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  1. Debian on What Embedded Linux Distros Would You Support? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And with just some extra care also Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/gNewSense...

  2. Re:WTF?? on Windows Vista Released To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    There, fixed it.

  3. Ikiwiki + source code coloring from Trac on Best Weblog Application for Posting Source Code? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ikiwiki ( http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/ ) is a really extendable wiki/blog-software and you could write a plugin in the style of Trac's Syntax Coloring support ( http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracSyntaxColoring )

  4. Re:My favorite editor on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 1

    You're not the first one: http://thomer.com/vi/anim_written_in_vi.gif . (And unfortunately for you, I prefer this one)

  5. Re:MyPostgres? on How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Framework schmamework on How Do You Decide Which Framework to Use? · · Score: 1

    Do you consider FLTK (http://www.fltk.org/) too bloated or not decent?

  7. Re:Quick on Futuremark 3DMark06 Released · · Score: 1

    They already know, this link was on their front page: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1005981

  8. Bug fixes should go into 5.0.x on PHP 5.1.0 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was under the impression that when using a x.y.z -versioning scheme, bug fixes should be released with increments of z, new features with increments of y, unless they break compatibility, when x should be increased. But when has even PHP done some something in a standard way.

  9. Re:Joel on Software on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    I'll second this, even if the articles as basically freely available on his home page. The book has more polish to it.

  10. Re:the solution on PC Cloning Solution? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If the parent meant partimage, I'll second that. Used that for my school to install fresh windows images once a month. We used a Linux Live-CD called System rescue cd and had the image shared on a server with gigabit connection. The windows image had to be created with a fat32-filesystem, but that was 'convert'ed to ntfs on first boot thanks to some scripts I wrote. Check out help convert in cmd if you need to use windows.

  11. Re:how does this affect OS X? on FreeBSD 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    for i in /bin/*; do strings $i | grep BSD; done |sort | awk '{ print $1 }' | uniq -c

  12. Re:I got one. on NetBSD 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I also ran NetBSD on a Qube2, until a thunderstorm fried it. But Gentoo does run on it too. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-343667.html

  13. Re:Random thoughts on SUSE 10 on A Closer Look at SUSE 10 · · Score: 1

    I finally got a chance to play with MonoDevelop. I just couldn't get it to work on FC4 but it works fine here. To be honest it's got a long, long way to go. I wonder if Mono shouldn't be looking at #Develop which is miles better but needs porting first.


    MonoDevelop is a port of SharpDevelop. The problem is, that mono doesn't fully support System.Windows.Forms, so it had to be rewritten in GTK#. Also the GUI-designer won't work, because it uses the same Microsoft libraries as Visual Studio .NET. The libraries just happen to come with the .NET SDK, not Visual Studio .NET

  14. Demonstration meant nothing on Finland Adopts New Copyright Legislation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I took part in a demonstration against this law on tuesday 1300 Finnish time. There were over 300 people outside the parliament demonstrating against this, and this amount was assembled on under 5 days (or so we were told by the organiser). Only a handful of the members of parliament came out to listen to us or answer our questions, most of them already aware of our case and supporting it. I saw many people peeking out from the windows, looking scarily at us and then leaving, without coming out. One speaker told us something like "we'll have your mp3s sorted out later". What an idiot! Seems like no-one cared to even read the parts of the new law that we stated were problematic. And to think that we only cared about mp3s. We need more people in the parliament who actually understand what this new technology is about. Most of them would probably have problems grasping it if it was explained as LPs and cassette players. Geesh!

  15. Re:Rsync? on Subversion as Automatic Software Upgrade Service? · · Score: 1

    Subversion does employ a binary delta algorithm, xdelta. Older versions used some different algorithm, but that was also capable of binary deltas.

  16. Re:It's not like they're starving. on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    Isn't 2% interest in $1,000,000 actually $20,000? So you would need to have $10,000,000 to start with.

  17. Re:For your information on 80,012 Text Messages In One Month · · Score: 3, Interesting

    SMS has got to be the most ridiculous message format I've ever seen! Only telcos could come up with a standard that bad.

    It was newer mean to be an instant-messaging protocol. SMS is built on top of the simple debugging messages that the GSM standard allows. Some engineers at Nokia started playing around with the idea and didn't bother to design a real solution.

  18. Re:Live backups, baby on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 2, Informative

    A year?

    Taken from http://subversion.tigris.org/release-history.html:

    Milestone 3 (30 August 2001): Subversion is now self-hosting.

    there's over two years between that, and their 1.0.0 release, without *any* data loss.

  19. Re:Changes include on Linux Kernel 2.6.3 Has Been Released [updated] · · Score: 2, Informative

    And as if that wasn't enough, -rc4 introduced these:

    out-of-the-box ppc/ppc64 support, complete with G5 support (64-bit), large radeonfb driver updates, IDE oops fixes (and cleanups), and a SELinux update

    Slashdot really should consider linking to kerneltrap for each kernel update that has to be reported...

  20. Changes include on Linux Kernel 2.6.3 Has Been Released [updated] · · Score: 4, Informative

    KernelTrap reported "large merges" to 2.6.3-rc2, including:

    network driver updates, compiler warning fixes, PPC updates, a major ALSA update and SCSI updates, NFSv4 update, XFS fixes, ARM and sparc updates

  21. Re:Live CD's run slowly, users don't understand on Four Linux Live CDs, The Executive Summary · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IIRC Knoppix does _not_ install the image on the hard drive. Instead it lets the user partition the hard disk and copies over the files from the cd. Once installed on the hard drive, Knoppix is as read/write as any other "normal" GNU/Linux. Knoppix can even be up/down-graded to an ordinary Debian installation using apt, because it's Debian-based.

  22. Re:Analog on Log Analysis Tools for Windows? · · Score: 1

    If he'll already be using perl, why not use SpreadSheet::WriteExcel from CPAN.

  23. Old information on Treating Cancer with Beams of Anti-Matter · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is what they told me when I was only visiting CERN last May. I'd imagine that the information could have been aquired on the cern website for a long time before that.

  24. Re:Sad, but no surprise on Sun Drops Bid To Join Eclipse · · Score: 1

    Not everyone thinks CVS is the best though... Personally I can't wait to have Subversion integration available in Eclipse.

  25. Re:Ion on Window Managers For Small Screens? · · Score: 1

    I'll second this, although I recommend you to use ion-devel which is much more configurable than ion by itself. I also found out that setting LC_ALL to "fi_FI@euro" made the titlebars not show any text, and also be a lot smaller in ion. This could be nice if you wish to free up some space. Another locale might also work.