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The devel packages are in Portage. Final should be unmasked sometime around October 2007.

I'm pretty sure hariku821 (the OP in that thread) is fluent(-ish). His spelling is usually fairly good (given the forum and his probable age) and there's no obvious pattern to his misspellings (i.e. not phonetic or simplified spelling). He might have just been in a hurry.

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson

'\r' is carriage return (ASCII 0x0d).

The 'u' prefix indicates that they're Unicode strings.

GETPASS_ASTERISKS. But it looks like it was either a third-party patch or was dropped a while back. You'd have to dig into PAM and the PAMified utilities now to see if there's a way to enable asterisk-echo.

It's entirely possible that Google wanted Lucovsky for his experience with Hailstorm. Or for internal operating system development. Or to tweak Microsoft's nose.

How's your latency outside of the game?

The init process manages system startup and shutdown. It's also ultimately responsible for terminal management, user logins and logouts, and daemon processes (background processes), among other things.

If you didn't notice it before it froze, it's probably a side-effect of (the cause of) the crash.

It's described in sysrq.txt in the toplevel of the kernel docs tree. The form is Alt-SysRq-<key>. Quoting the docs * What are the 'command' keys? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mode and sets it to XLATE. 'k' - Secure Access Key (SAK) Kills all programs on the current virtual console. NOTE: See important comments below in SAK section. 'b' - Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or unmounting your disks. 'o' - Will shut your system off (if configured and supported). 's' - Will attempt to sync all mou

X11 is a bit touchy and it dies in unpleasant ways. Unfortunately the only halfway reliable way I've found to deal with it locally is to use the Magic SysRq Key to break out to a console (Alt-SysRq-R then Ctrl-Alt-F1). It almost always corrupts the display, but you can get back into X without any trouble with startx. The problem with that solution is that you may not the MSK enabled.

Both articles look fine to me. Your table of contents analogy captures all the important points and is essentially correct. IMO adding more detail, accurate or not, would be a distraction for the reader.

Deleting file on NTFS and FAT is quite a bit more complicated than changing the name. But I don't know if it really matters if you're only intereted in clobbering the contents of the file. Incidentally, I think it's kinda funny that people get confused about the operating of the Recycling Bin. It is called the Recycling Bin after all, not the Oblivion Bin. It sounds like it reuses old files to make new ones. If people would just take it literally they wouldn't be surprised when they learn that little bits of their files are still around.

Profile says he was on ~30 hours ago, posted about four hours before then.

Indeed. He wouldn't be the first kid to outgrow a stupid phase.

To be honest I never understood Inuyasha, so I have no idea what to think of his comment. There are explanations for his behavior other than him being an incurable blithering idiot.

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That's a POV-Ray render. Wait, did you mean the thing in the picture?

The TTV star system was an attempt to make it easier to filter the noise on the boards in a democratic way. Users could give posts a rating from 1 to 5 stars (or 0 to 5... nah, I think it was 1 to 5). The average rating was displayed in the header of the post. It didn't work. At all. (And no, I'm not still bitter about getting one star for joking that I preferred Greek atomism to quantum mechanics.)

Works in Opera.

Same here, with plugin v.7.0.25. Flash has always been flaky on Linux IME.

When you send a PM there's a checkbox at the bottom that will save a copy into your outbox. I dunno if there's a setting in prefs that makes that the default.

An empty black screen? No "system has halted" or something to that effect? If nothing happens I'd just tap the power button and see if the machine powers down. Then boot it up and see if it complains about how it was shutdown. If it looks fine, it's probably a power-management issue. If you're adventurous, you could shutdown the old fashioned way, with the 'shutdown' utility. Logout and drop to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), login to the console, and enter $ sudo shutdown -P now (without the '$'). If that doesn't work, replace the '-P' with '-h'. If that doesn't work, it's a power-managemen

It's still true. You can't touch the timer or the interrupt handler outside of kernel mode, of course, but any process with the SE_SYSTEMTIME_NAME privilege can set the clock increment to an arbitrary value and disable the system's automatic correction. Out of the box, that includes all processes in the Administrators group and maybe the Power Users group as well. (The privilege does have to be explicitly enabled by the process, but that's easy enough.)