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  1. Re:Rob Levin's Statement on #debian & IRC Politics · · Score: 2, Informative

    Him and his girlfriend (or wife is it?)....

    Thats were the money is going.

  2. reason for donations on #debian & IRC Politics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just incase you haven't been listening. The reason for the plee for donations is to go into the pocket of the IRCops - mainly 1: Lilo.
    (no, not to maintain the servers, bandwidth, etc etc).

    Why? Because he doesnt have a job and is finding it hard to survive.
    The reason he claims is because he spends so much time admining OPN..

    Has he thought of maybe offloading some of the work to someone else? Probably, but then he'd have to get a job.

  3. Re:wtf does carmac know about rockets? on John Carmack, Rocket Boy · · Score: 1

    Did it occur to you that Carmack doesnt actually right the games, he writes the engines. The physics behind individual objects (rockets for example) would be coded by the game-creator.. not the engine-creator.

  4. Re:Not a good open source citizen on Transgaming's WineX 2.1 - Supports WarCraft 3 · · Score: 1

    No,

    The compatability is based on user success.. Users submit the games and rate how well it works for them. Notice how the comments are appropriatly labeled "User Comments"?

  5. if nothing works... on What Good Linux Debuggers Are There? · · Score: 1

    If nothing does what you want, and your company does a whole heap of stuff in linux and _needs_ a better debugger - have you thought about sponsuring gdb development for what you need?...

    Speaking of which... what exactly is it in gdb that needs fixing (thread stuff? what specifically??).. I use it fine with multithreaded apps all the time (a absolutely massive C program generally).

    craz

  6. google on Comparison Of Google to Teoma · · Score: 4, Funny

    google has two great things:

    a) pigeon rank
    b) linux

    Teoma has:

    a) no animal employement
    b) windows.

  7. obviously... on Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales · · Score: 1

    obviously this is true. But I'd argue that the atleast part of the reason that this is the case isn't because we have access to p2p software and burners (other users do, too) but because we are more aware of how much both the consumers and artists get ripped off by the record companies.

    Even if the p2p/burner stuff didnt exist, or there was copy protection that worked, I still wouldn't buy the CD's - because its moroly wrong.

  8. Re:We'll try back in a few generations... on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 1

    As I said, they wern't/arn't commmunist.

  9. Re:We'll try back in a few generations... on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll byte..

    Not necessarily in the short term.. But in the longer term America's arrogant position will drag it down to anything-but a democratic system... (can anyone say 'previous election' or 'corporate sponsurship of politicians'?) - Though the way I see china is ultimatly having a better system since they'll probably try to combine comunism (the 'citizens input' aspect of it) with democracy and end up with something good.

    Remember kids, comunism isn't bad - they just taught you that because 'russia was bad' and 'china is bad': Neither of which are proper communist states.

  10. Re:We'll try back in a few generations... on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying China is more democratic than America, at the moment they probably arn't.

    But America's inistance that they are "purely democratic" when they obviously arn't leaves little room for improvement. Whereas China has conceded they arn't democratic - this gives them alot of room to change.

  11. Re:We'll try back in a few generations... on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 1, Troll

    Which will probably be several millenia before America "gets" democracy.

  12. the shipping news on What's on Your Summer 2002 Reading List? · · Score: 1

    haven't seen the film, but someone I know did - so I thought I'd read the book..

    and so half way through, pretty good book..

  13. Re:leave the geek stuff at work on Living the Computer Geek Lifestyle w/ a Significant Other? · · Score: 1

    What do you need all that crap for at home? I don't even check my email on the weekends

    funny how, you being a canadian, its a sunday night for you.... last time I checked, sunday was on the weekend..

  14. related question on Travelling with Wireless in Europe? · · Score: 1

    Early next month I'm going to be traveling over to the west of canada. I have a digi camera with a 128mb and a 16mb memory cards. Will internet cafe's let me plug the USB digi cam in and upload my pics to home?

    Thanks
    David.

  15. Re:My fast, easy solution. on Improving Unix Mail Storage? · · Score: 2, Informative

    when you say big emails....I assume that you mean less that 16 MB to handle MySQL row limitation. We have users who want to send 30 MB messages. Damn artists.

    Nope, This limitation disapeared ages ago..

    Information can be found here here and here

    I suggest opening up the config file (generally /etc/mysql/my.cnf) and ensuring everything like "max_allowed_packet" etc are > 50-ish MB.

    David

  16. My fast, easy solution. on Improving Unix Mail Storage? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well. My solution for storing ALOT of BIG email but still browsing fast is to use MySQL. My mail client is Pronto! (written by Muhri, in perl, gtk, etc).. I have several 10's of thousands emails in about 10 different folders. Reaction time is immediate and searching is pretty damn quick aswell.
    The mysql server is at work, and I can view my mail from anywhere simply by pointing my client at my IP. Presto.

    I'm also slowly writing a MySQL-based IMAP server which will hopefully be compatible with Pronto!... But as with so many projects, itl probably take some time to complete...

    David

  17. Re:What's next? on Cenozoic Park: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger · · Score: 1

    Maybe the dodo bird? I'd say good idea.

  18. suspend-to-RAM? on Linux Development Kernel 2.5.18 Released · · Score: 1

    Huh? I don't understand what the advantage of 'suspend-to-RAM' is. You still have to supply power to the PC. Hence it still needs to be on.

    And anyhow, if you just want to do a normal suspend, whats the difference between this and the suspend feature thats been around for yonks in apm?

    David.

  19. i missed work.. on So Did the Hordes Really Skip out for Episode 2? · · Score: 1

    I missed work, so did some other guys, including our boss..
    Then again I came back and worked late...

  20. Re:WineX? on VMware and Games? · · Score: 1

    I can say that the next release of WineX (not todays release) WILL fix both the font problems and the crashes in civ3 ;-).

    David

    (now, back to conquering the russians)

  21. DUKNCVR on The Perfect Plate for the Nuclear Family Car · · Score: 1

    call me stupid, but what does this stand for? (DUKNCVR)?

  22. Re:color depth on XFree86 10 Years Old · · Score: 1

    You talk with me too much, Hetz ;-)

    David.

  23. [OT] Re:and in other news on Blizzard removes Orcs from Warcraft III · · Score: 1

    And at the bottom of the page they quote one of the best songs ever.

    "Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles.

  24. .... easily hackable?? on Teoma Aims To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    From first inspection, it seems to rank pages higher if their
    I reckon this would be well, quite easy to hack.. Hmm.

  25. and it runs..... on Fujitsu Announces XScale PDA · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Microsoft Pocket Pc2002 Software"...

    err yeah, I wont be buying that one.. but thanks!