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First seen: 1999-01-03
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Comments · 2,445

er.. the palm pilot has enough CPU to play mp3s? on IBM and Mp3 · 1999-04-04 08:29 · Score: 1

I wasn't aware that it even had an FPU. That would pretty much rule out any chance in Hades of it being able to play MP3s.

- A.P.
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Don't be such a tightass. on National Phone in Sick Day? · 1999-04-04 07:54 · Score: 1

What is so wrong with taking a sick day?

- A.P.
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I thought he died a year ago. on JWZ resigns from mozilla.org · 1999-04-01 14:53 · Score: 1

He must be causing a raucous stench by now. :/

- A.P.
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The SL-1200 isn't *exactly* the same. on Scratching MP3s with a real turntable · 1999-03-31 17:19 · Score: 1

Various subtle design enhancements have gone into the 1200 over the past 20 years. The only reason most people don't know is because there are so damned many of the ancient ones still working, I imagine. At any rate, the electronics inside the thing have changed a lot.

- A.P.
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Depends what you call expensive. on Scratching MP3s with a real turntable · 1999-03-31 08:55 · Score: 1

There's a place in Boston that'll do it for $40 per dub plate. Dub plates don't last as long as records, though. (5 plays, I've heard, before the quality starts to go to hell, but that number seems a *tad* low.)

- A.P.
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How fast is "quickly" though? on Scratching MP3s with a real turntable · 1999-03-31 03:10 · Score: 1

"The software responds very quickly to record movements, the delay is virtually not noticable."

Well, I can scratch pretty well. I've heard others that are absolutely incredible though. Quick response time is critical. I hope this program/hardware can keep up.

For now, I'll stick to vinyl (thousands of pieces of which are scattered about my room...)

- A.P.
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Wow. on Linux 2.2.5 Released · 1999-03-29 18:36 · Score: 1

10923084 bytes received in 18 secs (5.9e+02 Kbytes/sec)

Talk about instant gratification.

- A.P.
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Hm... on Solaris Fonts on Linux? · 1999-03-28 13:35 · Score: 1

Not sure what the difference would be, but when I decided I liked the fonts on the SGI at work, I simply tarred the directory up, FTPed it to my personal machine at home, untarred it, and did the normal X font-adding procedure, followed by xset fp rehash. They were immediately available to me.

I haven't tried this with my solaris box. Maybe I should.

- A.P.
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My bid: on Auction off Windows Source? · 1999-03-28 08:37 · Score: 1

37 cents and an unopened pack of Big Red bubble gum. I know, it's a little extreme, but I think the gum's stale.

- A.P.
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There's a Wendy's in Boston? on Pizza Vending Machines · 1999-03-28 08:27 · Score: 1

Not near Northeastern anyway... I don't think I've *ever* seen one, to be honest.

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Weed machine? on Pizza Vending Machines · 1999-03-28 08:21 · Score: 1

Well, I guess we can dream anyway... - A.P.
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ask slashdot... on Gates: "Linux Can't Compete" · 1999-03-26 05:27 · Score: 1

...serves exactly this purpose.

- A.P.
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Fool. on Kipling: Be careful what you wish for. · 1999-03-25 11:12 · Score: 1

I'm not talking about the "hack and win a duffel bag" contest. I meant the site itself, which, as you can see, was also hacked.

- A.P.
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Why on earth was Mettler given forum on here? on RMS Immature, Slashdot and Community Arrogant? · 1999-03-25 04:49 · Score: 1

Has anyone read his absolute pathetic criticism of Open Source security? It basically amounts to "open source is bad because anyone can install a new version of the kernel and become root." I am not making this up.

It really would be a good idea to remove the Talkback link up above.

- A.P.
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damn right! on MP3s Causing Decline in CD Sales? · 1999-03-25 04:26 · Score: 1

DJing with anything else is just... wrong. :)

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speaking of DJ mixes... on MP3s Causing Decline in CD Sales? · 1999-03-25 02:08 · Score: 1

I've got one available here if anyone's interested...
-A.P.
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RIAA == Reality-Impaired Arrogant Assholes. on MP3s Causing Decline in CD Sales? · 1999-03-25 01:52 · Score: 1

Maybe in ten years they'll have it all figured out, if they're around in 10 years. I'm not willing to bet they will be.

