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  1. Pioneer 10x are hardware region locked on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO · · Score: 2

    The pioneer 114 and 104S 10x are currently region locked players. Unless a firmware patch of hidden jumper is discovered, the recommendation is to stick with the older 6x model. See http://www.dvdutils.com/

  2. C++ name mangling on Borland Delphi and CBuilder for Linux. · · Score: 1

    Any news on whether the C++ name mangling will be compatible with g++?

    Otherwise we'll have to dual compile all our c++ libs (stdc++, Gtk--, Qt, KDE etc)

    Alex

  3. Cygwin progress? on Microsoft: Confirmed purchase of Interix · · Score: 1

    What's cygwin looking like these days? I used to use it when I had an NT machine :)

  4. devfs on Interview: Ask Alan Cox · · Score: 1

    Alan,

    What is your opinion on devfs? Is it likely to go into 2.4?

    Alex.

  5. Re:Purple Hat distro ? on Linux Mandrake Gets Major Investor · · Score: 1

    Bloody good idea. An international Crypto distribution would go a long way to making this disadvantage to US citizens apparent.

  6. use HAVING on Comparing MySQL and Postgresql · · Score: 1

    I believe that the HAVING clause is designed for
    the use of aggregate comparisons.

  7. Re:Glacial compile times and huge dwarf builds on GCC 2.95 Released · · Score: 1

    You don't say what platform/language you've tried gcc on but the linker can have a big effect.

    On Solaris, my egcs c++ builds are vastly smaller and quicker if I use the GNU linker. If throws away unused virtual function calls etc. If GNU ld is available on your platform I recommend you give it a go. Of course it is already present on Linux.

    Alex.

  8. gcc 2.95 soon, link compatibility on Inprise/Borland Developers Conference Linux Nuggets · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the impending gcc 2.95 release. I would like borland to use g++ so that it would be link compatible with linux c++ libs like mico/TAO etc.

    Remember c++ compilers are not link compatible. If you've ever tried to link to a MS c++ lib on NT from borland you will know that.

  9. M8 Proxy Setup (Ask slashdot :) on Mozilla M8 Released · · Score: 1

    Can anyone tell me the magic incarnation to get M8 to use a proxy? I can get it working by editing the prefs and then turning proxy off and on, but not get it to just work upon startup.

    Cheers,
    Alex.

  10. Heartily recommended, follows standards on Review:Advanced CORBA Programming with C++ · · Score: 1

    This is the new standard text on CORBA development. Its great win over the "CORBA in 2 seconds" type of book is that it is concerned with the standards, not the whizz bang but completely incompatible extras that the vendors love so much.

    As an aside, I recommend TAO as an ORB to go along with the book. If you don't need multithreading then MICO would also be a good choice.

  11. Warn them off Motif on Borland Linux Developer Survey · · Score: 1

    Lets hope they don't do try to use Motif. Too many commercial shops make that mistake.

  12. Re:Welcome to $Linux$ on Ask Slashdot: "Pseudo-Free" Software in Major Distributions? · · Score: 1

    Use teraterm on NT instead. It is free (as in beer) and provides a a perfectly good telnet client and even a free ssh1 client using ttssh. It is wise to look at alternatives before spending money :)

    Alex.