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  1. Re:Oh yes! on Can You Spoof IP Packets? · · Score: 1
    It's comforting to know that you've been rooted by some of the best...
    The best???? They do not even know how to properly unzip a zipped tar file.
    Download one of the packaged binaries above (preferred method) or build from the source code. Uncompress and untar with
    $ gzip -dc spoofer-xxx-0.4.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
    While
    $ tar xfz spoofer-xxx-0.4.tar.gz
    will do just fine.
  2. only talk on ARM Offers First Clockless Processor Core · · Score: 1

    Sun was indeed talking about it, but they never made something for real unlike Arm/Philips. Sun only did some simulations.

    Back in the 90's when I was working at a university a student did his phd work on clockless chips. He said it could not be done. How wrong he was!

    Even you do more research you will find much more work. But this Arm core is the first working micro processor silicon you will find.

  3. Re:Web developers... on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 4, Informative
    you do not even need 3 different commands, and certanly no pipes:

    sort -u quote*.txt
  4. 17hours on Hidden Treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Chart Tool · · Score: 1
    does take a few hours on a decent PC

    It took 17 hours on my PC (733MHz P3). And it needed 4G free disk space on my tmp drive. Without Java compiled in and not running anything else I have compiled oo in 12 hours.

  5. used 193nm to make 30nm: factor 6.4! on Moore's Law Staying Strong Through 30nm · · Score: 1

    I just read in http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml ?articleID=180204799 that IBM actually used 193nm to make the 30nm lines. An amzing 6.4 times smaller than the wave lenght used! The used a ASML machine for this. Every one (when you have enough money) could by such a machine. So no special advantage for IBM. With a little work Intel, TI, AMD, Freescale, ST or Philips could do this too.

  6. Re:Well, NO. on Moore's Law Staying Strong Through 30nm · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You are correct about the power lines, but not all power routing is done in thicker metal layers.

    Besides do not forget that you need a lot of current to charge a very small capacitor very fast! Modern minimal sized transistors can switching a 10 to 100mA each. These currents have to go through a almost 100nm with (copper)line. That are still high current densities!

    Going back on topic, the real amazing thing is that they can make very small lines (30nm) with light of a much larger wave length! Currently the industry can make 65nm lines using light with 193nm wavelenght! Think about it, this is line with a size of 1/3 of the wave length used! IBM has probably used 157nm wavelength to make 30nm lines, which means an factor of 5!

    Using much smaller wavelengths is a problem there the light (if you can still call it that) will be absorbed instead of transmitted by conventional lenses. See for example http://www.llnl.gov/str/Sween.html for more info.

    Thus special (expensive) lenses are needed when using Extreme-UV. The real news in this article is that it they made it possible with 'conventional' lenses and light sources!

  7. Re:Overclocking? Really? on Moore's Law Staying Strong Through 30nm · · Score: 1

    I do not think electro-migration is caused by overclocking. Running at higher frequencies do not cause electro-migration. Probably the electro-migration was caused due to inadequate cooling...

  8. only works in 1 country out of about 180? on Web Based Rhapsody Targets Linux · · Score: 1, Insightful
    U.S. Only

    We're sorry. We have detected that you are outside of the United States. This service is currently only available to residents within the United States.

    They forgot to target all countries of the world, except for 1.Even with my USA credit card I can not get this services when I have an IP address outside the USA, do I need to say more?

  9. Re:that's more like it on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    There are still places without gas, like where I live. I live in the mountains, the only way to get gas to my house is to transport it in a bottle in my car. Instead of that, I have a heating system based on oil. A truck comes by once a year to deliver 1500 liter of heating oil which is enough for me to heat my house and the water for my showers. Except for the current oil prices I am very happy with this system. Some of my neighbours are (still) heating there house with wood. So besides gas and electricity there are even other options.

  10. Re:well this is ludicrous.... on Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm · · Score: 1

    From TFA: Before downloading the application, RetroCoder asks customers to agree to a statement that forbids its use by a researcher for an antivirus or anti-spyware company, or business related to these.

  11. Re:Gentoo users do not compile... on Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, every few weeks I do an emerge -pvtuDN world and see what I really want to upgrade.

  12. Gentoo users do not compile... on Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released · · Score: 1
    Gentoo users do not compile but they emerge world all the time.

    I myself emerged sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 on Sat Oct 15 12:31:27 2005, So it is really time for a new kernel!

