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  1. Re:Keep those wishes coming on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    The tab mix plus extension for firefox has undo close tab, among other features. It also allows you to mimic how pre-2.0 firefox handles tabs and change just about any other tab behavior you can think of.

  2. Re:Vaporware. on Researchers Achieve Amazing Memory Density · · Score: 1

    If you only wanted to store one thing on it(in this case, digits of Pi) you wouldn't even need a filesystem.

  3. Re:Teaser indeed... on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you're getting at, but AMD/ATi has committed to releasing the specs that will allow open drivers to be written. This was just the initial release of 2d specs for a limited range of cards. More information is coming.

  4. Re:Yes, but... on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Specs for r500(the X1k series) are supposedly in the pipleline. For matching codenames->marketing names, I recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units And the reason why they are so "deficient" is they have a team of a few engineers helping the X.org folks write the drivers. They have also said that they will be providing code snippets in the future to help clear up unclear parts of the spec. This is just a teaser release, not all we're getting.

  5. Re:Hopefully a meaningful contribution on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 5, Informative

    The specs are for the brand-spanking-new RV630 series, the mid to low range chip in the r600 line. And the specs are only for 2d modesetting at the moment, so they likely apply to the whole r600 series. When the 3d specs are released they'll likely be a separate spec sheet for each specific chip. So to answer your question, they are for the newest cards ATi currently makes not their old, outmoded ones.

  6. Re:Are we late to the party? on Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only if you can also trust the compiler chain.

  7. Re:i'm getting a migraine on China To Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network · · Score: 1

    just reading this, because next month, or next year, some enterprising young congressman/senator/governor is going to suggest the same thing. and that folks, will be the day i leave the US for good, not that it might not happen sooner.
    Where do you plan on going that you think will be any better? From here, everywhere else looks either worse than the U.S. or on the path to being worse.
  8. Re:Hopefully on True Random Number Generator Goes Online · · Score: 1

    That's what /dev/urandom is for. Unless you've symlinked /dev/urandom to /dev/random, in which case, I don't know what you're trying to achieve, /dev/urandom is supposed to be cryptographically secure afaik.

  9. Re:Simple on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree. Put the social programs closer to the people so that those running them are more accountable and the people have a greater say in which are provided and how it is done.

  10. Re:Simple on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    well put

  11. Re:Ron Paul on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I 100% agree, although I admit he has a very slim chance of winning the republican nomination, at least he was smart and ran as a republican where he could not be denied access to the debates and at least got some minor media coverage. Overall, I think hes done a good job and should be commended. That said, since he likely won't be on the final ballot, I'll probably be voting libertarian or writing in Ron Paul.

  12. Re:Vista on Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded · · Score: 1

    Sometimes a cigar is, indeed, just a cigar.
    Do you have some repressed phallic issues we need to talk about :)
  13. Re:There's some truth to this... on Vitamin D Deficiency Behind Many Western Cancers? · · Score: 1

    Dude, I live in Wisconsin (there is just a weee little sliver of Michigan between WI and Canada) and it's not as light-deprived as you make things sound. Do you think we scurry around in the dark with flashlights like mole-people (except for June and July)?
    OMG, that was one of the funniest things i've read in a while. If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Great stuff.
  14. Re:I/O prioritisation on The Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 1

    Umm, which mars rover are you talking about? The only ones I know used VXWorks, not QNX

  15. Re:Rev up, don't shift on The Gigahertz Race is Back On · · Score: 1

    Meh, I use timidity on linux. With an emu10k1(sound blaster with hardware midi), 1% usage. With timidity, at least 5-10% usage.

  16. Re:Rev up, don't shift on The Gigahertz Race is Back On · · Score: 1

    I think the biggest thing a discrete audio card can give nowadays is accelerated MIDI. Ever tried playing or creating a MIDI file in software? It can easily use 10% CPU on playback, with a card that accelerates this, its zero.

  17. Re:EFI used by more than Apple on Intel's Single Thread Acceleration · · Score: 2, Informative

    And besides, most modern OSes basically relegate the bios to the back burner. Its not like we're still calling bios interrupts from DOS anymore.

  18. Re:PC World Article?! on Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure this is the vuln talked about in TFA:http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/230286/

  19. Re:Vim on Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders? · · Score: 1

    you can use an xmodmap if you're using X to map caps to ctrl, but I've found it doesn't work so well on some laptops that seem to have a "hardware" caps lock(ie, you hit caps lock, and the keyboard becomes caps, but it still sends ctrl).

  20. Re:They suck, yeah. on Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention · · Score: 1

    Good point. As one example, Ron Paul is a Republican, yet I would consider him principled and for sure cast my vote for him.

  21. Re:They suck, yeah. on Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention · · Score: 1

    So, you think the libertarians or the greens would be worse than the republicans or democrats? Hell, at least libertarians and greens base their party on principle, the democrats and republicans are just whores for power and money.

  22. Re:Why not just do it yourself? on A Review of the Top Four External Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    While you do lose a few features (I'm dying for a good enclosure w/ one button backup), it's cheaper and you have more selection. Plus, the software that comes with external hard drives is such crap anyways (Seagate and BounceBack Crippled/Express Edition).
    Also, afaik, you can't access the SMART data from the drive over usb/firewire, you have to plug it in to a regular IDE or sata/esata port.
  23. Re:AACS on AACS Cracked Again · · Score: 1

    Well, more like the implementations aren't cryptographically secure.

  24. Re:It's kind of sweet and sad, really. on LED Forty Years Older Than Thought · · Score: 1

    LOL. I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

  25. Re:Students Not Second-Class Citizens on MySpace is Free Speech, Case Overturned · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can't claim independent because my dad claims me as a dependent. If I did, then I could deduct myself and get most/all the taxes back, but as it is, my dad gets a bigger break on his taxes with me as a dependent that I would as an independent, plus he gives me a place to crash during the summer and winter breaks, so I don't have much choice.