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  1. Re:How does one revoke a PGP key from keyservers? on OpenPGP Meetup · · Score: 1

    You need to create and distribute a revocation certificate... the docs for your PGP tool should tell you exactly how. See section 7 of the comp.security.pgp faq for general details.

  2. Re:Faith in moral paradigms on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    mod the parent up... whether one agrees or not, it's definitely food for thought.

  3. Re:sorry, you're an idiot. on Convincing Colleges to Upgrade Their Classes? · · Score: 1

    More like "definitely FDDI"... same 802.5 frame type. And dual-attached stations? I may be biased because I was weaned on Token Ring at IBM, but even today I think it's pretty damn cool--I'll take a network that has a sense of self-health over the chaos of Ethernet any day of the week.

    What I really wish, is that 100VG had gotten off the ground.

  4. Re:Buffy who? on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    funny enough, they made a joke about the name of the show in this week's episode.

    I'm just a sucker for programming that doesn't take itself so seriously all the time.

  5. Also in California... on Check Traffic Congestion Online · · Score: 1

    Sigalert.com will even page you with incidents along your route.

  6. when run-time and permanent storage collide on Why Not Solid State Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Everytime another advance brings things closer to "RAM-speed mass storage", it makes me wonder how operating system philosophy is going to have to adapt. If the text of ls(1) is already somewhere just as fast as RAM, why not allocate it's stack and other run-time pages from another chunk of memory and execute the code where it lies? Now as the line continues to blur... what does ls(1) print out when it runs?

    Anyone out there with an HP48? That's the only example I can think of off the top of my head that was designed in that direction... store a variable or a program, free memory decreases, there's only one pool to draw from.

    Are they any other examples? Is it worth pursuing, or is run-time memory technology always going to be far enough ahead to warrant moving things back and forth to permanent storage?

  7. PS2 + hard drives = cheap, reliable education on PS2 Hard Drive Announced · · Score: 1

    At least that's what the World Economic Forum intends to use them for, to disseminate vital health and other information to third-world countries.

    read more at cnn...

  8. Re:download waits on Dear CDDB Users: Thanks For Helping The RIAA! · · Score: 1

    this is a really kinda cool idea... for those who didn't get to the site, they provide a realplayer plug-in that streams music to you from its original source: they just keep a database of locations.

    I wonder what the implications of copyright infringement are here... since you never actually download the tracks.

    the excellent thing is like the 3rd song I listened to was a little ratm--streamed from www.sony.com.

  9. Re:wireless Monitor? on Go Fast With Wireless 1394 · · Score: 1

    assuming a lackluster 1024x768x24bpp @ 70 Hz, the math says:

    1024 px * 768 px * 24 bpp * 70 fps = 1321205760 bps = 1321 Mbps

    iee 1394 isn't quite there yet. 1600x1200x24bpp @ 70 Hz takes almost 2.5 times that.

  10. Re:It's nice to see it finally happen. on Student-Run IT System Just Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    too bad nicksu killed (rather than nursed back to health) the best example of student-run IT ever... CATT. (hmmm, why is that still in the current handbook?) [if you wanna know more, I still live in raleigh... look me up. or visit here to get started.]

    I helped run the network, stack of Ultrix boxen, and the AFS cell there for three years... including the vax that was our EFnet server. I owe a huge chunk of what I know to the other people I lived with that were patient enough to answer and explain.

    formerly greck@scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu,
    --greck

  11. Re:And say goodbye to regular system logging? on Why Don't Servers Support Power Management? · · Score: 1

    "Its thing" is not usually logging, but kflushd syncing filesystems to disk. It's relevant to note that journaling filesystems typically bypass this mechanism to sync to disk on their own schedule. Overriding this to force the disk to spin down during what would otherwise be idle times is at least dangerous, if not impossible.

  12. Re:Not fair!! on Netscape 6 Vs. 4.7x · · Score: 1

    I prefer using IE myself... the toolbar and crap is heavily configurable (I have back, forward, refresh, stop and the location bar on one tiny line), it's fast, and it renders things correctly. and unlike netscape 4.75 for linux, it doesn't crash on me tens of times per day. it's pretty sad I'll pull my vmware session up from the background to browse the web. opera is promising, but it's just not there yet.

  13. PHANTOM devices at work on Force-Feedback Devices Provide Virtual Texture · · Score: 5
    The kids at UNC have been using PHANTOM force-feedback units for years now... here are a few links to some interesting projects:
  14. yes, beer good on Welcome to Slashdot. Now Go Home. · · Score: 1

    and as an ex-INTP (I'm ENTP now, pfffbfbfbt), I'll even buy. I plan on being up there before year-end, even. or better, come down and do some journalism on redhat and I'll show you the wild raleigh nightlife.

  15. Re: Coolpix 990 -> Coolpix 800 not bad eith on Which Digital Camera Do You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    I'll second this... I've had my 800 for a couple of months now and have been VERY happy with its performance, battery life, everything. However, as soon as I have the cash I'm upgrading to the 990... the extra resolution is nice, but I want aperture-priority and shutter-priority options.

    Speaking of options, the coolest accessory I've picked up is this tiny tripod from REI... in its folded state it looks like a fat tent stake, and you can use the velcro wrap to attach it to anything cylindrical--4x4 post, stair railing, stop sign.

  16. networking options? on Super Tiny Espresso PC · · Score: 1

    Through the USB port is the best way, I assume... I can think of a lot of uses for this thing, if it can talk to stuff without Windows.