  13. not needed! Re:Missing guide? on How The NSA Secures Computers · · Score: 2, Informative
    The list of guides on the NSA page:
    Security Configuration Guides
    > Operating Systems
    > Apple Mac OS X
    > Apple Server Operating Systems
    > Microsoft Windows NT
    > Microsoft Windows XP
    > Microsoft Windows 2000
    > Microsoft Windows Server 2003
    > Sun Solaris 8
    > Sun Solaris 9
    I guess linux does not need it ;-)! Before you start bashing me, yes, you can make an insecure linux box. And I really would like to see a guide for linux as well! But hey, I am not a NSA customer.
  14. USE="-java" emerge openoffice2 on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 1
    I compiled openoffice2 without java and it still huge. I just started openoffice2 without opening a document it uses 119MB Virtual and 39MB res memory.
    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    5686 paul 15 0 119m 35m 24m S 0.0 4.7 0:04.19 soffice.bin
    Loading a 3.6MB csv into Calc changes this into:
    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    5686 paul 15 0 178m 78m 41m S 43.4 10.4 0:38.89 soffice.bin
    A woping 179MB! So no, it is not Java.
  15. Re:I was just going to say, learn to read on Magnetic Field Thruster Developed · · Score: 2, Informative

    here is the orginal link in german of course. But who can't read that ;-) ?

  16. too small to see on modern chips on Dilbert Hiding On Your CPU · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately the lines in modern chips are too small to see, even with the best optical microscope. For example the line with of the copper lines in a 120nm process is about 200nm. Visible light has a wavelength of 400-700nm. Therefore these lines are smaller than the visible light, which makes them invisble.

    Of course you can make the lines wider, but then you are going to waste a lot of very expensive area. In the last 200 new designs we made, I have not seen a single doodle besides the (C) sign and the compagny name...

  17. OOS: Freevo and MythTV on Software PVRs Becoming Tivo Killers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget the open source Freevo and MythTV software. I have just installed them on my (Linux only ) PC. Works great!

  18. Re:Two weeks? on Free Gentoo Technical Support · · Score: 1

    Well maybe that is why GenUX offers binary Gentoo packages?

    Secondly maybe you should upgrade your 60MHz 80386 to a more current model ;-)

  19. only 8? on Too Many Passwords · · Score: 1

    that is only 8 passwords, you are lucky!

    I have to deal with: 1 Novel passwd (for 4 different systems), pincode + logname + passwd for internet, 1 passwd for LDAP (deals with about 6 different systems, however passwd length is limited between 6 and 8 characters!!!). 1 pin code + passwd for separate VLAN, 1 password for special large emails system (handles files > 2G!), 1 passwd for the 2 linux servers, login name + passwd for documentation system, 1 passwd for normal (outlook) email system, 1 for lotus notes email (yes, I have to use 3 different email systems). 2 logname + passwd for special database apps, And some of these are requiring you to change your passwd evcery 6 weeks or so.

    So I have to remember about 4 different login names, 2 pincodes and more than 10 different passwords. At least some systems use LDAP otherwise it would have been 16 different passwords.

    My best friend is a post-it! Of course, if you do not know the master passwd, the codes on this paper are useless.

  20. Re:Linux Decode Software on European Students to Put Microsatellite Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    short answer: yes

    long answer: in case of a crash you do not need to push the reset button. You could build in a watchdog card/timer that does that for you.

    I myself have not been able to crash the likux 2.6 kernel. In my 20 years computer experience I have crashed many systems, even commercial unix systems. So to me the KERNEL is pritty stable. Maybe you have problems with X11 or other programs on your desktop, but I doubt a satelite would need those....

  21. no, it is no FUD! on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    No! It is really limited by 2TB Next, AC, show some proof!

  22. Re:mildly confused on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1
    The reason I bother is that I can not believe that (especially) nerds do not pay attention to little things like this. When you are calculating someting in b instead of B it would make an 8 times difference! This can mean the differnce between a crash and a working system.

    If you ever did any low-level programming, you will know what I mean.

    In this case I could not tell if the poster was joking or serious. After reading your comment I gues he was serious.

  23. Not Found.... on First Episode of NerdTV Released · · Score: 1

    The requested URL /bm/torrents/ntv001.mp4.torrent was not found on this server.

  24. my filesystem does 16TB on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    why limit your self to NTFS? The file system I am currently using can handle 16TByte . Besides Reiserfs there are many other filesystems. And I am sure that most of them do not have those small limits NTFS has.

  25. mee to, b and B on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Yes my PC has also 8Gb. At work we have a few AMD64 machines with 256Gb SRAM. However this machine claims to have 8Tb which is the same as 1TB. That is 1024 times more than my desktop PC! For you info b=bit, B=byte.