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  1. Big Data for chess on The New (Computer) Chess World Champion · · Score: 1

    You mean like what the runner up is already doing? http://stockfishchess.org/get-...

  2. Re:Not sending history to Valve on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 2

    Don't need to change the actual files to patch it. See DLL Injection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

  3. Re:skynet on Ants Build Cheapest Networks · · Score: 1

    Ant Mills, where the ants do keeps following one another in a circle until they die. (insert joke here about reference counting and circular references).

  4. Those results are from OneBox (ie non algo-search) on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 1

    Um, yes, the first results may come from OneBox, which is not from their "Algorithmic" search, but from a separate service that triggers on certain keywords, like "music", "movie"... and "csco". Adding commas just makes it not trigger the OneBox search. It used to be that the OneBox results are more visually different from the rest of the results, but the recent redesigns makes them very much alike.

    OneBox is also used to implement features like "10 km in miles". See also http://searchengineland.com/meet-the-google-onebox-plus-box-direct-answers-the-10-pack-26706 I'm not use if they still use the word "OneBox" to describe this feature though, but it is still used in the Google Search Appliances.

    Disclaimer. IANAGoogler, reposting this from my reddit reply.

  5. Re:So many games on The Unsung Heroes of PC Gaming History · · Score: 1

    Not as popular, and not D&D, but Akalabeth should be one of the first first person dungeon hack. Predates the Ultimas, which is influential in their own right.

  6. Re:What, no E75 love? on Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    It refuses to install properly on my E71 even after I forced it to install after the not-compatible warning.

    The one linked on the European support appeared to be an older version.

  7. Re:A bit too heavy IMHO... on Second Netbook Wave Begins · · Score: 2, Informative

    0.9 kg vs 1.45 kg. I don't know how many Mars bars that is, but that's over 60% increase in weight.

  8. Re:Windows. on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/
    http://swik.net/tortoisegit

    Haven't used either, can't attest to stability or usability.

  9. Re:DNS Glue poisoning was already known... on Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe it wasn't clear, but I was going to echo nweaver's reply:

    glue (additional) records should NEVER be cached. Period.

    djbdns's total lack of support for glue records (IIRC) is one of the reasons it's one of the few old dns software not vulnerable. And that's the point I was trying to drive: the glue records feature made the cache poisoning possible -- I just read the exploit code, and it uses Additional Section to inject the malicious entry. Without this feature, like in djbdns, the exploit wouldn't work.

    Yeah, I should have said "don't cache glue records", not "make it stricter" mea culpa.

  10. Re:DNS Glue poisoning was already known... on Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, but it's a "feature" that makes the attack possible. Turn it off, or make it stricter, and the attack falls apart.

  11. Re:Steve Jobs style on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 1

    The one important story from folklore.org that's relevant to this article, shows that being grossly underpaid was even prevalent during the early Macintosh days.

  12. Re:Addons on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Does Adblock Plus work in Linux that doesn't require superuser/root? Yes

  13. Re:Thanks for posting... on What a Botnet Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Interactive Flash controls my foot. It looks like a raster image output of the Graphviz's dot command. Which takes a text file as an input, meaning we could have the source to generate the dang map in the first place.

  14. Re:It'd be nice.. on A New Concept in Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. See, this is where a "supercomputer" is unlike a super car: whatever spec it is, the computer will be hopelessly underpowered, and overpriced when compared with the average computer 5 years in the future.

  15. Re:Source on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, just checked. In fact, I created a page that outputs a large random integer. It's the same. Don't know, maybe we've different Firebug versions or it reloads the source under different circumstances. Firebug's been a foolproof all-in-one debugging tool for us so far.

  16. Re:Source on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 1

    firebug shows the generated source,
    The raw source is available, IIRC, under Net -> $current_url -> Response, if you have enabled it. Shows every damn request, images, html, text and ajax alike.
  17. Re:Already existed. on Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was a proprietary one (that I forget the name of now) that was very good
    Speed Tree? It can generates trees real time based on predefined definition. With proper 3D lighting, it looks way better than Dryad. Mature product as well, being used in lots of games.
  18. Re:with MySQL, eh... so much for having a choice on PHP5 Vs. CakePHP Vs. RubyOnRails? · · Score: 1

    ...never trust benchmarks given to me by one of the two sides...

    Here you go. http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/7
  19. Re:A study I was a part of in college on Beijing Police To Launch Animated Web Patrols · · Score: 1

    a little head would appear in the top corner that was to signify that a "supervisor" was watching what you did. They wanted to see if your data entry slowed/sped up,...


    Testing Hawthorne Effect, I presume. The wikipedia page has interesting bits on when it. In a Management class in uni, the conclusion we were taught is the Hawthorne Effect causes productivity to increase when observed, but seems closer to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to me: productivity changes when directly observed or measured, but not always for the better.
  20. Re:Solution on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nice doesn't do much for disk I/O issues, which is why Linux video players like Totem, MythTV, etc, read a lot of data from disk before decoding (ie waste memory).
    # man ionice

    Recent kernels (2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler) and distros have been using it. e.g. beagled and updatedb is in class 3 (idle). Try ionice -c1 nice -n -10 totem. That's kernel support for I/O scheduling. Now user apps and $fav Desktop Environment just need to be able to be aware of that and use that more often.

  21. Re:Static page generation on Pro Drupal Development · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to generate static web pages by Drupal?
    Two ways:
    • Semi-static. Use the built-in caching mechanism. First time a content is accessed, it is cached to db. 2nd time, grab the entire output from db. When content is updated, appropriate caches are flushed. This is something MySQL's MyISAM tables are excellent for. Oh, how to use? Just turn it on from the admin pages.
    • Just use drupal on development site, and wget -r, script/fix the links, and rsync it to production. Don't run drupal on production.
    OTOH, if you want certain pages pregenerated, and others not, just plonk down your static content on a separate subdirectory on drupal. They'd co-exist nicely. Might be more work to make sure they absolutely sync'd up though.
  22. Re:On the other hand... on 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just do 'sudo su'?

    Or, I'd just use 'sudo /bin/bash'
  23. Re:He did use real noise. on Open Source Image De-Noising · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm more impressed, if it's real, of the removal of the cage from the caged parrot photo: http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstorat ion/img/res_zoobird.png

    Similar, but less so: http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstorat ion/img/res_parrot.png

  24. Re:I could tell it was all CG effects on ILM Showcases "Dead Man's Chest" Effects Work · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ron Gilbert, designer of Monkey Island, commenting on the similarities between Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean on his blog: http://grumpygamer.com/8123463

  25. Re:I think you're full of it. on PostgreSQL 8.2 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... I'm also doubting the 23% increase in performance... FWIW, and YMMV, when you get hammered with many concurrent queries, it's much, much faster. At about 100 concurrent hits, about 50% faster: http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6 Benchmark method here: http://tweakers.net/reviews/646/9

    Yes, it's missing description on how exactly they set up MySQL. MyISAM? innodb? So take it with a grain of salt.