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  1. Linux on a graphics card?! on Basic Linux Boot On Open Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    I'm definitely the only one that read this as a Graphics card that was able to boot Linux XD

  2. Re:Just Quake on Quake Live Dev Says Mac and Linux Are "Top Priority" · · Score: 1

    Exactly, and this is breathing a lot of new life into the Quake community. I suspect many players will make their way to Vanilla Quake 3 and likely CPMA as well.

  3. Re:Interesting spin on Quake Live Dev Says Mac and Linux Are "Top Priority" · · Score: 1

    Well the Quake 3 engine is most definitely cross platform, and is being ported to many architectures (as seen by the ioquake3 posts here), but I think the real battle id is facing is not getting the engine itself running, but getting it to run inside the target web browsers. As far as I can tell each browser platform does this in a slightly different way, and I think there are already separate builds for IE and Firefox on Windows to accommodate this.

  4. Re:OS X Doesn't Have Autorun on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    +1, I've always loved how mac software is bundled this way, and how they have special backgrounds/icons (or however it's done) explaining exactly what to do.

  5. Hold Shift on Insertion on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    I've gotten into the habit of reflexively holding down shift whenever I insert a drive or cdrom, either that or you can just disable it completely.

  6. Re:"Exploit" implies there was an actual hole on Intel Cache Poisoning Is Dangerously Easy On Linux · · Score: 1

    I should point out that -n disables password prompting, and this was testing using the same user, so I'm not sure if this is actually what you meant.

  7. Re:"Exploit" implies there was an actual hole on Intel Cache Poisoning Is Dangerously Easy On Linux · · Score: 1

    Sick, it does work:
    while true; do sudo -n whoami; sleep 60; done

    At first it returns:
    sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo

    But after using sudo from another terminal it returns:
    root

  8. Demon Name Generator on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    I don't have any particular naming scheme, I just use this page http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/adnamegen.php and refresh a few times till something cool sounding comes up.

  9. CollabEdit on A Web App For Real-Time Collaborative Writing · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been done before, http://collabedit.com/ :)

  10. Re:Is the OP serious? on Ubuntu Ports To ARM · · Score: 1

    Try using Debian Sid, or Sidux. I run Sidux on one of my machines, and I find that most software I want is in the repos and up to date. :)

  11. make-frame-on-display on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I'm not an Emacs user, however I have lately tried to use it a little and become more comfortable with it. One thing I think is really cool is being able to do M-x make-frame-on-display and then have a new frame appearing on a display (obviously). This is pretty useful for collaborative editing more than anything. I wish such a feature existed in Vi/Vim :(

  12. Some basic but useful commands on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Very basic commands, but the ones I use the most are:
    o - Open a new line in insert mode
    cw - Delete word and enter insert mode (change word)
    dw - Delete word
    d$/c$ - Delete/Change to end of line
    dd - Delete Line and Yank
    yy - Yank Line
    p - Paste

    These simple commands alone make Vi/Vim very fast for editing.

  13. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Or alternatively you could use Ctrl+l to clear the terminal, which is rather useful even if you don't have anything to hide.

  14. Deja Vu on Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live · · Score: 1

    So does this system look into the past aswell? Reminds me alot of Deja Vu.

  15. cuilimg.com Image indexing on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    I noticed while browsing the results that the images it displays next to each result appear to be originating from http://www.cuilimg.com./ If these images are in fact being copied and then hosted on this server, could this not be copyright infringement or something even more severe?

  16. Themeage, more customization on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 1

    Dear Microsoft, either create more quality Visual Styles for people to download, or dont force users to patch uxtheme.dll just to use third party ones. I cannot see any reason to keep people from making their desktop look the way they want it to.

  17. x11drv port to Windows on Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Could someone pretty please work on porting x11drv to Windows? Or a way of converting GDI calls to X? I saw some discussion on this topic a few years ago on the mailing list. I run coLinux on a full screen X server, and I would really love to be able to run my Windows applications inside the X window manager.

  18. Re:Stunning! on Carmack Speaks On Ray Tracing, Future id Engines · · Score: 1

    Apparently this project uses a similar approach to the one you've described, http://youtube.com/user/xenopusRTRT

    /me bows down to Carmack

  19. Evil.. on Tracking People Using Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Quick, someone set their phone ID to ""; DROP TABLE foo; --" :D

    In all seriousness I think this looks like a fun project :)

  20. Re:The original was the best on The Making of System Shock 2 · · Score: 1

    I think he meant Marine, Navy, and Psy-Ops :)