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- God, I love you Brits
- God, I love you BritsFrom the BBC News website - [i]Last Updated: Thursday, 10 August 2006, 11:37 GMT 12:37 UK 'Airlines terror plot' disrupted A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland...
- Tags: attack, british, British Broadcasting Corp., good beer, good people, jck, off-topic, plot, security, terrorism, UK AIRPORTS
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cops
- http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=24785Why'd she keep going? She was taking her cancer-sick husband to the hospital.Guess that makes it okay to disregard the well-being of the officer you just hit with your car.Just pathetic.I was a smart-alec teenager to copsBut later in life I had a few friends who were policemen, and...
- Tags: cop
- Discussion threads 2006-02-02
- Jobs in Ireland
- I'm just curious.I know about the EU rules for employment and how it affects how professional, exempt positions are listed and hired for in Ireland.But, is it impossible for an American to get employment there?Just curious on the perspective from anyone in Ireland and/or recruiters who might recruit for firms...
- Tags: job, D GG, FAS, jobs, employment, ireland, european union, possibilities, IRISH, jck, career
- Discussion threads 2005-12-02
- What's your favorite Christmas food?
- What's your favorite Christmas food?Just wondered what everyone else looks forward to most at Christmas when they have the meal.Mine is pecan pralines.Mom's cooking is why I was a fat kid...hahaha.Christmas PuddingAnd finding the sixpence!With hard sauceNot sure if thats what they call it in England, but we always had...
- Tags: jck
- Discussion threads 2005-11-22
- Why DoS and DDoS attacks are the plague of the Internet
- Could DDoS be stopped?If ISPs simply denied "flooding" to go outside of their networks??ISPs now often have variable bandwidth allowances for users (DSL, cablemodem) based on the package they pay for to limit their bandwidth.Could an ISP not configure their network to allow only a limited amount of DDoS-style protocol...
- Tags: attacks, column, ddos, distributed denial of service, dos, flooding, internet, Internet Service Provider, jck, network, plague, security, yarden
- Discussion threads 2005-11-07
- TechRepublic...dating service?
- Well, it looks like my dry streak is broken. Joy wants to communicate with me!! Sarcasm aside...I got this in my email this morning.=================================================Subject: Message from a TechRepublic MemberCreation Date 9/30/2005 2:37:40 AMFrom: "mary_kone110@yahoo.fr" Created By: mary_kone110@yahoo.frOne of your fellow TechRepublic members has sent you a private message:From: mary_kone110@...Subject: helloMessage: I...
- Tags: dating, e-mail, e-mail address, email, jck, Joy, Mary, off-topic, offers, slut, spam, TechRepublic Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-09-30
- Avoid these six common development mistakes
- Avoid these six common development mistakesarticle rootsome very good pointsI think the best being version control.One case in point was my last place of employment, where I was first stationed at a PC that my manager knew was not on the backup power system for the building. Although I...
- Tags: developer
- Discussion threads 2005-09-21
- Is Gates having marital problems?
- Is Gates having marital problems?All the interviews I've seen in the past couple of years, Bill Gates has always had a wedding ring on his left hand.However the photo on Microsoft.com's current frontpage (as of 10:05am US ET), he seems not to be wearing one.Anyone know if he and Mrs....
- Tags: Bill Gates, gates, jck, job, marriage, no ring, off-topic, photograph, photography, possible problems, radio
- Discussion threads 2005-09-08
- What real use is the GAC?
- Recently, I've had the unfortunate incidence of having to deal with the Global Assembly Cache GAC in relation to References inside a .NET solution.So far as I can tell, the GAC is essentially a repository for XML ties assemblies to DLL versions which are "established" within the system.So much as...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Microsoft .NET, Global Assembly Cache
- Discussion threads 2005-08-25
- legal process and justice
- legal process and justiceIt seems that this John Cooey who killed 9 year old Jessica Lunsford in Citrus County, FL might get off because, even though he voluntarily confessed to the crime, he had requested an attorney and not been given one right away. Since he gave the info...
