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  1. Re:Controversial theme? on Ubuntu For PPC, And As A Live CD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apparently it is a photo of humans hugging. It would be perfectly ok if they pointed guns and shot at each other, as usual.The screenshots in the 50 range on osdir have that background.

  2. Single Transferable Vote voting system on Ask Green Party Presidential Candidate David Cobb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you working actively to change the voting system to the Single Transferable Vote voting system, where voters are "safe" voting for a candidate they fear won't be elected? Assuming you support it, are the other U.S. players opposing it or in favor of it?

  3. "Player" Bots on the stock market - the big guys on Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic? · · Score: 3, Informative
    For many years now, automatic trading systems have been "playing" the stock market - making the decision on their own on what to sell, buy and when to do it.

    Some random links on the subject:

    1. Cracking Wall Street - Wired, July 1994
    2. Predict - one of the companies mentioned in the above article
    3. and a random company link (haven't read this one):

    4. Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and their Applicability to the Prediction of Stock Market Trends

    Why settle for the poker table, when the markets are much bigger? Playing the markets is probably more difficult, but you're the best coder around, aren't you? ;-)

  4. Re:Use Linux systems instead, like this on Jetway PT800TWIN - Dual User Hardware · · Score: 1
    Ah, yes, it's a typo. It should have said "2 to 16 users", of course. The number 16 comes from their last entry in the faq, without any further info (you also need USB slots, of course, but the USB bus can take 127 devices...). It's possible to add additional PCI slots to your system, though, unless you have one of those motherboards with lots of PCI slots already. Search for "PCI expansion system" or PCI backplanes.

    Here's an article about using PCI expansion systems (written by a manufacturer of such): Massively Parallel Data Acquisition. By expanding the PCI bus into unique topologies, data recorders can scale in both density and data rate.

    Whether that works for shuffling data the other way to PCI graphics cards as well, is left as an exercise for the reader. ;-)

  5. Use Linux systems instead, like this on Jetway PT800TWIN - Dual User Hardware · · Score: 4, Informative
    Linux Multi-Head: Share a single CPU and RAM among 2 two 16 users, each having their own screens, keyboards, mice etc.

    This was also discussed on Slashdot a short while ago: FourHead: One PC, Four Users

  6. Re:Qemu on Universal Emulators Return · · Score: 1
    It's worth pointing out that Qemu is about 65 times faster than Bochs and is actually usable for running that last windows app on your Linux system, for example, so that you can finally drop the windows partition forever, without having to get a VmWare license. You can run just about any operating system under Qemu, including Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME/98/95 and Windows 3.1, not forgetting every Free OS on the planet, historical operating systems etc... FreeDOS runs fine, of course, as does OS/2 Merlin, I hear.

    It's excellent for trying out your ISO boot disks as well, just start it with "qemu -cdrom path/to/image.iso -boot d" and it boots from your ISO image file.

    Did I mention that it's Free as in freedom and beer, GPL:d (parts LGPL:d and still others MIT license) software?

    Thanks, Fabrice Bellard and the rest of the team for this great work!

  7. interesting monetary reform site on Java Specification Request on Community Currencies · · Score: 2, Interesting
    A number of related books and articles, many with their full text online are available at: http://geldreform.de/ in several languages.

    See for example Margrit Kennedy's 140-page book Interest and Inflation free Money - you'll never look at money the same way again after reading the first chapter.

  8. Re:CAM quality, or higher -- depends on the intent on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: 1
    Mikey Moore is to the world of politics what crapflooding trolls are to Slashdot discussions.
    And this you know without having ever watched one of his films?

    Presuming you want to inform yourself (rather than protect yourself from insights that might contradict with your current opinions), I'd recommend starting to read more (by all means continue to read whatever if anything you're currently reading regularly).

    The background/big picture:

    Read:

    Once you've done the above, you'll probably understand the need for finding good sources of daily news. Try any of the BBC news outlets and for example The Guardian. The Guardian also runs a news service regarding the news media itself, at media.guardian.co.uk (free registration required). For example, MediaGuardian runs a continuous special report on Iraq - the media war.

    Sorry for the wakeup-call.

    "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you".

    -- Don Marquis
  9. writing new console apps? on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1
    If you're about to write new applications with a console-only mode, you may be interesting in seeing what this programming library can do for you. It's almost unknown. It shouldn't be. It's got a bad name clash with xterm, but this isn't an xterm variant! The original author is Dragos Acostachioaie.
    What is Xterminal?

    Xterminal is a Object Oriented User Interface with a client-server architecture. The main purpose is a friendly interface for the UNIX operating systems. It is designed to be used to build text-based applications in C++.

    It consists in a complete object oriented library including multiple, resizeable, overlapping windows, pull-down menus, dialog boxes, buttons, scroll bars, input lines, check boxes, radio buttons, etc. Mouse support, advanced object management, events handling, communications between objects are provided, too, bundled with a complete programmer's manual.

