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  1. '2' - wrong, its 42 on Major Advance Towards a Proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    everyone knows the answer is 42

  2. Apple v. Samsung on Ask Slashdot: Is the Rise of Skeuomorphic User Interfaces a Problem? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't Samsung just do that to Apple ? Made it look familiar, like an iPhone, but underneath its a sh1t load better :-)

  3. if i don't click, don't I save the site bandwidth on Ask Slashdot: To AdBlock Or Not To AdBlock? · · Score: 1

    I never click on adds, so can I disable them ? I know that sites get dollars from clicks but what if I never click an add ?
    Sure I may click on a comment link if I'm reading a story but I'd probably never click on a /. add.
    Given I'd never click, am I not saving /. bandwidth costs ?
    Ok, not me, but as a collective. all of us that don't click, and on all other sites, must as a collective to that site. add up to some bandwidth savings.
    Anyone that responds with a 'unconscious telepathic imprint' of me seeing response the add can go away.
    I already know that stuff is cheaper to buy over seas, and yes i may or may not do that already.
    Point is, I know what I need, and I'll google for anything else. Adds don't prompt me, and if they did (which they don't cause of adblock) I'll Google it for an honest opinion.

  4. Re:Boo hoo! on Swiss Bank Threatens to Sue NASDAQ Over Facebook IPO · · Score: 5, Informative

    "If NASDAQ acknowledged receiving the order but didn't confirm that the order was placed, it's entirely possible that the right thing to do was send the order again under the assumption that it didn't get filled."

    Exactly, you resend with a poss resend flag on the fix message

    http://fixprotocol.org/FIXimate3.0/en/FIX.4.2/tag97.html

    my guess is an algo went out of control at the swiss bank.

    (disclaimer, I work with FIX messaging as a day job and I used to worked for a company that is now part of OMX-NASDAQ)

  5. first we heard of it on Decision Time For SKA Telescope Bids · · Score: 2

    read this a few mins before reading /.

    http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australia-in-battle-to-host-25b-telescope-20120216-1takw.html

    this should be high priority.

    we are bickering about a useless crap, but seriously, this one thin would be cool to have,

    off topic, but love this movie , The Dish, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/ , especially the US anthem scene, sorry guys if you haven't seen it, no offence meant, just funny for us backward Australian citizens

  6. Re:Thanks on Eee Is 1st Windows Laptop To Support Multi-Touch · · Score: 1

    yeah I got two above the touchpad and two below. press the both at the same time for middle button.
    What I was asking is how does a trackpoint (nipple) scroll. It can't, you have to press a button and hold it and move the trackpoint.
    your comment implied scrolling with a trackpoint, unless I read it wrong. Other than that everything is perfect for touchpad, trackpad and usb mouse.

    btw, this is a really cool for accessing the touchpad controls.

    # apt-cache search synaptics
    qsynaptics - A QT application to configure Synaptic TouchPad
    ksynaptics - A KDE application to configure Synaptics TouchPad

    Also a command line client synclient is good.

    $ synclient -l
    Parameter settings:
            LeftEdge = 120
            RightEdge = 830
            TopEdge = 120
            BottomEdge = 630
            FingerLow = 14
            FingerHigh = 15
            MaxTapTime = 180
            MaxTapMove = 110
            MaxDoubleTapTime = 180
            ClickTime = 100
            FastTaps = 0
            EmulateMidButtonTime = 75
            VertScrollDelta = 100
            HorizScrollDelta = 0
            MinSpeed = 0.7
            MaxSpeed = 3
            AccelFactor = 0.025
            EdgeMotionMinZ = 30
            EdgeMotionMaxZ = 160
            EdgeMotionMinSpeed = 200
            EdgeMotionMaxSpeed = 200
            EdgeMotionUseAlways = 0
            UpDownScrolling = 1
            LeftRightScrolling = 1
            UpDownRepeat = 1
            LeftRightRepeat = 1
            ScrollButtonRepeat = 100
            TouchpadOff = 0
            GuestMouseOff = 0
            LockedDrags = 0
            RTCornerButton = 2
            RBCornerButton = 3
            LTCornerButton = 0
            LBCornerButton = 0
            TapButton1 = 1
            TapButton2 = 2
            TapButton3 = 3
            CircularScrolling = 0
            CircScrollDelta = 0.1
            CircScrollTrigger = 0
            CircularPad = 0
            PalmDetect = 1
            PalmMinWidth = 10
            PalmMinZ = 200
            CoastingSpeed = 0

