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  1. Original Article on Laser Blood Scan Could Help Identify Malaria and Other Diseases · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original article (final proof) is available at the Physics Department of Ryerson University:

  2. Re:Voluptuous Mounds on HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray - Is It All in the Name? · · Score: 1

    You'll need to get the BlueRay to cure that VD you got from the DD

  3. Old News on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: 1

    Transparent Aluminum has been around for quite some time now. The public knew about it even before the military published a report about it.

  4. Re:Either bittorrent sucks or I need some advice. on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    I've let it run for about 2 hours now with no luck - still the same problem. Is the tracker a victim of /.?

    Problem connecting to tracker - timeout exceeded

  5. DON'T TOUCH THEM on Yet Another Critical Windows Flaw · · Score: 1

    Well it looks like you're screwed if you do and screwed if you don't!

    Just applied them to one of our w2k DCs and it's FUBAR!

    gonna try and revert one at a time and see what went wrong... meanwhile I have too many lusers screaming...

  6. Take a look at ppr on Printer Quotas in Linux? · · Score: 1

    LPRng does a good job if your printer supports page counting. PPR looks like another nice system.

    http://ppr.trincoll.edu/

  7. Not with this govt. on Groups Push FTC to Act on MS XP, Passport · · Score: 1

    I don't like it, but XP and Passport are already out of the bag. There isn't a lot that can be done to stop them now.

    With the current US govt. focused on the "terror attacks" I immagine that the DOJ will be told to quietly sweep this whole mess under the rug.

  8. Re:Have Fun With It! on Unreasonable Searches When Going to Work? · · Score: 1

    Just think, that tupperware container with the *really* fuzzy nasty looking stuff inside could be a research experiment. The searchers would then be obligated to examine it *very* closely! :)

    On the down side, someone might actually think it was important and detain you.

    Welcome to the Land Of The Free!

  9. RyeHigh on Cooperation in CS Education? · · Score: 1
    One of the "weeder" courses here at Ryerson has a resonable approach to this. The students work together in groups of about 4 on the core project but are supposed to do individual work on several assignments. The group members rate each other's contribution.

    The course is *killer* and if you want to do well you *must* have a good group. The individual rating helps, but if the group does poorly, 75% of 0 is still 0.

  10. Subliminal messages on DeCSS To Be Broadcast Over Oz TV · · Score: 3

    Once we've been "programmed" with code all we'll need is "LaserVision" to read the DVDs and we can just decode it ourselves! :)

    mmmmm..... Shiny flashy thing....

  11. Two faced? on German Governmental Agency Says: Use Open Source · · Score: 1

    That's all very nice, but will they *mandate* the use of OSS packages?

    "Linux is a stable reliable platform..." "You must use NT. That is our standard"

  12. Muth = braindead! on Microsoft redefines Open Source · · Score: 1

    (taken from ZDnet article - refering to the source that microsoft allows others to see)
    "I think the detail we give is significantly higher than our competitors, particularly for Windows 2000," Muth says

    Exactly what competitors is Muth talking about here? Does this mean he doesn't see Linux as a competitor? Didn't he already say otherwise for the DoJ?

    Yet again we see that Muth is at least partially BRAIN DEAD! :)

  13. Clarification from D.H. Brown on WSJ Says Linux Lags · · Score: 2

    The following are from an email from Greg Weiss (grweiss@dhbrown.com) :

    The news report you cited is indeed somewhat inaccurate (it is a paraphrase rather than a quote). Linux does "run simultaneously on many processors" if many equals, say 4 to 14. (me: but they are also looking at up to 64 SMP, and linux hasn't reached that level)

    In fact, we were mildly shocked that, despite reading various kernel lists and talking to various Linux vendors, there is currently no really good publicly verifyable benchmark evidence of Linux's scalability even on 2-way or 4-way workloads (although I would be surprised if we didn't see some in 6 months)

    I wouldn't make a claim that Linux doesn't scale. I would make the claim that Linux advocates have yet to reasonably demonstrate that it does.

    "Keeping a log" is a similar over-simplification. I believe the reference was to "event management" facilities


    So, If you have Linux running on a SMP system, PLEASE mail Greg Weiss (grweiss@dhbrown.com) and tell him!