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  1. People going crazy? on Blizzard Awaits China's Approval For WoW Relaunch · · Score: 1

    How many suicides noticed so far because of WoW shutdown? It must be one hell of fun realizing that you actually have *free time* when server is down. (not that your ssh access server downtime would be different)

  2. Google Earth - Aerospace flight simulator *free* on Entire Moon Added To Google Earth · · Score: 1

    I can't stop enjoying flying F-16 over moon and mars. Pretty funny for geographical program...

  3. Nasa site? on NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reminds me of http://wechoosethemoon.org/ which was quite busy today. wayback machine to realtime proceeding of apollo 11 mission

  4. looks promising on New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car · · Score: 1

    finally a car which will make me apply for driving license

  5. Cutting internet into pieces on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since when is internet divided into countries?

  6. Re:Didn't Caldera do something similar with SCO? on SGI Lives On, In Name At Least · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid not. http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/cds.html there are only update kits (which are offered through support.sgi.com too). It's pretty silly thing not to give customers install media if they have licenses (media could be lost or whatever...). but that's sgi, not always the logical way...

  7. Re:Open Source Irix on SGI Lives On, In Name At Least · · Score: 1

    It's already available. piratebay provides sources for 6.5.5 too :)

  8. Re:State of IRIX? on SGI Lives On, In Name At Least · · Score: 1

    mipspro was "opensourced" for x86 & ia64 architecuters in form of Open64 compiler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open64 SGI put their code to academic hands with agreement they'll produce working and similarly efficient compiler for they upcoming products (Itanium pieces) now open64 supports many architectures including amd64, x-scale...

  9. Re:Didn't Caldera do something similar with SCO? on SGI Lives On, In Name At Least · · Score: 3, Informative

    IRIX license comes with your machine. You don't have to buy another one (aside from fact they wouldn't sell it to you). Just get install media (support.sgi.com for instance - last free offered overlay is 6.5.22). though, you will have to have 6.5 original install media. In this case I can only advise eBay or torrent (demonoid has one nice 2.5gb torrent with all 6.5 stuff + more).

  10. Court can rule anything on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 0

    "Court ruled that water is not chemical" ... I would be no surprised by USA anymore. for people who are interested in topic and pseudo-prove it is vaccine what causes it, http://chetday.com/autismdiet.htm this article could help you (or you may want it to pass it to someone to whom it would help)

  11. Re:Is it that easy? on MS Critical Patch Fixes 8 Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why yahoo uses it and why it's second most popular MTA. http://www.qmail.org/top.html

  12. Re:Would Wikileaks publish a document about itself on Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports · · Score: 1

    People behind wikileaks certainly are not anonymous. http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Advisory_Board

  13. Re:Would Wikileaks publish a document about itself on Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports · · Score: 1

    How that would mean end of wikileaks?

  14. Re:Palantype, Velotype, Stenotype on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    Try to type ps -auxf on chorded keyboard.

  15. Fastest typist in the world uses Dvorak, beat that on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    If someone beats this, I will agree that Qwerty is superior. http://web.syr.edu/~rcranger/blackburn.htm till then, please, practice qwerty to make it worthy.

  16. SCO funding linux development after all on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 1

    yeak, they are still not history?

  17. Which game had the best AI so far? on Inside F.E.A.R. 2's Engine and AI · · Score: 1

    Maybe out of topic question, but I think it's worth noting (if for nothing, just to give the credit for being best to the programmers), which game is considered to have the greatest AI compared to any other game?

  18. HeliOS url on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    it took my some time to find it, I wonder how the students came across it. here is the link: http://www.fixedbylinux.com/

  19. Apple's shitting to it's mouth on Apple's New MacBooks Have Built-In Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Is it only me or are there more people who remember Job's blog about evil drm.
    only to turn 180 degrees after some time

    http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

  20. Re:Yeah, mut how much useful stuff is happening? on Windows Breaks Into Supercomputer Top 10 · · Score: 1

    That must have been hell of a lot of money for licenses. maybe the network cards weren't linux compatible...

  21. site slashdotted on New Top 500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 1

    bit a shame that site like top500.org which symbolizes dreamed horsepower and advertise 24/7 HA systems cannot withstand sudden increase in page hits. Those, who are preaching water, but drinking wine...

  22. Re:you're joking, right? on New Top 500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 1

    it's true and it's not true. if you have a chunk (unit, package, whatever you call it) to process, you wouldn't have it processed as fast as let's say 200 teraflops cluster. there are two main reasons for this:

    1) all users are updating their work orders in some intervals, not immediately. (for sure this can be changed in implementation, but according to character of distributed computing, you don't want to do it)

    2) some units needs to be processed whole at once, it means you cannot break them to pieces and distribute those. there are many reasons - character of processing algorithms -> shared memory, exchanging information between individual iterations (threads or some other), heavy I/O usage (mainly storage), etc... so it's purely theoretical number. it's like saying that in one year it can do as much work as one 495 teraflops cluster, however, it won't be able to cope with all kinds of tasks you would probably need and could have them done on cluster.

    not even comparing those two (seti/boinc and clusters) in power consumption could give you theoretically could give you any estimate about horsepower you have, because clusters are densely packed, optimized for 24/7, have fast processors, whilst with projects like seti/boing/folding@home you have very heterogenous environment...

    yeah, and you we are still assuming that internet has no bandwith limit. some "chunks" can be gigabytes big...

  23. Virtual world from IBM on Non-Violent, Cooperative Games? · · Score: 1

    This one is really cool, so called edutaiting... http://www.powerupthegame.org/ alas, windows only =(

  24. Benchmarks on NVIDIA Makes First 4GB Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Any numbers how does it compare to the rest of cards? except number of cores and amount of memory...

  25. Doesn't make sense on StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How in the first place could have been staroffice included in "Google Pack of free software" when it's proprietary?