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  1. Re:is this so hard? on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    Hmm, it's r_é_volution, actually.

  2. Re:Quorum? on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    Which leaves the door open to filibustering, right?
    Whatever, in France, the law needs to pass trough a bipartisan comitee and through the constitutional court (equivalent of US supreme court).
    All the 'system is flawed' comments are baseless, there are several watchdogs to avoid an obvious biaised law to pass.
    The fact that Hadopi is a bad law or not is another debate.

  3. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Mmm, yeah.
    Lets assume that you issued 'killall pulseaudio' and then 'kill -2 1234' on the command line.

    What I was referring to was the fact that when you press Ctrl-R in emacs mode, then you type 'kill' it would show e.g. "kill -2 1234", and then you'd add 'all', and then it would show 'killall pulseaudio' (which would have been issued earlier).
    OTOH, in vi mode, when I press Esc-/ I can type 'kill' and then search for the killall with 'n', but it's less handy IMHO.

  4. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Somthing that's handy with Ctrl-R as opposed to ESC-/ is that Ctrl-R updates the search results as you type. Do you know if you can achieve the same effect in vi mode?

  5. Re:Amazing on Satellite Internet Providers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had a satelite before.. ping times well over 1200ms.

    Smells like something funny on the provider side. I assume the satellite was geostationnary (35786 km from earth). So given that the signal travels at the speed of light, a RTT between you and the provider hub should be:
    35786 / c * 4 * 1000000 = 477ms
    4 being the times the distance is travelled (modem->sat, sat->provider, hub->provider, sat->modem).
    Of course the signal travels a bit less fast, and there's some processing at your providers but I've seen results around 600ms.

    Weren't the 1,2 sec RTT you're talking about between two sat modems? That would explain such a huge delay.

  6. Re:An excellent argument... on IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India · · Score: 1

    • Who else is reading your code?

    How don't quite get how this influences your code?

  7. Re:Thank minimum wage on IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India · · Score: 1

    Seconded, I've helped "writing" a thesis on economy in south-east Asia. The work basically consisted in getting a thesis produced the previous year, and adding the current year to figures, tables, etc.
    The text would be left as-is, ready for the next year.

  8. Re:The Two Key Project Management Thingys on The Principles of Project Management · · Score: 1

    leave their imagination at home.
    Which leaves the "where to get your boring product?" question open.

  9. Yeah like I saw on TV on Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware · · Score: 1

    Besides, there's a more direct method of breaking the encryption: track down the people who wrote the virus and force them to talk.
    You, sir, need to stop watching 24

  10. Re:who proved Astrée ...? on Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work? · · Score: 1

    *any* software [the French] write is always "perfect" even if it can be demonstrated to be a piece of crap in front of half a dozen decision makers. You know, any "demonstration" aimed at half a dozen PHBs often relies on the looks of your Powerpoint presentation.
    So, basically, you're good at picking fonts, and that pie chart was really gorgeous. Congratulations.
  11. Re:who proved Astrée ...? on Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not "error free", it's _run-time error free_. Which according to the GP's link means that no undefined behaviour according to the C standard or user added asserts may happen.
    So for example, the program won't ever divide by zero or overflow an integer while summing.

  12. Re:Well Duuuh... on 6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, actually, I click on ads as a sort of reward on blogs I find interesting. I don't even look at the ad, just click a random google ad link. My reasoning is that if the blog post is interesting, I can add my 0.02€, literally.

  13. Free software on What Skills Should Undergrads Have? · · Score: 1

    Get involved in an Open Source project, Summer of code or whatever interests you. Try to gain some experience as soon as you can,
    specially on fields you don't feel comfortable with.
    Try to target an active community, you'll learn by observing how people behave on mailing lists, how people react to code, criticisms etc.. A major OS project (Linux, Mozilla, Ruby) would be great.

  14. Re:No Way on FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance · · Score: 1

    High loss and high latency are different beasts. The example you mention only refers to high loss. We've got 250ms latency links, and the vanilla Linux stack sucks, period. Even if you tune the stack, you'll still get TCP slow start, so I don't really get your previous posts.

  15. Re:I can't see this working on Intel Accused of Being an "Open Source Fraud" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looking at GPL code is legal, but the virality of the GPL taints anyone who does so.

    Clean room design can help you circumvent this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

  16. Re:No, bad on Gentoo Announces 'Seeds' · · Score: 1

    Sure I could report it to the lkml, but chances are they'll need more than "Tyan 2882 and UHCI no work."
    That's right, but the procedure is fully documented here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reportin g-bugs.html

  17. Re:I would like to use Fedora... on Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack Responds · · Score: 1

    OK, thanks. I've just checked, but it seems that the card is already in the latest kernel. So I think it's either the kernel or the X server that was too old...
    Good luck anyway :)

  18. Re:I would like to use Fedora... on Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack Responds · · Score: 1

    ...and fails on detecting the (i810) graphics chip.
    Care to post your lspci -v (the relevant line at least)? Followed by a lspci -nv. It may just be a missing PCI ID...

    Regards,

  19. Re:Thanks for your up front honesty on Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack Responds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But your plain talking honesty means I will give Fedora another try. In particular your answer to question 2 makes me question why I support Ubuntu over Debian or fedora.
    This issue is particularly acute when it comes to the Long Term Support.
    Let's say that my box absolutely needs that binary blob "without which many computers will not complete the Ubuntu installation" (from ubuntu/philosophy).
    How on earth will Ubuntu be able to provide the security patch needed to immunize my kernel against a new vulnerability? It will depend on the blob provider. Binary drivers tie you to a particular kernel ABI, and if it changes, you're stuck. Saying that you'll provide five years support and shipping binary drivers seems a bit contradictory to me.

  20. Re:I dislike the idea of Coverity on Firefox Analyzed for Bugs by Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you'd followed the lkml, you could have seen actual patches fixing real bugs, found by Coverity. Just run this search on google: "by coverity" patch site:lkml.org to convince yourself.
    The fact that it is impossible to solve the whole problem of program correctness and that false positives will come up doesn't mean that the problem Coverity is adressing isn't usefull.

    Regards,

  21. Re:Can someone... on Initial Reactions to Fedora Core 5 · · Score: 1

    Knowing a bit on your background would help helping you. Really.

  22. Re:Oh, no hot air, I see... on The New Boom · · Score: 1

    GP is right actually, the stock price is irrelevant. What you could find ridiculous is Google's stock market value compared to actual benefits, but that's another story.

  23. Re:what's the point of a 1 billion page sample? on A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages · · Score: 1

    I presume that some background on how this is technically possible _and_ simple enough to implement is available here ?

  24. Re:Staying Competitive: Europe vs. USA on Galileo Sends Its First Signals · · Score: 3, Informative

    The blog you point to seems to choose the figures that back its theory up. From the same papers it cites as source[1], you can read:
    Homicides / 100.000 inhabitants 1999
    US: 4.55
    France: 1.63
    Germany: 1.22
    Italy: 1.4
    Switzerland: 1.25

    [1]http://www.unodc.org/unodc/crime_cicp_survey_se venth.html

  25. Re:Portable Firefox on Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact there's a full Portable Suite here : http://portableapps.com/suite