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POSIX personality == Cygwin? by yerricde · 2000-08-31 20:26 · Score: 2 · on Linux and DII/COE Compliance?

So you're saying "no self-respecting programmer would use" Cygwin, the POSIX layer for Win32?
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Not UNIX® means irrelevant? by yerricde · 2000-08-31 20:25 · Score: 2 · on Linux and DII/COE Compliance?

Since NT is not UNIX and compatibility is not expected, POSIX is irrelevant.

GNU's Not UNIX® either, which makes this whole article moot according to your logic.

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They're not making their money. Think console. by yerricde · 2000-08-31 04:54 · Score: 2 · on Are 'Server Emulators' Legal?

In the case of EverQuest, I really don't see what the problem is. People still buy your game, and they still use your game. They just aren't connecting to your server. Boo hoo.

It's like the consoles. Console makers take a loss on the console sale and make it up licensing the patent rights to produce software for the console. Likewise, MMORPG makers take a loss on client software development and make it up selling time on their servers.

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Why Gnutellaers freeload by yerricde · 2000-08-31 04:37 · Score: 2 · on Napster Court Date Set For October 2

In my experience, a 56K-class dialup connection is not very full-duplex. When I'm sending large amounts of data (web site updates through FTP or my band's music through Napster), I have terrible pings and transfer rates to web sites. This half-duplicity makes it more efficient for dialup users to freeload. This phenomenon also affects any asymmetric connection (for example, DSL upload speeds can be as low as one-fifth of download speeds).
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Sounds like current system under Disney and Bono by yerricde · 2000-08-31 04:22 · Score: 2 · on Napster Court Date Set For October 2

English copyright was perpetual, and only publishers were granted copyright -- not authors.

American copyright is perpetual under a loophole in the Constitution: copyright is supposed to last "for limited times" but nothing in the Constitution takes away Congress's right to extend the terms of those rights retroactively whenever they are about to expire <cough>Sonny Bono Act</cough>. And a large fraction of contracts require the authors to sign over all rights to the publisher (often an RIAA/MPAA/etc. member).

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RIAA holds no copyrights? by yerricde · 2000-08-31 04:06 · Score: 2 · on Napster Court Date Set For October 2

The RIAA has no case, because they hold no relevant copyrights.

But the labels have given the RIAA what is called "power of attorney" over the copyrights.

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This community is called mp3.com by yerricde · 2000-08-31 04:04 · Score: 2 · on Napster Court Date Set For October 2

or rather let the artists and the open source community work together to create a an electronic marketplace that does not involve the riaa.

MP3.com fits every aspect of your comment except the "open source" aspect, which cannot be filled legally until one of these happens:

MPEG audio layer 3 patents run out around 2010, at which point LAME becomes non-infringing, or
MP3.com begins offering .ogg (Vorbis codec) format audio files (which sound as good as a 50% higher bitrate .mp3).

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(OT)little tiny brownies by yerricde · 2000-08-30 05:19 · Score: 1 · on Computer Makes Robot Offspring

Your "little tiny brownies" might be related to the Jawas from the first parts of Star Wars 4.
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Provide the aliens with fresh meat? by yerricde · 2000-08-30 05:17 · Score: 3 · on Computer Makes Robot Offspring

until the last Elves and Dwarves had been abducted by UFO's, in a secret plot by the US government, in a deal with the aliens, to remove the Elves and Dwarves from Earth, and provide the Aliens with fresh meat.

They could have provided the aliens with fresh meat, slash dot, source forge, and think geek without killing any elves or dwarves.

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In that case... by yerricde · 2000-08-30 05:12 · Score: 1 · on Computer Makes Robot Offspring

...what is the Matrix?
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(OT)OK... forget I said anything. by yerricde · 2000-08-30 05:02 · Score: 1 · on Protecting Your Company While Protecting Privacy?

Should have read the RFCs first.
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SMTP/POP doesn't work with subdomains. by yerricde · 2000-08-30 01:10 · Score: 2 · on Protecting Your Company While Protecting Privacy?

