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  1. Wishful thinking on Why 'rm -R star' Isn't Enough · · Score: 1
    No document can be deleted fully, huh?

    One would think the occasional cursing around the office would go away then.

    "CRAP! I ACCIDENTELY DELETED THIS PRESENTATION THAT WILL BE CRUCIAL IN GETTING THIS NEW CUSTOMER. ARGH." <sound of breaking glass; anti-climax 'poof' 5 seconds later>

  2. Fake or not? on X-Box Emulated (Not) · · Score: 2
    UPDATE by HeUnique:Is this emulator a fake? according to these messages in the XBox Hacker web site - this is a fake one. Could someone actually try it?

    Maybe the slashdot editors could actually try it before posting? Or do none of the slashdot editors have windows boxes because they're too good for that?

  3. Decompression? on ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I have invented a 1000x lossless compression scheme, too. I'm still working on the decompression, tho.

  4. Re:Not bad. on One Ring Rules the MIT Dome · · Score: 2

    Hah, how nice to actually read this theory that I've been applying naturally for so many years stealing bikes. (I'm from the Netherlands, where this is normal)

  5. Re:electricity on Home Server Rooms? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, that explains our $350 electricity bill here in Austin TX in July.... Too many geeks (4) putting all their computers (15) in 1 room... I wonder what sucks up more energy, the computers or the airco...

  6. Re:340 undecillion on AES Announced as Federal Standard · · Score: 2

    Unless you live outside the US, where
    10^6 million
    10^9 milliard
    10^12 billion
    10^15 billiard
    10^18 trillion
    10^21 trilliard

  7. Type 83 of course! on Which Partition Types Are Superior? · · Score: 1

    The answer to today's question is Type 83 of course.

    Oh wait, are we talking about partition types or filesystems here?

  8. Idle? on The Ultimate Linux Box 2001 · · Score: 2
    Notice how seldom the CPU idle percentage drops below 90%.

    my PC is never idle!

  9. Re:We are the test suites on Kernel 2.4.12 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful
    First, I am being treated as an unpaid QA employee
    I never got paid for any OSS work I did. Linus doesn't get any money for maintaining the linux kernel.

    But there are a few of us who just want to *use* the software.
    Then don't upgrade a stable production system the same night a patch comes out. If you would've waited a day or two (like I'm doing), you would be fine.

  10. Re:Odd kernel error message [slightly OT] on Linux Kernel 2.4.10 · · Score: 1

    Just for posterity's sake:

    Do not symlink, it actually triggers the error.
    AC in the parent post was right.

    I put the original headers (that came with glibc) back in place, recompiled the kernel and the errors are gone.

  11. Re:Privacy is the issue... on How Feasible is a Cash-Less Society? · · Score: 1

    As was already noted, he doesn't live in the US where for some reason banks charge you a FEE if you get cash from their ATM while it's not your bank. Fortunately other countries don't have such braindead systems.

  12. Re:Odd kernel error message [slightly OT] on Linux Kernel 2.4.10 · · Score: 2

    So nobody has any idea. Hmmm.
    I think I read somewhere that this _could_ be because of faulty include files.

    Should I or should I not make symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/[linux|asm|scsi] from /usr/include? This used to be the way to go from the beginning of linux up till somewhere in the 2.2 kernel. Then it was said that you should just leave the glibc includes where they are.

    I tried both options, both give me the error.
    Running Debian unstable glibc-2.2.4.

  13. Odd kernel error message [slightly OT] on Linux Kernel 2.4.10 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sligthly off-topic, but I can't find the answer to this:

    Lately I've been getting this error on a lot of utilities (like ps, top etc):
    {bm_register_driver} {__VERSIONED_SYMBOL(bm_register_driver)}
    Warning: /boot/System.map does not match kernel data.

    I can assure you I have the right System.map in all the right places (both in /boot and /usr/src/linux is a System.map corresponding to the current kernel).

    Any ideas?

  14. Re:Why I use FreeBSD on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready · · Score: 2

    You forgot to mention the ports collection!

  15. Re:dont many german toilets... on 1st Cup Of Coffee: Hardening Your Arteries · · Score: 1

    Actually, Dutch toilets have this too. It has been coined that the Dutch are actually more healthy _because_ they can inspect what they dump before they flush.

    Oh, and you don't get your butt cheeks all wet when a big one plunges into the water either!

  16. Re:Let's get some perspective here on Constants Not Constant? · · Score: 2

    If alpha is actually not constant, any one of those items you listed can still be constant, if we change "h". After all, "h" is just an invested scaling factor so that alpha, q, E and c match up.

  17. Re:Ogg is not for me on Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3? · · Score: 2

    The real reason why VHS won and Beta didn't, was because the makers of VHS allowed the porn-industry to use VHS as a distribution media, whereas the Betamax didn't.

    VHS won.

    Leto.

  18. Re:Why does this matter? on Are The Digits of Pi Random? · · Score: 3

    Does a base have to be an integer? If not, pi in base(pi) is 10 exactly.

  19. But... on Are Games Turning Kids Into Jocks? · · Score: 3
    Beyond that, gamers are smarter, more likely to go to college, have more friends, read more, and get better-paying jobs than non-gamers.

    So nerds are smarter, have more nerd-friends, read more books like '1984' and 'The hitchhiker's guide' and have a better payed programming job. We already knew that.

    But the real questions are: Can they get girlfriends? Do they have sex?

  20. Re:To sum it up again on Restricted CDs Quietly Distributed · · Score: 2

    The problem with this form of trust is that it only seems to work when you are actually face to face with the other party.

    No matter how honest you are, if the other party doesn't know you or can see, they _will_ screw you over, since it's so easy to do! Those gang members don't shoot the priest, and won't curse and swear near the priest, but as soon as he's around the corner, they'll start all over again.

    So even if the record companies get honest, there will still be people piracing. So why should the record companies get honest at all, they'd better fight this piracy with everything they got.

  21. Re:OT: Appropriate name in this article on Internet2 Update · · Score: 2

    The Dutch president of the National Aviation Board: Dr. Brick.

  22. Re:outside of rental cars... on Rental Car + GPS = Speeding Ticket · · Score: 2
    The highways in the Netherlands have cameras every few miles. It's becoming pretty impossible to speed in NL.

    Although.. If you make sure there's a car beside you when you speed under a camera, there will be two cars on the picture, and will get discarded, because they don't know which one was speeding.

    You can also of course just ruin every camera you see, a sport becoming more and more popular in the Netherlands, for obvious reasons.

    Leto.

  23. Re:Source code on RC5-64 Project Teeters At The Halfway Mark · · Score: 2
    Source code is at the public source repository and has been there for the past 2 years or so.

    Read Operational Code Authentication before you start ranting that it's not the complete source.

    Leto
    (ivo at distributed.net)

  24. Re:What it will take. on Microsoft Admits To Backdoor In IIS [updated] · · Score: 1

    That's for the same reason C=64s are unaffected: No one uses them anymore!

    /me ducks

  25. Funny to read this kind of article... on Finding American Companies for Overseas Work? · · Score: 2

    after all articles regarding H1B caps and laws. H1B, you know, the visa that gets _Europeans_ to work in the US.