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  1. Re:Realllllly on US–EU Flight Talks Collapse · · Score: 1

    So what happens when a vegitarian hiker purchases a last minute ticket paying cash (AFAIK nobody uses a creditcard in Europe) to the US? This should trigger all the fearmongers' alarms.

    How about letting the people wanting to take a flight over there decided what information to give (pre flight), just scare them with some nice detention stories to get it and make sure they arrive 12 hours before checking in to give them some time to complete the forms and the rectal exam.

  2. Re:What's the point of paying twice? on Apple iTunes Upsampling Higher Resolution Videos? · · Score: 1

    But only when the master used for the CD is the tape.

  3. Re:Article reposted on What Went Wrong for AMD's AM2? · · Score: 1

    I'm running a dual 265 setup with 6 disks on 1 550W PSU. The 265 is rated at 90W max IIRC. With a load of near 100% on all cores and stressing the disks, power usage according to a 700VA UPS is about 65-70%.

  4. Re:Ahem... on Microsoft DRM To Get Even Tighter · · Score: 1

    Arghhh, the GP makes more sense now :)

  5. Re:Ahem... on Microsoft DRM To Get Even Tighter · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Xv is broken in your setup, -vo x11 could fixit (at cost of performance).

  6. Re:VAX on OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available · · Score: 1

    But haven't you been following the news about NetBSD? It's irrelevant

  7. Re:VAX on OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD is the new NetBSD?

    But there is more old hardware in the newly supported list, atleast the
    "New pgt(4) driver for Connexant/Intersil Prism GT Full-MAC IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless." caught my eye. A wireless card that hasn't been sold for a couple of years (sadly enough).

  8. Re:Just forget it on Vista Shell Team now Blogging · · Score: 1

    This kind of application deployment is under development for KDE:
    http://dot.kde.org/1126867980/

    "If you are bit security concerned, you may want to know what klik does to your system. Here's the pitch:

            * Its .cmg files are self-contained AppDirs (applications directories), compressed into a cramfs or zisofs file system.
            * To run the contained app, klik mounts the bundle file underneath /tmp/app/1/ and runs it from there; if mounted, the bundle looks like it is a subdirectory expanded into the real directory structure of the host.

    It's very much similar to how applications on Mac OS X works.... "

  9. Re:hmm.... on RFID To Track Play of DVDs And CDs? · · Score: 1

    The reality is that in a couple of European countries analog TV broadcasts will stop Real Soon Now (tm) (here in the Netherlands the date has been moved from 04-01 to 10-30 and now finally 12-11).

    The 76000 people still using it will have to switch to satelite (one time investment), dvb-t (nearly non existant coverage) or some IPTV solution. Assuming they don't have cable coverage in the first place they all require some settop box with smartcard which the company operating the service can mandate being updated to latest standards.

  10. Re:One more reason to bemoan the good old days ... on Dealing with Posture Problems? · · Score: 1

    "It's not like these dogs are running around and depositing fur everywhere, they really do pretty much just sit there while the harness is on."

    It's not the fur that is the problem, it's the dead skin cells. These don't just fall to the ground and remain there but are carried around by airflows and thus get everywhere.

  11. Re:One more reason to bemoan the good old days ... on Dealing with Posture Problems? · · Score: 1

    Please think about the other employees, some might be allergic for $PET.

    (plus dogs smell terrible when wet, the most owners do not notice this themselves)

  12. Re:Pot, kettle, black? on PostgreSQL Slammed by PHP Creator · · Score: 2

    "Apparently the much belowed MySQL doesn't know it either, since in contrast to most standard SQL relational databases like Postgresql, it silently trims certain input/fields instead of reporting an error."

    Might you be looking for: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql- mode.html ?

  13. Re:nice on Sony's PSP Memory Stick Entertainment Packs Shipping · · Score: 1

    Might I suggest that you install devhook so you can leave the firmware in the PSP at 1.5 and load required other versions to RAM from MS when needed. As a side effec it also lets you "mount" iso images from MS to emulate UMD, iow: lets you play downloaded^Wbackuped games.

  14. Re:nice on Sony's PSP Memory Stick Entertainment Packs Shipping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The default movieplayer in the firmware prevents full resolution playback from memorystick. But there is homebrew software (PMP Mod AVC) which let's you playback fullresolution H264/mp3 streams.

