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  1. Good for BX owners on The Celeron Casts Aside Its Crutches · · Score: 1

    All right, all right.

    But's it probably a good value-for-money upgrade if you have a 100MHz slot-1 board with some CPU to match that. Inserting the Celly 800 gets your UT framerates back on par with the rest of your friends in 2 minutes installation time (open case, rip out old CPU, insert celly into slot-1-to-socket-370 card and put card into machine, boot).

  2. Digital camera floppy on Can You Back Up Data On Audio/Visual Media? · · Score: 1

    I use my DC280 camera with the 48MB flashcard as a floppy disk to take stuff from work to home and vice versa, using the USB connector. But that flashcard stores the data as actual bits (in fact, compactflash is ATA media).

    With the tape camera, the error correction will kill you. You're better (and much cheaper) off with just tapestreamer or CDR. Takes less CPU too.

  3. Sell it on E-Bay or so on At Last, Mir to be Ditched · · Score: 1

    I'd like to have the solar panels to mount on my house's roof, in spite of teh fact that it rains most of the time around here. I'd like to have a lot of the stuff that's in there.

    Let them put it on auction on e-Bay.

  4. Ancient TNT owner on 3dfx Drops Video Card Division · · Score: 1

    My Viper 550 is still running all the latest gamez fine with my P2-504.

    Takes a bit of OC-ing to get the card doing 44 fps in UnrealTournament at 1024x768x16 though.

    Why aren't these old cards for sale anymore? I'd be happy to upgrade to a TNT2 for $20 or so...

  5. 8x4x?x2x1x? DVDRAM on A Drive With The Works: DVD-[R,RW] And CD-[R,RW] · · Score: 1

    How do you call these drives?

    8x4x?x2x1x?

    Had to insert ?s because they didn't mention the drive's CD and DVD read speeds.

    I still have a 4x4 CDR at home. And that's not a car.

  6. NP Non-deterministic Polynomial on Does P = NP? · · Score: 5

    "NP" means that the problem can be solved by a non-deterministic machine (I'd almost say: For example a human) in polynomial time. A problem is already NP if there's a solution for it.

    "P" is part of NP, as even a deterministic machine (like an everyday computer) can solve this in polynomial time.

    "NP Complete" means that this problem is just as hard to solve as any other NP problem. If you can solve an NP complete problem in polynomial time, you prove that the whole NP Complete set can be solved in polynomial time, and thus you prove that NP=P.

    Of course, there are two possible outcomes:
    1. The algorithm has a flaw and won't work.
    2. The problem presented was not NP Complete, but only NP or P.

  7. Well white can be black on Does P = NP? · · Score: 1

    At least, in the dark, I don't see the difference.

  8. We'll live on AMD Stops Overclockers Dream Motherboard · · Score: 3

    You can probably still fiddle the FSB. But that pretty limits the options to a few percentages, as the FSB is already at 200.

    I've been upgrading the FSB since my 10MHz-8088 machine. I replaced the 20MHz crystal by a 26MHz from my CB radio. Worked great, but the floppy controller couldn't take it. Had to build in a switch, but that crashed the machine due to spikes and stuff. So you had to turn it off, set it back to 20, and boot to use the floppy. Not too much trouble, because the boot took only 10 seconds in those dayz.

    Darn. My FSB is now 112, btw.

  9. Fancy Light on Printing Out A New Monitor · · Score: 1

    Ok, so as many pointed out, they cannot print displays on paper. But they can print...

    So how about this. Cover your wall with aluminium foil, making it conductive. coat a glass plate with aluminium (like high efficiency glass thet i have at home). Print a picture on the glass, completely covering it. Now stick the glass on the wall and apply current. Voila. The whole wall emits light.

    Of course, you could use this technology to give road workers light emitting jackets. Nah, that'd be to moralistic.

  10. Re:DC to daylight. And beyond on How Many Frequency Bands Are There? · · Score: 1

    Nyquist said the opposite. The data rate is (at max) twice the bandwidth. Thus with 1 GHz bandwidth, you can transmit 2 Gbit/s.

    This holds true for any form of encoding, being amplitude, frequency or phase modulation, or a combination of them.

  11. Re:Quicktime download on QuickTime For RealNetworks · · Score: 1

    Hey, THANKS... Appears to work. Must be a new feature...

    Of course, I enlisted "postmaster@apple.com" as my e-mail :-) Spam'em, boyz...

  12. Quicktime download on QuickTime For RealNetworks · · Score: 1

    Would that bethe viewer that you can download, but never burn on CD and take it home?

    I can download at work. I can view movies at home. I cannot download at home... So I cannot view QT movies ecause the silly people do not allow you to just download the f&*king install and take it home (like you can do with MS's downloadable stuff).

