Continuing the saga about the shameful per^H^H^Hprosecution of people distributing DeCSS (the code needed to view DVDs in Linux, or any any other ...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 8, 2001 12:05 pm
... Ha! hidding the decss code in html comments is cute. Even better would be coding it in javascript as part of the page :-)...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 12, 2001 5:09 pm
Just spotted this article on the latest LinuxGazette: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue64/evans.html It talks about Kaptain which is a KDE utility for creating...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 12, 2001 5:18 pm
... Actually, it sounds so neat I want to write one for windows. But why would it put a new angle on our discussion? (or did I miss a joke again?) And...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 13, 2001 6:58 am
... Actually, I think Windows has a utility called Win-Script or something like that, that operates in a similar manner. Regards, Shlomi Fish ... Shlomi Fish...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Mar 13, 2001 8:40 am
... Interesting... What does it do with the stdout of the programs it runs (e.g., the grep example)? Does it open a new window for the output, showing it as it...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Mar 14, 2001 7:53 pm
Hi, Can anyone explain what the limits are on the precision of the computer clock that I can get on an Intel PC? For instance, Linux (and other BSD-like...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 15, 2001 10:52 am
Hi, Today happened to be PI-day. Since I'm a firm believer in the "celebrate for any silly reason" philosophy, I wonder if some of you would like to go out and...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Mar 15, 2001 11:12 am
... Was it yesterday - 3.14? Who cares... ... Please post to the list if any decision is made. I will try to come (always fun to see you guys), but this...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 15, 2001 11:45 am
Hi, I just finished installing a remote managment system on NT. The installation procedure was the sort of thing that used to give Linux a bad name. Here is...
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Omer Mussaev
omerm@...
Mar 15, 2001 3:17 pm
... The answer is not so obvous. gettimeofday and settimofday operate on timeval structure, which can not hold values with resulution higher than 1 usec...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Mar 15, 2001 11:11 pm
... Pi day? What the heck? Does it occur once ever 314 days? ;) Should we write obfuscated-C (or whatever) programs that generate digits of Pi to celebrate the...
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mulix
mulix@...
Mar 19, 2001 1:20 pm
an interesting article about the apparent "holes" in the foundation of mathematics. http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22811 from slashdot:...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 19, 2001 3:06 pm
... One thing that caught my eyes was the fact that this was published as a "popular" book, as opposed to a ground breaking article in a prestigious ...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 19, 2001 3:11 pm
... I'm taking back my previous mail. If someone wants to write a book on the halting theorem and someone else wanted to write an article about it, and...
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mulix
mulix@...
Mar 19, 2001 3:53 pm
... i'm afraid i don't get you here, chen. what are you trying to say? just a quick note, the /. story also references the transcript of a lecture Chaitin gave...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 19, 2001 4:32 pm
... This lecture is very very interesting, and nicely sums up my Logic II course and Computability. But if I learned most of this in 2nd year course, this...
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Omer Zak
omerz@...
Mar 24, 2001 3:54 pm
Did anyone download all the files of the classic Graphics Programming Black Book and mirror them in an Israeli FTP or Web site? I am trying to download the...
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mulix
mulix@...
Mar 24, 2001 7:33 pm
... i have downloaded all of the chapters a few days ago, as soon as i saw the announcement on the ddj website. ... i have all 153 megs of it, and could upload...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 26, 2001 3:40 pm
I encountered this web-site when browsing the web: http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html It's a C/C++ interpreter which claims to cover about 95% of ANSI C and...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 29, 2001 5:42 am
... I suppose one can use iglu.org.il for that. I'd rather not give you my password, but I can create an ssh/scp acount for you. At what phone can I call you...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 29, 2001 5:47 am
I am wondering (and pondering) about whether Capitalism is the Ideal way of running an economy which will accompany us for the rest of history or it is simply...
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Omer Zak
omerz@...
Mar 29, 2001 7:39 am
... I believe that there will always be the equivalent of closed source code. People need some sort of intellectual property rights as long as there are ...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Mar 29, 2001 9:47 am
... Not really innovative. If you go back to the 70ies, to the "personal computer revolution" of Altair, Apple, etc, you will see amazing parallels with...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Mar 29, 2001 10:54 am
... Just to remind you that while it is profitable to produce products specific to the Korean market, it is inprofitable to have a software company that ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 29, 2001 1:35 pm
... Who says anything about building a car? People will duplicate cars other people buy (or get from an open-cars manufacturers). Just like we can now ...
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mulix
mulix@...
Mar 31, 2001 7:10 am
(fwd from the geeks@... mailing list) This years april-fool-RFC:s. Pi Digit Generation Protocol http://rfc3091.x42.com/ This protocol is intended to...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 31, 2001 8:54 am
After a long time I had the "The prefix 'God said'" signature, I managed to come up with a new one, which I'm not sure is entirely original. (my mother said...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 31, 2001 8:59 am
... Wonderful! And I read it and it seems one can only request one digit in one transaction, not a range of them. But, IMO, HTTP can be used for such purposes...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 31, 2001 9:16 am
There's a Freshmeat editorial at: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/238/ which talks about meaningful commenting. There are lots of responces and ...
