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  1. 0-day 9.1 review ? on First Mandrake 9.1 Review Out · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So, you made a quick, shallow review of MDK 9.1 ? WOW ! psst : I had access to BETA 9.1 MDK !!
    Or the FIRSY REVEIW OF THE 9.1 COOKER OF (insert last urpmi --auto-select date)

    Soon we'll see 0-DAY WAREZ LINKS AVAILABLE mandrake 9.1 GPL ISOs downloadable from OSNews !!

  2. 9.1 review ?? on First Mandrake 9.1 Review Out · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So, you made a quick, shallow review of MDK 9.1 ? WOW ! psst : I had access to BETA 9.1 MDK !!
    Or the FIRSY REVEIW OF THE 9.1 COOKER OF

    Soon we'll see 0-DAY WAREZ LINKS AVAILABLE mandrake 9.1 GPL ISOs downloadable from OSNews !!

  3. Re:Intel on Extreme Multithreading on a Chip · · Score: 1

    It's a simple optimization procedure.
    If you crank up MHz (or instructions per cycle), then every already wruten application can make use of them.
    If you impose a multithreaded standard for programming to improve performance, well, fine, but it is maybe not simpler to rewrite your existing program : either you improve all(cpu-bound) programs by 100% (doubling processing speed for same arch) or you can multiply by 10 1% of the applications. The first one is more effective in the whole scale.
    Of course, when you cannot improve much in GHz, then you will try to modify your software and hardware architecture to make it faster. Not before.

  4. Re:Bloat on C++ Templates: The Complete Guide · · Score: 1

    ahem ... (goes under the chair ..)

  5. Should be done better on Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law. · · Score: 1

    Like, the bad behaving people would have their number posted on slashdot. Now THAT would be slashdotting !

  6. Location Based Service ? on Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Erm, I suppose they get some information about where the guy is (what cell, or better via triangulation or radio waves), or who he is talking to, too.

    or (shudder) they'll force him to use .. WAP ! (argh.)

  7. Re:Bloat on C++ Templates: The Complete Guide · · Score: 1

    Alexander Alexandrescu : maybe you meant Alexei ..

  8. Re:Open Source Question on Sun 'Calls JBoss bluff' on J2EE compliance · · Score: 1
    exactly, see my l33t Outlook SNMP server replacement :
    #include <stdio.h>
    Here it is. Since you have the code, you can make it compliant with SNMP, SMTP, HTTP and mpeg-4 ? thanks
  9. Re:The problem of rewriting/forking XFree on XFree86 Politics · · Score: 1

    XFree 4 is NOT old, has already been rewrited from scratch (to be modular and allow for binary, OS independant drivers, which the so-called drivers debacle show has been a mitigated success), and forking does not mean you HAVE to rewrite it.

    When/if it will be forked, I could help abandoning the Sourceforge site. (sorry)

  10. Re:Joke all you want on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    the simple fact of using this king of network would make someone utterly suspicious in that kind of regime, don't you think ?
    I'd think steganography could be much more of an option in that cases.

  11. first ... on Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta · · Score: -1, Redundant

    'does that play ogg' post !
    (and first "no, but it's upgradeable so who knows in the future ...")

  12. Don't get it on A Hydrogen-Based Economy · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but how is hodrogen a source of energy ?
    It is more of an energy vector, as electricity is not a source of energy.
    And what do you need to have energy ? Diesel. Or nuclear. Or coal. That is, either natural fossil energy or atomic one. Problem not solve, return to work on fusion.

  13. Re:Ardour at al on Linux Audio Developers Conference · · Score: 1

    one remark : this guy is pretty well informed : we wrote Ardour. And is quite a master developper at it.

  14. Re:Radio Station != Recording Studio on Linux Audio Developers Conference · · Score: 1

    The standard for effects on linux is LADSPA. Think of it as a VST done right (the API is ultra clean), but currently without a GUI standard so the GUIs will be not that pretty but useable nonetheless. They are of course useable with ARDOUR.
    As concerns simple (and not so simple) GPLed effects, the most important source for them is swh plugins. They were either programmed or compiled by steve harris, and can be found at http://plugin.org.uk . Available effects (from a total of 70 !) are for example :
    flanger, crossover distorsion, gate, multivoice chorus, three compressors ...

  15. Re:The crux of the article on Linus Comments on SCO v IBM · · Score: 1
    one fun quote :
    And it seems like network support and then X-Windows will be ported to Linux
    well before Minix. This is something that would be really useful.
  16. Unify ? Who wants that ? on KDE & Gnome Usability Engineers Interviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Th reunification, from a user POV, should maybe not be the goal of G/K. Why ? Why have exactly the same features ? With the same political decisions ?

    I think that K and G do things their own way, but when G and K do the same thing (eg icons, desktop files, ...) they agree on a same format, same interfaces, which is imho very very important.

  17. Re:Windows and the VIC on The Contiki Desktop OS for C64, NES, 8-bit Atari, · · Score: 1

    Heresy ! win2 (not win2k :) ) did have propotionnal fonts !

  18. Advice on International Connectivity · · Score: -1, Troll
    As an American [...] I'm curious as to what advice/information Slashdot could could people like me

    er... Use use the Preview Button ?
  19. Re:Of course they could have done something ! on Welcome to the Safari Jungle · · Score: 1

    of course they can do someting with HTML: use something else.

    What they are laudable for is precisely that they used a simple, user friendly, straightforward HTML instead of a bizarre plugin.

  20. QMail written in python ? on Guido van Rossum On Strong vs. Weak Typing · · Score: 1

    It's been written in the article that qmail and mailman have been written in python. While I agree for mailman, I just downloaded Qmail source (very small !) : no PY file.

  21. Re:2-4 processor setups on HP Finally Reveals The Alpha Marvel · · Score: 1

    or if you have a HA cluster of inexpensive boxes, just dump the faulty one & replace the component if obvious to find.

  22. length != surface ! on Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's time to know that a SQUARE inch is .. um ... fuck ... about the length from the top of your thumb to the first joint SQUARED. Which really is a sensible unit, isn't it.
    C'mon, open, free standards are good, no ?

  23. like what, GSM ? on Merging WiFi VoIP Into Cellular Service · · Score: 1
    but don't we first need a common voice protocol that is agreed upon and used by all?

    You mean, like GSM and UMTS ? Nah, sure it is open, free, secure, proven, whatever, but it is NIH.
  24. Re:good stuff on Hyper-Threading Speeds Linux · · Score: 1

    err ... do you really need that much CPU power for a webserver ?

  25. Re:It's not possible on Hyper-Threading Speeds Linux · · Score: 1

    like the new shiny graphic card which has 700 fps under win and lin... oh wait, no free 3D accelerated drivers for X ...