take the empty pattern (//) and replace it with the last regular expression used.

    Mea culpa. I should have written :%s/.//g

  4. Re:As a small ISP.. on Breakdown of Bandwidth Costs? · · Score: 1

    About your sig: how is :1,$s/^.*$//g

    different from :%s///g

    Apart from being longer, that is...

  5. Re:You forgot something on Virtual Volunteering · · Score: 1

    The obligatory

    2n) ???
    2n+1) Profit!

    Sorry, I had to...

  6. Re:I'm a geek... on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're going within 3 days, alone, so you can get a good spot? I hate to tell you this, but you are not avoiding them. You're one of them.

  7. Re:WHY??? on HotBot Returns · · Score: 1

    You can also do this in Mozilla.

    Bookmark (for example) http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s then choose 'manage bookmarks', then click on the bookmark you created and edit the properies.

    Add a keyword (for example, I use ggg for google groups, to be the same as konq). Then just type 'ggg my search' in the location bar, and away you go.

  8. Re:future plans? on Secure, Efficient and Easy C programming · · Score: 1
    SECURE

    1) Don't use strcpy.

    2) Don't assume data coming in from the world is within valid limits

    3) Don't use gets. Ever.

    4) Watch out for scanf. It's hard to use safely.

  9. Re:Cool on Ultima 7 in Windows? · · Score: 2, Funny

    right between wind commander II and ultima underworld 1

    Ah, the hours of flatulence-based fun to be had from playing wind commander II!

  10. Re:Yes on The Poetry Of Programming · · Score: 5, Funny

    ee cummings literary works (only I use more punctuation marks than she does)

    Ah, yes, the great emily ermintrude cummings. Her work was far superior to that upstart edward estlin, wasn't it?

  11. Re:I have an answer to movie distribution! on Movielink.com: Nice But Not Ready For Prime Time · · Score: 1

    Kazaalite. Do I have to do the stupid cough too? Oh ok. *cough*

  12. Re:Simply Answer on All Source Code Should Be Open, Revisited · · Score: 1

    for(i=1;i=100;++i) doesn't seem incredibly useful. i=100 always evaluates as true, so your loop never ends. And why do you want i to always be 100? I can't see MS fighting over ownership here.

  13. Re:The reason they use red... on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're CMOS, not CCD.

  14. Re:Dollar doldrums on EU Studies Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    I'm not claiming European superiority over America, or measuring Europe against US standards. What made you think I was? In fact I was countering an argument that said Europe did just that. I'm just refuting the claim that the Euro was 'designed' to start at parity with the Dollar.

  15. Re:Dollar doldrums on EU Studies Linux Migration · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really? The Euro started as $1.18. What makes you think everything revolves around the USA?

  16. Re:Illegal Operation on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 1

    > The one asking if you are sure you want to run time backwards on various unii.

    I'm sorry, WTF is 'unii'? That's even worse than virii.

  17. Re:will it take off? on Nokia 6650, Super 3G Phone · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Stupid konq scroll wheel bug. Posting to remove the flamebait mod I just erroneously gave you

  18. Re:In the US? on Wireless Wales · · Score: 1

    Never been to the north of Scotland, have you?

  19. This already exists in Europe on G4: The Pong Channel? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, in Europe, we already have dedicated game channel which show footage of video games being played. It's truly terrible.

    See a typical schedule here, or check out the network's website here

  20. Re:Matching #if ... #else ... #endif on The Union of Vim with KDE · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it does. Switch now!

  21. Re:Software on What Software Should ISPs Distribute and Support? · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's 297% of the time! No wonder I can never connect.

  22. Re:If youve ever lost on GPS Wristwatch for Kids · · Score: 1

    Instead, seeing as these are locked on, it'll be your kid giving an arm or a leg when the abductor realises the best way to lose the watch.

  23. Re:Gnome 1.4 on Dueling Distros - It's All Good, Apparently · · Score: 1
    > you will relize that gnome 1.4 was released after mandrake 8

    Not so:

    Gnome 1.4 released April 3rd

    Mandrake 8.0 released April 19th

  24. Re:Great idea on Can You Create An Intelligent Haiku Generator? · · Score: 1

    Multiple miscounts
    Cause fall in estimation
    Poor fool slashdotters...