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  1. Re:Still with FC18 and probably swtich distro on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 2

    Fedora already supports releases for 12 months, as the most recent 2 releases are supported. Fedora 19 has been out for six months, and will be supported for a further six (or so!) months until Fedora 21 is released. In contrast, Ubuntu only supports its releases for 9 months, except for the LTS releases.

  2. Re:Why still use blocks? on Next-Next Generation Video: Introducing Daala · · Score: 4, Informative

    You still need to subdivide the image for motion estimation, as some parts of a moving image move at different rates to others. Subdividing into blocks gives you O(N) complexity in the size of the input image, whereas doing a DCT transformation has O(N log N) complexity.

  3. Re:Not a Gentoo user on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 1
    # Currently the following CPU types are recognized: # Intel x86 architecture:

    # (AMD CPUs) opteron athlon64 athlon-mp athlon-xp athlon-4
    # athlon-tbird athlon k8 k6-3 k6-2 k6 k5
    # (Intel CPUs) nocona pentium4[m] prescott pentium3[m] pentium-m
    # pentium2 pentiumpro pentium-mmx pentium i486 i386
    # Alpha/AXP architecture: ev67 ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4
    # AMD64 architecture: opteron, athlon64, nocona
    # Intel ia64 architecture: itanium2, itanium

    Sorry if I'm being blunt, but if you can't figure out what CPUTYPE your system has from this list, then you have no business compiling an application on it.

    I agree, it's totally obvious which type of Pentium a Core Duo is.
  4. Re:Not at first on Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE? · · Score: 1

    I haven't written a line of Java for 4 years, but I'm pretty sure the default toString() method for an array will give you some sort of unique hash describing the array.

    Secondly, the idea you need an IDE to learn the basic semantics of a language is laughable.

  5. Re:use the google, my friend. on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 2, Informative
    Oh, I get it. I get that you've never heard of the dangerous brothers. Just flash your drive with a region-free firmware and you're done.

    The page you linked to is at rpc1.org. RPC1 is the non-region coded firmware which Windows Vista will not be supporting.

    What you will need is an RPC2 firmware with the limit on the number of region changes removed.

  6. Use the HTTP Date header on Time Syncing Through a Firewall Without NTP? · · Score: 1

    Most webservers return the date in the HTTP headers.

    For example, try:
    curl --head http://www.google.com/

  7. Re:remind on Reminders (Pop-up & E-mail) with Unix? · · Score: 1

    No. Evolution is supposed to do this. Usually it fails to tell you about appointments until after some number of restarts it remembers about appointments which you missed weeks ago. Maybe version 2 is better, but 1.4.6 is just a pile of bugs. Unfortunately, I have to use it to access Exchange...

  8. Re:Popularity on Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Released · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately, (at least version 1.4.6) it's full of bugs. It segfaults randomly; the user interface hangs randomly, and it can lose mail if this happens at the wrong time. The alarm daemon part can segfault, and so subsequent calendar notifications don't happen. It's extremely slow - it takes up to 10 seconds to open a new email.

    It's just slightly better than using Outlook under VmWare. If Exchange webmail (OWA) had a search facility I would probably not bother trying to use evolution.

  9. Re:Very simple on Advice for a Novice Replacing Laptop Hard Drive? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The one in my Sony Vaio was 8.5mm. You can't buy 8.5mm drives any more - they are all 9.5mm and I had to bend the mounting bracket to fit it...

  10. Re:Penetrator on A Grep-like Utility That Works on More than Text? · · Score: 1
    w3m -dump does a very good job of converting html to text.

    > Also - your default pdftotext setting...

    I didn't write Penetrator, it just looks identical to the program I was planning to write before I found it :)

  11. Penetrator on A Grep-like Utility That Works on More than Text? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I've just implemented a Word/PDF/text search system using Penetrator.

    It acts as a web search engine or a grep-like tool. You can either build an index or configure it to search on demand.

    You can add filters to deal with any file type you like. I use xpdf and wvWare to handle PDFs and word documents.

    A little bit of work to set up, but it's a nifty bit bit of software.

  12. Re:The most important command on What Should be Included in a Linux Crash Course? · · Score: 1

    You can search man pages by pressing /. (assuming your pager is 'less' which it is on most Linux distributions)

    An example of a process involving more than one command being documented in a man page:

    $ PAGER='grep rsh' man xauth
    Reformatting xauth(1x), please wait...
    % xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -

  13. Re:I also dislike multicolor/auto-indent on Vim 6.3 Released · · Score: 1

    I use the following:
    set noautoindent
    set nocindent
    filetype plugin indent off
    set noai

    It appears that I need to disable auto indenting 4 times, and the syntax colouring disappears with it.

  14. Oh no! on Vim 6.3 Released · · Score: 1, Troll

    More crap subverting the beauty that was vim 5.8. I hate the way the latest versions of vim require all sorts of weird vimrc magic just to stop files coming out in unreadable multicolor, with broken magic auto-indent. Vim 6 is almost as bad as MS Word for generally getting in my way. Vim crashes less though...

  15. ROCK Linux on Lite Linux Distros for a Digital Picture Frame? · · Score: 1

    Configure and cross-compile a customised installation using Rock Linux http://www.rocklinux.org/

  16. Re:The real truth on Rambus Files Antitrust Suit Against Memory Makers · · Score: 1

    It has better bandwidth, but the latency is probably worse

  17. Re:Hmm.. on Debian Removes Binary-only Firmware From Kernel · · Score: 1

    It may not be a GPL violation but it is a clear violation of the Debian social contract, which is why the firmware is being removed.

  18. Re:Possible Solution on Inside Look at Patent Examination · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. That way the chances of getting a patent approved are proportional to the number you submit, so big companies would file more, and smaller companies and sole inventors would be essentially unable to get patents.

  19. Re:Brilliant on The Command Line - Best Newbie Interface? · · Score: 1

    Get a (chat) room!

  20. Re:COOL! on Linux Kernel 2.2.26 -- 2.2 is not dead! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not only did it take a year for XFree86 4.3 to get in, but now that it has, it DOESN'T EVEN WORK! I have no 3D and screen corruption, which is not present in the hand-compiled X build I was running previously.

  21. Re:Ahh, stories. on What is the Worst Tech Mistake You Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    I've done exactly that, except on the Unix that we don't mention anymore.

  22. Nokia 6310i on Best Bluetooth Capable Cell Phone? · · Score: 1

    Nokia 6310i.

    It's a fairly basic phone, but it's triband (works in Europe and US), has bluetooth, runs java games. No camera and no colour screen, but it works, and lasts over a week of real usage on one charge.

    It's a good reliable phone, and it works properly, which is what I'm looking for in a phone :)

  23. Re:Two Things. on More On The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think udev (user space replacement for devfs) is supposed to solve this.

  24. KDE on Window Managers For Small Screens? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    KDE with the laptop window decorations and the panel set to the smallest height.

  25. Re:Telnet on Remote Root Exploit In lsh · · Score: 1

    At least 2 bugs in your hello world:
    a) you don't check the return code of printf
    b) it's not internationalized