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  1. Voorwerp = Thing on Galaxy Zoo Produces a Rare Specimen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Voorwerp is 'thing' in Dutch. But when you would like to say 'thing' in Dutch, you would obviously use 'ding'.

  2. Re:Multicast? on Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality · · Score: 1

    It is UDP. So no ACKs, to let it work reliably some data redundancy is required.

  3. Re:As if on Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality · · Score: 1

    What incentive do residential Internet last-mile providers have to deploy these multicast endpoints on their IPv4 networks? Economically speaking: allowing more users on the same data lines. Since the total amount of traffic that users in common scenarios will use is reduced. For users it will mean a possible increase of networking speed for applications that support the infrastructure.
  4. Re:Lead Free and Consumer Electronics on Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Apple indeed. Maybe some people recall the iBookG4 wifi/graphics troubles, because of the bad soldering. Now that was only after 1 year of usage.

    The point is: is it bad if something like a laptop breaks after 4 years? (So you can trow it away... without the lead stuff) The possibility that the battery breaks within a year seems to be clear, but it is kind of useless a complete laptop breaks within 5 years. I have used older laptops that were over 10 years old (HP Omnibook series), they still function.

    But do electronic boards usually end up in garbage waste? In The Netherlands there is a big recycle market to get the gold, etc. from these boards. In this case it seems to be totally clueless to have lead replacements if the garbage doesn't pollute.

  5. Re:Multicast? on Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't get how it would work for 2 people to watch the same video simultaneously without A) depriving Google of hits thereby decreasing profit by ads B) Ignoring cookies C) Invading privacy. Player A uses multicastable flash video tool.
    Player A requests a video using this tool, and subscribes on a multicast stream that is returned by the server.
    Player A is watching, stream starts from 0.

    Player B uses the same flash video tool.
    Player B requests a video using this tool, and subscribes on an exciting multicast stream, and a new one starting from 0.
    Player B now receives the data that is transmitted for player A. And the new data starting from 0.
    Player B is watching, using the available streams on the network.

    Now you could even implement this as if someone skips to another position, this would influence the other players ;) So you see that the factual request is still made, the 'flash' app that downloads it just gets the network traffic in multiple streams.
  6. Re:Multicast? on Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality · · Score: 3, Informative

    YouTube on steroids is geographic caching. But even if two people on the same network are watching the same video, it should be an option to receive the networkdata that is for the position the other person is currently watching.

    But the problem with multicasting is not that there are no tools, but it is not 'neutrally' implemented across different carriers that deploy access networks.

  7. Re:No, he's talking about replacing TCP/IP. on Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Internet is non-neutral with respect to applications and to location, but it's overly neutral with respect to content, which causes gross inefficiency as we move into the large-scale transfer of HDTV over the Internet. Unless some people finally get there managers on deploying Multicast on every medium they manage, I totally agree with the inefficiency.
  8. Re:Finaly on ZFS Confirmed In Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard · · Score: 1

    Cluster capabilities it already has. But the point here is that is that for example iSCSI in this configuration is not yet supported that is a bummer. Next to this, there is only one point to terminate a controller in an active/standby setup. More cool features should be added to get ZFS to be really usable in a cluster scenario, especially with respect aggregation units and failover.

  9. ENUM with DNSSEC on Open Source BIND Alternative Launches · · Score: 1

    Using DNSSEC it is possible to send out special replies to known or not yet known users. In that way authorization based on DNS is possible. This will also open possibilities to use ENUM how it is supposed to.

  10. Re:solved within 7hrs... on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 1

    I didn't read this before, but the second 'S' introduced, could it be a mapping to or from the non solved 'S' above the text?

  11. Re:Will it.... on NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod · · Score: 1

    The author of rivatuner is also part of the Nouveau project. For TV-out tuning we basically reused the RivaTuner code. Next to this, on *all* my old cards I have this DIN connection. Plus I guess the StereoGraphics hardware will work with an embedded signal.

  12. Re:Will it.... on NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see if it enables the Quadro features in the driver. (Stereo stuff...)

