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  1. Samba 4 on Samba 4 Technology Preview Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    There has been info about Samba 4 for some time. Andrew Bartlett wrote a year ago an interesting thesis about Samba 4 and Active Directory (PDF).

    But the release of this TP is good news, I hope that the use of Microsoft's Active Directory as an authentication service for Linux systems is coming to an end. All what we need now is a nice GUI.

  2. It isn't worth it on IBM Strives For 'Superhuman' Speech Tech · · Score: 5, Funny

    May be IBM is going to make speech recognition true, but Bill Gates said that this was posible a long time ago. Simply genius.

  3. Capitalism works well at first on eBay Scraps Transaction Fees in China · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Capitalism works - for the Chinese.

    Capitalism must be cared for. You must care that there is enought competition. You must divide monopolies. Capitalism need a lot of work.

    It's a system that works, but as any other system, when some people gets too much power the system is corrupted and stops to work.

    In China capitalism is making the government to share its power, so it's working great. In U.S.A. the government is concentrating power in itself and in the big companyes, so capitalism works no more.

    It isn't only a matter of what system you chose, but of whom is using it and how.

  4. Not find, but take it on Wikimedia Commons reaches 400,000 Files · · Score: 1

    find 400,000 images and videos on the internet that weren't porn? Now that really is an accomplishment.

    Ok, it's funny. But a lot of images are new photographs taken for Wikipedia not previously found in internet.
    There is a lot of fun in take photographs, but it's a lot better if they have a purpose.

    When I travel for fun or for business I take my camera with me and take some photographs that I think can be interesting for Wikipedia. I have contributed to Barcelona or Josep Puig i Cadafalch in architecture from the city where I live. But I have also taken images from other cities (Tarragona, Santander, L'Ametlla de Mar).

    So it's not a problem of where to find images on internet but of take new ones for Wikipedia.

  5. explicit permission: Simpsons quote on StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wiggum: "Once a man is in your home, anything you do to him is nice and legal."
    Homer: "Is that so? Oh Flanders! Won't you join me in my kitchen? Heh heh heh heh."
    Wiggum: "Uh...doesn't work if you invite them."
    Flanders: "Hidily hey!"
    Homer: "Go home."
    Flanders: "Toodley-doo!"

  6. Google Image Cache on Small Change, and Other Physics Fun · · Score: 3, Informative
  7. The Register, catalan and Microsoft on Microsoft Plans to Create Local Language Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Register On Windows, Nynorsk, Sami and Catalan:
    Paul Taylor writes "So why Nynorsk, and not Catalan? Little chance of the Catalans getting their own language in Office... it's not a matter of economics, it's a matter of politics. Nynorsk is an "evolution" of Norwegian as far as I know, and M$ can hide behind the "Bright Shield of Progress" and getting some merit from the overall hack community. Catalunyan is really a political matter. Solved only with Madrid's approval ... First ask yourself if they teach Catalunyan in school, see if the government in Madrid approves of a Catalunyan version of the software (or would it be common-sense just to keep ALL offices Castillian and not create issues between versions), and then see if M$ would make money out of it. Basque is another thing altogether... :| (as well as Galician, Andaluzian etc...)"

    Oscar del Pozo Triscon, Softcatala writes I've read your poignantly funny (article about Microsoft Office in Nynorsk. I couldn't help laughing out loud while reading the last paragraph, a sort of call to arms to us Catalans. Well, I'm happy to report you that we have been fighting to have a powerful, honestly-priced Office suite in our language, and we have succeeded indeed. Softcatala, a not-for-profit organisation that localises free software into Catalan and advocates its use (and to which I obviously belong), localised OpenOffice 1.0 to Catalan a few months ago in cooperation with Sun Microsystems, and recently distributed 70,000 CDs with it through a Catalan newspaper. As a result, the Education Department of the Catalan Government is looking very closely to OpenOffice to replace Microsoft Office in all schools throughout the country. So, surprise, surprise, despite all previous arguments and PR rubbish, Microsoft have promised the Catalan Government a localised version of Microsoft Office this year. Of course, we all know how strongly committed Microsoft Corporation is when it comes to minority languages. So we will keep releasing Catalan versions of free software, just to prevent their very strong moral fibre to be tested by the absence of competition. By the way, we'll be glad to give technical assistance to other organisations looking to translate OpenOffice or other free software to a "non-profitable language". OpenOffice.org catalan version

    Miquel Strubell writes Dear Drew, Within 24 hours of your article "Windows comes to Nynorsk" being posted on the Internet, it received coverage in Catalonia. Thank you for raising the issue once again. Microsoft translated 1.0 versions of Windows 95 and 98, which they then failed to update. These versions were not introduced into their catalogue and were extremely hard to find in the PC corner shop. They also signed a third agreement with the Catalan government, this time without an exorbitant invoice attached to it, to produce a Catalan version of Windows XP. What they didn't say was that the vesion translated would be the network format, so it turns out out that the home user has been cheated! Nynorsk has achieved a version of Office, an area where Microsoft have entrenched themselves in refusing to produce a Catalan version. Good for Nynorsk speakers! More and more Catalans are turning to alternatives such as open code products, which www.softcatala.org distribute free of charge.

