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  1. Re:Desktops 1.0 == waste of space on Microsoft Updates Multiple Sysinternals Tools · · Score: 1

    What a piece of junk.

    And it definitely won't make point five past lightspeed...

  2. Re:Don't hold your breath on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 1

    Ulteo can be installed (and looks a lot like Ubuntu).

    Why not just use Ubuntu if those are the two selling points?

  3. Re:Completely incorrect basic assumptions on New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    My qualifications in this area: multiple product-grade binary translators and binary optimizers; former developer (Okena/Cisco) of a HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention) system where we actually had to worry about this kind of problem.

    Yes, but do you speak Bocce?

  4. Re:Just do what your parents did.. on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 1

    That would be CTRL+V

  5. Re:Just do what your parents did.. on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 1
    Probably...

    Child: "Eww, gross! Cooties!!"

    Teenager: *hits CTRL+P*

  6. Re:Fanatical on Google Chrome Spinoff 'Iron' For Privacy Fanatics · · Score: 1

    I clear my cookies regularly. What Slashdot calls fanatical I call routine. So I guess that makes me a fanatic.

    That's not fanatical. Fanatical is forking a browser because simply deleting your cookies is not enough. I think you took it too personally.

  7. Re:No, it is not reasonable. on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You failed the coding test, but you nicely placed blame on others. Please move to the line for management interviews.

  8. Re:Now all they have to do on Amazon Rolls Out Release-Day Game Delivery · · Score: 1

    I give up. Please don't give me any more mod points. There is no longer any distinction between +1 Funny and +1 Insightful for me anymore. The decision is too much at 5am with no coffee. I end up wasting them all on stupid Soviet Russia jokes that aren't even funny.

  9. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? on Solving Sudoku With dpkg · · Score: 1

    Sounds fun!

    Solve this Sudoku before the time runs out or your partitions will be randomly reassigned to different mount points.

  10. Re:IFS Kit; Vista 64 Test Mode on Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved · · Score: 1

    I had to do the registry change to get an unsigned driver to load in 64-bit Vista Ultimate. The driver was for a Virtual CD/DVD drive so I could mount ISOs. I have never seen this banner you mention, and I have been running that machine for a year. In fact, I reloaded the machine once and had to install that same driver. Do you have a source for this, or did I get lucky? I would love to get a screenshot of it and set it as my co-worker's wallpaper.

  11. Re:No longer associated with BSOD? on Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? · · Score: 1

    Hehehe I do the same thing. And as you can see from the AC below, I screwed my post up too.

  12. Re:No longer associated with BSOD? on Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? · · Score: 1

    The "almost always...invariably" phrase gave me a headache.

    My experiences with BSOD are now solely the result of inserting a poorly-made USB drive into a computer in our student lab. This causes crashes in both Windows 2000 and Windows XP on a successful d20 roll against THACO 14.

    I think I channeled my AD&D childhood for a moment there.

  13. Re:One Word on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    It takes about 12 seconds to disable that if you don't know where to find it in the settings, and two if you do. I went to Avast after quite a few years of AVG because the latest version of AVG Free likes to pop up IE windows at night. IE isn't even my default browser. That announcement scared me good the first night. I went in and turned it off the next day.

  14. Re:This is good, but on Liberation Fonts Increase Interoperability For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    Here, you dropped these.. ))

  15. Re:In other news on Sun's Java Will Be Free This Year · · Score: 1

    Hello... We're all nerds and geeks here right? How could the thought of introducing sed statements into everyday conversation NOT interest you? Sheesh!

  16. Re:Prior Art ? on Microsoft Applies For "Digital Manners" Patent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Imagine a person at the movies. The theater forces phones to be shut off. The email from someone's alarm system saying there is a fire is never received. When they get home the fire and police departments take them to the hospital so they can watch their two small children die of burns. Yeah, that will work out nicely in the papers. Yet millions of people enjoyed movies without email alerts on their cell phone for decades. Why aren't they at home watching their kids anyway? Were they really stupid enough to hire a babysitter that can't even manage to get the kids out of the house before they got burned? Or did they abandon their children to go see a movie? Sounds like the parents are the villains here, not the movie theater. Just turn off your phone, dude. The rest of us paid to watch the movie, not hear your phone call.
  17. Re:I totally agree- i had this happen 3 weeks ago on Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes · · Score: 1

    My Linksys WRT54G has been plugging along for 5 years without a single hiccup. The only time it is not working is when the power goes out. You had a hardware defect, it could happen to anyone. No reason to blame a company's entire product line for a single bad unit.

  18. Re:DOS on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Everything from iTunes to Lego Mindstorms SDK is available only on Windows. I don't think you meant to say iTunes here.
  19. Re:You can also get it shipped on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    i can haz a linnix?

  20. Re:People! Not everything is terrorism! on Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... Granny's warm, wet hands. Oh the repressed memories! Oh the horror!!
  21. Re:new patent flood? on Gibson Accuses Guitar Hero of Patent Violation · · Score: 1

    string X = "File a patent application"
    Now I am all set.
  22. Re:I did on Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, the iExpectation is from Apple.

  23. Re:I'm a librarian, and my worst nightmare is: on Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and so are you!

  24. Re:obligatory Linux snippet in the end of the arti on More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor · · Score: 1

    I get your point, but if I had a small business that I want to grow into a big business, I would study the big businesses to see how they got there.

  25. Re:Why do I want a giant clock or battery widget on KDE 4.0 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1

    gI gDon't gKnow. iThat's e-Strange. xSeems iTo kBe gA xTrend.