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General Software Discussion / Re: Boot optimisation software

« on: April 15, 2006, 06:25 AM »

funny problems

* gjehle looks as his pretty much constant linux boot time and puts on the big grin

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« on: April 15, 2006, 06:20 AM »

well, all those nice old games are right next to my left
5 1/4" floppies all over the place
i really should set up my c64 again

can't really pick a fav, there were just so many good games back then

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Living Room / Re: TCPA ... Scary stuff

« on: April 15, 2006, 06:15 AM »

Anyone heard about this http://www.againsttc...om/what-is-tcpa.html

It makes scary reading and if true ....

-Carol Haynes (April 15, 2006, 05:00 AM)

errr yes, like.. years ago
and it still gives me the shivers

make sure to watch this brilliant animated short about trusted computing:
http://www.lafkon.net/tc/

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Living Room / p eq b & b not l => p not l. proof is left as an exercise

« on: April 15, 2006, 06:12 AM »

"An illegal prime is a prime number which contains information forbidden by law to possess or distribute.

The first illegal prime to be announced, when interpreted a particular way, describes a computer program which bypasses copyright protection schemes on some DVDs. Because that program has been found illegal by courts in the United States of America, this has produced debate about whether the number itself could be considered illegal." - Wikipedia

read on here:
http://en.wikipedia....g/wiki/Illegal_prime

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Living Room / monome - pretty cool input device

« on: April 15, 2006, 05:19 AM »

tho this thing is geared towards music production i think one could use this simple, yet effective button grid for more than just that
saw it, watched the video, now i love it

check it out here:
http://monome.org/index.php?m=00

video of the 8x8 grid in action:
http://monome.org/media/monome40h.mov

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Living Room / talking cats

« on: April 14, 2006, 03:42 PM »

http://video.google....-7199158973758073420

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Living Room / underage drinking problem

« on: April 06, 2006, 08:14 AM »

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

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Developer's Corner / correleation between beard growth and unix hacker level

« on: April 03, 2006, 12:34 PM »

jdpaiva made me do it

http://www.bsdwarez.net/unix_beard.php

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Distributed compiling and clustering

« on: April 02, 2006, 09:12 AM »

if you need to do cross compiling over different architectures try this

http://www.gentoo-wi...TIP_AMD64-x86-distcc

i'm going to try this in a minute with my 4400+ x2 and the old 1ghz box
gonna write a little bit about it if i succeed, looks easy enough

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General Software Discussion / Re: what kind of keyboard you use?

« on: March 28, 2006, 02:56 PM »

some noname keyboard without "click" (kinda soft keystrokes, picked because i type pretty fast and it takes a lot more energy to use "hard" keyboards)
and even so it's a german keyboard i use the US layout to keep my fingers from falling off my hands (if you ever coded using a german layout, you'll understand)
no extra keys, no fancy windows-only features available thru yet-another-driver, just a plain keyboard

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Developer's Corner / editor learning curves

« on: March 28, 2006, 02:04 PM »

Being quite new here (i was forced to register ) i like to introduce myself.
I'm an outspoken linux fanatic and vim-loving c/c++ coder. (no flamewars, kthx)
Against my belive i got forced into prostitution by work (just kidding), which required using VC++ for coding MFC apps.
One might also find some of my code in mouser's mircryption for xchat.

That being said, without further ado, the real reason for this post (and basically the reason i got forced to sign up, right mouser ?) is this find: