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  1. Phion is Austrian on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Phion is Austrian, not German.

  2. Netscape 6 isn't gecko based on Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Gecko is Mozilla's rendering engine, and was introduced int Netscape when Netscape started rebranding and "enhancing" Mozilla rather than doing their own. So Netscape browsers prior to version 6 aren't gecko-based, they're Netscape-based.

    Oh, and that old browsers display a message correctly doesn't mean the html is correct.For example, IIRC the FONT tag was never offcial html, it for sure isn't valid XHTML (which is the official HTML successor).

  3. It's dropping! (I think) on Finding the Viscosity of Pitch · · Score: 1

    Go have a look at the live stream.

  4. First flywheel bus on So Where Are The Fuel Cells? · · Score: 1

    In Yverdon, Switzerland, a bus which stored electric energy by a flywheel and recharged at every stop, the recharging took about 30 to 40 seconds. It entered regular line service in Yverdon's public transportation system in 1953.

    There's an article about the past, present and future of flywheel systems at the University of Dresden. (Language: German).
  5. Re:Who owns what... on Starbucks Clashes With WiFi Hobbyists Over Airwaves · · Score: 1

    To spare you looking up, go here.

  6. Re:Who owns what... on Starbucks Clashes With WiFi Hobbyists Over Airwaves · · Score: 2

    Go check the VoiceStream homepage. Voicestream is being rebranded as T-Mobile, which is a daughter of Deutsche Telekom. Got to Deutsche Telekom if you can read German, they have a press release saying that they are integrating Voicstream into the international T-Mobile.

  7. Who owns what... on Starbucks Clashes With WiFi Hobbyists Over Airwaves · · Score: 2

    T-Mobile owner Voicestream

    Err... no. T-Mobile is the cellular branch of Deutsche Telekom, which bought Voicestream last year. So T-mobile owns Voicestream.

  8. No, it isn't. on Slashback: Arch, Bubbles, Keystrokes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dual-Licensing works only with libraries, because the GPL prohibits linking between GPL and non-GPL code. However, arch is a program. You don't need to link it to your project to use it for generating your project. According to the GPL, you can use GPL'ed programs for commercial projects (e.g. using Kdevelop as IDE an arch as version control). As long as you don't use them as part of your project, everything's fine.

    So the difference is: When we're talking using GPL'ed stuff as tools, you can use it in any way you like. It's only when it comes to modifying or linking GPL'ed code that you get restrictions.
  9. "anarchic royals" on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 1

    anarchic royals

    Huh? Anarchy (everybody as best as he can) and Royalty (the king rulz J00) are opposite concepts... What are anarchic royals? Communist libertarians?

  10. Re:"Faster is better." on Benchmarking Intel C++ 6.0 to GNU g++ 3.0.4 · · Score: 1

    Well, if you look in the leftmost column of the table, it sais "runtime (in seconds)". Now which one is faster, do you think: 3 or 6.2 seconds?

  11. Google cache on Bubble-Plexi Case Mod · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's Google's cache.

  12. Re:Do a clean install on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    I agree with you that it is very inconvenbient, but I can assure you that (for what it's worth) it is an 8.0-specific problem. The drastic change in the configuration scheme seems to cause the problem. Personally I upgraded 7.0->7.1->7.2->7.3 w/out problems, and I heard from people who did 6.4->7.0 smoothly, too. So I hope that we can expect headache-free upgrades from now on.

    (Yes, I'ld love to apt-get upgrade. Yast Online Update doesn't cut it, at least not in the 7.x versions. Didn't check 8.0 yet.)

  13. They don't do it any more on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's exactly what 8.0 changed. They now have several config files, one for every package. Hack away!

  14. Do a clean install on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    Updating seems to be a bad idea with SuSE 8.0. We've had a lot of trouble with updated machines, once we did a clean install, keeping only the /home partitions and reformatting everything else, it ran very smoothly (you *do* have your $HOME in a separate partition, right?).

    Somewhat annoying is that there seems to be no clean way to do the move from the old, pre-8 config scheme to the new one. Update doesn't work, and I haven't found any scripts that would automate it any other way. So we had to reconfigure everything (which was not as bad as it sounds, since our machines are largely identical).

