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  1. Daggerfall on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 1

    The levels are autogenerated even when you leave the dungeon to go back to town in the middle of your quest. Although everybody looks the same, ever person you meet is different. Oh, and did I mention the built-in nudity?

  2. Re:T1's on Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? · · Score: 1

    I'm kinda late on the posts. I was wondering what kind of T-1 cards you were using with quagga/bgpd. TE120Ps?

  3. Why I don't use SELinux on SELinux by Example · · Score: 1
    I would love to use SELinux but end up doing a setenforce 0 and make it permissible because of these things:

    • Ubuntu does not support SELinux without going to the world repository and I can't get the system to boot with the default policies. This is well known and is current a work-in-progress and we all know the state of SELinux in Ubuntu. Ubuntu also has a lot of upgrade issues with deprecated libraries and versioning and I end up with a corrupt system.
    • Gentoo never installs properly; too many broken repositories and bad source compilations.
    • Slackware is what I have used for years and had a fine time running SELinux and adding new policies, but the lack of decent package management made the benefit of an easy to maintain SELinux not enough of an advantage to stick with the distro.
    • Fedora Core 5 & 6 have great package management and a great SELinux default and targeted policy, but they no longer offer the policy sources since 3 (maybe 4), the documentation hasn't really been updated since 3 (spent lots of time googling), and I don't want to have to reinvent all the domains, classes, and objects that are already defined in the current policies nor can I compile new policies because of no selinux-policy-targeted-sources RPM since 3.
  4. Increase bus speed on AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested · · Score: 1

    Is AMD hoping that they can just keep increasing the multiplier until people forget that all that does is increase frequency and cause more cache page misses? Do people not remember when the processor that was increased in frequency by .2 Ghz through multiplying the clock, that it actually performed worse than it's predecessor that performed at bus speed? If AMD does not increase the bus speed they are always going to be playing catch up to Intel.

  5. Re:Yay! on Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source · · Score: 1

    If you have a handy copy of VC6.0, there are 3 things you have to do to get this to compile. First, remove mfcpch.cpp from the project list under the ccutil folder. Second, remove getopt.cpp from the project list under the ccutil folder. Third, go to Project, Settings, C/C++ tab, the "Precompiled Headers" Category, and select Not using precompiled headers. Make sure you do the third step under Release and Debug individually if you want to build each type. Once you've done this you will have a working tesseract executable under Windows. Enjoy!

  6. Max specs required on Living In Oblivion · · Score: 1

    I have a Shuttle SN25P, PCI-X 7800OCT 256MB (7800 GT with a slightly higher clock speed and overclocking capability), 2 Gig of RAM (2-4-8), 2 78Gig 10k WD Raptors striped with 128k stripe size (defragged of course), with an Athlon 64 3200+ runing Windows XP x64 Edition. Oblivion detected on installation that I was capable of running at 1024x768 with HDR. Dungeons were normally fine, walking/running outside was fine, but any kind of battles even with rats were a major slowdown outside as well as some slow down in dungeons at times. I used Perfmon and monitored CPU, memory, and disk utilization and I found that my CPU was sustained at 70% though not necessarily peaking. I ended up dishing out the cash for an Athlon X2 4400+ (dual-core with 2x1MB cache) and everything is smooth as silk with a sustained utilization of about 50% per core. I find that a little bit interesting since according to this article about optimizing Oblivion the Oblivion core engine components are not multithreaded. There must be a lot of AI intensive things going on since I really don't see a lot of disk activity for texture retrieval.

  7. of course they're used for spying on Lenovo Under U.S. Probe for Spying · · Score: 1

    They must have pre-loaded them with Microsoft Windows.

  8. This once again proves my theory that on Ballmer Babies Banned From iPods and Google · · Score: 1

    Steve Balmer is a facist pig (sorry David Hasselhoff I'll get you next post).

  9. Where do we get off ... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    making a robot to kill human beings when we can't even make a decent voting machine? I guess that bringing to force something that will probably trigger another Geneva convention trumps implementing free and fair democratic elections.

