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  1. hmm...not just linux on Using Linux To Get Your Dreamcast Online · · Score: 2

    Doesn't sound like you need just Linux. Sounds like any OS that can be a PPP server (which is probably most of them) can do it.

  2. Re:Route aggreggation on Trouble Ahead for Internet Routing Tables? · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting other things, aside from TCP and router overhead, but memory access as well.

  3. Re:Route aggreggation on Trouble Ahead for Internet Routing Tables? · · Score: 1

    Increase the amount of routing entries by...a lot.

    Now have 45Mbps worth of traffic going.

    1000 sessions per second means 1800-3600 compares per second.

  4. Re:Route aggreggation on Trouble Ahead for Internet Routing Tables? · · Score: 1

    The problem won't be just ram, but the amount of time a lookup takes.

    Sure, you can put a gig of RAM in the router, but you then have a gig of data to do a find upon. That's what will really hurt it. Memory isn't a problem, it's speed.

  5. Re:Pretty pointless on IBM Cancels Crusoe Laptop · · Score: 1

    You're believing a vendor's claim on battery life?

  6. Re:Makes sense. on Crusoe and Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Then maybe Transmeta should of written their own, open source of course to detect cheating :-), benchmark programs if their architecture is too "non-traditional" for standard ones.

  7. Multiple Run on Crusoe and Benchmarks · · Score: 3

    Okay fine, let's run the benchmark program 3 times in a row. Are we getting similar results?

    Besides, benchmarks should be run at least 3 times and the result should be the average of the runs, assuming there's no large discrepancy.

  8. Re:It's really all pointless on Messages From Democracy's Ghosts · · Score: 1

    That's better than rule by committee. Most committees can't even write a sentence in less than 3 months (think about creating a corporate vision statement).

    This is why we have the House of Representatives. A large group of congressmen with differening viewpoints. We can't go about trying to create laws by taking a vote from every citizen, for every law. That would never work.

  9. None of the above on Messages From Democracy's Ghosts · · Score: 1

    "Not voting can be as distinctly a political statement as voting."

    No, what you want is a "None of the above" vote. I hear Russia has this.

  10. Re:SMB SuperShow on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I thought Super Mario Bros wasn't too bad. :)

    Wish I could write the script for it, make it not completely based on any particular game. Maybe if they use the basic idea (characters, triforce, good vs. evil), and make a movie that could be a normal fantasy style movie, just with some Zelda stuff in it.

    Plus, I'd love to hear the Zelda theme in surround sound.

  11. SMB SuperShow on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    They make mention of the Super Mario Bros SuperShow with Captain Lou. Back in the days when video games were so "great" they made movies, cartoons, and television series over them.

    The Legend of Zelda cartoon (shown every Friday) was wonderfully great. Link was the perfect character in that, an arrogant sarcastic jerk and hero at the same time. That's exactly what Link should be.

    Anyone know of a location/hyperlink to buy or download those episodes?

    Think Hollywood could pull off a good movie based on Zelda (if they don't pull the same mistakes that they always do with video game movies)? I've been waiting for that for years.

  12. Re:Copy protection on The Software Police vs. The CD Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Why bother at that point? Might as well just play it off the CD at higher quality and lower CPU overhead.

  13. And after the rat exploded... on Freeze Recovery Drug - Step Toward Suspended Animation? · · Score: 1

    "Of course, you can't be frozen below 0 C using this techique, because all your cells explode when the water freezes."

    And after the first lab rat exploded in a frozen mass of blood and guts (like when taking the entire blast of a double barrel at point blank in Quake 1), the scientists said:

    "Huh huh. That was cool. Do it again. Make him explode. Now, use FIRE FIRE".

    Save the lab rat campaign anyone?

  14. Re:Whatever... on Cybercrime Treaty Fight Begins · · Score: 1

    We already have one. MSCE.

    Anyone who isn't, is skilled. :-)

  15. Re:Whatever... on Cybercrime Treaty Fight Begins · · Score: 1

    "Until the mainstream stops associating hacking/cracking with criminal behavior"

    Won't happen. Hell, I think even the mainstream hacker community by now probably associates hacking with criminal behavior at this point. Too much illegal hacking and bragging, not enough white hat activities being noticed. Probably because white hats don't do any actual damage.

    Let's face it, the old style good person hacker of honor died in the 80s.

  16. Death on Computer Will Take On Formula 1 Champion · · Score: 2

    Computer cars don't fear making a miscalculation that will kill them. If the human driver had no way of dying, then it'd be a bit more of a fair fight.

  17. iResistor on Electronics As Plastics · · Score: 2

    Plastic eh.....

    I wonder how long before Apple comes out with the iResistor and the iC Circuit, the chips you can see through.

  18. Re:Disappointed on BattleBots Going Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Hey, robots can have steroids too. Hmm. How...ah ha! Antiaerobic Duracell steroids. Supplies an extra 9v of energy each day you use them.

  19. Re:Disappointed on BattleBots Going Mainstream · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with a geek sport?

    Sports requires:
    engineering to make better equipment to make your team better (like walkie talkies in football)
    strategy to defeat the opponet
    strategy requires intelligence
    physical ability

    That last one is the tricky one, after all pool and shufflepuck aren't too physical. But, when you have to lift a 300lb robot, that requires some strength.

  20. Re:wrong answer? on Answers from Carnivore Reviewer Henry H. Perrit, Jr. · · Score: 1

    He's not exactly wrong on that one, if you invision every port on the switch as a seperate network segment.

    But that doesn't change that the NIC on the computer itself sees all the traffic on the line that it is connected to, whether traffic is intended for it or not.

  21. patent: Bit shift mult/div by 2. on Enter The 'Stupid Patent Tricks' Contest · · Score: 1

    By the use of a CPU, high, and low level programming languages, I am patenting the use of a bit shift for multiplication or division by 2, in a binary digit system.

    Currently the accepted form of multiplication and division by 2 is to do a multiply or division. This is known to take exceedingly long periods of time to compute. I am patenting the ability to shift the binary representation of a number left or right. This accomplishes the same functionality, but at less cost of speed and memory.

  22. Re:I saw this before on 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    I think I remember seeing that too a long time ago. I think they wanted to make a fax machine from this, so you could 'fax' your newest mouse prototype from your test lab to QA, instantly.

  23. Re:I don't use AIM or ICQ on AOL Trying To Unify AIM And ICQ Services · · Score: 1

    Oh AIM is great for interruption avoiding! The place I work at is now using AIM for communications.

    So instead of ignoring a phone call, I can now ignore AIM, but see that someone wants to talk to me. Better than those 90 second voicemails, and no annoying rings. (turn off the AIM sounds)

  24. Re:Why is this on Slashdot's front page? on Linux 2.2.17 Released · · Score: 2

    Should slashdot also announce microsoft service packs as well?

  25. Re:A tad off TOpic on HP Plans The Uber-Calculator · · Score: 1

    Be careful with the TI-92. It can do symbolic algebra, and has a full QWERTY keyboard.

    Some places and school will disallow a calculator that has either of the two above traits. You may not be able to use a TI-92 in a calc class, nor can you use it on the SATs. Ask your math department about approved calculators.

    These calculators are expensive, so plan ahead. I bought my TI-82 in 1996 during high school and was able to use it all the way through college math.