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  1. 1995 2012 on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    Slackware @1995- >> RedHat @1998- >> Mandrake @2002- >> Ubuntu @2005- >> CentOS+Debian @2008-

  2. How exactly is that data available?! on Banks Using Mobile Phone Usage To Gauge Credit Risk · · Score: 2

    Almost enough said.

    Assuming such correlation is useful for credit analysis, how does someone other than the telcos access that kind of information to produce such evaluations?! I'd say it is private information. Correct me if I'm wrong...

  3. Thunderbolt?! on Intel Z68 Motherboard Round-Up · · Score: 1

    I confess to not having read TFA but I guess the summary would have mentioned it given the world-class editing team around here... *cough!*
    Anyway, being Thunderbolt an intel technology, is there any such controller/port available in these boards?

  4. Back in College - GC/UI Courses on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    My short (happy) start,

    Back in 1993 or thereabouts I had one computer graphics course where we had to do a 3D project in PHIGS / SPHIGS (remember that?). The lab had about 20 NEC colour X Terminals - beautiful beasts, by the time - which, of course, were shared by many students; in short, the lab was always packed with people and it was not the most confortable environment to give the first steps in UNIX graphics programming - noisy and very often with no available seats.

    A friend got hold of Linux in what were maybe 15-20 3.5" floppies -- that would be slackware, IIRC -- which we managed to install on a non-branded PC. I recall having trouble in getting X to work and fiddling with the modelines to acheive something like 800x600 with probably 8 bits per pixel! :)

    In the end it was a great learning experience. We did most of the work at home and, from time to time, tested it at the lab.

    Later (or maybe that was the initial trigger?) we had a different course where we had to program directly on top of the X API and also on top of Motif - we also used our home PCs (now that I mention it, I'm not really sure if we had Motif on Linux by then).

    Well, there you go: that's my "how I started".

    Since then it has been a very rich experience both using Linux and commercial UNIX solutions at a professional and personal level. The distance between what Linux was by then and what it is today is huge in every aspect, but it was already very useful and valuable by then.

    Let's see what the future holds for it. :-)

  5. Re:test -- NTP + Leap Second ? on Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Could this be a coincidence or was there some 2008/2009 rollover issue going on here?

    set the system time back a few mins before the crash occured and see if your server crashes again... otherwise it's idle speculation

    It might be difficult to reproduce if the system clock is NTP synched. Especially considering we had a leap second this year, where the clocks rolled from 23:59:59 to 23:59:60 to 00:00:00 GMT.
    As someone else said: check your logs + try to reproduce.
    --
    Happy new Year

  6. Re:Real-world use on Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    As far as performance, it has been able to handle 4 simultaneous 24-bit / 96 kHz audio tracks playing back with no hiccups whatsoever.

    ...which is nothing by today's standards:

    4 tracks, 24 bits @96KHz ---> 4 * 3 bytes * 96000 / second ---> 1152000 bytes / second ---> ~1 MiB/s !!!

    Even if you'd go with stereo tracks, that would still be nothing.

  7. News for nerds, stuff that matters ? on What Do You Want on a News Website? · · Score: 1

    Where the key words are: "news" and "matters"...

  8. Re:X-Code (+pyobjc+python) on What Tools Do You Use for UI Prototyping? · · Score: 1

    ...and with PyObjC, you can easily plug some "brains" to the interface in good old Python. Really neat !

  9. Re:Why I still use Mozilla... - it can read mbox on Mozilla 1.7.5 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course it can read from a local mbox file... See menu "Tools" > "Account Settings" > "Add Account" > "Movemail". I use it on a regular basis.

  10. MuPAD on Open Source Math Software For Education? · · Score: 1


    Check this one out at http://research.mupad.de/. According to the website, "MuPAD is a mathematical expert system for doing symbolic and exact algebraic computations with almost arbitrary accuracy."; I know it includes several math libraries and has the ability of doing 2D and 3D plots... I don't think it is open source, but there seems to be a free (beer), older version for non commercial use under both Linux and Windows. Good Luck.

    PS: I remember using an even older version quite a few years ago and it was really nice.

