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  1. Re:quakeman on Quake 3 2600 Adventure · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wasn't it already featured in the secret level of the "Die, Führer, die" Wolfenstein 3D episode ?

  2. Re:Cool! on Quake 3 2600 Adventure · · Score: 1

    I just loved this game but I think there's another one (that also ran on Coleco) which would also be worth Q3ing : Venture.

  3. your sig on Ed Felten in the Economist · · Score: 1

    it's from Zappa, isn't it ? :-)

    BTW, thanks for yourhelp.

  4. Re:I have an idea on Intel to Build DRM into Next-Generation CPUs · · Score: 1

    yep except that in the page which link you give us they say that Cubase made it all in these obscure times, though I remember Alchimie/Atari ST which had 4 times the resolution and tracks but which just had not the same advertising budget...
    What a shame :-(

  5. Re:I have an idea on Intel to Build DRM into Next-Generation CPUs · · Score: 1

    mostly, yes.
    my 600MHz linux laptop is perfect for what it does : development, dvd, divx playing...

    but when it comes to making music, I must admit I really needed my recent P4/2.26 to run Cubase VST along with its ten tons of plugins.

  6. Re:I have an idea on Intel to Build DRM into Next-Generation CPUs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly, not so long ago, we'd stay for ages with our existing machines, my first (personal) one was an atari 520ST that I used for 6 years before buying something else (an Acorn RiscPC).
    So, yes, the best way to stop this technological inflation is simply to exploit what we have to the most of their capicities :-)

  7. Re:Have you tried the Google Cache? on Ed Felten in the Economist · · Score: 1

    It will fetch me the original text while the pictures won't be cached but replaced with some Squid logo.
    I actually didn't clik on your link lest this would add to my company unauthorized access log record...
    (or lest this'd lead to some goatse thing which is probably not the case ;-)

  8. Squidded ??? on Ed Felten in the Economist · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Surprisingly enough, the EFF.org website has been blacklisted from my Company's firewall.
    This is a public administration which has *no* interest in preventing Free speech.

    They use some (Open Source) Squid-based server to proxy us, so, my question (this is indeed a question, NOT a troll) is What's on eff.org that would bother a Swiss administration's proxy ?

    • pr0n ?
    • violence ?
    • extreme-right opinions ?


    The above suggestions correspond to the server's black-listing criteria...
  9. Re:Version with integrated cellphone? on Zaurus Sync Software (Finally) Available for Linux · · Score: 2

    Check this :-)

  10. Zaurus on Zaurus Sync Software (Finally) Available for Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is good news for sure, I personally own one that I got used to synchronizing to my Palm (infra-red), which I further synbchronize to my laptop.

    Now, for all the geeks here, here's a nice Zaurus software repository...

    And here is my favourite Zaurus App

  11. 133MB update ??? on BBC Hails "fair" Microsoft XP SP1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Microsoft is due to release on 9 September a 133MB upgrade for its Windows XP operating system called Service Pack 1."

    Wow, my 0.9x slackware was lighter !
    Besides this "hide-features" feature, what is lying in this SP1 ?
    A 132MB-EULA ?

  12. Re:Cutting Edge on UT 2003 Client For Linux? · · Score: 2

    Please, wait until it *has* come, we've seen far too many announcements such as this one and far to few concretisations...
    In the mean time, you may contact them to tell them how much you'd like them to support your OS :-)

  13. Re:Microsoft's dominance on Bruce Perens Canned by HP · · Score: 1

    "I doubt that this came from a purely internal HP-Compaq decision."

    And I doubt huge corporations need microsoft advice when it come to sack people for productivity's sake.

  14. Diffamation on Ruling in Aimster Case · · Score: 1

    Their web page reads "The ONLY Service With NO SPYWARE!".
    How can they be so sure the others are that crappy ?
    And, BTW, if we consider they use(d) GNUtella code for the p2p service, then GNUtella is spyware free 2... not to mention GNUnet...

  15. Re:Flawed p2p app. Flawed business model. on Ruling in Aimster Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only p2p model that has a remote chance to survive in this hostile world of RIAA omnipotence is the Direct Connect (DC)

    What about the GNUnet model?

  16. Re:Professional Apache on Professional Apache 2.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps, perhaps not. I don't see the moderator point, though.
    Anyway, I'd say the Professional Apache is Stronghold.
    Not because of any feature because it *is* Apache but because of its support.
    Many geeks won't need this but mostcorporations includign the one I work for actually require such software to be properly marketed and supported.
    "Properly" stands here for "using a proper contract".

  17. Re:Range on Sony Presents Bluetooth Digital Camera · · Score: 2

    I guess there is still a possibility to store the pics on a Memory Stick... the bluetooth capability must be aimed at other specific uses, like photo-sharing with people who have neither USB nor a MS-reader (like the ones that are included in Vaios or Clies)...
    Maybe Tom Cruise could also use this if he plans a remake of MI2 (especially the moment when they're at the races and they need to collect some memory-card data).

  18. Dallas on Classic Console TV Ads · · Score: 2

    This reminds me of an episode of Dallas in which one could see the Barnes playing "Yar's Revenge" on an Atari VCS system... wasn't this some kind of advertising ?

  19. Re:read the article... on DVD Region Encoding on Verge of Collapse? · · Score: 1

    a shop can't import zone-[^2] dvds anymore...
    as an individual, I can buy one overseas and bring it back, though.
    it can still sell its old ones, technically, according to the law text.

  20. read the article... on DVD Region Encoding on Verge of Collapse? · · Score: 2

    They don't give any evidence of the forthcoming "collapse", they just consider it's getting closer but don't add much element.
    Looks like hype to me even though the generalisation of the DVD-unlocks are a good but still unofficial.
    Alsoi, since Aug 1st, it has become forbidden (in Swiss) to import Zone [^2] DVDs, so, I'd say that such collapse might be postponed.

  21. Re:Ha-ha on User Friendly 1.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I personally prefer the GFP-Comics... :-)

  22. Re:Floppies on Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC · · Score: 1

    Probably the Win98SE instead ;-)

  23. Floppies on Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC · · Score: 1

    Nope, only w2k is bootable.
    But you can get floppy images on http://www.bootdisk.com...

  24. Re:Zaurus on Portable MP3 Player w/ Unix Support? · · Score: 1

    Well, the supplied MP3 player is a little too rich in high frequencies.

    Concerning your 802.11b usage, I guess, I could go to your garden and just log on your password free Zaurus to copy your MP3, no ? ;-)

  25. Re:Is there any chinese slashdotters? on Linux Continues March On China · · Score: 1
    I indeed added a comment about the social link between GwB and BG but you're compiling both of my statements a little too fast, aren't you ?

    You obviously forget the following:
    • Being GwB's friend doesn't imply not being Clinton's
    • It could also be interpreted as : the presidents are usually happy to be on the world richests' good side (unless they are extreme leftists)
    • it is under GwB, however, that the DoJ stopped suing Microsoft.