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  1. Re:Would it work with my computer ? on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 1

    probably not. I had quite a lot of trouble on my AMD K6-2 450. It takes a significant amount of my CPU on my current machine (2500XP, however fast that is)

  2. Re:What are TV Tuners for? on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 1

    I use one for three reasons:

    a) savings. In space on my desk(s) as I move around, and in money (cheaper than a dedicated TV).

    b) to convert my old VHS recordings into a digital medium; share/backup them, etc.

    c) to disguise the fact I have a TV-device. Its less conspicious than a TV if you aren't paying the TV licence.. which is pretty extortionate for students. Unfortunately this never really worked out as my dorm rooms have been at river-level every year, where there is sod-all reception.

  3. Re:Which has better Linux support...... on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My SAA-based card from Medion works a treat. grab the drivers from bytesex and take your pick from the viewers. Recommended, tvtime.

  4. multiple architectures and reduced bandwidth on A Modern Woody Debian GNU/Linux Installer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The authors should provide a jigdo file. Then, the installer image could be built by hammering the FTP mirrors rather than their own space.

    In addition, it would be possible to build such a boot image for non-x86 architectures; the reason of course, why none of these `better' approaches have replaced the current debian installer.

  5. interface on 19th Century News Coming Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If anyone actually checks it first, that is...

    Also, how useful the resource is will depend as much on the interface as the material.

  6. Re:Yea, so.. on Waimea Developer Returns From Beyond · · Score: 1

    window applications, much like web pages, use bitmap graphics for things which really should be vectors : simple, scalable, size-of-image independent from size-of-file graphics.

  7. wmcliphist on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    No matter what mechanism is used to accessing the clipboard, unless it supports multiple things then you will always find yourself clobbering something you want to keep. It happens in X, it happens in windows.

    So, use a handy clipboard history tool - like wmcliphist. This tool will cache a user defined number of clipboard contents which are available from a context menu over the dockapp. You can lock items which prevents them from being overwritten, and even sort strings into sub directories based on regular expressions (web shortcuts in one, email addresses in another, etc.).

    Some people have also mentioned klipper which I think does a similar job.

  8. Re:CSS Zen Garden on Core CSS (2nd ed.) · · Score: 1

    I think the zen garden is a good example of what can be *achieved*, but not good aesthetics at all. The designs are very noisy and over-the-top and many of them would not prove to be workable, every-day designs.

    In addition, the markup of the zen garden is tailored towards providing as many hooks as possible. In a perfect world, we'd have the markup concerned soley with content and not presentation (yes, providing hooks is an explicit consideration of presentation).

    However I don't think that CSS is powerful enough to do away with hook-concious markup.

  9. Re:I've got an idea on DCC2 Protocol for IRC file transfers · · Score: 1

    Hmm, sounds very similar to /bin/false, with some bells and whistles..

  10. Re:Doesn't really matter to me... on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1

    You are by far the best example I've come across in a long while, of why guns should remain banned in england.

    And please if you are planning a holiday ('vacation'); look elsewhere than our humble country.

  11. Re:Done right, CSS can help multi-platform use. on CSS for the LDP? · · Score: 1

    The second example doesn't work properly in mozilla 1.6.