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  1. IE was a non-free product on MPEG 4, Windows Media 9 At War · · Score: 2

    the package it was in "Windows Plus!" included I.E. [the internet had not entered the domestic]. The plus pack was the same price as the Windows95 pach it sat alongside.

    Netscape was shareware then I think. But it was butt ugly and couldn't wait to ditch it alongside 3rd party dialers that were equally stunted. The small computer shops round the world were getting wired and Microsoft was the only brand name people recognised.

  2. y you're right about the oss on Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire · · Score: 2

    dont know what I was thinking, too tired I hope!

    Maybe milliseconds of latency is an issue for twitch games like Quake and it would be variable too. People already do tricks with changing the packet rate higher during encounters to destabalise the opposition.

    It will be interesting to know how the worls of MMORPGs will up the ante in the next generation. I imagine that there are people feverishly working away at cracking the project entropia net code. Project Entropia is an MMOPRG where the in-game money is exchanged for hard real world currency so the potential for fraud has moved from 'look at my l33t armor f4gg07' to 'look at my l33t b4nk balanc3'

  3. it's not all fool on Final KDevelop 3.0 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    learn to read

    I'll summarise

    1. I don't think it's right selling your development tool for Linux using the Windows XP window decorations.

    2. The Windows XP decorations are ugly

    now shush

  4. OSS can encrypt too on Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire · · Score: 2

    but it would be a pretty good set of tools to avoid a man in the middle attack sooner or later

    the CPU & net latency have too much of an impact currently

    I'm sure it won't be long though

  5. lol, you idiot on Final KDevelop 3.0 Alpha Released · · Score: 2

    unbunch your knickers mate

    enlightenment btw.

  6. crash data recoders too on Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit · · Score: 2

    see this story
    Automakers and Crash Data Recorders

    TechnologyPosted by michael on 29/12/02 23:08

  7. confusing XP buttons deliberate? on Final KDevelop 3.0 Alpha Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know QT is cross platform so do you tink that by using XP style screen grabs they have it running in XP?

    If not I would suggest they are trying to mislead.

    Even with a 10 minute search on http://www.kdevelop.org I couldn't find any "supported platforms" information

    I'm not into having Windows look & feel. It's bad enough I have to use it occasionally. Those candy coloured buttons, uggh!

  8. no error checking on Flaw Found iIn Ethernet Device Drivers · · Score: 2

    stdout might not be writable

  9. plan9 has a leap forward - acid on How Would You Improve Today's Debugging Tools? · · Score: 2

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acidpaper.html

    Acid: A Debugger Built From A Language

    Phil Winterbottom
    philw [ a t ] plan9.bell-labs.com

    ABSTRACT

    NOTE: Originally appeared in Proc. of the Winter 1994 USENIX Conf., pp. 211-222, San Francisco, CA

    Acid is an unusual source-level symbolic debugger for Plan 9. It is implemented as a language interpreter with specialized primitives that provide debugger support. Programs written in the language manipulate one or more target processes; variables in the language represent the symbols, state, and resources of those processes. This structure allows complex interaction between the debugger and the target program and provides a convenient method of parameterizing differences between machine architectures. Although some effort is required to learn the debugging language, the richness and flexibility of the debugging environment encourages new ways of reasoning about the way programs run and the conditions under which they fail.

  10. the pinnacle has been reached on New SGI Altix 3000 · · Score: 2

    hat's off

  11. ah, the days of yesteryear 8) on X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended · · Score: 2


    http://www.astaserials.com/?search=xbox%20privat e% 20key

    came up with a keygen !

  12. it's not fair on Lord of the Rings, as Written By Everyone Else · · Score: 3, Funny

    the plebs have invaded the ivory towers and, gasp, have started enjoying themselves.

    Why can't we go back to when it was mine.

    I'd love to see your face when the first season of "The All New LOTR - Frodos Secret Diaries" starts on Fox.

  13. and do what? on Pushing Patches Across a Wide Area Windows Network? · · Score: 3, Funny

    without tcp/ip it's probably gonna be tricky

  14. typo heaven on Cooler Master's Latest High-End Case Reviewed · · Score: 5, Funny

    ! note: all the specification subject should be changed without prior notice !

    it's really a matchbox

    An ulimate multinedia PC in intel website

    I just can't get by without my daily dose of ulimate multinedia

  15. just tring to add something extra on The Plastic Fractal Magnet · · Score: 1

    and not just be a 1 2 3 4 profit attempt

  16. if in doubt - say it will do storage on The Plastic Fractal Magnet · · Score: 2

    1. Invent new thing
    2. Say it will increase storage.
    3. ??
    4. Prophet

  17. If I don't hold my breath on The Plastic Fractal Magnet · · Score: 2

    it will fall on the floor and smash.

    Although I'd be too busy shivvering to notice

  18. You have to use your discretion on The Plastic Fractal Magnet · · Score: 2

    Once you are at the scale of discrete particle then there is no edge to measure, only the distance between the particles.

    While you are there you could measure the distance between applied mathematics and pure mathematics.

  19. Re:SQL does not cut it on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System · · Score: 2

    Modern programming languages since C have used pointers or object references.

    inodes & symlinks

    If JOIN and messing arround with tables is so good why don't we all use COBOL?

    we use other turing complete languages instead

  20. plan9 could do all this and more on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System · · Score: 2

    plan9 could do all you are asking. It uses 9p a protocol for file access, the file server responds to requests for files as can user level processes.

    You could bundle all the meta data you like into your user level file server process and present the data in whatever format you like.

    It's really no big deal

  21. how can we be more related than shared ancestors? on Orangutans Helping Discover Our Evolution · · Score: 2

    We may be more related to monkeys than we think.

    If only monkeys had the same hive mind as we have.

    You might want to eat an orang-utan but I'll gladly sit at the table and break bread with him/her.

  22. not too bad on Wahoo P4 Stratagem System Review · · Score: 2

    I've been building a new server on a 150Mhz 486 p54C Overdrive with 64mB RAM, it chugs along quite nicely compiling Apache et al.

  23. kilo karma on The State of GNU/Linux in 2002: It was Good. · · Score: 2

    no impunging taken

    the real reason I persist in say Lienux is that for my accent Linnux is a foreign pronunciation which means my mouth muscles don't get much practice saying it.

    Plus being corrected by someone says something about their attitude that might take a few weeks of working out by other linguistic means. Never underestimate your conversational partner.

    Did you like the obscure bit? I liked that one. Can't get much more obscure than my dying BSD network. I'm sat here installing a FAMP setup into a 486 overdrive to see how it will cope.

    NAT doesn't cache and makes it slightly tougher for malicious code to get route out. Not that I've done it myself, was just a snippet of knowledge from another mailing list.

    okayokay enough already

  24. what the hell fun is copper sulphate on Chemistry Sets for Adults? · · Score: 2

    you can grow coper sulphate crystals with a seed crystal and a solution, they look pretty neat

  25. Hwo do you know it's interesting? on Professors vs. WiFi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When the professeur was interesting then I listened.

    So while sleeping you multi-tasking brain was able to wake you up when the prof got interesting?

    wtg.