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  1. jpeg2000? on Forgent Squeezing Money Out Of JPEG, Other Patents · · Score: 1

    all this seems to be good motivation to forget about jpeg and move on to jpeg2000 which (if I'm not mistaken) is not facing the same risk.

  2. swedish research project on How Wireless Meshing Could Save Energy · · Score: 1

    there's a research project about sensor networks going on at the Swedish Institute for Computer Science (SICS): http://www.sics.se/cna/dtnsn/. one of the researchers, Adam Dunkels, is the guy who posted a TCP/IP stack written in PHP a while ago.

  3. freezer? on Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen · · Score: 1

    good thing there's room for their server in that freezer now :)

  4. Re:Alexa Violating Copyrights on Network Solutions Overhauls Whois Results · · Score: 1

    I'm claiming that Google's thumbnails on their image searches is a violation against copyrights too, but Google didn't really want to grace me with an answer when I emailed them about it.

    You can't get anywhere with linking but they're actually copying and manipulating (resizing) my copyrighted material without my consent.

  5. skolelinux? on Educational Software To Donate With Laptop? · · Score: 1

    what comes to mind is the norwegian project called Skolelinux (school-linux), a Debian-based distribution tailored to work well in schools and on old hardware.

  6. Re:Yeah I tried this once on Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car · · Score: 1

    It worked pretty well until I hit a wifi hotspot and it found 3 updates and started compiling for 8 hours.

    actually, if you happen to come across a HP Proliant 585 (4 x 2.2Ghz Opteron), you can install Gentoo in a little more than an hour :)

  7. Re:that space would almost fit two cars on Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was surprised to be able to download the vid at full speed, though. :)

    one reason would be that Linköping's University has a 2.5Gbit uplink to the 10Gbit backbone called SUNET, one of the (if not "the") fastest university networks in the world :)

  8. mplayer and xine on Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros · · Score: 5, Informative

    "video playback - could be better (with more progress bars and support for Apple's formats)"

    how is mplayer and xine not sufficient? mplayer has OSD progress bars even and quicktimes movies has never been a problem.

  9. "Images in science" on Photographing Exploding Edibles · · Score: 5, Informative

    there are similar highspeed captures and a lot more fantastic photography and articles in this book from the swedish Karolinska Institute (http://www.imagesinscience.com) sadly only available from http://kup.ki.se/publications/images_sciences_en.h tml

  10. Re:MUTE 0.2.1 on Morpheus Infiltrates Other P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    im pretty sure it's gnutella.

  11. Re:Two keys for any successful new P2P client on Morpheus Infiltrates Other P2P Networks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so basically emule?

    a) it's opensource.

    b) it generates checksums for files, making it easy for sites such as sharereactor.com and shareconnector.com to offer quality-assured releases.

  12. fantastic on SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code · · Score: 1

    I personally applaud SCO for not only pulling the biggest stunt in the opensource community this far, but executing it so badly it comes off as nothing but a joke.

  13. complaints on Microsoft's Security Report Card · · Score: 1

    people complain that MS hasn't lived up to their promises, but was anyone really expecting all products to automagically become secure? the initiative has to be consistent from the design table to customer installation, meaning the product base has to be renewed from the bottom up before there's a chance they'll have a chance at delivering "Trustworty Computing". patching current products can only get you so far.

  14. almaden webspider on IBM vs. Content Chaos · · Score: 1

    is the Almaden webspider (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler/) that's been scavenging in the dark a part of this?

  15. free publicity on Where Will IBM Drop Windows? · · Score: 1

    nothing beats free publicity...

  16. security? on Paul Mockapetris On The Future of DNS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what about security issues? BIND has as long history of bugs and with the recent threats to the root DNS servers, I think the real issue is building a secure DNS service rather than extending the data it carries.

  17. balls on DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    "this guy got balls the size of dorian fruit" - some guy in Freedom Downtime

  18. 2011? on Japan's TV Broadcasts To Be All-Digital By 2011 · · Score: 4, Informative

    sweden is shutting down all public analog (terrestial) broadcasts in february 2008, why wait until 2011?

  19. apache on Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and the majority of webserver admins using apache aren't using it because it's better but because it's free?

    heh, no.

  20. future titles on Report From The Land of SFX · · Score: 1

    "we'll see more of realistic-looking special effects in future titles." - wow, that's a bold prediction.

  21. burnoutpc's tachometer on Analog Tachometer PC Mod · · Score: 2, Funny

    burnoutpc's tachometer must be going warm now, they've been slashdotted :/

  22. Re:Let me get this straight... on EU IDA Study On OSS · · Score: 1

    I prefer not to hear about american patriotism, blind accusations, ignorance and hate 24/7 but do better things with my spare time. Unless you would make a different (and I really doubt it) by yapping about it I suggest you do the same.

  23. Re:Only 10 MbPS??? on High-speed Internet Access: Power Lines For Real · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing infrastructure for more than 10Mbps would raise the price, besides what home users won't be satisfied with 10mpbs? Sweden is already low on broadband alternatives for the country side so anything above 56k is indeed welcome.