User: nvainio

Re:Climate change?

On: Distributed Computing and Climate Change

Why would I want to donate may expensive cpu-cycles to this?

To help find the most accurate climate model. With that model, the argument about whether the climate change is happening or not, can be solved.

And what about the environmental impact of running tens of thousands of computers for this prohect? Did they think about that?

Yes they did.

Re:Debian

On: Getting Software Added to Unix Distributions?

That won't get it included in Debian. Only Debian developers can add packages to the distribution.

True. I should have said that he could become a package maintainer and get a developer upload it for him. But that would require installing Debian, following mailing lists and so on, so perhaps it's too much just get a program included.

RFP of course isn't for software developers to get their stuff in the distribution, but this way a developer could notice the program and get interested in it.

Debian

On: Getting Software Added to Unix Distributions?

If you want your program to be included in Debian, you may package it yourself. Debian New Maintainer's Guide is a good place to start at.

Or, you could file an RFP (Request For Package). See instructions.

A lot of ethernet cards

On: Ask Donald Becker

You must own awful lot of ethernet cards. How many?

Re:Monopoly Bill Gates is Hitler

On: Dell No Longer Selling Systems w/o Microsoft OS

Nazi is short for "national socialist" (Nazional-socialistische in German) but it really meant something else:

In April, 1920, Hitler advocated that the party should change its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Hitler had always been hostile to socialist ideas, especially those that involved racial or sexual equality. However, socialism was a popular political philosophy in Germany after the First World War. This was reflected in the growth in the German Social Democrat Party (SDP), the largest political party in Germany.

Hitler, therefore redefined socialism by placing the word 'National' before it. He claimed he was only in favour of equality for those who had "German blood". Jews and other "aliens" would lose their rights of citizenship, and immigration of non-Germans should be brought to an end. (link)

Re:Linus is still obscurity

On: USA Today says "Linux waddles from obscurity"

One missing 's' is nothing but what is "University of Finland"? There's 10 to 20 universities in Finland (depending on how you count). Linus studied in Univ. of Helsinki.

Re:It's called freshmeat and google.

On: Automatic Functional Testing for Mac and Linux?

Sure, Google gives you software but Slashdot could give also opinions, experiences and ideas. (Sometimes it actually does.)

Re:Additional Security

On: Additional Security in the Linux Kernel?

It's not a distribution. Just kernel plus some utilities.

Re:Big boost for space tech if it is on course...

On: A Rock Moves In Space

This must be a terrorist plot of some kind.

Real hacker spirit

On: Panicking In Morse Code

This is a great example of real hacker spirit: do it because its fun, useful or not. I just wish Linus accepts this patch. ;-)

Finally a reason to learn morse code.

Re:I would rather have a POST code type system

On: Panicking In Morse Code

But the real bloat comes in coding all of the potential panics anywhere they might occur.

That has been done already, long time ago.

nikke@hattivatti:/usr/src/linux/kernel$ grep -i "panic(" *.c
exit.c: panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!");
exit.c: panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!");
exit.c: panic("Attempted to kill init!");
fork.c: panic("Cannot create signal action SLAB cache");
fork.c: panic("Cannot create files SLAB cache");
fork.c: panic("Cannot create fs_struct SLAB cache");
fork.c: panic("vma_init: Cannot alloc vm_area_struct SLAB cache");
fork.c: panic("vma_init: Cannot alloc mm_struct SLAB cache");

As to the question of flashing the LED because Morse on the speaker might be too annoying, I say go for the speaker.

It can be configured to beep instead of flashing the lights.

Re:Hint: CONTROL (was Re:Interesting but..)

On: China to Develop Windows Clone

You mean Effing perspective?

Re:Linus got stock from Redhat

On: Transmeta Lays off 40% of its Workers

Then he bought a house and was poor again. (Reference: Just for Fun)

Re:norway?

On: Norwegian Government Expires Microsoft Contract

Well, something similar is happening in Finland too.

Re:The only game that has lasted the ages

On: Seventeen Years of Tetris

Anything programmable by hackers (relatively) easily, and there's Tetris.

Yes, and you can do it even with christmas lights.

Re:Thank you, Alexey, for Tetris...

On: Seventeen Years of Tetris

This page says that Solitaire was included already in Windows 3.0 which was released in May 1990.

Re:25 Hours?

On: Isn't it Time for Metric Time?

up to date english grammer rules

I think you mean "up to date English grammar rules".

Recorded BSOD

On: Microsoft Freon

Freon will be capable of 'playing games but also offering television capabilities, such as pausing live TV and recording shows onto a computer hard drive.'

Does this mean that I will get three hours of recorded Blue screen of Death on my hard disk?

Lodju

On: To Digitize or Not Digitize the Family Photo Album?

Just to give one more alternative:

Lodju.

Re:What about Mozilla

On: Slashback: Gopherectomy, Portacinema, Disunity

Well, the document blames them all - IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Lynx. IE just being the worst.

Re:Yet another reason for..

On: Text-Mining Your E-mail

My mutt is 460 kb, my grep is 75 kb.

Re:Unix is soooo hard...

On: Unix Isn't Dead

There's one site but don't bother trying - it's down anyway.

Re:OT: Debian

On: Should Open Source Software Expire?

Debian package search will help you.

In my system (Debian testing) I have libncurses4, libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev. I'm not sure what really is needed.

Re:Rogue-like games

On: Nethack 3.4.0

Nobody has mentioned Adom! In Adom you can also wander above the ground, in cities and woods. (Oh well, it's closed source though free (beer).)

Really, I haven't played Nethack since I found Adom and Angband. Angband is themed much better than others and it's easier to get into a fantasy mood in Angband than in others. (Think of Nethack: dragons, tourists and Keystone cops in the same game? Come on.)

By the way, has anybody yet found a good sci-fi roguelike? I've seen some in development but none of them were playable yet.

Re:(+1, Offtopic)

On: Nethack 3.4.0

Yes, it may be offtopic, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't be able to see it!

People are able to see it even if it is at -1. Just change your settings.