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  1. I wonder... on Catching (Real) Viruses With Silicon · · Score: 1

    Will the chip's specs be released to public? This chip would be very useful in mail servers that do virus scanning. It would only be a matter of time until e.g. Clam AntiVirus supports this chip.

    PS. Does anyone know whether it supports Ogg Vorbis?

  2. Re:Even with new owners... on Amiga Sells AmigaOS · · Score: 1

    Ooh - one more neat OS feature that lots of people forget. AmigaDOS always had a ram disk - and it was dynamic. It was called RAM: and you could put anything you liked in there (as long as you had memory) - if there was nothing in there it didn't use any system memory. Thats something even the most modern release of OSX or Linux don't have.

    Linux has tmpfs.

  3. You know your project is popular enough... on Microsoft Forces wxWindows To Rename · · Score: 5, Funny

    when Microsoft is going to sue you for its name.

  4. Re:Losing the Insert key on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    What's next to your home key?

    Isn't it obvious?

  5. Re:Hmm on Improve Your GNU/Linux Experience With -mm Patches · · Score: 1

    I thought Linux was open source and anyone could damn well do what they please with it.

    You're right. That's exactly why e.g. Andrew Morton has been able to make his patchset for Linux.

    What's stopping me from becoming the Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer?

    Well, duh, "Linus Torvalds has chosen Andrew to soon become the 2.6 maintainer." :-)

  6. Re:but it's more humane! on Chicken Run · · Score: 1

    They do realize the bird's final destination, right?

    You mean this?

    (If the link doesn't work for some reason, the video can be found from here.)

  7. Re:Crashes.... on Stunts Spawns A Spiritual Successor · · Score: 2, Funny

    > I hope they do the crashes is a realistic fashion in this game.

    > I want crashes that are different everytime

    I'm sure that will be the case. Microsoft has contributed a plethora of very handy functions® the programmers can use to create varying and realistic crashes, like e.g. generalProtectionFault(), invalidPageFault(), windowsProtectionError(), fatalException() and the colorful blueScreenOfDeath().

  8. Re:silly frenchmen on Free Documentation Base - Docs.eu.org Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think o (octet) is more useful than B (byte). It won't be mixed up with b (bit) as easily, and it's always equal to 8 bits.

  9. Debian package on Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family · · Score: 1

    These fonts are packaged for Debian, too.

  10. Re:patent the "patent madness" on Browser Cookie Patent · · Score: 1

    Somehow that reminded me of this UserFriendly strip.

    (Some more patent fun as well.)

  11. Moving the cursor without a mouse on X With No Mouse Cursor · · Score: 5, Informative

    without a mouse attached, there appears to be no way to move it or get rid of it.

    You can move the cursor by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Num Lock and then using the numpad. You move the cursor with the keys around 5, click with 5, etc. A quick googling brought up this webpage.

  12. Filtering by content, not by port? on Blocking Kazaa 2.0? · · Score: 1

    I'd guess KaZaA's "HTTP" traffic would be easily distinguishable from other HTTP traffic. E.g. Hogwash can "drop or modify specific packets based on a signature match".