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  1. Re:Also... by Krunch · · Score: 4, Informative · on Graphics for Beginners (Using SDL)

    Here it is. However it seems down for now but you can still grab it from archive.org.

  2. Re:woops. i forgot to add: if i want to do this... by baffle · · Score: 2, Informative · on IDSA Forces Arcade Game Manual Archive Offline

    John R. Halls book "Programming Linux Games" is now awailable freely on the web. Go to his site for a copy or order it from No Starch Press.

  3. Re:Future looks bright by OverCode@work · · Score: 4, Interesting · on iTunes Music Store sells 275,000 Tracks in 18 Hours

    That analogy is flawed. DRM is more like Best Buy sending a security guard home with you to make sure you don't use the products you buy in any way they don't approve of. For instance, I can play CD's I purchase in any number of players, copy them to my various computers, enjoy them on my portable player, and so forth. My music server is a Linux box, though; I cannot use it to play DRM-encumbered music, because Apple has not chosen to make Linux software available for their protection scheme. That's their prerogative, but it means that their music isn't terribly useful to me.

    I applaud Apple's effort to be reasonable, but DRM is still unacceptable. I wrote a short essay on why I believe this; it's on my site.

    Furthermore, sharing is a fundamental part of experiencing music. I believe that noncommercial song swapping should be fully protected under copyright law.

    -John

  4. Re:Oh no...... (Thanks!) by Daniel_Staal · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: BitKeeper, Maine, Novell
    Note that Webalyzer updates at 6am, so today's stats aren't yet posted.

    No problem, I wasn't able to load it until 10:45...

    Analysis: Yesterday's load (from http://isengard.overcode.net/usage/usage_200210.ht ml) is around 6 times higher than would be expected on an even distribution. Today's, as of 6:38 this morning are already twice as high as would be expected daily. More interesting is that amost half of your traffic came in to the link posted in the article, and half of that left immediately. (Likely to a mirror.) Around a third of it seems to have gone to your local mirror, either to get the pdf (a quarter of those who came in to the article's link) or the whole thing. (Assuming they downloaded and immediatly left. This based on where they left from.)

    The stats don't quite show the spike I would exect, mostly because you have been having high traffic for the last four days... Still, interesting, and Thanks!

  5. Re:Oh no...... by OverCode@work · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Slashback: BitKeeper, Maine, Novell
    Webalyzer usage page
    Apache server status page

    Note that Webalyzer updates at 6am, so today's stats aren't yet posted.

    This isn't a front page slashdotting; I've had that happen before, with a CGI script no less, and it brought my box to an absolute crawl.

    -John

  6. Re:Oh no...... by OverCode@work · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Slashback: BitKeeper, Maine, Novell
    Webalyzer usage page
    Apache server status page

    Note that Webalyzer updates at 6am, so today's stats aren't yet posted.

    This isn't a front page slashdotting; I've had that happen before, with a CGI script no less, and it brought my box to an absolute crawl.

    -John

  7. Mirror at Georgia Tech by OverCode@work · · Score: 1 · on Multiplayer Test For Return To Castle Wolfenstein

    A 10Mbit mirror at Georgia Tech is here. -John