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  1. Re:It was a mistake to miss Aegis on RMS Calls On Linux Developers To Replace BitKeeper · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the other requirement was a complete e-mail control interface. Been a while since I've kept up with L-K; too big a time-suck.

  2. Re:on second thought, pass the lead gloves please. on United Nuclear · · Score: 1

    As an aside, what about the (probably mistaken) rumor that the Manhattan project considered immediate high amputation the only treatmeat for subcutaneous plutonium exposure? The earliest reference I've seen to it (secondary, fiction) was _The Long Watch_, Heinlein, 1949.

  3. Re:Frankly.... on Good and Bad Uses of Tech in Public Schools? · · Score: 1

    Ooh. Me. In the back of the book there's this big table... :) Or there's this nifty log rule, lemme pull out my slipstick.. :)

    Honestly, it was covered back in alegebra II, but it wasn't used much. One or two tests, then on to bigger and better things. When you get a scientific calculator for $10...

    Last time I had to do it on paper I used an iterative method, fairly slow but workable. (This BTW, was on a physics final where my calculator was broken on the way there... I managed to pass. Lacking trig tables and the time to rederive them, I also had to leave some of the answers in trig form.)

    In case it matters, I'm 23.

  4. Re:Serious Question on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, you also have to take into account seafood.. Japan is an island nation and in general has more seafood in their diet. For an US comparison, think New England.

  5. Re:Hire a colour blind person on Developing for Color Blindness? · · Score: 1

    For a good description of the various types, try here. At least the section on "protoanomaly" matches me to a T. :)

    A more visual explanation is available here.

    Heh.. I nearly ended up flunking kidergarten until a parent teacher conference; my mother asked if they had tested for it or even considered it, and they said 'no'. $#@$ing crayons boxes with the wrappers removed. :) "Color 4 blue" "Color 5 purple".

  6. Re:Wow... on Developing for Color Blindness? · · Score: 1

    Yes. When we used to play Age of Empires III all the time, I'd have to get people to use certain colors on the characters, or else the minimap was essentially 'stealthed' to that character.. or worse, two characters mixed together (ally or enemy?)

  7. Re:So on Last 2.5.x Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I had a problem with 2.4.20->21. Turns out the debian package managers switched around the module order in the initrd config.. fun. Well, that's why it's "unstable".

  8. Re:Inconsistancy in tone/style between translators on Harry Potter in German, not Czech · · Score: 1

    Well, I think the flying car might have difficulty following it through the chunnel or something. I think it's fairly well implied it's on the same physical island, probably hidden by magic. Now whether it's in scotland, england, wales, or whatever, who knows.

  9. Re:whatabout truss/strace/ktrace? on Learning Reverse Engineering · · Score: 1

    Filemon and Regmon are also very handy.

  10. Re:Poor bastards. on Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Well, you may have a later gen hardware/firmware combo than I was using. 3com managed access points, 1 per floor, Lucent/Orinoco 802.11b cards, signal at 4(or 5)/5 bars (don't recall dBm or snr). The microwave in the room, or while in a classroom across from a lounge, would drop the signal to 1 mbit or drop out altogether when turned on.

    BTW, most 'high speed' bittorrents aren't likely to consume more than 1 mbit anyway; Assuming you are the sole person using the channel, you probably wouldn't notice if it falls back to 1 mbit.

  11. Re:Poor bastards. on Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because I was upgrading from a true 10 mbit network (10B2.. people kept #@!#ing with the T-connectors) and wasn't about to take a performance hit, as well as a large monetary hit.

    Shared files on 10 mbit were fairly slow, and print jobs for the new printer were taking minutes per page to spool on complex pages.

    10/100 card, $8/port.
    16 port switch, $90. 7 ports used, $13/port.
    Wall plate / jack, $8/port.
    Cable: Had leftover partial spool of 5e, free.
    price per port for switched 100 mbit? $29

    7 port wireless:
    Price /port of pci wireless card: $50-70. Call it $60.
    Access point, varies, $80 for an okay one. $11/port.
    Price per port: $71 / port for shared 11 mbit that goes down anything someone turns on the microwave.

    G wasn't widely available when I put the 10/100 in, but current prices seem to be:

    Did I include time to run the wire and terminate it? No.

