Spinrite crashing on big disks is supposedly because of a bug in freedos (which it boots from) and should be fixable by replacing it with ms-dos...

I can't imagine anyone bragging about having a Microsoft branded phone.

They're just not cool.

Well, Obesity.

12%. This question gets asked in most of the Apple-related threads...

So far, summer in the Netherlands has been unusually cool and wet.

I think we had 3 days of hot weather.

Too bad it's a Seagate drive and will probably die if you looked at it funny, just like my last 4 Seagates...

The UK just spent 24 billion Pounds on the Olympics and nobody wanted those...

Surely they could have spent this money better on something like this broadband project... and with that much money left, give everyone a free PC!

Meanwhile, Lisbon is sitting on $19 BILLION (â14.5 billion) worth of gold reserves, most of it still left over from the good old days of plundering South America...

If they're specialty lamps, they're exempt, otherwise, you could get them from old stock or a country that has no such silly ban...

Erica Cerra (Deputy Jo Lupo) has been doing this more and more on Eureka and calls it "acting". I find it extremely aggravating. She sounds like she had throat surgery that went terribly wrong. I wonder how many google searches there have been for "erica cerra throat cancer"...

I saw this in an episode of Sliders, only with Earth.

You're going to have to get 6XL and up shirts for tea partiers...

I use a old Pentium 3 running Debian as a router. Ofcourse i didn't put a wireless card in it, since i don't need wireless connectivity, i doubt most people do, it's probably out of laziness that people use it instead of just pluggin in an ethernet cable... (unless your device doesn't have an ethernet port).

By the way, you can turn off the wireless connectivity on most routers and you should, if you're not using it...

Coca Cola went into a business partnership with Heinz to do the same thing with their bottles.
I remember seeing a press release about a month ago.

Bullies rarely keep their promises.

That's what the US has become to the rest of the world; nothing more than bullies.