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  1. typical question on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which of the following would you most prefer?
    A: a puppy,
    B: a pretty flower from your sweety, or
    C: a large properly formatted data file?

  2. Re:Explanation on Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved · · Score: 1
    Now, can someone tell me what practical applications there might be of this? Or is it strictly an abstract concept?
    20,000 years ago, somewhere in northern Africa, Ug-Sartori urinated on a sketch that his clansman Gor-Grigori had drawn in the sand. "Huh huh, you think you're so smart Gor, what are the practical applications of this stupid thing you draw?" . Of course, Gor-Grigori's discovery of a circle led to many modern inventions, but at the time, nothing came to mind.
  3. helpful tip on Updates on War in Iraq · · Score: 1

    /ignore #cnn all -public

    at least that works for epic

  4. Other Research Presentations at IMW 2002 on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else notice that one of the other presentations at Internet Measurement Workshop 2002 was Provisioning On-line Games: A Traffic Analysis of a Busy Counter-Strike Server.?

    Now THAT is what I call research. I'm not being sarcastic either.

    It may bet an IgNobel nomination though.

  5. winex wanker responds on Neverwinter Nights Update · · Score: 1
    Hell, even the wankers using WineX have been running NWN for a while.
    Although I could care less about NWN, I am a winex user, and I can tell you that winex will not play NeverWinter Nights very well.

    There is a fork of the official WineHQ wine that is trying to support NWN though I hear. It's called nwwine.
  6. CONFIG_SYSVIPC? on SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu · · Score: 2, Interesting
    System 5 for Linux software
    Is this CONFIG_SYSVIPC in the Linux kernel?

    Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from ), you'll need to say Y here.
  7. Re:Anti-Aliasing? on New Red Hat Beta · · Score: 1


    Oops, it looks like I misunderstood what those patents cover. It appears that the patents are only for auto-hinting, not for anti-aliasing in general.

  8. Anti-Aliasing? on New Red Hat Beta · · Score: 1


    So does this mean that RedHat has licensed Apple's Patents ?

    If they removed MP3 support, you'de think they would have considered the liability of including anti-aliasing support. Or is there just a checkbox that says I have a license from Apple?

  9. Linux compatibility on Multi-Display Graphics Suites Compared · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been using a multimonitor XFree86 setup since the release of XFree86 4.0.

    First I used two 3dfx Voodoo3's to power my 3200x1200 resolution. I was constantly annoyed by the lack of 3D hardware acceleration, so I disabled Xinerama mode, and ran X in DualHead mode. The only differnce in doing this was that I could no longer move windows from one screen to the other. The mouse cursor traveled freely between screens. Granted this was annoying too, but at least I could play quake2 again.

    Then I happened upon a nice tidbit on the Xpert mailing list. That is, you can run Xinerama mode with NVidia cards and get hardware accelerated 3D on one of the heads. I replaced one of the voodoo3's with a TNT2 and I've been happy ever since.

    I'm always thinking about upgrading my video card, and these one card solutions seem like the way to go. With NVidia's nView and Matrox's Powerdesk? you can have both heads appear to XFree86 as one logical screen and therefore run hardware accelerated 3d on BOTH SCREENS. I read that this was suppored by both Matrox and NVidia XFree86 drivers, so I started shopping for my next video card. But the dilema that I've constantly run into, is one that is not even addressed in this article. That is, the Max Resolution of the second monitor is severly limited. I have yet to find a single card solution that will handle 3200x1200 in 24bpp (or even 16 for that matter).

    Perhaps the new Parhelia's will do it, I'm not sure. I've had to do a fair amount of digging just to find out what I do know. It seems like the only place that has reliable information about the issue is the complaining that goes on in mailinglists from people dissatisfied with the products they have purchased.

  10. A-A-P on Competitive Cross-Platform Development? · · Score: 1

    Consider migrating your Makefiles to .aap files.

    A-A-P may not be ready for the task yet, but as it matures, it has the potential to replace Makefiles entirely. See the multiplatform example.

    A-A-P Homepage

  11. Re:horror, horror, look at the keyboard! on New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN · · Score: 1


    Or you could buy a PS/2 keyboard with the CONTROL and
    CAPS switched here:

    http://store.yahoo.com/pckeyboards/linux101.html

  12. Re:Too bad it's not Freeswan on Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5 · · Score: 1

    Reyk Floeter is doing work to port OpenBSD's isakmpd to the Linux ipsec_tunnel implementation. From the sounds of things, it actually works.

