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  1. Re:Kernel fix, perhaps? on OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards · · Score: 1

    No, its the e1000e which is affected (note the trailing e)

  2. Testing, Testing, Testing on Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    How many different BluRay players are out there? 100 for sure. What would it have taken to test the discs before selling them? It's not that the market is swamped with el'cheapo players. No wonder they loose customers.

  3. Linus Torvalds explains it on Linux Trademark Fun Continues · · Score: 5, Informative

    To prevent more FUD being spread, please read

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95

  4. Re:Why charge for it? on Linux Trademark Fun Continues · · Score: 4, Informative

    because lmi tries to get self sufficient. currently they lose money (lawyers, etc.).

  5. Re:Transparent Aluminium on New Technique for Creating Nanotube Sheets · · Score: 1

    Well but it doesn't strike as equally flexible nor can you grow whole square meters out of it. Expensive watches have it as surface material, hardly a sqin.

  6. Transparent Aluminium on New Technique for Creating Nanotube Sheets · · Score: 1

    Anyone still remembers Scotty talking about transparaent aluminium? This seems to be very close...

  7. That's because... on Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete · · Score: 1

    they don't teach them linux!

  8. Re:First, how go I get to Google Print on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I was really going to question my google foo...

  9. Re:Windows Media Encoder on Streaming Your Cable TV Over the Net? · · Score: 1

    Can you switch channels from the remote location? iirc, you even need a tv app to change channels locally.

  10. Re:What if a program posted TV straight to Usenet? on Streaming Your Cable TV Over the Net? · · Score: 1

    Best would be to use some automated bittorrent for this, so that the load is balanced across all viewers. And people who start late should still be able to start the stream from the beginning.

  11. Software RAID on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    If you don't need any fancy hotplug, just go with 2 or more IDE drives. If one fails you just have to shut down your pc, replace the drive and boot again. For Raid1 you'll lose half your capacity, for Raid5 you just lose the capacity of one of your drives.
    If you need real hotplug you'll need to get some expensive scsi or ide (3ware) controller.

  12. Re:NSTextField on Why this? Yet Another vi-based Editor? · · Score: 1

    You hopefully know that escape is also mapped to ^[ which is much more ergonomic.

  13. Re:Middle mouse click on MacOSX on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    At least with Linux and Windows it's working fine. I thought Macs' just have one button?!
    And bugzilla also has "Zarro Boogs" about this. Perhaps it's time to file a report or re-check your preferences?

  14. Old news on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    But despite standardising 1.7, development of mozilla continues.
    1.7 is about third party developers and products which rely on a fixed api.
    1.8 is where new features will be found.
    New features are for example ftp upload capability, use of 4. and 5. mouse button.
    see http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8a1/READM E.html for details.
    But this news is already 8 days old. I wonder why this is picked up only now.

  15. Re:Double work on Distributed Computing "Advances" · · Score: 1

    No no, I didn't mean trusted computing. But if a user sent a certain amount of work units (and therefore invested a certain amout of cpu time) not each and every packet should be double checked.

  16. Double work on Distributed Computing "Advances" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Keeping track of how much work everybody has done is one of the prime motivations," says Anderson. BOINC checks this by farming out each problem twice and comparing the results. "If the answers are different we have to assume that one of those parties may have cheated," he says.

    So the whole work has to be done twice for the sake of correctness. I think they should introduce some trusted user mode, let's say, so that results from users who have invested a certain amount of cpu time should be trusted or at least not every received result double checked. Just every n'th packet or so and if it's invalid they have to recheck all unchecked packets. I guess this would reduce double work a lot as there is normaly only a minority of users who's trying to cheat.
    Does this sound sane?
  17. Re:Bravo on Linux To Power NWS's Storm Prediction System · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I didn't want to state that the application should load 48 times that fast. But a mear factor 3, even for application loading, seems not that good. Then again perhaps they load a giant amout of data from some network storage facility.

  18. Re:Bravo on Linux To Power NWS's Storm Prediction System · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I suppose they've upgraded their data storage system as well (160 servers...). And application load time is also greatly depend on memory, cache size and linear transfer time. Just skipping 2 generations of computer evolution should really bring you more than a factor 3. But then again they probably start it just once a day.

  19. Bravo on Linux To Power NWS's Storm Prediction System · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Now I'll now 185 seconds earlier that a flash just struck my home :-).

    The previous systems contained Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC processors with clock speeds ranging from 100 to 120 MHz. Although those specifications aren't directly comparable to the 2.4-GHz clock speeds of the dual Intel Pentium 4 Xeon processors, the new workstations, which have 2G of RAM each, run the various AWIPS applications noticeably faster than their predecessors, Piercy said.

    For instance, one AWIPS app that used to take more than 60 seconds to start up now loads in 18 seconds, he said.

    That's a increase of about 48 times of computing power and the app just loads 3 times that fast? Something has to be seriously wrong with this setup!
  20. Re:No DVI... (Off-topic) on All-in-Wonder 9600 Pro Review · · Score: 1

    here is a review, decide for yourself.

    http://www.3dchips.net/content/review.php?id=63& pa ge=1

  21. Re:No DVI... (Off-topic) on All-in-Wonder 9600 Pro Review · · Score: 1

    The Quadro FX Line from PNY is quite existant, also the ATI FireGL cards. I got my Ti4600 (Geforce 4 PowerPack! Model Ultra/750-8X XP "Golden Sample") from the shop at gainward.de.

  22. Re:No DVI... (Off-topic) on All-in-Wonder 9600 Pro Review · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a nice list:

    http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadi d= 33992

    I'm just getting a dual-dvi ti4600 from gainward...

  23. Re:devfs on Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test10 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's wrong. "sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects." (from Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt). sysfs exports kernel data structures to userspace and in the long run should leave /proc for processes like it was meant. it is no replacement for devfs.
    but there already exists a userspace daemon called udev which simulates devfsd behaviour by taking the information found in sysfs.

  24. Re:Oh yes! on Improve Your GNU/Linux Experience With -mm Patches · · Score: 1

    I know (you have to remove the new line), but do you know a consistent way to link bitkeeper changesets? They seem to change all the time.

  25. Re:Oh yes! on Improve Your GNU/Linux Experience With -mm Patches · · Score: 2, Informative

    The interactivity tweaks have just gone mainline: http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1320 .14.15?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-1d