  12. Re:This reeks of SCIFI on The Real Reason for Sending Astronauts into Space · · Score: 1

    And you also accent the first syllable, not the second. YOUR-uh-nus, not your-AYE-nus.

  13. Re:Blimps very interested in fuel-cell technology on Solar Powered Helios Plane Destroyed in Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's easy. The blimp companies just have to get their fusion reactor running by Q4. :)

  14. Re:Everything comes up short... on Pioneer To Release TiVo/DVD Burner Combo · · Score: 1

    GATOS being worked on, slowly. The main trouble is:
    1) Most V4L software assumes BT848-type hardware (MMAP/RGB24),
    2) There is no standard userspace colorspace conversion library in use,
    3) Linus refuses to allow colorspace conversion in kernel space,
    4) Because of the odd architecture of the card, and having to share control with X, tuning is done within the XServer. It should be possible, if ugly, to have the V4L driver tell X to change channels.

    So either you fix the applications to work with more than one driver case (as with FFMPEG/avview) or you figure out some way around it (when I get a large block of time, I want to try and use the 3D texture engine for hardware colorspace conversion.)

    R C
    (occasional GATOS developer)

  15. Re:Mafia on RIAA Not Done With Jesse Jordan · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's an italian comedian Pat Cooper. One of his routines goes (by memory):

    "Daddy, what does the N-double A-C-P stand for?"
    "It's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."
    "We're italian, what do we got?"
    "We got the EMA-AIA-EFFA-IIA-AIA. The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association."
    "Oh."

  16. Re:Managing bandwidth on Managing Bandwidth and Bandwidth Costs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Look at wondershaper.. I have it set to prioritize my upload stream (don't bother having it reduce queueing on my downstream, hasn't been necessary) by putting ACKs, DNS, irc, ssh, ping, and http (port 80 target; haven't addressed https) in the high priority queue, and everything else in bulk. Works pretty well, although I'm considering adding more ram on the NAT box and running a local DNS server again; Comcast's are flakey.

  17. Re:Both are impossible on Website Posts Partial SSNs of Politicians in Protest · · Score: 1

    David Drake (among others) has explored the total transparency angle in his Lacey short stories. _Lacey and his Friends_ contains all of them, I believe.

  18. Re:Really the top? on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1

    Well, you'd also need a boatload of texture data, but that is fairly constant within a scene.

  19. Re:sources on Websites of Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they are a pain to search; there are indexes and tables of content, but not much else. Often they are of little use.

  20. Re:OT: but here we go... on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 1

    http://packages.debian.org/stable/otherosfs/dosemu .html

    Stable is at 1.0.2.1-7.
    Unstable and testing are at 1.0.2.1-13.

  21. Re:Linksys improving, but... on Slashback: Mars, Linksys, Torrent · · Score: 1

    And further, after the module source is provided to a few people, it will likely be (legally) posted on various sites and newsgroups, and probably actually read, simply because they made it unusually difficult to get.

    Unless you had trouble with it, or were trying to add a feature/write a similar driver, would most people look at driver code? I know I haven't looked at many except V4L devices since I was working on one myself..

  22. Re:It sounds better... on The Australian Broadband Disaster · · Score: 1

    There seems to be irregular, unposted outages from Comcast here at odd times in the morning, 3-5 AMish, usually lasting 10-30 minutes. I wouldn't mind if it was posted somewhere, but it's not scheduled downtime if the schedule isn't available to users.

    If it is available, please feel free to correct me (this is slashdot, after all :) )

  23. Re:At least they're using Linux on Is Linksys Violating The GPL? · · Score: 1

    There is a post listing a couple of links to a linux-kernel discussion; both belkin and linksys firmwares had both busybox and a linux kernel, and did not contain the appropriate documentation.

  24. Re:where'd they get the rom from? on Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines · · Score: 1

    It's legal, AFAIK (differs based on country/law/judge/etc) to pull a rom on a machine you own, whether you leave it on the silicon or pull it to your ram/hard drive. It is copyright infringement to redistribute said binary image without permission (_not_ theft).

  25. Re:Thanks for shopping! NOW SPREAD 'EM! on Walmart to Push RFID · · Score: 1
    It's really insulting, the way they treat paying criminals like criminals.

    Is that a Freudian slip? :) Or just the brainwashing taking effect?