that's a great idea. although i fear it may take a lot of coding. in perl... i'm a python expert, so you know how I feel about perl!

glad someone else has to do it!

Stuff I did:

There was an article with someone asking what to do when police do stop-and-search in a police station. My comment was "what you want to do is get naked, cover yourself in goose fat and jump arse-first into a wheelie bin so you can suck yourself off. won't help with the police situation. Wait... what was the question again?"

And also...

Everyone says princess Di is great for shaking hands with some AIDS victims. That's nothing.. Freddy Mercury fucked one.

And...

In response to the article about how "the web is not the internet", someone said "I asked my 4 year old son, my wife, and my 84 year old grandmother and they all get it". I said "i was gonna do that, but first i would have to dig up the patio"

I like the way that my comment cruised up to 5: informative when people with a sense of humour (poor guy clicking for a fourth time) GOT the joke, then loads of people going "no, this is slashdot. this is getting in the way of my beard growing time" shit. hats off to the people who ranked it as informative. you guys :-D

in the UK the NHS covers england and wales and northern ireland but not scotland I believe.

All four are under different authorities. Is it better to live in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales? Well, that depends what disease you've got...

in the UK, we pay less on average than the US, and yet we live longer. Although the "value for money" prize currently goes to singapore which has a mix of public and private healthcare, that's the one statistic you can't argue with.

it must be strange to pay tax all your life and not get healthcare when you need it. pretty backwards 3rd world shit if you ask me.

Ahh yes, "we" are the reason other people have no morals or ethics.

...

OS X - Ive upped my standards, up yours!

wow.. it must be really high up there

Since its acquisition by Sony

Well that's where they went wrong. Whenever these things happen, developers leave in droves anyway and start new development houses, until they're bought again. Most game developers have some sort of idea for a game, and this is usually how it happens.

A file server you have to pay for? What exactly did rapidshare innovate in their entire existence?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ :D

There's something *very* wrong with your setup if you need to hold down alt for right-click to work. I've never had to do that. Only time I use alt in combination with the mouse is to move windows by clicking anywhere in them rather than hitting the title bar. Yes... I clicked on an icon so that they have context. you don't get contextual menus without context.

Are you sure you're not using unity, not gnome 3? Unity has the alt-right-click thing because of its dumb sidebar (I hate unity with a vengeance.. if you have 2 terminals open and click one to bring it to the front, it brings all of them up. only way to bring one up is with alt-tab/alt-`. Plus focus-follows-mouse doesn't work and is marked as "wontfix" in unity). In gnome, it just works as far as I've seen. I've never heard of what you're talking about outside unity, which isn't really gnome 3.

Also my condolences that your mouse doesn't work.

Well I right click on icons and get a menu. What are you missing?

if you're an enterprise IT sysadmin, this is a nightmare. How can I check a site is up on a server with a certain domain name before I point DNS to it?

what, on the desktop? Since I've a) not got any icons on it because I don't use it as a file manager and b) completely obscured it with about 5 terminals, I'm not sure what I would want to do to it even if I could get to it without dragging something. Change the background? Not the most common task. My desktop has no context I could imagine would be useful.

OK, bad example - I have the terminal pinned to alt-m as well. Once you've pinned it to favourites, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it.