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  1. Re:Pi on Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files? · · Score: 1

    Usually digits (not bits) of Pi are stored in ASCII, which is a waste of space.

  2. Re:think about this... on Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files? · · Score: 1
    that illegal filesharing is a social problem and not a technological one.

    This is why they made DMCA/EUCD : they know that the unbreakable technological protection doesn't exist, so the law forbid you to work around breakable protections.
  3. Re:Services For Unix on LinuxWorld Exhibitors' Responses to Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    While it might be nice to do some awk'ing and sed'ing natively under Windows, you still can't do a whole lot of administration with it.

    GNU versions of awk and sed are available for Windows at GnuWin32.sf.net.

    Administration scripting under Windows must be done using COM objects from Windows Scripting Shell or an other COM-patible environmement.

  4. Re:cool on LinuxWorld Exhibitors' Responses to Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    You forgot free golf balls: this is the worst waste of space on my desk. I have 4 of them, and I never played golf.

    However I really love my Lexmark cup-and-ball (which is in fact a dick-and-ball - translation from 'bilboquet' powered by Google).

  5. Re:It's all Taco... on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1

    This is the solution I thought.

    "Score 5 - Informative", if I had moderation points.

  6. Re:It' won't be easy... on Rolling Out Mozilla in an Organization? · · Score: 1

    weave is not talking about redirecting the profile directory, but %appdata% which is usually a sub directory of the profile.

  7. Re:Just a proprietary xquery? on X# Functional Programming from Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Or may be, XQuery mixed with REBOL ?

  8. Corruption in democracy on Microsoft Reader Format Cracked · · Score: 1

    Democracy eliminated corruption.
    Are you writing about Civilization, or are you just naive ?

  9. Anti-EUCD fight not finished in France on Euro DMCA Fails · · Score: 2, Informative

    EUCD is the european drective that is the equivalent of DMCA in the European Union.

    The Anti-EUCD fight is not finished in France as the law project has been proposed on December 3rd. It will be voted in february.

    The FSF Europe/France is fighting it. Their aim is to propose arguments to deputees to reject the law. Yes, it is Free Software lobbying.

    The main problem is to inform the mainstream of the danger of this law: the approach is that the law kills the "private copy" autorisation.

    For more information (and more reliable) see http://eucd.info/.
  10. Re:DUPE! on Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake · · Score: 1

    Thank you for providing the link. That article was also familiar to me.

  11. Re:GNU/Walkman on Linux for Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    We already have GNU/Stallman.

  12. Re:Wow on Linux for Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    Yes, but with the GPL Sony and Matsushita ensure that their concurrents will publish their improvements if they use the code.

    This is why the GPL is better for business than the BSD license if your want to publish code that you own.

  13. Re:It should be noted... on Linus Torvalds On Linux 2.6 · · Score: 1
    To confirm this, there is this paragraph in the "Linux 2.6 on Horizon" article:
    There has been debate about whether the changes to the kernel are significant enough to bump the version number to 3.0, but Torvalds said 2.6 is his choice. "I don't see a huge reason for version-number inflation right now," he said.
  14. Re:You know the easy way to solve this... on Using Your Own Name May Be Infringement, Part 2 · · Score: 1

    "Hello 66.35.250.150" ;)

  15. Re:Outlook on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    Use a firewall software (such as Tiny Firewall which 2.0 was free, 4.0 seems not to be anymore) and allow Outlook only ports 110 (POP) and 25 (SMTP) to your ISP hosts.

  16. Re:Arms Race on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    This is why I'm still using a separate e-mail program instead of Mozilla.

    In my firewall software I autorised Outlook Express only on ports 110 and 25 to a restricted set of hosts (my ISP accounts).
    This way, I don't care if it is image or anything else.

    Real picture from non-mass e-mail (which is usually spam or commercial (so non trustable)) are usually attached instead of linked.
    And I also don't like Javascript code in e-mail (linked or not).

  17. Re:Another excuse for lazy webmasters on Web Page Entanglement · · Score: 1

    Maybe Minitel would have more users on mobile phones than WAP...

  18. Re:Trusting what you read. on Web Page Entanglement · · Score: 1

    Do you trust your ISP? He knows more information about you than tangle, and can install transparent proxies as he want.

  19. GPL 3 on GNU/Hurd Delayed To Fix Disk Size, Serial I/O Limitations · · Score: 2, Informative


    The FSF is also modifying the GNU General Public License (GPL), though the fundamental principles will remain unchanged, according to Stallman.
    "We have looked at, for example, adding a clause that explicitly states that you give a patent license when you redistribute the software," Stallman added.


    This will hopefully remove some incompatibilityies between the GPL and other free licenses such as the IBM Public License 1.0 used for Eclipse.

  20. "Tidal power a reality" : an old reality on Tidal Power a Reality · · Score: 1

    "Tidal power a Reality": it is an old reality as EDF already built an tide powered power plant in France in 1963.
    See http://www.edf.fr/html/fr/decouvertes/voyage/usine /retour-usine.html (or Google translated)

  21. Re:Environmental concerns on Tidal Power a Reality · · Score: 1

    Here is a link with a photo.

  22. Re:Hmm... on Competitive Cross-Platform Development? · · Score: 1

    With java you will avoid compile time problems because you will use only one compiler with one set of libraries.

    But you won't avoid run-time problems if you are using vitual machines from different vendors. And of course, the native VM from the OS vendor is usually the one that performs the best.

  23. Re:How about cygwin on Windows? on Competitive Cross-Platform Development? · · Score: 1

    MinGW that ncw uses is another port of gcc for/to Win32 platforms, but more integrated and lighter because there is no unix-like features. It can be used either natively on Win32 platforms or as a cross-compiler from others.

  24. Re:I'll say this only once... on WINE: A New Place for KLEZ to Play? · · Score: 1
    'Wine policies' would be a good thing, but doing it at the higher level would be better.
    Maybe running Wine inside a restricted User-mode Linux would be the solution.


    However the problem for theese restricted environments is the configuration: the UI must be powerful but easy to use or else nobody use it. You mostly need them when you want to test an unkown application just downloaded. You know that if you don't like the application you'll throw it away, so you don't want to waste half an hour to configure the restricted environment.

    This is the case with Java policies: the Java VM has a powerful permission system, but it is so much a pain to understand (I have not yet figured it out) and to configure that nobody uses it. The consequence is with WebStart applications where developpers don't use restricted policies when signing, and instead ask the user for all permissions. How can I trust a text editor that asks "all permissions", which includes "access to the network"?

  25. Re:Wine and / mounted as Z: ? on WINE: A New Place for KLEZ to Play? · · Score: 1
    I've just recently done a wineinstall to clean out my wine settings, and I don't have a Z:. Does that happen if you're running as root?

    Are you crazy to run Wine as root ?

    Oh, yes, I got it: you want a true Windows emulation of course!