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  1. Re:I think I know why on Google in The New York Times · · Score: 1

    As I understand it the links to pages are used for ranking in order to use popularity as a metric. They do not however use the links to a page to find search results. If many pages linked to microsoft with 'evil' in them then those pages would show up on an evil search, but it wouldn't alter which searched turned up microsoft -- just how near the top microsoft was.

  2. No. You would go for whichever one you thought you could make it into.

  3. Re:GIFs are so out of date on Unisys Enforcing GIF Patents · · Score: 1

    You can do that with .PNG, plus you can optionally include an alpha channel. Yum.

  4. Got one thing right. on When Pretty Good Privacy Isn't Good Enough · · Score: 1

    I was really afraid I would see them recycling the key if it wasn't long enough. Fortunately this code snippet shows they at least got that right:

    if(numKeyBytesRead < numInBytesRead) { // check for a small key
    printf("\nERROR: keyfile must be at least as large as input file.\n");
    printf("Output file is incomplete\n");
    }

    Of course they don't bother with how the sender/receiver should exchange the key file in a secure fashion.

  5. Re:CodeWarrior works only on RedHat on Motorola to purchase Metrowerks · · Score: 2

    Actually CodeWarrior works just fine w/ non-Redhat linuxes. Metrowerks's marketing folk just didn't think that the world could handle a long string of requirements for running (ex: Libc2.1, etc.), so they just said Redhat.

    As for Debian not running commercial software, what are you smoking? Debian doesn't come with any commercial software, but you can certainly run it on Debian.

  6. Re:esd support on Myth II Linux Demo · · Score: 1

    I had to run 'esd -public' if I was non-root and esd w/o public if I was root. Don't know why, but I'm not really a sound guy.

  7. A FIX for choppy keyboard camera control on Myth II Linux Demo · · Score: 1

    I was having the same little annoyance and running it as:

    nice -n -10 ./gameexecutable

    I have neither a terrible fast nor slow machine (AMD K6 233) and a priority of -10 seems to be just right for myth to get all the CPU it wants and esd to get all it needs. YMMV.

  8. Re:Not bad at all on Myth II Linux Demo · · Score: 1

    Try putting the unit in guard mode (default key 'G') and then ordering it to attack the space the unit you want dead is standing on (default: ctrl-click). Missile weapon troops often underestimate their range and will try to get closer when it's not necessary.

  9. Agreed on Myth II Linux Demo · · Score: 1

    I just want to say that after the download I had the game up and running in seconds. What's more as an avid mythII-er I noticed that on this box (AMX K6-233 - shitty Video) it ran much faster than on windows.

    Congrats loki on an excellent conversion.

  10. Re:"Designed for Linux" on Linux Hardware Databases Merge · · Score: 1

    Someone made a logo for that awhile ago. It said, "Cool, it works with Linux." IIRC it was white and blue. I recall seeing it on some websites for software, but never in the hardware market for which it was intended.

  11. Re:EurekAlert: crackpot journal? on Universal Translators? · · Score: 1

    I ran the same check and saw that all of the matches has correlation values in the low 50% range -- meaning they had the word cold or fusion, but not both. Most of them had cold. It seem seemed like a pretty loose journal, but not as bad as you've painted it.

  12. Re:Depends on Ask Slashdot: Another Word for "Hacker"? · · Score: 1

    The problem with foobar is it's root in FUBAR an acronym many people know means Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

  13. Re:Conductivity. on CPU Cooling Insanity · · Score: 2

    I'm skeptical about the hard drive, but I know that the fan can't go it. Oil may have the same electrical conductivity as air, but it sure doesn't have the same viscosity. I'm guessing the power supply fan would make it about four rotations before it bogged down and poped the fuse.

  14. Re:Virtual property? I think not. on eBay launches the era of Virtual Property · · Score: 1

    I agree that the full account transfer isn't a virtual transaction, but there are a virtual transactions taking place. Many of the actions are actioning off object within the game with no change of account taking place. For instance you mail me $50 US and I'll have my character transfer to you his new potion. That is indeed a transaction involving a virtual object.

    It's never a good idea to get so annoyed with the over use of a buzzword that you discount every use of it.

  15. Guns Guns and More Guns on Why Kids Kill · · Score: 1

    Blaming this sort of thing on guns is as silly as blaming it on Doom. Gun accessability has always been high in the US. As many times as its been said there's a lot of truth in 'guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people'. Those who want to kill will always find away.

  16. If GNU doesn't deserve to be named... on Feature:Free Linux · · Score: 1

    Linux deserves to be named not because Linus wrote/edited a good chunk of the code, but because ever single line of code in the kernel was contributed willingly to a project named "Linux".
    It's a matter of kernel code lines vs. fsf code lines -- not Linus's code vs. fsf code.