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  1. Re:Mersenne Primes on RSA-576 Factored · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the 40th Mersenne prime has been discovered 2-3 weeks ago and just proven to be correct. See http://www.mersenne.org/history.htm for more info.

  2. Re:Budget chips and Apple on "Budget" Chips go Head-to-Head · · Score: 1

    ouch! probably the same guy that modded your post :( 2 weeks ago, I got a post that was moderated redundant - it was like the 5th post and _not_ redundant, and then, it was moderated overrated. Shit like this happens more often it seems.

  3. Re:google? on Paraphrasing Sentences With Software · · Score: 1

    Read about it first in slashdot *hehe* Thanks - didn't know that!

  4. Re:google? on Paraphrasing Sentences With Software · · Score: 5, Informative
    Just discovered this:
    Now when searching Google, you can use a ~ (tilde) to find pages using synonyms of the word you're searching for. For instance, search for:


    css ~help

    and you'll get sites with tutorials, guides, support, etc.
  5. Re:google? on Paraphrasing Sentences With Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, google already does this a little. If I can find an example, I'll reply again. Excite, the old search engine, used to pick out synonyms (well, that's how I heard it explained once) by comparing pages and related content.

  6. What about... on Paraphrasing Sentences With Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's see the srtwfaoe cut its tteeh anigist tihs lttilte puzzle! (blatant reference to an older article)

  7. Re:Membership and Mandrake? on MandrakeMove Bootable Linux CD Announced · · Score: 1
    Actually, you want this torrent:

    MD5 checksum: 111682eae2c454b4ca780119f63f8ad4 MandrakeMove-rc-i586.iso

  8. Re:Mathematicians cheering in the aisles on Swedish Student Partly Solves 16th Hilbert Problem · · Score: 1

    Just wait... in a few days, a new record prime will be announced - probably mersenne's 40th. Stay tuned!

  9. the face of music on Why We See Faces - Everywhere · · Score: 1
    It's been discussed here before, and on wired, but hey, why not give it another whirl :) The Face of Music

    For some reason, most of the other pages with the info have disappeared from the web, unfortunately.

  10. Re:comparing to Scott's famous c++ book!? on Effective XML · · Score: 1
    somebody's got it against me *looking over shoulder*

    Well at least I know it's not just my imagination... Anyway, this isn't the place to discuss moderation issues I was told. I simply wanted to thank you for undertanding my pov, so there, "Thanks VioletGreen" :)

  11. Re:comparing to Scott's famous c++ book!? on Effective XML · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who's giving mod points today? Just look at that!

  12. comparing to Scott's famous c++ book!? on Effective XML · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I guess this XML book is a must read for anyone involved with the creation of those bracketed documents. The Table of Content looks promising anyway. Even mentions ASCII :)

  13. Re:And why .zip? on Documentary about Professional Gaming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hi benwaggoner,

    Not particularly responding to you, just looking for a branch to grow on. Now that that's established, I have a few complaints as well.

    1. A zip so people don't stream it? You can do better then that!
    2. 720 x 576? Was it really necessary to encode with these dimensions? It hardly plays on my 1GHz computer?
    3. ...

    Just too tired to think of anything else, and it's probably been mentionned before. But I had to say something after spending 5 hours downloading the movie, and another hour watch a 15-minute video. Yeah, I had to strip the audio out because it was unbearable, cut cut cutting all the time.

    I finally ended up with the video muted, and lagging since it was too close to 100% cpu usage, and foobar2000 playing the audio in parallel, which I had to repeatedly pause to get any sort of sync.

    Good news is I have an ogg file available. It's 16 MiB, and doesn't stutter :)

  14. Re:Apt on Linux in 2004? · · Score: 0
    I thought your post was funny :)

    Where are mod points when you need them?

  15. Re:They each had a respectable place in history on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 1

    I was fortunate enough to have a disk drive for mine. What was really incredible was that the date drives were completely automated, moving back and forward, finding programs anywhere on the tape..

  16. Re:Great! on Documentary about Professional Gaming · · Score: 1
    Thanks for the offer - hope you won't regret it...

    I'm finally downloading from the torrent, but like you said, it's incredibly slow. Well, only 25 minutes left... wish me luck :)

  17. Great! on Documentary about Professional Gaming · · Score: 1

    Now even the torrent is slashdotted :(

  18. Re:Dissapointed on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 1

    Sorry about the TI link, I grabbed the first one I saw from google, and didn't look beyond the front page when I checked it's content.

    http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ti99/ is a better reference. If you know of a better site, please do tell.

  19. Re:Interesting concept on Gnome.org Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt · · Score: 1

    I'd mod you +1 Informative, but have no points.

  20. Re:They each had a respectable place in history on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 1
    Thanks for your insight :)

    I just wanted to add that one of my first real OS (if you can call it that) was actually CP/M 2.2 on the Adam. I remember hooking to BBS, finding 8086 .com programs and complaining they never worked *hehe*

  21. Re:Other lists on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://oldcomputers.net/ is one place. Like I said in another post, I'm going to write the same thing, but from a more personal angle. Also, I want to see how closely my computers have obeyed Moore's Law. Stay tuned :)

  22. Dissapointed on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was sure to find references to my goold old Timex Sinclair 1000, or even my Adam computer, but no! I had to read about Compaq...

    Not even a word on the TI 99/4A. Guess I'll have to publish my own list. Actually, I had planned a long time to do a timeline of my computers, see how it respected moore's law. Guess there's no better time then right now to get started.

  23. Re:xouvert? on New X Roadmap from Jim Gettys · · Score: 3, Interesting

    maybe because xouvert doesn't have anything to show? Fri Sep 26 23:57:50 PDT 2003 marks the latest news on the website, although its roadmap indicates a "release" for November. I guess we'll just have to wait a little more and see.

  24. Re:mp3.org? on MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    That just redirects to xiph.org

  25. other look on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this is going to get posted before I submit, anyhow, I found this:
    http://www.alistapart.com/d/slashdot/index2.html