- A.P.
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That was also 15 years ago. on Segfault and User Friendly threatened · 1999-03-24 23:53 · Score: 1

Things have changed a lot since Cutter John and Opus and the rest of them fled in terror from the Death Star billboard.

- A.P.
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Write a database then... on MP3s Causing Decline in CD Sales? · 1999-03-24 23:02 · Score: 1

It took me like 30 minutes to hack together an awk/perl/sed/etc script with which I can search by track name, file size, case-sensitive or no, and I can do it on a per-disc basis. Once you get up around 20 CDs full of MP3s, these things become necessary. (I'm up to 25. . . :)

- A.P.
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Hoax. Proof. on Kipling: Be careful what you wish for. · 1999-03-24 05:37 · Score: 1

[wakko@tettie] 6:34:13pm ~/> nslookup www.planetinternet.be
Server: tettie.bitey.net
Address: 209.150.6.71

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: leuven.planetinternet.be
Address: 194.119.232.4
Aliases: www.planetinternet.be

[wakko@tettie] 6:37:11pm ~/> nslookup www.kipling.com
Server: tettie.bitey.net
Address: 209.150.6.71

Name: www.kipling.com
Address: 194.119.239.81

Look at the two IP addresses. Now traceroute them.

Here's the last bit of a traceroute to planetinternet's site:

16 be-br-dr08.unisource.be (194.119.226.169) 399.195 ms 369.74 ms 339.719 ms
17 194.119.225.182 (194.119.225.182) 309.978 ms 329.264 ms 329.628 ms
18 195.95.30.82 (195.95.30.82) 339.757 ms 195.95.30.85 (195.95.30.85) 359.241 ms 195.95.30.82 (195.95.30.82) 449.23 ms
19 passendale.planetinternet.be (195.95.30.90) 388.849 ms * 286.789 ms
20 hosting.planetinternet.be (194.119.239.2) 293.474 ms 319.294 ms *

And the last part of a traceroute to www.kipling.com:

16 be-br-dr08.unisource.be (194.119.226.169) 380.362 ms 387.695 ms 349.823 ms
17 194.119.225.182 (194.119.225.182) 350.344 ms * *
18 195.95.30.82 (195.95.30.82) 329.372 ms 195.95.30.85 (195.95.30.85) 358.755 ms 348.818 ms
19 passendale.planetinternet.be (195.95.30.90) 349.818 ms * 348.748 ms
20 hosting.planetinternet.be (194.119.239.2) 349.667 ms * 328.889 ms

Gee. What ever is planetinternet doing in there?

Dorks.

- A.P.
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I think the RIAA didn't like the idea. on CD vending machines · 1999-03-22 09:36 · Score: 1

At least that's what I read somewhere. The record industry wouldn't let the company sell singles burnt to CD without paying a ridiculous premium that ended up making the product far too expensive.

- A.P.
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twat. on RMS on APSL · 1999-03-21 05:22 · Score: 1

Did you even read the article? - A.P.
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I think they're worse, personally. on OSI APSL Response · 1999-03-18 04:52 · Score: 1

Exploiting Open Source software like Apache and then being "generous" enough to open some tiny portions of their new OS in some half-hearted attempt to look like some sort of longtime friend. Wow gee thanks! So, what's up with not allowing the Xanim people to even distribute a binary codec of a more recent, and, maybe, for once, useable, Quicktime? Oh, I see. You get nothing out of it.

I guess as long as it's making Apple money, Open Source is great.

At least Microsoft has the decency to just shun us outright.

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Did anyone expect otherwise, really? on "Open Source" Apple says "No" to Xanim · 1999-03-16 20:33 · Score: 1

Sure, Apple will go Open Source when it suits their interests.

They're no better than Microsoft, and, with the way they're pimping Open Source for their own gain (Apache, etc...), they could be considered worse.

Screw them. :P

- A.P.

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Er, I *did*... on Cool Computer Cases Continue · 1999-03-16 06:34 · Score: 1

...and it's a purple box 'stead of a beige one. Though I might be getting a nice blue one too with a 200 MHz IP22 in it. (It went off lease at work. SGI forgot to come get it. Oops!)

I still think nothing can touch an IPX-type Sparc case in terms of simplicity and looks though.

- A.P.
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