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  1. Re:Running a webserver on Simple Route To Linux On The iPod · · Score: 1

    Well, if we actually did run a webserver on the said device there would be a moral responsibility to post it on slashdot for the masses to reduce into molten plastic fireball before the RIAA infidels take note!

  2. Re:Mozilla is supposed to be bloated on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The problems with the Mozilla monolith are:
    • You get everything or nothing: I can't decide just to have the web browser and html editor: but I'd rather use my existing email app so I don't want that taking up resources on my machine.
    The good thing about the mozilla browser is you -can- do this, all you need to do is pull down the source and compile your own version of mozilla with the various features that you do/dont want. Pretty much everything can be disabled/turned on and off in the main build by simply editing the .mozconfig file to how you would like. Plus there are the other applications which have already done this for you (think firefox, thurnderbird which the changes in the main mozilla app are propogated to anyway)
    • Regression testing. This is more an issue for the Mozilla developers, but a change in one component (email say) could break another part (html editing say).
    The HTML editing component of Mozilla is in no way dependant on anything at all in the mail component. (although mail is dependant on the editor to create HTML emails etc). Thunderbird still pulls in the same dependant compoents just like standard Mozilla does. It's similar to using libGtk+ libraries in an app, it has the possibility to break things further down the chain (usually it put thru more testing anyway).

    Isn't this all standard software engineering practise which makes development alot simpler rather than having to have a similar thing coded in 10 different places.
  3. Re:I don't care if they're slow. on First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unfortunately your calculation is flawed.

    720 x 576 is the amount of pixels per frame not the amount of storage required.
    To calculate the size in kilobytes (KiB) of one frame of uncompressed video, use the following formula:

    Frame size K = ([Pixel Width x Pixel Height x Bit Depth] / 8) / 1024

    Where 8 represents an 8-bit byte, and 1024 equals the number of bytes per kilobytes. For example, the size in kilobytes of an uncompressed frame of full-size (720 x 576), 24-bits (per pixel) DVD video is:

    Frame size K = ([720 x 576 x 24] / 8) / 1024
    = 1215 KiB

    Then for one second it's just
    = 1215 x 30
    = 36450 KiB

    Therefore for 90 mins it is:
    = 36450 x 60 x 90
    = 196830000 KiB
    = 187.7 GiB

    Remember this is only for dvd video not the audio.

  4. Re:And that will be the standard computer on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like MS must have shifted to writing Longhorn in Java or VB.NET to require those sort of Specs!

  5. Re:hello?!? on PHP 5 Release Candidate 2 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's going to be even better then that!

    PHP5 comes with its very own integrated 'lite' sql server that can handle simple queries very very quickly.

    The decision to implement SQLite into PHP5 is "good for small and mid-sized applications, because the database lives on the same server as the application that is using it"

  6. Matrix Reloaded on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 1

    The Censoring would actually work quite well in the Reloaded DVD. Who in their right mind would like watching a naked keanu ass anyway!

  7. TT Eomer Reply! on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1

    War mongering? How long since Microsoft bought you? What was the promised price Grima? That when all the men were dead you would take the share of the treasure?

    Too long have you watched my ipod. Too long have you haunted her steps.