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  1. Re:Oh yeah, this'll work really well... on Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation · · Score: 1

    RTOC is just one of the general registers, r2, it is not a feature of the PPC, it is just a detail of the normal ABI.

  2. On Mac OS X on Cache Optimization Now Made Easy, And Pretty · · Score: 4, Informative

    If some is developering on Mac OS X, they should be using the CHUD tools, they include a profiling tool called Shikari, it uses the PMC (performance monitor counters) on the CPU itself so you can see where cache misses are and also where most of the time is spent.

  3. What no Mac Version on RTCW: Enemy Territory Test Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is there a x86 Linux version but no Mac Version?

  4. Re:What happens if Microsoft Buys SCO? on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    SCO had bought part of Microsoft before, an OS called XENIX, an UNIX.

  5. Re:From the interview: on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 2, Informative

    BSD is not based on Version 7 but on Version 6. BSD1 was out in March 9, 1978, UNIX Time-Sharing System Seventh Edition (V7) was out in January 1979. Look at http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html for more information on what is based on what including Linux. And it was Novell who settled with the BSDs because they had bought UNIX from Bell Labs after AT&T were found a monopoly.
    Also SCO after being bought by Caldera opened up the old UNIX source code.

    Also the CEO of Caldera was the CEO of SCO any way so it is really is SCO any way.

  6. Re:Pulling funding is not uncommon on DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the funding was pulled but the way it was pulled, he did not find out from them, he found out by the Hotel where they were going to have a hackothon.

  7. Copyright laws on Mich. State Campus Cops Seize HDs With Riot Photos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can you use the copyright laws against the police? Once you shoot the camera, you become the owner of the copyright of that shot/movie (unless you give it up to someone else). Also can you use DCMA law against them if it was a digital picture/movie?

    Even though they enforce the laws, they are not above them.

    Also does not the first amendment give you the right to freedom to the press/speech, so they did not have to give it over because it was `speech' to have this picture/movie?

    Also if they were only going after the photos, they should not have taken the who hard disk.

    Yes the photos will help the police to catch the rioters but now it is about freedom to the press and speech.

    What is the `press' anyway, now with the internet anyone can be part of the `press'?

  8. Tab completion on OpenSSH 3.6 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which went in 3.5 is cool.

  9. Re:VNC on Windows XP EULA Discrepancies · · Score: 3, Informative

    This part is a repeat of another atricles on /., http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/17/23 33207&mode=nested.

  10. Re:Well that takes me back on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 1

    Actually it was 1984 when the Mac first came out and they did not way 6000 tons, but about 10 pounds (including a builtin 9" black and white monitor).

  11. Re:Woo - Hoo on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 1

    NeXT was the first to install and give out their OS on CDs. And it was in 1986 or 87 when LocalTalk (AppleTalk over serial) came by. LocalTalk was either ring or star or both configurations. EtherNet was both depending on the media (10BaseT or thinNet).

  12. beta of gcc 3.x? on Intel C/C++ compiler vs. GNU gcc/MS Visual Studio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They said gcc 3.x was beta software, it has more regression testing than windows have security testing.

  13. Moratorium on internet sales tax on MA Requires Internet Tax for 2002 Tax Season · · Score: 1

    I thought there was moratorium on internet sales tax imposed by the federal government?

  14. Re:The new AppleTalk on FireWire 2 Coming Soon? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The S in STP means shielded, not short. And IPv4 and IPv6 over Firewire are documented in RFCs. Also USB only provided support for isochronous in 1.2.

  15. Re:Linux port? on Running Mac OS X Binaries With NetBSD · · Score: 2

    *BSD's COMPAT_* are better than MOL and plex86 because there is no overhead of a secondary kernel.

  16. Re:Powerplants on Factory/Plant Tours - Where Would You Go? · · Score: 2

    The hover dam had a very nice tour.

  17. Re:Wanna be switcher here... on Apple To Charge for Some iApps · · Score: 2

    Look when Apple switched their machines to PCI from NuBus they went all out and changed how to start the machine also.

  18. Re:Good to see on PC Mag's First Look: PowerBook 1GHz · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is because the chips used in Apple laptops are the same ones that go in the desktop unlike Intel's where there are two (really 4) lines of chips. The G3 in the iBook are newer than the ones in the G3 iMac only because G3 iMacs are no longer made. In my TIbook, I have a G4(7450) 800MHz which was used in the G4 PowerMacs. This what makes a Mac notebook/laptop very attracting.

    Disclaimer: I am an employee of Apple, these are my views, not Apples, all information here is public information gathered from before I was an Apple employee.

    Sorry for a long Disclaimer but it was necessary.

  19. Re:only problem with subversion on Multi-User Subversion · · Score: 2

    Will support not compiling with apache support because apache is too big for my taste.

  20. Re:only problem with subversion on Multi-User Subversion · · Score: 2

    You still have to compile subversion with apache though. CVS is a whole package while subversion requires a big extern project to compile it.

  21. only problem with subversion on Multi-User Subversion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only problem I have with subversion is its dependences on apache which just gets in the way in a local project unlike cvs which can be used over rsh/ssh, cvsserver, and locally. The other problem with apache is that they use the HEAD of httpd and apr as their base which is wrong for use with Darwin(Mac OS X). Also apache is big and is too modular for a project like subversion.

  22. Re:Make _Terminal_ Work For You on Macworld Holds Battle of the Browsers · · Score: 2

    even easier `open -a Mozilla "http://apple.slashdot.org/"', you do to say the path to Mozilla or any other app if it has been opened before or in a Standard location, /Applications, ~/Applications, or /Network/Applications.

  23. Re:Go with OpenSSL . . . on OpenSSL or CDSA for Portable TLS? · · Score: 2

    Actually it is Intel that is doing it, as Apple's source is based on Intel's.

  24. Re:Fink/GNU is your friend on Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but the GNU version cannot rename files where the names only differ in case and that is where the bug is.

  25. NFS And samba on Consoldated Network Storage? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Use NFS and reexport it using samba.