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  1. Re:Example: Scripting Languages on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    There's also an older long discussion

    I link to that version of it rather than google groups because Linus has X-No-archive as a mail header - the chicken shit bastard

  2. Re:Example: Scripting Languages on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1
  3. Re:This is M$ double speak for "Finding Free Sofwa on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 1

    I can only tell you the truth.

    A linux box I inherited as sysadmin was owned one time.

  4. Re:Example: Scripting Languages on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    Forking is only expensive in your environment because of shared libraries.
    Static compilation ftw.

  5. Re:This is M$ double speak for "Finding Free Sofwa on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    yeah, FOSS exploits are cuddlier

    But strange that in the 20 years I've been using Microsoft OSes, I've never had a virus or trojan or malware. I must be doing something wrong.

  6. Re:Track record? on Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would prefer if it didn't have Monkey Linux on it either but a proper OS.

  7. Re:if they do that on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 1

    Strange, I use these every day :

    XP 32 & 64bit, Linux, Symbian, OSX ppc & Intel, FreeBSD, Plan 9, whatever is on my mp3 player, Win2k, OpenBSD, whatever powers my HP Laserjet :)

  8. Re:Bull on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    The truth will out

  9. Take the disks out on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    and boot them over the LAN

  10. The Usual Modus Operandi on UK Government To Back Off Plans To Share Private Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Introduce something awful
    Withdraw it
    Re-introduce watered down version

    See Poll-Tax -> Council Tax

  11. Re:God bless (no text) on LEDs Lighting Up the African Darkness · · Score: 1, Troll

    If god wanted them to see at night he wouldn't have made it dark!

    So this is either against the will of god, or, hmm no, no other alternative.

  12. Re:Agree on Doctorow Suggests Simple EULA Solution · · Score: 1

    Feck off!!

  13. Re:Google needs more US Providers on Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers · · Score: 1

    ah sorry, I should have qualified it with my country GB #44

  14. Re:Google needs more US Providers on Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers · · Score: 1

    I was going to get a G1 until... "Damn, it's on T-Mobile, I won't be able to call or text anyone"

    Then a new Android on Vodefone, yay until .... "damn, no keyboard"

    Paying an extra $300 to get an unlocked one form ebay seems a bit expensive/risky

    damn you all to hell

  15. Google generate content now? on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 1

    I didn't know Google had a network of paid reporters and their affiliates.

  16. Re:Still too expensive... on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    The benchmark comes down to the individual CF card, so works well = works. I had them as a software striped RAID for a while to make write speed > 25Mb/s (firewire dv video speed) and achieved that. Sadly my firewire camera uses the protocol that Linux doesn't so that project is on the shelf.

  17. nice one n/t on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    nice one n/t

  18. Re:AC Responds About Linux Support on S3 Graphics Responds About Linux Support · · Score: 1

    True enough, it has got much better since that quote in 2006, which is a hangover from earlier times.

    It's really a quote that should go away. All of my systems that were set up for a purpose are install and forget. My oldest is OpenBSD 3.8 from 2005 happily serving web pages and imap. It would have over 400 days uptime by now if I hadn't accidentally yanked the power cord.

  19. Re:AC Responds About Linux Support on S3 Graphics Responds About Linux Support · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because no-one ever had to re-install Windows.

    My time isn't free, people *pay* me quite a lot of money to maintain their Linux systems.

  20. Re:Mere mortals need mroe toy budget on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    Seeing as he has a bit of money he could afford someone to teach him the difference between then and than.

  21. Re:Mere mortals need mroe toy budget on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    I was born 2 weeks prem, consequently I can't hear over 9114Hz. Which I didn't find out until I was working in a music studio and the other people started shouting at me to turn that feedback off. "What feedback?" was all I could say and turned the amps off.

    And that was the end of that chapter.

  22. Re:Mere mortals need mroe toy budget on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    I can't hear over 9114Hz you insensitive clod!

  23. Re:Still too expensive... on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    You can also get CFSATA adapters. I have a couple here

  24. Re:I live in WI, and I say this sucks on Wisconsin Passes Digital Download Tax · · Score: 1

    If they loosed income, we'd all be richer.

  25. Re:ROUS Amounts of Material on Netflix To Offer Streaming-Only Service Plans · · Score: 1

    Enromouse is a character in The Beano strip The Nibblers