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  1. Re:Stopping bogus entries? on Distributed Spam Detection · · Score: 2, Informative

    search google for SHA digest, read how it works the take a good look at your question

  2. Re:Limited Usefulness on 3Com's 10/100 Switching... Wallplate · · Score: 1

    since when is cabling so expensive

    a 3ft cable costs me $1.48

    (.24 / ft for plenum cat5 cabling (last i looked) and .38 / rj45 connector. prices not bulk)

    sure, you have to assemble them this way, but thats what minimum wage high school labor is good for.

  3. debian on The Linux Distribution Game · · Score: 1

    >At any time during the development process, there are three branches in the main directory tree - "stable", "testing" and "unstable", the last of which is often referred to as "sid" (still in development).

    i guess the author of that site didnt bother to look at the names of stable and testing (potato and woody). Maybe then he would have realized that "sid", just as potato and woody, are references to toy story characters.

  4. Re:Random statistics.... on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 1

    the max pci bus speed is around 528 Meg/s. Although not found in consumer level boards, 64bit @ 66MHz pci slots are in the spec. Also (the the parent poster) why are you backing up to cd-r? go get some DDS4 4mm tape drives, 20/40 gig (native/compressed) per tape.

  5. Re:Ending on Review: K-PAX · · Score: 1

    >why is he leaving exactly five earth years after he arrived? Does everyone in the universe schedule their travel based on earth time?

    you forget that an earth year is not an arbitrary unit of time we just made up, but happens to coincide with the earth revolving around the sun. Is it to much to believe that his travel has something to do with the position of the earth and his home planet and possibly other objects?

  6. why use a dvd? just setup a package mirror on Debian On DVD · · Score: 1

    apt-get install apt-move

    setup apt-move.conf, and then maintain a package mirron on one box, and keep it updated. Then all your other boxes can reference the local mirror instead of the normal ones in its sources.list

    a full unstable mirror was only about 4 gigs while i was maintaining one myself.

  7. Re:Their "open source philosophy" on Transgaming Bringing Windows Games to Linux(?) · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/30/142723 7&mode=thread

    posted by timothy almost a year ago (dec 30 2000).

    chromatic writes: "Looks like a company called TransGaming Technologies has been improving DirectX support in Wine. They plan to use a modified Street Performer Protocol to make money, and will eventually relicense their patches under the Wine license. Maybe I'll finally be able to run Thief!" And maybe one day Xbill will run on Windows.

  8. years2secs on Copyright Claimed on Telephone Tones · · Score: 1

    you know, due to overflow your sleep will only last approx 219 years, not the 7,500,000 years intended.

  9. Re:dvd? passe. on Star Wars Episode I DVD Review · · Score: 1

    really? and how exactly would one accomplish that. deeper pits? longer pits? On the disk its a pit or it isnt, 2 states, digital. I would assume it stays that way until after its read by the laser pickup.

    Also, a dvd doesnt stay digital long either. The video is analog-ized early on and sent to your viewing device. The audio does stay digital a little longer, at least till it gets to my receiver and is converted to 6 analog channels of audio.

  10. Re:A-P-T? on KDE 2.2.1 Up · · Score: 1

    yes, look on the debian site for non-official package mirrors, or do it yourself. The latter isnt too hard, just read the basic debian-maintainer guide to setup a debian package build tree for each tarball, edit debian/rules to have the basic commands to configure and make the package, and edit one or 2 other files. Then dpkg-buildpackage, and you've taken a source tarball and built a deb package out of it. It is very handy for getting random tarballs, yet maintain them withing the packaging system.

    -- runs unstable

  11. Re:Cool !!! on Maxtor's ATA-133 Does 160GB · · Score: 1

    >P.S. WTF are safety links supposed to do!? They just make Slashdot (even more) ugly

    go visit your preferences page here and turn them off if you think they are so ugly. You are posting as a registered user, dont complain about something you can control. thx

  12. Re:These kids are too smart... on MIT's Bathroom Server · · Score: 1

    the bathrooms in the dorms arent really public in the sense that ones at say a stadium are. There is usually a (in my experience at UT austin) bathroom area in each wing of each floor (stalls + showers), so you are really only sharing with your wing, and you generally all know eachother pretty well.

  13. Re:Tomshardwarepage.COM Conclusion on The New Athlons · · Score: 1

    from pricewatch: pc2100 DDR ram 512 meg - $162

    http://www.envisioncs.net/processors_memory.cfm# Me mory even has 1Gig PC2100 ddr listed, $800 per

  14. Re:yes, but... on Kohan for Linux · · Score: 1

    tribes2 runs under X, and its not to slow. Get some hardware acceleration, otherwise yes, it would be too slow.

  15. Re:Faked Screenshots on 3COM's Ergo Audrey Hacked · · Score: 1

    there is a page where nvidia releases pre-prelease drivers, but you go on and keep thinking you have l33t corporate leaked drivers.

  16. Re:ARGH!!!! 3D + TV-Out: Impossible under Linux? on Little Linux Systems For Whatever Ails Ya · · Score: 1

    i went back and re-read the TWINVIEW_README, and its been updated since i last read it. The current one seems to only find at creating a large virtual screen with the dual heads, but not driving them seperatly for 2 screens as i had thought. The older one was more vague in its wording, and thats prob where i got the idea.