- Tags: confession
- Discussion threads 2005-07-05
- The TSNO/USID Friday Yuk
- The TSNO/USID Friday YukTSNO = There's Still No Oz (hope you're okay/not in rehab)USID = United States Independence Day**********************When a reporter asked Bush what he thought about his first hundred days in office he replied "Has it been a year already?*The discovery that Bush's resting heart rate is 43 has...
- Tags: Bill Clinton, bush, Cheney, emigration, friday yuk, George W. Bush, guinness, humour, ireland, jck, Little Johnny, off-topic, One-day Dubya, thank god, tragedy, twit
- Discussion threads 2005-07-01
- how companies lie...a funny from the internet
- So I'm always seeing these pay-per-search engines on the net saying they can find people for you...and I'm searching for a couple people I used to know...and...each time it comes up and says "name here is in our database"So, I go to typing things to get responses like this:"heywood jablowmi...
- Tags: Amadeo Avogadro, database, Internet, jck, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2005-06-29
- The Friday Yuk (Oz...you're slackin off)
- The Friday Yuk (Oz...you're slackin off)I don't know if they're recycled...but, at least I'm tryin...computer jokes...enjoy*************************************************Diary of an AOL UserJuly 18I just tried to connect to America Online. I've heard it is the best online service I can get. They even included a free disk! I'd better hold onto it...
- Tags: Modems, INTERNET, Keyboards, modem, America Online Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2005-06-24
- I have an idea...let's talk about beer
- I have an idea...let's talk about beerForget politics, weapons of mass destruction, religion, and sex...well...ok...not sex.What beer do you like best?Why do you like it?How did you come about discovering it?Did you find out it was/wasn't what you thought it would be if you knew about it previous to your...
- Tags: beer, Guinness
- Discussion threads 2005-06-09
- The world from 195cm
- The world from 195cmblog rootFriday, 20 May 2005Wow. Yeehaw. Woke up at 3:25am. Life is great...*cough cough not*.What do you do at 3:30am and the boss hasn't given you the alarm code to the building?Sit and listen to infomercials. That's what.Everyone is talking about the Star...
- Tags: Hurricane Season, jck, sister, niece
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
- msg spamming
- I'm not sure what it takes, but isn't there a way to keep it from occurring?I mean besides affecting server and data retrieval performance, you add someone to your contacts list and find out they're a spammer.I know I can take them out, but then to recall what msg topic...
- Tags: eggs, feedback, jck, sausage, spam, spamming
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
- How/what did the Army train their recruiters to do today?
- I don't wanna bust national security or anything, but...I'd really like to know what the US Army promoted as "acceptable means" of recruiting today, since their numbers are under expectation now for 3 months in a row.I'd also like to know how they had all the recruiters attend meetings since...
- Tags: jck
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
- send me my mug, Jay
- I'm done, man...Oz...you'll be #1 again soon...enjoyrunning off?If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. I'm not going to beg you to stay or try and be nice to keep you here.You want to leave. good. go. shut up about it already and just do it.I'm going...
- Tags: jck
- Discussion threads 2005-04-27
- A look at Wine
- This past Friday night, I took a look at Wine. It's a product which creates a virtual Windows drive on your Linux box and emulates service to that virtual Windows allowing you to load Windows applications.I decided just to mess around with it a bit, so I loaded all...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Wine
- Discussion threads 2005-04-25
- Take a look at this...proof positive
- Take a look at this...proof positiveof what kind of people Linux users are to Windows users.Just check out the number of opened questions that have been answered that haven't been awarded yet in each Tech Q&A.Friggin 4 in the past month for Linux still open...like 100 in Windows.Plus, there was...
- Tags: hacker, irresponsible ms users, jck, Linux, Linux User, Microsoft Windows, q&a, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-04-25
