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  1. What's a FFT on FFTs Using AltiVec on Linux and Mac OS X · · Score: 2

    What exactly is a FFT, and why would I want to do one?

  2. Re:Speed Issues on Basics of Cryptographic Filesystems · · Score: 1

    DRM != crypto acceleration

  3. Re:Speed Issues on Basics of Cryptographic Filesystems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Motherboard chipsets need to include crypto accelerators. If that was done, all the filesystem encryption/decryption stuff can be done in hardware, and therefore it shouldn't really slow the system at all. If combined with some intelligent caching, it could probably be faster than the harddrive access we have now. Anyone know of a motherboard chipset that does crypto acceleration?

  4. Re:"less susceptible to terrorist attack" on UK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Ideally they'd be sitting on everyone's house. A few solar panels on each roof linked into the grid would handle most power requirements nicely.

  5. Re:but... on IPv6 Application Competition - win $10,000 · · Score: 1

    Yep. I'm using it.

  6. Re:Alternatives to ant and autoconf et al? on Ant Now A Top Level Apache Project · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What I'd like is a tool that would scan my source tree and make the autotools(autoconf, automake,etc) input files automatically. That would make my life much easier.

    David

  7. Re:getting voted off the shuttle *really* sucks on NASA Thaws Out 'Teacher in Space' Program · · Score: 1

    You don't not get sucked out of an airlock, rather you get blown by the air moving to equalize the pressure.

  8. Re:Houston, we have a problem. on Putting A Lid On Chernobyl · · Score: 2

    Read the article......

  9. And.. on DNA Goes Binary · · Score: 2

    If C only links with G, and A with D, isn't it already Binary? Because there are two possible combinations.

  10. Yes but this is SneakerNet on 1.5 TB DVD by 2010 · · Score: 2

    You need a higher capacity sneakernet to fill the 50,000 TB hard drive.

  11. Re:For those curious about the widescreen misframi on DVD Review: Back to the Future Trilogy (Widescreen) · · Score: 2

    Hmm, I'd have the set bought a few months back in Australia and I haven't seen the problem, at least playing under Ogle on Linux. I'll check again now I know specific scenes to look at.

  12. Re:Caller ID on FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 2

    But you'd have to check that they aren't in the "Do Not Call" list first.....

  13. Re:Sounded cruel at the time. on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 2

    I know that Telstra in Australia does this. Mind you they take away any permissions that would let you do damaging things, and AFAIK it was only for voluntary redundancy.

  14. Webmin's DHCP Module on Web-Based DHCP Server Frontends? · · Score: 1

    I find it excellent for adding lots of static hosts to DHCP.

  15. Just export a Word doc to HTML on Obfuscated HTML Contest? · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's totally obfuscated......

  16. Heh on Australia Plans to Censor the Internet · · Score: 2

    That reminds me of an American documentary on the rattlesnake. This scientist goes walking around the desert for ages, and can't find one. Then he finds the hole one lives in and sits outside it for three days waiting for it to come out. Then the doco ends. Steve Irwin would have just found a big stick and poked into the hole till the snake came out.....

  17. Re:Seriously, who is going to use this? on PPC Amigas Go On Sale · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    No, you run Linux PPC on it. Then it is exactly the same as your PC, except faster for certain math operations.

  18. Mailscanner on Server Side Virus Scanning Options? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm using mailscanner with exim, it strips out any evil javascript or any attachments that are executable. This seems to work for me.

  19. Maybe what's needed on Is the MBone / Multicast Dead? · · Score: 2

    is a simple and quick way to automatically configure multicast systems. Joining a multicast group seems rather difficult ATM, given the fact that you have to get your ISP to set you up. If it was dead simple, something like IPv6 autoconfiguration that happens dynamically on the fly it might be more popular.

  20. Real men don't backup on Sony DRU-500A Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can always re-do all your code better anyway the second time you recode it.

  21. Re:What about bandwidth? on Embedded Linux Wi-Fi Mesh Router On Sale · · Score: 1

    The other problem is you won't be able to link them via wireless either....

  22. Re:PKI on Replacing WEP for Wireless Security · · Score: 2

    So you just build hardware crypto acceleration into the wireless networking hardware.....

  23. Re:Question asked in article on Galactic Fossil Found · · Score: 3

    Fusion. Helium is produced when Hydrogen fuses, the Lithium is produced when helium fuses, etc.

  24. PKI on Replacing WEP for Wireless Security · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why don't we just add public key encryption to the TCP/IP stack? When you join a WLAN you broadcast your public key, the others broadcast their's back to you. This key could be used to sign messages and to join the network you'd have to have your key signed by someone already in the network. With sufficiently long keys it's unbreakable by the script kiddie walking past.

  25. Re:Caring on New Moon of Uranus Discovered · · Score: 2

    Some of these are captured Kuiper belt objects, which are very interesting. Also when we have ships that can go out there, we need to know where these things are so we don't smash into them.