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  1. Re:Who cares about benchmark software? on More 'Application-Specific' Optimizations in NVidia Drivers · · Score: 5, Informative

    the q3 physics when jumping works best with fps's where the rounding errors in calculating the path through discrete points are maximised.

    43 76 & 125 all produce similar results.

    http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Quake3/FAQFPSJump s. html

  2. Re:Dedicated server on RTCW: Enemy Territory Full Version Released · · Score: 1

    as other poster says, dl the linux patches and install those and make up a cfg for it. then start it up with

    nohup wolfded +set sv_dedicated 1 +exec server.cfg

    The current protocol is 60 btw

  3. Re:Agreed on Do Long Work Hours Affect Code Quality? · · Score: 1

    yes, you have the right to make that choice but your employer dosen't.

  4. Re:laptop drive limits on Notebooks w/ RAID? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, but with a system thats back home infrequently might it be better to have a lower MTBF and the ability to repair the damage than a system that rarely breaks but when it does its catastrophic.

  5. Re:Workstations bad. on Making Users Back Up Important Data? · · Score: 1

    I went off Backup Exec when Veritas bought it from Seagate. Before they got their hands on it it was a fantastic system.

    Whatever you do though, don't get Arcserve - it blows goats - my manager decided on it and now he does the backups. Whenever I need to recall something it's not there and neither is most of the volume. Shitty software.

    Make them store everything on the server. Novell salvage rulez - I guess NT has something similar.

  6. Re:yay. this is fun. on Carmack on Doom 3 Video Cards · · Score: 1

    And that he gets clean linen

  7. Re:uh on SACD-CD Hybrids -- A Way Out For Us Both? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be really confusing and disorientating?

  8. Re:Toshiba period on Comparative Laptop Reviews? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your Toshibas seem to be pretty old, I've had real hassles with the 72xx's from a few years back after a load of exec's decided that shiny silver pretty things were the way of the future... Maybe they're good again now and we just got a bad batch.

    I'm really happy with my ibook right now - durable, great power usage and nice os - dualbooting ydl & osx

  9. Re:Shouldn't hurt the PayPal Debit Card on Mastercard Cuts Off Third Party Transactions · · Score: 2, Funny

    You underestimate Major League Baseball.

  10. Re:The one truly open sourced car on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    Well, kind of.. The heating air isn't really blowing over the engine. Your fan will aim air down at the cylinder heads but the heating system air passes out the fan housing before it gets to the cylinders and goes into the heat exchangers which contain the ribbed exhaust header. The engine cooling air just goes to the outside world (unless youe engine seals are shagged in which case it comes back in and you lose cooling.

    You are very unlikely to get a hole in the inside section of the exchanger which would allow exhaust gasses into the car.

    Definitley a fun car though - I can't wait til this evening when I get mine back from the shop with it's new transmission and can stop driving this eurobox I borrowed..

  11. Re:My god... on The Future of MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    What's scarier is the 2nd guy in from the left is a woman

  12. Re:Most secure web server on Computer Security Criteria · · Score: 1
    Wasn't there a story about the US army moving their webservers to macos a while ago for exactly this reason?

    can't find the link but netcraft tells the truth

  13. Re:New way of doing an old trick. on CRT Eavesdropping: Optical Tempest · · Score: 1

    I always figured that AA on fonts came from the desire to have them look nice and not hurt your eyes so much.

  14. Re:Different problem - same fix on CRT Eavesdropping: Optical Tempest · · Score: 1

    I would do the same for your speakers if I were you. You don't wanna get done for unauthorised broadcasting..

  15. Re:New York Times articles on Congress (Still) Looking at whois · · Score: 1

    Slashdot subscribers could get a post of the story with the direct link and none of the (free reg. blah blah) stuff.

  16. Re:Another.. on What Were Soviet Computers Like? · · Score: 1

    heh he.. sinclair modems.

    I remember trying to set up a system with a friend across town where the spectrums were wired up to mangled phones and we'd send messages by saving a program across the phone that the other end would load and then repeat... each message also included the basic app required to send the next one - or something - I forget now

  17. Re:Come on. on Learning Autonomic Robots · · Score: 1

    The prey would need a reason to do that though.. something like self awareness/desire to keep being or if the predators had lights underneath them that could feed some prey if they could flip it..

    that'd be cool.

  18. Re:OK, but fresh Debian Install ? on Libranet GNU/Linux 2.0 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I needed a router quickly a few days ago and it took 20 minutes from sticking the woody cd in the drive to having a working system..

    Admittedly, it's not patched or anything as it's only routing between 2 hubs sat on my desk unconnected from any real network but pointing it at the local mirror and typing "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" wouldn't have taken much longer..

    But then I don't run X or anything like that ;-)

  19. Re:how do you trace the cracker? on Free Wireless Networks at Airports · · Score: 1

    You'll just end up with de:ad:be:ef or something like that

  20. Re:The best way to convert people from Microsoft.. on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 1
    Just think of how many idiots we could get rid of here on /. if there was some kind of rudimentary test we could give people before they are allowed to post.

    probably the same amount I think, maybe a little less but not much. It doesn't take much computer knowledge to pass any kind of test for slashdot..
    "Explain in fifty words or less the correct usage of there, their and they're"
    Hmmm

    Why should I have to find another piece of software to install on my machine just to access some information, I use my computer to work with, not to mess with and sometimes use Outlook Express - on my Windows box at work it loads quick, can be easily changed around for playing with mail servers and on the rare occasions I need news access it gives me what I need.. But then I use a different (equally broken in many aspects but still way cool) mail client - Lotus Notes against a Domino server (and why is the Outlook client not so bad when used with Exchange? (so the article or something says - I find I get way more winmail.dat attachments through Exchange..)
  21. Re:kudos for EE for being cool like that on Non-Traditional Career Routes? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I started EE at a UK Uni and it was pretty broad-based. That said, I don't think what you take at University is as important as the way the 3 - 4 years there alters your perceptions and how you work - I was a vastly different person - better prepared and open to alernate thoughts - after my time ther than I was when I started.

    Don't think that majoring in something ties you into that for the rest of your life - it's more how you apply yourself to situations...

    All IMHO

    OT: spacefem - I agree with your current (Intelligence) rant but please proof-read before posting ;-) And the IQ test yopu linked to is way too US - the US currency question & imperial weights is difficult. WTF is a dime anyway?

  22. Re:All new and NOT improved on Today's Hardware on Tomorrow's Games · · Score: 1

    The article says that the new Radeons are up there with the highend Geforce's so a refusal to use the nvidia drivers dosen't leave you with shitty fps in new games.

  23. Re:That's because... on Credit Suisse First Boston Fined $100 Million · · Score: 1

    Anyone who owns an old Volkswagen knows well how money evaporates. After owning mine for a while I understand perfectly how wealth can be here one minute and gone the next.

  24. Re:whoops on ISP Forced Out of Business by DoS · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Register have the text of the announcement at the moment.

  25. eek on Writing Messages In Empty Space With GPS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ugh, there are some places where i would really rather not have a video clip of previous activities, imagine getting a new room at uni halls or a hotel or something... eyugggh.