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  1. Re:Conditioning... on IBM 600 Series Laptops and Flaky Batteries? · · Score: 1

    You are right.

    To summarize about Li-Ion

    * no memory effect.
    * degrade over time and will have about 30% less capacity every year.
    * can be recharged from any point and the charging can be discontinued at any time.
    * can be recharged thousands of times. Enough to keep you from thinking about cycle life time.
    * NEVER store them uncharged. So when you have used your notebook on the flight. Recharge it on the destination as soon as possible.

    *

  2. grub on Animate Your LILO · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Does anyone know if there is something similar for grub?

  3. Re:Press Release on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 1

    Annoying Cowards!

    Get a better life, go and get drunk.

  4. Re:Press Release on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 0

    Same as Bill Gates is doing :)

  5. Re:Invest 30 seconds to visit the site on Archos Announces Portable Mediabox · · Score: 1

    Point taken.

  6. Re:want on Binary Watch · · Score: 1

    Why not let the clock just self-destruct when it overflows. It would be more cool and attractive.

  7. want on Binary Watch · · Score: 1

    How about a clock that shows the number of seconds since the Epoch in binary 32 bit format?

  8. Re:ping times? on Transatlantic Gigabit Gaming.. err, Research · · Score: 1

    Will we ever see good all world online gaming for games like q3?

    Let's assume that there is a central server located in city x and two gamers in city y and z respectively. The information about y's doings to get to z tunneled through the server have to travel (in worst case) a distance of 40 Mm. That means a theoretical latency of about 200 ms. With a peer-to-peer network we could get a maximun latency of 100 ms instead. In the practical case this is at much higher.

    For the sake of online gaming I propose that we should pack all the people of the world in for example Europe. The theoretical ping time between worst case connections will be dramatically reduced.

  9. Re:Invest 30 seconds to visit the site on Archos Announces Portable Mediabox · · Score: 1

    I want to point out that the batteries are not called NIM, but NiMH (NickelMetalHybride) and the unit of the capacity usually used is mAh not maH.

    Also when is comes to batteries. It is important to take good care of them. Strictly follow the recharging intructions.

  10. Re:8 years behind??? on Crashing A Nokia Phone Via SMS · · Score: 1

    One place in the metro area! Oh yeah. You could also say that the US embassy had GSM coverage in London in 1990.

    The first SMS was sent in London in December, 1992

  11. hard packed versions on Linux 2.4.15 is out; Linux 2.5.0 has also begun. · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The readme file in 2.5.0 says:

    Linux-2.5.0 is exactly the same as 2.4.15,
    except for a version number change.
    Subsequent releases diverge, with Marcelo Tosatti
    maintaining the stable 2.4.x kernels, while the 2.5.x kernels are for development work.

    and looking at the filesizes we find what we expect that

    linux-2.5.0.tar. takes up 129 699 840 bytes
    linux-2.4.15.tar takes up 129 699 840 bytes

    are the same. But if we look at the packed versions

    linux-2.5.0.tar.bz2 23 748 963
    linux-2.4.15.tar.bz2 23 747 061

    A difference of 1902 bytes

    linux-2.5.0.tar.gz 29 404 635
    linux-2.4.15.tar.gz 29 404 736

    A difference of -101 bytes

    How come?

  12. ext3 on Linux 2.4.15 is out; Linux 2.5.0 has also begun. · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now, for the people who use ext3:
    You will not need to download ac/ext3 patches anymore to get your journaling running.