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  1. Re:linux?? on Serenity Trailer Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Just use mplayer to play the link, or read the error output from mplayer to find the name of the _actual_ file to download (have to make you do some work....)

  2. Not in Konqueror... on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 1

    The sites mentioned in the article (you did RTFA didn't you?) where hit and miss for creating a pop-up in Firefox and Mozilla, but none of them popped-up in Konqueror (Konqueror 3.3.2)

  3. No, no it isn't on Blog reading up 58% in U.S. · · Score: 1

    Last year 90% of Internet users just didn't know what they where viewing, until some jackass decided to call it a 'blog'. Now they have a term for what they read.

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  4. KOffice on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 1
    I'll bet a buck it's based on KOffice

    That's my bet. I'll expect you all to pay up when it happens...

  5. I cry bullshit... on The Economist Tackles Complexity in IT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hear this every damn day. 'We need to make it simple', 'It is a simple service' or 'It is a low option service'. This may work fine for the sales and marketing drones that make their commission off selling unnecessary services to uninformed customers, but as long as there is _choice_ out there, the backend is going to be complicated, and somebody, somewhere is going to have to known how all of it (or at least a major part of it) works.

    Try all you want, but unless the entire IT industry decides to switch to one massive global device that we all plug _directly_ into, you can't make video conferencing/VOIP/disaster recovery/etc through 2 LANS, 3 Service Providers and 10 different security layers a 'green/red' push button operation.

    I've gotta go get drunk now....

  6. Re:Holy crap! I scooped /. on Canadian Public Radio Streaming Ogg Vorbis · · Score: 1
  7. Cisco? Nortel? on Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I don't see Cisco and/or Nortel on the list, it's not going to replace SNMP anytime soon. Correction: _ever_.

    .

  8. Re:Cheerleading Against SCO on Report Claims SCO Intends to Charge IBM with Fraud · · Score: 1

    Don't read the comments on Groklaw. Just read the main story (with a grain of salt) and read the court documents.

  9. Yes, I tried it... on Is That Pirated Software? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ---
    Thank you for your interest in Windows Update

    Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the most out of your computer.

    You must be running a Microsoft Windows operating system in order to use Windows Update.
    --- ...online extension to Windows... that just freaks me out...

    .

  10. 3 minutes.... on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... but I want it now!

    .

  11. Re:OK on Why You Should Use XHTML · · Score: 1

    Mozilla/Firefox supports MathML, but not Konqueror (yet)....

  12. Re:Ah yes, SVG and MathML. on Why You Should Use XHTML · · Score: 1

    For SVG, Konqueror 3.2.3 - not perfect, but supported 'out of the box'.

    Theory has it that Mozilla/Firefox can be compiled with SVG support, but I've yet to see anyone do it.

    Downloading the Adobe SVG plugin will not make you go blind though....

    .

  13. Re:RPM Lacks Security Checks on URPMI For Fedora Core 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you even bother to RTFP? I can see you failing to RTFA, but the post? The article (and the post) were about 'urpmi', not RPM. urpmi does GPG checking, and will ask if you want to continue when it notices a mismatch, unless passed --no-verify-rpm.

  14. Since none of you actually went to the site.... on They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store · · Score: 1
    ... the FAQ contains this little tidbit:

    MAC Internet Explorer Users:
    We highly recommend that you use the Safari or
    Firefox browser to download songs.

    ...I don't want the world, I just want your half...

  15. Not just Telus, SaskTel also on Telus Puts A Stop To 'Modem Hijacking' · · Score: 1

    Telus and SaskTel are doing the same thing. Read at CTV

  16. Fluke Network Analysis on Missing Open Source Security Tools? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was blown away by the Fluke Network Analysis Tools.
    Given enough time, everything could be replicated with FLOSS, but nobody has. Somebody should....

  17. Re:The Military, for starters on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    If you would have been awake during the Message Drafting course, you would know that your system ties into an international network. The network in some places is quite old, so your message is automagically translated to an old teletype system. These systems are 'CAPS ONLY'.

    Not having to know if it is going to go internal or external is a good thing. It's called a standard, get use to it.

  18. Just think... on Fiber To The Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    ...how fast the retrans will be when they hit the choke point!

  19. As a Canadian SysAdmin... on Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada? · · Score: 1

    ... I'd say it sucks. Sucks real bad. You don't want to come here. Ya, that's right, sucks. Stay in the US, and don't come poaching in Canada. Our beer is too strong and our women are too realistic about how a female and male body should look like and like to keep it that way. Oh, and the majority of people worry too much about the quality of life and not the quantity, mid-sized companies are far too lax about employees switching jobs between each other and we have far too many Federal and Provincial stat holidays. Ya, sucks, that's the ticket, stay right where you are....

  20. Re:Religion is for the week-minded on SimChurch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, isn't that simple minded.

    Lets apply your logic. I believe 2+2=4, and I believe you're an idiot, so I must be right on both counts.

  21. Am I the only one... on Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net · · Score: 1

    ...who thinks that someone should fork this immediately, just for shits and giggles?

  22. Re:It's not security, it's quality on Is Security Holding VoIP Back? · · Score: 1

    The current sets are Cisco, but the Nortel sets where about the same. 90% of the time they are OK, but when you are conferencing, or in hand-free, it starts to go downhill quick.

  23. It's not security, it's quality on Is Security Holding VoIP Back? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Spend some time using VOIP and you'll want to poke yourself in the eye. And that's on an internal network with QoS. You can put up with a delay on your mail, web, ftp, etc, or even jitter on video, but when audio starts to fart and burp, you'll go mad (MAD I SAY).

    And with the cost of long distance nowadays, why would you want to drive the cost of your Internet access up by overloading the network with traffic that is doing perfectly well on it's current medium? I guess it comes back to the question of 'What are you trying to fix anyway?'

  24. Re:I'll bet against the DND on Did HP Defraud the Canadian Government? · · Score: 1

    D&D? She works for Dungeons & Dragons?

  25. Re:I'll bet against the DND on Did HP Defraud the Canadian Government? · · Score: 1

    Man, I am so getting charged for that comment. Hatless dance here I come!