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  1. Damn and Blast... on Perl for System Administration · · Score: 1

    ...my Windows NT Server Networking Guide just fell of the shelf into the bin, making way for an ever expanding O'Reilly collection !
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  2. What's the point ? on Can You Back Up Data On Audio/Visual Media? · · Score: 1

    If you're serious enough to back up your data in the first place, would you trust the integrity of a hack to write to a digital camera ?

    The data rate's not even appealing : A Sony AIT2 backs up to 25Gb (uncompressed), 50Gb (compressed) at 12Mb/s. That's enough for your home user. In a pro enviroment, Sony DTF2 gives you 200Gb uncompressed at 24Mb/s.

  3. 1.5beta2 on NetBSD 1.4.3 Released · · Score: 2

    NetBSD 1.5 BETA 2 is worth trying as well. Runs *GREAT*. I use it for my NFS server machine, a machine on which neither OpenBSD nor Debian (my general choices of OS) would not install due to problems with the IDE bus. This installed and acts very stably. It also ships with OpenSSH :-) Very stable too.

  4. Re:The Real Reason Hollywood is Going Digital on Digital Movies and The Big Screen · · Score: 2

    Picture making is most definately about resolution and quality. Lucas is using the 'Panavised' Sony FD900 24p camera, which I have seen in direct comparison to 35mm digitally projected. Picture quality is outstanding.

    You irritate me too much to comment on your views for digital effects creation.

    All films are editied digitally, scanned, transferred 12bit RGB. Fullstop.

    As for moire pattens, which you refer to for moving objects, they occur because the frames rate is 24fps, nothing to do with analogue or digital

  5. Network Magazine on High-Speed Wireless LANs Move Forward · · Score: 2

    The November issue had a good overview of current wireless 11Mbps products and their limitations. Available at networkmagazine

  6. VAIO on Fiva: Transmeta Sub-Sub-Notebook · · Score: 2

    I've been lately going to my local CompUSA to drool over the itty bitty Crusoe-powered VAIO notbook (the one with the built-in camera.) I'm elated that there's multiple vendors out there planning to ship Crusoe laptops. The only thing keeping me from purchasing the VAIO (besides lack of money) is the proprietary sony memory-stick bullshit that I refuse to support. Can't wait to play with one of these.

  7. DHCP ? on Collecting Logs from Firewalls to Detect Crackers · · Score: 2

    And what about things like DHCP? That too will make some poor sap unable to connect to some computers becuase some 3l33t hax0r was using the IP that he has now...

  8. suspicious ? on The Ultimate Video Game Library up for Auction · · Score: 1

    I agree that this action does look suspicious for a couple of reasons, but one thing that I think is important is that under payment options, COD is accepted. The ultimate buyer (assuming the reserve ever gets met) would be a fool not to use this, as if the shipping company did not show up with the size equivalent of two refrigerator boxes full of games, it could be returned without a $20K+ loss.

  9. Re:Seems like your best bet might be precomputatio on Simulating Cloth in CG · · Score: 2

    ..but the article is talking about real time cloth simulation, whereas the lobby seen in the Matrix is a chroma shot composited into live action.

  10. Re:This sounds like a get-rich-quick scheme to me on Neither .Kids Nor .Porn For ICANN · · Score: 2

    No, the only way to democratise TLD's is to create so many that one does not have greater status than any other (ala .com).

  11. Research on Hacking The City · · Score: 2

    Please, take a look here for your own conclusion

  12. The Point on TrollTech Releases Embedded Qt PDA environment · · Score: 2

    Isn't the Palm successful because of the OS it originally runs ? The plethora of free or very low cost software ? Granted, we can hack it because we can, but in this instance, I'll keep mine running the way it's supposed to.

  13. cracked ! on Interview With AES Author · · Score: 1

    LinuxSecurity.com: How long did it take to develop the algorithm that will provide security for the digital economy well into the 21st century?

    Vincent Rijmen: It depends on how you count. Our research is a continuous process, and it's not easy to say when we started on Rijndael. About a year or two, I would estimate.

    Calculation using Moores CPU law would suggest that this encryption algorithm should be cracked within 6 months.

  14. Re:Plea... on Mir To Crash Into Pacific · · Score: 1

    Oh Please. I would like to see it dropped on your head, to see if your brain is as tiny as I calculate.

  15. heh ! on Flaming Freud: Analyzing Homo Incinerans · · Score: 1

    You've been caught lurking in the 'secret' sids John ! And then tried to intellectualise it. Bah, you would have got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids !

  16. as always on Pentium III 1.13: Tops For Speed, 'F' For Price? · · Score: 2

    The CPU, although the 'heart' of the computer, is nothing without the muscle.

    I for one, as a large corp IT purchaser, would rather have a dual-proc box:much cheaper, more power/price performance. When everything in the corporate market place must be carefully budgeted to provide bang for the buck, these CPU's just don't cut it.

    In a similar, take a look at these guys, their SMP scaling is fantastic.

  17. Who actually read the article ? on Comprehensive Video Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    hmmnn, so X card gives, what, maybe a couple more fps than Y card.

    In the end, the only people that could be bothered to read the article, are hard-core gamers, or someone considering upgrading.
    Neither of which would be reading Slashdot. 90% of Hard-Core gamers don't really care about Linux performance, because all of the best games run on Windows (let's be honest).

    Ah well, it is 15C in Soho, and raining, with a minimum low temperature of 10C

  18. well... on Publishing On Internet Patented · · Score: 1

    Isn't this a bit like crying over spilt milk?
    Maybe wikiwikiweb or CVS should have applied for the patent then !

    Oh, I forgot, that's not very Open Source is it.

  19. hmmmn on Top 10 Most Important Tech People of the Decade · · Score: 1

    While I certainly don't disagree with the inclusion of any of the people listed, I wonder how they are ordered into their relative position.

    No matter how impartial the judiciary may have felt (who, incidentally, are not listed in the article), one can only feel that singular bias rates these individuals in a particular order.

    My vote goes for the inclusion of Turing.

  20. nonsense. on The Scientific Internet · · Score: 2

    what we really need is to clear all the pornographers/sex sites of the web completely, then we don't need a 'new' I2.

    I'll be happy with the 'old' one.
    what do you think ?

  21. Each to his own ! But here's the merits of 'em on Techies Rampant on Drugs · · Score: 1

    Cocaine : results in repetative use of comments - no-one listens to 'em, and they never make sense anyway

    Ecstacy : Microsoft ports Office to Linux.

    Weed : All development works stops. Starts again tomorrow.

    Alcohol : Probably the best of 'em all.....oi, Microsoft, who do you think YOU are staring at ?

  22. hmmmn.... on Red Hat Abandons Sparc · · Score: 1

    So demand for SPARC support from Red Hat is low ?

    Well, I hate to spell it out for the Linux advocates among us, but maybe it's because Solaris is solid enough on their own boxen that you don't need to run Linux on it.

  23. of course on ICANN Voting Begins · · Score: 4

    Although it is painfully obvious to anyone who has used the internet for more that a few years, the only way that ICANN will truly achieve democratisation of TLD's is to create as many as possible.

    In the same way that the DeBeers family maintain the artificially high price of diamonds by restricting flow onto the worlds markets, the desirability of TLD's remains contrived; flood the market.

  24. When on Wearable Computers · · Score: 2

    When I can buy one from Armani, then, and only then, will wearable info-gadgets have come of age !

    The London Weatherman,
    20C, Cloudy, Sunny Spells