    BBC:Boycott threat
    In both instances, Microsoft pointed to the large cost of translating computer programs.
    But the Norwegians had an ace up their sleeve.
    The main organisation working for the Nynorsk language got most of Norway's high schools to threaten to boycott all Microsoft software if they didn't come up with a New Norwegian version of Office.
    Many more users of minority languages will no doubt be inspired to fight a renewed battle for their

  8. Google on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 5, Informative

    Site without images
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: V'Ger (Voyager VI)
    LENGTH: Approximately 98 km.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: Originally built by humans and launched near the end of the 20th century for peacful reconnaisance purposes, the Voyager VI probe was intercepted by an evidently technologically advanced race who augmented the probe and sent it back to Earth under a new internal conciousness, resulting in a near cataclysm.
    SOURCE: Star Trek, the Motion Picture (Film, 1982 Paramount Pictures), Drawn by Jeff Russell
    Whale Probe from Star Trek IV, 74 km long
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: Whale Probe
    LENGTH: Approximately 74 km. There are numerous conflicting sources for the length of the Whale Probe, but extrapolation from the film has led me to accept this length as being the most likely.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: Unknown, although the device was able to communicate with humpback whales.
    SOURCE: Star Trek IV, (Film, Paramount Pictures)
    Marduk Base from Macross II, 50 km diameter
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: Marduk Mothership
    DIAMETER: Approximately 50 km. This is the stated length of the RPG version, although the movie version seems to be much larger. Further investigation is needed.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: Marduk, the creators of the Zentraedi.
    SOURCE: Macross II, (Animated Film), Drawn by Jeff Russell
    Rama, 50km long
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: Rama
    LENGTH: 50 km long, 20 km in diameter.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: Large habitat ship
    SOURCE: Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clark, Drawn by Jeff Russell
    Vorlon Planet Killer, approximately 45km long
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: Vorlon Planet Killer
    LENGTH: Approximately 45 km. There are numerous conflicting sources for the length of the Vorlon Planet Killer, but extrapolation from the show has led me to accept this length as being the most likely.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: The Vorlon
    SOURCE: Babylon 5, (Television Series)
    Phobos, moon of Mars, 27km long at longest axis
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: Phobos
    DIAMETER: 27 km x 23 km x 20 km
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: Moon of Mars
    SOURCE: Discovered in 1877, August 12 by Asaph Hall; photographed by 'Mariner 9' in 1971, 'Viking 1' in 1977, and the Russian 'Phobos' probe in 1988.
    City Destroyer from ID4, 24km diameter
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: ID4 City Destroyer
    DIAMETER: 24 km across, stated in the film.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: ID4 Aliens. Please see notes
    SOURCE: Independance Day (Film), Drawn by Jeff Russell
    Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars, 17.6km long
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: Executor/ Super Star Destroyer
    LENGTH: 17.6 km. Please see http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: The Empire under Darth Sidious (human). Darth Vader's command ship.
    SOURCE: Star Wars Episode V and VI, the Empire Strikes Back, and the Return of the Jedi, (Film), originally drawn by Chad Wilson
    Cloud City, 16km diameter
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: Cloud City
    LENGTH: 16 km.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: Bespin Mining Colony
    SOURCE: Star Wars Episode V, the Empire Strikes Back (Film), Drawn by Jeff Russell
    Lexx, 10km long
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: LEXX
    LENGTH: 10 km. From original Blueprints used in the design of the ship.
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: The Empire under His Devine Shadow (human). This vessel is a wepon capable of destroying an entire Earth Size planet.
    SOURCE: LEXX (TV series)
    Babylon 5 Space Station, 8454.1m long
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: BABYLON 5/ Deep Space Station
    LENGTH: 8,454.1 m, from http://www.b5tech.com/babylonproject/babylon5stati on/babylon5station.html
    BUILDER/COMMENTS: Human. "Babylon 5 is a 8,454.1* meter (five-mile) long, 840 meter diameter, 9.1 billion ton O'Neil class space station, located at a pivotal main jump gate in the Epsilon system."
    SOURCE: Babylon 5 (TV series)
    Macross I & II capital ships
    SHIP NAME/TYPE: MACROSS Sta

  9. We need Altavista-watch! on Should you Fear Google? · · Score: 1

    Should you Fear Altavista?

    1. Altavista's 2013 expiration date AV_USERKEY cookie.
    2. Altavista records everything they can.
    3. Altavista retains all data indefinitely.
    4. Altavista won't say why they need this data.
    5. Altavista hires spooks.
    6. Altavista's toolbar is spyware :)
    7. Altavista's image cache copy is illegal.
    8. Altavista is not your friend.
    9. Altavista is a privacy time bomb.

    Oh my god!

