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  1. How to underclock ? on P4 2.2GHz Overclocked to 3.5GHz · · Score: 2



    I _really_ wish I can underclock my system (AMD XP 1900+)

    But how ?

    My mobo doesn't permit me to underclock it to 100 KHz.

    At least, I don't think it'd go that low.

  2. A Mini HowTo: Pleasing Malaysia Court on Defamation, Free Speech, Jurisdiction and the Net? · · Score: 3, Interesting



    A MiniHowTo on Pleasing Malaysia Court -

    1. Get A Lot Of Money.

    2. Donate The Money To The Prime Minister Of Malaysia, or, Give A Sizeable Chunk Of Your Company (in terms of shares / ownership) to One Or More Sons Of The Prime Minister. In Other Words, Bribe The Guy, Or Bribe His Family.

    3. Get To Know The Judges - who are appointed by the Prime Minister - through the Prime Minister himeself.

    4. Before You File A Defamation Suit, Tell The Prime Minister About It. Make Sure That The Judges *Are* Informed Of Your Up And Coming Suit.

    5. From Then Onwards, Everything Is Arranged For You. You Can Ask For Whatever Amount. You Victory Is Guaranteed Even If YOur Evidence Is Extra-Ordinarily Flimsy.

    6. If You Can't Collect The Judgement - If The Losing Side Don't Have The Money - You Can Sue Again, And Make Those Bastards Pay For "Defaming You". The Court System Of Malaysia Will Throw Your Enemies Into Jail, Because No Justice In Malaysia Will Dare To Make The "Friends Of Prime Minister" Look Bad.

    End Of MiniHowTo

  3. "Flawless" English on Can China Pull An India? · · Score: 1



    If you think you _ARE_ speaking "Flawless" English, please go to Great Britain and ask the Brits there how's your "English".

    It's one thing about people speaking English. It's another thing implying others speaking somehow "flawed" English.

    The Aussies can say they speak "Flawless English", as well as the Canadians. But to the Brits, the definition of "flawlessness" is very much different from those of the Canadians or the Aussies - as well as the Americans.

  4. Where's YOUR morality? on Can China Pull An India? · · Score: 0, Troll



    By implying that ALL CHINESE ARE IMMORAL - with your "Chinese morality" subject heading - may I know where did you obtain your "moral certification", sir?

  5. Where is www.slashdot.us ? on Can China Pull An India? · · Score: 1



    On the other hand, I can't find "www.slashdot.us" either.

    If you think /. should remain US-centric, think again.

  6. Modern way of slavery ? on Can China Pull An India? · · Score: 1



    So your definition of "modern way of slavery" is to get people of India trained to do your work ?

    Now, now.... what that makes you, a _former_ slave?

  7. Pirates on Can China Pull An India? · · Score: 1



    For your information, not all the software pirates originate from China.

    In the Good Ol' U. S. of A., there are lots of software pirates too !

    To use your own rationale, then U. S. of A. can't be trusted either, since there _are_ software pirates living in it !

  8. Wanna 300 baud paperweight ? on BBS Documentary Starting To Film · · Score: 1



    Wanna my 300 baud paperweight ?

  9. Where to find loseless codec? on BBC Testing Ogg Vorbis Streaming · · Score: 1



    You mentioned FLAC and other lossless codec format.

    My question is - WHERE to find them?

    Thanks in advance !

  10. SETI - Chinese Style on The Humble Space Telescope · · Score: 1



    This may be somewhat off-topic.

    But China is planning a "SETI" kinda project - and search for the LGM.

    Can anyone tell me if the project would be opened for everyone to participate?

  11. Yo Ho Ho ! .... and heeeeere comes ..... on Annual NORAD Santa Tracker Up And Running · · Score: 1



    Osama Bin Laden !

    Worse.

    Norad has completely missed him !

    HELP ! SOS ! HELP !

  12. Implementation takes commitment on Software Carpentry QMTest Testing Tool Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    It's easy to be armchair anything.

    It's easy to lament that something is not implemented.

    But do you know that to really implement something _properly_ it takes real commitment - and not only sacrifies in money, time and effort ?

    That is why I have utmost respect for those who participated in open-source projects.

  13. From my own experience on Best Billing Options for a Contract Position? · · Score: 3, Interesting



    Speaking as a consultant whose works all over the globe, the best option is to ---

    Set up a corporation in places that don't tax you to death - Hong Kong, Singapore, and Virgin Island come to mind.

    Whatever you do, you do it under the corporation name - that is, you pay yourself (from the corporation sense) just enough to not pay too much personal income tax to Uncle Sam, and the remainder profit you can store in your "corporation".

    With another layer of "corporate fat" to insulate you from the greedy fingers of the IRS, you can do much wonder.

  14. Lack of business acument. on Adcritic Shuts Down · · Score: 1



    What happens to AdCritic is not legal problem, but rather, the lack of business acument.

    Look, advertisement is advertisement. Whether or not it's on the US teevee or British tube, it's still advertisement.

    The problem of AdCritic is that it's too US centric, and when the US economy took a Southbound train, the entire operation went south with it.

