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  1. Niven's dream on Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object · · Score: 1

    So that's what a Warlock's Wheel has to be made of...

  2. Achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Must... get... achievements...

  3. Mirror of the article on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Since the linked article is down, you can catch a copy of the Rowling roasting at Card's own site:

    http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

  4. Re:WinDir on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    I have to say, my favorite free disk-use visualization program has got to be Scanner by Steffen Gerlach. Its telescoping pie charts help you see what's taking up space than any of the "varied squares" programs I've run across.

    CrankyOne

  5. Re:New gmail auth? on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There isn't any 'new GMail authentication', at least not in a form that would affect this program.

    If you have GMail, you probably won't have noticed anything different in your login screen. The only time that their extra authentication measures kick in is when someone tries to log in to an account tons of times in a short period with the wrong password. It's not meant to block all external programs, just prevent automatic password-guessing type attacks.

  6. Re:SIMS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY on Sims Online Presidential Campaign Shapes Up · · Score: 1

    Democracy - Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives Democracy -- Three wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. This is why even the US isn't a democracy, despite popular opinion... coandco

  7. Re:Encore! on Realtime Concert Program Notes on a PDA · · Score: 1

    Hmm... *somebody's* a masochist. I've never enjoyed those particular pieces, myself.

  8. Re:Buy it out on Win4Lin 5.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Hi, This is a great idea! I know a few people who would donate if a campaign like this were started... Clint

  9. Re:emulator? on GameCube ISOs Released? · · Score: 2, Informative
    There is no real N64 emulator (only high-level ones which don't really work on most games).
    Umm... excuse me?

    There is a very good open-source emulator that can play pretty much every game out there. There are a couple of exceptions, of course, but certainly a large majority of the games out there can be played. Project 64.

    Clint
  10. Re:Why propose a different standard? PDF!!! on Universal Ebook Format Debated · · Score: 1

    The other nice thing is that you don't even need to buy the full version of Adobe Acrobat to make perfectly good PDF files. There are several ways of setting up a virtual printer to turn anything you print into a PDF file. You can see one such method at http://pad.olsonnetwork.com. I use it all of the time! Clint Olson http://www.olsonnetwork.com

  11. Re:Peer to Peer to Peer on Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if you want a great spyware-free Windoze client, Shareaza is your ticket. It connects to Gnutella 1 & 2, as well as eMule. I have had better-than-average luck at finding rare files, and often times I download from 100+ sources at once. It also has many other nice features, like saving your search results. I have a list of 7000+ unique ebooks that I keep around. Whenever I want to read a particular book, I just temporarily filter the results to find it, then download it.

    Hope this helps!

    Clint

  12. Complete server package on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi,
    One of the more useful things I see BitTorrent as is what its name implies: A temporary P2P network to alleviate a 'torrent' of downloads. I especially like the way GameTab News (http://news.gametab.com/torrents.php) handles it: They are always a seed for their torrents, and remain a contributing uploader as long as the torrent is on their site. My question is:

    Do you see a BitTorrent server package, perhaps as an addon to Apache or something, that will run a tracker, make .torrent files out of files on your server, and seed them? Right now this requires several different packages, including the tracker, maketorrent, and the client (for seeding the files). Having all of this as a single package would be nice for people who want to use BitTorrent for it's many legal uses. Of course, the warez communities who use BitTorrent solely as a P2P app wouldn't benefit from this, but from what I understood it is your desire to promote only the legal uses of BitTorrent.

    Yours respectfully,
    Clint Olson

    P.S. Thank you for making this wonderful program!