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  1. Re:Computer Game Shop on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 1

    Well, it DOES have better shielding from physical abuse.....but i doubt that that really matters that much.

  2. Re:OS on IBM Smart Card OS On A 1MB Smart Card · · Score: 1

    Add the 512k of RAM, remember.

  3. Re:Storage space on IBM Smart Card OS On A 1MB Smart Card · · Score: 1

    So make an ASIC that calculates MD5, burn an EPROM with the MD5 of the binaries, and use the ASIC to verify the integrity.

  4. Re:Thin ice on U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System · · Score: 1

    Could Soviet-era aircraft/ICBM tracking radars be modified for significantly increased power? I would imagine that they would be a lot easier to come by than any home-built solution.

    But, you've come up with good responses to other things I've said, and I only have fairly basic knowledge of radio circuitry.

  5. Re:The extra GP registers will help on RC4 Code Achieves 319 MB/s On AMD64 Opteron · · Score: 1

    This is pushing my knowledge now, but depending on how many cycles it takes, out-of-order execution could be used to load the new values from cache without a significant performance hit.

    Of course, I understand what you are trying to say.

  6. Re:The extra GP registers will help on RC4 Code Achieves 319 MB/s On AMD64 Opteron · · Score: 1
    Hang on....you're making me get out the old manual ;)

    Ok, you were right. But yeah, if you start with
    MUL eax, edx
    it should be fine unless it overflows
  7. Re:until on RC4 Code Achieves 319 MB/s On AMD64 Opteron · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can compile the kernel with ICC, but it requires patching and a program between make and ICC. I read how to do it a magazine somewhere, don't have it on hand right now.

  8. Re:The extra GP registers will help on RC4 Code Achieves 319 MB/s On AMD64 Opteron · · Score: 1
    But, since the output is stored in one of the source operands, couldn't you do something like:
    MUL eax, ebx
    MUL eax, ecx
    MUL eax, edx
    leaving the solution stored in eax?
  9. Re:Doesn't explain on How Infants Crack the Speech Code · · Score: 1

    Unless you swear a lot, your swear words are probably limited to more stressful situations.

    I'm 15, and just found out that I'd spent 3 days trying to fix a broken compile, when i needed to do :%s/csInitialise/csInitialize in Vim.

    Yeah, that's right. I'm not an American.

    Just because I only swear in stressful situations doesn't mean I don't swear a lot. But otherwise I agree completely with your post ;)

  10. Re:"Expert Programmer" on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 1

    Of course, it may be a bit hard to get a job without moving to India.

  11. Re:16 is borderline on Are LCD Displays Ready For Gaming? · · Score: 1

    The only departments which LCDs can't match a CRT for is Brightness and Contrast

    And the number of displayable resolutions.

  12. Re:Thin ice on U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System · · Score: 1

    Of the countries that have the capabilities to do so, only one is not an ally, and I don't think we'd invade China over THIS

    So what you are saying is that it just isn't possible that someone other than China could get a microwave tranceiver, connect it to an antenna, and pump a lot of power through.

  13. Re:"Expert Programmer" on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 1
    Sorry, posted AC. Slashdot has been doing that on the subdomains lately.

    class CNode
    {
    public:
    virtual CNode* Add(int data) = 0;
    };
    class CHeadNode : public CNode
    {
    public:
    CHeadNode();
    virtual CNode* Add(int data);
    protected:
    CNode* list;
    };
    class CDataNode : public CNode
    {
    public:
    CDataNode(CNode* nextNode, int value);
    virtual CNode* Add(int value);
    protected:
    CNode* linkto;
    int data;
    };
    class CTailNode : public CNode
    {
    public:
    virtual CNode* Add(int data);
    };
    CHeadNode::CHeadNode()
    {
    list = new CTailNode;
    }
    CNode* CHeadNode::Add(CNode* node)
    {
    list = list->Add(data);
    return NULL;
    }
    CDataNode::CDataNode(CNode* nextnode)
    {
    linkto = nextnode;
    }
    Node* CDataNode::Add(int data)
    {
    linkto = linkto->Add(node);
    return this;
    }
    CNode* CTailNode::Add(int data)
    {
    newNode = new CDataNode(this, data);
    return newNode;
    }
    So do I pass? It doesn't do memory deallocation or anything, but, that isn't adding an item, is it?
  14. Re:"Expert Programmer" on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 1

    I'm 15, self-taught, and I know what a singly linked list is. Since I assume I suck at C++/Programming in general, would it be fair to assume that most programmers wouldn't know everything that I know and more?