  15. Excuse me while I nitpick on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Comment: None of the discs reached more than 180 m/s, but on the other hand that's about 650 km/h, the cruising speed of a jet airliner.

    The cruising speed of jet airliners is 800 km/h to 900 km/h, business jets being a bit faster. Today's fast turboprops reach 500 km/h.

  16. KMail can bounce mail, too on Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap · · Score: 1

    KDE's KMail can bounce mail, too, manually or via filter.

  17. 1.0 is correct, 2.2.2 isnt on KDE 3.0 is Out · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, the arts-2.2.2 is incorrect. The real version of arts shipped with kde 2.2.2 was 0.4 or 0.6, kde3 ships with arts 1.0. So your distro numbered the arts after the kde version numbers and not the arts version numbers. If they keep it up, it shouldn't matter (and you'll get arts-1.0 sold to you as arts-3.0), if they don't, go hit them with a stick ;-)

  18. Good Frontends exist.. on Can GnuPG Deliver? · · Score: 1

    First, Geheimnis is a very good and complete GPG frontend. Then, KMail has integrated gpg/pgp support for signing, signature checking, de-/encryption. I'm sure there are other examples. What is lacking are not good Linux frontends, but good windows frontends, which the german government is currently taking care of (see other posts). BTW, they also plan to extend KMail support.

  19. Re:Amazing Germans on When PC Still Means 'Punch Card' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Excuse me for being bit off-topic.

    The entire point is that in order to successfully conduct a genocide (like, find and kill over 6 million), you need an enormous logistical and organizational system in place. Such was only possible using IBM's machines. If they didn't have those IBMs, it would have been much harder to organize the genocide, consequently, a lot less poeple would have had to die (apart from the fact that the brits actually knew what was going on very early and decided not to do anything about it, but that's beside the point).

    Go ahead, mod me into oblivion.

  20. Re:I only know what not to give. on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 1

    I guess you now your SO best, but there are women who, when they say they don't wnat something, really want it (but don't assume this all of the time).

    No, I'm not confused.

  21. Re:Can _you_ count? on Google Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    If you read the announcement, you would see that the data provided by google for developing your app (because you need s/th to test it on, right?) is those 900.000 pages, while, if you win, you might have your app run on the entire repository (the billion-page-thingy).

  22. Re:it runs Windows XP? on Incredible Shrinking PC · · Score: 1

    Linux runs on about anything. Even today's PDAs can run Linux, you don't need a full blown PC for that. XP needs a full blown PC (and not a bad one at that) to run, so it's more of a measure how close to standard desktop performance the thingy is.

  23. RedHat != Linux on Oracle Switching To Linux · · Score: 1

    What has this to do with RedHat in particular? It's Linux we're talking about. Case in point, SuSE today made a strategic deal with IBM to work on a Linux distro optimized for IBM's zServer and eServer series (e.g., SuSE gets hardware details long before the rest of the crowd). IBM will deliver both their eServers and their zServers with SuSE Linux, if you wnat to have it.
    Anno.

  24. Re:Why live on planets? on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 1

    First, definitions:

    - inhabited: A form of life (however primitive) exists on the planet
    - inhabitable: The planet can theoratically sustain above-mentioned life.

    Uninhabited, but inhabitable planets are out of dicussion for exploiting. Even if we choose not do inhabitate them, a different civilisation might try to do so, or life (however primitive) might still form. And remember: Before you are able to give life, don't try to take it away - even not the chance of its existing

    Uninhabitable: I think it is OK to exploit uninhabitable planets for our pourposes. However, it might be very difficult what uninhabitable actually means - who might know if, against our current belief, life might still be able to form. And science isn't the answer, because a main feature of science (and its strength) is that it can be wrong.

    Anno.

  25. Re:Interest rates are pointless in deflation on Norrath Economic Report Now Available · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping that's a typo, but if not, it makes for a very interesting economy.

    I'm in the danger of getting to real-world here, but in fact, it makes for a dead economy. 30% deflation means it basically impossible to loan money even if interest was at 0%. You loan 1000 pieces now and get quantity 100 of x for that, if you wnat to pay the 1000 pieces a year later, you have to pay the equivalen of 130 x. It's like having a 30% interest rate. And no loans -> No investments -> economy going downhill.