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  1. Re:vm ware on Desperately Seeking Xen · · Score: 1

    I use vserver all the time, I like it.

    I wish the /etc/vserver directory and the excessive symbolic links weren't all over the place though. The configuring I find a little convoluted.

  2. Beagle sucks on Google Desktop Now on Linux · · Score: 1

    I've found it to crash and cause overloads, somehow blocking other operations.

    I can't figure out for the life of me why Redhat installs and enables Beagle by default. We're dealing with an experimental VM here.

    It would have been much better to have written it in Java. Now that Java is available for redistribution in Linux distros, it makes sense to rewrite Beagle in Java, and this time with no bugs, and better implementation.

  3. Re:MTM is a waste. Can't return home. on Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA · · Score: 1

    Gravith is 1/3 of Earth's. Atmosphere is much much thinner. It'll take way too much energy to take off from the surface to orbit, even with the most minimalistic craft. I really don't think it's possible to pull it off, unless we invent a new better way of propulsion, instead of that stupid propulsion by shooting out gas through a rocket engine.

  4. MTM is a waste. Can't return home. on Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA · · Score: 1

    It takes one hell of a rocket to take off from earth to get to mars.
    How on earth are we going to place a rocket on mars big enough to be able to take off and break mars' orbit? We can land a small tiny puny little shuttle on mars, at best.

    The gravity may be less than on earth, but not anywhere near the moon's gravity.

    Forget it, mission to mars can only work if we ship it with suicide astronauts. Any takers?

  5. Monsanto is on the list, how disgusting on Best Places To Work In IT · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh my freakin lord, that name comes up again. The most evilest, most disgusting pig of a company.

  6. Phil Salin about patents on Patent Office Program To Speed Computer Tech · · Score: 1

    If people read (late) Phil Salin's article, people might start saying the right things. Right now the state of affairs on both sides just sucks.

    http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html

    Consider it the bibble on anti-patents.

  7. I love Alan and Phil on Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    "...pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world which simply does not recognize patents on software but respects them as literary works subject to copyright law."

    That'd be beyond beautiful. If anyone wants to muster up ammo for the debate, please consider reading (late) Phil Salin's amazing article:

    http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html

  8. Phil Salin about patents on Ubuntu Founder Says Microsoft Not A Big Threat · · Score: 3, Informative

    An absolute *MUST* read by anyone talking about patents and freedom of speech in software.

    Too bad the guy is dead now, he could have helped us all out a great deal !

    http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html

  9. Super battery most important invention in many yea on Simple Chemical Trick To Boost Battery Efficiency · · Score: 0

    This is just a tweak.

    The most important invention in many many years is going to be a super battery.
    - cheap
    - very efficient
    - high current
    - high charge
    - safe
    - quick to charge
    - compact
    - light

    Immediately, cars will become electric. Houses will bank electricity.
    People will trade energy. Small producers will generate energy, store and sell later.
    Remote countries will ship energy.

    - less environment impact
    etc

    It will revolutionize the world in ways we almost can't imagine!

  10. Patents are supposed to drive innovation on Through the Patent Looking Glass with Microsoft · · Score: 0

    Looks like patents are doing the opposite.

    Someone needs to seriously bring down the whole patent system, it's just ludicrous.

    Here's some good reading about freedom of speech in software development:

    http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html

    Too bad he isn't alive anymore. We really need someone like him to for once and for all address this stupid idiotic system.

  11. Bad lawyers on Linus Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims · · Score: 0

    You should tell those lawyers that they are very weak and that they're not thinking in the best interest of your company, are easily scared of a whole lot of nothing, and that thanks to them, your company is missing out on all the good stuff. Your company should fire those lawyers immediately - you can NOT trust your company's decisions to them. If I was an investor in your company, I would immediately worry, because I'd know that your company isn't willing to explore and embrace the best innovation available. It would mean that your company is willing to leave all the innovation to Microsoft. Bad decision, very dumb.

