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  1. I want to start my own slashdot... on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    on the london version of the internet..... Hey we can all go meet in the pub afterwards. Plus we get to slag off the americans without them realising it.. Hey we do that already! but not on our london internet. We can force every website on the london internet to have a picture of tony blair at the top of every page!

  2. Oh Reg, I do declare. on Tango Project to Make Open Source Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    Oh Reg, I do declare we gotsta compete with windows vista, its just so doggone beatiful...... Linux should be free and beautiful. Reg: Linux is ugly and for Geeks. Windows is beautiful and SLOOOOOOOOOW

  3. Linux can learn from gimpshop on Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos · · Score: 1

    Its really not a hard issue to sort out. If you want people to adopt make it look like something they know. Gimpshop's success showed if you want to use gimp make it look like photoshop. If you want users to use linux make it look like windows. Linspire started with that ethos, then sadly started "improving" the user interface. I am a techie and I can't use the interface. BTW I am sure that novell, didn't release ALL the videos, I am sure there were some really catastrophic samples that were too damaging to show.

  4. What was that noise on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I think someone just S*** himself........ but seriously, Balmer is going to kill Google by: launching a search engine...oops done that- partial screwup will fix in Vista launching an email service....oops done that- partial screwup will fix in Vista launching advertising...oops done that- will be a partial screwup, etc WHAT ELSE CAN HE DO?????? I know lets make google incompatible with Vista....... See you in 2 years time

  5. Re:Cogentco website problems on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    they have a tier 1 network, but surely their website is just as vulnerable as any others! its a server after all. Just because its on a tier 1 network, shouldn't be an issue.

  6. Re:Cogentco website problems on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    I can't get to the website but I can ping it. I guess there are a lot of people pissed at them they are probaably DOS'ing them to capitulation

  7. Re:No Invite on Flock, the New Browser on the Block · · Score: 1

    I don't know why everyone is going so crazy about it... Its based on Firefox! With some custom extensions. Some people may even call it a fork! or from the design of a site maybe its more prudent to call it a spoon.

  8. Re:WinDir on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    Duplic8 is not freeware its trialware BIG difference

  9. Alpha Centauri mod in production- waste of time? on Ask The Civ IV Dev Team · · Score: 1

    Like others I enjoyed the alpha centauri game and was delighted to hear that a group of Civ fans have already started to work on a alpha centauri mod. To what degree will the SDK allow them to achieve their goal, or are they better off waiting for an........ expansion pack.(nudge nudge, wink wink)

  10. Re:Opera on Opera Free as in Beer · · Score: 1

    In terms of speed and customizability, I think Firefox wins hands down. I have been using opera as a 3rd browser for app testing or logging into a secondary gmail account. Its a good browser, but they will need to do a lot to replace it as my first choice. BTW out of interest, why weren't you using the ad supported version if you liked it that much better than el Foxo

  11. Hackers with earphones on Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking · · Score: 1

    Any people standing around with a microphone pointed at my employees keyboards will be shot onsite.... hold on isn't it just quicker to take a peek, if you are close enough to hear, you must be close enough to SEE1

  12. Icebergs? on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1

    I am all in favour of using icebergs to cool the temperatures around where a hurricane is forming. After two or three hurricane seasons, global sea levels would have risen enough to see if we would start growing gills like they Costners in WATERWORLD. by the way the rest of the planet would be flooded, but hey no hurricanes!

  13. Too many versions and not enough stock on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 1

    I used to work in a major retailer in the UK. They could never get it 100%- we sometimes had loads of home versions and no professional and vice versa. Joe Public is going have a heart attack with all the complications. "I just want something that I can browse the internet and write word documents" Thank the almighty I am out of that game now!