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  1. Isn't this what alien does? on Building A Better Package Manager · · Score: 3, Interesting
  2. I bet... on Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...there is some junior software engineer at KISS sweating like a pregnant lesbian nun in a fish shop right now.

  3. Teoma on Better Search Results Than Google? · · Score: 1

    I occasionally use http://www.teoma.com when Google fails me. It's not exactly "better", but it does provide a different set of results which can be handy when you're trying to find something rare. The "Refine" option is pretty neat too.

  4. Re: All this bad news. on Gentoo rsync Server Compromised [updated] · · Score: 1

    That's a tenuous analogy really isn't it? :)

  5. Imagine a beowulf cluster of... on Big Mac achieves around 14 TFlops with 128 Nodes · · Score: 1

    Most expensive super computer EVAR.

  6. Re:Unadvertised on Seven Spam Filters Compared · · Score: 1

    You look very silly.

  7. WRONG!!!11!!1! on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 1

    The IP address space will be exhausted in the GREAT IP CRUNCH OF 2010.

  8. I like carbon fibre... on Sports Technology? · · Score: 1

    ...on my mountain bike. The rear linkage is 6061 Aluminium. I love this frame, it continually impresses me how fast you can change direction in the rough stuff. The suspension design also lends itself towards minimal energy loss while climbing -- you'd swear you were on a hardtail sometimes.

  9. Re:Uh, question. on Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming · · Score: 1

    iddqd surely..?

  10. Spammers eh? Annoying... on I, Spammer · · Score: 1

    I don't really have anything to say about this story, but I could use some slashdot effect right now. So uh.. sorry for the spam.

    Click on the link - you know you want to.
    http://op.ath.cx/~tma/rtprof-usage/
    You've gone too far - the link is above.

    If you fill out the questionnaire I'm very grateful, thanks.

  11. Oh the irony... on Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online · · Score: 2

    ...the best part of the foreword:

    "As for me? I switched to the Mac. No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts."

  12. Re:live visualisation? on 3D Visualization of Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 1

    Right now I change node size and node colour based on number of calls and accumulated time, but configurable at compile time. Eventually I'll add this as a runtime option. I'm also hopefully to incorporate call frequency into the graph so functions that are seldom called can be alpha faded out. It's all pretty good fun, but at the end of the day it's really a toy - a textual profiling output is ultimately more readable.

  13. Re:live visualisation? on 3D Visualization of Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 1

    For my undergraduate dissertation I'm doing something very similar to that. I've written a realtime profiling tool that can be attached to any single threaded binary. Additionally I've written a realtime GL based call graph drawing frontend to the profiling tool. I should be releasing it in the next month or two. Screenshot:

    Tuxracer in realtime

  14. You're forgetting... on 10 Years of the World Wide Web · · Score: 1

    ...that no one will be able to use the internet at by that time thanks to THE GREAT IP CRUNCH OF 2010.

  15. Re:"viva la resistance" on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    ...or it'll get replaced by C#.. like it or not.

  16. Re:return the favor on The Rise Of Counter-Strike · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Time to defrag = days on 320GB Hard Drives announced · · Score: 1

    Or maybe a filesystem that doesn't fragment?

  18. Re:Plan of action: on Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project · · Score: 1

    Bah, too late.

  19. Plan of action: on Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project · · Score: 1

    wget -r ftp://ftp.bnetd.org/pub

    mirror...

  20. Software suspend on UNIX Process Cryogenics? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Linux software suspend may be of interest.

  21. Re:the mode you are speaking of on UNIX Process Cryogenics? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What you refer to as suspend is what most people (and APM) call standby. What you call hibernate is what APM refers to as suspend. I believe Windows uses the term hibernate to refer to a software suspend function.

  22. :( on Loki Games Closing? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...

  23. Re:BBC is pretty forward thinking... on BBC Testing Ogg Vorbis Streaming · · Score: 1

    I pay for the BBC (which isn't state funded - it's funded by the Television Licence which you have to have at any address where there's a television)

    State funded in the sense that it is funded by the people rather than advertising/commercial organisations.

  24. BBC is pretty forward thinking... on BBC Testing Ogg Vorbis Streaming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been watching news.bbc.co.uk for a couple of years now and I think it's safe to say the BBC is definately pro open source. I have read a number of articles dealing with Operating Systems and they have overwhelmingly leant towards promoting free software and in particular linux.

    Whether or not their web staff are linux orientated, their journalists are certainly well learned :)

    I suppose in a way it makes sense - for anyone that is unaware the BBC is a state funded corporation. As a consequence their budget isn't exactly huge, so they would want to keep costs down. (Despite their low bugdet the BBC does provide excellent television and radio - far superior to the commercially funded channels available in the UK. And there are no advertisements! (commercials) )

  25. Re:Staying with 2.4.9 on Kernel 2.4.12 Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure you'd do a much better job of maintaining and managing 30Mb of sourcecode (gzipped) that targets a multitude of diverse architectures.