Slashdot Mirror


User: sprouty76

sprouty76's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
80
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 80

  1. I thought it was April Fools day? on Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets · · Score: 1

    Not Groundhog Day...

  2. Re:On sale on AMD Opteron Due In April · · Score: 1

    Addressable memory != physical memory Pages stored on disk are also addresable, they get swapped in when accessed.

  3. Re:hrm. 911 (at least in the US) on Can You Hear Me Now? · · Score: 1
    Haven't you ever seen a phone that says "emergency only" (or something similar) on it?

    That happens when the phone can't find its own network or one it's able to roam on, but it can find another network. Think Cellnet and Vodafone.

    The message means you can still dial 999. Or 112.

  4. Re:For anyone not in the know... on Native Sorenson Playback Comes to Linux · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Crossover only works if you run on an x86 box. On the other hand, this appears to run on whatever you want it to.

  5. Re:Biggest problems with GTA3 on GTA3: Vice City Announced · · Score: 1
    You certainly can flip it. And if you do, you need to get out, pretty sharpish.

    You're getting mixed up with something else, I think - you can't buy tyres and there's no speedometer visible. And the car very definately incurs damage in GTA3.

  6. Re:Somebody around here ..... on Sometimes, Microsoft is Right... · · Score: 1
    Yes, but that's something you have control over. If you wanted to, you could make konqueror go somewhere else when you type slashdot.

    Plus, nobody has to pay for it...

  7. Re:does this work on FreeBSD? on Codeweavers Releases Crossover Office · · Score: 1

    Not a cat in hells chance, Wine (of which this is a derivative) still needs an x86 compatible processor. It's only an implementation of the Win32 API, not an emulator.

  8. Re:Bill Gates may be a business man... on Slashback: 640K, Pioneer, Payback · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but who gave him the title of Chief Software Architect....? A job title really doesn't mean very much if you gave it to yourself.

  9. Pioneer 10, not Voyager 10 on Slashback: 640K, Pioneer, Payback · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought it was Pioneer 10, not Voyager 10. IIRC, there was no such thing as voyager 10.

  10. Re:You guys are totally stupid, you know... on How Well Does Windows Cluster? · · Score: 1
    But if they left it running linux, they wouldn't need the "more and better" support, cos it's already up and running.

    Oh, and referring to us as "trolls" in the same post as using the phrase "linsux" is probably only going to have one outcome, methinks.

  11. Re:... which proves the WHO should be disbanded on Nuclear Mutant Flies Are Good For Africa? · · Score: 1
    They aren't mutants! It's been said about 5 million times already (did you read any of the other comments?) that they are merely sterilised, not mutant.

    And whoever modded the parent post up should be ashamed of themselves, IMHO.

  12. Re:ps2 price drop soon? on Probing the Guts Of the Consoles · · Score: 1

    Well, here in the UK they dropped the price from UK£299 to UK£199 a couple of months ago - I'd be surprised if a similar drop in price didn't happen elsewhere soon.

  13. Re:idiots on Microsoft Starts Legal Fight Over Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    Actually, near me there's a chain of fried chicken and burger places called "McTuckys" - I've never heard of either McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken (yes, I know it's KFC now) trying to sue them, and they're still there...

  14. Re:Is this the one? on KDE 3.0 beta 1 is out · · Score: 1

    In addition to the features being added, they are moving it to use a new version of the Qt toolkit (Qt 3) - once that is done, they'll be able to add loads more stuff.

  15. Re:stronger on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1
    and the one OS which supports more hardware platforms than any other,/i>

    I suspect the NetBSD folks might disagree with you on that one...

  16. Re:The golden rule seems to apply on Man Named "Shell" Loses Domain To Oil Giant · · Score: 1

    Well, why couldn't Shell use www.shell-oil.de?

  17. Re:This is good! on New Transgaming WineX Release · · Score: 1
    This makes it possible for those companies that want a Linux port but do not have the resources to create a Linux port to program for these APIs in their Windows version making the software Linux/Mac/BeOS/etc compatible.

    Actually, it won't make it Mac compatible - as you said, Wine isn't an emulator, it's only an implementation of the Win32 API. Therefore, you still need an x86 chip to actually run the program, something I don't think many Macs come with.

  18. Re:Get a grip... on Be Shareholders Approve Sale to Palm · · Score: 1

    Journalled filesystems don't necessarily maintain all of the data, but they do ensure that the filesystem itself won't be corrupted by a loss of power in the middle of a disk write.

  19. Re:Dumb Question on Public Comment Period In MS/DOJ Battle · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't know how applicable the US settlement/judgement is in Europe, but I know the EU aren't exactly the biggest fans of Microsoft. I suspect they would be more than happy to restrict their activities given the opportunity.

  20. Re:This is pretty scary stuff. on Tunguska Mystery Blast Solved? · · Score: 1
    I wonder if there is any possibility of harnessing these things as weapons. Maybe you could blow one off course using a nuclear tipped missile, and cause it to land on one of your enemies cities. I expect the DoD are investigating this concept!

    Surely it would make more sense to just use your nuclear-tipped missile and fire that at your enemies cities? Or am I missing something?

  21. Refreshing attitude from AMD on AMD And THG update · · Score: 1
    Nice to see a company respond to a valid criticism by doing something about it.

    Yes, it would have been nice if existing motherboards did it, but at least AMD didn't bury their heads in the sand and ignore the issue completely once it was pointed out to them.

  22. Re:The Anonymous Coward thing... on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... and most DEFINATELY not anything with the word goat even in it. Not even anything that rhymes with the word goat.

    What, like "bloat" ? Uh-oh, that's almost any article about Microsoft out then...

  23. Re:Paying for _community_ content? on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How about if anybody who submits an article that gets accepted, they get a weeks free subscription, or something?

    That way, the people who provide the content in the first place get rewarded for doing so (i.e. they don't get adverts, and whatever other value gets added). Those who don't, don't. After all, if nobody submitted interesting content, slashdot would die.

  24. Re:Thoughts on kernel development model on Kernel 2.4.11 Released · · Score: 1

    Isn't that similar to what the FreeBSD folks do? It makes sense to me, but then I'm not a kernel hacker, so what do I know?

  25. Copyright? on GPS Drawings · · Score: 1

    How long before somebody realises that their route to work is some fantastic work of art? And how long before they try and copyright the route?