I was just about to jump in and recommend Dmitry's NTLM Authentication Server, when I noticed you beat me to it. To the original commenter: all this proxy needs is Python installed, so it should certainly work for you under Linux. I use it under Windows and apart from it crashing once (in 2 months+ of heavy use) it's never failed me..
Yeah, well, that's because Slashdot sampled Eminem on such hits as Will The Real Bruce Perens Please Stand Up? and My Name Is.. First Poster! We love the guy!
Damn, that business with the prioritizing ACKs sounds fantastic! I have the same setup as in their example (ADSL 512Kb down/128Kb up) and always have to put upload limits on filesharing programs so they only upload at maybe 11KB or 12KB per second, 'cos if I let them hit their full 16-ish KB/sec, the downloads choke and die.
I might have to salvage some crappy old box from work and see if I can't set it up as an OpenBSD gateway..
I agree entirely. The stuff Spaf was complaining about was probably true in '93, and certainly became much, much worse throughout the rest of the 90's.. but now, I honestly believe things have calmed down.
Obviously it varies from group to group - many are no doubt still wastelands of trolls and flamers. But the groups I read in the 90's, that were basically good groups with a sense of community, but being ruined by spammers and trolls, are now all much better.
We used to talk about "the September that never ended", when the flow of newbies into Usenet became infinite.. but now, the infinite flow is purely going to web-based forums, I think. Every newcomer to Usenet I've seen for a long time has been introduced by someone, not just wandered in.. and as a result, they're much more clueful..
And (although I don't know how much this is due to the hard-working spam-cancellers) I almost never see spam on any of the groups I read nowadays.
p.s. no, I'm not going to name these happy, troll-free newsgroups on Slashdot:-)
I can take the -1 Offtopic and -1 Troll if you wish. I can hear the karma sizzling...
Don't worry.. if your karma gets burned too badly, just cut'n'paste some 5-rated comments from the original story, they're sure to get modded up again in the dupe story. Presto! Your karma is restored!
Re:Double standard of community opinon?
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Just in case you're interested, this comment was cut'n'pasted from here, in the story that this one was a dupe of. I can't decide if it was moderated up to (+5, Insightful) as an ironic nod to my performance art dissing of Slashdot's incessant dupes, or if it's because the moderators are basically rock-stupid.
Either way, mad props to rearden (304396) for the original comment.
Not very hard??? I'd rather give up meat than potato, rice, sugar and beer.
Absolutely. I tried Atkins and had to give up after a couple of weeks because I simply could not face the prospect of eating like that a day longer. His books boast about how luxurious and delicious the diet is on every goddamn page, but I seriously worry about the personality type you'd have to have for your idea of delicious luxury to be meat, meat and more meat.
I will say, though, that the Atkins diet is a very effective appetite suppressant. Probably because eating like that is too disgusting to allow you to eat very much.
Does anyone know when VIA intend to release an EPIA MiniITX motherboard with a Nehemiah-cored C3 CPU? Apparently the M10000 they released recently was supposed to be so equipped, but turned out to only have a 1GHz version of the older Ezra-T C3 core. Since the Nehemiah core has a lot of improvements, this random number generator amongst them, I'd rather hang out for it than buy an M10000 now.. but how long must I hang?
I bought the new Placebo album the other day (on Virgin Records). It had a "copy control" sticker on the front. There's no Compact Disc logo on it anywhere.
..and yet I was still able to download that album a month before it was released.:-)
Why not go after the ones distributing the illegal media?
Absolutely. I bought a pirated DVD of Chicago in Bangkok a couple of weeks back, and when I got home I found that it was scratched and didn't play properly. I want the law to come down on those bastards, and hard!
Well, carry on fighting for the right to a high standard of living and a good job. Just bear in mind that all them damn foreigners are fighting for the same thing, and at the moment it looks like we might be better at it than you USians..
I'll counterbalance that comment by saying: "12 year old self - Christianity is bullshit, don't waste the next 5 years going to church like I did before I figured that out."
What is the point of a retailer collecting these PepperCoins, then sending them in, with 5% of them being worth $10.00, and 95% of them being worthless? If you're going to have a clearing-house, why the hell wouldn't you just have the retailers collect the PepperCoins and send them in for a guaranteed 50c each, but just not do it until you've collected at least 20 of them?? It'd have the same "avoiding credit card fees" effect, but without the stupid randomness which, even if it does balance out perfectly over lots of transactions, will completely turn off the vast majority of retailers.
