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  1. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Have you considered running two VPLANs, one secure with IEEE 802.1x auth, and one free for all, DMV routed one, with ISP style routing rules, to avoid issues with misconfigured equipment, and appropriate QoS settings, to avoid clogging the production network?

  2. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    ARM based NAS, lots of SATA ports, Nexenta storage, or anything that supports ZFS. rsync online from build server. Run burn-in test scripted in Perl for 15 min. Set up as net-boot sever. Export via NFS to build server. RAID 0 build sever drives, set up as persistent NFS cache. Did I miss something?

  3. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Index time? What is this, a DB? Got SATA ports? ZFS will do the rest. What maintenance from a storage vendor? Fucking replace it. It's cheaper. I have no experience in IT, or dev - but your arguments don't supply enough information to shut me up, plain and simple.

  4. Re:Linus is right on about microkernels on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    I love DIY exceptions, they are hackish in a very satisfying manner, but why not use a language with a meaningful set of CF structures? Or allows you to implement them *cough* Lisp *cough*.

  5. Re:Linus is right on about microkernels on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    I think that microkernels are just an old school workaround to the fact that kernels are usually written in unsafe languages, with little to no static checks of meaningful scale. They are not more complicated, they just try using hardware adapted methods to dynamically work around a problem usually addressed by the compiler statically. If you hardware supports a few minor things like AID TLB and cache tags and few special cache control instructions, using a microkernel is a non-issue. Better if it's optimized for fast context switching, or implements some form of asymmetric CMT (i.e., a microkernel would run like greased lighting on a newer SPARC).

  6. Re:Linus is right on about microkernels on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    Server side rendering on a terminal server is a more suitable use case.

  7. Re:Typical RV park on Ask Slashdot: Updating a Difficult Campground Wi-Fi Design? · · Score: 1

    In your shoes, I wouldn't give a fuck - because it's for the kids. But your ex might leak some of the cash where you don't want it. So I guess it sucks. Ever thought about moving to another country?

  8. Re:This annoys the hell out of me ... on Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    You changed the constraints. Trains are inflexible compared to personal JIT transport, point to point, which cars provide.

  9. Re:Nothing special on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 1

    Dude, this is slashdot. You are perfectly correct, but most here interpret anything over 10 ms as a slow process.

  10. Re:Nothing special on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 1

    OK, a huge concrete block on a steel cable - operate it like an elevator. Oh, and, with optimization electrics can and will pull 98% efficiency.

  11. Re:Not so smart on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    Great, now we can get some quality RF engineering, when the dust settles down. (They have to do it, if they want their shit to work even part of the time, with no FCC).

  12. Re:Not so smart on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    We are not hitting any limit, not until our wi-fi cards are offloading to the gpu.

  13. Re:Not so much "renewable" on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Or, implement distributed load balanced flywheel storage on a per substation basis?

  14. Re:Unrealistic Expectations. on Steve Jobs Wanted an iPhone-Only Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    Smaller screen and battery cost less. What is more is Apple's profit margin. Also, yes, people in general have no idea how to judge a device's manufacturing cost. And Apple likes to make it harder. Also, smaller and non-crappy, in a mechanical, and radio-technology context, mean more expensive.

  15. Re:Marketing-driven products on Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' · · Score: 1

    Do you think CO2 lasers are resistant enough to fog to use as year round FAO repeaters?

  16. Re:AMD = Stagnated. on AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC · · Score: 1

    6 y.o. laptop, Celeron M 1.4GHz, 2x256MB DDR1 RAM, 40GB 5.4krpm PATA-133. Arch linux. My overloaded (50+ add-ons) FF profile runs smoothly, when alone. FF and VLC don't like each other - they both start to stutter. Guess I didn't get the IO priorities right. I'm running linux-pf patchset. Any ideas?

  17. Re:Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! on The Many Names of Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    The spoon is a lie!

  18. Re:I Are One: KK4ETS on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    Are unlicensed users allowed to use their own equipment on walkie-talkie frequencies? What are the restrictions? What sort of bandwidth do you get with multi $100 equipment? I'm talking about the bands around 450-500 MHz (what was it in USA, FSR?).

  19. Re:Value of CW on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    I'd rather not go through the crap of licensing and crap.

  20. Re:you have traced sources incorrectly on All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe · · Score: 1

    Explain it to me in bekerels.

  21. Re:Cap on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    Long range packet radio uplink? I see you are a ham - I know the laws, but who the hell will start scanning channels, modulations, and other parameters, and run the results through a packet sniffer, just to find a ham using crypto or the like.

  22. Re:Recoup the lobby dollars on France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music · · Score: 2

    Smokers die younger than non-smokers. It has been shown that they cost less to the health-care system. Oh, and, I believe most smokers are suicidal. Myself included. There is just no other explanation.

  23. Re:I always thought you could do one better on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 1

    Hidden accelerometer. Or gyro. Or GPS. Whatever. The second they move it they're fucked. Oh, and mouse-jiglers can be countered with white-listing.

  24. Re:As a beekeper on Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment · · Score: 1

    Actually, I wonder how that will taste deep fried.

  25. Re:Not necessarily. on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    Ever try zsh?