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  1. Well, on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    how much development there is on it I don't know, but
    slrn is very nice newsreader.

  2. Re:The clueless userbase to propagates the worms. on ESR's Halloween XI -- Get the FUD · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, look at many of the "worms" spreading around these days.
    They spread as .exe mail attachments, which you need to start yourself
    to take effect.
    Neither windows nor linux will protect against idiots.

  3. Re:Impressive, but... on Transgaming releases "WineX" 4.0 "Cedega" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just about any game I've run using winex starts fullscreen, and
    the games usually allows one to set the resolution.

  4. Re:GA example, on Breeding Race Cars With Genetic Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Yup, we go the oposite directions of various not-so-good regimes which tries(tried) to produce perfect citizens. Genetic variation is good
    according to darwinism, as there is a greater chance of survival
    of the fittest.

  5. GA example, on Breeding Race Cars With Genetic Algorithms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reminds me, I made this,
    which is some very simple code for the uninitated to genetic algorithms.

  6. Re:Great! on Skolelinux Project Releases Version 1.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's the problem ? People still run macos 9 and windows 98. It works for them. Why use the latest (and often unstable all the time) ? Making sure
    people can their job is far more important than running the latest foo 4.9.177

  7. The tree on Why Does SCO Focus On A Minix-to-Linux Link? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is important that trees like this are not meant to show what
    derives from what, in terms of code. Unix has clearly inspired
    Minix, as Tanenbaum has said many times, so one might draw links.
    There is no code sharing though.
    Linus wrote Linux on Minix, and because he wanted a free Minix,
    first versions were to some degree inspired by minix. So again
    a link can certanly be drawn. No code sharing even here, as stated by
    Tanenbaum and Linus though.

  8. Re:Wait a minute! on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Humm. Did they remember kvikkalkul ?

  9. Re:The future of GCC (LLVM?) on GCC Gets Its Own News Site · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-05/msg00679.html ?

    "GCC can dump its internal representation in a C-like syntax using the
    new -fdump-tree-... switches."

  10. Re:The future of GCC (LLVM?) on GCC Gets Its Own News Site · · Score: 1

    As I see it, they just won't export the gcc internal structure.
    So fork gcc, or contribute patches to them that does what one wants.
    See also http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/

  11. Re:if you're running 2.4.25 or 2.4.26 on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 1

    Uhm, it kills the process if it raises a floating point exception
    in a signal handler !? Hardly seems like the correct way to address the issue.

  12. Re:This happened some days ago now on POV-Ray 3.6 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Download page says "Note: this is the version 3.5 source code.
    The version 3.6 source code will be made available within a few weeks."

    And their ftp server tell us:
    "With the POV-Ray 3.6 release on 9 June 2004, source is not
    immediately available. It will be released shortly. If you
    want source code, you could look in our old versions dirs."

    So, be patient.

  13. Cool stuff. on POV-Ray 3.6 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems like povray is used for many cool things.
    e.g. rendering mars. Also done here

  14. Re:Free/Net/OpenBSD may not be dead on FreeBSD: Not Exactly Dead · · Score: 1

    I have seen the sketch, and I agree, it's funny as hell.
    This however, did not make me laugh.
    As for bots posting to *BSD stories !? Grow up goddamnit.

  15. Re:Why wouldn't this work on Rovers May Survive Martian Winter · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the main things is dust. The solar cells on the rovers eventually
    get coated with fine dust.

  16. Re:Free/Net/OpenBSD may not be dead on FreeBSD: Not Exactly Dead · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is funny because of ... ??

  17. Re:Non-issue on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage? · · Score: 1

    using common name conventions , that method ought to be called
    getName()

  18. What's wrong with bind ? on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1

    Seriously. I use it, never had a problem with it. Not that hard to
    configure if you know how to read.
    In fact it's really amazingly much better than the alternatives. bind
    seems to support more features than most of them.
    ddns is important to me, works nicely used with dhcpd, I don't see
    how I would achieve that using other dns servers.

  19. Re:This instead of MS Eula's... on Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I would ideally use *one* player to play videos. I don't see why i should
    monkey around with one player for mpg files, one for .rm files, one for .mov files, one ...
    Having other apps for playing audio, ripping is another matter.

  20. Re:This instead of MS Eula's... on Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    >And WHO needs MS mediaplayers anyhow...
    Have any pointers to alternatives ?

  21. Re:Python on Python Development Environments? · · Score: 1

    Some people seems to disagree with you on the easiness of Python.

  22. Re:Wonky Version Numbering? on FreeBSD 4.10 Released · · Score: 0

    Learn to read, and count ?
    It says 4.10
    10 comes after 9, atleast in base 10 math.

  23. Re:The only problem with that quote is... its enti on Usenix President - Linux Needs Better Paper Trail · · Score: 1

    >With a source code control system, you know that so and so added on
    >such and such a date. You can then go to that person and ask them where
    >they got it from if there's ever any question.
    While ofcourse a source control system will help alot, it won't always reveal the whole truth about
    where the code comes from. For the 2.6 kernel you can view the changes here.
    On thing you might notice is alot of changes from e.g. akpm(Andrew Morton). But he didn't write that all code.
    Alot of the changes commited by akpm is patches contributed by other people again. This goes for most kernel
    programmers commiting changes to the vanilla tree. So in this case, the question is,
    does akpm keep track of all the patches he ever gets ?(often they do include an attribution in the changelog, but it can still be a weak spot.)

  24. Motorcycle ? on Alternatives to Cars? · · Score: 1

    Try a motorcycle ?
    Or perhaps a Skycar

  25. Re:mod article up! on Alternatives to Autoconf? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try pkg-config --list-all
    pkg-config provides you with compiler/linker/preprocessor flags for
    compiling a program that uses various libraries.
    Now, if only all libraries provided a .pc file..