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  1. Re:We landed on the moon with 512 bytes of RAM on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 1

    Not mentioning that keeping the box opened gathers lots of dust. Only 6 months and some dust will accumulate (dirt warning..).

  2. Re:Yes, but on Ximian Desktop 2, Evolution Released · · Score: 1

    Since switching away from Windows, I will never again understand the use of graphical email clients... it's like using your TV as a letter opener IMHO ;)

    You, my friend, obviously don't run a digital photography club.
    I do.

  3. Re:Celebrate Freedom! July is"Turn Yourself In"mon on 43 Million Americans Use P2P Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seeing as USA has 2mil imprisoned, this is not that far off.

  4. Re:difficulty with software upgrades on Microsoft Pulls Broken XP Update · · Score: 1

    Amen, brother.
    Whenever I do vmware reinstall of debian, I just pop some old bootable (maybe potato) CD, and install minimal system. After that I simply apt-get dist-upgrade and the system just runs.
    After running debian unstable for 2½ years with daily upgrades, I haven't managed to break it into unbootable or unconnectionable state. But I do read bugs before installing updated major packages (like libstdc++..)

  5. Re:One things that I haven't seen addressed ... on Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880 · · Score: 1

    bullshit.
    Atmosphere is quite a bit large target, so if it skims through atmosphere, changes direction, and very probably break into parts, then not all the same energy will hit the target in the way orthogonal slam would do.

  6. Re:This is why.. on FutureMark Confirms nVidia's Benchmark Cheating · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's exactly why whenever I want unbiased review of a product, I avoid places like Tom's Hardware and other Intel fanboysites alike.
    Places like Anand are those that offer the kind of unbiased reposrting I mean. They know what they do and they tell why they run some benchmark, and they also tell you why some benchmark runs well or not.

  7. Re:KDE is current on New debian-mentors Public .deb Repository Available · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Athlon rating system over-rated? on AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Released · · Score: 1

    haha, Tom is Intel shop, and pretty lame at that one, too.
    Just look at his arrangements and you'll easily see what is wrong with them.

  9. Re:Reasons for SMP on Modding The Barton XP To A Barton MP · · Score: 1

    Much of braggin' rights, and for the feel.
    I run debian and vmware 4.0, under which there is w98se. I really don't think it could run this well on a single processor, as win98se tends to peg one processor.
    Also make -j4 make c++ coding much tolerable (gcc3.2 seems to be rather slow in compiles, so everything adds, and my coding habit is fix->test, so I recompile lots.)
    As for the feeling. I've never felt desktop like this. I've used 2.8GHz P4 w2k/Linux, but it really didn't cope well with high loads and just 'doing stuff'. I often scan big files (50MB each), and processing them can peg it to the max. On P4 when I switched to web browsing, it often came to a halt during processing, on my 2x1800, it absolutely never do that.

  10. Re:Can we stop this Debian myth now please.. on Libranet 2.8 Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    what are you talking about? Debian/Sid has been broken only 2 times so far (after woody came out), and I dist-upgrade every night at 23:45.

    And what the hell is wrong with that 'article', is that one more of those 'paidrticles'? 'fell off my chair', now, there's someone in need to meet a woman (or a man, whatever).

  11. Re:Optimized Code on AMD: No Grease For You! · · Score: 1

    Hey kid, try inserting amd76x_pm module. I think you need acpi too.
    Anyway that'll drop your temps majorly down.

  12. Re:Its ok but.... on The People Behind Quanta Plus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its ok but....
    ...still not as good as ed.


    Oh yes it is:

    pvsavola@tienel:~$ ls -l `which quanta`
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 25 11:17 /usr/bin/quanta -> /bin/ed


    I think it makes it at least equal, neh?

  13. Re:Why? on AMD and Fujitsu Spin Off Static Memory Giant · · Score: 2, Informative

    AMD is much bigger player in Flash than in CPU -business.

  14. (Processor-)AMD seems to be confident on AMD and Fujitsu Spin Off Static Memory Giant · · Score: 4, Informative

    AFAIK Flash-AMD subsidizes currently a lot of AMD's processor business, so current part of AMD that makes Processors seems to be confident in it's future to take this step.
    And remember that AMD is much-much more than Athlon/Hammer, they make lot's of different processors.

  15. Re:Too Sharp? on Hubble Too Sharp? Quantum Theory Flaws? · · Score: 3, Informative

    because they don't know why.

  16. Re:Hmm. on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1

    well, shoot at mirror with m16 and look how fractures created by that are heated with laser..

  17. Re: Just not very imperial... on Robots! · · Score: 1

    take a coin. shear it to cover about 1m^2. Now, will it sink? Why?

  18. Re:But it's still a year away, isn't it? on Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium · · Score: 1

    ever heard of cache lines? if you load a dword from memory, then all it's surrounding gets loaded too.. usually 32-128bytes per line..

  19. Re:Useful? on Gestures For The Linux Desktop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Only because you can't handle your mouse right doesn't mean that nobody else couldn't too. I for one find mouse gestures an extremely useful thing to have. As I use mouse for clicking on links and whatnot, it never gets in the way.
    Before I learned mouse gestures (they got enabled accidentally) I did manage to do some things (close windows, bring new ones..) by accident. After I learned what moves do what, I haven't have any problems. Only that mozilla's version of mousegestures sucks ass.

    Afaik only people who bitch about mg's are those who never understood how to use them, exactly the same thing as with i9 text input system.

  20. Re:You forgot to mention tabs, so I will. on Safari Beta Updated · · Score: 1

    so the further the window is, the more you have to press them.

  21. Re:You forgot to mention tabs, so I will. on Safari Beta Updated · · Score: 1

    what happens when you hit cmd-tilde next time? you come back to window you just left. with '1'&'2' in opera you continue in the direction you were going to..

  22. Re:You forgot to mention tabs, so I will. on Safari Beta Updated · · Score: 1
    Why on earth would you *need* tabs.

    How on earth do you change to another window with one key then (opera - '1' & '2' / mouse-right+wheel)?

  23. Re:Linux games vs. shareware stuff for Win on 25 Best Linux Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find Vexed to be more fun than any other game lately. Nethack is nice too. I really haven't enjoyed commercial games in a while.

  24. Re:Duff's Device on Immortal Code · · Score: 1

    BTW, the division can be done with n >> 3 and the modulo can be done with n & 7.

    This is so basic compiler stuff that it's actually taught in uni here. Which means it've been implemented in all compilers since 1970.

  25. Re:pointless comparison on Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if people use PC's for processing work, professionals always go over their images on a mac, just to see if it looks "right".

    Oh yeah, I know the type: 'I learned everything I know 20 years ago, and I'm pretty fucking sure there is and will not be anything better'.

    Petty assholes.