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  1. Re:22ms? on Maximum Latency for ISPs? · · Score: 1

    Quake? Why back in my day we used to play Doom using 2400 baud modems over noisy lines. You don't know nothing kid...

  2. Re:Why block MSN? on Blocking MSN Messenger? · · Score: 1

    What you need is some sort of QOS solution. Just give MSN a lower priority and everything works itself out. That's the only way I've found to have a functioning system and run BitTorrent at the same time.

  3. PureEnergy on Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? · · Score: 1

    Pure Energy has allways worked well for me. I've used their AAA batteries in various palm devices, pagers, etc. As well as their AA batteries in Walkmen and remotes. They've allways worked well, had little to no memory, and they're cheap. They're about 30-50% more than regular batteries, but can be used dozens of times. Some of the older ones had some leakage issues, but I haven't had that in years.

  4. Re:yes it will! on Implementing True WebDAV Homedirs? · · Score: 1

    So... Go to acl.bestbits.at and get the ACL patches for your kernel (or switch to 2.5/2.6 which supports it out of the box).
    Have the user own the files but use ACLs to give the apache user access to read/write/create the files.

  5. Re:Erm. on Skeptical Reactions To SCO From Around The Globe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Usually money works as a decent incentive. :)

    It's a publicly traded company, it's not hard to find stock for sale.

  6. Re:Should I get excited over any of these features on Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Me neither, but the new scheduler is nice, POSIX ACLs look sweet and ALSA included in the main kernel release, and the cryptoapi. Plus all the incremental upgrades to drivers etc.

  7. Re:2.5.x on Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming · · Score: 1

    I'll second that.
    It's more stable than some of the 2.4's I've used.

  8. Re:Hardware EULAs on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: 1

    Most software EULA's I've seen offer a refund if you are not willing to conform to their terms.

  9. Re:Closed Platform as Mixed Blessing on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: 3, Informative

    But the beauty of this hack is that it exploits the fact that microsoft *did't* use encrytion on this one section of the machine. They check the SHA hash for everything except .wav and .ttf files, and by using a malformed font you can exploit a buffer trickyness to gain control of the machine.

  10. Re:Woops, too late on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: 1

    Sure, but once someone with some coding skills uses this as the basis for a simple mod-chip-less form of piracy microsoft starts losing money. Making it in their best interests to deal with those people.

  11. Re:Uh oh! on RAID for Zero-G? · · Score: 1

    Are those internation feet (0.3048 meters) or US feet (0.3048006096 meters)? Are we using the most recent meter standard or some older standard?

  12. Re:I don't have an answer, but... on RAID for Zero-G? · · Score: 1

    And you'd do that for > 500GB? That's more than 5,000 microdrives... I don't think that's more efficient than a couple of 200GB drives.

  13. Re:Huh? on Gender Inequality In Everquest · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, but you care enough about how your place looks to hire an interior decorator. How many straight men can say the same?

  14. Re:Managing bandwidth on Managing Bandwidth and Bandwidth Costs? · · Score: 1

    With one change to the download.py script you can easily change the max upload speed on the standard BitTorrent client. It's worked properly for me and is allways within 1 Kb/s of the requested rate.
    ('max_upload_rate', None, 0, 'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit')
    into
    ('max_upload_rate', None, 8, 'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit')
    or whatever else you want.

  15. Visar on Increasing Video Detail Using Super-Resolution? · · Score: 1

    What you're looking for can be done by VISAR as displayed here
    Although, as it's apparently only available though Intergraph I'm sure it's rather costly.

  16. Re:Spaces/newlines in HTML add up QUICKLY on FEAD Compressing Compressed Files by 50-75%? · · Score: 1

    You think that's bad? Someone on my office gave me an HTML documen generated from excel. It started off at 640k. With some simple editing, removing whitespace, newlines, etc. I was able to get it to 200k. With some more advanced techniques I got it down to 68k. It's now 1/10th the original size. Moral of the story: Whitespace is bad.

  17. Re:Remember: ''source'' is more than just the code on Microsoft Smartphone Code Signing and the GPL? · · Score: 1

    But you can reproduce the work! I can't make a signed RPM of a work even if I have the source RPM can I? But that release is still covered by the GPL isn't it? You can still make modifications to the program, and still run the program once it's modified, you just can't run it in an environment that requires it to be signed.

  18. Re:Remember: ''source'' is more than just the code on Microsoft Smartphone Code Signing and the GPL? · · Score: 1

    I understood your post, however he is providing the materials neccesary to modify the program. Just because I'm providing a pre-compiled binary, which is not easily edited, I'm not breaking the GPL. Similarly, if I provide a signed binary, which is *VERY* not easily edited, as long as I'm providing the source, and from what I understand of the GPL, that doesn't break the GPL.

  19. Re:Remember: ''source'' is more than just the code on Microsoft Smartphone Code Signing and the GPL? · · Score: 1

    ??? Since when is the prefered form for modification the binary version? He said that he was freely distributing the source and an unsigned binary, clearly this meets the GPL... Or at least the GPL as I understand it as IANAL.

  20. Re:Why Linux? on Free Software Operating Systems for Old Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I think the previous poster's problem was with advocating violence to 6 year olds. But then again, I played doom at a young age and it didn't hurt me. At least not all that much... :)

  21. Re:Active Surplus in Toronto! on Great Surplus Stores? · · Score: 1

    Hah! I have a power glove. $10 at a pawn shop... It's great!

  22. Re:It's a protest... on Why Are Canadian Sympatico Users Being Banned On EFNet? · · Score: 1

    You mean B.C.# Right? :)

  23. Re:At least C# is (probably) useful on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    Don't knock old languages, I almost got a co-op position this term programming in Fortran. Alost of older systems are still in use, with code bases to large to easily translate.

  24. Re:Do Not Accept on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    That sounds like a clear cut case of age based discrimination, you should sue!

  25. Re:Christina and the Strokes.... on Mashed-Up Music · · Score: 1

    You don't like clowns? :)