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  1. Duplicate story on The Tin-Whisker Menace · · Score: 2, Informative

    Same story as 6 month ago Zinc Whiskers Cripple Colorado's Computers. There's a PDF there that explains it all as well. They are pretty little whiskers, that can only be observed if examined very closely in the right environment.

  2. Re:Apulets? on The Mystery of Cell Processors · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually Apu and Manjula are the proud parents of eight well behaved children.

  3. Re:knoppix HDIsntall sucks on System Recovery with Knoppix · · Score: 3, Informative

    It works perfectly, I'm writing this on a laptop where Knoppix was installed. It autodetected everything and installed faster tahn any distro I have ever seen.

    With a good GUI as well, letting me choose alot of diffrent options.

  4. This is hard, even for a human on Marian The Robot Librarian · · Score: 1

    has to grasp it and take it off the bookshelf, which is not a simple as it might seem.

    Well, considering how long it takes for a child to learn to take out a book from a bookshelf, without ripping out all the pages, I hope there's some understanding of the complicated process of learning a machine to handle physical objects. Not just mechanically, but adapting sensor data to the real world can be really hard.

  5. You will still wear the glasses on Experiences with Laser Eye Surgery? · · Score: 1

    Do it if you can handle the knifes in your eye, a very non trivial thing. ;-) But try to spend lots of money to get a really good treatment, your eyes are very delicate.

    It was succesfull for me, I don't wear glasses anymore. Now I have to wear shades in bright sunshine, I'm really sensitive for sunrays now and 14 hours plus in front of an monitor can do bad things aswell. So in the end I'm still stuck with shelling out 100 a year for a nice look, and IMO sunglasses tend to be more delicate.

  6. Re:AGGGGAAAGGGG on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 1

    I've never ever downloaded CD number 3. So that would prove to be really hard. Really Woody needs a change of engine, python is so outdated that things are getting really hard for me, Mysql and PHP is another issue, you have to install from source if you use Debian Stable, and want to run a webserver.

  7. And the Pageranking went up up up.... on China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout · · Score: 1

    I'm doing some google searches to see how many pages there are, and what pages, on some specific subjects, and today typepad went way up on some of my searhes. Now I know why.. ;-)

  8. Overload... on BitTorrent Gains Corporate Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know it reallt isn't that easy, since they have to NAT the public IP to your private one first, so you would place an infernal load on the NAT:ing firewall, e.g. and old 200MHz PIX we had was rated at a 100Mbps throughput. That wont leave much for internal->Interal Nat:ing if you have a 4Mbps connection. What should be done in BT (what I interpreted "internal peers" as) is support for connecting to clients behind the same firewall as yourself. I'm on a NAT:ed City network, we have 5000 clients, now that would be nice to use.

  9. Re:Get mom an iMac on Protecting Our Parents' PCs? · · Score: 1

    Last time I ran OO on MacOSX it crashed constantly (4 months ago) and it really isn't supported yet AFAIK. But ymmv I would love to use OO on Mac, right know I just use OO via an Xterminal.. ;-)

  10. Re:Dear Bram, on BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you can do better than that, using ADSL I cap my uploads at 25KB/s (in wondershaper) and always leave them running for a long while.

  11. Does linux hanndle TCP ack priority yet.. on Creating A Super-Router (For Free) · · Score: 1

    There is this an old slashdot story that recommende this article by an OpenBSD hacker about priotizing tcp ack packets. So the solution is to have enough bandwidth to send the ACKs back, and you will only have that if scheduler handles the bandwidth (Look at his graphs they show it crystal clear from peaks at 130kbps to an even 83kpbs upstream).

    I don't know about wondershaper but with tc you can match ACK and give them priority..


    tc filter add WhereEver
    match u8 0x10 0xff at nexthdr+13

  12. Experience with gameplay on Trying Your Hand at Level Design? · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    First of all you have to have lots of experience in how the gameswork, and an artisticside. Good levels are very hard to do and they are done with lots of sweat from their makers, you have to weight in all the diffrent things in the game so that the level is a fun one, and beautiful.

    This is not something you will get from getting a couple of tools that are easy to use, but from your own mind. That mind must also be able to adjust itself to the new tools, i.e. going from the worldcraft to new Radiant, and that will only be done if you have the time to do it.

    The two biggest are Q3A and UT, check out the dev tools for them, they are equally good, just choose the one that suits you. If you want to dev for linux then you can get a very good start with GtkRadiant (the Q3A tool), but UnrealEd is very good as well alas only with windows support.

  13. Re:Why 800 dpi? on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    Well you might want the "dots", and now usually you have to scan with better than 300dpi depending on the mag.

