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  1. Re:BeOS Rocks! on NVidia releases Linux drivers for X and GL · · Score: 1

    depends what ya doin, and what ya brainspace can handle, I spose . . .

    I have mucked around with the draco as well, and that is nice too . . .

    flexibility is power

  2. Re:BeOS Rocks! on NVidia releases Linux drivers for X and GL · · Score: 1

    any language or OS can do what any other language or OS can do . . . it is a fundamental point of computer science. You can write a lisp parser in java and vice versa, or emulate any OS under any other one.

    Why one lang or OS is preferred over another is usually comes down to the model it uses and efficiencies or utility gained from that model.

    Doze, Linux, BeOs can all do what the other does.

    Like I said, I wouldn't use BeOS as a webserver. It fully rocks for multimedia (esp video). Why cobble something together in unix (where X is actually introducing inefficiencies, in some regards doze is better because is the api is close to the kernal).

    My point was that linux and beos can work nicely together. X into the server from beos, do multimedia apps on a system designed for it, serve webpages and ip traffic from a system designed for it.

    beos is pretty close to posix compliant (I use the beos shell just like a unix shell).

    Unix is optimized for multiple users, BeoS is optimized for single user. You work it out.

  3. Re:BeOS Rocks! on NVidia releases Linux drivers for X and GL · · Score: 1

    multiple windows really handy for side by side work in video editing . . .

    yes there is a reason . . . would have thought it was obvious.

  4. IBM own Lotus on Lotus Domino for Linux -- but not NetWare · · Score: 1

    correct me if I am wrong

  5. BeOS Rocks! on NVidia releases Linux drivers for X and GL · · Score: 0

    Linux rocks pretty much as well, but it is really a server OS that ppl are transforming (some for politcal reasons, but most just cos they can) into a general purpose OS.

    Now, BeOS is superoptimized, single user OS for multimedia, and will always piss on linux for these uses. I wouldn't use it as my webserver tho . . .

    You gotta watch it running multiple quicktime windows, whilst copying info from the cd-rom to the desktop and playing an mp3 to really understand how good it is.

    I hope it goes well. Linux/BeOS is a nice fit . . . they go well together. BeOS has a nice shell, very familiar to unix users, and some really good apps for sound/video etc. It dual boots really nice with doze or whatever, and on the PII-300 boots in about 8 seconds.

    'forsaken' maybe, but it is damn fine . . . nVidia has been the card of choice for BeOS for a while now as well

  6. the trick is SALES on Ballmer: Apache is simply better · · Score: 3

    a la IBM

    APACHE RUNS ON NT

    and that is all that matters.

    This will be m$ 'open source' stategy . . . watch it!

    "yeah, we have open source . . . apache, perl, java, python, they all run on NT

  7. Re:Are you sure they've lost? (Watermarking) on RIAA Plans to Allow Portable MP3 Players · · Score: 5

    I can defeat digimark entirely withing photoshop using digimark.

    The Tao Of Hacking Digimark

    1. filter/noise/median until the watermark is defeated. Actually, anything will do. Sometimes I do an add noise as well. Basically just defeat the water mark at this stage.

    2. Add a new watermark at the highest setting/lowest image quality

    3 superimpose over the top of the original, adjusting the opacity until you get a near perfect picture with no watermark


    simple really, with nealy indistinguishable results. picture looks great, no watermark, takes about 5 minutes, and a little bit of judgement.


  8. way off topic . . . on Australia now has Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    this is one for all you -1 cruisers out there

    but it is argued in some places (fundy xians amongst others) that the books the nazi's burnt in the first instance were from a sexuality clinic that many homosexual members of the elite went to.

    it is argued that it was an instance of self preservation . . .

  9. QNX rocks on Microsoft starts anti-Linux Group · · Score: 1

    download the demos
    www.qnx.com I think.

    one floppy . . . modem or network support
    web browser
    web SERVER
    graphix support

    blows me away

  10. non-heirachical email client on BBC on Gnome & Interview Miguel · · Score: 1

    anyone know what they were talking about?

    url?

  11. how to find a stealth aircraft on U.S. Using Key Escrow To Steal Secrets? · · Score: 1

    I bet the ruskies can as well.

    So, the US was flying stealthies over baghdad for months. Set up your radars and log ALL the data to tape.

    Built a supercomputer (perhaps using nice open source methods like beowolf, perhaps with stolen secrets) and slowly filter out all the 'knowns'. Work out what is signal, what is noise, what is ducks etc. This does not have to be done in real time at this stage, you are looking for the "stealth signature".

    Detect it, and build the specialized realtime hardware to suit (specialized asics or gate arrays or something, basically just a signal processing problem at this stage), lock onto the fuckers and blow em outa da sky.

  12. Re:perhaps I'm wrong, but... on U.S. Using Key Escrow To Steal Secrets? · · Score: 1

    in a conspiracy theory, all evidence is proof of the conspiracy, so:

    of course the F117 is designed with lowgrade non-alien tech, cos ya can't have those low-grade morons (a medical term, I believe) with access to that kind of stuff

    only the spooks and the illuminati have the high tech, alien stuff

  13. It was in all the papers here on Austrailian Investment Online Hoax Fools 233 · · Score: 1

    and stuff. hey, I think they did a good job for once . . . plenty of publicity, tho, really, there is a strong argument that says "PEOPLE ARE STUPID". I suppose you could ask anyone who has ever worked in tech support.

  14. About Xenix on SCO's Michels Blasts 'Punk Kids' Linux · · Score: 1

    surely this proves one thing

    THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OBSOLETE HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE

  15. CORRECT URL - morus.merriweb.com.au/AtticWare.html on GEM released under the GPL · · Score: 1

    ahhh, that was pretty funny . . . capital research were the people who funded some anti free software rant a week or so back.

    I was trying to find some way to fund the AtticWare project from them tho . . .

    anyway, correct URL is

    http://morus.merriweb.com.au/AtticWare.html

  16. "Saved Code" goes here (AtticWare) on GEM released under the GPL · · Score: 1

    My friend maintains a site for "saved" obsolete code here:

    http://www.capitalresearch.org/fw/fw-1096.html

    and is collecting more.

    He calls is "AtticWare" (for obvious reasons). If anyone has stuff or ideas, you should check out the url.