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  1. Re:A sad day on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    Debian isn't RedHat. RedHat would naturally want to use RedHat for Fedora. Basically, Fedora is a transition of RedHat Linux to a Debian-style collaborative system.

  2. Re:Won't MS have to rewrite everything? on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 1

    That's not the AMD route, that's the P6/NetBurst route (Pentium Pro/2/3/M for P6, Pentium 4 for NetBurst). Those models use a RISC core with hardware x86 translation (as opposed to Transmeta's software translation). The P6 models all have similar RISC cores, and the NetBurst (family 15) models use a different, but similar between different NetBursts, RISC core.

  3. Re:A question on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 1

    Quick question: Was it possible to run NT4/PPC natively on a Mac?

  4. Re:Old news on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to this Fedora list post, it will work.

  5. Re:No more income from me then on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    You could download the entire tree to your hard drive (on a FAT32 partition, for example), and then you wouldn't have to install directly from FTP. (BTW, I installed SuSE 8.2 from FTP, and it's working great - I just need to download a few more RPMs...)

  6. Re:Old news on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, according to the Fedora site, the RedHat Linux Project is merging with Fedora. So, RedHat will be continued in the unsupported Fedora.

  7. Re:Spammers and the future of E-Mail on Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org · · Score: 1

    prevent external IMG in HTML email,

    At least they're putting that in Outlook 2003 to get people to buy it. Personally, I'd prefer preventing external IMG in messages labelled as spam (Thunderbird calls it sanitizing HTML mail that is spam)

  8. Re:An eye for an eye, a minute for a minute on Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org · · Score: 1

    What if an old geezer got a bone looking at a fuck-date spam or something, and suffered a heart attack? Then, Mr. Spammer could get the death penalty ( VERY difficult to get, but possible)

  9. Re:REX6000 years ago did this. on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 1

    BTW, this is really the latest rendition of the REX - it's made by Citizen, who designed the REX (and sold it as the DataSlim in Japan).

  10. Re:ITRON4 on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 1

    What? I thought /. ran a story on it saying that it's an embedded open-source RTOS, and it was the most common OS in the world on all equipment (yes, more common than Windows).

  11. Re:Next gen? on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 1

    Verizon and Sprint also something like that. They cost ~$300 for the card and ~$30-50/mo. for service, for about 56K speeds.

  12. Re:Overclocking on AMD Optimal BIOS settings + Overclocking Guide · · Score: 1

    My rule of thumb used to be 10FPS was good. Now it's 30 (I use crappy hw - what do you expect from i810s?)... and I have to put up with below 10 on a complex map in BZFlag...

  13. Re:Skeptical on Linux Based Tablets Are Coming · · Score: 1

    $450 for Win2K Pro?!?!? $2000 for a 266MMX? I could do better with a Mini-ITX board. (better performance, too!)

  14. Re:Still Underpowered w/ a Pentium III on Linux Based Tablets Are Coming · · Score: 1

    http://www.cpuid.com/PentiumM/index.php

    Turns out, I was wrong. The Tualatin was actually based on the Pentium M (probably a prerelease model)! It's in family 6, same as the Pentium 3, and is model 9. The Coppermine is model 8, and the Tualie is model 11. BTW, it did nicely against a P4 2.4 GHz, but an overclocked 1.13 Tualie at 1.4 was almost as fast as a 1.3GHz PM.

  15. Re:Three button pointer? on Linux Based Tablets Are Coming · · Score: 1

    My laptop has a two button touchpad, and it's sufficient. With KDE or GNOME, the middle button is obsolete (except for scrolling).

  16. Re:Still Underpowered w/ a Pentium III on Linux Based Tablets Are Coming · · Score: 1

    Think of it this way: the Banias core is a MAJOR extension and enhancement on the Tualatin core of the P3/P3M. Now, I'd think a P3 is plenty powerful for the job, seeing as a P3 can kick P4s that are 200-400 MHz faster. My server runs a Cel466, and it's DAMN fast (unless you game at all on it - it's the i810).

  17. Re:Still Underpowered w/ a Pentium III on Linux Based Tablets Are Coming · · Score: 1

    It IS a Pentium III-M in the thing, though. It's a Tualatin P3, not a Banias PM. BTW, I once saw a ChemBook 2300 1.4 (Banias) tied with a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 desktop (I think it was a Dell) in a PC World test. RAM was 512 in both, too!

  18. Re:Pentium M rocks hard... on Linux Based Tablets Are Coming · · Score: 1

    The Radisys LS855 costs about $350 (or so I've heard), but it's a mATX Pentium M desktop board. Therefore, it's entirely possible for Radisys to get sudden demand, then they'll increase supply to the point that PentM desktop boards are REALLY cheap.

  19. Re:Offer They Can't Refuse on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    But Yahoo is buying AltaVista (or so my PC World says - when it had a story on Google Toolbar 2 and AltaVista Toolbar, it said AltaVista would soon be acquired by Yahoo). Yahoo BLOWS.

  20. Re:Before anybody gets too worked up... on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Actually, the directory is simply a reformatted version of the Open Directory, so MS would have to fight yet another OSS project to get control of Google's directory. Nutch looks like it could be the open source candidate, and AllTheWeb is the closed source candidate for a new search engine (it can search for audio or video). AllTheWeb doesn't have a Usenet search, but they do have a file search (think of putting ANYTHING in the filetype: parameter). Maybe Deja.com could buy Google Groups back (if GG were bought by Deja.com, the domain would be available - deja.com points to groups.google.com)...

  21. Re:Before anybody gets too worked up... on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    There's always Nutch... (an open-source Google-like engine)

  22. (OT) on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Will slashdot ever drag itself into the year 2003 and provide the ability to edit posts?

    The reason why you can't edit posts is because of the simple fact that a moderation system exists. Basically, you could get modded from +2 to -1, then fix the post and be unfairly modded (up or down). A PERFECT way for trolls to get their say in...

  23. Re:LG stuff on Slashback: Diebold, Cluster, Radiation · · Score: 1

    Since ATAPI dates back VERY far, I doubt that FLUSH_CACHE would even be recognized by an old CD-ROM (WHAT CD-R drive?). Error out with it saying unused command, probably.

  24. Re:SuSE is an enemy of Linux on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    I'm meaning: has the page been updated recently (which means the page is right) or has it not been updated in a couple months? I realize that the thread-starter said that SCO was a member of UnLin, but does that poster have correct info?

  25. Re:SuSE is an enemy of Linux on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else. There will be no third distribution that will be supported by the large IT vendors.

    Read the next sentence... oh, wait - you didn't RTFA back then, did you?

    BTW, has SCO pulled out of UnitedLinux yet? If not, SuSE (the best distro for my hardware) is coming off the HDD...

    Also, they're quite within their bounds to release a closed config utility, as long as GPL software isn't part of it's code.