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  1. Re:They should sell it anyway on UK's 'Unallocated' IPv4 Block Actually In Use, Not For Sale · · Score: 1

    Not just that, but this /8 is probably worth more then the British gold reserve that a certain former PM sold for about 1/10th of its current price (hindsight eh?). Unless theyre really using a massive part of it, do as you say. Sell it whilst its worth something, pay some nurses and everyone is happy. (except everyone else who would want a slice of that 1B).

  2. Wonderful timing! on PSVita Hacked, Native Homebrew Loader Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for my 1ghz pandora to turn up but my vita isn't doing much which is a shame, the hardware on it is quite simply amazing, now to have that running homebrew... I could see this being the best thing to happen to the Vita

  3. Re:Still same old non-open source board though... on Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced · · Score: 1

    preview the force luke... damn, meant this board needs a lot of non-free stuff. /me hangs head in shame

  4. Still same old non-open source board though... on Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced · · Score: 0

    I appreciate that being cheap is the name of the game for Raspberry, but I wouldn't call this board Debian non-free friendly :)

  5. Some timing... on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 1

    Payday for a lot of people (including myself), go onto site to buy it and oh look... Not sure I can be bothered waiting for amazon copy to arrive, being weekend and all...

  6. Re:Good news on Valve Finds Open Source Drivers To Be Great · · Score: 1

    If the rumoured steam-station/box exists then that graphics order alone might sway one or both of AMD/Nvidia to release some drivers if it helped them get the contract.

    Even if they're just the drivers for a particular model of card or chipset. That card would also work its way into every Linux desktop I'll ever build.

  7. Re:You can have it too! on Dropbox Adds Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can vouch for this. google auth use PAM so its very easy to hook up to most things. I use it at work for our VPN stuff, also a few ssh servers.

    Amazing piece of software.

  8. It's the OpenPandora I'm waiting for! on PlayStation Boss Defends Vita, Slams Social Gaming · · Score: 2

    I have a Vita, it's a nice piece of kit, lack of games is a bit of a concern, I've had mine for months yet only 3 games so far. It doesn't help that when on the tube (London Underground) you're lucky to be in a position where you have both hands free. I prefer reading on my kindle, least you're certain to have one hand free during rush hour!

    Now portable wise it's the 1Ghz Pandora that I should be receiving next week. Generally it seems qemu is able to emulate roughly a 75Mhz Pentium on there. Just hope that Master of Orion 2 is playable on the move. Oh and I'm not trying to sell one to you (I'm not affiliated in anyway), you should really check it out;

    http://www.openpandora.org/index.php

  9. +1 internets for kickstarter on Shadowrun Comes To Linux, MMO Planned · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to the deluge of Linux games coming out kickstarter. Wastelands 2 is the version I'm waiting for with baited breath.

    Here's hoping for Linux box releases, I like collecting commercial Linux games, I think I own them all now.

  10. But does it play on Linux? on CowboyNeal Reviews Orcs Must Die! 2 · · Score: 1

    The answer to that is yes, perfectly on wine 1.5.9 at least on Debian.

    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=14392

    Platinum rating for me, fresh wineprefix and no tinkering.

    Enjoy.

  11. Re:Good decision by Icelandic court on Icelandic Court Rules: Wikileaks Will Get Contributed Credit Card Money · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well it's not all milk and honey over here. Our airlines ARE supposed to give data to the US government if the airline has anything to do with America. I'm in the UK and were bow down to most US requests for people or information.

    Iceland isn't EU (although they are attempting to join afaik), they just happen to be an awesome country that seems to care about such things. They must have been doing a good job, my goverment called them terrorists once for letting their banks fail (oh no, not the banks!).

    This might have been feeding a troll but wanted to set a small record straight :)

  12. I'd rather see changes to paralympics... on Cloned Horses Ok To Compete In Olympics · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How long before the paralympics become some kind of cyborg olympics? It's like the ban of drugs and performance boosters on athletes. We all want to see what records can be broken, just how far can we push the human body (within limits, I don't want to see lives destroyed for a record).

