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  1. The US/RVN's human rights record in Vietnam by br00tus · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Vietnam Courts Microsoft and Vice Versa
    pictures

    I should note the picture of the Vietnamese man summarily executing a Vietnamese prisoner is an RVN (US puppet government) official shooting an suspected NLF prisoner, polls show young Americans often think it's the reverse.

    The pictures of the dead villagers and child are the My Lai massacre, when US troops walked into a hamlet and massacred everyone

    The naked girl running was just napalmed by the US air force

    The monk who is burning did that to himself, he is protesting the US puppet government's treatment of Buddhists.

    The girl screaming over the dead body is a picture of an American over an American. College students protested Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, and the Ohio National Guard shot four students dead (and two students protesting were killed at Jackson state as well).

    Then there's other things not pictured, the US bombing of Vietnam dikes, the prison on Con Sen Island (which was as bad, or worse, than the Hanoi Hilton and treatment of John McCain etc. that you always hear about on US TV, but which never gets mentioned), the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, the mining of North Vietnam's harbors, strategic hamlets, the US dropping 500,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia (which probably killed people in the hundreds of thousands) and so on and so forth. It's not pretty...by the way, I'm an American, but I don't support the US"s rich man's wars, poor man 's fights...

  2. Audio tag tool by mc_barron · · Score: 1 · on Organizing MP3s and Other File Collections?

    I'm a big fan of the Audio Tag Tool for linux: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ Simple, intuitive, powerful.

  3. Re:Right solution, wrong problem by gordon_schumway · · Score: 5, Informative · on NetBSD - Live Network Backup

    I'd like a system library that would modify the rename(2), truncate(2), unlink(2), and write(2) calls to move the deleted stuff to some private directory (/.Trash, /.Recycler, whatever). Obviously the underlying routine would have to do its own garhage collection, deleting trash files by some FIFO or largest-older-first algorithm.

    Done.

  4. Re:I just want to see how Doom ... by Mike+Rubits · · Score: 1 · on Half-Life 2 Causes Nausea, Looks Good in Doom Engine

    And you would be wrong

  5. Re:I just want to see how Doom ... by Lisandro · · Score: 1 · on Half-Life 2 Causes Nausea, Looks Good in Doom Engine

    Maps in Doom 3 *are* huge, just not outdoors. Bigger than HL2's, in fact, as most of the time maps are loaded entirely a single time instead of loading chunks of it constantly.

    Check this image for example; the red arrow points a single zombie, so you get an idea of the scale of it.

  6. Re:file deletion and other undoable features? by AstroDrabb · · Score: 1 · on The Linux Filesystem Challenge
    Umm, rm is like a "low level" delete. If you open a command prompt under MS Windows (or what MS considers a command prompt) and 'delete' a file, guess what? That file is not in the recycle bin! Holy cow Bat Man! This is the same as with the Linux/Unix rm command. If you want recylcle bin, then use a GUI to delete the file like Gnome/KDE which will place the "deleted" file into your recycle bin for you to "undelete" or "restore". rm also does not destroy the file. You can still recover it with certain tools, just as you could delete a file under MS Windows with the delete command and use a recovery tool.

    Oh, by the way, if you really want a recylce bin for Linux rm, then your whish is granted here, and here, and and other places

  7. Best example of PCs Consoles by celerityfm · · Score: 1 · on Computer Gaming PCs Try To Stack Up To Consoles

    Its simple really:

    http://pwp.netcabo.pt/Tobril/xbox.jpg


    versus

    http://pwp.netcabo.pt/Tobril/pc.jpg

    am i rite?

  8. Best example of PCs Consoles by celerityfm · · Score: 1 · on Computer Gaming PCs Try To Stack Up To Consoles

    Its simple really:

    http://pwp.netcabo.pt/Tobril/xbox.jpg


    versus

    http://pwp.netcabo.pt/Tobril/pc.jpg

    am i rite?

  9. I have one - depends on what you want to do by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 3, Informative · on Time to Purchase a DVD-R?

    Unless you want to make video DVDs, don't buy one (at least not yet). Not only are the drives quite expensive, but the disks are also more expensive (per MB) than CD-Rs. Buy a good CDRW drive (DVD recorders are not very good at recording CDs).

    And 4.3 GB really aren't a lot. It's not even enough to store one hour of DV video (13 GB).

    In a few months or a year you will have a) much cheaper DVD-Rs and b) new optical discs, likely to be over 10 times bigger than DVD-Rs.

    On the other hand, if you do want to make video DVDs, make sure you buy a drive that will record in a format compatible with most readers. Mine is a Pioneer (DVR-A03) and so far all discs have worked fine in all set-top players I have tried. From what I've heard, DVD-RW and DVD+RW have problems with a lot of players (especially old ones, but also some recent models). There is a nice list of formats and players here:

    VCD Help DVD players compatibility list

    Also, most "consumer" DVD authoring programs are crap. Be ready to pay at least an extra 1000 dollars / euros on software if you want to be able to do any interesting stuff like multiple audio tracks, animated menus, etc..

    To do the MPEG-2 encoding, I use TMPGEnc (slow but has the best quality, IMO). I wrote a small guide that you can find here.

    RMN
    ~~~