Just like it would be good riddance if the.au.com domains dropped off the internet. These scammers register a single.com domain for $15/year or whatever and then try so sell as many ".au.com" domains as they can, all pure profit, to suckers who couldn't get the.com.au domain they wanted.
Most of the "content creation" applications and games are SSE2 enhanced while, on the other hand
3dnow is propably less popular.
No, almost no games are SSE2 enhanced because almost no games are using any significant amount of double-precision maths. For SIMD single-precision calculations, you use SSE, which AthlonXP also has.
SSE2 enchancements do certainly explain the huge lead the P4 has in rendering benchmarks.. damn, look at the difference in 3DS MAX, that must hurt AMD to see. Luckily Hammer is supposed to support the SSE2 instruction set.
Is it really 640Kbyte in total? That would happen only if every address in the L1 were not also in the L2. If it's possible for L1 and L2 caches to overlap, then it would be more accurate to say '512Kbyte of cache in total, of which 128Kbyte can run rather quickly'.
Yes, it really is 640Kbyte in total. Athlon's L1 and L2 caches are exclusive, unlike those of Intel's chips.
Nice idea, but since, as we all know, bus timetables are a major work of fiction, I'm unsure how much waiting in the snow this is actually going to save him.:-)
Hmm, I wonder what this is sitting on my desk that I just removed from my machine and replaced with a Radeon 9000 Pro? Sure looks like a Geforce 2 Ti200.
To the best of my knowledge, anyway. This would be fine except they mention this imaginary product twice.
Since the best of your knowledge isn't very good, you should refrain from such declarative statements. The Geforce2 Ti200 was released at the same time as the Geforce3 Ti200 and Ti500 (i.e., much later than the other Geforce2 models). It's the same chip as the Geforce2 GTS, Pro and Ultra, but with a die shrink and different clock rate. Somewhere in between a Pro and an Ultra in clock.
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I was just about to jump in and recommend Dmitry's NTLM Authentication Server, when I noticed you beat me to it. To the original commenter: all this proxy needs is Python installed, so it should certainly work for you under Linux. I use it under Windows and apart from it crashing once (in 2 months+ of heavy use) it's never failed me..
Yeah, well, that's because Slashdot sampled Eminem on such hits as Will The Real Bruce Perens Please Stand Up? and My Name Is.. First Poster! We love the guy!
I found the code that matches up exactly, the top five matches are ( drum roll )
5) for ( int x=0;x<10;x++)
4) while ( x<10 ) {
3) #include stdio.h
2) #include math.h
1) int main( String args[] )
Number 1) shows up in every .cpp file! Linux developers will pay for this blatant violation of SCO's IP rights!
Another quality dupe from Slashdot's crack editorial staff. Quick! Cut'n'paste those 5-rated comments! Score some cheap karma!
Damn, that business with the prioritizing ACKs sounds fantastic! I have the same setup as in their example (ADSL 512Kb down/128Kb up) and always have to put upload limits on filesharing programs so they only upload at maybe 11KB or 12KB per second, 'cos if I let them hit their full 16-ish KB/sec, the downloads choke and die.
I might have to salvage some crappy old box from work and see if I can't set it up as an OpenBSD gateway..
Usenet is actually becoming a nicer place now
I agree entirely. The stuff Spaf was complaining about was probably true in '93, and certainly became much, much worse throughout the rest of the 90's.. but now, I honestly believe things have calmed down.
Obviously it varies from group to group - many are no doubt still wastelands of trolls and flamers. But the groups I read in the 90's, that were basically good groups with a sense of community, but being ruined by spammers and trolls, are now all much better.
We used to talk about "the September that never ended", when the flow of newbies into Usenet became infinite.. but now, the infinite flow is purely going to web-based forums, I think. Every newcomer to Usenet I've seen for a long time has been introduced by someone, not just wandered in.. and as a result, they're much more clueful..
And (although I don't know how much this is due to the hard-working spam-cancellers) I almost never see spam on any of the groups I read nowadays.
p.s. no, I'm not going to name these happy, troll-free newsgroups on Slashdot :-)
I can take the -1 Offtopic and -1 Troll if you wish. I can hear the karma sizzling...
Don't worry.. if your karma gets burned too badly, just cut'n'paste some 5-rated comments from the original story, they're sure to get modded up again in the dupe story. Presto! Your karma is restored!
Either way, mad props to rearden (304396) for the original comment.
Not very hard??? I'd rather give up meat than potato, rice, sugar and beer.
