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  1. Re:What's so 'Java' about it? on Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux · · Score: 1

    Well it ships a java runtime environment by default
    and uses some java applications for various things
    I took a screenshot which hopefully gives a good summary.

  2. they're not the only one on Novell Makes More Open Source Moves · · Score: 1

    IBM has 15K Linux desktops now,
    increasing to 40K in the next 9 months.
    That's still only 12% of the total but it's getting there.

  3. wicked good or wicked bad? on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    I have to say there are no scripts
    there that I would find particularly
    useful or that the logic isn't already elsewhere.
    Here's my personal collection of
    command line tips and
    scripts

  4. Charles Babbage - Ada Augusta - Lord Byron on Hackers: The Art of Abstraction · · Score: 1

    The Editor of Linux User & Developer
    Richard Hillesley wrote a great article in issue 36 titled
    "The Poetry of Programming".

    In it he detailed the connection between E De joncourt,
    Charles Babbage, Ada Augusta and Lord Byron.

    Truely enlightening.

  5. Re:A great success story of Linux on the desktop.. on Rome Moving to Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Miguel de Icaza has some interesting comments on the Extremadura deployment.

  6. hyperthreading aware scheduler is not in yet on Kernel Comparison: Web Serving On 2.4 And 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Don't think so anyway. According to the author
    Ingo Molnar:

    On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > Jeff Garzik wrote:
    >
    >>Are you sure? I could have sworn Ingo made the scheduler magically
    >>HT-friendly...
    >
    > nope, it's not in 2.6 yet. This area is still under development,
    > with various approaches being considered.
    >
    > Ingo

  7. FAT on The 100-Million Mile Network · · Score: 1

    There is a bit of M$ technology on the mars rover
    isn't there? The filesystem is FAT. Hang on a
    minute, that what messed up with the first rover
    wasn't it, so yes your point is valid, sorry :-)

  8. Re:color problems on ordinary digital cameras on The Real Reason why Spirit Only Sees Red · · Score: 1

    maybe you're red/green colour blind?

  9. closed source client :( on Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't take part as the client
    is closed source. I asked for it and
    was politely told sorry, no chance.

  10. Re:Units, units, units!!! on What's Inside the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    Flash uses the same units as disks (powers of 10).
    So it should be 64MiB and 256MB.
    I've some more info here

  11. Re:man, that's cool! on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    info is very non intuitive, but easy when
    you know how. here is a tip sheet

  12. found unofficial picture! on Spirit Rolls on Mars · · Score: 1
  13. valgrind et al on The Linux Development Platform · · Score: 1

    I would buy the book if it had
    a chapter on debugging tools,
    referencing, valgrind, efence,
    glibc malloc debugging, ...
    This is the stuff that's hard to
    find info on but is something
    every developer needs.

  14. Re:Oak? Where? on Open Source Network Administration · · Score: 1

    Isn't oak a DNS server?
    Anyway I found epylog good.

  15. handy tip on Wristwatch USB Drive · · Score: 5, Informative

    I got one of these myself and it's really nice.
    Anyway I wanted to be a bit more sophisticated
    and have multiple disk images that I can just
    dd to the watch (/dev/sda) as required., rather
    than just have the 1 vfat partition on it.

    However when you dd a 2 partition disk image to
    the watch for e.g. after it's been registered
    with having only 1 partition, you can't mount
    or do anything with /dev/sda2

    So you need to get the linux kernel to reread
    the partition table, and the handy way to do
    this is: blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda

    also the best size to read/write the watch (32MB
    version anyway) is: 32k, so to backup the watch
    just: dd bs=32k if=/dev/sda of=watch.backup

  16. Re:Sigh on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 1

    This is a gcc bug IMHO:

  17. Re:Via C3 Ezra on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Just run this script which handles that:

  18. Re:Back button. on Building a Better Back Button · · Score: 1

    As with most things, the keyboard is much faster
    for navigating than using the mouse (as you have
    to move your eyes/hands and look for the back button).
    Alt+Left is the combination on mozzilla & galeon.
    You can find many more handy keyboard shortcuts here

  19. Re:pyGTK is the EASIEST GUI toolkit on Cross-Platform GUI Toolkits (Again)? · · Score: 1

    PyGTK + libglade is a fabulous combination.

    1. "Draw" the GUI in glade.
    2. Save the xml file
    3. In your python program essentially draw(xml file)

    Advantages:
    you/users can alter the xml file as required
    completely cross platform
    python really is a fabulous language.

    For an e.g. see FSlint

  20. Similar PayPal scam on eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just got an identical scam pertaining to PayPal. I was directed to enter info into PayPal scam site

  21. kinetic watches on Ten Technologies That Shouldn't Have Died? · · Score: 2

    Watches that "wind" themselves are quite common?
    I'm currently wearing a Tag Huer Kinetic Chronometer.

  22. Re:Yeah, and a 2 million stage pipeline on A Well-Chilled 750GHz Feasible Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    You're correct if you assume they're hard little
    balls. But they're not. Info can't travel faster
    than light.

    More clarification on the above point is that
    electrons through copper go @ about half the
    speed of light.

  23. bit errors! on Can You Back Up Data On Audio/Visual Media? · · Score: 1

    you can get 10GB of audio visual data OK.
    But that's because the occasional bit error
    is tolerable here. To get the required bit
    error rate to required levels for "other"
    data, you have to use a much larger resolution
    on the tape.

    Emm, don't you think the tape drive manafacturers
    are already getting the best possible capacity?

  24. Re:Snoop on Peep: The Network Auralizer · · Score: 2

    Yes! snoop was the SVr4 replacement for etherfind.
    You can tell it to concentrate on one or two machines etc. But the coolest feature is activated
    using the -a option. This causes snoop to output a
    click on the speaker for each packet.Different
    packet lengths are given different modulation.
    It's been said that you can get used to the different sounds and actually tune the network
    "by ear".

  25. Compilers are getting MORE important on Pentium 4 Re-evaluated, Again (Again) · · Score: 1

    I haven't got time to read either the article
    or any of these comments. However compilers
    are getting more important with newer CPU
    designs. Also intel is always going to have
    the best compiler for x86 chips. And Compaq's
    compiler is the only one to consider for an
    Alpha. There should really be a campaign for
    the CPU vendors to opensource their compilers
    so that everyone can get the benefit and enhance
    them etc. Like what have they to loose? They
    will only sell more chips.