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  1. P2P it on Managing Bandwidth and Bandwidth Costs? · · Score: 1

    It seems like an aboveous place to use some Peer2Peer method. (Unless these X meg downloads are pay per download or members only). BitTorrent is very good at this but stick links for people to download it off other systems like gnutella or kazaa... (whatever is the latest best). These people who download your errr... whatever it is, will pass it on.
    All your company needs to do is to seed the files on the networks. Much lower bandwidth than serving each one.

  2. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM",I dare you! on IBM Responds To SCO: Business As Usual · · Score: 4, Funny

    It sounds like a chalenge but what a great way to go.
    If you are about to quit and you have access to some company account (petty cash will do) then go and spend it all on 5,000 cpies of OS/2 or something equally as stupid.
    Imagine the fame for being the firsrt person to be fired for buying IBM.

  3. Re:SCO is hard to believe here on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 0

    Option B doesnt sound that bad
    B) Remove the offending code from Linux

    Here, I'll have a go

    >cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
    >for F in `find` ; do cat $F | sed s/SCO\ suxx/SCO\ is\ great/g > /tmp/temp; cp /tmp/temp $F; done;

  4. Re:woohoo, pdf conversion... on Special Edition Using Star Office 6.0 · · Score: 1

    These ps2pdf generated PDF files are very annoying. The table of contents is not an "more advanced PDF feature". I read many many papers and books at the computer and its very annoying when there is no table of contents

  5. Re:Splitting Those ZIPs on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    But these encription extentions will probably improve the encription and thus make it more commonly used.
    As far as I remember the ZIP encription was 32bit of which 8 bits were for key matching so it doesnt take too long nowdays.

  6. Re:Plans started long before "recent events" on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Im not sure what's better.
    Europe being a set of quite sepperate countries, and the US ruling the world with its rough hand and feeling good about it self.
    Or the EU creating a super country to equal that of the US and not relient on the US investment, army or technology. Unfortunately in 20-50 years it might just take someone shooting a turkey to create a nasty global war.
    Im in favour of the satelite system but I hope we dont get too big headed about it.

  7. Origin of SPAM on Bayesian Filtering For Dummies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's slightly ironic that the BBC, through the commissioning of Monty Python, also gave 'spam' its name.
    Does anyone have proof thats where the name comes from?

  8. Re:Surprise? on Foreign E3 Journalists Body Searched, Deported · · Score: 1

    I'm (sortof) British and I'm about to attend a confrence in LA. This is work in a way as I am presenting a paper. Should I have a work visa to give freely to the world my latest research? I dont have a work visa and dont see any justification to be "subjected to several body searches" because I want to go to a confrence. I am about to spend a huge ammount of money staying there and I am giving a great big lump of research away for free to everyone. I don't see any need for action like this in exchenge.

    It is simmilar the other way round. A student from the US who visits regurally as he is working on the same project as us has to now get a full workers visa even though he is funded by the US university.

  9. What's the future? on A Palm for Every Purpose · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am helping with a computer science course involved with microcontrollers. We basicly teach ARM and controlling IO. I was just wondering if teaching assembly is old hat now days where handhelds come with OS's capable of doing all that for you, and where handlelds are today washing machines and tosters will be tommorow.
    So is there a point in teaching low level coding or should microcontrollers be programmed in higher level languages?

  10. Uses on LCD Screens Almost Paper-thin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let the speculation for new uses begin!
    I always wanted to wallpaper my house with something that I could change at a flick of a swich.
    At night it would turn into little moons and stars.
    In the morning it would reflect what the weather is like.
    During the day I could watch tv or browse the web on any wall in the house.
    Or even implant cameras in the other rooms so it would look like you have see through walls.

    Ah well back to the reals world.

  11. Mirror on Preliminary OS X & PPC 970 Benchmarks · · Score: 4, Informative
  12. Side mount IDE connectors on Canterwood Motherboards Refined · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone know why they are sticking the IDE sockets on their side?

  13. Will the employees cooperate? on Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 1

    Dell, IBM, Sun and HP have been openly slating eachother for quite some time right now. Funny cartoons around will make it very difficult for any company to be happy with their overlords^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bosses who have just bought them out. If anyone buys Sun then they will probably kill it off reather than have to manige a very angry workforce.

  14. Re:outside the US ? on ISS Crew Returns in Soyuz Capsule · · Score: 1

    Trust me, if my coworkers' grasps of English are any indication, this is a simple usage error.

    You work for CNN?
    I'm basing that on the "Glory Glory U.S.A." rant and the coworkers statement.

  15. Re:outside the US ? on ISS Crew Returns in Soyuz Capsule · · Score: 1

    Woops. Dupe

  16. Re:outside the US ? on ISS Crew Returns in Soyuz Capsule · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I thought they landed on the moon. But I'm not a subscriber to the faked moon landings theory.

  17. Your dirty communist seats are not good enough on ISS Crew Returns in Soyuz Capsule · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because landing in a Soyuz is generally bumpier than in a shuttle, Ken Bowersox, Don Pettit and cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin were seated in the Soyuz on custom-built recliners designed to fit their bodies, NASA said.

    This is fantastic. I bet the astronauts were complaining about everything.
    My chair is too hard, The in flight meal is too dry, Nikolai kept kicking my seat. You wouldn't get this kind of service on a good old Shuttle.

  18. Re:Mirrors on AAC vs. OGG vs. MP3 · · Score: 1

    Mainly because of firewalls at this end.
    There are no mirrors anyway.

  19. Mirrors on AAC vs. OGG vs. MP3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does anyone want to add a mirror of the comparison?

  20. Mirror List on The Unix-Haters Handbook Online · · Score: 1


    Mirror List.
    Please add others.

  21. Link on Apple Applies For Rotary Mouse Patent · · Score: 4, Informative
  22. IBM mice on Apple Applies For Rotary Mouse Patent · · Score: 1

    IBM allready has mice with a 2d nipple (glidepoint) on it for scrolling.

  23. Re:A bit overkill on A Generic PCI Based FPGA Coprocessor? · · Score: 1

    Its a four lare board but it costs about £50 to produce in numbers over 50 and the other components were standard cheapo ones, making it just over £100 (including a spartan which is big enough for a 32bit cpu). The virtex is an extra and it depends where you get them from. Xilinx were nice enough to give us quite a few vertex E's as we are a university. But make a plea and they might be generous with you too. Sepperately they cost £100 up depending on size, quantity and supplyer.

  24. A bit overkill on A Generic PCI Based FPGA Coprocessor? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1-10 mil gates is a very large number.
    Take a look at my MIPS on an FPGA. That used less than 100k vertex gates including MMU and other things youprobably dont need.

    Also why PCI? Why not talk to it via serial/usb/network? And why not make your own? We made these for just over £100 ($150) each (plus virtex). having the board outside the PC allows you to have more freedom and external connections to do things like this. Also it allows you to write a simpler download software routine to program the thing (serial vs PCI).

  25. Mirrors on MoneyDance 2003 Reviewed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mirror here.