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  1. Re:yep, and board audio sucks too on Integrated 3D Graphics Motherboard Round-Up · · Score: 1

    nForce chipset features a 5.1 sound chip, and it is better than most cards sold separately (including SB Live series) in terms of CPU usage...

  2. Re:Debian on Red Hat 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It does (with a GPL license, though):

    http://emule-project.net

  3. Re:Debian on Red Hat 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    eDonkey (and probably other networks) checks every chunk you download using md4 hashes. So it is guaranteed to have the exact same file as you searched for (if you get the hash for the whole file from a trusted source, of course).

  4. Re:Swinth on Amiga/C64 Retro Radio Station · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Retro Music ... Ogged! on Amiga/C64 Retro Radio Station · · Score: 1

    Actually Gianna Sisters (by Rainbow Arts) was published for C64 *after* Mario Bros (by Nintendo), and it can't be a prototype as it was from a different company (and for a different hardware).

    As a side note, Nintendo quickly sued Rainbow Arts for imitating their concept, and Gianna Sisters boxes were taken off the shelves. Thus it is hard to find an original copy, and most of us who has played Gianna Sisters has played a pirated version. It is strange that a game that never sold more than a few hundred copies became that popular.

  6. Re:128kbps 44KHz stereo on Amiga/C64 Retro Radio Station · · Score: 1

    But IIRC SID had a sampling rate of only 4 kHz, am I wrong? Why should we go more than that?

  7. Re:I actually scored the 64kbps sample above.. on Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test · · Score: 1

    He says "with a higher sampling rate" so he can't intend that it's ripped from a CD.

  8. Re:Windows.Forms on C# for Java Developers · · Score: 1

    Nope. In fact, currently the Eclipse IDE does not supply any visual tool to generate code for SWT. You have to write the code yourself.

  9. Re:Windows.Forms on C# for Java Developers · · Score: 1

    IBM's SWT is the same thing (native back end/Java interface) for Java, and open source. A complete IDE (Eclipse) is written using SWT.

  10. Re:What are you talking about? on C# for Java Developers · · Score: 1

    I think the example is about operator overloading (ie. overloading ++ operator and making the relevant checks about the validity of the new size property). If you declare a field public in Java, you cannot validate it.

    But again, the context might be different, and you might be correct.

  11. Re:Possible Reasons on Why are Businesses Willing to Spend More for Software? · · Score: 1

    These are all common sense, but sometimes there may be more reasons than these. We recently won a project because we are only two people and have no costs as we don't run a company. Later, on a second related project, the customer did not even ask us for a bid (no, they are satisfied with us for the first project) just because the competitor employs the girlfriend of the decision maker guy at our customer company.

  12. Re:I wish I had Exchange on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 1

    Notes unfortunately doesn't have a Linux version. Domino does. Notes is the client, Domino is the server.

  13. Re:RFC 2447 on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 1

    Exchange 2000 web mail works smoothly with Mozilla as well.

  14. Re:It's the administration costs on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 1

    Actually they have ported the code to Linux, just don't publish it. As far as I know, during setup on Linux a minimal client required to setup the server runs.

  15. Re:Certifications are only good for sysadmins on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    There actually are different kinds of certifications than the Microsoft ones. Lotus, for example, certifies system admins and programmers differently, and you get either a CLP (Certified Lotus Professional) Developer, or a CLP Administrator certificate (or both). The exams to pass are completely different for each certification.

  16. Re:That's ok... on Palm Ships With 12-bit Screen, Says 16-Bit On Box · · Score: 1

    You didn't get it. The cool thing is that these Palms can display exactly as many colors as an Amiga does (in HAM mode, IIRC)... With UAE running on a PC you only see a subset of the maximum number of colors for the sake of emulation.

  17. Re:YEa, right. WAS Re:MS Wins on Palm Ships With 12-bit Screen, Says 16-Bit On Box · · Score: 1

    Microsoft taking over does *not* mean *you* buying a palm based on MS software. It occurs when the majority switches to it. And unfortunately, with Palm adding almost nothing new to its OS, it is the way to go.

  18. Re:Hmmm, interesting. on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 1

    ...and that's why in Europe they generally publish the DIN measurements; which is the power at the wheel, instead of the engine power.

  19. Re:Technically... on Is Linux or Windows Easier To Install? · · Score: 1

    This sounds interesting. How did you remove the license keys? When you setup a system using that image, how do you restore the keys with the legitimate serials of the customer?

  20. Re:Isn't it time web development moved on? on Web Development with Apache and Perl · · Score: 1

    The only negative point of J2EE is that its MADE for large projects. If you have a small e-commerce website, J2EE is overkill, and will take too much time to write. Perl/CGI is great for this type of site. But that is where I draw the line.

    J2EE does not necessarily mean using EJBs, which is overkill for small sites. You can still construct a solid small e-commerce site using Servlets/JSPs/classes, which shouldn't be slower than Perl/CGI.

  21. Re: Isn't it time web development moved on? on Web Development with Apache and Perl · · Score: 1

    Sorry but performers of this benchmark can't be that ignorant of the performance issues of the Sun's JVM on Linux. Check out this (somewhat outdated) report to find out that other JVM's (including IBM's JVM which is free as in beer) are much faster than Sun in performing most tasks.

  22. Re:3.5" Floppy on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    What if they are not small enough to fit on one floppy disk, but several ones?

  23. Re:Um, stuff that matters? on Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are somehow related to Id software, yes you can:

    Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay

  24. Re:Don't scream on .NET for Apache · · Score: 1

    Actually it is not that important to have an open source Java implementation these days; since we have decent JVMs for free (from Sun and IBM for example). What is important is to have a J2EE compliant application server, and we have a production quality solution consisting of JBoss and Tomcat, which are open source.

  25. Re:Is Jeeves Gay? on Easter Eggs in Web Sites? · · Score: 1

    8 is the device number for disk drive, and the second argument 1 means the program should be loaded into the memory location it is intended to (not to the starting address of BASIC which is 0x0800 [or $800 in normal C64 terminology]).

    As a side note, since 8 is the disk drive, PRESS PLAY ON TAPE message is not possible...