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Comment Re:Good decision by Icelandic court (Score 5, Insightful) 168

Well it's not all milk and honey over here. Our airlines ARE supposed to give data to the US government if the airline has anything to do with America. I'm in the UK and were bow down to most US requests for people or information.

Iceland isn't EU (although they are attempting to join afaik), they just happen to be an awesome country that seems to care about such things. They must have been doing a good job, my goverment called them terrorists once for letting their banks fail (oh no, not the banks!).

This might have been feeding a troll but wanted to set a small record straight :)

Comment I'd rather see changes to paralympics... (Score 5, Interesting) 87

How long before the paralympics become some kind of cyborg olympics? It's like the ban of drugs and performance boosters on athletes. We all want to see what records can be broken, just how far can we push the human body (within limits, I don't want to see lives destroyed for a record).

The olympics has become (or was it always in it's modern form?) a corporate circus. So let's go next step and merge formula 1 with it. /A Londoner not looking forward to public transport soon

Comment Re:Puzzled (Score 2) 663

My alienware m11x begs to differ sir. It comes with a hybrid nvidia/intel onboard and I'm able to use nvidia perfectly. It uses the GT 335M and it worked on Gentoo, Mint and more recently Debian.

Of course I'm willing to contend it works because in the bios I can either have the hybrid enabled (forget the exact name of the procedure) or just have nvidia enabled but wanted to correct your statement that has been modded up :).

Cheers,
Maq

Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 400

Couldn't agree more, mine still works as a computer but it suddenly lost it's ability to talk to the mobile tower unless I was sitting next to it :(.

Still, as computers go that can talk VOIP, it's epic. I miss it for day 2 day use :(

Comment Re:Sadly the Debian bins are still at rc3 (Score 1) 168

A good way to use wine is to build from source and build into /usr/local/wine-$winever-vanilla, point a symlink from /usr/local/wine/ to whatever version you want and add /usr/local/wine/bin to your path.

Very very good for hunting down regressions and not worrying about your package manager, also don't forget to build wine with ccache! ("CC=ccache gcc") to really help with build times, especially if you want to use a patch.

Comment Re:Blast from the past (Score 2) 168

Comparing wine to a full system emulator is your first mistake. It's more akin to running things in a chroot then an emulator. Performance wise it's great as long as the program you are using works perfectly.

I'm a super admin very a couple of dozen games on the appdb with ratings between garbage and platinum and the truth is that nowadays I'm disappointed where wine doesn't run something out the box. It's older games that it struggles with, for instance RAGE worked out the box for me yet something like Starfleet Command 3 doesn't work at all.

If it works, wine is as quick as running something natively. I've never played Eve online on windows for instance, I have no need to. I wouldn't do anything mission critical with it though, don't let the stable tag fool you.

-Maq

Comment dot bit (Score 1) 304

So get everyone to use http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page

Ofc being a wiki page someone has just ruined it but anyone who should know enough about torrents should also have it in their locker to get dot bit running and then by using piratebay.bit they'll never have to worry about this sort of rubbish again. (check our previous revisions for all the information)

The alternatives are either remembering a static IP address (which could change at a moments notice) or use an alternative DNS root which has its own worse problems.

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