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  1. Re:Already done on Code Review of Doom For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    iPhone doom is a port from an existing GL port of doom (namely prboom) back to idsoftware and onto the iphone. So yes, someone has done it years ago, and yes, id leveraged that.

  2. Re:It's because Iplayer is stupid on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    There's a good article in Wired UK ish 1 (online at http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/04/features/the-man-who-saved-the-bbc.aspx) which covers some of the internal culture change that happened around when the iPlayer got revamped and lost its windows-only roots.

  3. Re:XFCE 4 and GNUStep on Attempting To Reframe "KDE Vs. GNOME" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We must have been using a different GNUStep.

  4. Re:Thecus N2100 on SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? · · Score: 1

    I'll second that. The n2100 can barely manage 10Mbps in my experience, despite having dual gigE NICs.

  5. Re:WTF? If AMD64 can't do it with a full x86 core. on Ubuntu Ports To ARM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    there are flash plugins for ARM, mind :)

  6. Re:Better than RedHat documentation on Running Xen · · Score: 1

    I find most RH docs a lot like that unfortunately. I find it quite incredible that it's often easier to find multiple pages explaining how to use the (self explanatory) redhat GUI admin tools but much harder to find documentation for config file syntax and the like.

  7. Re:Does XEN have a future? on Running Xen · · Score: 1

    The vmware esx bare-bones OS is as Linux derivative. So it's more like KVM in that regard than Xen.

    Afaik, the *real* difference is KVM does no paravirtualisation, it is purely a kernel interface to the VT extensions on newer x86 chips. So it's "cleaner", but is no use if you don't have the VT extensions.

  8. Re:To non-IT people on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uhhm, no. If you generated a key using the affected packages (ssh-keygen), as a user, your key needs to be replaced.

  9. Re:Think about it for a minute on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if you boot from a CD, the system will still read the MBR from every drive connected to the system when it boots. If that MBR is "adjusted" then that machine is compromised no matter what you do.

    Can you confirm this? I could accept that BIOSes might scan each device for the presence of an MBR, but I highly doubt they execute any of them.

  10. Re:Not Gmail. on Google Mail Servers Enable Backscatter Spam · · Score: 1

    you want MAIL FROM:<... ; i.e., no space between: and <; same for RCPT to. You may get away with the lax syntax for testing with some servers, but it's a bad habit to get into. Lax syntax used to be a bulk-mailer trait.

  11. Re:Temperature is the key on Disk Failure Rates More Myth Than Metric · · Score: 1

    The metal casing may have helped conduct away heat. With my thecus n2100, I have found that taking the plastic lid off results in cooler temperatures than leaving it on, but putting a biscuit tin lid on top results in the coolest, although still running at about 50 celcius which is not good :(

  12. Re:BEWARE THE LINK on Open Source Patent Donations? · · Score: 1

    I don't know which link you are talking about, but patspam.com is a tag redirect to a wordpress blog hosted at blog.patspam.com.

  13. Re:This is why I backup my Gmail with G-Archiver on G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords · · Score: 1

    A good open-source IMAP backup application is "offlineimap". I'm not sure whether you would have 100% fidelity with gmail's labels though.

  14. Re:Misleading on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 1

    as far as I can tell you are wrong, this is not an optional feature. The code i s in fs/splice.c and there's seemingly no splice-related config option in fs/Kconfig. Indeed, the Makefile lists splice.o as being part of the core object set. I'm not an expert on the kernel so I could well be wrong, but I've looked - if it is optional, what's the config option's name that disables it?

  15. Re:Footprint vs. Thickness on Thinkpad X300 Specs Leaked · · Score: 1

    This doesn't seem to be designed as a direct air competitor, but more a successor to the X61s, which in my eyes would be the perfect laptop bar the poor screen resolution.

  16. Re:Is it actually a Thinkpad? on Thinkpad X300 Specs Leaked · · Score: 1

    What would be an "actual" thinkpad in your book? When Lenovo bought the name, they also bought the entirety of the technical and design teams behind it. The same people are working on the X41+ as were under IBM's brand.

  17. Re:Been looking for something like this on Building a Fully Encrypted NAS On OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Is it not the case that you need to get identical sector sizes, too?

  18. prior thinkpad experience would have helped on Rethinking the Thinkpad · · Score: 1

    This was an interesting review, but if the reviewer had some prior experience of Thinkpads it would have been better. I twitched to read about Lenovo's innovative nipple-pointer and comfortable-yet-compact keyboard, plus the battery, dock, etc.: it read just like a review of my X40. Those aspects of it do not appear to have changed from the IBM era.

  19. Re:Combo of SpamAssassin and Spamhaus on Proving Which Spam Filters work Best · · Score: 3, Funny
    The key is still: don't give out your address. Once you've done that, you're going to be screwed eventually.


    Nah, that's such a half measure. The real solution is to not have an email address at all.
  20. Re:From IRC, the reason: on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 1

    1) condemning Israel is not the same as supporting Hezobllah, thus, condemning Hezobllah is no defence for condemnation.
    2) there may be "500 million gentiles" surrounding Israel but it is nonsense to say they all unoquivically want it wiped off the map.

  21. Re:Hmmmmm on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem is PHP *is* thread-safe. The issue is the things PHP links against (I've heard gettext is at least one culprit).

  22. Re:linux on Linux 2.6.17 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes. User-mode-linux was merged in mainline (although earlier than .17 I think)

  23. Re:Apple hasn't switched on Apple Switched Chips Too Soon? · · Score: 1

    In a world where every software vendor has written perfectly cross-platform code from the offset, and there's no need to maintain two compatibility layers, yeah. But what are the odds of that happening?

  24. Re:I need PHP on Taking the Sting Out of PHP 5 Programming · · Score: 1

    Generating code is not enough to actually use it. You need to understand the interfaces for what is generated, the implications for fitting bits together, how to determine when things are under load, how to figure out what needs replacing / rewriting / upgrading, how new language features might improve things, how to patch security flaws... In short, you need to learn the language. But IWWY I'd learn something other than PHP (ruby or python perhaps).

  25. baby, bathwater on How Would You Improve SQL? · · Score: 1

    I'd bin it and start again, aiming to create a more complete standardised language. If you look at the SQL standard, there's not even a common means for creating tables and databases. I can only assume that's by design, but it does prevent you from writing vendor agnostic SQL.