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  1. scrambled word images? on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    Why not make the players at the table type in a word from one of those scrambled images to join each hand like yahoo and others use to deter bot signups. I haven't looked yet to see if those are defeatable w/ some tricky code but probably are =\

  2. Stability on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 1

    I have machines that have stability problems with 2.2 and not with 2.4, I haven't had the vice-versa yet but I wouldn't rule it out.

    agua:~# uname -a ; uptime
    Linux agua 2.4.12 #1 Fri Oct 19 10:26:27 CST 2001 i686 unknown
    07:54:22 up 85 days, 20:18, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

    prime:~# uname -a ; uptime
    Linux prime 2.2.19 #1 Fri Oct 19 18:24:43 PDT 2001 i586 unknown
    05:53:54 up 89 days, 12:19, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

    polleo:~# uname -a ; uptime
    Linux polleo 2.4.17 #1 Sat Dec 29 22:11:39 PST 2001 i686 unknown
    05:56:12 up 18 days, 7:02, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00

    reverse:~# uname -a ; uptime
    Linux reverse 2.4.16 #1 Fri Dec 7 19:10:14 PST 2001 i686 unknown
    06:01:26 up 33 days, 10:40, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01

  3. Oracle problems on Linux Applications And "glibc Hell"? · · Score: 1

    I ran into this oracle install problem on my Debian Sid/ kernel 2.4 system..
    Here is a description: http://www.fortyoz.org/files/misc/oracle_trouble.t xt

    Anyone have bright ideas? I'm thinking about install redhat 6 on a spare drive, installing it then copying it over..

    Sigh, all this just for the client libraries and headers.

  4. Re:Be careful. on Best Supported Video Card For Linux/XFree86? · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? The nvidia drivers are very fast in linux, slower then windows by a couple fps, dri doesn't mean shit, its just an extra layer of stuff that would make the drivers SLOWER. nvidia has their own direct rendering system.

  5. Re:NeXTLinux? on In Depth With Jason Haas And LinuxPPC · · Score: 1

    Uh, run more applications? Maybe it would let you switch between them better then the joke gnome has but i doubt you could run more .. look at this.

  6. Re:Competition with OS X? Joke, right? on In Depth With Jason Haas And LinuxPPC · · Score: 1

    How is X cut and paste not real? It is different.. but once gotten used to it IS faster and more efficient. Unless of course your stuck with a (shitty) one button mouse.

  7. This massive feat in the making on PowerPC Linux Beats Apple To Full G4 SMP Support · · Score: 1

    ;) Then, it was only a matter of letting Troy fix bugs
    <smpHozer&gt yes it was
    <smpHozer&gt and it was staring us in the face in the OF start-cpu1 code all the time ;)
    <BenH&gt Well, until I decided to drink some rhum, smoke a few pots, and decrypt the OF stuff ;)
    <slice`&gt heheh
    <slice`&gt I believe you mean..
    <slice`&gt "smoke a bowl"
    <slice`&gt get with the lingo.. man :)

  8. Re:As a Mac user... on Has Linux Lapped Apple As Competition For Redmond? · · Score: 1

    Here you go, http://www.fortyoz.org/lmbench, does the G4 beat a P3 or Athlon? Nope.

  9. I don't mind third-party patches on Has Linux Development Become Too Political? · · Score: 1

    Patching the kernel to support third-party things like ReiserFS is not a big deal for me and I doubt it is for many other Linux users..
    A Linux system is just a mix and match of many things from many places, why can't (shouldn't) the kernel be like this as well.. and if the arguement is its too hard for new users to figure out how to use it, they should NOT be using it.
    Linux is nowhere near the stage where a computer-illiterate can use it.

  10. Re:What's New in Mandrake 7.1 on Mandrake 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Works fine in XF4, but quite slower then XF3. (3D mode anyway)

  11. Re:$25 on Gnome 1.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Then don't buy it, some people don't live in their parents basement's and need to pay rent and buy food. :)

  12. Re:Windows drivers much Linux? on 3dfx Delays Voodoo5 Schedule · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I second the statement that the DRI drvers ARE *slower* then the NON-DRI 3.3.6 ones. DRI is just more overhead.

  13. Windows drivers much Linux? on 3dfx Delays Voodoo5 Schedule · · Score: 2

    3DFX may support Linux, but it seems as though it is half-ass support. If you look at the recent benchmarks on linuxgames.com, the 3DFX cards have the largest gap between the Window and Linux drivers.. says you will only get like 75% of the performance you will get under Windows. Is this going to change in the future or will we continue to see half-ass support?

  14. Re:*bsd is ruining the open source revolution! on FreeBSD For The iMac And Other Eye-Openers · · Score: 1

    Erm, yeah .. Kernel 2.0.x did suck but i'm quite sure 2.2.x or 2.3.x (2.4) could handle it.

  15. Some G4 LinuxPPC Benchmarks VS misc X86 on Apple Demonstrates A Dual-G4 Power Mac · · Score: 2

    http://www.fortyoz.org/lmbench/results.txt

    The G4 does ok, not great.

    Can someone explain why i'd want one again?

  16. What is the purpose ... on Ask Metallica About Napster · · Score: 1

    Of suing Napster Inc? You may stop them but.. so what? There are MANY napster clones along with drop in replacements for Mapster like OpenNap which is opensource software and cannot be stopped. Are you going to go after every joe blow running an opennap server? You will lose, its no different then running a webserver with a search engine. I don't get your logic.

  17. Re:Yep... on Linux 2.2.15 Released · · Score: 2

    Your too busy to compile a new kernel yet you find time to read slashdot and post comments?

    I'd rather use windows then linux 2.0.x ;)

  18. hmmm. optimized debian? on Several Stampede Developers Depart · · Score: 2

    i used stampede a few years ago on my old pentium166, was a cool distro. i now use debian and was wondering if any effort was going on to make a pentium(pro?) optimized distro.. *should* just be a matter of apt-get source somepackage.. edit the CFLAGS then dpkg-buildpackage. .. would be nice if someone did this and let people use it for their server for people's sources.list. i certainly don't have the bandwidth :)

    btw what are the standard 'good' optimization flags?

    -O6 -mpentiumpro ??

  19. haha.. on Backdoor In Microsoft Web Software? · · Score: 5

    david@cold:~ > strings dvwssr.dll
    ... bunch of crap..
    /global.asa
    .asp
    !seineew era sreenigne epacsteN
    HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found
    .. more crap ..

    see the hidden message? hint.. its backwards.

  20. Re:How do they do this? on Linux Gains AltiVec Support · · Score: 1

    Code is not specs or documentation.

  21. Re:Quake3 on Laptop on Review of the Sony Vaio PCG-X9 · · Score: 1

    35fps is not really "playable" in serious online matches.

  22. Quake3 on Laptop on Review of the Sony Vaio PCG-X9 · · Score: 1

    Get a laptop with a rage pro card (they really suck but you can play quake3 on them in crappy graphics settings with utah-glx).

  23. .... give your hands a rest on Slashdot Live @ LinuxWorld · · Score: 2

    #!/bin/bash

    while true
    do
    mpg123 http://mp3-2.thesync.com:8000
    done;

  24. Re:Also paying $40 on @Home Gets the Usenet Death Penalty · · Score: 1

    or just plug your line into a linux box and use it to ipmasq your other boxen. works like a charm.

  25. @home in canada on @Home Gets the Usenet Death Penalty · · Score: 1

    hmm, i'm paying $40 a month i think, and i get 50kB/sec up and 300kB/sec down, only problem i have are the occasional short (10-20 minute) downtimes and online gaming (weird network pauses and packet loss)