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  1. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    Usually you set the swap partition as the first partition in the system to have the fastest disk access, which has to do with the mechanics of the disk. So with a swap file you still have to make sure that that swap file is on the first partition.

  2. Goliath? on Who Isn't Afraid of Google? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it read Gooliath?

  3. Re:Use DJBDNS instead of BIND. on New Linux Worm · · Score: 1

    Well... ok, DJBDNS is _different_, diffenrent if you are familiar with the usual ./configure; make; make install installments. But... ever installed bind from the sources? Oh well.

  4. Re:Translation on Top Ten Algorithms of the Century · · Score: 1

    Yes, there _is_ FFT in MPG. It's Discrete Cosinus Transform (DCT).

  5. Not the first time... on Mozilla Junkbuster-like Feature Removed · · Score: 1

    This is not the first time a usefull feature got removed from Mozilla. I remember there once was Google selectable as a search machine for Mozilla "Internet Search" (Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Internet Search -> Search using:). However, this list got somewhat "shortened" in M14 (or was it M13?). Note that this list of search machines is _not configurable_, so you can not add or remove server yourself. I guess all the search machines in there are more or less related to AOL in some way. Comments?

  6. Re:Corel has an office suite on Corel to Buy Inprise/Borland · · Score: 1

    Borland/Inprise _was_ a successfull company some time ago. For me Turbo Pascal was the first programming language i learned on my PC and so it was for lots of user guys i know of. However, times have changed, AFAIK they have some difficult years, losses, freeing some staff. Why do you think they changed their name from Borland to Inprise, out of nothing?

  7. Re:Some suggestions on Sci Fi Literature 101? · · Score: 1

    Well, i never was in SF literature that much, until a friend recommended The Songs of Distant Earth and it was so... hmm.. different than all the SF books i read before. A certain degree of melancholia and mosten remarkably: it is even quite realistic when it comes to physics!

  8. Re:This is good and bad on China Banning Win2k · · Score: 1

    While this is basically _good_ news for the linux people we should not forget that China is still totalitarian regime. Users being forced to use Linux will be no good at all for the community. BTW, it's mentioned that they use their own Linux modified by chinese researchers. I am just wondering what these changes are... *sigh*

  9. Humpday? on Humpday Quickies · · Score: 1

    Hmm... my dictionary and even the WWWebster is silent on the word "humpday". So please someone might explain to a non-us citizen what a humpday is :-).

    So long, and thanks for all the fish.

  10. Re:Many weeks old news on Linux Opera Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, amazingly this is the christmas gift which Opera gaves us and noone here at /. may have noticed (i got the pre-alpha shortly after christmas).

    Most of the menu entries were disabled or not working properly. What most annoyed me was the fact that it builds its own MDI window hierarchy so that the actual website windows don't get decorated by your windowmanager but by opera (so decoration will most always look different from your own WM configuration -> THIS IS BAD!)

  11. opera-19991224.tar.gz on Linux Opera Beta Released · · Score: 1

    It amazes me that this version is the christmas gift Opera send us at around 24th december and noone else here at /. noticed it until now (i tried this version shortly after christmas). It was statically linked to the QT2.1 library, so it was way big but reasonable fast. Most of the menu entries are disabled and almost _no_ preferences could be saved at that time.

    The only _really discovery_ about opera is the fact, that it tries to emulate the MDI of the winblows world where each of the document windows don't get decorated by your widowmanager but by opera. They try to emulate KDE look which is annoying if you use FVWM2 (like me).

  12. Threesome on How do you Remember Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Since i don't loke too much passwords to remember, i have a three-password system. I distinguish between my (a) my root accounts, (b) accounts, where i have a "save" connection and (c) accounts, where the passwords is going as plaintext over the net (POP3, telnet, ...).

    Works well, i change all of them nonetheless every month or so.