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  1. Re:Online Muds: Free and Non-commercial on Layoffs at WotC · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you liked IRC playing you should try www.openrpg.com The great thing about it is that it has whispers, maps, miniatures, chat system with dm and player roles... it's opensource and specific to roleplaying online...

  2. rsync is the best, until you need compression on Linux Backups Made Easy · · Score: 1

    rsync has faithfully served my backup needs for many a year, but recently I've needed to conserve disk space and fell back to tar because I couldn't find any way to run rsync on a compressed backup to update it... the closest thing I found was to patch the kernel for a compressed filesystem support and then run rsync on that... any tips anyone?

  3. nytimes unfree registration on Serious Home Observatories · · Score: 1

    Why are so many slashdot stories linked to nytimes registration pages that ask my sex, code, position, function, range and a million other spam collector trivia?
    Is slashdot getting percentages for people referred for registration or something? I don't feel like answering this interview for nytimes and I don't understand why slashdot expects me to have to do so in so many of the stories...
    Is there a way to avoid the registration like the old 'partners' in the url or something similar?

  4. Already done... and thousands of years ago at that on Driving from Alaska to Siberia · · Score: 1

    It's the same bering straight that people have been crossing with sleds... It's said that native americans may have migrated from asia over the bering straight thousands of years ago (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/chavez/hinojosa/chican o125/map_1.html) So why build a 200000 worth of lunar lander?

  5. Re:Submarines? on Submersible Robot Diesel Recycles Its Exhaust · · Score: 1

    Actually, that [navy.mil] you linked spells it both ways on the same page... "German Navy installed the first schnorkel snorkel)", but then futher down the page, "1,000 feet and included a schnorchel (snorkel)". A simple search on an online german dictionary however seems to favour Schnorchel over Schnorkel... because Schnorchel means snorkel [diving related] while Schnorkel is listed as something like twirl...