    The olympics has become (or was it always in it's modern form?) a corporate circus. So let's go next step and merge formula 1 with it. /A Londoner not looking forward to public transport soon

  13. Haven't seen it mentioned yet but what about; on Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector? · · Score: 1

    http://openpandora.org/

    Seems to have everything you want, the 1ghz version is a little pricey and not available right away so maybe this suggestion wasn't all that good. Highly recommended though.

  14. Re:Puzzled on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 1

    http://www.dell.com/uk/p/alienware-m11x-r3/pd

    You mean this? Ofc mine is the r1 version and yeah you can't buy that anymore (first hand at least)

  15. Re:Puzzled on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 2

    My alienware m11x begs to differ sir. It comes with a hybrid nvidia/intel onboard and I'm able to use nvidia perfectly. It uses the GT 335M and it worked on Gentoo, Mint and more recently Debian.

    Of course I'm willing to contend it works because in the bios I can either have the hybrid enabled (forget the exact name of the procedure) or just have nvidia enabled but wanted to correct your statement that has been modded up :).

    Cheers,
    Maq

  16. Perfect timing on Squadron of Lost WWII Spitfires To Be Exhumed In Burma · · Score: 5, Funny

    With recent austerity measures, the UK are looking at bringing these fighters back into service.

    Thanks David!

  17. Re:Sadly the Debian bins are still at rc3 on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    A good way to use wine is to build from source and build into /usr/local/wine-$winever-vanilla, point a symlink from /usr/local/wine/ to whatever version you want and add /usr/local/wine/bin to your path.

    Very very good for hunting down regressions and not worrying about your package manager, also don't forget to build wine with ccache! ("CC=ccache gcc") to really help with build times, especially if you want to use a patch.

  18. Re:Blast from the past on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 2

    Comparing wine to a full system emulator is your first mistake. It's more akin to running things in a chroot then an emulator. Performance wise it's great as long as the program you are using works perfectly.

    I'm a super admin very a couple of dozen games on the appdb with ratings between garbage and platinum and the truth is that nowadays I'm disappointed where wine doesn't run something out the box. It's older games that it struggles with, for instance RAGE worked out the box for me yet something like Starfleet Command 3 doesn't work at all.

    If it works, wine is as quick as running something natively. I've never played Eve online on windows for instance, I have no need to. I wouldn't do anything mission critical with it though, don't let the stable tag fool you.

    -Maq

  19. Re:Griefing on Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 2

    I'd also want them to put in a subdomain that links to the official site so it will always work as intended for everyone who's in the know but still get to stiff the opposition.

  20. Re:dot bit on Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    ah my bad, didnt even RTFS properly. Thought it was a SOPA like dns block. Well guess TOR it is then. Get a magnet link from the site and let the torrent client do it all.

  21. Re:dot bit on Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    undid last two vandal edits, main_page as it should be

  22. dot bit on Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    So get everyone to use http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page

    Ofc being a wiki page someone has just ruined it but anyone who should know enough about torrents should also have it in their locker to get dot bit running and then by using piratebay.bit they'll never have to worry about this sort of rubbish again. (check our previous revisions for all the information)

    The alternatives are either remembering a static IP address (which could change at a moments notice) or use an alternative DNS root which has its own worse problems.

  23. Re:Fracking fracking! on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 1

    heh beat me to it by seconds! It so does haha

  24. Damn BSG... on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 1

    It might be pronounced differently(is it?) but everytime I read fracking I think of Battlestar and this subject it's funny;

    Earthquakes That May be Realted To F*cking close Ohion Oil Well.

    Love it :)

  25. Re:It's an arms race.. on The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Insightful? People it's supposed to be funny!

    Slashdot mods don't play skyrim it seems :)