Absolutely. I tried Atkins and had to give up after a couple of weeks because I simply could not face the prospect of eating like that a day longer. His books boast about how luxurious and delicious the diet is on every goddamn page, but I seriously worry about the personality type you'd have to have for your idea of delicious luxury to be meat, meat and more meat.
I will say, though, that the Atkins diet is a very effective appetite suppressant. Probably because eating like that is too disgusting to allow you to eat very much.
Give the man a bottle of rum! Yo ho ho!
Does anyone know when VIA intend to release an EPIA MiniITX motherboard with a Nehemiah-cored C3 CPU? Apparently the M10000 they released recently was supposed to be so equipped, but turned out to only have a 1GHz version of the older Ezra-T C3 core. Since the Nehemiah core has a lot of improvements, this random number generator amongst them, I'd rather hang out for it than buy an M10000 now.. but how long must I hang?
I bought the new Placebo album the other day (on Virgin Records). It had a "copy control" sticker on the front. There's no Compact Disc logo on it anywhere.
..and yet I was still able to download that album a month before it was released. :-)
Why not go after the ones distributing the illegal media?
Absolutely. I bought a pirated DVD of Chicago in Bangkok a couple of weeks back, and when I got home I found that it was scratched and didn't play properly. I want the law to come down on those bastards, and hard!
In contrast, it took me less than a week to beat NWN while going about school, sleeping, eating, and other various activities.
You played all 2000 community-created modules in less than a week? You iron man!
None of the April Fools stories were funny on the 1st, and they're certainly not funny on the 2nd. Another humourless year from Slashdot..
Fire the twinkler beams!
Everyone I tell to see that movie refuses to talk to me afterwards.
I don't blame them. That was awful, just awful. I don't think any movie has made me so badly want to kick in the TV screen out of sheer irritation.
Well, carry on fighting for the right to a high standard of living and a good job. Just bear in mind that all them damn foreigners are fighting for the same thing, and at the moment it looks like we might be better at it than you USians..
I'll counterbalance that comment by saying: "12 year old self - Christianity is bullshit, don't waste the next 5 years going to church like I did before I figured that out."
What is the point of a retailer collecting these PepperCoins, then sending them in, with 5% of them being worth $10.00, and 95% of them being worthless? If you're going to have a clearing-house, why the hell wouldn't you just have the retailers collect the PepperCoins and send them in for a guaranteed 50c each, but just not do it until you've collected at least 20 of them?? It'd have the same "avoiding credit card fees" effect, but without the stupid randomness which, even if it does balance out perfectly over lots of transactions, will completely turn off the vast majority of retailers.
Just like it would be good riddance if the .au.com domains dropped off the internet. These scammers register a single .com domain for $15/year or whatever and then try so sell as many ".au.com" domains as they can, all pure profit, to suckers who couldn't get the .com.au domain they wanted.
Most of the "content creation" applications and games are SSE2 enhanced while, on the other hand 3dnow is propably less popular.
No, almost no games are SSE2 enhanced because almost no games are using any significant amount of double-precision maths. For SIMD single-precision calculations, you use SSE, which AthlonXP also has.
SSE2 enchancements do certainly explain the huge lead the P4 has in rendering benchmarks.. damn, look at the difference in 3DS MAX, that must hurt AMD to see. Luckily Hammer is supposed to support the SSE2 instruction set.
Is it really 640Kbyte in total? That would happen only if every address in the L1 were not also in the L2. If it's possible for L1 and L2 caches to overlap, then it would be more accurate to say '512Kbyte of cache in total, of which 128Kbyte can run rather quickly'.
Yes, it really is 640Kbyte in total. Athlon's L1 and L2 caches are exclusive, unlike those of Intel's chips.
Nice idea, but since, as we all know, bus timetables are a major work of fiction, I'm unsure how much waiting in the snow this is actually going to save him. :-)
Except there never was any such card.
Hmm, I wonder what this is sitting on my desk that I just removed from my machine and replaced with a Radeon 9000 Pro? Sure looks like a Geforce 2 Ti200.
To the best of my knowledge, anyway. This would be fine except they mention this imaginary product twice.
Since the best of your knowledge isn't very good, you should refrain from such declarative statements. The Geforce2 Ti200 was released at the same time as the Geforce3 Ti200 and Ti500 (i.e., much later than the other Geforce2 models). It's the same chip as the Geforce2 GTS, Pro and Ultra, but with a die shrink and different clock rate. Somewhere in between a Pro and an Ultra in clock.
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