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  1. Re:What about tape changers? on Shrinking Tapes And Increasing Bit Densities? · · Score: 1

    Our company just brought a 6 tape DDS-4 Drive to backup all 20 or so PCs. At £1500, and with 240GB native i consider that very good value for money. I

  2. Re:GIMP - GIF use juxtaposition on The Future Of The GIMP · · Score: 1

    Isn't the LZW patented due to end next year? We should get compressed GIF support pretty soon.

  3. Re:works fine for me... on Most Linux Distros Won't Run on Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    That right PIV is not SMP capable, and their are no dual or quad foster (the PIV xeon equiv) boards available. Jeez guys, can't you tell when your being bullshitted.

  4. Re:Oh my God! on Freenet, Broken Down By Content · · Score: 1

    You last used JDK 1.0 didn't you -cp becomes -classpath in java 1.1 and above

  5. I saw the show based on the book on the BBC on Longitude · · Score: 1

    At least I started to see it but it was soo damn dull i couldnea take it.

    For A more poetic take on the problem of longuitude, Try reading the "Island of the day before" by Umberto (The Name of the Rose) Eco.

  6. Re:Question: on Another New (Minor) Planet In Solar System · · Score: 1
    there is also some definition that goes like this : A ``planet'' is an object that has a mass between that of Pluto and the Deuterium-burning threshold* and that forms in orbit around an object that can generate energy by nuclear reactions.

    The pluto lower mass limit is really arbitary.

    A better one would be, has a mass sufficently high that material complete molten during formulation. That would correctly differentiated between irregular asteriods and (nearly) spheroidal planet.

  7. Ah the sweat smell of LaTex. on Could LaTeX Replace HTML? · · Score: 2
    I rembember writing up my PhD in Latex using AmigaTex, its a wonderful typesetting languages for maths and physics and if you look at science papers you'll find even ten years after its was made, that Tex and Latex are still the defacto method of publishing scientific works.

    Is not simple though. I couldn't see the average graphics designer learning to code in it. Thanks to macros and variables Tex is more than a markup like its also a Turing complete programming language, though is almost never used that way. The print quality is wonderful. Its such a downgrade to be writing stuff in even the todays best word processors, you never match the quality of the automatically constructed fonts that Metafont provides. Need a gothic Aleph in 600dpi, it will be constructed on the fly. Finally Donald Knuth did literally write the book on computer science. Yes I love Latex more than a german fetishist ever could. IBM alphaworks did a believe construct a brower for LaTex some three years ago. It was called something like techworks. But it never caught on and I wouldn't expect it to now. Its doesn't have the bitmaps graphics porn appeal or crappy banner adverts, and just wouldn't be marketable on todays internet.

    But just try writing the Einstein field equations in HTML. no, well here it is in Tex.

    $$ G^{\mu\nu} - \Lambda g^{\mu\nu} = 8\pi T^{\mu\nu} $$

  8. Re:Now I'm probably missing something, but... on Should Voice-over-IP Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    This is true, but until the networks are upgraded to IPv6 there isn't such a thing as high priority traffic.

  9. Re:You have to trust the government. on Will Britain Log All Communications For 7 Years? · · Score: 1
    I a British Subject, and personally I trust the goverment about as far as I could comfortably spit out a rat.

  10. Re:H20 Oceans? on NASA Has Found Evidence Of Oceans On Mars · · Score: 1

    No CO2 doesn't stay liquid even at 1atm. It takes a lot of pressure to keep dry ice from subliming straight to a gas. Which is why they called solid C02 dry ice i guess.

  11. Re:Pigeons & Pentachromats on Mutant Tetrachromat Females Found · · Score: 1

    Actually Quantum Mechanic only has discrete posible wavelength for bound systems. Light is a free wave and can have any wavelength in a continum of values.

  12. Re:Brace yourselfs. on Geomagnetic Storm To Begin Tonight · · Score: 1
    Transistors can be killed by very short very high frequency electromagnetic pulses but the low frequency high magnetic field of a geomagnetic storm id more of a threat to power grids, of couse statelites right in the thick of it can be hit.

    Rembember shielding equipment is very simple: put it an a metal box and the faraday cage effect will stop everything but gamma rays.

