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  1. SMP on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 1
    I know for a long time Linux had trouble working with more than 4 cpus. I think it's much improved now though. One the other hand, Unixware (based on real SysV UNIX) can run on machines with 32 cpus. So can offerings from SGI and SUN.

    Linux has features that the real UNIX kernel does not as well. Like loadable kernel modules at runtime and support for so many different filesystems.

  2. When pigs can fly on Linux Xbox Project Seeks Microsoft Signature · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now we can replace that expression with 'When Microsoft provides a digital signiture for the Xbox Linux project'.

  3. Amen brother on My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer · · Score: 1
    I know what it feels like. Both the support inbox for where I use to work and the email I put on my webpage have been used as a reply-to address in spam. Boy, did I get complaints.

    As for blocking spam, I've noticed that almost all the spam I get comes from asian pacific or latin america netblocks. I found that blocking all emails comming from SMTP addresses starting with 61, 200, 202, 203, 210, 211, 218, 219 and 220 helps a lot.

  4. Re:Nancy Cartwright? on Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Here's a link from an official scientologist site confirming it as well.

  5. .co.uk on UK Parliament Domain Without Registrar · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I always wondered why I always see .co.uk and (almost) never just .uk.

    I know that co stands for commercial but why doesn't Nominet allow plain .uk to be registered anymore?

  6. Why didn't they use BSD code? on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Seriously, why risk getting sued by using Linux code? I believe their hardware is based on the ARM architecture which is supported by netBSD.

    They could have adapted code from netBSD's PCI and IO subsystem and integrated it in their binary only roms in total legality.

  7. Re:Jaguar! on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 1

    Hey look, someone is selling one on on ebay here. Screenshots of the console are included.

  8. Re:Jaguar! on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 1

    Yes, I remember reading about it has a 66 MHz PowerPC 603 32-bit CPU, 6MB of RAM. I thought this thing never got released but then I found this page which says it was along with a few games. It even has a picture of the machine.

  9. Re:I did... on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 1

    I played Red Alarm. It was pretty neat. It was a 3D space shooter a bit like StarFox but with wireframe polygones.

    I found this type of use of stereoscopic 3D way better than all the other games you mentionned wich looked like 2D paper cut-outs placed at varying distances from you.

  10. Enstein was pretty close on E ~ mc^2 · · Score: 1
    Assuming the new formula is correct, Enstein's is almost equal to the right thing.

    Ep is a very big value so mc^2/Ep is approximately 0 which give E ~= (mc^2)/(1+0) ~= mc^2.

  11. Re:Gaming monitor on Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1
    This is not equivalent to having 3 monitors. The maximum resolution on this display is what? 1080 horizontal pixels.

    If you use 3 19" monitors running at 1280x1024 pixels each you get much more pixels to work with i.e. much more detail.

  12. Re:DRM makes it ugly... on Games of the Year · · Score: 2, Informative
    What about games made by Id? I've noticed that Id games, such as RTCW, don't require a CD check.

    I remember that Quake 3 required it at first but then Id removed it with one of their updates.

  13. Re:What I find ridiculous... on Jon Johansen DeCSS Trial Next Week · · Score: 5, Informative
    He is not getting sued under the DCMA. It is an American law and has no standing in a Norwegian court.

    They're suing him under a Norwegian breaking-in law. This law has never been used before for persecuting the breaking into your own property as the article indicates.

  14. Re:Werd 'em up on Sun vs. OpenBSD? · · Score: 1
    I know this isn't due to Sun's initiative but the European Space Agency who are big SPARC users have reversed engineered and produced a SPARC compatible processor called the LEON-1


    The full VHDL code (what you need to synthesize a chip, send this to a fab and they send you back a fully functional microprocessor) is available under the LGPL. Their chip (Leon) is truly free (as in free speech) hardware.

  15. WINE on Teach Yourself UNIX System Administration In 24 Hours · · Score: 1
    God damit. WINE is not an emulator. Hence the acronyme:


    Wine
    Is
    Not an
    Emulator

  16. Re:The only thing a newbie needs to know: on Teach Yourself UNIX System Administration In 24 Hours · · Score: 1
    You are assuming that for whatever login the user is using, there is an entry for it in /etc/sudoers allowing it to use rm as root.

    Also, the (f)orce flag is needed to avoid answering y all the time. This should have been (assuming user has root password):

    $su
    password:
    #rm -rf /

    That's all.

  17. Free (free speech) Interpreter on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 1

    There is a GPL'd Forth interpreter out there: GForth

    It is the Forth implementation of the GNU project and is available for many platforms including Linux, Windows and OS/2.

  18. Re:Advantages of freenet over the regular internet on Freenet 0.5 Released · · Score: 1
    it will make removing a webpage without approval of the webmaster an impossibility


    I believe even the webmaster is unable to remove a freesite that he published himself. If his site gets visited by others, copies are made of it on each node it went through.

    He cannot remove any data from these nodes.

  19. More information and screenshots on Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some screenshots and extra info can be found here:

    http://cube.ign.com/objects/017/017510.html

  20. Re:Slashdotted or wrong link at the site? on Original Quake using Doom 3 Technology · · Score: 1

    The screenshots were removed because the server is too busy. Just look at the URL of the 404 page you get:
    http://allserv.rug.ac.be/helpdesk/error404st ud-bus y.html

  21. Re:I've used it pretty extensively, it's cool. on Running Windows Games with WineX · · Score: 1

    You know, you can run Unreal and Hexen II (click on Home Page->Downloads) natively under Linux.

  22. And Canada on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Canada is the only developped country in which there are no laws regulating encryption.

    That's one of the reasons for which Openbsd is developed there.

  23. Re:Deep linking is illegal.. so heres the story on Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites · · Score: 1

    How can you consider it deep linking when the link is broken?

  24. Re:Please no Quicktime! on Star Trek: Nemesis Trailer to Premiere Tonight · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have a MPEG2 VOB file.

  25. Aquired knowledge on Does Drawing on Experience Infringe on Other's IP? · · Score: 1

    I think this sums it up pretty well.