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Comment Re:Reminds me... (Score 1) 402

> "You accidentally burn your Travellers Cheques"? Well surely you could just as easily accidentally burn your credit card too, so where's the advantage?

that's why they associate your credit card number with your teeth at airport checkin. duh.

Comment Re:Goodbye old friend. (Score 1) 301

I would have canceled my yahoo account years ago, but Y!Messeneger is very used by a lot of my friends.

You can use msn and y!im seamlessly for some time now... but i fail to see why i am saying this. I've used ICQ since the 90's and had offline message support since ever.

Comment Re:Love the Yahoo (Score 2, Informative) 301

You gotta love the Yahoo, if for no other reason than Zimbra. More than any other piece of software, it's the "Exchange Killer" that we've all wondered about. It matches, feature-for-feature, Exchange. It's (mostly) open-source. It runs fine on Linux. It works with Windows, Mac, Linux, KDE, Google Calendars/Email, and just about everything else, ...

They say that the internal project to make zimbra the internal email plataform at yahoo (like gmail is at google, under the Mona name) was handed over to a bunch of people that actually had Exchange Engineer as their work title. So, the Sr. exchange Engineer veredict was that exchange was better. What a surprise. Zimbra will probably get sacked.

Social Networks

Submission + - Google giving up on opensocial0.8+ Waiting Final. (google.com)

nazsco writes: "Orkut, Google's testing ground for opensocial before they move it to more prime time products --e.g. iGoogle and Gmail, has aparently pulled the plug on supporting the development versions of the OpenSocial specs before they go gold. The official forum for developers previously had active support and releases announcements. Now it's all about spec paper work. The google groups has also stopped accepting new posts since May 14th! The last post about new tech releases on the blog is from May 3rd. After that, the blog became a pool of internet available IDEs and then several other stories sending developers to other networks. Note that this come just after they fixed a security issue by disabling all forms of profile views of the widgets that do not use template views. which is described in 0.7 and greatly refined in 0.8 only. Brazilian and Indian developers wonders how much long the google groups blackout will last."

Comment Spoted in the wild (Score 2, Funny) 3

request for urgent business relationship

first, i must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top  secret'. i am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a  transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending  transaction requiring  maxiimum confidence.

we are top official of the federal government contract review panel who are interested in imporation of goods into our country with funds  which are  presently trapped in nigeria, good people, great nation. in order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said  trapped funds.

the source of this fund is as follows; during the last military regime here in nigeria, good people, great nation, good people, great nation, the government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries. the present civilian government set up a contract review panel and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the central bank of nigeria, good people, great nation ready for payment.

however, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our  names. i have  therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of  the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would  transfer the sum of us$21,320,000.00(twenty one million, three hundred and twenty thousand u.s dollars). hence we are writing you this letter.  we have agreed to share the money thus; 1. 20% for the account owner 2. 70% for us (the officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses. it is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.

please,note  that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7) banking days from the date of the receipt of the following informatiom by tel/fax; 234-1-7740449, your company's signed, and stamped letterhead paper the above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. this way we will use your company's name to apply for payment and <nobr>re-award</nobr> the contract in your company's name.

we are looking forward to doing  this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transation. please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax  numbers. i will send you detailed information of this pending project when i have heard from you.

yours faithfully,

dr clement okon

note; please quote this reference number (ve/s/09/99) in all your responses.

*damn /. and Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.*

Comment pussies, use linux already. (Score 1) 193

With linux, which has several decent window managers (not that childish thing you people has with windows and apple) you can do as you wish. I said, as you $&*^%@ wish!

e.g.

When i play starcraft, I left the IM window and IM notification icon override the full screen and be on top. so any time anyone IMs me, my IM hotkey will make the im window appear on top of the game. (the notification icon hides part of the population limit, but can be fixed if it really bothers you. and of course, the im window will be in the 800x600 resolution the game is using but i don't even think i need to mention that.)

When i play*ed* world of warcraft, i left it full screen at virtual desk one, and a browser with toothbot on virtual desk two. a simple windowskey+f2 and voila, a browser! a terminal! a solitaire game! my music player! some star trek episode from the dvd!

with wow i confess i had some problems dealing with hotkeys in game and out of game... but i managed to solve it *without* waiting for someone to do an app for me.

But "linux is no good for games" :(

with wine, it runs star craft, it runs warcraft 3, it runs world of warcraft.

and at pretty good speed. and i last tested it on a duron 1.3ghz with 2gb ram with a value nvidia card (had to use some low settings for graphics because of the card)

you bunch of pussies.

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