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  1. Re:Why I dislike MSN search already... on Can Microsoft Beat Google? · · Score: 1

    And also neither msnbot nor Googlebot request pages with gzip compression, only semi-common bot that I know of doing that is Majestic-12.

  2. Re:Wrong Games on Linux Live Gaming Project · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if the user could extract for example Unreal Tournament 2004 demo for Linux installation binary in Windows. Then boot the LLGP with all the 3D hardware detected like a charm, and run the demo from a readonly mounted NTFS/FAT32 partition...

  3. Re:so what's wrong with on Free Windows Software Without Spyware/Adware · · Score: 3, Interesting
  4. Re:Cool 'n Quiet on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1
    ACPI C2 patch amd76x_pm was the answer for me.

    Running dual AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred-B @2.2 GHz on a MSI K7D Master-L (760MPX chipset) with copper heatsinks.

    Patched 2.6.9 kernel without a hitch and after:
    modprobe amd76x_pm
    echo "3" > /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:00.0/lazy_idle
    idle CPU temperatures hover around +32 C
  5. Re:No thanks on Cringely's P2P Backup Idea · · Score: 1

    Businesses with lots of new computers having minimum of 40 GB drives (usually 80+ GB these days) could use these wasted resources as secondary backup...

  6. Re:Press releases on Mozilla Starts Work On XForms · · Score: 1

    Extension for Mozilla Firefox: text/plain

    List of elements in context menu you can hide with their id's using userChrome.css in profile chrome directory:

    openInCurrent
    openInNewWindow
    openInNewTab
    textplainSepUrl
    bookmarkSelectionTarget
    saveSelectionTarget
    textplainSepSave
    composeMail
    addEmailToAddressBook
    textplainSepMail

    For example:

    #composeMail,
    #addEmailToAddressBook,
    #textplainSepMail,
    #openInNewWindow {display: none !important;}

  7. Re:Red Vs. Blue was good...but... on Machinima - Spielbergs with a Joystick · · Score: 1

    As RvB has had its share of crappy eps I've become hooked on the genius of an Official Idiots Project: Victory '04.

    Shot in a Unreal Tournament 2004 engine, it's a comedy mixed with a tutorial for n00bs, entertaining and informative ;)

    Download the Victory '04 stuff.

  8. Re:New Kernel on Linux 2.6.5 is Released · · Score: 1

    ... You know, one time we had a Windows cluster hacked, for twelve hours.
    When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin'
    windoze server. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole datacenter.
    Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...

    dig it

  9. Re:Fake hits on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 3, Informative

    > For some searches you just get pages and pages of hits from "directory" sites...

    Then do your part and Report a Spam Result.

  10. Re:Bob just chose all the default selections on Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review · · Score: 1
    The only package I find to be a pain is installing kernel images.. there's a whole manual thing you have to do with editing lilo.conf and setting up initrd.img. Maybe this is just because I installed woody with the 2.4 kernel and then changed to testing? I dunno.

    I find installing the custom kernel images quite easy under Debian:
    cd /usr/src
    wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6. 4.tar.bz2
    tar jxf linux-2.6.4.tar.bz2
    ln -s linux-2.6.4 linux
    cd linux
    make menuconfig
    make-kpkg kernel-image
    cd ..
    dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

    Reboot & voila!

    You could copy the old kernel .config file to the /usr/src/linux and instead of "make menuconfig" use "make oldconfig" to keep all the previous settings and just set up the new ones.
  11. Re:I'm supprised we even post this stuff... on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    This Mozilla Internet Explorer 5.5 skin works with Mozilla 1.6 like a charm.

    Some Mozilla usability improvement info there too.

  12. Re:Would someone mind telling me the difference... on Athlon64 Motherboards And Chips Compared · · Score: 2, Informative

    Correction:
    939 won't be 512 kB L2 cache only, the 939 pin Athlon 64 FX series will have 1 MB L2 and cheaper Athlon 64 will have 512 kB L2 (both will have dual channel memory controller), also 939 pin Athlon 64 will get 1 GHz HyperTransport bus, soon enough die shrink to 90 nm (currently 130 nm) and will not require registered/ECC DDR memory. It's been covered in The Reg/The Inq for many times.