  15. Re:Stop trolling on So, Who Wrote Sobig? · · Score: 1

    Just had a look in lynx - and yes, you were correct.

    I spend my whole life making sure I never see 'Last Measure'.

  16. Re:motivation on So, Who Wrote Sobig? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, a_lot_of_gpl_code_has_a_bad_coding_style_too. ButItMightJustBeThatILikeDifferentThings.

    Underscored names and putting braces on the same line of an if statement really annoy me.

    And I've done what you did too (run strings), although I like to keep the file encrypted (I dual boot, don't want to run anything by accident). Used it to find Gator on a friends computer once (his computer was so full of spyware though, that it wasn't really a big thing).

  17. Re:The way I see it... on Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online? · · Score: 1

    Just did it yesterday. And I miss the extra hour of sleep ;)

  18. Re:So what exactly is "grid computing"? on Grid Computing: Conceptual Flyover For Developers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Keep going:

    Consider this: most IT departments are being forced to do more with less. Budgets are tight, resources are thin, and skilled human resources can be scarce or expensive. To top it off, most corporate managers know that they have a super-abundance of idle computing power. It's well known in industry circles that most desktop machines only use 5% to 10% of their capacity, and most servers barely peak out at 20%. No surprise then that many of the big money people in corporate America balk at the thought of purchasing more equipment to get the job done. What these companies need is not more horsepower, but more efficient use of existing horsepower. They need a way to tie all of these idle machines together into a pool of potential labor, manage those resources, and provide secure and reliable access to the number-crunching muscle. Imagine if a corporation or organization could use all of its idle desktop PCs at night to run memory- and processor-intensive tasks? They would get more work done faster, possibly get to market faster, and at the same time cut down their IT expenses.

    The idea seems to be to turn the whole network into a cluster. "Why buy more servers when you can gove some of the load to your desktops?" is a short summary.

  19. Re:Good movement from China's Gov. on China Closes 1,600 "Internet Bars" · · Score: 1

    Children do not know what is good for them

    And how can you be sure that you are right? Perhaps you don't know what is good for you and we do? It's all a matter of perspective, and we always hold our own to be true.

    And we all know that the best way to stop people from doing things that they want to do is to make laws against them.

  20. Re:Nice pretext... on China Closes 1,600 "Internet Bars" · · Score: 1

    Well, with the things we say about the US here on Slashdot, do you really think that they would block us ;)

  21. Re:what's so funny is... on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 1

    What I mean is you use knoppix to format the partitions, untar everything, copy config files over, mount /proc, etc. and then chroot in.

  22. Re:Flash prices on More iPod Killers Introduced for the Holiday · · Score: 1

    Remember that you can boot a Mac from an iPod - swap will bring it down fast.

  23. Re:what's so funny is... on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 1

    Have you tried installing from Knoppix?

  24. Re:To all those complaining about speed on Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse · · Score: 1

    1KB/s is slow even for 56k.

  25. Re:what's so funny is... on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 1
    untar? After I chrooted, i just needed to do
    tar -zxf stage1-i386-whatever.tar.gz
    cd /usr/portage
    scripts/bootstrap.sh
    emerge system
    emerge development-sources
    cd /usr/src/linux
    make menuconfig
    make && make modules_install
    vi /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
    emerge grub
    grub-install /dev/hdb
    vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
    emerge syslogd
    emerge vixie-cron
    shutdown -r now

    That's all I can remember for now, there's probably more.

    I'd give it another go, it's great to use