  13. Propane is... on Neural Net Routers To Speed Up Net · · Score: 1

    In Europe, you can also use propane gas (LPG) to fuel your car. That IS a pressurized gas.

    Difference with Hydrogen is that Hydrogen requires very, very little to start burning (just the presence of Platina is enough) and is has a very very low melting point, somewhere around -290 degrees C. Think of the pressure required to keep that in.

    They're experimenting with all kinds of things, but nothing practical has been found yet.

  14. Huray for CDWave on Borland And Troll Tech And Kylix Delphi/C/C++ · · Score: 1

    Yes. Now I can start porting CDWAVE to Linux.

    Of course, I have to install Linux first. Then get rid of the ASM code, and probably work around the Win32 API calls...

    Anyhow, the future just got better.

  15. Potentially on Neural Net Routers To Speed Up Net · · Score: 1

    In general, I like the idea of using light to solve the interconnection problem in neural networks. But...

    Potential is the key.

    Potentially, hydrogen is great fuel for cars and planes, as it stores lots of energy and doesn't have "bad" byproducts. But the minor inconvenience is that we must find a way to transport the stuff and carry it around without becoming walking, driving or flying bombs.

    Same here. They're talking about a few major problems to overcome first. So a commercial version will not be around for years.

  16. Become Bill Gates on What are Your Programming Goals? · · Score: 1

    Only goal I have is to be like Bill Fucking Gates. To just say like "Duh we want to do this" and then have a team of devoted worshippers actually do it too, and then convince the whole world of his righteousness, even though I cannot even spell that word.

    Ad of course, I don't have to use my left hand anymore to operate the mouse because my right is suffering from some serious RSI.

  17. Silicons just like Pamela's on Gel Wristpads-What ARE They Made Of? · · Score: 2

    My guess is that the stuff is the same silicon gel that is used to increase a woman's eh... selfasteems.

    They probably made it a bit tougher. But honestly, next to your girlfriend real-uns, what would feel better on your wrists?

    Ok, I'm off washing my hands now. Washing my mouth doesn't make sense when I'm typing.

  18. Not java on Cross-Platform Development Tools? · · Score: 2

    I've been developing in Java for some time now. I hate it, but it pays well. Give me Delphi on windows and give me emacs on 'nix.

    Point? Programs written in Java are easy to develop, but hard to deploy. Even a 1.1 machine is too much to ask. Also, you can't establish parent/child realations between windows, and copy/paste doesn't work, threading doesn't work as documented, and its slow, and you can't even fucking ask how much memory is available...

    Java was developed by Sun to make MS look bad. So they try to avoid anything that windows supports.

    Go for Borland C++. Your program will run everywhere, will be easy to deploy, and be easy to debug.

  19. How to get people upset over a big company with /. on Is "coke.ch" A Violation of Coca-Cola's (tm)? · · Score: 1

    Step 1. Register your domain, www.bigcompany.somecountry

    Step 2. Wait until bigcompany approaches you

    Step 3. Now inform /. that bigcompany wants to steal your domain.

    Step 4. You site will be /.-ted, so you'll get thousands of hits, even if there's nothing there!

    Step 5. Show the bigcompany's lawyer how many hits your site is getting. Your business will be seriously harmed by being forced to move.

    Step 6. Now is the time to ask for a "compensation" for the loss of income if you move the domain.

    Clearly, this one's still at step 4, and now probably on the phone for step 5.

  20. BEEP! I'm in love on Date Pagers · · Score: 1

    Is that what they mean with "Love Machine?"

  21. And sooo many comments on XXX!!: Sex and Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Wow! 585 comments and counting...

    I guess this has something to do with the word "sex" appearing in the article?

    Even I am guilty, having read only a few paragraphs before getting bored and posting what I wanted to post.



  22. Place in camping-fridge on Outdoor Computer Cases? · · Score: 1

    That's what we did on the univ with a radiometer meant for some very hot countries.

    The small fridge allows heat to go out, but no air goes in or out. Thus, your computer won't collect any dust, and keep cool.

  23. 30kW/h means it accellerates on Fifty-Year-Old Computer Being Restored · · Score: 1

    Just like 9.8 m/s/s means you're dropping to Earth 1 m/s faster each second, 1 kW/h means that it uses 1 kW more each hour.

    So after one hour of operation, the machine will use 30 kW more than when it started. So after a day of use, it's running at at least 720kW.

  24. With or without... on Quickie Fu · · Score: 1

    the computer?

  25. Skud on Tux Has a Nameless Green Martian Relative · · Score: 1

    Almost as good as Xut, but with a bit more meaning. After all, (s)he'll get launched... And i guess Saddam will get little votes.

    Also sounds like "is kut" (for Dutch people)