    940 pin Athlon 64 FX-51 was just rebranded Opteron, Socket 940 will remain Opterons domain, single channel DDR Socket 754 will be probably targeted for mobile and other low power devices.

    Intel 90 nm Prescott core wont run on every Socket 478 mobo (because of the sky high current requirements) and next year you'll have to get a Socket T (775 pin LGA) mobo for newer Prescott or its successor Tejas core.

    AMD went from: ... -> Socket 7 -> Slot A -> Socket A -> Socket 940 -> Socket 754 -> Socket 939

    940 & 939 have a bright future.

    Intel went from: ... -> Socket 7 -> Slot 1 -> Socket 370 -> Socket 370 (FC-PGA) -> Socket 423 -> Socket 478 -> Socket 478 (Banias) -> Socket 478 (Prescott) -> Socket T

    Socket 478 (Banias) & Socket T have some sort of future.

    IIRC

  13. Easy and effective solution on Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam · · Score: 1

    General Wesley Clark wants to be the President of USA, brands SPAM as terrorism, outlines a plan to use 1% of US military budget (~$4 billion) to combat this disease. In cooperation with military, expert groups and Spamhaus project individuals who send most of the spam are identified, tracked down, prisoned, put to trial and executed. All that with full online video feed coverage. Those spammers that are not USA residents will have mysterious "accidents", breaks malfunctioning, poisonous food etc.

    Spammers don't understand that what they are doing is wrong, so just punish them with extreme prejudice - that being death.

    Too extreme? Yeah, like you've got a better plan...

  14. Re:Might be time to rethink that IPO? on Yahoo to Dump Google · · Score: 1

    AlltheWeb has this nifty feature too: Last 10 queries

    Some really amusing queries there ;)

  15. Re:Imagine. on You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam · · Score: 1

    MyRealBox e-mail service by Novell is getting ~80% spam based on their stats in the front page. It was ~60% just months ago.

  16. Re:Google has the right idea on Likely Success of Internet-Related Business Models? · · Score: 1

    AlltheWeb, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Teoma, WebCrawler - all of them redirect the search results through their servers (and no doubt log it), but not Google (altough it did that couple of years back for a few weeks IIRC).

    In adition to using non redirecting search engine one should be blocking their cookies too to get you little bit more privacy.

    And BTW, MSN search doesn't redirect too, how scary is that 8o
    Something wicked is going on in MSN land...

  17. Re:Excellent! on BrookGPU: General Purpose Programming on GPUs · · Score: 1

    2.1 GB/s is very nice, but it only refers to transfers in one direction: to the card. There is a (much) smaller bandwidth back to the motherboard. This is because for their designed purpose, graphics cards do not need to talk back to the system much, they just crunch the numbers and spit out the results to a monitor.

    How about using that nice 9.9 Gbit/sec DVI link to get the data out?

  18. Re:Why not revise email standards? on Brightmail Denies "White List" Deal With Spammer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you can't kill them then filter them...

    One thing that seems consistent lately is that domains what are linked in the spam have been created in less than a month, more likely in the past week.

    Do a whois on linked <a href="..." <img src="..." <script src="..." domains, and if (registration date < 1 month) add-to-spamminess(+1);

    Yes I know, whois servers aren't meant for this :/

  19. Re:Perl may be old but it's new to me on Perl is Sweet Sixteen · · Score: 1

    I feels it's just as good as any other as a first girlfriend. From my perspective about all you get at first regardless of girlfriend is just a notion of variables, control structures and functions. New programmers never use the special features of whatever girlfriend they are on at the time as they don't know how to properly use them quiet yet. Once you feel you have the basics down all you need to learn going to other girlfriend is some syntax. Good luck, have fun and don't give up. :)

    Dude, you are one horny bastard ;P

  20. Re:The Key to Linux on the Desktop? GAMES! on Emachines 64-bit Athlons Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    True. But what we need even more is a killer Linux-exclusive game

    I'm sure that kind of extreme wouldn't be needed. Just tweak the game to have under Linux 10-15% higher FPS or more polygons/better AI at same FPS and throw this bone to the usual GPU/CPU/mobo review sites.