ARIN is no longer giving out IPs for individual subdomains, and the mail protocols don't work with name-based virtual hosting. How would this be implemented?
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MPAA and Disney drowning in their own hypocrisy by yerricde · 2000-08-30 00:28 · Score: 2 · on More Threats From The MPAA

The GO Network is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, an MPAA member. Here's a whole bunch of links from the GO Network to DeCSS source.
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Re:Not yet... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-08-30 00:26 · Score: 3 · on More Threats From The MPAA

And get TOSsed off. by yerricde · 2000-08-30 00:22 · Score: 2 · on More Threats From The MPAA

Store the stuff on a server you run if you actually believe in the spread of DeCSS.

Your upstream provider can always terminate your service.

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Bugs vs. features by yerricde · 2000-08-29 23:36 · Score: 2 · on Debian 2.2 "Has Major Security Issues"? UPDATED

Bugs arent features, see?

Try telling that to Micros~1.

"PROBLEM: Windows bluescreens when you do foo, bar, and baz. STATUS: This behavior is by design."

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Which cert does it send out? by yerricde · 2000-08-29 22:47 · Score: 2 · on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts

At the time the server sends a certificate, it doesn't yet have any HTTP headers; all it has is the IP address. Without the Host: header, how will it know which certificate to send?
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Protection from DDOS? Not likely. by yerricde · 2000-08-29 22:22 · Score: 2 · on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts

It seems like if that machine was ever subjected to a dDos or went down for some reason

A well-designed Distributed Denial Of Service is impossible to distinguish from normal heavy site traffic <cough>Slashdot effect</cough>.

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What about non-anonymous FTP? by yerricde · 2000-08-29 22:17 · Score: 2 · on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts

Users need to be able to upload to their web space, and HTTP can't upload without potentially compromising the system.
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Did you say H.G. Wells? by yerricde · 2000-08-29 08:43 · Score: 2 · on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD

"Morlocks" is one of the two future races from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (which I've mirrored). Morlocks look like orcs from Tolkien's LotR. Their main diet is people of the Eloi race, who look like those figurines your wife/sister/aunt collects.

But all this may be OT, as the time traveller from the story went past AD 52,001 all the way to AD 802,701.

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Did you say H.G. Wells? by yerricde · 2000-08-29 08:43 · Score: 2 · on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD

"Morlocks" is one of the two future races from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (which I've mirrored). Morlocks look like orcs from Tolkien's LotR. Their main diet is people of the Eloi race, who look like those figurines your wife/sister/aunt collects.

But all this may be OT, as the time traveller from the story went past AD 52,001 all the way to AD 802,701.

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(Half OT)In 52001, what will we look like? by yerricde · 2000-08-29 08:28 · Score: 2 · on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD

Several futurists have speculated on what the human race will look like in the future, and they have come up with:

Larger heads to hold larger brains, with facial features moved downward.
Smaller bodies, as machines take over more of the work.
Larger eyes to see more clearly. With the way the human skull is constructed, this may result in a teardrop shape created by the eyeball and the upper eyelid.
Vegetarian digestive systems as the health fad gains momentum.
Excessive cuteness: only the cutest babies will be cared for by The Man, meaning only the cutest babies get to pass on their genes.

In other words, we'll look like the figurines you buy at Hallmark.

Make sure to take this into account when designing content for the space capsule's CD-ROM collection.

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DMCA by yerricde · 2000-08-29 08:15 · Score: 2 · on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD

Like the Rosetta Stone, the information will be represented in such a manner so as to facilitate the task of decryption.

YM: "Like the DVD Content Scrambling System, the information will be represented in such a manner so as to facilitate the task of decryption."

I bet the copyright laws of AD 52001 will be so harsh that even reading something in a language other than the national language of your Master State will be considered "circumvention" and actionable under whatever hyped up version of DMCA they've passed by then.

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Caffeine? by yerricde · 2000-08-29 05:38 · Score: 1 · on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2

Then cut down on the frequency and amplitude of the jitter to create realism without exaggeration.
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(OT)Getting around NT cmd.exe weakness by yerricde · 2000-08-29 04:12 · Score: 1 · on Mac OS X Beta To Come Out Sept. 13

Also, the "Command Shell" in NT is a little bit weak compared to bash. There's no way around that.

