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  1. Then I just need a fiber to my home ... on A GEANT Leap Forward In Networking For Research · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dammn.. My ADSL is slow!

  2. Private Spam on Christmas Spam Level Skyrocketing · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only thing I hate more than the professional spam are emails from "friends" (non-geeks) that need to inform me of that latest virus, chainmail or that there is a new update that I should download. People are simply CC'ing their entire address-book whenever they receive something that looks interesting, and thereby creating spam :-(

    And don't get me started on stupid christmas chain mails !!

  3. Re:$280M debt? on Zilog To File For Chapter 11 · · Score: 2

    Both MicroChip and ubicom (Former Scenix) are very successful in the 8-bit microcontroller with tcp/ip support.

    A small controller with TCPIP can be used in many places. Cars, electrical kicthen stuff etc.

    There is work underway that will place a microcontroller in each wall-plug so that you can control light and power for your entire household. Thoose designs needs a lot of microcontrollers with network support.

  4. Z80 in Gameboy Advance on Zilog To File For Chapter 11 · · Score: 2

    There is actually a Z80 in the new Gameboy Advance. This is for providing the Gameboy Color compability mode.

  5. 10 More Year on QuickTime To Move To MPEG-4 · · Score: 2

    So now we will have ten years with MPEG-4 after ten years with Apply stuff :-)

    Ten years with MacOS (or more) and now ten years with BSD :-)

  6. Re:European Technology on AES Announced as Federal Standard · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but if size matter the failure should be measured in budget fonds and the CIA+NSA gets more money than anyother intelligence organisation in the world.

    But what are we discussion? My primary point was the its nice that the algorithm was thoosing for its design/features rather than what country it was from. One of the analysts (cant remember who) said that no matter who got choosen (from round 2) they would all be a excellent AES, but Rijndael would be the bold choice based on its pure/simple matematical base.

  7. Re:European Technology on AES Announced as Federal Standard · · Score: 2

    So size matter ?-)

    Ofcause they are smaller, but the important thing to is to be able to mount the effort when its needed. NSA on the other hand is just "Yet another US goverment office out of control" or in selfcontrol - but out of reach from gov.hill. Nobody in the US goverment dare to touch NSA. Both the NSA and the CIA failed completely 11.sep.
    So what do they need NSA for when cryptography is retreived in Europe, creating secure Linux distributions?

  8. Re:European Technology on AES Announced as Federal Standard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmm.. Who broke the german Enigma under WWII, US or England/Poland ? :-)

  9. European Technology on AES Announced as Federal Standard · · Score: 2

    I think that its interesting that the US goverment had the guts to thoose a european developed algorithm. Usually those thing goes to US based companies/scientists.

    Heads up for choosing the best solution from a cryptography viewpoint!

  10. Re:Intel 4004 anno 1971 on CPU Wars · · Score: 2, Informative

    76.923076923, but the interesting thing is, that its both horizontal and vertical so its actually 5917.1597633 times better on the same square-inch.

  11. Re:Intel 4004 anno 1971 on CPU Wars · · Score: 1

    10 micron vs. 0.13 micron, we have come a long way since 1971. 76 times smaller..

  12. Intel 4004 anno 1971 on CPU Wars · · Score: 5, Informative
    The 4004 consists of 2,300 transistors based on 10 micron technology fitting on a 12mm2 area.The microprocessor has 46 instructions. The 4040 is an enhanced version of the 4004, adding 14 instructions, larger stack (8 levels) and 8K program space. It can address 640 bytes. Documentation is written by Adam Osborne. The chip is introduced to the public in Las Vegas by Wayne Pickette. The sales price will be US$ 200 per piece.


    This was the news of 1971

  13. Lua on Lightweight Languages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All my votes goes to Lua. www.lua.org. A fantastic language, small and very fast!

  14. Re:Balloons on Launching Spacecraft From Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Cause of the weight, you still need lots of fuel to get from 20miles to 60miles (edge of space?)

  15. Re:B52's on Launching Spacecraft From Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ever seen "Space Cowboys" ??

  16. B52's on Launching Spacecraft From Aircraft · · Score: 1

    At least a peacefull use of those aircrafts.

  17. A little known library is SFL on Portable Coding and Cross-Platform Libraries? · · Score: 3, Informative

    From www.imatix.com (The makers of the Xitami webserver).

    SFL is a great library for doing portable low-level stuff such as network etc..

  18. Re:Gba Boy Advanced on Color Photographs with Game Boy Camera · · Score: 1

    Right now no camera exists for the gameboy Advance, but if Nintendo made a camera for the GBA, it would properly be in color anyway.

  19. Turbo Pascal on Borland Releases Kylix 2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    That was cool, now Borland is just a has-been company!

  20. Re:Finally - a full keyboard on Nokia 5510 - Cell Phone and More · · Score: 1

    Well thats my 9210 (9290) you describe there, I'm playing Doom on it without any problems (duh, Doom is for PC not Atari - sorry :-)

  21. Pricy! on Fujitsu Releases Specs For Hackable Robot · · Score: 1

    This is a very cool robot, but the price is rather high, is the $40000 range. It is mostly geared to colleges :-(

  22. Copenhagen on 802.11b Network Scanning In London And Amsterdam · · Score: 1

    I drove around Copenhagen the other night and found ~20 networks, and only 2 had WEP, the rest where wide open.

  23. Re:Actual Release Date on GameCube Hits the Street · · Score: 2, Informative

    The official launch date is 14.september.2k1

  24. Re:Thinkpad on IBM ThinkPad T22 w/Linux Review · · Score: 1

    Actually my fp made more sence than most fp's on slashdot :-)

  25. Thinkpad on IBM ThinkPad T22 w/Linux Review · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well Thinkpad is the king of laptops!