    Unfortunetly, Reyk's web server has been down for some time, so I have been unable to get a copy to test it.

    When coupled with isakmpd Tobias's IPSec tunnel implementation will be much closer to Free S/WAN feature-wise. Although, i'm not sure if Opportunistic Encryption will be supported by isakmpd.

    As a user of Free S/WAN, ipsec_tunnel, and also non-IPSec tunnels on Linux, I can say that I found the ipsec_tunnel implentation to be a much easier to use.

  13. Re:my experience with PET WAREHOUSE dot com on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 1

    It's only a matter of time before Pets' Warehouse gains enough bad publicity that Pet Warehouse sues _them_. Then maybe we'll actually get to see how Mr. Novak represents himself in court.

  14. Re:Reliability? on Next-Generation Chip Fabs · · Score: 1


    The thing that scares me is the part about visitng sites on the internet with IE on a "server that monitors chemical production".

  15. Re:Command line version? on PGP Acquired From NAI · · Score: 1

    I would also like to know what you didn't like.

    I nearly switched to Mozilla from pine after trying out Enigmail because of how easy it was to use. In fact, if more people would send me PGP singed/encrypted messages, I think I would switch. pgp4pine is great and all, but there's no "remember password for x minutes" feature.

  16. Re:No picture? on Gone Fission · · Score: 1

    I was wondering the same thing.

    The University of Guam has a write-up and photo of Namalycastis hawaiiensis which is not the same species as the Vietmanese worm, but it's the only one I could find in the same Genus.

  17. Re:Home DC power on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    Since PV cells output DC I suppose it would be more efficient to use a DC->DC ATX power supply. If you really wanted a desktop machine instead of a laptop that is.

  18. Re:XFree drivers on ATI R300 and R250V · · Score: 1
    If you mean "Open source drivers that support some of the rendering, none of the video capture, and none of the tuner", then I would guess about 18 months.
    I would guess sooner since Tungsten Graphics is working on Radeon drivers and plans to have 8500 drivers in XFree86 in less than 5 months. Of course that doesn't say anything about R250 and R300 drivers, but with quality open source R200 drivers it doesn't seem so far off.
  19. iCal! on Apple Reveals Mac OS X 10.2, 17" iMac, Windows iPod · · Score: 1


    Funny, I've already been using Ical for many years.

    Of course the one I use was written by Sanjay Ghemawat, not Apple. It doesn't cost a hundred bones a year either.

  20. Re:Klendathu on 120,000 km Is Still Too Close · · Score: 1

    I assumed some bug probably shot some energy blast out of its ass to aim the asteroid.

    Also they said that the bugs used asteroids to "hurl their spores into space". So I guess their method of space travel was to send an egg-covered asteroid to another planet.

  21. Font Anti-Aliasing in OpenOffice on New York Times Plugs OpenOffice Suite · · Score: 1

    OpenOffice 1.0 is supposed to have anti-alias support, but it doesn't seem to work in 1.0.

    See: Tools -> Options -> Openoffice.org -> View -> Screen font antialiasing

  22. Re:The next version of MS Office won't run on Lind on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 1


    Neither will the current one :)

    I use Office 2k with Codeweavers and it works great, but AFAIK OfficeXP support is some way off.

  23. Re:True price savings... on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 1

    Windows PC $498 USD
    Same PC with Lindows $399 USD
    Same PC with no OS $399 USD
    I would say they pass the savings on to customers. But then again, I don't really know Windows XP OEM pricing.

  24. Re:Lindows? Is it ready? on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From the Walmart page:
    This exciting new OS delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs.
    Microsoft programs are only a small subset of Windows (Win32) programs. I assume Lindows claims to support Microsoft programs like Office, MS Money, Frontpage, etc.
  25. Re:It's free if you're an Emusic subscriber on Vivendi Offering MP3 Song for Sale · · Score: 1

    I too am an Emusic subscriber and I love the service. Nearly every album on the Epitaph label is in their archive. And that's about 90% of what I listen to.

    I find this headline funny considering EMusic is a owned and operated by Vivendi!