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  1. cluster or raspberry pi's doing chess on GCHQ Builds a Raspberry Pi Super Computer Cluster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Slightly related: I created a cluster of raspberry pi's to do a distributed chess-game PuppetMaster. It participated in a CSVN (Dutch computer chess organisation) tournament and even won a couple of games! These little things can be pretty powerful.

  2. Re:Anyone know what hardware the lockup bug is... on Linux 3.18 Released, Lockup Bug Still Present · · Score: 1

    I can reproduce it in half an hour on my dell alienware laptop by running my chess program. So no special hardware, no special software.

  3. different laws of nature on Can the Multiverse Be Tested Scientifically? · · Score: 1

    How can you calculate how universe interact when colliding if they have different laws of nature? Maybe the other goes throught the former like a neutrino.

  4. invaluable on Why We Need OpenStreetMap (Video) · · Score: 1

    openwlanmap.org uses it to display maps of wifi-war-drived-data when you submit any. I scanned wifi-access points while driving to France for a holiday; amazing how many access points you detect even in the middle of nowhere!

    Also my toy-project O2OO uses its api (very simple to implement!) to draw car-sensor data of a trip you made on a map. Nice to see how e.g. the load of the engine changes when taking a corner or driving uphill ("duh" I hear you say, but it is nice to see how much it changes).

  5. Re:Turn the question in the right direction on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    I like the excellent arguments that you wrote to support your stand.

  6. Re:Not liking TFA or conclusions on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Technically it doesn't make sense but from a functionaly point of view (the user experience) it makes much sense.

  7. power on NOAA Goes Live With New Forecasting Supercomputers · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The system uses so much power that its emissions directly influence the weather on all continents and mars."

  8. in a terminal on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    I just run a couple of rsstail-instances in a couple of multitail windows. Works for me.

  9. Re:relevant imgur link on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 1

    NSFW only in the USA where people are in a somewhat uptight relationship with their sexuality.

  10. relevant imgur link on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think the following link is highly relevant to this discussion: http://imgur.com/gallery/Qi3u2

  11. Re:Economics not physics on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    In a computer you would simply compare clocks. E.g. the cycle counter with a known timer. Can't think of an other "clock" in the universe though.

  12. Re: True random. on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Read a bit on how e.g. hormones influence your decisions. So no, the part "free will" is small, if it exists at all.

  13. name on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Do you mind if I name my first-born after you - if it is a son? (seriously)

  14. Re:BTRFS experiences? on Linux 3.6 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have LVM underneath the ext4 filesystem, you can indeed randomly grow the fs.

  15. Re:Why would anyone ever want to run a Tor exit no on Tor Project Experiments With Funding Fast Exit Nodes · · Score: 1

    Fairly minor? Not if you live in the Netherlands where they bring you a visit taking with them all your hardware and never returning it.

  16. regarding the movie on Ask the Space Command Team About All Things Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    - will the soundtrack be dubstep?
    - will Jery Rian be in the movie? (any role is ok)
    - will it have soundeffects, even in space?
    - art house or hollywood style?
    - can I sponsor anything in the movie? e.g. that someone logs into the internet and opens my website vanheusden.com

  17. no bugs on Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code · · Score: 1

    It is very unlikely that the source code in these devices have any remaining bugs due to the length of time that these devices have been used. My chess program played over 100.000 games in 6 years. Yesterday I found a bug in the en passant code.

  18. povray on 3D Hacking Environment Links Kinect, Blender, and Metasploit · · Score: 1

    Slightly related: it would be nice if someone wrote a program that lets you create 3d models for e.g. blender or povray using a kinect. I wrote the beginning for that ( http://www.vanheusden.com/kinect2povray/ ) but don't have the time to extend it so that it combines multiple angles.

  19. old school on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to spam an url, but with this program I exactly tried to recreate that old-school feeling: http://www.vanheusden.com/banihstypos/ It is a program I used to play on my MSX home computer, 25 years (or so) ago. For extra nostalgia feeling it doesn't use any fance X11/SDL/whatever but runs on the console.

  20. 2005 on Open Source Music Fingerprinter Gets Patent Nastygram · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, if I remember correctly I already used that algorithm in 2005?

    soundsort

    (prior art ftw)

  21. lhc infrastructure history? on A Look At CERN's LHC Grid-Computing Architecture · · Score: 1

    I wonder what they at cern were expecting to have for infrastructure at the end of the project (e.g. now).
    I mean: who could have guessed the processorspeed and diskspace we have now.

  22. Re:already exists on Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, you can.

    See my website: Making your Flukso log to a database/RRD tool

  23. already exists on Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Such a thing (on-line electricity meter) already exists: Flukso

    Linux-based with wifi uplink to the net and ethernet to configure it. Handles internet-connection downtime gracefully. Completely open so that you can tweak it if you wish to.

  24. Nagios on Design and Evaluation of Central Control Room Operations · · Score: 3, Informative

    I designed a Nagios interface especially for Control Rooms. My program can be run on a large screen hanging on the wall and then display a list of problems. Of course has a nice web-interface for remote configuration ;-)

    It is called CoffeeSaint.

  25. why bother on Low-Power Home Linux Server? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    300 dollar? you could pay the 70 bucks extra for the old system 4 years for that...