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  1. Compiler upgrade on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 2

    OpenBSD is built using gcc 4.2, which is getting old by now.
    While being old isn't an indication of being bad or wrong, is there any concrete plan
    to either upgrade the base compiler, replace it with clang or some other compiler ?

  2. Overproduction on Game Companies Face Hard Economic Choices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's quite simple, there is a vast overproduction of games.
    People will only buy so many games, and when there's just too many games, eventually some of the producers will have to throw in the towel.

    Which is good for the ones that survives, as they have a greater chance of turning a profit again.

  3. Re:am i missing something? on Game Companies Face Hard Economic Choices · · Score: 1

    That's assuming those small games would make a profit.
    Do you have any backup that such small games would sell well enough to turn a profit. (Other than "I like small fun games, so they must sell well !")

  4. Re:Well, depends on how the input system is geared on Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb · · Score: 1

    Remember now, that most things in Plan 9, which the above discusses, has for the most parts a textual interface. It's radically different from the (Icon based) GUIs one knows from e.g. Mac which Pike & co. didn't have high regards for..

  5. Well, depends on how the input system is geared. on Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb · · Score: 2, Informative

    They could read http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mouse_vs._k eyboard/index.html
    for counter arguments. Ofcourse, as the tty/line based input interfaces on *nix, the mouse might do that much for applications such as vim/emacs as they are today.

  6. Re:sane error messages when using templates on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is a simple fix.
    Get the hell away from the C++ madness.

  7. Re:front projection on Engineers Devise Invisibility Shield · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh pffft, if it was used in a film trick, what idiotic news
    is it when someone makes it real ?

  8. Hold it! on Microbes Alive After Being Frozen for 32,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Who knows what relics of the past one might unleash(!)
    It may very well surviving pieces from the plague that haunted The Ancients

  9. PDF mirror ? on Martian Sea Discovered · · Score: 1

    Simple request, anyone got at mirror for the now dead link
    to the PDF ?

  10. Re:Good stuff! on Intel Develops Hardware To Enhance TCP/IP Stacks · · Score: 1

    Well, the kernel could just block till it is done sending, thus
    sending it straight from the userspace supplied buffer.

    Doing so may ofcurse have other affects though.

  11. Re:What is vibrant about it? on Red Hat Promises A More Vibrant Fedora · · Score: 1

    >They should give back what they
    >took away, that is, a free-as-in-beer distro that represents the best
    >of what Red Hat and the community process has to offer. Either do
    >that or walk away.

    In what way is Fedora NOT that ? I have long since jumped from
    RH 9 to Fedora. It's the same continuing spirit, just a diffrent name.
    Plese explain.

  12. OSS Compiler ? on Delphi Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Ok, color me ignorant, but, is there an opensource delphi compiler
    available ?

  13. Re:Nasa wont switch to Linux on Wind River Completes Embedded Linux Metamorphosis · · Score: 1

    Still they(NASA) shipped off a couple of rovers to Mars. Running vxWorks.

  14. Re:Who is this aimed at? on Ubisoft and Quebec to Create GameDev Courses · · Score: 1

    Ick. Not to mention all the required math.
    Perhaps they're educating level/graphics designers and modellers.
    45 weeks sounds not so bad then.

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    glSokoban

  15. Re:Also on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 1

    galeon uses gecko, so no need for testing that.
    Including dillo (and the graphical version of links) in the benchmark would be interresting though.

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    Stuff

  16. Re:Try this on x86 Assembly on Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope.
    Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator.
    (it doesn't interpret the x86 instructions , i.e. it works on x86 only)

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    My stuff

  17. Re:Stupid question: on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Mod thisone up. Important question !

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    Stuff.. http://asgaard.homelinux.org/

  18. Re:Extensions around Firefox browser on Innovation in Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    What's innovative about that ? It's a browser. People have done browsers
    for a long time, and firefox didn't invent the web, nothing new. Sure Firefox has some nice bits here and there, by all means, but very innovative ? No.

    Bittorrent, that's somewhat innovative.
    So is perhaps the Speex codec.

    In the somewhat same area
    This
    and that

    are interresting reads :)

  19. Re:My CPU Usage on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 0

    I'm sure there should be a 50% waiting for RAM rather.
    Gah, ram is SLOW :-(

  20. Re:SCons is much better than GNU Make on Managing Projects with GNU Make · · Score: 1

    I'll second this. While scons doesn't solve every damn problem, it's
    much easier to use over make.
    I'm not going to look back.

  21. When.. on When Is There a Good Time to "Switch" to Apple? · · Score: 1, Funny

    someone drops a bag of money on my head ?

  22. Re:The essential is somewhere there, but.... on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    Thats a mainly a /. thing. Now, much of usenet users may be dorks, but
    there is NO match fot /. users in that respect :-)

  23. Re:Odd seeing this come from Redmond... on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    In Fedora (and future RHEL), lots of things are moving from the installation to the firstboot(and some things are assumed to be configure by the user now).
    The system-config-authentication is the same as (will be) in RHEL, Fedora just just a step or two in front of the current RHEL.)

  24. Re:Odd seeing this come from Redmond... on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    Why "assume" that ?
    Joining AD with fedora is trivial, and is basically the same as in RHEL.

  25. Re:mit has single sign-on using kerberos on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    Well, from win2k Kerberos is used in windows, so lots of sites actually
    use it...