  13. ...and no revolts over the group tooltip? on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    I think if people are going to revolt over the resize of the input window (that was annoying yes) I sincerely wonder why nobody took the liberty of forking the entire codebase to kill the most annoying new feature in that release: the group tooltip! This tooltip hides (overlaps) all contacts in a group, if the developer of that feature ever steps forward, I'll publicly make a shame of him. So I can fully understand people wanting to fork "Pidgin" this was the entire idea of "Pidgin", since libpurple would implement lowlevel stuff, and "Pidgin" highlevel GUI stuff. They just made it all to easy ;) Now I hope we can all get Adium on Linux ;)

  14. Re:Alas, another flavour on Sun Developing Open Media Stack · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem with dirac was that it was to slow. At least two implementations Schrodinger and the partial not yet finished one in FFMPEG (last SoC) can offer the performance users want to have. Since there is there are now hardware (GPU and FGPA) decoders and encoders for Dirac, a browser plugin going to developed, chances are that this can be a next step in a better codec and free for all. Now I always wondered what will be the audio equivalent of Dirac ;)

  15. Re:mmmm on Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative · · Score: 1

    Not yet published it seems. But you can find it on: Parlando.

  16. Re:mmmm on Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative · · Score: 1

    The video thingie was mentioned for Uitzending Gemist I really hope BBC's Dirac gets momentum ASAP to replace WMV entirely. The current Dirac performance has been increased by the Schrodinger project. Now is it an open standard... nope, but it could be soon.

  17. Re:mmmm on Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was at the commission meeting, lets say the Christian Democrats really don't get what Open Source is. They think in terms of 'Experimental' and 'Gratis'. The other parties understand the concept completely, thank God ;) ODF is the preferred way to go. Open Source should have preference if the software is equal on the requirements. Next to this, software specially made for the government shouldn't be licensed to, but completely owned by the government. This was the procedure but many 'errors' were made at some ministries.

    The Socialist Party wants the cost of a PC split in a software part and a hardware part. This concept of course is the way to go, but I don't see this happen soon.

    Microsoft should not worry at all, since the users in the government use the plug-in at some departments already. I didn't hear anyone mentioning OpenOffice.

  18. Open Data is also mentioned on Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Dutch devision of OpenStreetMap also send in a letter to the commission about the need for Open/Free Data. Standards are important, but the reuse of existing government work is too.

  19. Re:On the cheap on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    It was set up via an Intel motherboard, SATA was supported on this one. Using the latest OpenSolaris download from Sun. Yes I had problems with my not supported 3Ware controller, but was lucky that an Areca controller was provided for development, yes it needed extra drivers. I'm a Solaris newbie, and the instructions were extremely straightforward. Support on IRC, what could you want more? The Xen Nodes are running on Dell Quad-Core Intel machines, 64bit optimized Gentoo. I'm doing live migration and am extending the XenAPI for better monitoring these weeks. I'm quite happy with the product, but developing on Xen seems not to get much response from any chiefs in the community. Offtopic: To put it bluntly the Nexenta corporation mentioned above, started to spam me yesterday after I put interest (months ago) in their community version. That isn't very nice.

  20. Re:On the cheap on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you do it with OpenSolaris and ZFS, you make it very simple for yourself. The amount of administration needed using Linux and *iSCSI is huge. While OpenSolaris provides iSCSI/NFS on the fly. Including snapshots of snapshots. So you can have 'raw' volumes, and managed data. I'm using OpenSolaris now to boot my Xen Linux Nodes now from OpenSolaris NFS. Yes I know xVM exists, but it is not as mature as the Linux version. Use the best tool for a problem.

  21. Re:I mean, remember when you got a meal on airplan on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    Try a Russian airliner... of course you probably feel very good after your body (attached to your legs) arrive at the same destination, but meanwhile the food is very ok.

  22. Illegal evidence? on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be very interesting if this evidence they propose will be accepted by any judge as legally obtained evidence.

  23. RaLink? on AMD To Open ATI Specs · · Score: 1

    Ralink drivers were open sourced, and are in the same stage as AMD is going to put their drivers. "Here you have the specs, write good drivers, goodluck!"

  24. Re:Listen up, chappies on Programming Erlang · · Score: 1

    One of the first alternatives as for the 'normal' jabber server implementation was written in erlang. Resulting in ejabberd people care :)

  25. BIND on 'Til Tech Do Us Part · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like my DNS cares if it needs to forward two A records to the same number.