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  1. Re:and it's completely useless on OS X because... on Blender 2.40 Released · · Score: 1

    Well unlike the hardware GL at least it will display correctly...

    And yes, the entire development team is _extremely_ aware of the performance of openGL in software. We only draw the entire interface in it, we very much have an idea of the performance with that. Frankly, with 2d openGL in software is quite useable still.

    A slower interface is better than no interface. It's not a solution, but it's a workaround that's effective and is very usable, if not optimal.

    Linux Platform Manager
    Blender Project

  2. Re:bloated? on Blender 2.40 Released · · Score: 1

    >So, the only difference I can think that would probably have to be packed or dropped from the >Windows distro is:
    > libaa.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaa.so.1 (0xb78b3000)
    > libcaca.so.0 => /usr/lib/libcaca.so.0 (0xb78a4000)

    Those only show in ldd because your libraries are actually pulling them in, not blender. In reality the actual number of libs blender relies on under linux is a lot smaller, but some of those libraries pull in other libs as dependencies.

    We actually have to compile of a lot of libs in statically with blender to ensure compatibility.

    Linux Platform Manager
    Blender Project

  3. Re:bloated? on Blender 2.40 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    We're working on it!

    No, seriously, we're working on it.

    Linux Platform Manager
    Blender Project

  4. Re:Works with ATI on Blender 2.40 Released · · Score: 1

    OSX change. If we could have fixed it in the blender code we would have. A few of the core development team uses OSX so it's a high priority. But GL broke on that platform for that card and since as others have mentioned, we draw our entire interface in openGL, that's been problematic. Not much that can be done but wait for the issue to be fixed.

    Linux Platform Manager
    Blender Project

  5. Re:Wait, WTF??!?!?!? on Little Red Book Draws Government Attention · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised what's still on the books:

    http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codes ection=edc&codebody=communist&hits=20

    The first is a hit for a form that all people must sign to use school property saying they aren't communists. 2, 3 and 4 are hits for staff retention policies throughout the California education system.

  6. Re:Security through obscurity on Hacking Hotels 101 · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, this is so very true. When you tell someone they should check for viruses, spyware or adware you usually get some response: "Oh, but I have anti-virus software"

    They expect some lame blocker to be a silver bullet solution. Unfortunately they almost always make the mistake of either never updating or using some little lame piece of software that doesn't actually do much. Not all security solutions are equal, yet no one can really understand that unless they're technically inclined.

  7. Re:ACL on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 1

    Two words: hard links.

    If neccessary, these can help you out of a bind, but in most instances, it won't be neccessary.

  8. Re:Too bad.... on MSN Sponsors Mensa · · Score: 1

    Embrace and extend, embrace and extend.

    My god, could you imagine the horrid creation that would be?

    Mensa and Microsoft fused together to... yikes.

  9. Re:Well... on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    Bite me.

  10. Re:Well... on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    And my algorithm... ASH, it was designed early this year exactly because of this, the paper can be found here: http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CR/0501038

  11. Re:KDE on Cygwin on Trolltech to Extend Dual-License to Qt/Windows · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for gentoo/cygwin

  12. Re:Exactly on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the idea is to put a COMPUTER inside the box.

  13. Re:Wow! on TheOpenCD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    3des ~ # esearch -cI gimp
    [ I] media-gfx/gimp (2.0.6): GNU Image Manipulation Program

    Unstable has a newer version, things have to be bug-free for at least 2 weeks before they move to stable. With GIMP releasing fairly frequently, it's not surprising. If you want cutting edge, hit unstable as always. If you want stability, don't.

  14. Re:[anti-microsoft subject] on Expedia Books its First Patent · · Score: 2, Funny

    [Random Quote from Patent Application which do not address your comment in the least]

  15. Re:She?! on Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    By convention, Eve is a passive attacker, the active attacker is named Mallory, which is usually regarded as a male persona.

    So I'm sorry, but that's not the reason Fyodor used "she."

  16. Article completely forgets about active boarders on User-centric GUI Design Explained to All · · Score: 1

    Personally, when I hit the edge of the screen it changes to the next active desktop. It's a very useable setup and I personally think that once we finally get people to realize the power of virtual desktops then that's the future of minipulating them.

    So his statement that it's easy to hit a 1-pixel button on the edge of the screen is very inaccurate. In fact, please keep the scrollbars 1 pixel away so we don't constantly have people ramming their pointer into the sides of the screen, it will be damaging for future usablity if we all do decide that active boarders is the way to go.

  17. Re:if you don't have it, you don't have it on Art Tips For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Stop dissing marriage unfounded... Here's the advantages of marrying an artist other than what he listed:

    1) Artists _tend_ to be really cool, kinda geeky awesome people
    2) You can learn a lot from an artist
    3) An artist knows how to look good, it's what she/he specializes in, they can perform the same magic on themselves
    4) Artists usually are fairly open-minded
    5) Artists are creative, and creative people are always fun
    6) I good one can do miracles and stun you with results in less than 15 minutes for most simple pieces if they're just playing around.
    7) The serious stuff takes hours and it's absolutely... stunning.

    Look, if you want to marry someone... an artist is an excellent choice.

  18. Re:Gentoo, Fedora and now Solaris on Solaris 10 Released, Updated & Free (Like Speech) · · Score: 3, Funny

    For gentoo users, everyday is National Upgrade Day!

    (MODS: If you don't get this... you don't use portage or you don't sync once a day.)

  19. Re:Don't concern yourself with this crap... on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 3, Informative

    To remove all the images on your site from our index, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:
    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: /

    That should work? No?

  20. Re:What is special about prime numbers? on Fun with Prime Numbers · · Score: 1

    1*prime

    Now after doing the impossible, it's time for breakfast.

  21. Re:Bar pickups got a lot more complex on What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You sun sign is probably not what you think it is, the chart that most of the world uses contains only 12 signs and is 3000 years old.

    The actual chart includes all 13 signs and accounts for the slight wobble that causes the chart to shift by about 1 day every 87 years.

    Look up 13th sign on google for more information.

  22. Re:Debian comments are a touch off on What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You · · Score: 1

    My install of gentoo (~x86) includes 2.6.10-mm2, KDE 3.3.1 and Firefox RC1.

    See Debian is behind! ;)

    (Gentoo-dev-sources is still back on 2.6.9-r1)

  23. Re:Course at Rice on Obfuscated Vote Counting Contest · · Score: 1

    *hears "I just want to be a ganster" playing in the background

  24. Re:This is really cool. on Fyracle: Oracle-Mode Firebird · · Score: 1

    I agree that bad decisions should not be continued. I also agree that oracle-only apps are annoying and a bad decision. And I don't want to support Oracle only apps.

    However, outside the idealism, I'm glad to see that there is now an open-source solution. It's a similar issue as WINE and the network driver layers to the linux kernel. Yes a native well-done version would be better, but I'm still glad to know I can make it work with open-source software if I have to.

  25. This is really cool. on Fyracle: Oracle-Mode Firebird · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've been wondering why someone could code an Oracle compatible database for a long time. This opens up a whole new range of possibilities as a lot of software is Oracle only. I hope this project continues to grow and mature and a few other databases do the same, it would be nice to see this happen with Postgres as well.