User: molo

Re:Not directly related..

On: AMD Sponsors Pro Gaming Team

Been there, done that. These were both available for Quake (the original NetQuake), at least as far back as '97.

QuakeTV is a relay server you could connect to for viewing. It had one client connection to the real server.

Demo recording became standard practice in these games a long time ago. Each player would record their perspective, and observers would record too. It became the definitive way to view a match.

-molo

Re:Mirror , just in case

On: Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life

Key word being trusted. Its a lot easier to detemine trust with a PGP based solution that the PKI X509 stuff.

-molo

Re:Mirror , just in case

On: Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life

Never heard of pgp signatures? Why should I care where my packages came from as long as they have a trusted signature?

-molo

My mistake. BTW, "misspelling". :-) [NT]

On: MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use

NT=No Text

Re:Depends on actions of the mail client

On: E.U. Employers To Be Held Liable For Porn Spam?

FYI, Mozilla's implementation is not perfect. No images will load, but it is still possible to have server hits on other data types.

See Mozilla bug #28327.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2832 7

(I would make a hyperlink, but Mozilla blocks anything with a slashdot referrer)

-molo

6-line perl script here

On: MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use

qrpff.pl (beware slashdot's line wraping)

$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$c=142;if((@a= unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;
$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map {xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$ d=
unxV,xb25,$_;$b=73;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[ 3];$d=$d>>8^($f=($t=255)&($d
>>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8)) <<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6) )<<9
,$_=(map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,1 1,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t
^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a ^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}( 16..271))
[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128.. $#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval

A discussion of this obfuscated perl program is here: qrpff Explained.

Cliff, WTF??

On: First Ten Programs on New Install?

Cliff, is this really the best Ask Slashdot has to offer? You keep posting these insipid questions. What is the deal? I find it hard to believe that these are really the most interesting questions in the queue.

-molo

Debian NetBSD projects?

On: NetBSD Trademark Application Completed

I wonder if this is going to effect the Debian GNU/NetBSD and Debian GNU/KNetBSD porting projects. I'm curious to see their use policy.

-molo

Re:Not because of our blue eyes

On: VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard

Hrm, I guess I missed the electronics part.. but why single out electronics? In California, leaded glassware has a notice saying that one can be exposed to lead by using them.

The whole thing seems a bit odd.

-molo

Re:Not because of our blue eyes

On: VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard

Question, does this include leaded crystal, as in fine glassware and such?

Just curious.

-molo

There's a third choice..

On: Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed

If they didn't want to spend the effort on linux support, there is a third choice: PUBLISH THE INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS. Its not like the company doesn't develop these pieces of documentation for internal use.

Then the community will write drivers for it and support it.

-molo

Wiki?

On: A Powerful, but Minimal Document Markup Language?

Try some of the simple marup in a wiki text page:

PhpWiki TextFormattingRules

I have to say, I wish slashdot would support this kind of markup. Kuro5hin has a similar 'auto-format', but PhpWiki's is more powerful.

-molo

lkml?

On: Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage?

I wonder what happens when people on the linux-kernel mailing list start using this service.

> ls -sh linux-kernel
182M linux-kernel
> grep -i ^date linux-kernel | head -1
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:29:03 +0100
> tail -300 linux-kernel | grep -i ^date
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:16:42 +1000

You could fill up the 1GB archive in a matter of a year or two.

-molo

missing from google

On: Google Offers Personalized Search

There's only one feature missing from Google that I would really like: use of the HTML tag with relations of "prev" and "next" for the search results page. That would enable easy navigation via the Mozilla or Opera site navigation bar.

Maybe next time.

-molo

Pull the cord.

On: Data Security on Windows Machines?

If you really want it to be secure, de-network it. No ethernet, no modem, no wifi. Use another machine for network connectivity and put the data you want to take over (that is known to be clean) on a floppy or cd-r.

Then get some good locks and a security system. Nothing trumps physical security.

-molo

Japan

On: How (and how well) do Wireless "Worldphones" Work?

Both GSM and CDMA are useless in Japan. NTT Docomo uses a different proprietary protocol.

-molo

Re:Instead of slamming NASA

On: NASA Finds Critical Assembly Fault in Shuttle

It'd be nice to give some credit for the people that have put in layer upon layer upon layer of safeguards to check for exactly this sort of thing and the dilligent people that find this stuff. And caught it.

Maybe you missed the details, but this has been in place on the Discovery for over 20 years.

-molo

Ketsujin

On: Video-Game Publishers Outsource Development

I just looked up "Ketsujin", figuring that it is Japanese. It means "outstanding person", coming from the kanji for "greatness" and "person".

I would post the characters, but slashdot doesn't allow UTF-8 strings. :(

-molo

couple ideas..

On: Cheap Solar Cooling Solution?

IANAEE (I am not an Electrical Engineer), so feel free to correct me where I stray from reality.. but here's some ideas:

1. Sell it back to the grid. Use the electrical power grid as a battery, drawing from it when you need and selling your power back when you don't. You can actually make some money this way, offsetting the cost of the solar panels.

2. Break the circuit when you don't need the cooling. (Any EEs want to comment on if this can damage the solar cells?) I believe this will just create a DC potential difference across the cells, and since the circuit is broken, there's no current flowing around to worry about storing.

Good luck.

SuprNova.org ?

On: RSS And BitTorrent, Together At Last

This sounds like exactly what SuprNova.org needs. It would relieve some of the server load on their main pages and would enable them to serve more .torrent files.

-molo

Re:Surprising?

On: Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth

There needs to be a +1 Disgusting moderation.

-molo

Re:This happened to me

On: Stop! Website Thief!

Holy crap, thats my page. I saw a bunch of http referrers coming from this story and wondered what was up.

I mirrored your site because I enjoyed your photos and wanted to preserve them. I believe you once posted a link to them on a Slashdot story relating to the Sept. 11 attacks. Thanks for making them available.

If you object to my having them publicly available or anything, let me know. No offence, I didn't mean to "steal" them, but merely mirror them. I left the attribution and original URL in place (as part of the path).

Thanks for the photos.

-Chris

Off the top of my head..

On: G-rated Simulation Games?

Off the top of my head, some of these may be a bit dated.

Also from Maxis: SimCity, SimAnt

Something from the Test Drive series (its physics! You may want to avoid the "hot pursuit" series)

Conway's Game of Life

One of those universe/solar system simulations - I forget the name.

I'm sure there's plenty more out there. Good luck.

-molo

sensitivity..

On: Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet

In the space.com article, there is some truly astonishing information about the sensitivity of these instruments:

Photons of light from the very faintest objects arrived at a trickle of one photon per minute, as opposed to millions of photons per minute from nearer galaxies.

Um, wow. I think they will be hard pressed to find objects fainter than these.

-molo

1394

On: GnomeMeeting 1.0 Videoconferencing/VoIP Released

One of the best features of Gnomemeeting is that you can hook up your IEEE 1394 DV camcorder up as a camera. It works quite well.

-molo