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  1. Re:A small Criticism on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    This now works, it seems like they didn't have everything working before the sub'd the story, cause allot of complaints in the comments have been resolved now! I didn't get the /. logo at the top either, but I do now...

  2. Looks ok on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    Looks ok to me, I think the main thing is that Slash is moving on (FINALLY) to some new standards. I use things on Digg like the thumbs up/thumbs down buttons, and it's just one example of how things 'should' work nowadays, in regards to Web UI at least. I say "bring it on" and we can see what works, and hopefully, ways to improve it in a faster manner than in the past (Debian release comments anyone?)

  3. Where is the Port? on DTrace Becomes Usable on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    I've read about dtrace and wanted to try it for awhile, posts to BSDForums haven't helped me either. I don't have it in my ports tree, and it's not listed on Freshports: http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=dtrace& search=go&num=10&stype=name&method=match&deleted=e xcludedeleted&start=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensit ive

    Anyone know how to get ahold of a copy? I've created ports before so I'm not afraid to try some 'testing' version.

    Thanks

  4. One reason (Ballmer style!) on Why Buggy Software Gets Shipped · · Score: 0

    Marketing! Marketing! Marketing!

  5. Re:iPhone + Nike = Shoe Phone? on Apple and Nike Team up for iPod Shoe Interface · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I suspect no one here is over 35 then...

    http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/

  6. Looks fantastic! on New Super Mario Bros. Review · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As usual, Nintendo makes games that are fun, this review looks like they're just continuing that tradition. This is why Wii is going to be good, cause the games will be fun. My only complaint; please put this out on the GameCube! With the GameBoy adapter you can play ALL GameBoy and GameBoy Advance on GameCube, but there's no such option for DS (and how could it with the 'touch' screen part...because of this they have to release this for GC, now!

    Thank you Nintedo, you rock.

  7. Re:iPhone + Nike = Shoe Phone? on Apple and Nike Team up for iPod Shoe Interface · · Score: 1

    Shoe phone? "Missed it by, that much!" (anyone get that one?)

  8. ClamWin on Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm sure that this will be covered, but I have installed ClamWin on my Mom's and Mother-in-laws computers to cover their anti-virus needs. Every now and then I'll get a call or glance at it when I'm over, but the most complicated thing for them is when they get a 'new engine available, click to download' link; which the click, it's installed, and they're done. All virus updates happen daily and it'll report that to them so they know things are working via the icon in the taskbar. At home on my FreeBSD mailserver I trust GPLd clam AV and BitDefender in parallel, so I know it works, no reason for this 40$ a year McAfee with the all the bloatware you'd never need! ;)

  9. Re:High Definition (1920x) torrent now available on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the refresher, this time I'll remember:

    http://www.tribler.org/content/Elephants_Dream_HD. avi.torrent

  10. High Definition (1920x) torrent now available on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 0, Redundant

    High Definition (1920x) torrent:
    http://www.tribler.org/content/Elephants_Dream_HD. avi.torrent

    Leave those windows open when you go to Lunch people!

  11. Re:Resolution on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 1

    Yep, just found the HD (1920x) version:

    http://www.tribler.org/content/Elephants_Dream_HD. avi.torrent [tribler.org]

  12. Re:Any information at all? on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 5, Informative

    ummary from Motevideo:

            Elephants Dream is a story with quick-witted dialogue, tightly designed architecture and unusual sound effects. The main characters, Emo (a cool young trumpeter) and Proog (a confused - or maybe not? - loner) are each stuck in a world of their own. At a certain moment they cross paths with one another. The oddball Proog cautiously tries to introduce his young friend Emo to his world. When Emo realizes that Proog primarily wants to push his ideas on him, this leads to a conflict between them. But can Emo survive in Proog's world? And can they overcome their conflicts, or will they each go their own way in life? Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen create two unique personalities that command the imagination, and carry the viewer along into a bizarre world that consists of a bleak wasteland with a tangle of cables and other alien landscapes, a living typewriter, an enormous elevator shaft, and especially a lot of very strange birds.

    Also checkout the Wikipedia entry:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_Dream

  13. Teasers / Trailers for the impatient on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 3, Informative
    30MB MPEG4 (BitTorrent)

    30MB MPEG4 (blendertestbuilds.de)

    Update Oct 17: Here are some other mirrors and compressed versions made by the community!

    24MB MPEG (BitTorrent)

    9MB Xvid/Vorbis OGM

  14. Re:Before it's slashdoted.... on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Re:Zonk Title Sense Make Little Gah! on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 1

    Release of first 3D 'Open Movie'; Elephants Dream

    That would have worked better.

  16. Before it's slashdoted.... on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 4, Informative
    Download the movie AVI, MPEG4 (mp42) / AC3 5.1 Surround

    Only playable in: VLC Media Player MPlayer

  17. Uh, use open source? on Alternative Enterprise Anti-Virus Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Why are you paying for this software if you're a non profit? On, or before your mail server, chain together ClamAV and Bitdefender using Mailscanner or Amasis-new - have a cron updating each of these daily (or hourly if you're a tin foil hat type)

    Do you have any specific requirements that would not allow this to work?

  18. Re:Missing? on Google: The Missing Manual, Second Edition · · Score: 1

    > Or if you are lucky in the first place you look....

    But that would also be the last place you look too!

  19. Missing? on Google: The Missing Manual, Second Edition · · Score: 1

    It's always in the last place you look.

  20. Inadvertant spelling slip up! on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 0

    It's Niagara T1 CPU [sun.com], not Niagra! Can you tell I'm writing an anti-spam HOWTO based on my FreeBSD setup I use?

    And it had to be the first time I got a post approved...ah well.

  21. Re:Debian on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    And Ubuntu certainly does, and has done too. Ubuntu is a great project, but as long as it's tied so closely to Debian it will be in their debit; which I think is a good thing. Remember things like Mandrake/driva started as Red Hat with some *Drake config tools...

  22. Re:The problem is it relies on a central server. on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly, this is why Napster was brought down. They need a different client-server setup, me thinks a bittorrent/Onion Router style network would do the trick here, and with the start that BS has provided, I can't see it as being impossible to make this into an effective defensive/offensive tool.

  23. When the going gets tough... on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey, wait a minute, I've followed Blue Security since I first read about them on /., and I can't believe they're just gonna fold up shop and give up! Isn't this what they got into the business for? Can't they take this attack and use it to demonstrate the validity of their concept? I wish they could think up another tactic besides, 'you win' -- perhaps diversifiying their URLs/IPs so that they're more spread out...less vuln to an attack on one IP? Come on, what do readers think...I know there's got to be some way to use BS software and reroute things through an Onion style network to fight back.

  24. Re:Oh well... on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    >And then to top it all off, once you get something working, it only takes a > small change to break things again. Exactly - this is what I go nuts over, and why I'm using OS X more and more. I love linux, have it dual booted here on my iBook -- but once I start trying to 'upgrade' I break stuff, and then just waste time fixing it. I've hacked on linux since '96, but am finding myself in OS X (which I don't like as much for a DT as gnome) ssh'd into my server. kinda feel guilty, but I'm getting more work done than when I had linux on the desk.

  25. Scaling... on What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 1

    I'm reading more and more about how ROR as a web app scales very well for large scale sites. For yself I'm learning how to do some advanced things with it, here is my HOWTO speed up ruby-on-rails with memcached:

    http://fak3r.com/articles/2006/05/11/speed-up-ruby -on-rails-with-memcached