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  1. Re:What about GPL?? Sources?? on Xandros 1.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unfortunatly there is non-free software included in the Xandros desktop so posting all the binaries is a no no.

  2. Re:What about GPL?? Sources?? on Xandros 1.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. You are only obligated to make the sources available to those who receive/buy the binaries.

    As a good citizen of the open source community you should feed your patched upstream but you are not required to.

  3. Re:grsecurity on Protecting Servers From Nmap's Idlescan? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its called the grsecurity patch and consists of a whole bunch of seperate security enhancements to the linux 2.4 kernel including randomizing sequence numbers and ttl's.

    Be careful though, some of the option change the assumed behavior that other programs rely on. For example kde will not run with some of the options.

    The patch in included by default in the gentoo kernel but it is up to the user to enable it. The install docs gives a number of recommondations about which options to enable.

  4. Re:Time... on Ask 'Junkyard Wars Diva' Cathy Rogers · · Score: 1

    No you seem to miss the point.

    Scene 1) Dark sky.
    Scene 2) Light sky.
    Scene 3) Dark sky.

    They were filmed 2 1 3 but aired 1 2 3.

    The only reason to show them out of order is if they are running late and needed to rearrange the scenes to compensate.

    The reference to one hour left in scene 2 filmed when they were one hour from the scheduled completion time. The scene was placed in the final edit when they were one hour from the actual completion time. Unfortunately this messed up the continuity between scenes 1 and 2.

  5. Re:Time... on Ask 'Junkyard Wars Diva' Cathy Rogers · · Score: 1

    There was one show (I don't remember which one but it was this season) where everyone was behind. They showed a scene with a team feverishly working with a black sky in the background. Cut to the hosts speculating if they were going to finish in the one hour remaining with a bright sky in the background. Cut back to the teams magically finishing on time with a black sky in the background.

    I think they do a little 'editing' in order to allow the teams to finish or it wouldn't be much of a contest.

  6. windows user since 98? on Microsoft PR Rep is the Switcher · · Score: 2

    I wonder if this is the same Val Mallinson referenced in this usenet post.

    If she is she has clearly been using windows since 98.

  7. That would defeat the purpose on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gentoo is a very up to date version of linux. Most of the packages available are the latest stable versions. Installing from an cd means the next 'emerge world' will end up downloading lots of packages as it updates your system. The older the install cd the more downloading to be done. That would defeat the purpose of loading everything from cd in the first place.

  8. bits on What's in Your Toolbox? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lots and lots of bits, half 0's and half 1's.

    I have no use for bytes or words, they just take up too much room in my special carryng case (my bit bucket). Besides I can assemble any byte or word that I desire with just a little work and it really cuts down on inventory.

  9. Dont Bother on What Would You Do With a New Form of Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Historically proprietary encryption schemes have faired badly in the market (RSA and RCx being possible exceptions). Why would any one want to pay to use a encryption method when there are so many free and effective alternates. If its not free few will use it, if few use it then there is little incentice for anyone to use it.

  10. The story is a dup on Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows · · Score: 2

    The report was originally discussed here

  11. Re:Gentoo? on KDE 3.1 Second Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    But the sources are available.

    Just type emerge kde-3.1_beta2 and it will download, compile and install automatically.

    Simple (even if a little time consuming)

  12. Re:Lets not jump the gun here... on Sigma Designs Accused of Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2

    But much of the samples given were hand written in assembly, there is no compiler involved.

  13. Re:nobody cares on KDevelop Team Interview, Part 1 · · Score: 1

    Since when has that ever made a difference to the slashdot crowd? There has always been some that are willing to jump in and comment without actually reading the story.

  14. Re:Where's Clippy when ya need him .. on Next Generation Regexp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldnt that be:

    "I see that you are swearing, would you like to use a thesaurus"

  15. There is some justice. on Microsoft in Peru, Living Room · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    According to this article Gates' mansion is overrun by incontinent geese.

    At up to 3 lbs per bird per day a flock of geese camped out on your yard make a disgusting mess.

    I think we should rent a helicopter and spread birdseed.

  16. ntpd and k9 on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 2

    I run ntpd on my firewall machine and set it to broadcast over the local network once a minute.

    The local machines run a small (64k) utility called K9 which listens for the broadcast and sets the time accordingly. I found most time clients for windows were very large and much to bloated for what I wanted to do. K9 works perfectly. There is even source code available for your favorite flavour of *NIX

  17. Pi on Pi In The 4th Dimension · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pi isn't different for different geometries, its just the series converge slower for the higher dimentions.

    The only way pi could be different was if space itself was not "flat" but curved.

  18. Slashdotted on Data Mining, Cocaine and Secrecy · · Score: 1

    It seems to be slashdotted, lets try the Google cache

  19. Re:Best non-stadard use for a vm? on Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++ · · Score: 1
    I quote:
    (I guess the clever cracker could have disassembled my windows binary with a z80 disassembler and gotten lucky; but it would have been hard to see what was being executed - unless they could do clever things like disassemble z80 in their head...)
    No. A clever hacker would just patch the code to ignore the return value of your registration routine.
  20. Microsofts attitude on Final Arguments in MS vs. the States · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Quote from article:
    Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said that the company has always maintained that no remedy is in order, and the provisions outlined in the federal settlement go as far as the company is willing to go.
    Why does Microsoft keep acting like this is a negotiation between equals. They LOST, the court has a right to impose any settlement that it deems fit irregardless of what Microsoft wants. Now if both sides could agree on a settlement if would result in a much quicker settlement without the endless appeals, but Microsofts approval of the settlement is NOT necessary or even desirable.

    I am really getting tired of Microsofts attitude towards this whole trial. Take your lumps and move on.

  21. Crystal structure on Nanoimprint Lithography · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The article states that the silicon wafer is melted briefly by a laser. Considering that the silicon wafers are actual single crystals, wont the melting and re-solidification of the silicon alter the properties of the wafer.

    So instead of having a single crystal we could end up with many small crystals aligned along the features that we are creating. I am not sure how much the creation of semiconductors is dependant on having a single crystal, but if it is dependant then this new technique may not be that useful after all.

  22. Re:Moshe is... on Moshe Bar on Programming, Society, and Religion · · Score: 3, Funny

    We do plan to fork() some children eventually, ...

    The real question is do you plan to use OpenMosix to fork across mutiple hosts in order to reduce the normal runtime. By using 9 hosts you can reduce the runtime to 1 month.

    Of course trying to admin 9 hosts simultaniously might be difficult.

  23. LTC. James D. Bass on DARPA Project Babylon: Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Colonel James Bass a charactor in a Clive Cussler novel?

    The timeline strikes me as being a little optimistic, considering the difficult nature of the problem.

  24. Re:Ender's Game Awaited on Slashback: Swiftness, Ender's, Streams · · Score: 1
    I love the Idea, however I suspect that this will be one of those movies that I refuse to watch because of the fond memories I have of the original.

    Starship Troopers and the new Grinch are are just two examples of movies that I will not watch because they were not true to the original. And its hard because my kids own and love the new Grinch, I end up leaving the room whenever they start to watch it.

  25. An error in the article on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 3, Informative
    A Quote.
    The theory is that by putting source code in the public domain, programmers worldwide can improve software by sharing one another's work.
    One thing that the GPL is NOT is public domain.

    Public domain means that the copyright holders relinquish any claim that they might have.

    Public domain is for those who think that the BDS licence is not free enough.