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  1. Re:Newsflash: Hijacking the Statue. on Biometrics at the Statue of Liberty · · Score: 1

    Perhaps instead they are worried that someone might have it go on a rampage, smashing up all the museums.

  2. Re:Uses of cruise missiles? on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance · · Score: 1

    He could sell-out to the RIAA. It would certainly help to minimize the number of repeat-downloaders they have to sue.

  3. Re:Just use WinRAR. on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1
    If I download a tar/gz file, say foo.tar.gz, and I WinRar extract it, it'll give me foo.tar. Winzip, however, will recognize foo.tar and offer to extract it for me, saving me a click or two.
    Versions of WinRAR newer than 3.10 no longer suffer that limitation.
  4. Re:No You can't on Using GPL/BSD Code In Closed Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    s/licenses/libraries/

    I ought to stop while I'm ahead. ;-|

  5. Re:No You can't on Using GPL/BSD Code In Closed Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    A clarification to my previous post, the GPL prohibits the distribution of binaries linked against non-GPL compatible licenses.

  6. Re:OK, help me list who's gone now... on 3Dfx No More -- NVidia Purchases Video Card Maker · · Score: 1

    s/has/have/
    I even used preview. :o

  7. Re:OK, help me list who's gone now... on 3Dfx No More -- NVidia Purchases Video Card Maker · · Score: 1

    According to this interview with someone from Micron, they has pulled the plug on their 3D development. It looks like Rendition belongs on the dead list.

  8. Here's how I did it on XFree86 4.0.1 Review · · Score: 4
    I hate to reply to myself, but my previous post wasn't very helpful. Here's how I installed XFree86 4.0.1 from the RPMs in rawhide. YMMV
    1. Install RPM 4.0.
      1. Download the RPM 4.0 tarball ( ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test/rpm-4. 0.tar.gz ).
      2. Download db3, the database format used by RPM 4.0 ( ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/ test/db3-3.1.14-0.2.6x.src.rpm ).
      3. Build ( rpm --rebuild db3-3.1.14-0.2.6x.src.rpm ) and install ( ls /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/db3-* | xargs rpm -ihv ) db3. Build ( rpm -tb rpm-4.0.tar.gz ) and install ( ls /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/RedHat/RPMS/i386/rpm-* | xargs rpm -ihv ) RPM 4.0.
      4. Convert the RPM database to the format used by RPM 4.0 ( rpm --rebuilddb ).
      5. Moving the old database files ( /var/lib/rpm/*.rpm ) out of /var/lib/rpm is necessary to prevent RPM 4.0 from segfaulting.
    2. Update initscripts, modutils and chkconfig to be compatible with those expected by the rawhide distribution of XFree86 4.0.1.
      1. Download the updated packages.
      2. initscripts 5.27 ( ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/ rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/initsc ripts-5.27-1.src.rpm )
      3. modutils 2.3.11 ( ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/ rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/modutil s-2.3.11-7.src.rpm )
      4. chkconfig 1.2.1 ( ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/ rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/chkconf ig-1.2.1-1.src.rpm )
      5. Build and install the updated packages.
      6. rpm --rebuild initscripts-5.27-1.src.rpm ; rpm -ihv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/initscripts-5.27-1.i386. rpm
      7. rpm --rebuild modutils-2.3.11-7.src.rpm ; rpm -ihv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/modutils-2.3.11-7.i386.r pm
      8. rpm --rebuild chkconfig-1.2.1-1.src.rpm ; rpm -ihv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/chkconfig-1.2.1-1.i386.r pm
    3. Build and install XFree86 4.0.1.
      1. Download XFree86 4.0.1 ( ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/ rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/XFree8 6-4.0.1-0.30.src.rpm ).
      2. Build XFree86 4.0.1 ( CFLAGS='-I/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/XFree86-4.0.1/xc/e xport/include' LDFLAGS='-I/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/XFree86-4.0.1/exp ort/lib' rpm --rebuild XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.src.rpm ) and install the desired XFree86 4.0.1 RPMs located in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/XFree86-*. Set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS is needed else the build will complain about being inable to find some parts of xlib, which should only an issue when building on a system without XFree86 installed.
    I haven't really had any problems except for warnings in the USB portion of rc.sysinit, which can be commented out. Some files were renamed or were moved around as well (i.e., conf.modules becomes modules.conf and the init scripts are moved from /etc/rc.d to /etc). Another problem is the HelixGNOME installer doesn't play nicely with the new RPM database and tries to update packages.rpm instead of Packages, which is probably a good thing since it doesn't seem to be aware of db3.
  9. Re:Red Hat RPMs? on XFree86 4.0.1 Review · · Score: 1

    The only way the RPMs from rawhide will install is if the rawhide SRPMs are rebuilt on a RedHat 6.x system using RPM 4.0. Once that's been done, XFree86 4.0.1 installs without any of the dependency problems that installing the binary RPMs straight from the ftp site would have.