  17. Re:ARGH!!!! 3D + TV-Out: Impossible under Linux? on Little Linux Systems For Whatever Ails Ya · · Score: 2, Informative

    go check out nvidia's cards, as new as you want. Find a card that has a RCA/svideo out (option on all models). Now go grab nvidia's drivers, and read the TWINVIEW readme. It has directions for getting the TV out and the VGA out both seen by X, and the ability to run each display independant of the other.

  18. Re:NOt internet compatible??? on Netpliance Pays Up For False Advertising And More · · Score: 1

    xmms!

    it'll even open just about every stream that winamp can, and once i told konqueror that .pls files should be run by xmms, live365.com works just the same as it does in windows.

  19. Re:outside of rental cars... on Rental Car + GPS = Speeding Ticket · · Score: 1

    in most states to get a speeding ticket the officer has to get a reading on his radar gun confirming your speed. Whether or not the gps calls the cops, if the cop cant clock you over the speed limit, he cannot write you a ticket.

    more than likely if the gps is malfunctioning and alerting cops, you are going to see lawsuits agains the gps manufacturers for wasting the resources of the police, not consumers having to defend traffic tickets.

  20. Re:Round Trip on NASA Contacts Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1

    not for just 4 pings, they are sent out every second. If it waited for a reply before sending the next then yes, but thats not the way it works :)

  21. Re:compiler warnings on Intel Offers "Unsigning Bonuses" · · Score: 1

    no warnings with gcc 2.95.3 or 3.0-presomething

    casey@brainysmurf:~/code$ gcc-3.0 -Wall oh_really.c
    casey@brainysmurf:~/code$ ./a.out
    s_int: -1000, u_int: 4294966296
    casey@brainysmurf:~/code$ gcc-2.95 -Wall oh_really.c
    casey@brainysmurf:~/code$ ./a.out
    s_int: -1000, u_int: 4294966296
    casey@brainysmurf:~/code$ gcc-3.0 -v
    Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.0/specs
    Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,objc --prefix=/usr --infodir=/share/info --mandir=/share/man --enable-shared --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-system-zlib --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long --enable-nls --without-x --without-included-gettext --disable-checking --enable-java-gc=boehm --with-cpp-install-dir=bin --enable-objc-gc i386-linux
    gcc version 3.0 20010402 (Debian prerelease)
    casey@brainysmurf:~/code$ gcc-2.95 -v
    Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
    gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)
    casey@brainysmurf:~/code$

  22. Re:Time to pay your dues on Loki Offers 50%-off Discounts to LUGs · · Score: 1

    you should prob try reading the README next time you attempt to install the nvidia drivers (and make sure mesa doesnt overwrite your glx .so's or your OpenGL will be done in software)

    with my little 16 Meg TNT i get more than 15fps in UT and a bunch more than that in q3a.

    As for the people haveing fps probs in tribes2, they are idoits too, my TNT can pull 30fps outside and up to 70 inside (windows version, my linux copy isnt here yet).

    Read the T2 orums for that, almost all the people with fps problems are saying "I cant run 1600x1200 with all settings maxed on my voodoo 1, WTF dynamix sucks", idiots.

  23. My apt's LAN on The Myriad Ways of Wiring Your Home? · · Score: 2

    The apt i live in is a 3 bedroom, ~1300 sq ft apt, and we have 16 machines.

    We have the server closet which houses our switch and 2 hubs, our main gateway box and an old box that just performs dhcpd. From this closet we make use of some prexisting holes that a previous tennant drillied in the ceiling (and some we made) to lay enough cat5 to everywhere the computers are.

    The dhcpd is setup such that all the permanant machines get static addresses, and we have a pool of dynamic addresses to be assigned to any other machine that shows up (if we wanted to have a LAN party for instance).

    All internet service is provided via NAT on the gateway with a single routable IP provided by Time Warner (roadrunner) cable.

    If i had teh opportunity to have a say in wiring from the start of building the house i would make sure to take into account everyone elses concerns for what to lay wire for, but equally important is Power.

    In my apt we have a dual 50A breaker for 2 phases of power coming into the apt (50A on each phase) and we have managed to damage that breaker to the point that our apt had maybe 10% power for a couple days while we waited teh maint crews to replace it (and of course that 10% power was used to run as many of the pc's as we could manage. refrigerator?). Make sure you have enough power for what you plan to run, and make sure it is wired in a sane fashion (been in apts where the washer/dryer was on the same circuit as the living room outlets) as none of your wiring means anything without power (and those UPS's only last so long...)

    I'm moving away from my apt in the next month or two, so my next project is wiring the new apt and setting up a VPN to the old one :)

  24. Re:Athlon still cheaper on Pentium IV As A Budget Processor · · Score: 1

    i never said that was bad (all my boxes run AMD chips, although none with DDR support yet :(

    just pointing it out

  25. Re:Athlon still cheaper on Pentium IV As A Budget Processor · · Score: 1

    the 266MHz fsb for the athlon chip is only due to DDR, last i checked the actual frequency was only 133MHz