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  1. Re:Creativity on Security in Ten Years · · Score: 1

    "Piracy" has been used to refer to copyright violation (and its predecessors) for hundreds of years.

  2. Re:I can't wait until I can buy their games. on Blizzard and Activision Announce $18.8bn Merger · · Score: 1

    Activizzard

  3. Values? Importance? Experimental control? on Gadgets Have Taken Over For Our Brains · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't consider birthdays to be as important as my parents (and my parent's parents) do - so I don't bother trying to remember them.

    If I know something is recorded somewhere else, I am less likely to remember it - why try to remember something that is easy to find?

    No, I haven't rtfa, but what controls are in place to separate the conclusion of 'kids these days don't remember stuff good' and 'kids these days have different priorities'?

  4. Re:Real deadlines... on Beating Procrastination with Self-Imposed Deadlines · · Score: 1

    You missed the bit "unless it's a real deadline with definite consequences" - if it's a matter of keeping my job, I'll get it done. Probably not before the last minute though.

  5. Real deadlines... on Beating Procrastination with Self-Imposed Deadlines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find that deadlines I set for myself don't help - unless it's a real deadline with definite consequences beyond my own limitations, I tend to ignore it. And even if it is a 'real' deadline, at the last moment I'll weigh the consequences of not having the job done against Yet Another All-Nighter... and sleep generally wins - or another game. Or movie. Or anything else...

  6. Re:too much time on their hands? on Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    All the wit and complexity of a MAD fold-in.

  7. Re:TEN PERCENT! on Should You Pre-Compile Binaries or Roll Your Own? · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point.

    The comment was that a 10% improvement is not trivial, not that Gentoo (or compile flags or whatever) is the way to achieve it.

  8. Re:Uh oh! on Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour · · Score: 1

    If you want to install a non-keyworded or masked packages, use /etc/portage/package.keywords or package.unmask

    'man portage' for details.

  9. Re:Encryption isn't the solution we need, or want. on BitTorrent and End to End Encryption · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you were the first type, you change to a supplier that charges based on usage.

    If your supplier offers no restrictions on usage, it is reasonable to expect no restrictions. Particularly if you have entered into a contract to that effect.

    What I suspect, though, is that in cases where people are complaining about p2p limiting, there was a we-will-do-whatever-the-hell-we-like clause (or even a we-will-do-whatever-is-necessary-to-maintain-netwo rk-performance clause or more likely we-will-do-whatever-is-necessary-to-control-our-co sts-you-bandwidth-whores clause) in the contract with their ISP that has not been read or comprehended by the complainers.

  10. Re:few things I've found on Maintaining Windows XP System Performance? · · Score: 1

    I think that should be "Protect windows from the plauge"

  11. Re:Site doesn't like Linux/Mozilla on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 1

    Wine version was 20050930.

  12. Re:Site doesn't like Linux/Mozilla on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can play it under linux :D

    Install wine (winehq.org)
    Install ie6 with tool from http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html
    (Possibly install dcom98. Not sure if its essential or not.)
    Start ie.
    Change security settings (Internet Options -> Security) to allow installation of unsigned activex controls
    Go to the site http://video.vividas.com/CDN1/3929_Serenity/web/in dex.html
    You'll get a dialog telling you to install a jre. Cancel.
    Say yes to installation and execution of anything activex related.
    Click on Dial up.
    Watch the movie in its window.

    The fullscreen options (low, med, high) give me an error about unavailable display modes. I'd love to know if it is possible to get this playing the higher res versions in a window, but my javascript/webdev fu is weak. http://video.vividas.com/CDN1/3929_Serenity/web/pl ayer_script.inc would be the place to look - playPressed() would be the function. Getting it called as playPressed('http://video.vividas.com/CDN1/3929_Se renity/viv/3929_Serenity_720.viv',true) would do the trick (2nd arg inidicates whether to play in a window or not.

    (Alternatively, a patch for wine that sorts out the screen mode problem would possibly do the trick).

  13. Re:a fun trick only useful in very specialized cas on Protothreads and Other Wicked C Tricks · · Score: 2, Informative
    Suppose the compiler decided to extract out the common y*(2*pi)/360 term as an optimization.

    But the compiler won't decide to do this because it won't be able to establish that y (or pi) can not be changed between instances of this code.
  14. Re:We're not talking about cool commands, here! on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 1

    for F in $(find $SRCDIR); do echo $(basename $F) $F; done | sort | rev | uniq -c -f 1 | grep -E ^[[:space:]]*1[[:space:]] | awk '{print $2 " " $3}' | rev > $CACHEFILE

    Finding files without duplicate names (or something). Not quite sure why you're using the revs either - echo $F $(basename $F) would eliminate the need?

    Whatever it does, it doesn't work well with filenames containing spaces :)

  15. Re:ATi = demonic possession on A Look at the State of ATI Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    Try

            Option "VideoOverlay"
            Option "OverlayOnCRTC2"

    in the Device section for the _primary_ screen.

    The linux driver forum on rage3d.com at http://rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=88 and the unofficial bugzilla at http://ati.cchtml.com/ are both worth a look.

  16. Re:Of course he is leaving... on Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show · · Score: 1

    Ran out of alcohol budget? It only took a few sips and those boys were gone.

  17. Re:central machine on Prioritized Internet Sharing for Home Users? · · Score: 1
    Set up one machine with some sort of filesharing & VNC & big HDDs and make that everyone's central torrent location. Have it set with reasonable bandwith limitations & go from there.
    torrentflux is a web based bittorrent interface that supports multiple users. Install that rather than vnc and you have a very convenient central bittorrent machine.

    It doesn't provide particulary good control over bandwidth allocation for a group of torrents, but something like wondershaper (as mentioned elsewhere here) should help with that.
  18. Re:Or, between different processes on the same box on Prioritized Internet Sharing for Home Users? · · Score: 1

    Check out trickle. I've had mixed success with it, but it does sound like it is the sort of thing you're looking for.

    http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

  19. Did he complain last time? on Coppola Slams Godfather Game · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the early 90s, The Godfather was released for Amiga, Atari and DOS. Check em out at Moby games and the Amiga version specifically at Hall of Light

  20. Re:Hmmm ... on OCaml vs. C++ for Dynamic Programming · · Score: 1

    Maybe rtfa? ("My results")

  21. Re:Franchise... on Open Letter to Doom Fans from Script Writer · · Score: 1

    So...basically it was your plan to mooch off the franchise?

    It seems the popular way to go - SciFi did it with Legend of Earthsea...

  22. Re:Yay on Two Strikes for Eolas Plug-In Patent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, they are - like any 'good' corporation - fighting for themselves.

  23. Re:Wouldn't this add to the processor usage? on Doom 3 Programmer on OGG, Ultra, 60FPS Play · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interestingly, it still works both ways :) For example, BSP trees aren't a particularly space efficient way to store level maps, but they make drawing them (or at least culling parts of them) much faster.

  24. Compilation on US Gov't Representatives - Who's Who? · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Has anyone been compiling this information?"

    I know some Gentoo users - they compile everything...

  25. Re:Gentoo on Gimp Hits 2.0 · · Score: 1

    man portage

    That should just about do it.