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  1. Internode bandwidth - cheap solutions? on Cray XT-3 Ships · · Score: 0

    The Internode Bandwidth seems to be the major selling point of this machine, what alternatives are there for supercomputing on a budget?

    Is there anything better than a few gigabit ethernet cards in every box (and still affordable!)?

  2. Upcoming movies? on Ask Neal Stephenson · · Score: 1

    Do you have any plans to see your books being released as movies?

  3. Re:I have one of these on A One-Handed Keyboard For $25 · · Score: 1

    > I definitely wouldn't consider it a candidate for a "one-handed keyboard"

    Why not?

  4. Re:SlashCam on Build Your Own KiteCam · · Score: 1

    FYI, there's actually a very good moviemaking community website in Germany with the name slashcam.de

  5. broken perl source code on Searching for the Best Scripting Language · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering why noone here seems to have noticed that most of the perl scripts on the site are broken...

  6. Re:bernstein on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's also terribly arrogant :-( He often has his reasons for rejecting proposals, but not always and he's very bad on communications.

  7. SPF works with IP addresses, this one doesn't on Yahoo Submits DomainKeys Draft To IETF · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SPF requires you to send mail from certain IP addresses or at least relay it via certain servers. Sounds to me like the Yahoo! proposal does it without this requirement.
    Not bad, but far more complexity.
    Do I really want all this extra code in my small, secure qmail-smtpd binary?

  8. Can these be bought off-the-shelf? on Tiny Surveillance Aircraft Fly in Tucson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can I buy one of them for an affordable price without having to re-solve all the problems mentioned in the article?
    What video-goggles are recommended?

  9. So, what do I add to my /etc/apt/sources.list ...? on End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0 · · Score: 1

    ... in order to keep getting security fixes for my RedHat 8.0 i386 box?

    I think FedoraLegacy is not there yet, am I wrong?

  10. Ewwww! American Kitsch at its worst on Apartment Lit Solely by LEDs · · Score: 1

    As disgusting as it gets.. even with cool tech behind it.

  11. Re:Come on IBM. on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please don't! Rewarding these criminals will set a bad example for everyone else. You are right. They are wrong. Sit it out. Make them pay in the end. That's the only way to deal with their kind.

    (aka "We don't negotiate with terrorists")

  12. ... Designated CPU's ... blech! on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yo SCO!

    CPU's ?

    It's a pural s, there is no justification for an apostrophe. Get a clue!

  13. No DVI! on A Hackable Media Player For HDTV · · Score: 0

    Aaaargh! The pain...

  14. mod_perl 2 contents (lack of) on Practical mod_perl · · Score: 1

    Too bad there seems to be only one chapter on mod_perl 2.0. It's still a (slightly?) moving target, but it seems very promising and is hopefully stable soon, leading to a large number of people switching to Apache 2.x.
    After all, everyone is itching to have the various filters chained after one another, like running Apache's server side include mechanism over the output of your perl scripts... which is possible only with Apache 2.x.

  15. There's a patch for DJBDNS on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    to return NXDOMAIN again. You can find it at http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip.patch
    Use at your own risk, I haven't tested it - yet.

  16. Pictures! on Sharp Announces 3D Laptop · · Score: 1
  17. Disappointing video on New AIBO - Meet the ERS-7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was interested in the new Aibo, but the flash-video is a downer. The new Aibo moves very slowly and robo-like.. i was hoping it'd be a lot smoother and faster.
    The SDK looks cool though.

  18. Re:Tone of the article... on "Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked · · Score: 1

    > Heise is not a very open-source friendly news outlet.
    > So take this with a grain of salt.

    LOL! Boy, you are clueless.

  19. Did you know... on When Good Spammers Go Bad · · Score: 1

    ... that every time you enter "evidence eliminator" into google and then click on the text ad leading to http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/ .... it might cost them a few cents.

  20. What do we need speed for? on PCI Express - Coming Soon to a PC Near You · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Let's see... the majority of users have
    • IDE harddrives (up to ~60MB/s)
    • AGP graphics card
    • Fast ethernet LAN (10MB/s)
    PCI does 133MB/s.
    IDE chips are onboard and don't need PCI slots.
    Gigabit ethernet could be a use of buses faster than PCI but I've felt the trend is also to put them right on the mainboard. Besides, the switches are still prohibitively expensive.
    AGP: We've seen that 8x AGP does not give a performance boost over 4x AGP.

    I don't see a great need for PCI-X at the moment.
  21. Re:Straight from the source on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    > And, with no "apt-get dist-upgrade" equivalent,

    What are you talking about?
    http://apt.freshrpms.net/
    Works like a charm.

  22. Re: Encrypting self-made DVDs? on Using Palladium to Secure P2P Networks · · Score: 1
    Hmm.. good point. It raises these questions:
    • Is there any way of encrypting your own DVD with CSS?
    • i.e. Has it been hacked both ways (write also)?
    • Can CSS protected discs be written with ordinary DVD writers?
  23. Trackers on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    BitTorrent's trackers track users' downloads. It is not only a single point of failure, but also a privacy problem if the data downloaded is legally or morally questionable.

    Do you see this as a problem that needs to be fixed eventually?
    Or do you think it's the problem of those people who use BitTorrent and have something to hide?
    So it's a feature? :-)

  24. Using BitTorrent as official distribition system? on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have you heard about any large sites/companies like SourceForge adopting BitTorrent as download mechanism? From what I understand, this is what BitTorrent was originally planned to be used for the most.

    Would you accept a job offer from, say a major movie rights corporation, that plans to use [a variant of] BitTorrent for distributing its DRM Video-on-Demand data?