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  1. Re:An excellent reference on Free & Non-Free Documentation · · Score: 1

    currently the copyright on works by individuals is life+70 years.

  2. Re:Still need Whirly-Birds on Wriggling Heat Sinks · · Score: 1

    i think you are failing to understand the term "electromagnetic noise," the noise that he is refering to is not audio noise, its electromagnetic noise, it is RFI(radio frequency interference) and stray magnetic currents.

  3. science magazine on What Science/Bioinformatics Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1

    science magazine is very good. It is not strictly bioinformatics,it covers biology in general, but frequently has bioinformatics related articles. A subscript is i think $90 per year, but it comes out every week, and is uasually about 180 pages. it is published by the american association for the advancement of science.

  4. Re:AppleScript Studio on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    The latter versions of hyper card did support color. I think it was an ugly hack, but it was there. I still have a boxed copy of hypercard sitting around someplace that advertises that it supported color.

  5. Re:I love the LED xmas light page... on It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Quickies · · Score: 2, Informative

    remember what the d in led stands for. diode. an led running off 60hz ac will only be on half the time, i think it would noticable.

  6. Re:pine on Christmas Spam Level Skyrocketing · · Score: 2, Redundant

    its the command to add a filter:

    (M) ain menu
    (S) etup
    (R) ules
    (F) ilters
    (A) dd

  7. Re:sad, sad on Oldest IRC Server Going Offline · · Score: 1

    i ran a smallish irc server for a while(250 users), and several times when people released flood bots in a large channel they were going to fast to be able to controll, so i would simply ping -f them, and it would slow them down alot, so i could then ban and kline.

  8. Re:Hack time? on Automated Ripping with CD Jukeboxes? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    for linux there is software that will do exactly what you want. I use a program called abcde, it is really a frontend for various rippers and encoders and cddb. it combines them seamlessly. To encode a cd to mp3 i just put it in the drive, and type abcde. 20 minutes later i have the mp3s on my harddrive, stored in /mp3/artistname/albumname all with proper id3 tags. where the files are stored is configurable, how they are named is configurable, what ripper and encoder is used is configurable. i use lame set for 256k high quality and cdparanoia. you can find abcde at http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/.

  9. Re:The probably future of wireless on Earthlink Buys OmniSky · · Score: 3, Interesting

    well, for about a year when i had a wireless modem on my palm pilot(att cdpd service), i used an ssh client to login to a shell on one of my boxes and check email and do other things from there. it worked fairly well.

  10. Re:A few thoughts... on Suggestions for Someone Building an Artist's PC? · · Score: 1

    agreed, to squeeze it all in for under $1000 you could proably only get a $40 usb scanner, which will produce complete crap images.
    the price of scanners doesnt appear to have changed much in the past 5 years. 5 years ago, you could get a scanner for $400, now you can get a scanner for $40, but the $40 one will be crap, a scanner of equal quality to the one that way $400 in '96 still costs $400.

  11. Re:how they assigned the date... on Ancient Sunken City Discovered Off Shores of Cuba. Maybe · · Score: 1

    or as it is now frequently called, B.C.E., before common era

  12. Re:A few thoughts... on Suggestions for Someone Building an Artist's PC? · · Score: 1

    your right, but there is a good chance that an artist would want a high quality scsi scanner, not a cheapo usb one. a lot of these new usb ones have plastic plates, rediculous, thats what i call it

  13. Re:Just got a couple on Experiences Programming on Cyclades Term Servers? · · Score: 1

    since this device seems to run linux, there must be gcc that can compile for it, and uasauly(always?) gcc can be built as a cross compiler, so you can build on your x86 linux box(or even in cygwin) binaries for it. this is how a large amount of embedded devloping is done.

  14. Re:Securing OpenSSH on Slashback: Highness, Hominess, Hole-ines · · Score: 1

    umm, there have been current openSSH packages in unstable for a long time.

  15. Re:It's about time on Bokks Linux Based AV Component · · Score: 1

    you do know that is possible to use speakers other than cheap computer speakers on your computer, right? These days alot of companies even sell nice speakers meant for computers. Personally, i have one of my computers hooked up to a nice set of amplified of altec lansing speakers meant for a dvd player. And i have my other hooked to my stereo reciver playing through a very nice set of infiniti speakers.

  16. Re:Video output not compatible for North America? on Bokks Linux Based AV Component · · Score: 1

    S-video i not an EU only thing, most new TVs have s-video input. Alot of laptops now even have s-video output(i know the thinkpad t-20 does). Most DVD players have S-video output. S video looks like a ps-2 port, or a mac serial port.

  17. Re:I'm back online on Some People @Home, Some Not @Home · · Score: 1

    actually, they did think of that. they do this trick with dns. any hostname you try to resolve resolves to the page with instructions. So unless your homepage is on your local harddrive, or you dont use their dns servers, it wont be a problem.

  18. Re:Heh on Some People @Home, Some Not @Home · · Score: 1

    any web browser should display a graphic corectly no matter what the filename is. a web browser doesnt look at the file name to determine hte file type, it looks at the http header. it is perfectly valid to have all the images on a website have the extension .html, just as long as the httpd knows that .html files are images.

  19. Re:The WSJ said it was OS specific on Next Restricted CD Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    well, slashdot.com does point to slashdot, amd after all, slashdot is a commercial entity.

  20. Re:This is a bug in 2.2.20 on Stable 2.2.x Linux Kernels and Older i386 Boxen? · · Score: 1

    im sorry, but it really doesnt matter what version of libc you have when you build your kernel, the kernel doesnt make much(any?) use of libc.

  21. Re:I dunno about the gross weight, but... on Nintendo Declares GCN Most Popular Console Ever · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hey xav, irc over to thisside.net #2600 sometime.

  22. Re:Privacy Issues? on Generate AM Radio Broadcasts With Your Monitor · · Score: 1

    they will need very large cards to have "high gain" am antennas on them.

  23. Re:The other way round on MAME On Xbox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, no PCs use a unified address space. THough i thank some mainframes do.

  24. Re:Dial a phone with one? on First Looks at Linux DA PDA · · Score: 1

    The reason a palm cannot produce DTMF tones is because of the speaker they use, it is a piezo. The CPU is totally capable of producing DTMF tones, there is a whole section is the data sheet for the CPU about using it to produce DTMF tones.

  25. Re:Countering interference on 802.11g Approved By IEEE 54 mb/s on 2.4 gigahertz · · Score: 1

    As far as i know, that is not true, 802.11g opperates on the same 2.4ghz ISM band that 802.11b and many other devices use. It may be that 802.11g uses a portion of the band that 802.11b uses, but i do not think there is any allocation specificly for 802.11g