  15. Re:Well on Handicapping the 6th Generation iPod · · Score: 1

    First ogg is a container, when most people say ogg they actually wanted to say Vorbis (an .ogg could contain other codecs like flac).

    And while I like the idea that Voribis is completely free, to my ears vorbis is definetly better quality over aac (faac) at the same bitrate. YMMV

    But why argue, encode in whatever you like and your player supports, for portable players quality isn't that important anyway IMHO, the only time I use them is in crowded, noisy environments with their crappy default earbuds.

  16. Re:Imagine.. on Enigma-Cracking Bombe Recreated · · Score: 3, Funny

    Luckily everone still remembers what happened when Colossus and Guardian decided to work together.

  17. Re:Link is unreadable! Jeez! on IronPython 1.0 is Born · · Score: 4, Funny

    And here I thought whitespaces were very very important to python.

  18. Re:Good idea on Microsoft Research Builds 'BrowserShield' · · Score: 1

    No it's not, it opens the possibility to inject terminal control codes which may lead to remote command execution.

  19. Re:Jörg Schilling is just another developer.. on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    I'd love to switch to Solaris, but the mainboard manifacturer dind't include a Solaris driver and the sata controller is not on the HWCL (neither are the video and wireless). But I must admid I think this hardware will not work with Linux 2.4 either (2.6.15 or later required).

    Poor poor me being stuck with 2.6 and hotplug to create simple and easy symlinks :)

  20. Re:Jörg Schilling is just another developer.. on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You should read the whole thread.

    Any criticism on how eg USB doesn't follow Joergs preferred namingscheme goes unanswered somehow.

    I'm only a simple user, but even in my experience the dev=h,b,t,l way to address a burner is flawed. Anyone can reproduce it with 1 usb burner and a couple of usb drives or simply 1 firewire disk (which will simply increase the hostid each time you unplug/plug it (atleast mine does)).

    He had some credits for bringing cd recording to Linux, but maybe he should simply abandon Linux and concentrate on his beloved Solaris.

  21. Re:Still I really dont like it. on Misconceptions About the GPL · · Score: 0

    Thanks for demonstrating an other misconception, the one that should IMHO be numer 1 on a top 10 list.

  22. Re:Not the real problem on Building the JDK on Debian GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't get your problem, if you don't want any of the OS java environments: uninstall them. Any java package that depends on any specific OS JVM is either not a java package or has a broken dependency (it should depend on java2-runtime)

    But to be honest: I don't use any java packages in any distro. Since client projects tend to be a mix and match of different versions of applications and JVMs I just install them all by hand in /usr/local and adjust $JAVA_HOME or symlinks when needed.

  23. Re:Not the real problem on Building the JDK on Debian GNU/Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I eventually solved this by using dpkg to build a one-on-one package from the JDK binary tree and told it to provide "java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime" and to make it conflict with: "kaffe, java1-runtime, java-compiler, fastjar, libjessie-java, java-common, gcj-4.0, ecj, ecj-bootstrap-gcj" after which I finally managed to get rid of the open source abominations once and for all."

    Why do it the easy way with make-jpkg and the alternatives system when you can do above :)

  24. Re:GCJ on Building the JDK on Debian GNU/Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Once I thought that using gcj might be fine for running cli java programs but I found that gcj had the following problems:
    -the ahead of time compiling requires ALL sources to be compiled even though they are not needed at runtime. eg commons-cli.jar depends on commons-lang.jar in gcj as opposed to use in the Sun JVM.
    -it is very slow in some areas (about 3 times slower during disk IO and md5 checksumming)
    -I couldn't get it to create static binaries (dev. on Debian/unstable to run on Debian/stable), but this could be my fault.

    The only good thing was the slightly faster launch times (about 0.2ms on a process that runs 1.2ms total) compared to the Sun JVM. But since the program is only launched about 5 times per hour why bother.

    This was with gcj-4.0 some months ago.

  25. Re:Someone clarify on Net Neutrality Being Examined by FTC · · Score: 1

    Guess again, many people are outraged about cable packages. Every package I can choose from contains channels I don't want to pay for (even in the basic package).