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  1. Re:MPEG4 (DiVX, Xvid) with surround sound? on Thomson Releases MP3 Surround · · Score: 1

    Many of us have already been encoding 5.1 multichannel audio for our DVD rips with Ogg Vorbis or AAC for the past one or two years. Check out Oagmachine which does most of the transcoding work for you and supports both Vorbis and AAC.

  2. *AA on NOAA Adopts New Net Policy · · Score: 1, Funny

    First thing that came to my mind seeing the NOAA acronym....

    Say "NO!" to *AA!

  3. Re:Dr. Ng on Optical Mouse Used As Cheap Motion Sensor · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a pretty common surname used here in Singapore and in its original form it's a word in one of the Chinese dialects. It's actual pronounciation is something like "urn", replacing the 'n' with an 'ng' where the tongue remains stationary instead of moving up to touch the ceiling of your mouth.

  4. More work on ChatZilla would be nice on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Turn it into multi-platform multi-im client. A FOSS mult-platform version of Trillian or Miranda. Gaim without the GTK and a nice clean interface.

  5. Didn't Nvidia try this and gave up? on ATI's Athlon 64 Chipset with Integrated Graphics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remember the Nforce2 IGPs? They were the best performing integrated graphics solution and an excellent buy for non-gamers. Yet you hardly see any of them selling. I don't understand why, I've built many office PCs at very nice prices thanks to these things. But somehow it didn't seem such a good idea for Nvidia and they gave up IGP for the Nforce3 and Nforce4, as apparently there is not enough demand in the market for it.

    Does ATI really expect something different to happen with their IGP solution?

  6. Re:RedSox, Bush, MPAA on Microsoft Offers to License the Internet · · Score: 1

    Looks like the Axis of Evil to me

  7. Re:Ummm on Creative Zen Micro Ships Today · · Score: 1

    Just tap on the scroll pad. Like you do with a laptop touch pad to 'click"

  8. Re:But I already carry my eyes and fingerprints on Blunkett Backs Down on UK ID Cards · · Score: 1

    The biometric data on the card identifies that you are the rightful owner of the card, of course. Whoever wants to look at your card to verify who you are will not be looking for the biometric data, but things like your name and age and if they want to. The biometric data is there as a check that you are the rightful owner of the card when you claim that you are who the card says you are.

  9. Casting on Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release · · Score: 1

    Everyone asks about who will be casted as the big boss monsters, but has anyone wondered about the most important character to cast? That's Daisy, the pet rabbit.

    Wonder if John Romero might appear for a cameo with his head on the stick inside the final boss's brain...

  10. If you haven't seen the LD-SE-DVD comparisons on Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check them out on the previous slashdot articles for ESB and ANH. You can compare the improvements in the image quality. It's amazing how much improvement can be made and detail added in.

  11. Re:Time to switch, perhaps? on New IM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, you might just be on to something. The XUL framework seems to be perfect for developement of a cross platform multi-protocol IM client. Gaim is nice and all, I use it and love it, but the gtk requirement (esp on Windows) is quite a put-off. The reason I'm still sticking to gaim and haven't gone back to miranda is the lack of unicode support in miranda. Now if someone developes a XUL based multi-IM client (maybe a plugin architecture to standalone chatzillas?) that would be perfect.

  12. The Einstein Emulator on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and in a few years the Einstein Emulator (also known as Einstein Emulator Special Version) will become obselete with bugs and head towards death only to be replaced by the Einstein Emulator General Version which solves most of the bugs. Some bugs remain, however, which were only resolved after the Quantum Plugin was released.

  13. Only 6 months?! on Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out Of Army · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, we have to serve 2.5 years of compulsory military service here and myself being a net addict survived it. Although it was really painful thinking about all my MUD-mates questing without me, leaving me to fall behind in experience points and levels :(

  14. Re:Why should I care? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Funny you should mention basic math, considering that there are plenty of evidence that Singapore ranks the highest consistently in maths.

  15. Re:Why should I care? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm from Asia. Singapore to be precise. I've been around quite a few other countries in Asia and they all use metric. I guess that makes it 2 continents for metric and 1 continent (oh wait, that's half if you consider the other country in that continent) for imperial. Now I wonder what about the other 4 continents...

  16. Why should I care? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should I care how many inches are there in a metre (meter for some of you people). Everywhere I go today everything I see is in metric. Whoever uses inches anywa.... oh. *those* people. *sigh*

  17. X.org on gentoo on Slackware Chooses X.org Server Over XFree86 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I migrated from xfree86 to X.org easily following the guide here. Basically, unmerge xfree and xfs, emerge xfs and xorg-x11, and copy XF86config into /etc/xorg.conf

    Install from scratch instructions can be found here.

  18. Re:Remove country code blocks? on Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China · · Score: 1

    Especially when it often makes good sense to work with other companies in these countries. Especially when looking for good cheap suppliers.

  19. Re:Ha! on Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China · · Score: 1

    Err. yeah. And who will I complain to when I start emailing prospective suppliers I find on http://www.globalsources.com/ and find out that none of their replies are coming back to me?

  20. Re:40MPH? on A Camaro That Leaves A Wake · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Cool.. it's in Gentoo portage tree too
    # emerge -s units
    Searching...
    [ Results for search key : units ]
    [ Applications found : 3 ]

    * app-sci/udunits
    Latest version available: 1.12.0
    Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
    Size of downloaded files: 355 kB
    Homepage: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/udunits/
    &nb sp; Description: The UCAR/Unidata Units library
    License: UCAR-Unidata

    * app-sci/units
    Latest version available: 1.80
    Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
    Size of downloaded files: 201 kB
    Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/units/units.html
    &nbs p; Description: program for units conversion and units calculation
    License: GPL-2

    * dev-tex/SIunits
    Latest version available: 1.25
    Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
    Size of downloaded files: 401 kB
    Homepage: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entr ies/siunits.html
    Description: LaTeX package used to set SI units correct.
    License: LPPL-1.2
  21. Re:CNN? on Gmail Addresses For Sale · · Score: 1

    Probably a freudian slip, wanting to enter NCC and entering CNN instead because they seem so... similar.

  22. Whoa... that's a lot of accounts for sale on Gmail Addresses For Sale · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's like 4 pages of this stuffs. hackers@gmail.com is already at $200

  23. Re:My feelings on gentoo. on Gentoo Linux Musings · · Score: 1

    Unfortuneatly, I couldn't get it to detect my network card
    You have to compile support for it into the kernel while you're configuring it.

  24. Re:Gentoo vs. Slackware on Gentoo Linux Announces Gentoo Linux 2004.1 · · Score: 1

    I would not actually recommend -O3. -O2 is sufficient and can often be faster than -O3 simply because you can fit more code into the cache with the smaller compile.

  25. Re:Give it a go. on Gentoo Linux Announces Gentoo Linux 2004.1 · · Score: 1

    A better option actually would be to use the install from Knoppix method. Not only does the Knoppix CD comes with good partitioning tools, you can copy the XF86Config from the one it generates at startup.