  10. What about the sun burning out? on Stewart Brand on 'Environmental Heresies' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Frankly, unless it decides to undergo a massive collective personality change of not being consumption-focused, I don't see much other way around this particular issue.

  11. susceptible to spam rings on China and its Relation With Spam · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one of my clients got their Exchange server hit pretty hard by a spam ring; we ended up getting blacklisted by Spamcop of course. After trying to track down the messages between the message tracking tool and W3C logs, I started denying full IP blocks in the firewall. This spammer had zombies in San Juan, Taiwan, Buenos Aires, Chile, Puerto Rico, Isreal, Iran, Taiwan, China, and Japan. By the time I had all the locations blocked I found the beauty of NCSA logging on the SMTP service and was able to track the spamming to a single compromised account that had a very common logon of 'info' which just so happened to match the password. Suffice to say increasing password complexity was the next step. I think we cut down our outgoing e-mail queues by over 40,000 message a day.

  12. Yes my fellow Americans on Disney Goes Boom! · · Score: 1

    It has been confirmed that the evil terrorist state known as Disneyland does have the means to produce weapons of mass combustion.

  13. forget open source on Microsoft Expands Access to Windows Source Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how about Microsoft try open standards first.

  14. Wouldn't it be more appropriate on Pick Up A Piece of Enron · · Score: 1

    if they donated that equipment to underprivileged schools in the California area or set up a program to assist in identifying needs for computer equipment in honorable community programs? Sounds like a company who has taken so much from the community should give something back rather than liquify assets in to other potentially corrupt businesses.

  15. Re:That's nothing... on Hack Your Ride · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't have a Cadillac...

  16. That's nothing... on Hack Your Ride · · Score: 5, Funny

    My mechanic hacked my car so the left blinker blinks faster than the right. He also put in that hanging wire below the dashboard hack.

  17. This post was wasted on dead ears on Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm placing my bets on this guy doing it first or some other amateur tinkerer. I hate to mention the billions of dollars wasted on tokamak "make it bigger and it will work" technology that completely does a reverse 180 from Farnsworth's discovery of potential wells where smaller is better (most people can't vacuum out the inert neutrons quick enough). I'd like to mention that nobody has yet met the fusor challenge, amateur or professional. Produce enough excess energy to light a 60watt lightbulb. I believe there's a million or two dollars out there as a reward if I'm not mistaken.

  18. If you're really that worried... on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    we should start getting to work on that tower to heaven.

  19. Any chances on getting on Compiere on Postgres/MySQL · · Score: 1

    LDAP support for importing customer information?

  20. Office replacement on Microsoft Prepares Office Lock-in · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of Software602?

  21. Trick to getting updates on NTBUGTRAQ Bashes Windows Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    The trick is to download service pack 1 and install it. After you do this, windowsupdate will start giving you updates to install.

  22. If you decide to get one or more T1s... on Last-Mile Solution For A Rural Land Co-op? · · Score: 1

    make sure you look in to the Universal Service Fund to reduce line costs.

  23. Microsoft fixed the problem before it happened on Microsoft Sued for Defective Software · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let it be noted that Microsoft already had SQL SP3 out which fixed the problem before it ever occurred. PSPD should try using a vulnerability that could actually hold water in court like Code Red or it's dirivative, or any other Word ActiveX open-execution macro vulernability.

  24. Re:SMB not a Microsoft invention on Investigating the RIAA's Billion-Dollar Claims · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd just like to point out a misnomer in the previous replied to article that "SMB was originally invented by Digital Equipment Corporation". Looks like SMB can trace it's roots to IBM in 1985. I believe the story goes that Andrew Tridgell wrote Samba to communicate with DEC's Digital Pathworks and quite by accident discovered that it also successfully communicated with Windows Netbios. Microsoft must have "invented" SMB right around the same time they "invented" Windows.

  25. SMB not a Microsoft invention on Investigating the RIAA's Billion-Dollar Claims · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd just like to point out a misnomer in the linked article that "SMB is a file sharing protocol developed originaly by Microsoft". As alluded to in Samba's History, SMB was originally invented by Digital Equipment Corporation.