  12. Re:Prius experience... on Toyota Going 100% Hybrid By 2020 · · Score: 0

    That's very exciting and all, and I'm certainly eyeing a hybrid too, but I do think the numbers you quote is a little off.
    fueleconomy.gov
    2007 Prius: people report about 5.2 liters / 100 km. Which is under 20 km / liter. Very nice, but nowhere near 28, and never anywhere near 25.

    I find it hard to believe that you're getting *that* much better numbers than every one else. What is it that you're doing differently?

  13. Re:Back in the hands of the consumers...? on Canadians Overpay Millions on Copyright Tax · · Score: 0

    +1
    Absolutely!

    I'm totally sick and tires to the point of physically throwing up, how some want to privatize health care. We're one step further away from anarchy than our southern neighbors - thanks to a healthy dose of common sense and a bit of socialism - nothing wrong with that.

  14. Phil Salin anti patent god on USPTO Examiner Rejected 1-Click Claims As "Obvious" · · Score: 0

    People really need to read this article about freedom of speech in software, patents: http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html He said it so well, and I believe it can assist in bringing down this idiotic system.

  15. Phil Salin anti patent god on Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches · · Score: 0

    Perhaps with the help of (late) Phil Salin's document about free speech in software, found here:

    http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html

    we can finally rip apart this bogus corrupt system.

  16. vserver + unionfs on Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ · · Score: 1, Informative

    I use vserver in combination with unionfs, which just rocks.

    I can add and remove (semi) virtual machine at will. Each VM feels barely heavier than just an ordinary process.

    I take my normal mount points, and make it the read-only layer. I then add a writable layer on top of that and that's it. I've also created some handy scripts that'll let me manage, add, remove, start, stop, etc, VM's.

  17. Re:Both have a reason to exist. on Earth's Species To Be Cataloged On the Web · · Score: -1, Troll

    In a recent news article, KLM was accused of help nazis flee to Argentina after WWII.
    I then looked up Argentina on Wikipedia. No mention of Argentina's evil nazi asyluming.
    Wikipedia immediately lost a lot of credibility in my books.

  18. Screw all this crap, use Linux on Vista Eating Battery Life · · Score: 0

    Using Linux on a Dell 17" laptop. Runs like a train. Who needs that mediocre crap... Linux is better. Yes Linux is better. Yes, it really really really is. It is. No question about it. Is it better.

  19. A my freaking god this is so pathetic on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 0

    This tops all the other pathetic emulation imitation monkey-see-monkey-do crap I've seen from that region. This makes me literally physically ill. Don't they have any identity of their own? Do they have *that* much of an inferior complex?

  20. Can I create layers like in unionfs? on Ext3cow Versioning File System Released For 2.6 · · Score: 0

    I currently use unionfs in a vserver based virtualization solution, which works pretty well. When I add a VM, I create a unionfs mount, layer an empty writable directy on top of a read-only shared directly. Can ext3cow replace unionfs for me?

  21. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 0

    Java is *NOT* slower than .net.

    There are *MANY* languages available for the JVM.

    You are highly ignorant.

  22. Not far enough on Supreme Court Weakens Patents · · Score: 0

    A *MUST* read on patents:

    http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html

  23. Google should reincarnate mysqlcc on Google Releases MySQL Enhancements · · Score: 0

    Perhaps Google can help bring back mysqlcc, and put those other stupid lame newer tools that mysql coughed up out of its misery.

  24. Ballmer "reacts" to iphone - you tube on Microsoft Says iPhone Is Irrelevant To Business · · Score: 0

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=C5oGaZIKYvo Anyone taking that serious has some serious problems.

  25. So they can wash away the nuclear dirt... on Russia's Floating Nuclear Plants Under Fire From Greens · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's a large ocean, and you easily disperse little nucular leaks and wash away mistakes and neglect. Perfect, just what they need. And the quest to poison our planet continues....