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  1. Statistics on Ask Slashdot: Scientific Research Positions For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    You should consider pursuing an advanced degree in Statistics. The skills you'd learn can be applied to nearly any research or data analysis programming position.

  2. Re:Sweet Spot on New iBook and Apple mini · · Score: 1

    I bought and use the mini as a PVR and to playback all video on my HDTV. I can download movies and videos off the net or record from a tuner card or my cable box and watch them from my couch. My needs are quite fulfilled by the mini, except for the fullscreen HDTV playback which could have been solved by offloading to a better GPU.

    And for what its worth, MPEG-2, even at 1920x1080, is not as taxing on the CPU as h.264.

  3. Re:Sweet Spot on New iBook and Apple mini · · Score: 1

    One of the selling points of the first generation minis was the ability to hook them up to HDTVs. Unfortunately, my 1.4GHz mini is a bit too slow to play full screen 1920x1080 HD downloaded from my cable box over firewire. (SD plays back just fine.) It'd be nice if the mini shipped with an accelerated video card to handle this.

    That being said, I'm actually glad these minis don't ship with enhanced support so I don't have to pay for the upgrade so soon. :) I imagine the minis selling a year from now will come with Pentium M processors and accelerated video.

  4. Just use google? on Official BitTorrent Search Opens · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can always append filetype:torrent to your google searches. For example:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Atorrent+ ubuntu

  5. Re:I want my Swallowed App Back! on Has GNOME Become LAME? · · Score: 1

    # apt-get install libpanel-regurgitate

  6. Re:Actually, no on Review:Fellowship of the Ring · · Score: 1

    I think he is subordinate to Saruman in esteem only. His position as Manwe's servant and representative probably would not have made him subordinate to any of the maia other than Sauron.

  7. Re:Awesome. on Review:Fellowship of the Ring · · Score: 1

    Yep, I noticed them too. Those comments were like little gifts to the fans.

  8. One problem... on The Atlas of Middle Earth · · Score: 1

    is that it uses only three colors: black, white, and brown. Many of the maps could have been more clear if army movements, geography, roads, etc. were represented in other colors. Fonstad's book *is* the best available though.

    More maps of Middle-earth can be found at
    http://fan.theonering.net/rolozo/images.php?collec tion=maps

    Ryan

  9. Re:What about AC3 ? on Play DVDs On Linux · · Score: 1

    xine can. With my Hoontech (Trident) NX connected to my receiver via digital cable, I can

    xine -A alsa -S

    and get AC3 passthrough. Works great.

  10. Re:it's the logo, it's the logo, it's the logo. on Themes Removed At Apple's Behest · · Score: 1

    My Platinum sawfish theme tries to resemble Apple's MacOS 8/9 "Platinum" appearance and nobody asked VA to remove it. I don't include a logo of any kind, fwiw.

  11. Re:Shared installation? on StarOffice Source Released · · Score: 1

    Same exact problem on Solaris. I installed as `setup -net' however. It seems this install procedure is broken.

  12. Linux Standard Base on Talk Things Over With Richard M. Stallman · · Score: 1

    How important is the Linux Standard Base to the long term success of GNU/Linux? How do you feel about Red Hat first embracing the LSB and now shying away from it? What does this imply about free software companies' allegience to standards in general?

  13. Re:Voog? on Ogg Vorbis And Xiphophorus · · Score: 1

    > enjoy poetry
    > enjoy poetry
    > enjoy poetry

  14. Re:Synopsis on "Lord of the Rings" Quicktime Preview Available · · Score: 1

    They should pick up a copy of "Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien". Tolkien was actually asked by the Nazis themselves whether he was of Aryan origin. He sent back a letter letting them know he didn't believe in any of their mumbo-jumbo.

  15. Re:Faster or not... on G4 vs. Athlon Review · · Score: 1

    They both can run GNU/Linux.

  16. Re:DVD = Damned Video Decoding on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO · · Score: 1

    I saw this behavior with The Terminator, but then I went to www.kernel.dk and applied the patch supplied there, and now I see video. I haven't been able to get audio yet (with or without video). mpeg2audio reports "unknown layer identifier found!" so I won't chalk up the problem to system limitations yet (dual P3/450). But everything looks promising. High fives to the developers.

  17. The five registrars are... on ICANN Announces DNS Registrars · · Score: 1

    So let me get this straight...if someone at, say, the FSF raised their hand and said, "I have the time and energy to regulate names in what is now the top level .fsf domain," and a very large number of people altered their DNS configs to support this, would someone get sued and/or arrested? If not, what is to prevent a large motivated community from establishing its own top level name space?

  18. She's a winner. (+questions) on Red Hat Releases Starbuck · · Score: 1

    Do the X servers or the X font servers have the truetype/freetype/whathaveyou support rolled in?