  10. get a permit first on Developing Open Source Defense Projects · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, make sure you get a permit from your government first, or your open source missile project could end up being shut down: DIY Cruise Missile Grounded.

  11. Re:This part is not unusual. on Baystar Confirms Microsoft Behind SCO Investment · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Yahoo Finance is reporting that SCO announced that the company's board of directors has authorized management, in its discretion, to purchase up to 1.5 million shares of SCO's common stock over the next 24 months. SCO has approximately 14.4 million shares of common stock issued and outstanding. Any repurchased shares will be held as treasury stock and will be available for general corporate purposes.

    This is nothing new, odd, illegal, unethical or strange either. It is a common business practice of publicly traded firms.

    It would certainly be unethical if it's just the Canopy Group's way of transferring money from SCO to Canopy, in exchange for soon-to-be worthless SCOX shares. That's not unlikely, seeing what kind of deals Canopy has done with the companies they own in the past.

    That might even count as inisidertrading, depending on circumstances we can't know about, so chances are it's illegal, too.

    I guess they could defend themselves by saying it's been common knowledge for a long time that SCO is about to go out of bussiness. Of course, then they'd have been lying about their bussiness prospects... Oops!

  12. Re:Forget it! I don't want video! on GnomeMeeting 1.0 Videoconferencing/VoIP Released · · Score: 1
    :-)

    The good news is you can just use a photo instead, if you like, or no image at all.

  13. Re:More interesting... on GnomeMeeting 1.0 Videoconferencing/VoIP Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    FYI, GnomeMeeting 1.0 is based on the OpenH323 libraries. Later versions will build on the OPAL library (same develeopers as OpenH323) for SIP support.

  14. Re:But unfortuantely it's h323 only on GnomeMeeting 1.0 Videoconferencing/VoIP Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    SIP support was intentionally left for post-1.0. It will be supported soon enough.

  15. Just like Xen, in other words? on Zones are in Solaris Express (Solaris 10) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This sounds like Xen for Linux...

  16. The article omits XEN & coLinux on An Introduction to Virtualization · · Score: 3, Informative
    Oddly enough the article doesn't even mention XEN, one of the most interesting virtualization systems. Xen is being actively developed and has also been featured on Slashdot a couple of months back when they released the first public versions.

    Also omitted is the new coLinux, which was discussed on Slashdot, too, just the other week.

  17. Re:so, i hear that on Yamaha Releases Singing Synthesis Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pay attention. And look here. :-)

  18. Re:Nope on Knoppix Variant Offers Full NTFS Write Support · · Score: 1

    No, really. We haven't had any corruption reports and people are actually using it.

  19. HOWTO - Install Debian Onto a Remote Linux System on Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD · · Score: 4, Informative

    Personally, I find this howto more useful. ;-) HOWTO - Install Debian Onto a Remote Linux System

  20. Re:Head in the Sand on "H-Bomb Secret" Now Online · · Score: 1

    There's a good counter-example. It's been said before, but worth repeating: "If handguns provide safety, the U.S. would be the safest place in the world". In reality, though, the U.S. has both a high number of hand guns, and the worlds highest gun-related death rates of any developed nation. By far.

  21. One step forward, four steps back on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1
    • Karimov in Uzbekistan
    • Alijev in Azerbajdzjan
    • Nazarbajev in Kazakstan
    • Musharraf in Pakistan
    Who are these people? They're the latest partners in crime with the U.S. oil imperialism, the next-generation Saddam Husseins, if you will. Just like the U.S. supported Hussein, they're now supporting these tyrants, because the U.S. administration wants to transport oil through their countries.

    Of course it's purely a coincidence that the ties to the oil industry from the Bush administration are so close: The United States of Oil. Or you can use Google to find similar stories: Bush administration oil ties

    Wouldn't it be simpler, not to support these people to begin with?

  22. Re:how convenient on Intel Putting Wi-Fi into Future Chipsets · · Score: 1
    Please read up on the Trusted Computing FAQ, which I can tell you haven't read yet. Then read:
  23. how convenient on Intel Putting Wi-Fi into Future Chipsets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So when Big Brother wants to know what you're up to, they don't need you to be online to the public internet. How convenient. The "trusted" BIOS can always let them bypass your firewall, as the BIOS is going to handle the net connection too.

  24. MARVIN, autopilot and IARC on Israeli Super Drone Stolen · · Score: 1
    Well, they can perhaps get some help from the developers of MARVIN (don't miss the videos!), twice winners of the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). MARVIN is now funded by the EU COMETS Project.

    Or why not join the autopilot project at SourceForge. ;-)

  25. Re:Not free on Cougaar 10.4.6 Released With Source · · Score: 1
    Indeed, no Cougaar license has been approved by OSI.

    Cougaar folks, you need to get this fixed.