“Microsoft's `My' default for the likes of `My Documents,' etc, will disappear with the arrival of Longhorn”

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Though... my use of Longhorn will depend on how many games require it.

I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I picked up a cheap laptop for various reasons which I'll not bore you with here. I've got it all hooked up to the network wirelessly and whatnot and it's running XP Home.

It cheerfully will connect to and browse my XP Home desktop's shares no probs, but refuses to have anything to do with the Samba share on the Fedora box (“\\Elmonstro is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found” .

But when I access the Samba share from the desktop it pops up a password login to which I enter my details and get in, so I know it's working to some degree.

What may - or may not - be related is that on the desktop I no longer can reach the “Sharing” tab for folders. It's there for printers, but has disappeared from folders. The existing shares still work, but I can't switch them off.

I wonder if I fiddled with something on the desktop to get it working in the first place and just can't remember what it was...

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Orson Scott Card on why saying your religion is “Jedi” is a load of codswallop:

“It's one thing to put your faith in a religion founded by a real person who claimed divine revelation, but it's something else entirely to have, as the scripture of your religion, a storyline that you know was made up by a very nonprophetic human being.”

beliefnet: Orson Scott Card on Star Wars and Revenge of the Sith Jedi religion faith force

Why does my Gym have automatic doors to enter, but manual ones to leave?

wil-wheaton-is-pooped on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Also, mad props to Amazon for replacing the damaged DVD in the Firefly set even though I'd bought it 60 days ago by shipping out an entire replacement set the same day I emailed them about it.

No... not of the car... (hopefully) short reviews of things I've recently watched/read.

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I'd grant that Malcolm “Malky” Glazer's purchase of all those shares from other equally diehard “Blue Devils” fans is a cause for concern (as well as somewhat amusing for those of us whose teams have already taken a dive into the crapper). And there's something to be said for worrying about the state of football given what can happen when a market leader suddenly needs to work off a lot of debt. But seriously, “sheer pandemonium”? I think we need to save that sort of outrage for real issues, mmmm-kay?

“Manchester United fans opposed to the club takeover bid launched by US businessman Malcolm Glazer have threatened to disrupt Saturday's FA Cup Final, with one supporters group warning the army may be needed to control scenes of "sheer pandemonium".”

Anti-Glazer protests could hit FA Cup final - Yahoo! News

I added Gravatars to the comments - via Rakaz's plugin - so if you sign up there with the same email address you signed up here, you can get your own little image next to your comments. Or you can stick with the default “?” one I knocked up in two minutes in Paint Shop Pro.

I was going to mention how the MPAA's suing of six BitTorrent tracker sites with links to torrents of TV shows was stupid and small-minded, but couldn't really put together anything that didn't wander off into incoherence. In lieu of that, here's an article showing why it's stupid and small-minded (via Warren Ellis).

“The British aficionados of [Battlestar Galactica] provided torrents for each episode within a few hours of each broadcast. Many fans in the US picked them up and watched them; so did many people in Australia.

While you might assume the SciFi Channel saw a significant drop-off in viewership as a result of this piracy, it appears to have had the reverse effect: the series is so good that the few tens of thousands of people who watched downloaded versions told their friends to tune in on January 14th, and see for themselves. From its [US] premiere, Battlestar Galactica has been the most popular program ever to air on the SciFi Channel, and its audiences have only grown throughout the first series. Piracy made it possible for "word-of-mouth" to spread about Battlestar Galactica.”

Mindjack - Piracy is Good?

Welp, Leeds United's first season down in the Championship (AKA Division 1 [© grumpy young men]; AKA Division 2 [© grumpy old men]) finished with a 14^th place finish. It could have been much much worse of course, but with all the new and ineffective faces that went through Elland Road this year. I would have liked to have made the top half of the table or, gods willing, the playoffs. But hopefully that's for next year.

(final league table after the more)

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They're releasing the album before the current one it seems though.

Pitchfork: Daily Music News

“No Labour or Conservative MPs were available to comment on the matter, however when asked about software patents and the EU, a Labour telephone assistant said, "There is an election going on."”

UKIP bashes software patents - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

This pic was in a Fark thread. If it wasn't for the fact I drove past it last week, I would have thought it was 'shopped.