  7. Re:Thanks on Eee Is 1st Windows Laptop To Support Multi-Touch · · Score: 1

    how does a nipple scroll ?
    I have a Dell 810, so got a trackpad and a nipple
    on the rhs of the track pad I can move top to bottom and have the page scroll
    can't do that with the nipple as far as I can tell. please enlighten me...

    fyi, xorg.conf is

    Section "ServerLayout"
                    Identifier "Default Layout"
                    Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
                    InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
                    InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
                    InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
    EndSection ......

    Section "InputDevice"
                    Identifier "Configured Mouse"
                    Driver "mouse"
                    Option "CorePointer"
                    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
                    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
                    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
                    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
                    Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
                    Driver "synaptics"
                    Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
                    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
                    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
                    Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
                    Option "MinSpeed" "0.7"
                    Option "MaxSpeed" "3"
                    Option "AccelFactor" "0.025"
                    Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
                    Option "SHMConfig" "on"
    EndSection

    thanks in advance for your response :-)

  8. Re:In other news... on ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music · · Score: 1

    maybe he meant long bay (which is close to botany bay)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Bay_Correctional_Centre

  9. Re:Well SP1 saved me some crucial time this mornin on Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places · · Score: 1

    Try working in Sydney. I moved to Melbourne 2 yrs ago, no traffic at all. Good roads, good trains. Melbourne is unreal for traffic. Never had to travel below 50km/h on a freeway, and man, the freeways, they are sometimes 4 lanes each way.

    Don't know why Melbourne people complain about traffic. there is none.

    btw, eastern freeway for me from Donvale to chandler highway.

  10. openoffice or microsoft office on Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat · · Score: 1

    the picture link seems to indicate ms office.
    http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/ entertainment/screens.jsp
    so which is it ?

  11. Re:I get what he wants. on The Elusive Command Alias Function? · · Score: 1

    "CS students were considered clever enough to learn Unix, whereas the Engineering students..."

    ROTFLMAO. Since when has a comp sci degree required a higher gpa then an electrical engineering degree.

  12. Re:no word in the article on First Quantum Byte Created · · Score: 1

    8 qubits ?
    Is that all.
    My AMD has 64bits :-)

  13. Re:Let me guess: on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1

    your from New Zealand aren't you.

  14. Re:OSS? Linux? WHY? on Trying to Help a Troubled Network with Linux? · · Score: 1

    " when everything suddenly had "e" in front of it. Dude, get Ethereal,"

    you mean eThereal don't you :-)

  15. Re:dma with sata on 2.6.13 Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    dell lappy dvd's use an ide interface which is controlled via the SATA controller.
    You can't easily set dms. even though the live CD does.

    lspci shows...
    0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)

    sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd
    Password: /dev/dvd:
      setting using_dma to 1 (on)
      HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
      using_dma = 0 (off)

  16. dma with sata on 2.6.13 Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    still wont allow dma to be set when your laptop uses sata

    even compiling the ide parts as modules and loading them later doesn't help. applying the patch

    http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jul/02 73.html
    doen't help.

    even defining these /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.x-blah/include/linux/li bata.h:

    #define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI
    #define ATA_ENABLE_PATA

    doesn't help.

    hmm, bloodly Dell810's. It took me a week to get wpa wireless working on this thing. Lucky its a quite spell at work..

