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  1. Re:Why pdfs? on State Of The Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Most likely LaTeX (Or some other TeX variant) was used to typeset the paper. There are things used in this paper that just can't be done in HTML (For instance, footnotes). Personally, I'd rather see MORE stuff in PDF rather than less. I just find them much easier to read, something to do with how Acrobat's font rendering doesn't suck. Also, PDF's are far superior for anything beyond 1000 words or so.

  2. Re:So where can I buy the machine? on SGI Releases New Workstations · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, you didn't, actually. SGI does not market to consumers or small businesses. SGI markets to corportations and institutions. The worlds where the purchase order is king.

  3. Re:How long... on Linux v2.6 Begins Testing · · Score: 1

    2.5.x was a testing series. The release following 2.5.0 was 2.5.1, not 2.5.0.pre2 or some such. (In other words, not long)

  4. Re:Energy Budget on American Solar Challenge 2003 Starts · · Score: 1

    You've never been in the south have you? When it's 95 degrees and humid, not having A/C is NOT an option.

  5. Re:For non-robots, a simplified poker method on Artificial Intelligence in Poker · · Score: 1

    There's an even bigger problem. Out of the 49(!) remaining cards after the first 3 are dealt, assuming the 3 are of the same suit, there are only 10 (NOT 13!) of that suit remaining. So your actual odds are actually 10/49, basically 1/5, not the 1/4 you imply.

  6. Re:One thing in the ET article... on FreeBSD 5.1 Review and BSD Roundup · · Score: 1

    Has anyone actually sold GPLed software, ever?

    Just because you COULD do it doesn't mean it's viable.

  7. Re:Good times. on Guido van Rossum Leaves Zope.com · · Score: 1

    Quote: I'm a Python fan, but I doubt Python will ever surpass Perl -- especially not by adding a "more logical parse tree", since it already has a very simple, consistent, and logical parse tree whereas Perl has more of a parse forest.

    Oh, WOW! What a quote ;)

  8. 10 g's? So what! on Armadillo Aero One Step Closer To Space · · Score: 1

    That's not bad at all. That's about what you get when you plop down in a chair.

  9. Re:Mandrake's channel sales suck on MandrakeSoft's Status Update · · Score: 1

    Of course! After all, bandwidth and servers are FREE!

  10. Rating? on Java Database Best Practices · · Score: 1

    What's with all the ratings-that-aren't lately?

  11. Re:The problem with emusic and iTunes on EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping · · Score: 1

    Huh? emusic has practically the oppisite problem. It's almost all indie stuff. Jazz, blues, and reggae selections make it worth it.

  12. Play with fire and get burned. on Technology Buying Slump · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe this is because companys have been burned enough times by "upgrades" that only cause downtime and break other apps?

  13. Re:Engine? on Most Powerful Amateur Rocket in Canada · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nope. That would put it at 5Y. The first stage had 5 F1 engines.

  14. Re:Was it really impressive? on Most Powerful Amateur Rocket in Canada · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can kinda understand limiting the height.

    2 major reasons.

    1: A lot less is needed as far as permits / permissions.
    2: Better chances of recovery...

  15. Re:Yeah Yeah... on PHP 5 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    PHP is far more capable out-of-the box than any other web language. Plus there are free replacements for much of the Zend such, as the Alternative PHP Cache. Furthermore, what exactly the hell is your problem? Do you have some issue with people trying to put foot on the table, while still giving away the bulk of their work for free. If the Zend team could not work on PHP and related projects fulltime, do you think PHP would be near as useful as it is?

  16. Re:What's wrong with dselect? on Introduction to Debian · · Score: 1

    apt-get install aptitude

    Try aptitude. Then tell me dselect doesn't suck. (not the aptitude is perfect by any means, but it's MUCH better than dselect)

  17. Re:Installer on Introduction to Debian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Almost right.

    The install is fine.

    It's dselect that sucks.

  18. Re:I am just thinking of switching to Debian on Introduction to Debian · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, get the 10MB bootflooppies netinst cd. Install woody.

    $EDITOR /etc/apt/sources.list

    Replace all instances of 'stable' with 'testing'

    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade

    Congradulations, you're running testing.

  19. Re:Why bother? on Introduction to Debian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unstable really isn't that bad. No worse than Gentoo for example.

  20. Re:But on The Real Reason for Sending Astronauts into Space · · Score: 1

    Well, seeing as how both accidents were due (When you really get down to it) to weather, that must SURELY reflect poorly of the programmers and hardware engineers.

  21. Re:I still don't get the allure of Java on Industry Leaders Discuss Java Status Quo · · Score: 1

    Not true. You can use py2exe to distribute python apps to windows users. That creates a directory (Roughly 2MB in size usually) that you can zip up and give to your users. They simple unzip and do the double clicky.

  22. Re:What do they expect? on FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Probably because FreeCiv is targetting a 10+ year old game.

  23. For most, won't matter. on 150 Mbit/s DSL. · · Score: 4, Informative

    As the subject says, 99.9% of the the people out there are limited not by the capability of the line, but by the limits imposed by the service provider.

  24. Re:Simple solution... on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    RAR is an order of magnitude slower...

  25. Re:Distro problem on FreeBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Distro is a term unique to linux. Linux is self is just a kernel. A distribution packages the kernel with the GNU Utilities and (optionally) other various an sundry packages. What makes a distro a distro is how and what it collects. It's just one orginizations idea of how to put linux togethor.

    On the other hand, FreeBSD is FreeBSD is FreeBSD. It's not like you've got "Fred's FreeBSD" and "Ted's FreeBSD". There's just one canonical distribution. It is no more accurate to refer to FreeBSD as a "distro" than it would be to refer to Windows XP as one.