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  1. Que? on Ubuntu's Laptop Killing Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    Nes pas?

  2. Re:Not Samba? on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Huh? What is a racist slur about Samba?

    You must have an over active imagination.

    Anyhoo, I fail to see why there is such a hullabaloo in the USA about having a coloured prez.

  3. Re:Pull my finger on Methane On Mars May Indicate Living Planet · · Score: 1

    Methan and ethane is everywhere in our solar system. You can send a rocket ship to Titan, refuel and come back. The only problem is finding oxygen. If there was any free oxygen, Titan, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus would have been burning fiercely.

  4. Methane is everywhere in the solar system on Methane On Mars May Indicate Living Planet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Our sun and solar system is a second generation system, made from the rubble of a previous star that went nova billions of years ago.

    Jupiter, and Uranus have red spots that indicate Methane in their lower atmosphere. Some moons of Saturn have lakes and rivers of methane (Titan and Europa). That indicates that methane is older than the solar system and was created in the previous solar system that this one is made from.

    Consequently, the presence of Methane doesn't say anything about the presence of life.

  5. Return it! on Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    Many countries have Buyer Regret laws that allows *anything* to be returned within 10 to 14 days.

  6. Google? on Collateral Damage as UK Censors Internet Archive · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, they haven't blacklisted Google yet? Children can use it to search for bad words!

  7. Re:Jeez. on Why the Mediterranean Is the Net's Achilles' Heel · · Score: 1

    Actually, the cables are buried, but the currents and earth quakes can expose the cables in spots.

  8. Now you can buy all your music all over again. on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 0

    Now you can buy all your music all over again. Only this time, you can get a 75% discount! Woohoo! I am so going to rush out and do that. Fortunately, all my music is on a server encoded in Ogg Vorbis.

  9. Re:Cannot believe I am saying this... on 30th Anniversary of the (No Good) Spreadsheet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One day when you try to run your own company, you'll realize the problem with what you said above. The fact is that trying to find financing and projects to execute, in order to keep 500 engineers busy, really ain't easy.

  10. Re:Evolution? on The Evolution of Python 3 · · Score: 1

    "Python species"

    There, fixed it for you! ;)

  11. No more ribbon on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1

    Here you go:
    http://www.addintools.com/

    That will replace the bewildering ribbon with a proper menu, the way Dog intended it it to be.

  12. Re:Bye bye, Tractor Beam... :'( on Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery · · Score: 1

    A pusher beam would be more useful, since it would not cause collisions with the pusher.

  13. Re:Bedlam... on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 0

    The problem is MS Exchange. Proper mail servers will only save ONE copy of a message and attachment sent to any number of users. That is what separates the men from the boys. Unfortunately, Exchange is one of the boys.

  14. Re:ZFS? on Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what file system you put on these devices. The flash memory is managed by a little hardware controller.

  15. SecureErase is built into Drive Controller on "Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Weird, not a single commenter knows that there is a secure erase function built into the drive controller of ALL hard disks. All that you need to do is activate it: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

  16. Re:The water on Russia's Mars Mission Raising Concerns · · Score: 1

    No, the water sank into the ground as Mars cooled. The reason water is on the surface on earth is because it is hot in the interior - deep water boils and returns to the surface. Mars is a smaller planet and cooled down faster, so the water sank in. If one would drill a well on Mars, one would find aquifers deep down, same as on earth. It is only the surface that is frozen. One would probably also find water on the Earth's moon if one drills deep enough.

  17. Market share on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    I guess they have to trim staff in relation to their dwindling software market share.

  18. Re:Why? on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, that is how you finally got promoted? ;)

  19. 1973 is calling on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    No, Al Gore won't STFU - He will just go and dig up the Global Cooling scripts from 35 years ago.

  20. Very few PCs run Windows? on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 3, Funny

    If only 400,000 machines were infected, then it would seem that Apple And Linux have taken over the desktop.

  21. Portable power on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    Any little portable one hand carry generator will power the furnace fan, a fridge and a light bulb. Some extension leads are needed and do leave the genny outside the house. You can get these at RV supply stores for a few hundred bucks. Considering how seldom you will use it, spending ten grand on a permanent setup is probably not justified and the genny may be nice for (noisy neighbour annoying) camping too.

  22. RDP and Reverse VNC on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Whatever you do - Windows or Linux - set up RDP and/or Reverse VNC:
    http://www.vncscan.com/vs/oneclickVNC.htm
    http://www.uvnc.com/addons/singleclick.html

    You will need a Hell Desk service and it will save you lots of petrol.

  23. Re:It is completely ignorant to think... on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 5, Informative

    There were 3 identical ships built (Titanic, Olympic, Britannic). Only one suffered from bad rivets.

  24. Diskeeper spam on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    I get tons of Diskeeper spam and always assumed that it must be a scam. Does anybody actually buy their shit?

  25. Galactic constant on SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? · · Score: 1

    The Galactic Constant for data transfer on a cheap X86 system seems to be 32MB/s. I've tested lots of cheap machines and they all turn out to max out at that speed, so good luck with your quest.