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  1. Re:Story is meaningless without LOC measurement on Internet Archive Gets 4.5PB Data Center Upgrade · · Score: 1

    In my experience black and white movies compress at about the same bit rate as color movies. Especially if they are bad quality.

  2. Gravity surf on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 0

    So when do we get the report of people seeing UFOs that loocks like a surfer dude.

  3. Re:Tomato on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 1

    Yes making it real easy for windows users to use private keys is a good idea. Perhaps a central key rentention, so you have some use of you 30+ char key phrase ;-)

  4. not worth your time. on Tim Bray On the Future of the Web · · Score: 1

    Very nice interface for playing videos though..

  5. Re:I'm Debian on Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best · · Score: 1

    Debian ca 1995, that is 0.93 with dselect was really good, alot better than Slackware, IMO.

  6. in that case it's the reverse on How Steam Revived a Dead Game · · Score: 4, Funny

    Halo sold to mediocre gamers

    </anti:ms>

  7. Re:This is a good point on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: 1

    Wonder if there is refactoring advice for making code better translate to SSE-like instructions. And if there is, do you have the time to rewrite your code and datastructures to fit that?

  8. Re:Time for OS X on OLPC Set To Dump x86 For Arm Chips In XO 2 · · Score: 1

    Sure cross compiling for ARM is hard but people do it, dev versions of the Pandora runs desktop Linux fine. It actually pretty easy to run Linux on ARM.

  9. uhm maybe not ordinary copyright on Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney · · Score: 1

    As pointed out else where there is database copyright, where the compilation of facts can be copyrighted. E.g. street indexes, phone directories and email addresses published on websites.

    IANAL

  10. ah gamers... on Nvidia Mulls Cheap, Integrated x86 Chip · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Intel 855GM handles xterms very well, recently they have become very wobbly slimey when I drag them around in Gnome, other than that everything is fine with my integrated chip.

  11. DRM doesn't work on Google's Struggle To Reach Authors — of Every Book Ever Written · · Score: 1

    There is no DRM that works 100%, and if you want an openstandard to make it cross platform it gets even harder since you can't hide your methods anymore.

    Someone should state this as a fact, there is no DRM that can work.

  12. they are pack rats on Google's Struggle To Reach Authors — of Every Book Ever Written · · Score: 1

    Everyone dreams of a JBOD with all music ever published.

    Or something like that..

  13. Re:Is It Mission Critical? on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1

    He has two physically different internet connections, kinda hard to hide it all behind one IP. Sure there is routing tricks that can solve this, but as far as I know there are no tricks that are easy to implement.

    This might be me smoking crack: But I think you solve it by getting an AS number+getting a BGP router, and when the first link goes down you announce that you are now available only through the second link. I have never done this myself..

  14. no on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    Well call it obsession with war then, but you are right there are alot of other very HQ stuff from Baen,

  15. html not enough for you? on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    I don't get it they give you HTML, in what why isn't that ok for eInk displays?

  16. Re:Not all of them. Baen does not. on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    that was unfair, I did read The Immoratilty option it was one of the better sci-fi ideas I've read and there wasn't any of that glorification.

  17. Re:Not all of them. Baen does not. on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but they mostly publish the glorified-war-sci-fi kind. But sure I really recommend buying books from them they have some really good book and they are cheap.

  18. They use dead trees as DRM on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    There is a persistant and politically powerful group of people [1] that state that they shouldn't publish as ebooks until there is a fail proof DRM for books. Just to get a picture how inane people can be.

    [1](the guys who decides the Nobel prize for literature)

  19. dunno exactly on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: 1

    I might be completely wrong but:

    RMS felt that making it easy to produce plugins for GCC would be a very bad idea since closed source could exploit this. We really want GCC improvements to be free software so his hesitation has some merits.

    Exactly how this relates to LLVM I dunno..

  20. letme google that for ya. on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Linking to a blog about the article...? on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: 1

    of course, but you know it might actually be usefull to have a summary. That's what slashdot does, I'm sure there is some value in it.

  22. expensive on How Do I Put Unused Servers To Work? · · Score: 1

    EC2 is still too expensive.. Though very nice if you need three servers with 64GB for a couple of weeks..

  23. Re:Donate to At Home Projects on How Do I Put Unused Servers To Work? · · Score: 1

    Oh that's a wonderful idea, first cat /dev/zero >/dev/hda; then cat /dev/zero |less to swap out all applications..

  24. Good insight on 350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil · · Score: 1

    But it's not like most student care, most school computer systems sucks anyway, there just isn't enough money to administrate them. I rather the schools pay that small amount of money to Linux admins than Windows admins. Knowing Linux admins they are usually alot better at sharing info on the net than the Windows admin, even though there are now lots of good windows blogs.

    As is stated above this isn't about VNC or remote X11, it's about shared physical machines. Not that it makes it less painfull, try playig a flash game on a shared machine (I haven't).

  25. Extramadura Spain on 350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil · · Score: 4, Informative

    The place to look would be Extramdura in Spain, they have been using Linux for a long time. They claim very, very low costs. I don't have any recent posts but LWN wrote about it in 2003, and last time I heard it was still going strong.