  11. Re:An entry in TPC-C benchmark on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 1

    Oooops, I guess I misspelled the text, sorry. The link is correct, however. ;)
    What good is "Preview" if we really don't take a look at it ?! *sigh*

  12. Re:An entry in TPC-C benchmark on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...it is there, 4th position in the price/performance clustered solutions:

    www.tcp.org/...

    RedHat AS, running Oracle 9i

  13. Re:What about software? - HP-UX is there on The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    HP-UX 11i 1.0 runs on PA-RISC (uname -r returns 11.11).
    HP-UX 1.5 and 1.6 run on ia64 (uname -r returns 11.20 and 11.21, IIRC).
    So, its there already. And you can buy boxes running it today.

  14. Re:You can find trial ver on download.com on Gobe Productive To Be GPLed · · Score: 1

    ...I don't know koffice well, but since most apps/components in KDE are accessible via dcop interfaces, I'd be lead believe that this specific office suite does, indeed, provide automation.

    Anyone care to confirm this ?

  15. This is not Slashdot !... on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    ...otherwise we'd have seen thousands of 'Informative' posts relating oz, pints and quarters to mililiters, liters and other measures easily understandable by other folks. ;)

    BTW: Coffe around here is served in ~10ml cups: it is strong and bitter. (now go ahead and translate that to ozs !) ;p

  16. Try this... on Secure Printing? · · Score: 1


    Although I like the simplicity of having direct attatchment to such confidential documentation printers, that might not be possible.

    ...apart from /., google is your friend if you ask him for "secure printing". There are several aparent solutions including not only the encryption of the data in its path to the printers but the authentication of the submiter on the printer so that the job only comes out in the presence of the right persons... (I know HP has such functionality in some printers but I doubt that the data path is encrypted)

    Have fun !

  17. Is this Interesting, Funny or what ?... on Microsoft To Exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo · · Score: 1


    For some reason, as of this post, 50% of the posts are modded as Funny.
    Can this antecipate some behavioural pattern ?!

    *sigh*

  18. To complement some of the posted info... on Planning a Small Server Room · · Score: 1

    ...do not forget to consider (in no particular order):

    Fire extinguisher mechanisms

    Easily accessible power circuit breakers

    Room accessibility that allows you to easily put another cabinet in there (or out of there !) - tall enough doors, ramps if you'll have a raised floor, etc.

    Tipically systems pull cold air from the front and blow hot air from the back (check yours, though); consider this when laying out the overall air flow, as you don't want to waste expensive cold air on the wrong "side" of the systems.

    Remember that the door on your cabinets will need to be opened. Depending on the cabinet models, the orientation can (or cannot) be reversed. Another point to remember when laying out the cabinets through the room...

    Did I mention raised floor and structured cabling ?... Maybe I'm asking for too much....

  19. Re:Non-Volatile Memory on When PC Still Means 'Punch Card' · · Score: 1


    Sure, but it's not easy to back it up...

  20. Why insist in "s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g"... on Free Software Magazine · · Score: 1


    ...when you can avoid escaping the / by using "s#Linux#GNU/Linux#g" ?!

  21. Do remember on Linux PDA Part Deux · · Score: 0


    You don't want to know what kernel, OS, etc your PDA is running
    You just want it to "A" you in managing your "PD" !

  22. ...some compiled information on Correcting Common Linux Misconceptions? · · Score: 1


    The New Linux Myth Dispeller

    BTW: Google is your friend...

  23. OT: Complicated to Operate ? Sure ! :) on Constructing a Windows-Less Office · · Score: 1

    A real hacker:

    Uses linux - complicated to operate

    Uses his photo camera in manual mode - complicated to operate

    Shifts gears manually when driving - complicated to operate

    ...add other complicated-to-operate hacker-oriented let-me-really-understand how-this-works stuff

    ...now, where are those thirty seven patch cables so that I can make that magic phone call and order dinner ?!

  24. Some other poll says... on Poll Says Most Americans Favor Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1


    ...that most Americans find computers difficult to use and understand !

  25. Soft Colours, No extreme contrast and Good Font on Text Color Combinations and Eye Strain? · · Score: 1

    I like darkish, low saturation backgrounds (#202020, #205060, #307040) with white/yellowish not extremely bright foregrounds (#e8e8e8, #e8e8d0).
    Font selection is of the utmost importance. For terminals I like lucidasanstypewriter-12 or the Microsoft "Andale Mono" which I use under Win.