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  1. PC DVD region coding? on The Little DVD Driver That Could Change Movies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this a mix of software and hardware? Are some DVD-ROM drives just un-regioned? Does it somehow rely on the software to participate?

    I'm curious because I paid no mind to region when I got my bare DVD drive -- I can play region 1 and 2 discs from linux (mplayer) but haven't ever tried commercial dvd software.

    Can someone lay out the steps a PC takes when verifying that it's the proper region?

  2. Re:Weekend Update on Rings Around Earth From Ancient Meteorites · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone moderated my Norm post... that moderator?

    You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

  3. Re:Weekend Update on Rings Around Earth From Ancient Meteorites · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... Once again proving my theory that Germans love David Hasselhoff.

  4. Re:WINE and other PC virtual machines on Running Windows Games with WineX · · Score: 3, Informative

    Virtual PC and VMWARE are virtual machines, WINE isn't.

    It's a partial re-implementation of win32 and related API's. The approach of the former requires a licensed copy of Windows, the latter does not.

    The reason some things do not work is that you have to implement more than just the documented externals.

  5. Re:Hey, cut it out! on Damian Conway Publishes Exegesis 5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm doug, not Bob Dylan!

    <dad> Son, do you even know who Bob Dylan is?

    <doug> No, But I know he died of drugs.

    <dad> No Doug, he's alive and well, as a matter of fact I produced his last two albums.

    <doug> Oh Uncle Robert?

  6. Re:Cultural Icon on I Believe You Have My Stapler · · Score: 1

    Does he really have that large of a record of work to slam the scouts?

    Aside from what some whould call a lackluster character (Rob, the one who goes out for Goofy) in Swingers, he doesn't seem to have all that much 'dark comedy' to his resume.

  7. Re:Cultural Icon on I Believe You Have My Stapler · · Score: 1

    He also performed quite admirably in swingers, although he had more of a straight-man role there.

  8. Re:Cultural Icon on I Believe You Have My Stapler · · Score: 1

    > I may be one of five buyers of the (poorly produced) DVD

    Everyone and their mother owns the office space dvd. Where do delusions like this come from? It's not exactly an obscure movie.

  9. Re:They don't need to GPL their own work... on DishPVR 721 Review · · Score: 1

    >>"The Linux OS?! when did that come out?"

    >"Insisting on calling Linux "GNU/Linux systems [gnu.org]" is like insisting on calling a car a "horseles carriage".

    Is it possible you missed his point?

    "Insisting on calling Linux an 'OS' is like insisting on calling an engine a 'car'"

    I don't agree w/ tacking the "GNU/Linux" phrase everywhere you see "Linux", but it sure does take out alot of the ambiguity. GNU/Linux is a good term for a 'generic' linux based OS.

  10. ffmpeg? on Streaming Live Video on Linux? · · Score: 1

    Might want to investigate ffmpeg, never used their streaming server but the other aspects of the software do a good job.

  11. Re:They rock! on Do Apple iBooks Make Good Geek Laptops? · · Score: 1

    This counts on your operating system to update the hardware clock from the system clock as you bring your machine down. Debian has a hwclock --systohc (and you have to mind whether your hwclock is in utc) in the shutdown scripts, I don't know if all others would.

  12. Re:Two Glaring Un-Truths on Is Linux Dead? · · Score: 1

    From the people that brought you Lindows...

    I've never seen an open office application that rendered complicated excel/word documents even acceptably.

    Do any of the commercial unix suites handle the most feature-ridden Office documents? Talking about emedding lame stuff left and right, those weird tables in Word etc?

  13. Re:Huh? on Is Linux Dead? · · Score: 1

    You would think most businesses have many servers that are not running web services, or even services of any kind that are reachable via the internet.

    Of course it would be nice if in the article they mentioned the realms it has seen a marked success instead of the ones where it has 'flopped'.

  14. One course that might be relevant on Parsing Algorithms and Resources? · · Score: 1

    Finite automata & Natural Language. Study of Finite State Machines progressing to more complicated grammars and languages. At PSU it's a relatively difficult undergrad elective.

    Very informative and much more interesting than most of my other courses. Doesn't teach you lex/yacc (not that hands-on), but you will be better grounded in regular expressions, languages, parsing, etc.

  15. Re:Three Sea Shells on Best High-Tech Toilet? · · Score: 2

    murder death kill!

    If only I had mod points.

  16. Re:If its so easy . . . ? on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System · · Score: 1

    Does the cache management depend on the journal? I do understand that as filesystems mature, you can afford to give up a touch of performance for reliability (because presumably you are making a 'better' filesystem).

  17. Re:If its so easy . . . ? on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System · · Score: 1

    Journalling great for performance? I thought performance was what you lose in the tradeoff?

  18. Good background article on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: 2, Interesting


    google cache of siliconvalley.com piece

    Home-schooled than masters in CS by age 19... lots of interesting stuff.

  19. SF2 ww and MAME on Bang The Machine · · Score: 1

    Last I tried MAME didn't reproduce some of the world warrior glitches too faithfully (tried a couple of different roms, too).

    Breaking out of guiles 'statue' get's you a kick or jump kick and not a flash kick, and either I was REALLY bad on the keyboard but the mame/rom combo I was using couldn't shadow through. No Guile reset, either -- handcuffs works but no shadow throw = no getting out :(
    (I would have loved to re-enact the 5 consecutive [walking-forward sonic boom style] shadow throw I once bashed a player who had come down from NY w/)

    I was happy that dhalsims invisibility actually did work, In the arcades we frequented in philly all of them were of the revision where all of dhalsims glitches were resets.

    This leaves kens infinite spinkick the only thin i've never seen w/ my own eyes!

  20. Re:Um, gee? on The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation · · Score: 1

    TBL?

    Let's leave The Dude out of this. This is not Nam, this is the web -- there are rules.

  21. They can't compete... on Rent A Downloadable Movie · · Score: 1

    With usenet/irc prices. Everything must go!

  22. Re:Ugh. on Dorm Storm? · · Score: 1

    Where are mod points when you need them...tight post lol!

  23. Old news... on Rootkit Developers And Legal Liability · · Score: 1

    Interpol has had the elusive Dr. Spewfy on their most wanted list for close to 6 years.

  24. Re:Who cares? on Two Sci-Fi Legends Slated To Return To TV · · Score: 1

    I'm still pretty confident they made it out of that last scene allright...

  25. Can they... on Protein Music · · Score: 1

    Convert that summary into english?