Goodbye Geek Compound

In this week's episode, we're back from the office move to discuss Microsoft buying Bungie, the new release of GNUCash, stupid processor naming schemes, the BT hyperlink patent, and more. This might be the last episode for awhile, as the Mackie (our mixing console) broke and I just shipped it back for repairs, so hang tight while we get it fixed.

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FSCK!

[wowbagger]

Rob, no matter what many trolls say, we really don't want to hear you fsck on the air. Do that in private, and wash your hands afterword.

Congratulations Hemos

[Sway]

Well, in honor of Hemos's nuptuals, I just wanted to send a big congratulations. My question is who will be wearing Hemos's pants in the family? And will he be hyphenating his screen name or is she taking his nick? Shouldn't this be a Geeks in Space exclusive? We want the webcast. Congrats, d00d! You are 31337!

Peace. Sway

Tory facts

[Glytch]

The comments about never using the word "tory" reminded me of something. First of all, this is *not* a troll.

Here in Canada, our two major political parties are the Progressive Conservative Party, also known as the Tories, and the (currently ruling) Liberal Party, also known as the Grits.

Yes, Canada is run by Grits. I'm amazed that no /. trolls have picked up on this fact yet.

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[coaxial]

Oooo! We're so grown up! We no longer use digits, but rather spell out our numbers.

We're just as cool as Matchbox20^H^HTwenty!!

A standard of "speed" on something stupid.

[Inoshiro]

Presenting -- the BogoMip!

Yes, finally, a measure of how fast your processor does the IDLE loop!

"Dude, my K6-III does 800 Bogomips! It idles faster than your stinky Celeron!"

And to ensure that people know where the processor is from, they'd name it by the company name.
Thus: The AMD 800B, the Intel 400B, etc. Better than PR ratings, because you know something about the process that has even less bearing on its real world performance.

Hey, it makes more sense than the Pentium 4 (Nonatium?)

(Btw: Kudos to Intel's marketting dept. for selling the same PPro core in 5+(!) different proc revisions with little/no difference.. except in price!)
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