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  1. Maybe not as pretty, but does the same thing... on Mopping Up Mozilla Memory Leaks · · Score: 5, Informative

    CCMalloc also detects memory leaks and shows you where they took place. Even uses the GPL! It might not be as easy to use (you link your program to it during compile instead of running the it on a completed binary), and doesnt have a web interface, but its functional, and has been out for years.

    I bet someone could write a ld_preload kind of thing that calls ccmalloc, and you could run it on the completed binary as well, so you could run 'ccmalloc ./a.out' just like the 'gsinject -d ./a.out' of this product.

    Here is ccmalloc's page.
    http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/biere/proje cts/ccm alloc/

  2. Re:Duct tape and bailing wire on The Widening Tech-Savvy Gap · · Score: 1

    Hehe you forgot JB Weld.

  3. Don't just consider yourself on PDAs as a College Notebook? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In one of my CS courses, there is this one guy in the back that has a PDA with keyboard attachment, and he types in all of his notes into it.

    However, it is *extremely* annoying to the rest of us! The keyboard makes that click-click-clack-clack sound, which wouldn't be annoying except for the fact that its in the middle of class.

    Imagine if the whole class did that? It'd be as noisy as a touch typing course.

  4. WebCT on Technologies Available For Use In Distance Learning? · · Score: 2

    Here at Marietta College we use WebCT for our "course management system." It doesn't do the live video, but it does do online lessons, chats, quizzes, and grades. If you need to, you can replace their apache with your own custom compile so you can add php, ssl, or what not. Perhaps live video support can be added this way? However, a simple link on the course page to a realvideo server might be simpler.

    It can run on Linux, and people connect to it with a normal web browser.

    The downside is that it is commercial, but usually the institution wants something commercial anyway. Check it out at http://www.webct.com.

  5. Can't do it on Tuning Linux System Parameters w/o Kernel Recompiles? · · Score: 1

    The kernel doesn't mount the filesystem until its almost done booting, so it can't read a config file until its too late. As previously suggested, lilo mapping a config file into the boot record would be possible, but then you have to worry about limitation of the PC architecture when it comes to the size of the boot record. This prompts for the use of dynamic changes, such as the facilities provided by /proc.

  6. New Name, New Patent on Rambus going after AMD & Transmeta · · Score: 1

    With the patent office, it seems that any new name for the same stuff can get a new patent...

  7. Where are my flying cars? on Personal Helicopter · · Score: 5

    Its the year 2000! I was promised flying cars! Where are my flying cars!

  8. Alex Krycek on Who Will Mulder's Replacement Be? · · Score: 1

    Remember the last time they replaced Mulder? Albeit it was as an FBI position rather than the actor's place on the show, Alex Krycek quickly became engaged in the conspiracy and has also become one of my favorite characters in the X files. I think that if the final season, or maybe even a spin off, would focus on Krycek and some of his activities. Don't tell me you've watched an episode where that canadian chick goes and gets Krycek out of a Thai jail or whatever, you haven't wondered how he got there. Just a story like that could fill out a mini series.

  9. Compiling the Source on Download The Human Genome · · Score: 1

    So when will gcc be able to compile the source into a working AI? I suppose that such an AI would have terrible social skills as it wouldn't have been brought up in a normal environment.

  10. Re:Tandy CoCo3 on Easter Eggs in Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes...the coco3...my first computer... You held down ALT-CTRL-RESET to see the development pictures. If memory serves, the development team is a company called "Microwares"... Also note that the Basic ROM was made by a very young Microsoft. Before they ported monopoly to computers....