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  1. Re:Mine on Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Better thank lynx is links. Handles tables, frames, etc. no problem. Also, it can be compiled with various options to make it a graphical browser too, which is handy for X exported over SSH type things.

  2. ncpmount on Novell Networks and Linux? · · Score: 1

    You want ncpmount and its associated stuff. You want to do the autoconfigure and primary_interface on, and you use your not-quite-full-distinguished novell login name/password. username.context.tree - just leave off the first dot

  3. Pink Floyd on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, there was that one Pink Floyd album released after The Wall...

  4. Re:Ma Bell? Yo no entiendo on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1

    Don't knock the drunk drivers. One of them took out the big brown box down the road from me, and as a result I was finally able to get DSL.

    Granted, if I had known that getting that box replaced would get me DSL, I would've taken it out personally...

  5. Re:My karma can stand it on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh. My driver's ed instructor in highschool claimed he could say "STOP!" in like 49 different languages.

    Oh, and ignore that weird dude making handsigns - he's flipping you off in 41 of them.

  6. Re:Now if only.. on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 1

    Quake3 test release was for Linux first, then Mac, then Windows. Not sure about the others or the final "gold" releases - linux was probably later.

    On the same note though, I wish developers would stop doing Linux server ports if they aren't doing a client port too. And I wish server admins wouldn't run a linux port for a server for a game that has no linux client.

    And dammit, I still havent bought enough machine to run Doom3 - now it looks like I'll really have to upgrade.

  7. Re:Quake 3 install troll on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 1

    Strange, I usually had to just make sure my CD was at /mnt/cdrom (and mounted of course) and doing something like

    sh ut-goty-installer.run

    or

    sh q3a-test.run

    Or whatever their file names were...

  8. Check the RV market.. or vent it on A Micro-A/C for a Server Closet? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check the RV market - there may be something small that won't leave you with a buttload of water to take care of as well. Of course, most of the RVers I know go the cheap route and use a small window shaker unit - under $100 at walmart, home depot, etc. Heck, I've got one to run with my generator for when the power goes out for a week like happened to me with the 'canes last year.

    Of course, you could vent it instead. Use just enough fan power (blowing into attic or out or whatever) to create a very small negative pressure - you don't want to AC the world. If you should need heat elsewhere, block off the vent, reverse the fan, and leave the door open. My dual AMD rig provides a nice 5 F. boost in the room it lives in.

  9. Re:Sometimes... on The Pitfalls and Perks of Adopting a New Standard · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or a nice big lawsuit (sony v. betamax)

  10. Re:Check Out The K-Lite Codec Pack on Media Players for Windows Without DRM? · · Score: 1

    Thats why codec packs that I've used always go in /usr/local/lib/win32

  11. So.... on 1/5 of All Human Genes Have Been Patented · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... which one of us meat popsicles gets to claim "prior art" first?

  12. Re:Game of Chicken on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    Naw, a little Fiat could just go right under a Mack truck...

  13. Re:two bad choices on Blackboard and WebCT merge · · Score: 1

    Heh. I suffered thru the implementation of the *beta* WebCT 1.x for NT, had 12 classes up and running in a few weeks. Went up to 2.x on NT/2k, then 3.x with Linux, still on 4.1 CE. We were planning on going to CE 6 next fall, but now.... who knows?

  14. Re:also interesting to note on Happy 60th Birthday IBM Research · · Score: 1

    And they made up for it by producing .30 cal M1 carbines.

  15. Darwin.... on IP Based Audio Systems? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Darwin Streaming Server from Apple. Works great in Linux, I assume the same for OS X, don't know about Windows.

  16. Re:dish antenna on Portable Wi-Fi Antenna for Centrino Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Instead of a USB antenna, how about a USB wireless thingie and a booster antenna?

    http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

  17. Re:From Original Poster Re:Porn site? on Security for a Small Stock Photo Company · · Score: 1

    Since you want to do it one pic at a time, it should be relatively easy.

    Store image names, prices, and file locations (someplace not served up by your webserver, but accessable by the user your webserver runs as) in a database. Present the user with a "browse" page of thumbnails, each one linked to a "buy" script with the image identifier as a arg. On the buy script page, collect CC info, process it, and either serive the image up and force download/save (if CC can get OK "instantly") or email a unique URL that will ask the customer to confirm some sort of information (last 5 digits of cc number, etc), check to make sure the purchase is valid and hasn't been re-downloaded too many times, then send the file with a forced download/save.

  18. Re:Stability on SUSE 10.0 OSS Released · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, thats the way Slack best worked for me. Install everything but the Y "disk set" (games), and for all updates, upgrades, custom installs, etc. compile from source and target /opt/packagename-version. When new Slack releases came out, back up /etc real quick and follow the instructions on the disc. Went from 7.0 up to 9.1 that way.

    Now I've gotten lazy and just use Debian.

  19. Re:Just sound won't do it.... on Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot · · Score: 1

    No, taking the guesswork out of getting the correct range (for hold over), windage adjustment, etc. come with a flat trajectory. Check the silhouette shooters using the old 45-70 and such (biiig slow bullets with arc like trajectories) and hitting saucer sized targets at up to 1000 yards.

  20. Re:Just sound won't do it.... on Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot · · Score: 1

    I mentioned 1100fps because that is a hair over the speed of sound - and I was talking about silincing. No use controlling muzzle blast if you are gonna have a sonic boom. Keep it under the speed of sound and you can silence it quite effectively.

  21. Just sound won't do it.... on Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just using sound won't do it for detection. Silicing is possible if you keep your bullet from moving more than ~1100fps, and long range accurate fire is still possible with that muzzel velocity if the ballistic coefficient is high enough (think sptitzer/boattail .308 around 275 grains). Even if you stay wtih "standard" ammo, you can alter the sound of it using "silencer" technology, to the point where it isn't really recognizeable as a gunshot.

  22. Upgrade them PCs & 2 networks on Creating a Functional Network for a Radio Station? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you want 2 networks, either via vlan or physical means. I'd recommend physical, it would cost about the same either way (I assume you are running the cables) and leave room for adding more equipment in the future.

    As to the many replies about upgrading your machines, check wiht the college, local school board, county, etc. to see what happens to PCs that are replaced. The local community college sells a bunch each semester (4 year replacement cycle) to faculty/staff for $150, and then sells a few more to students via a PC repair shop on campus for the same price. Currently they are Dell GX150s with Win2k licenses/media included.

  23. Re:The failure of single source solutions on Creating Live Linux Distributions For Disasters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Easy to maintain would be plain text or a strict low-version HTML with no javascript, activex, plugins, whatever required. As a bonus, it would also work on anything capable of making that http request - be it firefox on a Mac running Debian or whatever those cell phones use or lynx or someone telnett'd to port 80.

  24. Re:What distro does Linus run? on Linus's Baby Comes of Age · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The guy who should be working already mentioned the PPC, but I remember reading here on /. a while back that he had a *really* nice SMP workstation (4 or 8 cpu, forget) and ran Mandrake simply because 'drake "just worked" at the time.

    I think that would be a cool slashdot interview type thingie - find out what hardware, OS, and apps the Big Names in computing use personally.

  25. Really? on HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs · · Score: 1

    Really? About time...

    Wonder why they didn't try this 5 years ago.