  13. Re:UNIX tools philosophy on What Would Your Dream Calendar Program Look Like? · · Score: 1

    XML is rather new, but with the right tools it is dead easy to parse. SAX for java and C++ is very powerful. And yes it is now available for perl Sax for Perl. Once you go beyond simple tab delimetered flat files or relational databases XML becomes very useful.

  14. zdnet - "P4 willy waving" on C`t Throws Athlons And P4s In The Gladiator Pit · · Score: 2
  15. Re:Are you sure about the mobo? on C`t Throws Athlons And P4s In The Gladiator Pit · · Score: 1

    I had an old Athlon 550 one of the first from october last year. I just picked up an old Slot A Athlon 750 overclocked to 1GHz, it was a special offer from Overclockers.co.uk. I fitted it and its runs rock solid even for unreal tournament and overnight downloads.

  16. Re:Benchmarks on C`t Throws Athlons And P4s In The Gladiator Pit · · Score: 1

    Actually the 266 Athlons were launch on the 3rd of november, some of the newer micron PCs have them. But the chips probably won't be available off the self for upgraders till january.

  17. Re:Athlon vs. P4 on C`t Throws Athlons And P4s In The Gladiator Pit · · Score: 1
    Which is fair enough because how many pieces of software support SSE 2 right now, 2 Intels compiler and Nvdia newests windows drivers. In a years time the benchmarks will be more favourable to the P4, but then in a years time AMD will be shipping its clawhammer processor with also supports SSE 1 and 2 (as well as 3dnow and x86-64).

    BTW the Specfp 2000 and SpecInt 2000 scores are done using the intels new compiler and are very heavy SSE2 optimized which will give you an idea of how good it gets. But all todays software can't use it and at legecy floating point code (especially without Nvdia drivers), like Unreal tournament, Quake II, 3d studio max or SETI at home, the Pentium 4 really sucks and can be killed by a Duron.

  18. Re:AMD very wise in their mustang decision on Intel Says No SMP Support For Pentium 4 · · Score: 1
  19. Re:AMD very wise in their mustang decision on Intel Says No SMP Support For Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Actually 760MPs Mobos should be available late Q1. See here

  20. Re:This presumes peer capability remains available on Ian Clarke on Peer-to-Peer · · Score: 1
    IANAL but if you have no comparable alternative you might be able to take the ISP to court using the first admendment. Being able to serve documents is equivalent to being able to speak at your local town square.

    On more technically grounds you may also be able to get around the AUP, by the fact that many clients are also servers and many servers are also clients.

  21. Re:What Ian doesn't get on Ian Clarke on Peer-to-Peer · · Score: 1
    >But of course, that's "awfully hard" to understand and implement... especially when you're dealing with stupid, static languages

    Java isn't static it can compile and long new class on the fly: Just look at tomcat. The problem with using Objects over a system like freenet is that it's a security nightmare, Java defends against many security problems but not against deny of services attacks, just build an object preporting to be an popular mp but actually being a recusive thread spawner DSA, and take down whole a huge number of freenet clients.

    But if you want build an object database over freenet it would be quite possible: Freenet is just a distrubtion system and says nothing about what a freenet client does with the information it downloads.

  22. Re:The Real Story on Rambus Slammed For 'Judge Shopping' · · Score: 1
    You posted this on the Yahoo RMBS stock board to. Own up how much money did you lose today?

    RTQ RMBS 61 61/64 down 3 and 31/64

  23. Re:Time to move to Oceania on Philly Court Convicts 2600 Staffer on Minor Counts · · Score: 1
    James wrote:>

    No, no, you don't want to live in a true democracy. A place where you can get voted out of town by a majority of voters. A true democracy is fine if you fit in and don't rock the boat, and act and look like everyone else and don't piss anyone off...

    And that would be different from now how?

    Also a true democracy can still have a constitution which is impossible or very hard to override.

  24. Schemes on On The CopyLeft Of DTDs · · Score: 1
    Anyone know if SAX or DOM support for Schemas is being developed?

  25. He's buying a night club for sex isn't he on Hacking The City · · Score: 3
    Why would a rick geek want to own a nightclub?
    To drink late with friends? (nope).
    To make more money? (hes got tons already)
    . To get chicks into bed after years without? (more than likely)

    . And yes i'd probably do the same, if single and very rich.