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  1. Re:Just because the PRC likes it... on ESR Dismisses PRC "Official Linux" Announcement · · Score: 1

    The communist party's demands included:
    Any citizen has the right to elect and be elected to government offices.
    Separation of the state and the church
    Progressive income tax, inheritance tax.
    general free education for all children.

    Those are from the German communist party. From Engels' Communist party FAQ, we can add - equalr rights to children of married and non-married couples and supervision by the state on for rent apartments to make sure they are not health hazards to their inhabitants.

  2. Re: A3D drivers on Creative Labs to open SB Live Drivers · · Score: 2

    You can try to use my aureal driver (available as a kernel patch for 2.2.13) at http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~zivav/vortex.
    Only the mixer is supported, so it is not yet very useful, but that's a start.

  3. Re:P != NP on Ask Slashdot: Echelon Protection? · · Score: 1

    Even if P=NP, it might not help to solve the actual problem of factroing small numbers (as in no more than a few millions of digits).
    Suppose I prove P=NP by giving a Turing machine that factors a number of n digits in A(6)n^2 steps (where A(6) is Ackerman function of 6), how do you use it to factor a 2048 bit number in a reasonable time?
    (Actually, I have a proof for the existence of such a machine, but the margin is too ... )

  4. What does this have to do with anything? on National Phone in Sick Day? · · Score: 1

    > I can just see some PHB sitting in his office thinking "Damn, 1/3 of my people didn't show up today. Maybe capitalism is all wrong after all."
    Well, if one person understands this, we have done our part.
    Remember - What was the wild fantasy of lunatic communists yesterday becomes the accepted standard today (progressive income tax, anyone?), so what is a wild fantasy of a lunatic communist today, _will_ be the accepted standard tomorrow.

  5. Free markets aren zero-sum. on Algamics: The Dynamics of Gift Society · · Score: 1

    You missed the point - the zero-sum is between producers, not between producer and customer:
    If next generation of Voodoo 3d accelrator is 10 times as fast, 3Dfx gain, but if next generation of TNT 3d is also 10 times as fast, 3Dfx gain nothing.
    If next release of svgalib has a lot more hardware support, I gain, if next release kgi also has a lot of hardware support, I gain more.
    This is why 3Dfx and nVidia, try to keep as much as they can secret, resulting in a lot of redundant work, while svgalib and kgi share, and gain from each other.

  6. A few facts to consider on Russian crackers get whitehouse.gov? · · Score: 1

    1- Well, could you please quote a report of ethnic cleansing, dating before western threats of involvement? Web page is preferable, but I can also some of the major english publications.
    2- Genocide is defined as killing people, while trying to kill a whole population. Mass expulsion is certainly bad, but its no genicide. If you accept that NATO leaders are lying in their claims of genocide, then my second point does become moot.

    The rest of your post is a rant that probably stems from not reading my comment, after deciding its not enough anti-Jugoslav for you, but still:
    If Milosevic planned it all in advance, why did he not do it until NATO began attacking Jugoslavia?
    To which country do you mean when you say "country formerly free"? It can't be Kosovo, since Kosovo has been a part of Serbia (itself part of Jugoslavia), at least since the first world war.
    As I said, I believe everyone would have been in a bit better state had NATO (the US actually) chose not to interfere. And, by the way, I could not understand from your comment, you are for NATO action in Jugoslavia, so are you also for action in Turkey, Spain, China?

    If you read my comment, you would have known that I do not defend Jugoslavia's actions, which are indefensible. I only say that the USA could choose a better course.
    BTW, Milosevic is not doing anything in Kosovo, he is in Belgrade (at least the Slobodan one), its Jugoslavia who is atrociting (is that a word) in Kosovo.

  7. A few facts to consider on Russian crackers get whitehouse.gov? · · Score: 1

    1- Before NATO (US) threats, there was no ethnical cleansing in Kosovo, only oppression of a nationel freedom movement, similar to what happens in Turkey, North Ireland, Basque's land, Tibet, etc. Maybe a bit more cruel than in some of these examples, but still no more than that.
    2- Before NATO attack on Jugoslavia, there was no genocide, now there are allegations of genocide (which will probably be many years till we know if they are true).
    I'm not saying that what happens is NATO's fault. It is most certainly Jugoslavia's fault, but I am saying that without NATO's involvement The situation would have been much better.

    And, as for western press being free press / propaganda machine - What do you know of East Slavonia (sp?) ?

  8. I use svgalib on Display Doctor for Linux - Preview version available · · Score: 1

    I use svgalib. I would prefer to use ggi, but
    it does not support my riva128, or my banshee,
    or my mx86251, or my at25, and it does not work
    on my Xpert98, or my cl-5446, though it claims
    to support them.

  9. A workaround for PPP checksum errors on Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released · · Score: 1

    in line 1644 of /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
    a line that begins with
    if(tcp_v4_check(th,if(tcp_v4_check(th,
    chan ge to
    if(0&tcp_v4_check(th,...
    (so that the condition is always false)
    Then, recompile and reboot.
    It works for me.

  10. Can't get PPP working on Ricochet modem on Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released · · Score: 1

    Does dmesg show checksum errors?
    If so, I have a workaround.

  11. FBCon with ATI Mach64 on Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released · · Score: 1

    Please report to me (zivav@cs.bgu.ac.il), since
    ATI cards are the most interesting cases:
    I have the exact same model working in one machine
    and not-working in another machine, without
    a simple explanation.

    I already have 13 reports on mach64 based cards,
    but still can't predict if a given card will work
    with the VESA driver.