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  1. Realtime map on Mapping Google News · · Score: 1

    http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm has an interactive almost-realtime flash map of google news.

    News are shown as rectangles, color coded by topic, size-coded by the importance (number of related news), etc. And you can back track topics by time, you can see a topic grow as news spread and shrink as people stop writing about it. Best viewed on huge screens.

  2. The name everyone would agree on on Floaters are the New Pop-Ups · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd say the word poopovers describes them the best.

  3. Re:I object on NSLU2 Now More Useful · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I call them fillets

  4. I object on NSLU2 Now More Useful · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, nslu(1), am just as useful.

  5. Apple are hypocritical on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is absolutely sweet and it is done that way for most third-party apps.

    And if app needs to register itself as a handler for some mime type or for some protocol - it does it on launch, every time, so moving it doesn't break anything. Also add OS X links based not on path+filename but on uniq numeric file id and it becomes so nice and trivial...

    Except that Apple itself for some reason insists on using pkg installers, which do nobody-knows-what and have not uninstall capability(*).

    *Yes, you can parse receipt which is left after installation somewhere in /System and remove files using it.

  6. Re:Single pixel gif? on Testing didtheyreadit.com's Mail-Tracking Claims · · Score: 0, Redundant

    two options -- iether the server never closes connection when feeding the gif image, so it would be open until email's browser timeout or until email message is closed, or - i think this one is more likely - they trap onUnload() event and send some request to their server.

  7. Re:Is it such a surprise.... on iPod Mini Hits The 'Sweet Spot'? · · Score: 1

    That's what you would use Vorbis for. Afaik, neither mp3 nor aac support downsampling without recoding it. Ogg does.
    And I know that ipod doesnt play ogg.

  8. Re:Sub roots on Solaris 10 to be Released Late in 2004 · · Score: 1

    well. in sudousers you define command _with_ parameters.
    so you can limit user to running "apt-get dist-upgrade" only, not any other apt-get action.

  9. transpose tables on Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hesse Ruderman has a bookmaklet to transpose tables (which would rotate table pi/2 radians, making it tall & narrow & readable), works in mozilla, opera, ie.

    look there:
    http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pag edata.ht ml

  10. Re:Binary format for .torrent files on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    First thing I did when I got my first .torrent file, I cated it, expecting to see some text strings. Well, surprise...

    > using only printable characters would mean a huge
    > filesize inflation.

    Really, I'm pretty much sure that gziped text version wouldn't take much more space then uncompressed binary. And gzip is zcatable. And nobody says that actually torrent network packets should be in text, this is ony .torrent file, which is downloaded only once.

  11. apt-torrent on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    would be wonderful for non-profit distro like Debian GNU/{Linux,Hurd,NetBSD,FreeBSD} -- apt-get definitely could use bittorrent protocol.

  12. Binary format for .torrent files on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why did you choose to use binary format for .torrent files instead of clear text?

  13. /usr/bin/screen on Hydra: Rendezvous-Enabled Text Editing · · Score: 1
    It hasn't been programming, rather sendmail config hacking, but I've done it with my friend (who was on the other side of Atlantic ocean) remotely using screen -x. We held our discussions in commented-out blocks and then wrote config.
    $ screen --help | grep -- x
    -x Attach to a not detached screen. (Multi display mode).
    Screen -x is different, though, it's like a terminal with several keyboards attached -- we had shared cursor.
  14. Don't put white queen on G4 on Germany Places Command & Conquer on Restricted List · · Score: 1


    Yes, we are working hard here in to put chess on the restricted list, too. Then again, one might introduce some new rule, where the black king and the white queen can sit down on G4 and talk for a while, or we might replace the knight by a new figure: "the diplomat". The diplomat can't move, but will have some really cool abilities. What exactly is not yet clear, the EU games council is still negotiating.


    Please, don't put white queen on G4 -- G4's actually run pretty hot, she'll burn her ass.

  15. Re:ON DELETE CASCADE on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 1

    will scare him shitless, then rape him, then kill him, then cook him and eat him. let's go.

  16. ON DELETE CASCADE on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 1

    In most cases when you need to do multi-table delete, this should be done with ON DELETE CASCADE rule (welcome to real *relational* databases). Which is also present in MySQL 4 -- very good!

    Same for updates -- ON UPDATE CASCADE.

    Manual multitable updates could be very handy, though...