  14. Re:Politically odd? (sorry, OT) on China, Russia, U.S. To Build 100MBps Network · · Score: 1

    I been to china and well I must say it takes the worst part of every political system and mungles it together to opress the people. They really do suffer alot in China not because of communism but because of the leaders.

    I Usually say the worst from capitalism (USA) and the worst from communism, but then it would be a troll.. ;-)

  15. Re:Verse finaly on slashdot on Blender Conference Closes, Version 2.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Hey Congrats, at last on slashdot. It's really cool technology I really hope that some of you will be luck enough to see it in action..

    I Loved the Gimp plugin, is it still working?

  16. Re:You should provide a bittorrent link on Three New Releases (And Other News) From Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Actually I got 144KB/s when downloading firebird from the torrent posted here, and I can't even connect to the mozilla.org. Now all I need is a good md5sum, because mozilla.org publishes their md5s on the FTP. Most people seem to get 8c363353b6529f50451091e6bface362 which is what I get as well on the bittorrent and the one from the uu.net ppl. Someone has the mozilla.org zip to do a md5 on?

  17. Re:Comparison with other free VMs? on Xen High-Performance x86 Virtualization Released · · Score: 1

    Now that I have tried it out:
    Xen: fastest
    UML: fast
    bochs: slow

    I have ran each on 300MHz and bochs on a 2GHz..

  18. Re:Comparison with other free VMs? on Xen High-Performance x86 Virtualization Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    Well:
    User Mode Linux
    1. Is linux Ported to the linux syscalls
    2. Has been ported partially to windows as well
    3. No hardware access only software modificatade to be hardware
    4. Is just Linux
    5. Extremly Easy do install 2 Files to download and then start NO configuration
    6. Very Fast emulation of linux, 10% Slow down while compiling the kernel
    7. Support SWAP partition as memory for virtual machines


    Plex86
    1. Is X86 & Bios ported to C
    2. Runs multiple OSs
    3. Runs on multiple OSs
    4. Very hard to conigure
    5. SLOW!
    6. Thourgh Emulation of the hardware no just software


    Xen

    I have not run this Emulator but it looks like it is more or less an OS (it has to have support for Graphics card/NICS/MMU to virtualize them). So it seems like it work in the same way as UML but tries to make the big change in the operating system running bellow instead ontop. Now I need to read that paper more before I can say anything, but they do alot less changes to the kernel than UML (~2700 lines of codes in the kernel).

  19. Re:Correction on Atari, ToEE, And P2P Distribution For Games? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but seeing how little steam they are putting behind this application, it will take a REALLY long while for us to reach that milestone. They should just use BT, that would be wonderfull.

  20. Correction on Atari, ToEE, And P2P Distribution For Games? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Steam is not a P2P application, it is a way for Valve to control which game you have installed and which games you are allowed to play on the internet with. When SteamBeta was released the first time (~ yr ago) it maxed out the 700Mbps it had allocated, and now when stable they maxed out yet again. Compare this to f.scarywaters.com statistics where the slashdot crowd alone managed to get it to 1.4Gbps (the double) in less than 3hrs... Now P2P certainly isn't the solution for commercial vendors, but for amatuers sure..

  21. Re:Sept 11 reference? on Cybersyn And Early Uniminds · · Score: 1

    You should remmeber that the whole ideology from the 50th up until recently was governed to a large part by the so called "dommino effect" if you had commuists in one country then you would get the same in the neighbouring ones as well. This might explain some of the wars, but I believe that since (including) the Vietnam war this has almost never been the primary issue although on of the primary reasons given (hidden in very eloquence argumentations).

  22. It is the same all over on VoIP Beats Conventional Phone Service In Iraq · · Score: 3, Informative

    IT is the same in all third world countries, but if the surfing got big really before VOIP it usually wont work because there is no bandwidth left for the internet cafés to use. Instead special phone companies that carry longdistance call over ip has sprung up, but that is expensive about a third of a per minute.

  23. Very few ppl spend that much money on US Cell Phone Users Discover SMS Spam · · Score: 1
    That is alot of money, I pay a total of $5/mo for using a cellular and it works like a charm for my need even though I pay outrageous amount of money when I call during daytime.


    Here in Sweden it's the same, but usually the high usage plans are only available to companies...

  24. Bah 1000 I did that when I was 16.. on MillionManLAN Party: The Doors Are Open · · Score: 1

    Sigh you guys really need to get you Lan parties going. I did this before the "gaming revolution" came and we were all sitting there with amigas and SLIP to connect to each other...

    Wuzzes. 1000s that is NOTHING.

  25. Multicast? on U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I have only seen routers using multicast to communicate. There are almost no applications using it, and almost no firewalls permitting it.