  10. Interplanetary Internet on Linux In Space: Red Hat Rides The Rocket · · Score: 1
  11. Discworld Quote on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1, Funny

    The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

    Discworld 'Mort'

  12. Archos: Jukebox Multimedia. First MPEG4 Camcorder on First HDD MPEG4 Video Camcorder · · Score: 3, Interesting
  13. Disc World Companion on China Develops Their Own CPU: The "Dragon Chip" · · Score: 1

    Interesting times are ahead

    "They say it's very boring there. Their biggest curse is 'May you live in interesting times,' apparently."
    Interesting Times, Terry Patchett

  14. On Sale on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    You can buy one Cloak of Invisibility here ($9.99).

  15. Change garbage for progress. on Recycling The First World, in the Third · · Score: 1

    Who are we to look down on them?

    Who are "them"? Chinese people or the people that makes money buying garbage (may be american companies).

    How do you think the US became the economic hegemon it was in the 1940s?

    As a result of World War II.

    The problem is those ideals and standards are a product of our economic superiority.

    Germany has very superior environmental standards.
    Superior economic power doesn't imply better environmental standards.

    No one told the US that it wasn't ok to commit our attrocities. Why are we any different?

    United States generated big quantities of garbage.
    But they never bought the garbage of other countries.
    A exchange existed between garbage and progress.
    That is not the case of China. They change garbage for money that they will spend in American products.
    So that the process that gived America so much economic power repeats the conditions have to be the same ones.
    It is not the case.

  16. Xbox + Mouse + Keyboard, hmmm on Carmack Expounds on Doom III · · Score: 1

    To play any version of Quake it is necessary a mouse and a keyboard.
    I tryed to play the Quake III for Dreamcast with the control pad and it is almost impossible.
    If you have to use keyboard and mouse, What is the difference with a PC?

    Doom III for XBox is a sample that the games of Id run on any platform.
    But it doesn't provide any advantage to the player.

    It only will serve so that those people that have a XBox and don't have a PC can come closer to the fantastic Id Software world of action.

    Doom III version for the Xbox is purely anecdotic.

  17. Adjustable System Requirements on Carmack Expounds on Doom III · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For those that have not still found out Quake uses a completely configurable engine from the first version.
    You can turn on and off a lot of features.

    A lot of Quake III players play with bad graphics for better performance.
    seta r_lastValidRenderer "GeForce3/AGP/3DNOW!"
    seta cg_marks "0"
    seta r_picmip 4
    seta cg_noProjectileTrail "1"
    seta cg_forceModel "1"
    vid_Restart

  18. EU Ratifies Kyoto Treaty on China Bans U.S. Electronic Scrap · · Score: 1

    Comment by EABinGA: In the real world, economic growth and capitalism have actually been very good for the environment. The richer a country is, the better its environment is.(Score:4, Informative)
    Capitalism isn't as perfect as so many people thinks.
    Capitalism need people worried about the envirnoment, otherwise environment is nog going to be protected.

    Villagers say they know the health risks but have no alternative because the financial yield from farming is so low. In any case the land is now too poisoned to grow crops.
    At China capitalism didn't work so fine either.
    Capitalism don't exclude solidarity with other people, or other countries.

    Who thinks that all is fine with the current system, needs to think more about it.

  19. Punk Buster on The Matrix is Reloading · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not Bad Software Engineering, its cheating.

    Download Punk Buster, please.

  20. Capitalism don't work on Educating Youngsters About Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Copyright can't exist on a Capitalist country.

    About capitalism:"under this system a minimum of government supervision is required; if competition is present, economic activity will be self-regulating"

    Copyright is an artificial interference.

    So capitalism don't work, what works is mixed economy.

    Roman epire existed 500 years, but at last it collapsed.

    So "capitalism works" is a rash conclusion if it can be take into account.

  21. Dragon Ball on Microsoft Starts Legal Fight Over Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates didn't see Dragon Ball?

    - Gogeta: fusión de Gokuh y Vegeta.

  22. Genetic Selection on Wired on Autism in the Valley · · Score: 1

    That's right.
    So here is a genetic selection.
    Is like pair up big dogs with big dogs.
    You has a very high chance of get a big puppy.

    It's ethic genetic selection?
    When every body is worried about Genetics scientists, at Silicon Valley there is some kind of Genetic Selection.

  23. The master says on Radeon 8500/GeForce3 Ti500 comparison · · Score: 1

    Last think about ATI cards in Carmack's .plan is about "Quake3 name checking in ATI's recent drivers".
    I checked if JC has write somthing about the Radeon 8500, like the 6/1/00 update but there isn't nothing.
    May be in the next update?

  24. Flat iMac on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    You can buy a flat display for your Power Mac G4
    Apple Studio Display (15" flat panel) $599.00
    But some news sites say that No flat-panel iMac at Macworld Expo next week
    The really news may be the $ that costs such a Mac (Design+power+flat screen)

  25. Clever people on QuickTime To Move To MPEG-4 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "In order for (MPEG-4) to succeed as a standard, it has to be used," said Susan Kevorkian, an analyst with IDC.
    Excel files are a standard for most business.
    But this don't makes Excel files a standard but only a common used format.
    While industry didn't understand this difference, standards aren't going to success.