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  1. Re:Oh fuck. on Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps your hard drives are overheating ? Installing a fan may help :p

  2. Re:It's a difficult and closed industry! on How Do You Get a Board Game Published? · · Score: 1

    Your rights may be stolen either way. Would you have the funds to defend an open source license in court if some disrespectful company forks the code and claims it as their own ?

    Have you decided on an open source license yet ? It appears as though you'd like to retain the sole rights to publish the non-electronic version of the game. Would you allow a fork that allowed printing of the board/cards/whatever else ?

  3. Re:It's a difficult and closed industry! on How Do You Get a Board Game Published? · · Score: 1

    Why would you be unwilling to provide a set of rules to a company who hasn't signed an NDA, yet wish to create a FOSS version ?

    Either you wish the game to be open, or you don't. Choose one.

  4. Driving people to free software on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I was considering buying Vista on the release date. A one-off cost for 5 years of use doesn't seem to bad.

    I was having a "I hate Microsoft week" a while back when the new Vista EULA's were released (what ? documentation for Visual Studio costs extra ? What a joke!). I've replaced motherboards about 4/5 times in the past 5 years. There is no way I am going to purchase the same product 2 or 3 times.

    I've now moved to Ubuntu, and will be recommending Ubuntu to family and friends. It's easy to install, easy to use, and free in every sense of the word.

  5. Re:Where's the Vision of this Proposal? on New Display Interface Standard in the Works · · Score: 1

    Where's the Vision in this Proposal?

    I think the point of the proposal is that you'll need an approved DRM device before watching the vision.

  6. Re:I am preparing my paper on cracking door locks on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    So you're going to recommend in a paper that people not use locks, despite there being no alternative ? I doubt that insurance companies would recommend this action.

    Perhaps your paper needs more work if you plan on stating that ?

  7. Re:Front End...? on Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux · · Score: 4, Informative
    It certainly does!

    Plus, without ever using Sybase (I'm more of a PostgreSQL fan), I'm fairly sure that Sybase would provide a C/C++ api.

    (For those that haven't caught on, Sybase is a competitor to such products as Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL etc, and is not compareable to silly little toys such as MS Access)

  8. Re:Why does a 4 kHz signal need BROADBAND?!? on Skype VoIP Software & Service Reviewed · · Score: 1

    TCP/IP is designed for reliability.

  9. Re:An example need for change on Point, Click, Root. · · Score: 1
    I realise the parent was troll bait, but I'll reply anyway... In the *nix world:

    // Writing to memory:
    int a = 5;
    // Or, in case you don't think the stack counts as a "block of memory":
    int *b = new int;
    *b = 5;

    Writing to a disk:

    • open, check for EINTR and repeat.
    • write, repeat until everything is written, repeat on EINTR, do something on an error
    • close, and check to ensure the data previously written didn't cause an error (eg. If it was over NFS)
    So, I seriously doubt you could argue that writing to a file is the way forward. Conversely, many people will mmap a file so that it looks like a block of memory, and in many cases this can reduce complexity. Being able to use an iterator pattern over the file data is priceless.

    Assigning whether the "file" should contain persistent data or transient 'buffer' data would increase complexity.

    btw, what happens when the so called "disk cache controller" decides that the disk is full ?

  10. Wasted effort ? on 1 Kilometer Bluetooth Link to Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't it have been easier to just take the phone with you ? Surely, that's why they're designed small enough to fit in your hand ?

    Oh, yeah, I forgot this was /.

  11. Re:Is This a Hoax??? on Toyota Patents Winking, Laughing, Crying Car · · Score: 1
    So you're willing to argue that the article refers to " IEEE 1394 or USB powered computer light " ?

    Patent No. 6,757,593 (" Vehicle expression operation control system, vehicle communication system, and vehicle which performs expression operation") appears to be a more appropriate fit.

    Not sure what article you were reading, but I pulled that quote from the /. linked story.


    I was reading the information posted on /., which was nice enough to include a link to the correct patent:

    The NY Times/IHT reports that four inventors working for Toyota in Japan have won a patent


  12. Re:Is This a Hoax??? on Toyota Patents Winking, Laughing, Crying Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    You've messed up the patent number slightly. The article refers to patent # 6,757,593

  13. Re:Linux helps. Windoze is a waste of time. on New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL · · Score: 1

    Yet another sheep without a clue.

    On previous installations of various Linux distros, the first step I've taken is to download the various patches and updates. Same procedure with Windows.

    Linux isn't a magic silver bullet that will solve all of your security problems.

    "permissions embedded in the file system" is always overcome by people using the magic chmod 777 fix. "Real users" is useless if all the important personal data is stored by the user using the web browser.

    I'm typing this using Firefox 0.9 under XP. I don't particularly like Windows, but there are other people who need to use this machine. For the many millions of people using Windows, using software other than IE/OE is a great choice.

  14. Thoughts from a java convert on Learning C++ for Java Programmers? · · Score: 1

    My uni basically only taught Java as a programming language, which proved (not very) useful for my first real development job in c++.

    Things I wished I'd realised sooner:
    1) Learn how to use (or write, if you're brave) STL iterators with containers.
    2) Learn the difference between the stack and the heap.
    3) Use memory leak checkers (eg. valgrind), as you WILL get memory management incorrect.
    4) Realise that destructors in c++ are actually useful, in that you know (more or less) when they'll be run.

    I've read some code written by people claiming to know c++ with a java background. Every single object was created with the new object, including those used only in the current scope. yeeech.

  15. Estonia hey? on Estonia Embraces Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 2, Funny

    Estonia hey...

    that's an aweful lot of pringles cans I'm gonna need for free net.

  16. Experimental kernals... on Reboot Linux Faster Using kexec · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like just the thing for testing a newly compiled kernel without modifying the bootloader. I'd much prefer to test the kernel on the "real" system then some sort of virtualisation (VMware etc) using kexec. Much faster than accidentally screwing the system, trying to find a bootable cd etc.

  17. Re:All Math / Physics and No CS Makes a Good Coder on Math And The Computer Science Major · · Score: 1

    The world doesn't need more scientists believing they can code. Software development requires -engineers-, not scientists. All the math/physics theory in the world won't teach you to write scalable, maintainable, reusable software. So, unless you're planning on staying in a research field for the rest of your career, you'd better learn how to code properly.