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  1. Re:i[56]86 sucks! on Mandrake 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Had the same problem installing debian sid AND woody. X would refuse to work and xfs would break and many many other files. I did an apt-get dist-upgrade after editing sources.list.

    My solution?

    INSTALL using woody/sid. When it asks for the ftp/http network install during the install, set whatever you want, and when it asks do you want to add more, press YES and set edit manually. Edit the file from stable/potato to woody or sid, whatever you want. That solved everything and it ran from the get-go =]

    --SioBibble

  2. Re:Why the anger? - And what the problem is on DataPlay - Flash Killer or Copy-Control Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? I use this- http://www.minidisco.com/minispecs/maudioco3.html.

    Bunch of neat features... I use it to screw up the SMCS (What mini-discs use for digital copy protection) and it filters out the signals that says "Hey this is already a digital copy, don't copy me" =]

    There's a lot of other boxes that do that, but that's the one I use..

    For more info about killing SMCS and other MD cracking/hacking, go here- http://www.minidisc.org/part_hacking.html

  3. Re:Anime != Good on Interview With Tenchi Co-Creator Hayashi Hiroki · · Score: 1

    I completely agree, but the reason that many anime freaks like "all" anime is that they haven't seen the bad anime. Have you seen some anime aired? They're FSCKING WEIRD. The reason that none of us see it is because if it's crap over there, no one over here is going to buy it and thus is not worth the effort. Also the fansubbers won't sub the anime because they don't want to waste their time on crap. So the only anime that we're exposed to is the good stuff.

    That's why some people think that all anime is good, which is utter crap IMHO.

  4. Re:In other news... on Napster Users Being Arrested In Belgium · · Score: 1

    TROLL, but i'll make a quick bite incase it wasn't... the analogy would only work if the theif copied the cd from his friend... the store is losing money and PHYSICAL PROPERTY, not virtual..

  5. Re:Interesting concept... on Laser-equipped 747 · · Score: 1

    Heh, not to mention that you can use those "defensive" lasers in 747's which means that oh, you can relabel the plane as an "American Airlines" plane. As opposed to sticking it in a military bomber plane, which would raise some attention.

    Think about it. You're flying the plane to some place where you need to "defend" against missles. All you need to do is relabel the plane as some commercial service and ta-da, no suspicion in enemy territory.

  6. Re:01-01-01 on Y2K Bugs: The Year In Review? · · Score: 1

    Ah, but wouldn't it be more efficient to do day-month-year? We all (hopefully) know what year it is, and month too, but we all get confused about the DAY. That way, we can all save microseconds of time by making it day-month-year =] Those microseconds really add up... (and times ~6 bil people...)

  7. Re:MKR English dub... on More Anime Washing Ashore In 2001 · · Score: 1

    I hope that Toonami goes with standard procedure and cuts the opening and closing songs.

    Oh yeah! Don't we all LOVE the Toonami's version of Dragonball Z theme song (it's still the same, right? I haven't seen it in a while... can't stand it. It's still the crappy guy with a low voice chanting Dragon Ball... Dragon Ball Z, right?)

  8. Re:My one hope... on Episode II In Trouble? · · Score: 1
    Has anyone else heard rumors to the effect that Jar Jar may have actually been someone else in disguise?


    Yeah, the best speculation i've heard was that he is really boba fett, it'd be pretty darn funny/scary if it were true.

  9. Re:What are you listening to? on Ask An Ordinary Teenage Slashdot User · · Score: 1

    My guess is that there were probably a lot of bad music when you were 15 that were on the radio 24/7. People tend to forget bad things over a long period of time, and we're talking decades here, so my guess is that there was a lot of crap when you were young too. You only remember the good stuff.

  10. Re:BlaBlaBla on Scorched Island 3D · · Score: 1

    Hear Hear! Those of us under 20 can't be in this competition of who played the oldest game. But at least we can take pleasure that we can all BEAT THE FSCKING CRAP out of you old schoolers at quake 3/Unreal Tournament/Counterstrike/TFC/Diablo II/etc.

    After all, what's seen as "old" for me is Wolfinstein3d.

  11. Re:Interesting on New MPEG 4-Based Open Source Codec · · Score: 2

    Try this out- http://divx.euro.ru/

    It does DivX. The player is open source, you can build it yourself. It works in linux/freebsd. What it does is it reads .dll codecs. You stick the dlls in /usr/lib/win32.

    Download the source and the binaries.zip. Extract the zipfile and stick it in /usr/lib/win32. configure/compile/install the source and type in aviplay FILENAME.avi and ta-da! you've got DivX in linux!

    It even plays FRICKEN ASFS and SMR codecs. =]

    The codecs themselves DO NOT use open source dlls though, so it's up to you weather you like this or not, but it's fine, especially with playing ASFs and DivX.

  12. Re:yes but... on Intel Says No SMP Support For Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    With the current cure it is "not doable." The reason was went over about 1-2 months ago. I forgot the specifics, but i'm sure definately it's not doable.

    They're going to release a new core later that will support SMP supportedly later though. This time gap lets competition get in and match their speeds (if there's a speed increase at all).

