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  1. Re:No plans for LLVM on Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself · · Score: 0

    Also, I'm pretty sure GCC is the only compiler that requires the better part of an afternoon on modern hardware to build itself.

    With parallel make, it only takes me about 20 minutes on a midrange 6-core system. Look at the -j or --jobs option. I usually use 1.5 times the number of cores for the number of jobs.

  2. Re:Worst job except this one... on The Worst Job In the Digital World · · Score: 2

    I bet they get paid more, though.

  3. Re:Yep on DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options · · Score: 1

    Ddclient will update every so often anyway, and I'd imagine most others do the same.

  4. Re:AMP? on Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit · · Score: 2

    WAMP? I guess it's still better than WinCE...

  5. Re:Last, and Dead Last on Computer Glitch Friday Grounded US Airways Flights · · Score: 1

    RAID 5 is good at losing a second disk soon after the first, even with a hot spare (which means you lose the array). I think the GP meant something like "RAID 6 should be the bare minimum", or perhaps "any level of RAID is not as good as having an independent backup system".

    But I'd like to know what they actually meant, too.

  6. Re:Trade-school mentality on What's Your College Major Worth? · · Score: 1

    More likely they don't think they'll find a job they actually like.

  7. Re:Fix onboard computers first on Six Cities Named For Vehicle2Vehicle Communications Trial · · Score: 1

    It also modulates the brakes much better than most people can do, and allows your panic reflex to work for you.

    Steering around an obstacle while braking hard to have time to fully get around it is often the best response.

  8. Re:Yes and No on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You made your point about the keyboard being difficult to use quite eloquently.

  9. Re:Here's an example of market failure on Piracy Is a Market Failure — Not a Legal One · · Score: 1

    The difference being that you're taking the car from them instead of making a copy.

  10. Re:they should breakup up before the Feds make the on Page Can't Turn Back Clock At Google · · Score: 2

    How exactly would you propose splitting it? Advertising is their only real money-maker, and splitting that would be shooting themselves in the foot.

  11. Re:Article and summary get it wrong on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    DRM and keys prevent you from using your version of the software on that device. It does you no good to be able to change it if you can't use the changes. The developers have decided they don't like that idea, and GPL 3 ensures that anyone who wants to lock their device down like that will have to use some other software, instead of taking something open source and locking it down too.

    There's nothing to stop Apple or anyone else from implementing something compatible; it just can't be the same code.

  12. Re:From Redmond with love, huh? on From Redmond With Love · · Score: 1

    I'm sure arranging for a cake to be sent could take the entire day for the entire Microsoft dev team.

    I bet not, though. Especially the Windows devs, which, by and large, aren't the IE devs.

  13. Re:May be Fixed on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    The link I posted looks broken from here. If it is, the full text of it is: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_36#head-738bffb3415051b478ecdfd2eabb0294e35146a9

  14. May be Fixed on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    The 2.6.36 kernel supposedly has a fix for this issue. I haven't been able to test it yet myself, but it sounds like they finally tracked it down. See here for more information.

  15. Re:Not Quite on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    Except FOSS won't prevent you from re{selling,distributing} the software, else it wouldn't be FOSS...

  16. Statistics are sometimes skewed for convenience... on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 2, Informative

    At IIT (the Illinois one, not the one in India), the tech department didn't collect this sort of data. But if they had, they would've thought I ran one Windows machine instead of two Linux boxes, because they didn't know Linux and would not help me get the network going unless I told them I was running a single Windows or Mac computer. I ended up getting all the network settings for Windows and putting them in the right place myself, and hiding both systems behind a router. Several of my friends had similar experiences.

    I will note that many of my professors, especially in the CS department, used Linux almost exclusively, and some actually would not accept Microsoft Office documents (they allowed pdfs and sometimes OpenOffice documents). There was just a huge disconnect between the people in charge of the student portion of the network and the rest of the campus.

  17. Re:Both hands?? on Death Grip Tested On iPhone Competitors · · Score: 1

    You might even say he single-handedly changed things around.

    (sorry!)

  18. Re:Some perspective on X-Ray Burst Temporarily Blinds NASA Satellite · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1.15 nW/m^2 * 4 * pi * (5E9 ly * 9.46E15 m/ly)^2 = 3.22E43 W

    Do we know this wasn't somewhat directed?

  19. Re:To avoid confusion on Physicists Do What Einstein Thought Impossible · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Funny mod doesn't grant any karma, so people will sometimes mod something they enjoy Insightful even if it isn't.

  20. Re:Tar Pitting on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How would one go about implementing this delay?

  21. Re:The VP is the President of the Senate on Nintendo On the Hunt For More Scalps · · Score: 1

    My apologies; "Senate" dropped right out of my awareness.

  22. Re:Then vote for XNA or a used fat PS3 on Nintendo On the Hunt For More Scalps · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, Biden was Vice President.

  23. Re:Self-interest on FTC, Google Go After Scammers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...and why should they be? They're not law enforcement.

  24. Re:For the record... on Review: Eufloria · · Score: 3, Informative

    Large shell scripts, on the other hand are perfectly acceptable.

  25. Re:Please pay your taxes in full on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whoosh!