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Unlambda? He's on a fast ship to Greenspunland with Python anyway, he may as well go back to the source.

Scheme.... Well, I would enjoy it. (Completely off-topic, but I just read the C# 3.0 spec and looked at the LINQ tech preview released at PDC 2005. Frightening stuff. Microsoft has made about 30 years of progress in the last three years. The platform is still maybe a decade behind the state of the art, but if they combine the LINQ features with F# or another modern (read: quasi-functional) language they could have a real killer app on their hands.)

Seems kinda pointless. It's easy to switch runlevels and difficult to imagine why you would want to at every login. But I'm sure you could fiddle with inittab &c and make it work.

RTFM. Hardware compatibility list.

It doesn't work for me. Timed from power-on until autologin completed (network up): EnablePrefetcher Boot time 0 1:19 1 1:12 2 1:05 3 1:04 4 1:16 5 1:09 6 1:04 7 1:04 8 1:14 Exactly what I would expect based on the documentation. (Be interesting to see if that table works.)

Lots of things seem to work. Unless the MSDN is lying, CurlingSteve is correct: it's a flag field (scroll down). There may be undocumented flags, but even if so, it's not just a knob you twist for better performance.

In public forums I'm not fond of seeing them separately either.

You're right, it's brain-damaged. Hadn't noticed it before.

That's definitely part of it. Here are comments by a researcher at Cambridge. Speculation about how it works, examples of when it doesn't, comparisons of various languages (it doesn't work at all in Hebrew), references to research on similar subjects, lots of good stuff.

Depends on what you're doing*, but I'd go for it. * The answer to every performance-related question is "It depends".

There is a limit (it's finite storage, after all) but the exact number depends on the media, format, operating system, and application. It appears that it's generally very high, several hundred thousand files. But don't blame me if it doesn't work

70% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern

Do dev=help and -scanbus produce anything interesting? BTW, the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit (which, despite the name, supports WinXP) includes a command-line CD burning utility.

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MSN Search - Google Search MSN Maps - Google Maps MSN Messenger - Google Talk MSN Groups - Google Groups Hotmail - GMail MSNBC (via MSN portal) - Google News MSN Toolbar - Google Toolbar Various Windows features - Google Desktop Virtual Earth - Google Earth and so on.

Practically every WM or DE you can get working under X11 supports virtual desktops or an equivalent. The only exceptions I can think of are twm and one of the Plan 9-inspired WMs. Feature comparisons between KDE and GNOME are a bit complicated. GNOME intentionally avoids adding features that would (in their view) unnecessarily complicated the DE. KDE does not, at least not yet. There are single control panels in KDE with almost as many knobs as GNOME as a whole. (Oddly enough, IMO the situation is reversed when you look at GNOME and KDE from a technical point of view. Both DEs are extreme

"If"? He just said you'd make a good politician! How much worse could it possibly get?

No one ever sends me cartoon Nazi pr0n I did think it was funny that for all those years I never saw anyone mention that Inuyasha was rotating through a library of cropped Starfox pr0n in his avatars. Seems to have been ahead of his time.

Consider the value of counter2 after the first time through the outer loop.

The article is broadly accurate. The author is a flake and biased but their account generally agrees with what was reported in the local and national press last week, and by the sites that picked up the story. Still lots of hits on Google News for those who are interested. There's a video of the raid floating around, but I don't have a link handy. On a side note, I thought the cops looked kinda silly. Really should stick to simple blue or black uniforms.

It should if your xine installation has the codecs installed. I'll dig it out and clean it up. $ g++ `avifile-config --cflags --libs` $FILE No idea. It compiles with three warnings (two unused arguments, one suggestion for parentheses) here with GCC 3.3.5.

opts is probably a list of pairs, e.g. [('foo', 'bar'), ('baz', 'fnord')].

char is a normal integer type, so you can do whatever you want to it. The name is a historical artifact. The only gotcha is that char can be an alias for either signed char (minimum range -127 .. 127) or unsigned char (minimum range 0 .. 255). You're getting -125 because on your platform char is signed, with a range of -128 .. 127, and 'A' + 'B' = 65 + 66 = 131, which overflows and wraps around to negative (i.e., the sequence goes 125, 126, 127, -128, -127, -126, -125).

GCC has the least useful diagnostics I've ever seen in a piece of software. And I'm including ed. g++ is almost malicious. BTW, -ansi -W -Wall are your friends.

The Portage packages will work equally well on any system. Which is to say, they won't work anywhere.