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  1. Re:Colocation boys & girls... on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 1

    HISTFILE=/dev/null

  2. Re:Xine vs Mplayer on MPlayer 0.90 released; MPlayer Maintainer Leaves · · Score: 1
    Actually, for DVD playback I prefer Ogle: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/

    Till today it supported any DVD I inserted in my laptop and played them smoothly.

  3. Re:It's mostly snakeoil, but not completely on 56k Times Five: Myth Or Moneymaker? · · Score: 1
    The local cache is used when the remote side hasn't changed. But when a new version is available in the server, it has to be completely download again (although only the components that have changed).

    What the parent describes, on the other hand, uses a third server in between that also has the client's local version. When the client requests the page again, if it has changed that third server will compute a diff and send only that to the client.

    Ex:

    wget slashdot.org ; wget slashdot.org
    diff -e index.html index.html.1 > slash.dif
    ls -l index.html* slash.dif
    and compare the size of the pages and of the dif.
  4. Re:OpenGL vs DirectX on Microsoft Quits OpenGL ARB · · Score: 1

    I think it was MS-DOS. It had some GWBASIC version, that I can't check right now. Maybe after the weekend, if you're interested.

  5. Re:OpenGL vs DirectX on Microsoft Quits OpenGL ARB · · Score: 1

    I do have the three instalation disks for MS-Dos 4.0.

  6. Re:Being biased on Windows vs. Unix Revisited · · Score: 3, Informative

    "So Linux is Unix.
    Why should it not be?"

    Because it isn't! Unix is a registered trademark and its holders don't like it used loosely.

    More information can by found in the OpenGroup and Unix pages.

    My internet connection isn't working well, so I couldn't check them for accuracy.

  7. Re:Anti-Terraforming? on More on the Mars Ice Cap · · Score: 1

    Some Sci-Fi authors say we shouldn't terraform (adapt the planet to earth conditions), but should adapt ourselfs to the planet's natural conditions. :)

  8. Re:No fork() support? on uClinux Ported to the iPod · · Score: 1

    as soon as the child calls execve, the parent unblocks.

  9. Re:What's wrong with the old ones? on A Sound Server For X · · Score: 1
    network-transparent? Have you ever tried to put a X server with a sound card that connects to a remote XDM server to work? I had to do the following:
    • create .mcoprc to tell remote arts to use X11 communication. That's because each new artsd has different connection values, even with the same port, host, etc. And do a rsync of /tmp/mcop to every user and host isn't acceptable.
    • stop arts from resetting the configuration file to defaults: chmod -w .mcoprc
    • create a /etc/X0.hosts so localhost can connect locally
    • create a script that kills any local artsd, launchs the X server, and afterwards runs the new artsd
    • change inittab to run that script instead of X -broadcast
  10. Re:artsd and esd (and oss) on KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines · · Score: 1
    artsdsp esd
    should work. The other way around doesn't seem to work, though...
  11. Re:What about PCI? on S3's DeltaChrome Examined · · Score: 2, Informative
    "The PCI you find in your average computer is 133 MBps - 32 bit, 33 Mhz. On servers you may find faster PCI backbones, and I believe the top of the line with the current PCI spec is 64-bit at 66 MHz, giving you 533 MBps transfer rate."

    It was, until a few months ago. The new PCI-X spec allows (AFAIK) a top frequency of 133Mhz and 64bits bus width. Almost 1GBps.

  12. Re:I would think anything would be derivative on Derivative Works And Open Source · · Score: 1

    As has been said previously, if we had open software package X that "accidentally" used a library copyrighted by Microsoft, does anyone thing that Microsoft wouldn't sue us? Write your own code.

    Does that mean that every program written for Win32 belongs to Microsoft? Or that they could sue the developers?

    Can you really write a win32 application using only your code? Without linking to any library?

  13. Re:8.1 will have to wait... on New Red Hat Beta · · Score: 1

    I have found gnome-terminal+vte slow but not because of gnome it self but because of Xft. The rendering of anti-alias text is what is consuming my processor power...

  14. MPlayer in distros on Slashback: TIPS, FatWallet, MPlayer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not quite. Mplayer is a good piece of software, but in order to be work at full it needs proprietary, limited distributable codecs.

  15. Re:My 2 cents.... on Philips' JackRabbit32 DVD/CD-RW External Drive · · Score: 1
    I'm also not sure if the little red piece of glass between the 2 buttons is a display of some sort or an IR receiver - the latter would make more sense and be more useful (think remote control).

    It is a IR receier, or so they say:

    The included remote will also prove useful here, and help it compete with stand alone DVD players.
  16. Re:Bug report on Ghost for Unix · · Score: 1
    Can't help about the kernel panics. Shouldn't be happening just because of bad sectors anyway.

    But to have dd ignore the errors caused by them use conv=noerror,sync.

  17. Re:This isn't insane on Studios, RIAA Warn CEOs On File Trading · · Score: 1
    In the same way What same way?

    If ... your company is using child laber... and if you ... share copyright content are two very distinct situations. In the first, your company, without your knowledge, is breaking the law. In the second, you, without your company knowledge, are breaking the law.

    Blame where blame is due, please.

  18. Re:Interesting patent history on England Salutes 150 Years of Eccentric Patents · · Score: 1

    Pantenting removes the secrecy. That's one of the advantages of patents to the society.

  19. Re:It's not a Wine problem... on WINE: A New Place for KLEZ to Play? · · Score: 1
    That would be an idea. But it gets down to a proper configuration of mime types, which shouldn't had allowed for this to happen in the first case.

    And anyway, the acls for syscalls and files, etc, would be to specific to the application...

  20. Re:It's not a Wine problem... on WINE: A New Place for KLEZ to Play? · · Score: 1
    In linux you can achieve the same functionality of "#! /bin/sh" for windows executables, java binaries, images, etc, with "Kernel support for MISC binaries".

    Mind you, it was broken last time I tried (sigh).

  21. Re:It's not a Wine problem... on WINE: A New Place for KLEZ to Play? · · Score: 1

    Why does perl? Why does bash? Why does any interpreter execute any file you specify it? +x or not.

  22. [OT] on SANS/FBI Release Top 20 Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    OT, and sorry for posting this here, but I couldn't find any other way to contact you and was afraid you wouldn't see my reply to your comment to my comment =).

    About RH 8.0 compiled for i686, please check my journal

  23. Re:Not only does it reduce your power bill.... on Use Linux to Reduce Your Power Bill · · Score: 1
    Win98 SE does it. But not in rescue mode nor if APM/ACPI is installed (not sure about that second one).

    It's easy for me to verify: if the processor just keeps running for (;;), it will heat up and the notebook's fan will start up. Another way is to use vmware and check processor usage. :)

    (BTW, it isn't EI, it's STI in x86 and not all archs have a HLT).

  24. Re:Ehem... on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE · · Score: 2, Insightful
    :)

    The Unix philosophy is to have many small tools. So, while you could already do yes n | cp, why now add an '-n' option to do the same?

    PS: the moderator could at least give some classification...

  25. Ehem... on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE · · Score: 0

    I thought *BSD weren't so for the masses, so why the '-n' for cp and mv when you have yes?