  21. Re:Although it is in 0.4 on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released · · Score: 1

    You might want it like that but to most people AFAIK it's of no use.

    For example I have a domain and single POP3 account that this domains mail is forwarded to. Lets say I have these forwards:
    me@example.com
    info@example.com
    suppo rt@example.com
    hostmaster@example.com
    postmaster @example.com

    All these are forwarded to asdf@asdf.com
    In addition I have also a ancient address qwer@blaah.com

    Now with current Mozilla setup I have 7 account mail trees, expand 4 of them and @1024x768 entire screen is crowded.

    Currently I have all the mail filtered to Local Folders (inbox, sent, drafts etc) and I have no use for the clutter that these 7 accounts give me.

    They could be there for all that I care, just don't show them to me, or give an option for single account to have multiple From addresses.

  22. Re:Although it is in 0.4 on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One thing that makes MTB kind of annoying for (to be) former Outlook Express users is bug 30057 - "Use one Local Mail tree for all POP3 accounts"

    Other than that it mops the floor with OE.

  23. Re:Problem with browsers that aren't IE. on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: 1
    yes there is:

    $mozinstalldir/chrome/comm.jar/content/ communicator/contentAreaContextOverlay.xul
    contentAreaContextOverlay.xul.diff:
    --- contentAreaContextOverlay.xul 2003-04-25 02:21:32.000000000 +0300
    +++ contentAreaContextOverlay.xul 2003-08-03 11:04:53.000000000 +0300
    @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
    <menuseparator id="context-sep-selectall"/>
    <menuitem id="context-searchselect"
    accesskey="&search.accesskey;"
    - oncommand="OpenSearch('internet', false, gContextMenu.searchSelected(), true);"/>
    + oncommand="OpenSearch('internet', false, gContextMenu.searchSelected(), false);"/>
    <menuseparator id="frame-sep"/>
    <menu id="frame" label="&thisFrameMenu.label;" accesskey="&thisFrameMenu.accesskey;">
    <menupopup id="frame_popup">

    $mozinstalldir/chrome/comm.jar/content/navigator/ navigator.js
    navigator.js.diff:
    --- navigator.js 2003-07-19 10:58:42.000000000 +0300
    +++ navigator.js 2003-08-03 11:16:46.000000000 +0300
    @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@
    }

    if (!newWindowFlag)
    - loadURI(defaultSearchURL);
    + openNewTabWith( defaultSearchURL, true, false );
    else
    window.open(defaultSearchURL, "_blank");
    }
  24. Re:Problems with .wmv on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    > Also a big problem is the fact that Apache and various other servers don't include the proper MIME type for .wmv files

    Mozilla mozdev ForceContentType project to the rescue...

    And while we're at it, add to your Apache mime.types:

    Per: libmng

    image/png png
    image/x-jng jng
    video/x-mng mng

    Per: MIME Type Settings for Windows Media Services

    application/x-ms-wmz wmz
    application/x-ms-wmd wmd
    audio/x-ms-wma wma
    audio/x-ms-wax wax
    video/x-ms-asf asf asx
    video/x-ms-wmv wmv
    video/x-ms-wvx wvx
    video/x-ms-wm wm
    video/x-ms-wmx wmx

    and:

    video/x-msvideo avi

  25. Linux mass marketed in Estonia on Fry's Electronics - Selling Linux... Or Not? · · Score: 1

    At least here they use Red Hat Linux 9 in the computer they sell in mass market discounter store, ~$465 USD for that configuration, 3 years of warranty included.