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  1. Re:Hmmm on BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since this guy forgot to quote his source here it is. It's from Wikipedia (of course). Also, Ode to Joymakes an appearance in the last half of the 4th Movement without lyrics and again with lyrics in the 5th Movement.

  2. Re:Hmmm on BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download · · Score: 2

    Listen to the whole thing. The Ninth is a heck of a lot more than just the Ode to Joy.

    I reckon the 9th Symphony 67 minutes. Ode to Joy is but a tiny fraction of it.

    Incidentally all of Beethoven's symphonies are very long. The symphonies range from around 25 minutes and the 9th is 67 minutes. It should be a crime to listen to only part of it.

  3. Recordings on BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ages ago I found all of Beethoven's work online in a crappy .shn form. It is well over 6GB in total but it sounds brilliant. Is the BBC a little behind the times or what?

  4. Ah, finally catching up to Opera. on Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Screenshots of Internet Explorer 7 reveal how Microsoft has added a search tool to the top right of the browsing window similar to the one found in Safari/Firefox.

    Opera has had that for years and predates firefox.
    Opera also has integrated RSS

    But that's okay, submitter. Opera is commrecial and not open source. ;)

  5. Re:Not so fast, Uncle Sam on Open Source Molecules · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The government's job is to make sure the citizenry is protected against foreign invaders, provide a reasonable level of safety, and provide a forum in which aggrieved parties can have an impartial entity adjudicate issues. In short: Military, Police, and Courts. The government should protect its citizens from private industry's attempt to gain sole ownership and control of information.

  6. Re:Quick, act surprised! on Plant a Seed, Get Sued? · · Score: 1

    You can't ignore the fact that Monsanto created these crops.

    The farmer did.

  7. Quick, act surprised! on Plant a Seed, Get Sued? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A company wanting to rape the world's farmers for more money! GOOOO Capitalism!

  8. Re:My prediction for the near future. on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    I for one will not be moving to a web forum, ever, since I don't believe in them.

    Don't look now but you're posting on a web forum

  9. Re:Full Text on Review of Yoper Linux v2.1 · · Score: 1

    Its 100% GPL compliant and the full ISO is free to anyone with an Internet connection.
    That's the point, if you used Yoper, you would have had KDE 3.3.0 on August 25th!

    Do I even need to point out the logic flaw here?

  10. Erm... on Optimizing distcc · · Score: 1

    Two things...

    First, 10Mbit is plenty of bandwidth unless you're on a wimpy hub (people still use them). Get with the times and get a switch, it'll likely be 100Mbit anyways. Turning LZO on for 10Mbit may help, but the majority of the compile cycle (preprocess-send-compile-receive-link) will be spent doing compiling work (preprocess-compile-link), not sending and receiving. See the next paragraph for more...

    Second, I must wonder if there is a diminishing returns effect with the addition of machines (especially the lower end models). I question this because increasing the number of jobs will add load to the master server with the preprocessing and linking. Not that with a beefy server this isn't a problem - but seriously, who has machines like that? :)

  11. Re:Can distcc model be used for other apps? on Optimizing distcc · · Score: 2, Informative

    What really happens is that you can use the so-called "masquarading" method installation, which basically means you set up symlinks called gcc, g++ and whatever to the distcc binary. Prefix your PATH with this directory and calling `gcc` will work.

    In my opinion this is easier (and better) than doing `make CC=distcc gcc`

  12. Re:Y3aH It'S Tru3 on Kids Improve Writing Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    Loose = what Bill Clinton lists as job requirements for interns. Lose = what GWB does at elections.

    Subtle difference.

  13. Re:Why not include Windows and perhaps others? on Open Source OS Benchmarking Competition · · Score: 1

    dude

    did you read the topic of this?

    Open Source OS Benchmarking Competition

  14. Pics!! on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pics at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportu nity.html

  15. my father on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products · · Score: 0

    My father is a coin and paper money dealer. I always wonder what will happen when he needs to do some editing on paper money, or what will happen if this technology finds its way into scanners. Not everyone is printing fake money. If this sort of thing makes its way into scanners, my father will lose a great deal of income.

    I wouldn't be surprised if one of the various cracking groups releases a patch to bypass this mechanism.

  16. Re:beg pardon? on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Naw. Crusher got all funky in the end of the series and ran off with the Traveler. So who knows what he's capable of now.

    Seriously, how many would tune in if Wil Wheaton reprised his role as (a more mature *cough*) Crusher on Enterprise? Its not like Rick Berman remembers what Trek is anymore.

  17. Repeat after me... on Northwest Gives Personal Data to NASA · · Score: 5, Funny

    We do not live in a police state. The Government trusts us. Donald Rumsfeld is infallable. All hail Bush.

  18. Re:Apache is damned good. on Apache Cookbook · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Windows 95 and 98 (and probably ME and DOS) con (and others) are reserved words. You can't create a directory named c:/con/con. Attempting to do so will lock up explorer.exe and then promptly halt your machine. (Gotta love fault tolerance!)

    Read about it more.

  19. Re:Why on Apache Cookbook · · Score: 2, Informative

    People rarely speak up when things work. Good thing, too. Who wants to have their search results cluttered with "I just installed Apache and it works!" pages?

  20. Re:Word twisting on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 0

    I think a movie would work if it just showed a recording of the actors doing the original radiocast. Think of it as radio - with pictures!

  21. Re:Needed? on Core PHP Programming · · Score: 0

    As has been posted on Slashdot time and time again, without proper design a Web site can be hard to secure, enhance, change the UI, change the DB engine, add new functionality, etc.

    Repeat after me: "Programming las a learning curve." People don't start their programming careers by writing complex things. They start simple - with a fixed database and UI. Then they expand their knowledge as they learn how to do more.

  22. Re:Just a novelty...? on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow · · Score: 1

    Not to be pedantic, but the name of the movie is "Cast Away."

  23. XHTML on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 1

    People can write XHTML code, but until web authors start to tell their web servers that they are sending XHTML then the UA will just get tag soup.

    The moral is: Using a technology is worthless unless you implement it correctly. ... That and most people are still better off with HTML 4.01 Strict anyways.

    This whole thing is moot with regards to Internet Explorer since they still haven't gotten around to supporting the line in XHTML documents yet, nor do they support the various xhtml mime-types.

  24. Re:They better not! on SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google OWES Linux.

    Hey did you hear that there is this GREAT search engine that lets you searth the web, USENET, Images, News stories and more -- For FREE?! Man, I tell you whoever provides that service -- at no cost to the end user -- is doing the world a great favour.

    Anything Google "owes" to the community they have given back with more than most GPL-users can claim to have given back.

  25. What the hell? on NASA Releases Mars Data for Maestro · · Score: -1, Troll

    They can put a freaking semi-intelligent rover on mars but they can't write a freaking shell script that uses mkdir?!? Continue with install (ok/abort)? ok "/build/maestro/jpl" is not a directory, aborting Come on guys!