    If AdCritic wasn't focusing 100% of its operation on the US, there are still some other (profitable) things for it to report / critique, elsewhere in the world.

    Believe me, I am an American, staying in a Gawd Awful Moslem country, where the ads are really, _really_ lousy. What is needed here is someone to critic these lousy ads, and AdCritics could have made a ton of mullah by doing it.

    And I believe there are other places in the world equally needing the services of AdCritic.

    China, for instant, has a BOOMING economy. And with 1.3 BILLION consumer population there, the payoff is huge.

    Unfortunately, the folks of AdCritic never has the sight of the world beyond the border of United States.

    So they die.

  15. Are there any other alternatives? on Accounting Systems on Linux? · · Score: 1



    Hello.

    Thanks for the recommendation for mySAP.

    I wonder if there are any other choices for ERP / Accounting / Office systems out there, for medium sized enterprises?

    If there are, is there a list somewhere, preferrably those that compare features / ease of use / ease of maintanence / scalability / etc. ?

    Thanks in advance !

  16. Namesake on What's up with Lindows? · · Score: 1



    Ahhhh....

    What "Lindows" has achieved and WINE has failed is in the game of namesake.

    If WINE was named "Winux", it may have a better chance for success.

  17. DOJ ? on Microsoft Antitrust Update · · Score: 1



    Please tell me where's the "justice" on that "DOJ".

    If there is any "justice" at all, then M$ shouldn't get away with such lousy excuse of a "settlement".

    But ahhhh.... money talks.

    Am I the only cynic around ?!?

  18. No thank ! on Mars Odyssey Detects Signs of Water · · Score: 1



    If what we humans have done to Mother Earth is any indication, a BIG "No Thanks !" is in order in the idea of "terraforming" the red planet.

    For after the "Terraforming" will follow "Terra-de-forming" and ultimately, "Terra-destruction".

    Until the day we humans know how to appreciate what we have - Planet Earth, - we have NO RIGHT to destroy another virgin planet.

  19. Flat rate ? on APT - With Your Favorite Distribution · · Score: 1



    Everytime I read "flat rate", I salivate.

    Why?

    Because in this Gawd Awful Moslem Country - one that constantly labels USA as "evil" and Osama Bin Laden as "Holy" - that I am living in, there is NO "flat rate".

    APT-RPM is a God-send.

    Many thanks to the good people who carried out that magnificient task !

  20. Isn't it a known fact ? on Severed Optical Nerves Can Be Made To Grow Again · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    Isn't it an already known fact that MOSLEMS' nerve get hooked with the infinite-loop growth?

    First they accuse us of being evil.

    Then, they did what they did to WTC - several years ago.

    Then, they bomb our embassies.

    Then, they accused us of being evil, again, after we take out some of their terrorist brethen.

    And when everyone think the MOSLEMS' nerve stop growing, for a change, they bomb WTC, and this time they brought WTC down - with over 4000 innocent lives with it.

    And when we take action against their terrorist brethen, again, them MOSLEM have the NERVE to call us EVIL - from Egypt to Malaysia to Pakistan - them MOSLEM vowed to KILL US ALL.

    What nerve they have !!

  21. DR-DOS _was_ free, once on Lineo Frees CP/M · · Score: 1



    And I did downloaded source code for DR-DOS under the ABSOLUTELY NO-STRING ATTACHED condition.

    Now... my question is - can I distribute the source to others?

  22. Re:Have you tried FLTK ?? on GTK-- vs. QT · · Score: 1



    What you said about FLTK is true, circa one-year-ago, but do try FLTK today, since it has improved quite a lot.

    Even Mr. Alan Cox has pleasant comments about FLTK , look at his "diary entries", some months back.

    By the way, the newest stable branch of FLTK is 1.0.11, and the new 1.1 branch is in beta testing.

    And if that's not enough, there's a version 2.0 in development (sort of like proof-of-concept thingy) for the past year or so... Search in the "bazaar" section in the FLTK website (www.fltk.org) and you can download the much-in-development version 2.0 and test it out !!

    I am not saying that QT isn't good, what I'm saying that FLTK has grown up quite a lot, for the past year !

  23. Have you tried FLTK ?? on GTK-- vs. QT · · Score: 1



    Before you've tried FLTK, you won't know how powerful and intuitive a ToolKit suppose to be.

    You can download the ToolKit from ftp://ftp.fltk.org

  24. Try FLTK on GTK-- vs. QT · · Score: 2, Interesting



    Try FLTK { www.fltk.org }

    You won't be disappointed with the Fast and Light Tool Kit.

    For download, go to ftp://ftp.fltk.org

  25. What's best for "long term, large scale" project? on Portable Coding and Cross-Platform Libraries? · · Score: 1



    You said:

    "Oh, and to everyone that has been promoting
    ideas like "just use gcc" or "just use
    straight c++", maybe you've never worked on a
    large scale, long term project, but gcc is not
    the best option for an app that needs to be
    highly optimized and writting everything in
    c++ from scratch is a waste of time ...."

    Now, may I pick your mind to what is best - in your opinion, of course - for large scale, long term project?

    Thanks in advance !