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  1. old on AMD Demonstrates Linux-Based PDA at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    this is indeed an old news item ;-)

  2. Re:Wussies on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1
    REAL programmers use cat > /dev/kmem

    REAL programmer's don't use those weak tools like, say, keyboards, or monitors.

  3. Equatorial bulge on Earth Growing Due to Melting Glaciers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This means the equatorial bulge gets larger as well. This bulge causes the precession of the Earth, and this in turn the period in which the magnetic poles turn around the geographic poles. In the history of the Earth, ice caps have grown and shrank many times. Have geologists taken this into account when they calculated the place of the magnetic poles in the past, relevant for many geologic phenomona? Or have they always applied actualism, e.g. assumed the precession of the earth is static?

  4. Re:Fedora - RedHat ? on KDE 3.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Here is a clickable link of the download site.

  5. Re:Fedora - RedHat ? on KDE 3.2.0 Released · · Score: 1
    RPM's are available from ftp.kde.org, at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/RedHat/Fedora /

    Unfortunately, the download rate sucks (15 Kib/sec), so you can better wait till the mirrors have them.

  6. Re:New Additions to the archive... on WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online · · Score: 1

    Even the Dutch news broadcast mentointed it as a nice site, but warned viewers not to visit it because it was experiencing heavy load :-)

  7. This will lead to endless discussions on Attempting To Create A Gaming Canon · · Score: 1

    This will lead to endless discussions. For example, I think Commander Keen should absolutely be on the list, since it in one of the best games ever made, and handles resources extremely well. Others may have their own games which aren't on the list. Since this list will lead to endless discussions, it is not useful by any means.

  8. Re:Civ III hearkens back to Civ I on Civilization III Is Out, And It Rocks · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you're confused with Civilization: Call To Power...

  9. Colonialism on Multinationals And Globalism · · Score: 0

    Corporate globalization is equal to colonialism.

    The three reasens for the companies are:

    1. materials
    2. outlet
    3. workers

    What do we think of colonialism now?

    So what will we think of corporate globalization later?

  10. Destroy the industry, preserve the people. on NATO Developing Environment Friendly Weapons · · Score: 1

    A real environment-friendly bomb would do the following: Destroy the industry, preserve the people.

  11. Re:Web access on Are Printed Manuals Dead? · · Score: 1

    Speaking about the printed manuals... what about people who are in fact blind? That limits one of the sources.

  12. Yes on Are Printed Manuals Dead? · · Score: 1

    A printed manual consists of dead trees, indeed.

  13. client-side on What Are Good Web Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    Some things may be done client-side. Of course, you can't rely on XML browers like Mozilla's navigator. But with an XML database, you can offer XML as an alternative so that they who use an XML browser have those advantages like speed and client-side sorting of downloaded data. In the future, the XML version can be standard. For searching performance, you may want to use a "classical" database too, but that certainly is XML's only problem.

  14. 42 on Is "coke.ch" A Violation of Coca-Cola's (tm)? · · Score: 0

    42

  15. Already in Germany on Flying Trains · · Score: 1

    If I Recall Correctly, such a thing already is in development, in Germany. With magnets, the train flies about 0.1 cm above the rails. This train will ride between Berlin and another town, I think. It may eventually ride in other countries like the Netherlands too.

  16. Re:Lacking API's and other challenges on Ask Loki Prez Scott Draeker about Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    When Loki needs a certain library, they create it themselves. And they public the source. Look at http://www.lokigames.com for more informatin.

  17. Re:Lacking API's and other challenges on Ask Loki Prez Scott Draeker about Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    When Loki needs a certain library, they create it themselves. And they public it. Look at http://www.lokigames.com for more informatin.

  18. whitespace on Design a Web Page in Under 5k · · Score: 1
    Now I have a page with 4.1 KB, but with MUCH whitespace between the tags. It sure can be trimmed to 3.0 KB, but how? How do I trim all optional whitespace from an HTML file? Any hints?

    My Entry

  19. Re:Closing </i> tag missing in this story on Review of the Presidential Web Sites' HTML · · Score: 1
    Slashdot:
    Validation by http://validator.w3.org: 235 errors

    Rob Malda For President!

  20. Indentation problem solved for emacs haters on Perl vs. Python: A Culture Comparison · · Score: 2

    Hi, for those people who want auto-indent-like stuff but don't like emacs: Python comes with an excellent IDE, called Idle. It has an editor with auto-indent, backspace drops an indentation level, many syntax color highlighting, etc. I can imagine you hate emacs - use Idle instead! regards, Gerrit.

  21. Re:Python parses indentation! on Perl vs. Python: A Culture Comparison · · Score: 1

    There have been many flame wars on this. Some people like it, some do not. I think it's a good idea.