Guess you've never tried Cygwin. It's essentially a GNU environment inside a Windows NT/9x system. And it includes bash and gcc.

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(OT)Metroid rumors false by yerricde · 2000-08-29 00:34 · Score: 1 · on Salon on the XBox

Metroid was a trilogy; Super Metroid (the third game) closed out the storyline.
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Easy. by yerricde · 2000-08-29 00:15 · Score: 2 · on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2

Use a low-pass pseudorandom number generator to generate jitter. Then add it in appropriate amounts to the motions of R2.
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What does the Jargon File say about September? by yerricde · 2000-08-28 22:41 · Score: 3 · on Internet 2 Crawls Forward

Septem ber that never ended
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(OT)Meaning of "prefabricated" by yerricde · 2000-08-28 10:39 · Score: 1 · on International Trade Patent

Well, technically all buildings are prefabricated, as one can't use what doesn't yet exist.

"Prefabricated building" is generally taken to mean one constructed before it's sold. The new modular housing is an example, and it's anything but "trailer trash."

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Three-tier architecture in popular BBS by yerricde · 2000-08-28 09:53 · Score: 2 · on Prior Art to Squash Database Patent?

Here we go, the three tiers of something like AOLame or Compu$erve:

rxvt or other terminal through a serial line
The front end BBS server
The back end database

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Error: << is not defined for float by yerricde · 2000-08-27 22:57 · Score: 1 · on 1.13GHz Pentium3 Processors Unstable? Answer:Yes

float value; ... value

I thought C didn't allow bitshifting floating point numbers.

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Re:Sell != Property by UnknownSoldier · 2000-08-27 08:00 · Score: 1 · on URLs Aren't Property?

> In the case of the license plate, the state owns it, and you're just putting it on your car.
Correct.

> The only reason it's there is because the law says you have to attach it.

Probably because you don't have the Manufactor's Statement of Origin for your automobile, and hence, do NOT own your vehicle:
Vehicle Manufacturer's Certificate/Statement of Origin
Manufacturer's Statement of Origin - Key To ownership

When you buy a new autmobile, WHY does the goverment want you to surrender the MSO?
Licensing your new vehicle in Washington
LOUISIANA OFFICE OF MOTOR VEHICLES VEHICLE REGISTRATION & TITLE
Massachusetts Title Law

Travelling is a RIGHT, Driving is a privilege. You DON'T need a license to travel. I travel without one, and have yet to be given a ticket for speeding or for driving without a license.

Here is a list of DOCUMENTED rulings.
Driver Licensing vs. the Right to Travel
http://www.justiceprose.8m.com/carl/ carl1.html

Speeding is NOT a crime, UNLESS you went to the government asking for permission (DRIVER'S LICENSE) to use their property (REGISTERED VEHICLE.) If you don't want to be harassed by the good law officers, you can get an International Driver's Permit, which is valid in over 200 countries. No Socialist Slave Number is required.

Research the above links and see for yourself.

(OT)South Park meets Pooh? by yerricde · 2000-08-26 05:56 · Score: 1 · on Lord Of The Rings Being Rendered Under Linux

South Park meets Winnie The Pooh

Have you been playing Who's Cuter again?

Adopt a normal bird.
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(OT)South Park meets Pooh? by yerricde · 2000-08-26 05:56 · Score: 1 · on Lord Of The Rings Being Rendered Under Linux

South Park meets Winnie The Pooh

Have you been playing Who's Cuter again?

Adopt a normal bird.
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In a way, Linux is a hardware brand. by yerricde · 2000-08-26 05:49 · Score: 1 · on Lord Of The Rings Being Rendered Under Linux

A Linux processor? I was under the impression that Linux was an operating system, not a hardware brand...

Linux may not be a brand, but VA Linux is a brand. VA Linux Systems owns OSDN owns Slashdot owns you.

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Smells like Open Motif. by yerricde · 2000-08-26 00:41 · Score: 2 · on FreeVeracity: Network Intrusion Detection

The Open Group tried to do this with Motif. RMS hated it. Read the linked-to /. stories for more info.
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Magnetic roads? by yerricde · 2000-08-25 23:25 · Score: 2 · on Levitating Liquids In Simulated Zero-G

Just imagine making roads out of magnetic material

And watch my laptop's hard drive get erased on the way to school.

