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  1. Re:Consumer grade vs. Enterprise Grade on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A £100 budget was mentioned. I guess Intel was the only vendor that offered enterprise hardware below that.

    The Intel 320 apparently delived good results as well, and that's not enterprise grade whatever that means anyway.

  2. Re:Subject on Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind · · Score: 1

    The address space is not limited to the amount of physical memory you have. Take memory mapped files for example. You need enough address space if you map a large file, but the entire file doesn't have to be in physical memory.

  3. Re:The last patch Tuesday from Microsoft should be on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    One could argue that once XP becomes unsupported it won't be suitable, stable or useful for running any real application, and won't be in the next five years.

  4. Re:The Solution is Obvious on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. It used to initially but the situation was vastly improved once 64-bit Windows became popular with the advent of Windows 7.

  5. Re:Open CPUs on Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop · · Score: 1

    So it has come to this. We have to turn to Oracle for completely free CPUs.

  6. Re:How do you test a meter? on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 1

    =)

  7. Re:Illegal file sharing worse than murder on Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality · · Score: 1

    Without copyright someone would be able to take free software and make non-free versions of it without any requirement to also distribute the source code, which means that we would get the binaries but no practical way to modify them.

  8. Re:Obama Steals your mommas house on Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright · · Score: 1

    You think I am kidding?

    http://healthshareadvocates.blogspot.com/2013/12/Medicaid.html

    "You could call it a "death tax," if that term hadn't been taken. Next year, Americans who die with more than five million dollars in assets will pay 40% in taxes. Americans who die on Medicaid will pay 100% of their Medicaid expenses before their heirs get one penny.

    Family farm? Gone. Mom and Pop shop? Gone. Nana's house, with her snow-white picket fence around her prize-winning garden? Gone, gone, gone. "

    And you jerk off socialists supprt this tyranny? Pathetic.

    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

  9. Re:CentOS on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    The SRPMs are available on Red Hat's ftp site so I assume that it's just a matter of rebuilding them. I know that at least Scientific Linux is doing this, but I'm not sure about CentOS.

  10. Re:CentOS on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    GCC 4.4 is just the system compiler. Red Hat provides supported installations of GCC 4.8 as part of what they call Red Hat Developer Toolset. It includes modern versions of the GNU stack as well as the latest version of the Eclipse development environment.

  11. Re:So when's the next LTS? on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fedora does not provide an LTS like release. Every release is maintained for 13 months, and new releases are usually released about every six months. The idea is that if you want a more long term release you should really go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux which is based on Fedora.

  12. Re:CentOS on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    RHEL is a bit slow but that's a feature if you're the kind of user that wants that kind of distribution. You install it once and it will continue to work reliably for years and years. It's of course a little bit extra behind right now since the next major release is expected $REALSOON. It's likely that Fedora 19 or so will be the base for RHEL 7. They originally planned to use Fedora 18 but decided to skip that release for some reason.

  13. Re:No Sympathy on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 5, Informative

    They should have been off Windows XP long ago.

    Indeed. But it will stay for very very long I'm afraid. Lot's of systems still runs on XP with no available migration path. They just recently upgraded the security system where I work to XP. I don't want to think about what it ran before that.

  14. Remove, replace with apt on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is clearly the right time for Microsoft to completely rewamp the update system in XP; and what could possibly be better than to just remove the whole thing and import an already working package system from Debian?

  15. Re:well... on Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views · · Score: 1

    Probably less bugs though.

  16. Re: Nvidia GPL compliance issue on Valve Releases Debian-Based SteamOS Beta · · Score: 1

    Yes. A lot of people care about what Linus says.

  17. Re:Free speech on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    Which makes git very useful since no point is special.

    But I guess you're in some trouble if you used things like their issue tracker and wiki. That's not in git as far as I know.

  18. Re:Yeap on British Police Censor the Global Internet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We do, do the USA realize they will never and do not currently (despite attempts) own the world?

    You do realize that TFA is about the british police?

  19. Re:Expect Nexus phones to have SD cards... on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    And you're saying that this German court is not european?

  20. Re: What about FAT32 on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    The SD Association offers a formatter for SD/SDHC/SDXC cards but only for Windows and MAC. It may format a card in such a way that some devices can't use it.

    Do you know if the source code is available under a free and open source license?

  21. Re:Who cares? on FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement · · Score: 1

    The problem with Windows is not that you're in jail, the problem is that you don't know that you're in jail because you have no way to inspect the spurce code and make yourself and understanding about it.

  22. Re:Learn from Apple. on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Well, Objective-C is C, and it can even be mixed easily with C++. Not to mention that there's a lot of people using C# (Mono) on iOS.

  23. Re:this kind of comment system is dead on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    GTK+ is written in C but it offers bindings for many other languages including C++. This is very easy since C has good interoperability.

  24. Re:this kind of comment system is dead on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    What's with classes and objects? You can use that with C, it's just not built into the language.

  25. Re:this kind of comment system is dead on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Not to mention C++14.