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  1. Nice hack, but... on Lego Robot Plays Tetris · · Score: 1

    I'd rather be impressed if someone combined Intelligent TETRIS with Bastet. It would be interesting to see if itetris' smartness could beat Bastet's evilness.

  2. Re:Distributed Deciphering on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 1

    Is the Voynich Manuscript in its entirety available for public review?

    http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/SetsSearchExecXC.asp?srchtype=ITEM

  3. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    If you like background noise, give boodler a try. It's written in Python and rather old, but still runs on modern systems (I tried it on Debian Lenny and Etch).

  4. Wrong loacation on Man Sized Sea Scorpion Fossil Found · · Score: 1

    The article is wrong about the location. Pruem is actually located 200 kilometers west of Frankfurt (close to the Belgian border), in a region called the Eifel.

  5. Re:Got me excited there for a minute. on Free IMAP On Gmail · · Score: 1

    From http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html:

    Don't fret if you don't see "IMAP Access" yet under the Settings menu. We're rolling it out to everyone over the next few days.

    Let's just be patient.

  6. Good places for free docs on The First Three Books Every Linux User Should Read · · Score: 1

    The Linux Documentation Project ( http://tldp.org/ ). The HOWTOs and FAQs are the most valuable resources. Caveat: some of the information may be outdated, look at the date of the last update. Beginners should always read the accompanying documentation of their distribution first. It is the easiest way to get started. Once you feel familiar with your distro, you can go on gaining deeper insight into the inner workings of Linux by reading the HOWTOs and the kernel documentation (part of the kernel sources). There are a lot of other documents already installed with almost every distro. The man and info pages are the place to go to learn about a specific command. Also look for directories called "doc", like /usr/doc. Another good source for info is the homepage of your distro. For example, if you use openSUSE, check out the SDB (support data base) at http://opensuse.org/SDB. In any case, when installing Linux for the first time, the first thing that you should get working is your internet connection and a web browser. That way you have access to all the online documentation as well as the discussion boards. Google Linux ( http://www.google.com/linux ) is another good place to find specific info. You can find lots of free information if you know where to look.

  7. Re:fundamental on Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that the parent article has been modded 'funny'. The article is absolutely right. My personal rule #1 is "Remember that you are writing for people, not machines."

  8. Automated password generator on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1

    I use APG (http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/) to generate passwords that are fairly strong and easy to remember. You can decide for pronouncability (weaker) or more random characters (stronger) by command line switches. I highly recommend it.

  9. I build almost everything from source on Build From Source vs. Packages? · · Score: 1

    When I started way back with SuSE 5.2, not everything was available as rpm or source rpm, so I got used to build stuff myself. This, of course, broke rpm package management, so I has to use --nodeps most of the time. All the package management tools suffer from the problem that you can't easily mix installed packages with software installed via 'make install', it will at least break automatic dependancy checks. So I thought about switching to gentoo, but as that required a lot of stuff to download (I'm stuck with dialup), so I decided to install Linux From Scratch. Haven't regretted it since.