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  1. That's funny ... on RTCW: Enemy Territory Full Version Released · · Score: 1
    I coulda sworn nvidia already fixed this with their latest drivers:

    Version: 1.0-4363 Operating System: Linux IA32 Release Date: April 24, 2003

    Release Highlights:

    Bug fixes since 1.0-4349

    • NVIDIA Linux Update
    • GeForce FX and Quadro FX support
    • Support for Red Hat Linux 9, Mandrake Linux 9.1, and SuSE Linux 8.2

    I've been using these drivers on Gentoo with NPTL without problems in 3d games (haven't tried this yet, but they work with everything else I've tried).

  2. Re:How considerate... on Google US Puzzle Championship · · Score: 1

    No. It was posted at 6:55 AM, and the deadline is 9:00 PM. There's 14 hours and 5 minutes to respond. Still leaves something to be desired, but it's not as bad as two hours.

  3. Re:What has xine done on Xine Gets Native Sorenson3 Decoding · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IIRC the native decoder for Sorenson video 1 was from xine, and ffmpeg imported it from them, so it's not entirely one-sided.

  4. Re:Here's a tactic he left out on The Law and P2P · · Score: 1

    This story was also in OSU's student newspaper, The Lantern today. You can read the first part of the story on the front page, or for the full story, you have to register.

  5. Re:Ahh, the old days.. on Unreal II Demo Released · · Score: 1
    Has anyone considered a positive use of P2P to split such large files over several clients?

    uhmmm ... bittorrent anyone?

  6. For those who don't RTFA on AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    'This is really fun, but I am a little concerned about their memory latency numbers.'
    Note, this is not because they're bad numbers, but rather because the units aren't specified, and may be clock cycles, which wouldn't be a fair comparison to the other processors.

  7. Re:Bloody Codenames! on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 5, Informative

    Phoenix was renamed to avoid potential legal problems from Phoenix BIOS.

  8. Re:Emacs on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    There's a problem with that: Please remember that the computers I met where often old and slow.

  9. Re:Google Vs. Yahoo vs. MS on Google Vs. Yahoo: When We Last Met... · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just remember, google is now a noun and a verb, not just a number.

    Sure, "google" is now a noun and a verb, but it was never a number - "googol" is.

  10. Re:Its just a long epsiode on Review: Cowboy Bebop · · Score: 1

    ... the Eva movies will never, ever, see a US theatrical release.

    And as much as I hate to admit it (because I'd love to see it in theatres), that's probably for the best. End of Eva doesn't work without the series, and, while they could show Death and Rebirth to make up for it, I think it's too chopped up and discontinuous to really prepare people who haven't seen the series for End of Eva.

  11. Re:what on RotK Delayed Until May 2004 · · Score: 1

    You're new here, aren't you?

  12. Re:Not funny in any way on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    sometimes people need a little humor to get through things like this. They're not poking fun, but just dealing with it in their own way.

  13. Re:This Probably Doesn't Apply To You on P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle · · Score: 2, Informative
    Engage in electronic reproduction for financial gain

    but the definition of financial gain is given as "receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works."

    so, if you expect to download MP3s, you have financial gain.

  14. Re:possible final exam... on More Anime College and University Courses Being Offered · · Score: 1

    only 90 minutes? you couldn't come up with an explanation for FLCL in that time, let alone try to explain to someone else!

  15. Re:And for others....... on Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop · · Score: 1
    I suspect it'll even work in gnome/kde. After all, it's just drawing graphics on your root window.

    I don't think so, at least not the way they're setup by default. IIRC, they don't draw the desktop on the root window, but on their own window that obscures the root window.

  16. Re:Stupid question on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 1

    looking through the documentation again, for the first time in a while, I don't see it say that emerge unmerge is not recommended, but rather, just a warning that it doesn't yet check whether other packages depend on it.

  17. Re:The biggest advantage of Gentoo... on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 1

    these are probably patches for specific packages. Not all ebuild files do this, and AFAIK none get a patch file based on what sources you already have available. Also, i believe that most of the patches (small patches anyway), are actually kept in a package-specific directory (like /usr/portage/category/package/files)

  18. Re:Stupid question on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 1
    If I want to uninstall a program which I installed this way does it makes it easy to do so?
    emerge unmerge package_name

    What about checking any arbitrary file and finding out what package it belongs to?
    qpkg -f file_name

    What about verifying the integrity of an installed package to be sure that the files haven't been altered after installation?
    qpkg -c package_name

  19. Re:Dependancies on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 3, Informative

    if their main mirror is down, they do have others - you just have to set the appropriate variable in /etc/make.conf

  20. Didn't we discuss this before ... on Fighting Telemarketers with Technology · · Score: 1

    here

    granted, it was a year ago, but maybe a link would be nice?

  21. This is news? on FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Heck, it even made it into a slashdot poll

  22. Re:one based array? on 2002 ICFP Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    actually, it eliminates some of the special case processing you might otherwise need. since we are to assume that the board is bounded by walls, you can create your arrays a little larger than the board to store the bounding walls, then you should never need to worry about the border if you handle walls correctly. and you won't have to constantly convert between your coordinates and the server's coordinates.

  23. Re:quake1 under linux horribly outdated on Tenebrae Quake · · Score: 1

    quakeforge has done a good job of updating quake 1.

  24. Re:i completely agree on How To Travel With LCD Gaming Screen? · · Score: 1

    That makes me feel old, and i'm still in high school ...

  25. winehq supports war3 too on Transgaming's WineX 2.1 - Supports WarCraft 3 · · Score: 4, Informative
    see here for setup details.

    warcraft 3 has worked with winehq wine as far back as the warcraft 3 beta, see this post to the wine-devel mailing list.