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  1. Re:Australian Copyright Law on When Copy Protection Fails · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unless you are an aborigine, and mandatory sentencing kicks in for the smallest thing... or have things changed?

  2. Stars and Under on Great Science Fiction that is Out of Print? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A whole series of fantastic short stories edited by edited by Edmund Crispin, titled "Stars and Under"... have been trying to find it for ages...

  3. Re:Looking forward to it on Introduction to 64-bit Computing and x86-64 · · Score: 1

    Intel uses names oof rivers in the oregon area as code names for their processors.

  4. Re:This is wrong. on Spielberg to Produce Live-Action Tintin Movie(s) · · Score: 1

    you might have actually had a point if LoTR was a comic to being with...

  5. Re:No tools for making fonts on Microsoft Typography Withdraws Free Web Fonts · · Score: 2, Informative

    PFAEdit is a sophisticated graphical editor for designing and editing Postscript fonts. It has tools for specifiying hints for the glyphs, and even has a autohint function that will determine and set hints for you automatically. Truetype hints, called instructions, while not supported at design stage, PFAEdit will try to convert PS hints to TT instructions. But yes, font design is an art and a science.

  6. Font Editor on Microsoft Typography Withdraws Free Web Fonts · · Score: 5, Informative

    PFAEdit is a sophisticated graphical editor for designing and editing Postscript fonts.

  7. Re:BSD & Avids on Linux Video Editor Cinelerra 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    While Cinelerra may not support the specific cards supported by Airspace, there are SDI 601 options for Linux, specifically :

    www.lmahd.com/sd601.html

    and geting these to work with the editor should not be impossible...

  8. Re:OT: Are there any decent open source video tool on Cinema Tools for Final Cut Pro · · Score: 2, Informative

    Kino for DV editing :

    http://www.schirmacher.de/arne/kino/

    Then there was Broadcast2000 (which mig still be availble via sourceforge). Check with Linux Media Arts :

    http://www.linuxmediaarts.com
    I Think they maintain Broadcast2000 now...

    and for the non-OSS stuff check out :
    http://www.mainconcept.com

  9. Re:Amazed that people like it so much on LotR Takes Top Spot on IMDB · · Score: 1

    Has there ever been a movie that's been "as good" as the book?

    "Silence of The Lambs"

  10. To pun on Ants in your P2Pants · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the words of Terry Pratchett : "Anthill Inside" :)

  11. Re:How does one switch to journaling file system? on Benchmark Madness · · Score: 1

    http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/xfsroot.html describes how to make a Linux XFS Root from your existing disk.

  12. Re:3D pointing devices? on 3D w/o Goggles · · Score: 1

    check out the Spaceball from Labtec :
    http://www.labtec.com

  13. FLTK on Cross-Platform GUI Toolkits? · · Score: 1

    fltk (Fast Light ToolKit) at http://www.fltk.org/ works for me, for Windows and Linux.

  14. The Meaning of Google on NSI Botches Domain Transfer, Says 'Not Our Problem' · · Score: 1

    Here is from the google website :

    http://www.google.com/company.html

    and for the lazy ones

    Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, to refer to the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web and in the world.

    so they names might actually matter to the owner :)

  15. Re:Irony on Court Tells Disney to Pull Go.com Logo · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. You could probably say the same for Thailand.