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gcc newlines? by yerricde · 2000-08-25 22:21 · Score: 2 · on Coding Classes & Required Development Environments?

I use three different versions of GCC (for Linux, DOS, and even Windows, and they all accepted the DOS-style CR+LF newlines in my game's source code. Could that be because CR+LF is also the standard in many RFCs?
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gcc newlines? by yerricde · 2000-08-25 22:21 · Score: 2 · on Coding Classes & Required Development Environments?

I use three different versions of GCC (for Linux, DOS, and even Windows, and they all accepted the DOS-style CR+LF newlines in my game's source code. Could that be because CR+LF is also the standard in many RFCs?
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Re:(OT)Web-bugs by yerricde · 2000-08-25 09:10 · Score: 1 · on More DeCSS Time-Warner Hypocrisy

Web bugs can be bigger than 1x1. The website's logo can in theory be a web bug.

The subject contains (OT). If you moderate me as Offtopic, I'll metamoderate you as Redundant.
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Even MP3s of your _own_ work can be illegal. by yerricde · 2000-08-25 08:59 · Score: 2 · on Amicus Brief For Napster -- From AT&T And Friends

Even if you own the copyright, distributing MP3 files of your own work can be illegal. OGG files, on the other hand...
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Why "Radio Shack" has 0 matches by yerricde · 2000-08-25 08:47 · Score: 3 · on Slashback: Cats, Snaps, Pixels, Diagrams

of 23:55GMT, a search for "Radio Shack CueCat" at google yields a grand total of zero (0) matches.

Ever since the initial "You've got questions we've got answers" ad campaign, RadioShack has been all one word. And it takes Google a month to update its indexes anyway.

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You weren't the first to think of AD&D. by yerricde · 2000-08-25 03:29 · Score: 2 · on Video Games and ADD

SpuriousGeorge was the first.
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But what about Square's FF series? by yerricde · 2000-08-25 03:24 · Score: 2 · on Video Games and ADD

video games ... promote short attention spans.... Roleplaying, on the other hand... demanding a more robust attention span.

What about activities such as Final Fantasy VII that are both roleplaying and video games?

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TETRIS® not a reacting game? by yerricde · 2000-08-25 03:21 · Score: 1 · on Video Games and ADD

You obviously haven't played a good Tetris clone such as freepuzzlearena Tetanus. To survive at the higher speed levels in some of those games, you must make sure that moving the pieces around is a reflex action. When you're learning Tetris, it's a thinking game, but once you get up there, boy...
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TETRIS® not a reacting game? by yerricde · 2000-08-25 03:21 · Score: 1 · on Video Games and ADD

You obviously haven't played a good Tetris clone such as freepuzzlearena Tetanus. To survive at the higher speed levels in some of those games, you must make sure that moving the pieces around is a reflex action. When you're learning Tetris, it's a thinking game, but once you get up there, boy...
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TETRIS® not a reacting game? by yerricde · 2000-08-25 03:21 · Score: 1 · on Video Games and ADD

You obviously haven't played a good Tetris clone such as freepuzzlearena Tetanus. To survive at the higher speed levels in some of those games, you must make sure that moving the pieces around is a reflex action. When you're learning Tetris, it's a thinking game, but once you get up there, boy...
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Nonalpha AA algorithm by yerricde · 2000-08-24 14:00 · Score: 2 · on X Consortium Announces X11R6.5.1

Maybe you'd like to show us a non-kludge-riddled antialiasing algorithm that doesn't need an alpha channel?

This is how I used to do pseudo-AA text on an old paint program on a Macintosh computer:

Scale graphic to three times its normal size.
Draw text and lines.
Scale graphic back down.

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(OT)You misspelled "heil" by yerricde · 2000-08-23 21:27 · Score: 1 · on KDE Strikes Back

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It's not "hile" it's "heil". But if you really want to be a KDE nazi, then be one on your NES.
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(OT)You misspelled "heil" by yerricde · 2000-08-23 21:27 · Score: 1 · on KDE Strikes Back

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It's not "hile" it's "heil". But if you really want to be a KDE nazi, then be one on your NES.
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