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  1. Re:He deserves it ! on Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award · · Score: 1

    But as far as I've read, it doesn't seem like any upstream providers (ipf, Apache, Bind, etc...) accept their packages. OpenBSD is making extremely secure software and an extremely secure system, but few people seem to be accepting their help.

  2. Re:Unpossible to Clean SpyWare? on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1

    If you're not stuck with any binary kernel modules, you can statically compile everything into your kernel and disable module loading.

    It seems pretty trivial to do in any open OS with open drivers, so I'm pretty sure they all support this.

  3. Re:great.... on QT/Win 3.3.3 To 'Reach Production State Soon' · · Score: 1

    so to support n libraries, you'll need to write n*n translations?

  4. Re:In related findings... on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Despite the threat of war in Iraq and the daily reports of suicide bombers in Israel, less than 15 percent of the young U.S. citizens could locate either country." link

  5. Re:Bye-Bye Karma on Mobil SpeedPass, Various Car RFID Car Keys Cracked · · Score: 1

    If you just check the 'Post Anonymously' box, they still know who posted...

  6. Re:origami... on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 1

    vim can do code folding

  7. Re:Get Python + Pygame on Crash Course in Game Programming? · · Score: 1
    The problem is that, afaik, there is no way to directly access the video buffer in python using the pygame libraries.

    I'm no expert in game development though, I haven't tried any other libraries, so I might just not be looking for the right things. If you could look at the pygame documentation and tell me which functions do what you described, I (and many people I know) would be very appreciative.

  8. Re:Get Python + Pygame on Crash Course in Game Programming? · · Score: 1
    Which method did you use for the blitting? I found that calling pygame.display.update() with only the dirty areas of the screen was quite fast (I was hitting >2000 fps in a Pong game I wrote with some friends). However, if you're dealing with scrolling backgrounds, there isn't really a way around blitting the whole screen often.

    I didn't find Psyco very helpful, mostly because it didn't play nicely with the profile module.

    Anyway, overall, I'd rate Python+pygame very highly. It's really easy to use, and depending on what you need, the performance is usually adequate.

  9. Re:Usage on Exeem Open Beta Released · · Score: 1

    That place is still around?

  10. Re:Fixing aging on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    If everyone still has kids at 25 (or whatever age), that's still a new generation of people every 25 years. When the older generations stop dieing, there are going to be too many concurrent generations.

  11. Re:Halo 2 in French? on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 1

    US English keyboards have horrible support for foreign languages. They expect you to use alt + numbpad combinations. I switch to the Swedish layout whenever I need to do anything International.

  12. Re:Best home safe is a home vault on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 1

    It is only legal if that person has a weapon equal to or greater to the one you're using and is threatening you. If someone has a bat, and you shoot him, you could face manslaughter charges, especially if you shoot him while he runs away.

  13. Re:Best home safe is a home vault on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 1

    Death traps are illegal in most civilized countries and the US

  14. Re:Don't just take this lying down, IMO on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1

    download the list of emails, then run grep -ic berkman *.txt|grep -v 0 Ariel Berkman found 10 exploits grep -ic limin *.txt|grep -v 0 Limin Wang found 8 exploits. It seems the assignment was possible.

  15. Re:smells like BS on Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals · · Score: 1

    How did you verify? Many bugs are hard to notice by the creator. You wrote the program with your intended usage patterns in mind.

    Then again, going by my personal experience, my programs don't have an even distribution of bugs. If your program was pretty trivial, it would have less bugs.

    I wrote a Bomberman clone with a team for one of my classes, and it felt like most of our bugs were in the same part of the networking code.
    Right now, I can only think of one known bug out of 4500 lines (also in the network part of the code) but that doesn't mean that if 100 new people try to play the game that they won't find 90-135 bugs.

  16. Re:So many laws could be saved if it wern't for je on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 1

    Some of the trains in Sweden (X2000 lines, maybe more) have mobile phone-free compartments.

  17. gettext on Linux to be Available in 13 Indian Languages · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Control on Thomson Releases MP3 Surround · · Score: 1

    I like your sig. Pain of Salvation is one of my favorite bands.

  19. Re:Is Windows fit for the internet? on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    My point is that installation programs should not require you to click "I agree" to the GPL.

    Clearly, though, one could write a license that was like the GPL but with an additional click-through portion that said you agree to (insert underhanded clause here).

    "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."

  20. Re:Is Windows fit for the internet? on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    " 5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it." - from the GPL version 2

  21. Re:sudo on UNIX Systems Control Politics? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    sudo vim :sh I'd expect a text editor in the list of available commands...

  22. Re:Some calculations... on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    he's taken, check the ring on his right hand

  23. Re:Individually wrapped cheese on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    The cheese in a squeeze tube thing hasn't caught on here yet.

  24. Re:Great work; Almost there. on Moving to the Linux Business Desktop · · Score: 1
    wouldn't help
    yarbo@Fluorine ~ % touch temp
    yarbo@Fluorine ~ % rm -i -f temp
    yarbo@Fluorine ~ %
    no prompt, it seems the last option is the only one that matters.
    Even if that behavior was changed, you could still do
    yarbo@Fluorine ~ % touch temp
    yarbo@Fluorine ~ % yes | rm -i temp
    yarbo@Fluorine ~ %
  25. Re:passports on Congress Debating National Driver's License Rules · · Score: 2, Informative

    At least in CA, you can get an identification card from the DMV. AFAIK, you go through the same identification procedures that you go through when you get your drivers license, you just don't take any of the driving test stuff.