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  1. Re:This should come as no surprise on Who Has Faster Pipes? Linux, Win2000, WinXP Compared · · Score: 1

    That are *also* incredibly poor performers.
    My former employer had a load blanacer written using such berkley things and it was a horrible performer. Apache with mod_throttle would have been better...

  2. Re:No on GeForce3 Titanium Reviews · · Score: 1

    >>In general the difference between hi-color
    >>(16 bit) and tru color(24 bit). Is not >>discernible
    >Thats not really true, you can tell the >difference. The main noticeable difference is
    >"colour banding",
    Well that's why I said generally, this form of graphic isn't *all* that common ;-)
    As in; photographs of things other than skies
    (specifically sunrise/sunset) and palette images
    will akmost certainly look fine in 16-bit.

    How odd, I distinctly remember having read that
    they specifically took advantage of the eyes poor perception of blues and low intensity colors to rearrange the color distribution. Yet I cannot find any mention of this now... :-/

    Lots of white?! Everything should be running -rv

  3. Re:cards outpace the crt again on GeForce3 Titanium Reviews · · Score: 3, Informative

    False!

    60Hz is the lower threshold of the eye. The optimal minimum rate for a monitor is 72 Hz.

    As for colors, it's pretty easy to distinguish over 4096, if they're lined up in progression. But saying red foo is different from red bar when they are against blues quux and baz is not so easy.
    In general the difference between hi-color (16 bit) and tru color(24 bit). Is not discernible.
    For a more in depth review of color discrimination
    check out the PNG specifications which were designed for optimal viewing and compression
    (as opposed to other formats which simply permute the colors ie same # of reds as blues and greens)

  4. Re:Apache::ASP on Switching Painlessly from IIS to Apache? · · Score: 1

    Chilsoft was accquired by Cobalt shortly before they were accquired by Sun. Cobalt felt it would
    be nice to make there linux box seem even more
    like a windoze box.

  5. Some not quite antiques on Old Games that are Still Alive and Kickin'? · · Score: 1

    Never had a problem running Jill of the Jungle or
    the Keen episodes. Granted they're not quite as old (*early* nineties). And those will give some
    really great gameplay. And of course Paganitzu.

  6. ASP on Switching Painlessly from IIS to Apache? · · Score: 1

    Well there is the PerlScript option
    (which would have been a more powerful thing to be writing ASP in on IIS anyways ;-) )

    Or there's non ASP, PHP

    But more to your interest might be the idea that was kick aound awhile ago on the mod_perl list
    (that some peple started implementing I belive) of a filter for Apache::ASP that would do a cached JIT VbScript->Perl translation.

  7. Continuity on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    It seemd to me to break the continutiy of the series:

    The theme song isn't an instrumental

    Who the hell is this species that we've never seen in the future, what do we exact some sort of xenocidal vengance upon them?

    Other than that, it was okay. I don;t think the premieres for any fo the series were really good. Give it some time to develop a stride.

  8. Re:Need more school income? This is a good idea. on British Colleges Selling Screen Saver Ad Space · · Score: 1

    Excellent! Of course, some schools e.g. MIT aren't even sane enough to be using DPMI...

  9. Re:Broadband? Ahhh, yeah. on A Stateless IP Phone In The Works From AT&T · · Score: 1

    Which is why you snag TightVNC or some other modified VNC with compression.

  10. Re:well .US is a mess, that's why the PD did it on No One Wants The Not-Coms · · Score: 1

    Here here! DNS should be modeled after LDAP

  11. Re:screw genetic engineering the brain- on Slashback: Errata, Futurity, Portality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I could donate some of my DNA to start.
    I only developed the two bottom wisdom tetth.

  12. US gov't sold on AOL Time Warner Netscape CNN... and AT&T? · · Score: 1

    Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

    Anyone?

    http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.a sp ?theisbn=0553380958&vm=a

  13. What about Webmin? on Great Bridge Out; Caldera in Trouble · · Score: 1

    Caldera employs Jamie Cameron, the lead developer of Webmin (http://www.webmin.com); though it now seems to be "sponsored" by MSCLinux (http://www.msclinux.com/) ever heard of them?

  14. Re:Better beverage... on 1st Cup Of Coffee: Hardening Your Arteries · · Score: 1

    Which is why tea is called tea and everything else is more appropriately labeled as an herbal infusion ;-)

  15. Re:addictive qualities on 1st Cup Of Coffee: Hardening Your Arteries · · Score: 1

    No chocolate? chocolate has caffeine

    http://www.choco.com/faq.html#Section_3.4

  16. Re:Has common sense become less common? on Report Security Problems, Face The Consequences · · Score: 1

    Quite an appropriate username you have there

  17. Re:Article name misnomer [2] on New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins · · Score: 1

    And you believe what M$ says?

    But seriously, this really doesn't say anything.
    They have still in a sense broken <EMBED>

  18. Article name misnomer [2] on New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins · · Score: 3, Informative

    NO NO NO NO

    These are not "Netscape style plugins"
    They are <EMBED>, yes Netscape probably
    was the major force getting them into HTML
    but they are legal HTML (3.2 I believe)

    Now IE has dropped support for this tag and is breaking HTML 3.2 support (surprise
    surprise).

    What people are calling "IE style plugins"
    are <OBJECT>which are part of HTML 4.0.

    PS> All those filters and still doesn't translate HTML enitites in text-mode, gret code Slash!

  19. Article name misnomer on New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins · · Score: 0

    NO NO NO NO

    These are not "Netscape style plugins"
    They are , yes Netscape probably
    was the major force getting them into HTML
    but they are legal HTML (3.2 I believe)

    Now IE has dropped support for this tag and is breaking HTML 3.2 support (surprise surprise).

    What people are calling "IE style plugins"
    are which are part of HTML 4.0.

  20. Re:The unanswerable question on What's A Good Starter Linux distro? · · Score: 0

    Well it might be worth mentioning that Mandrake is a Red Hat derivative...

  21. Re:The perfect one is... on What's A Good Starter Linux distro? · · Score: 0

    Bash?! For newbies? no way...
    Csh or tcsh *by far*

    Or I suppose you could always go with lsh,
    but then you aren't really learning UN*X.

  22. Re:Try UDP with bigger packets on Old Protocol Could Save Massive Bandwidth · · Score: 0

    Except that tag quotation marks no longer optional
    but required, thanks to the influence of XML.

  23. Re:Stargate on Best Sci Fi Currently On Television? · · Score: 0

    Fox already plays Stargate in syndication. Used to be Sunday @ 12:30, as well as throughtout the day Sunday (like 5 or 6PM) but now it only seesm to be on @ 11 AM. Also Fox is a few seasons behind Showtime...

  24. Re:XML based IM will have the same problems as HTM on France Telecom To Support Jabber · · Score: 1

    Jabber is designed to allow proprietary extensions. Heck, secure login as an extension of the base protocol. A jabber stream is multi-layered, and as long as you can provide a decent amount of the supplied content in the base-protocll then you can add as many extensions as you want.

  25. Re:don't forget on How to Build a Fad Website: AmIHotOrNot · · Score: 1

    amIamulletornot.com