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  1. Re:Subversion with a touch of bash on How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories? · · Score: 1

    Sure, please post it somewhere. I've actually been planning a shell wrapper for svn for my own purposes lately (home configs, but also company configs with multiuser access and good audit/accountability features). I think I won't symlink into the checkout dir, but rather introduce an extra step to sync it with configs all over the system.

    Thanks for sharing your experience.

  2. 64-bit proprietary hashing? on Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is it just me, or do MS tags look like 50 positions of 4 colors, i.e. 100 bits, which, minus error correction, probably boils down to 64-80. It's obvious you need a server-based resolver to convert these few bytes into an URL. Now guess who manages the server and how much do they want to charge for each entry.

  3. Re:It's just _Dual_ on Intel's Dual-core strategy, 75% by end 2006 · · Score: 1

    Thanks, right :-( One mistake and a post loses its point...

  4. It's just _Dual_ on Intel's Dual-core strategy, 75% by end 2006 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, come on, it's just dual, it's just a marketing trick. Speed has been increasing in a logarithmic manner for years on end, and now we're gonna stand still at the word "Dual"? If intel/amd devise a way within reason to logarithmically increase the number of cores in a CPU (which I strongly doubt), that'll be a breakthrough. But for now - it's just a way to keep prices high without inventing anything at all. WOW!

  5. mp3PRO - your opinion on Thomson Releases MP3 Surround · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it sounds great. It absolutely can't provide for audiophile quality, but it still does wonders on 64-128Kbit/s bitrates. Admit it, that the one and only thing that buried it - was the stupid patenting/licensing scheme. But from a technical point of view, it left OGG/AAC/WMA a step behind.