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  1. Qmail bugs (root-access) and wishlist by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 1 · on DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain

    Actually, if you like qmail you need to have your brain checked.
    correct!!!
    Qmail bugs and wishlist Reasons to never use qmail or to start forking qmail

  2. Another alternative by bArTmAn13 · · Score: 1 · on How Much Bandwidth is Required to Aggregate Blogs?

    You could of course use PSYC http://psyc.pages.de/ to syndicate your blogs... much better distribution strategy than RSS, and the overhead is not anywhere near RSS's. And you can do much more than just distributing newsfeeds... but anyway, it's one of the things it's good at :)

  3. Re:A simple fix by AeiwiMaster · · Score: 1 · on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity?


    Or just send out messages on jabber or psyc.

  4. Slashdot subscription by AeiwiMaster · · Score: 1 · on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers

    I doesn't have a Slashdot subscription because I don't think that it
    is a big enough advantage to be able to view the article a little in advance e.t.c.

    What I would like subscribers be able to is:
    1) Post comments before the article goes live.
    2) Get a jabber or psyc notification the exact moment that a new article is viewable.

  5. Re:build POSIX layer instead! by jshepher · · Score: 1 · on Port Mozilla, Collect $3696

    It has already been done. It is called ixemul.library. Alot of the GNU tools already run on AmigaOS. In fact Apache already runs on the Amiga as well as qmail (no link).

  6. Re:DirectX support by israfil_kamana · · Score: 1 · on Ask Kevin Lawton About Plex86

    The basic requirement for this would not be that someone add DirectX support to Plex86, but that:

    • someone write a VESA (preferably XVGA+ or better ;) emulated video hardware using DGA, DirectX or some other direct-to-hardware method on the host system
    • THEN write a Windows95/98/NT/2000 driver (Or X driver depending on guest system) for that emulated hardware that include direct-to-hardware support.
    I could see a lot of possibilities for passing through low-level 3D calls.

    This would also be the requirement on Xwindows, and Mesa would probably be a good package on which to base the 3D emulated hardware support.

    For the record, this is what UAE (Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) does. Basically it has a "UAE" graphics card, and a driver was written for the Picasso96 accelerated graphics replacement subsystem for AmigaOS that used this "hardware". On WinUAE this basically allowed me to run the AmigaOS in 1400x1050 resolution on Windows2000 (WinUAE hosts on DirectX) on my Dell laptop. Fun fun fun.

    Hmm. Perhaps, when the Plex86 folks are done, they can do Plex68K. There's a good 68K emulator in UAE, and Bernie Mayer wrote a patch for JIT compilation in UAE.

  7. I like XFdisk by Jacco+de+Leeuw · · Score: 2 · on New LILO Breaks 1024-Cyl Limit
    XFdisk looks a lot like the OS/2 bootmanager but doesn't require a separate primary partition. It's a DOS program, so you can put it on a DOS rescue disk. For instance, in case Windows overwrites the MBR (sigh).

    IMHO it looks much more intuitive than Lilo. You still have to install Lilo of course, in the Linux boot partition instead of the MBR. I am sure Lilo is more powerful but in most cases XFdisk would be much easier to user. XFdisk supports harddisks up to 1 Terabyte.

    And yes, it is GPL-ed, should anyone ask.

  8. Re:Speaking of Bare-Metal recovery... by Signal+11 · · Score: 1 · on Unix Backup And Recovery

    Try this. I originally heard of it off the ReiserFS FAQ page... never used it, but it's worth a shot.

  9. Re:Irrelevant for Linux? by Kris_J · · Score: 3 · on Laptop Pentium IIIs
    NT does a HLT too. And I've got an app called CPUidle on my Win98 laptop that does the same thing. It does reduce the temperature quite dramatically, and I'm fairly sure it increases battery life. I have the hard drive powering down after a few minutes of not being used, if the system's on batteries and the screen will switch itself off after a while too. (I've also got closing the unit set to simply switch off the screen, rather than scream at me). Being able to drop the core voltage and speed of the CPU is simply another tool to use to increase battery life that little bit more.

    As it happens, I have an Ultralight portable. External battery packs appear to be quite popular with them. I have a bit of info and some photos at my "drop tanks" page. I have been able to pull off 8 hours on battery power, but I wasn't actually doing much. If I'm using the external CD drive to rip and compress MP3s, for example, then battery life halves.

    Anyway, haven't Powerbooks been able to do this forever? wasn't it called "clock cycling" or somthing...