    (ps, i went with ubuntu instead of debian testing, bummer eh, probably all my own fault)

  17. Re:Sweeeeeeet.... on New 1 Kilowatt PSU - Too Much Power? · · Score: 1

    yeah, i use a cpu power supply for stuff other than computers. I got an old 300W ps driving a car stereo amplifier. i have the PS and amp stuffed inside one of those dual 12" speaker boxes that you can buy from a car radio shop. I added some tweeters to the box as well, and I run a long cable from the desktop pc. I move the speaker rig outside next to the BBQ, and crank up the Pink Floyd when cooking the steaks. I also have one of those usb remote contoll thinigs, so I dangle that out the window next to the compuer and i can adjust volume, skip songs, etc from outside.

  18. notecase is nice on Note-taking Software for Unix? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://notecase.sourceforge.net/ is really nice.
    especially the tree view on the left.
    Also if you dual boot, then you can use the same dat file.

  19. small shell scrip on Reminders (Pop-up & E-mail) with Unix? · · Score: 2, Informative

    [10:19] [nri@sammy:nri] $ cat bin/xat
    DATE=$1
    shift
    echo "echo xmsg.sh $@ | at $DATE"
    echo xmsg.sh $@ | at $DATE

    and

    [10:19] [nri@sammy:nri] $ cat bin/xmsg.sh
    DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/gmessage -wrap -center -font "12" $@

    then usage is

    xat 10:21am today "Hello world"

  20. Re:unfolding muliple windows on Fold 'n' Drop Window Interaction · · Score: 1

    forgot to add - x window focus options !!!
    raise on focus ??
    windows is really shit- ain't it

  21. unfolding muliple windows on Fold 'n' Drop Window Interaction · · Score: 1

    watched the video.
    in the unfolding multiple windows, how do you see the title bar ?
    where are u droping it ?
    I agree with an earlier poster. ctrl-c/ctrl-x ctrl-p is easier.

    Also, didn't read the article, (never do) but how do up paste instead of copy ? need to move your left hand off your dick and press a keboard key ? that defeats the whole purpose doesn't it ? You can ctrl-c/ctrl-x, ctrl-vwith one hand and continue stroking your dick with the other hand.

    (is stroking ctrl-sssssss)

  22. Re:Don't confuse the market segments. on Asa Dotzler on Why Linux Isn't Ready for the Desktop · · Score: 1

    use for me. I have several terminal windows open aon one screen where I'm editing source code and compiline. Its nice to be able to shade different windows with the wheel. Then when I want to run the app i switch to another screen byt scrolling on the desktop.
    on yet anpther screen i have terminals for isql etc for the database.
    on another screen I have rdesktop to the pc next to me.

    also, on my notey I have those 4 screens accessible using 4 hotkeys as well.

    I guess usefullness depends on what you use your computer for.

    This will probably get shot down and I'll lose some karma for this, but my definition of a power user is somebody that writes programs / compiles programs. Not an end user playing games with their computer. Unless you are writing OpenGL programs, then playing with graphics card drivers doesn't make you a power user.

  23. Re:Don't confuse the market segments. on Asa Dotzler on Why Linux Isn't Ready for the Desktop · · Score: 1

    so we do agree (other than step 2). I use standard drivers, but then again I using a ibm laptop and don't play games.

  24. Re:Don't confuse the market segments. on Asa Dotzler on Why Linux Isn't Ready for the Desktop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "moderate customization requires intimate knowledge of the command line and Linux's quirks"

    And exactly how do you customise WindowsXP ? Change the colors maybe ?

    I use debian (+ enlightenment) cause I can use the mouse wheel to shade windows when focused on the title bar and switch desktops when scrolled on the desktop. How the f*ck can you do that with windows ?

    Can't be done. Sure you can change windows.ini / shell=exporer to something else (you used to be able to once upon a time), but as a general rule of thumb, Linux is more configurable, while windows is not.

  25. Re:Sounds more like a DoS to me on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    try
    apt-get install macchanger
    or
    http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger

    It'll allow you to change your mac adress