  17. Re:Doesn't work for me on Significant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    middle-clicking on mac? are you sure your mouse has enough buttons? :) just kidding. Apple's X11 has some really screwed clipboard.

  18. alt.seduction.fast on Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self? · · Score: 1

    I'd send myself a tarball of mirror of http://fastseduction.com and tell to read it through.

  19. rigid like diarrhea on Gnome 2.0 Officially Available For Solaris · · Score: 1

    Google thinks so too.

  20. Re:Sun FUD about KDE? on Gnome 2.0 Officially Available For Solaris · · Score: 1

    I can't disagree. Actually, if you look at that FAQ - it's all rigid like diarrhea, they say nothing in there. Real reasons might be licensing (Sun started looking at gnome at the time when Trolltech still dind't GPL their stuff) and language - some people really hate ++. Look at other comments around...

  21. Re:Sun and GNOME on Gnome 2.0 Officially Available For Solaris · · Score: 5, Informative

    sun has predicted this kind of questions and answered in their FAQ

    quoting from http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/gnome/faq/genera lfaq.html#4q0

    Q. Why did Sun choose to support GNOME instead of KDE?

    A. GNOME and KDE are both powerful desktop environments. Sun has completed a comprehensive technical review of both environments and concluded that GNOME's architecture is a better match for Sun's software strategy, which promotes the creation and use of highly distributed, network-savvy software, as well as easy access to data wherever it might be located. One example is GNOME's innovative use of CORBA for network-aware interprocess communication between disparate systems. Others are the Bonobo component architecture, which enables easier creation of compound documents and system-wide scripting while promoting code reuse, and GConf, the network- and component-aware configuration management system.

  22. Re:Noise noise noise on Swiftech 8500 Watercooling Kit Review · · Score: 0

    Ha-ha. I went through this a while ago, it was athlon-800. Spend hundreds of $ for *quite* cooling -- fortunately, Alpha 80-something heat sink was so large and effective, that I could put weak 1krpm 80mm fan on it and it was enough, if case was still open.

    That was prelude.

    Later I have bought SGI's Indigo R10k MaxImpact on eBay -- monster graphics workstation of a while ago. Well, that was real noise. The whole machine was eating about kilowatt of power (mostly courtesy of graphics pipe), most of which, obviously, went out as heat. Well, it was SGI, so cooling was effective, but still very noisy. My original athlon buzz seemed a joke compared to SGI's noise.
    You say you can hear fans slowing down because of power drawn by processor/vga/etc -- heh, I could hear loud buzz of power supply when system was on load. More, on large load, circuitry breaker in my apartment went off (that was reproducible). Scary stuff.

    Good thing about it was that exhaust vent in indigo (one of them) was blowing from the lower front corner to the floor, so it kept my feet warm in cold winter...

    But at least that Indigo wasn't even supposed to be used at home, and those athlons are...

  23. let's reverse this on Fun With Wine · · Score: 0

    and compile wine under cygwin

  24. My story on Helping Your Ex-Employer? · · Score: 0

    First job I got in America was kind of illegal -- I din't have work permit yet, so that was a cash job. It was a small company doing some pr0n videotapes wholesale. There wasn't much work and it didn't pay well. Time went on, I got my green card, I got 9-to-5 well-paying programming job, blah, blah. But then there was a problem: on my previous job I had my custom-developed software, on which whole company business started to depend. They couldn't keep me, because they couldn't afford full-time IT guy on salary which would keep me there. So, we settled following way: I come there on Saturdays, spend couple of hours doing some maintenance and my salary remains as it was before. Now, for couple of hours of work this is *very* good salary. Everybody is happy, my employer is happy his system is running and being maintained, I am happy because I get some additional income for doing alsmost nothing. Besides, I like that pr0n shop -- they allow me to smoke in the office :-)

  25. Why PC's? on The Power of Palladium · · Score: 0

    Well, let's say Microsoft will be able to control what to run on Intel and AMD computers, but what about let's say SUN? Why are we buying PC's while there are very nice and cheap ($1k) SUN machines. Let's say all people Who Understand what's going on turn to alternative hardware -- SUN boxes, for example. This will automagically make SUN feel much better and will save us from awful DRM schemes and stuff like that. [I suppose that SUN isn't going to go Microsoft way in nearest feature]. Why should we care about dummies who let Microsoft tie them with all kind of shit? They are very happy and not willing to change anything. For people using Open Source software change will be unnoticeble -- just recompile it and it runs on Sparc, thanks to gcc.