  13. Login/Pass for NYTIMES on Give That Monkey Brain A Robotic Arm! · · Score: 2

    If you are too lazy and/or don't want to fill out the form, use:

    login: slashdot2000
    password:slashdot2000

  14. Re:Dune? on Dune: House Harkonnen · · Score: 1
    Both were in Dune, the book, in the little excerpts that precluded each chapter.

    heh, did anyone even read those past the 5th chapter the first time they've read it? =] Unless you're reading it again, reading those get VERY boring and around the 4th chapter you realize that they aren't integral to the plot so it's skipped.

  15. Re:useless search engine on Cantametrix Plans To Track All MP3s On The Web · · Score: 1

    They probably wouldn't give it away free IMHO

  16. Re:The problem with critics on "Red Planet": Stay Here · · Score: 1

    Whoops, screwed up, this post is to undo moderation, i put redundant on accident =/

  17. Re:Whoa but wait, is there hope still? on Election Wrapping Up (Part 2) · · Score: 1

    yep, and they're at 99.9%, which i calculated in the 5000 people range left. What fun! And write-ins (which old people like to do) aren't counted yet. This'll be down to the .01% deciding. Isn't it great that .01% deciding who's going to be elected?!

    And at the official website it's at 630. So the 600-700 mark is correct

  18. WHAT THE HELL?! on Election Wrapping Up (Part 2) · · Score: 1

    Gore might win, this is from- FLORIDA's VOTING SITE- http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/report.asp?Date=0011 07

    this is in real time.

    Bush gets 2,898,508
    Gore gets 2,897,939

    Both have the same percentage point, the server is getting SLAMMED!

  19. Bush Wins?! on Election Wrapping Up (Part 2) · · Score: 1

    Fox News Channel is reporting that bush has just won Florida and has 25 electoral votes, which means that they have 271 in all, making Gee Dubya the president.

  20. Re:Buzzword Security on Two-Way Satellite Internet Is Here! · · Score: 1

    Shrug, my @home cable modem HAS encryption, albeit 40bit low security. I think most cable modems have encryption built into the hardware.

  21. Re:I've done field service for ZapMe!!! :( on Computers-for-Student-Eyeballs Scheme Goes Under · · Score: 2
    And knowing most kids, they probably filled 'em all in.


    Well here at Bellarime, we had zapme for a while, but ended up using the school's t1(?). From what I remember, no one put in the personal information, and it was excellent entertainment the first day on what to put into the entry fields. I would say 90% of the forms were filled out as 'female' checked (this is an all boys school). Of course, the people didn't put in real information probably because it was fun, rather than because they were worried about privacy...

  22. Re:my record on Pi: It Just Keeps On Going · · Score: 1

    This is all I remember:

    3.14159,
    2653589,
    7923284,
    626 and a whole lot more!

    It's a rhyme.

  23. Re:Great idea on Mandrake 7.2 in Wal-Mart: A Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    The irony of the Microsoft trial in my world is that when the MS lawyers shows how much Linux was a threat, I had GOT to try that out, and once i did, I was blown away (after many patient hours of configuration... after all, it was that or play starcraft which was getting pretty boring).

    I would like to thank Microsoft for brining me into this excellent OS. After all, when Big Bad Microsoft claims they're pissing in their pants from something, it has got to kick arse, which inticed me to see what all the fuss was about.

  24. Re:DHCP on Mandrake 7.2 in Wal-Mart: A Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    I spent 20 hours trying to get my NIC working also. The best thing to do is to check weather the light goes on in your router/hub. Try booting to windows, during bootup, you'll see a light go ON, try booting into Linux, and see if it goes on.

    If it doesn't go on, which is what happened to me, check your BIOS settings weather you have PnP OS(Plug and Play OS) enabled. If it is, diable it! It won't screw up windows' PnP, but it will screw up linux, for some god forsaken reason. My first distro was Phat Linux (I didn't want to risk repartitioning then) and I couldn't get it work until i found someone helpful on irc.

    If the light doesn't go on, it's usually a driver/hardware problem. If it DOES go on, it's within linux. Of course, i'm semi-new to this also, and what I have said is general sense and I don't know all that much, but that has been my experience. Hope that helps.

    By the way, check the BIOS by pressing or at bootup (or check your manual) and check under POWER MANAGEMENT.

    What happenes is that PnP doesn't turn on the card automatically in windows or any other operating system so that power is saved. In linux, it may work or not, everythings iffy. If the light does turn on, configure DHCP. Check out some forums (linuxnewbie.org / usenet) or even IRC, try out dal.net or efnet (of course, you have to ask several times to get their attention, the best way to get their attention is say you're using a windows system right now to chat and have some questions about getting linux to work (gets all the zealots all riled up ;-] )

  25. Re:Lock ups at Partition Check on Mandrake 7.2 in Wal-Mart: A Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    From what i understand, aurora is causing a lot of problems. I've done 2 full reinstalls since then and when i unchecked aurora , it works fine. Before then, it always locks up at weird places and doing a few tests, it ALWAYS messes up if i use mouseconfig intead of mousedrake. For some reason, if i uninstall aurora, screwing around with configs work. I did a rpm -e aurora, which uninstalled it (i don't think there are any dependancies [whew]). Try doing that.