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  1. Re:PSU failures on When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    I've had several fail on me. It's all anecdotal when talking small samples.

  2. Re:I like Opera on Opera 9.60 Released, With Upgraded Mail Client · · Score: 1

    Opera can also have SINGLE key hotkeys (like 'z' for go-back and 'x' for forward, 1 & 2 for moving inbetween tabs). For some reason (probably gmail & greader having hotkeys) they turned them off since 9.50, but they're toggleable back on.

  3. Re:some biggies on Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux · · Score: 1

    JNI stands for Fuckin Pain In The Ass.

  4. Re:The PSP "emulator" on Wii Gets Custom Firmware, Purported PSP Emulator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    well.. the main thing behind PSP is that it has fairly fancy 3D chip inside, the CPU is not "that" good by itself. 3d acceleration of "slower" console emulation lowers emulation overhead very much.

  5. Re:eh? on Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is that like for real?

    I've used Windows since 1994, GNOME/linux UI:s since 1999 and I can't recall a single time when I'd clicked on a wrong button _because_ of their order. Wording has been misleading on all platforms but ordering? I didn't even notice this before people started whining.

  6. Re:No kidding on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    if he gets jailtime then he's a fucktard. Nah, scrap that, he's fucktard eitherways.

  7. Re:How silly on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 1

    This is obviously not a stealth weapon.

  8. Re:First hand on Solid State Drives - Fast, Rugged, and Expensive · · Score: 1

    El cheapo IDE Seagate 320Gt drive (~2months old), was playing a dvd image from that drive for my son while hdparming.

    # hdparm -tT /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
    Timing cached reads: 6334 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3168.70 MB/sec
    Timing buffered disk reads: 218 MB in 3.00 seconds = 72.66 MB/sec

  9. Re:It's the price on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 1

    vista laptop costing $500 has weight of at least 3.5kg. Apples and watermelons..

  10. Re:documentation on Guido and Bruce Eckel Discuss Python 3000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i dunno, every piece of documentation is just a starting point. I only use docs.python.org to find a suitable module and then just look around it in IPython shell (import module; module. etc.).

    As for PHP.net, it's full of buggy, halfassed examples written by morons and more often push you wrong way than not.

  11. Re:Nvidia is not the competition on Insight Into AMD's Linux Driver Development · · Score: 1

    You know, people should just quit with this R100-R300 fucktarded bullshit.

    ATI lost all the goodwill generated by R200 opened specs when they withdrew those opened specs. They even try and slow any progress done with R500 support (look in David Airlie livejournal blog). If they don't give full HW specs, then just fucking screw them. Don't buy, don't recommend, just forget they exist. Open-sourced thing, although it has working (albeit much slower that fglrx) 3D, does not have tv-out support.

    And on top of that, whatever they (ATI) offer is utter and unforgivable CRAP. It crashes and it just plain does NOT WORK (Tv-out, multiple heads, FUCKING SLOW).

    Granted, nvidia hasn't done even that partial HW-opening-up (unless one counts the TNT2-obfuscated code for something, AFAIR it was a one-off affair).

    And yes I write this on a computer with Radeon 9800XT. Whatever I buy next will have (in order of preference) Intel or Nvidia graphics. Screw ATI, no value, no money.

  12. Re:Must have happened already, right? on Businesses Scramble To Stay Out of Google Hell · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'we gathered from Matt Cutts blog that the SEO penalizing won't occur unless you're hitting several barriers and not providing any 'value'.

    So if you have relevant, wellformed (ie. indexable) content, don't linkexchange and only get shitloads of incoming spamlinks from farms and many links from legitimate (PR2+) sources then you most likely won't be hit.

  13. 22.. on Vista's Limited Symlinks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    22 bloody years...

    <nelson>haha!</nelson>

  14. Naah! on Male Blood Elves Get Pumped Up · · Score: 0

    You're missing the point, they're bloody american elves!

    Take it easy on the burgers, boys, willya?

  15. Re:QUICK! LETS IMITATE IT!! on What's Different About Vista's GUI? · · Score: 1

    I think there is something really, really broken within Windows window handling code. Every single virtual desktop solution breaks when you start debugging (and actually trapping with a breakpoint) some application. At some point windows will stick on top and window selection bar will stop updating.

    This same problem is visible with Terminal Services too, just don't debug applications and use TS at the same time.

    (yeah, winxpsp2, all patches and vs2005, mfc & .net applications)

  16. Re:Already broken by Blue Pill on Vista DRM Prevents Kernel Tampering · · Score: 1

    I thought drivers didn't get paged to disk, since there's already a copy on the disk: THE ORIGINAL FILE. This has been stated several times.

    It could get overwritten, you know..

    Anyways, it sounds really, really stupid and implausible because code part of driver is so small that it's a no-brainer to make the page pinned to memory (non-swappable). Nothing but kernel-mode can make a codepage swappable again.

    Of course there could be some parts (graphics, yet again) that might generate lots and lots of executable code on-the-fly, but that would again be too processor- and hardware- specific to be of much use.

  17. Re:Come on people, give the moon a break... on Moon's Bulge Explained · · Score: 1

    Umm.. Earth is doing 30km/s and Moon is doing 1km/s around that.

  18. Stupidity ensues.. on Astronomers Awaiting 1a Supernova · · Score: 0

    Yeah baby, now there's some snuff on a galactic scale!

  19. Re:NASA WorldWind also ready for Linux and MacOSX on Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last · · Score: 1

    So tell me why Free Earth Foundation had WW Port to OpenGl and WW Port to mono as Google Summer of Code -projects?

    FWIW, none of suggestions related to that portion of work was accepted (those that were accepted are very good nevertheless).

  20. Re:So... on Tom's Hardware Looks at Microsoft Vista Beta · · Score: 1

    There are a substantial number of 'behind the scenes' changes in Vista. But for some reason the Slashdot crowd seems to think that the UI is the only thing that's changed. Oh well.

    It is the only thing that is directly visible. With OSS you could see the massive +25M -15M diffstat, but with windows that's all that there is, eycandy and features that still aren't there.

  21. Why on earth SATA? on Gigabyte Solid-State Storage Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Erm. So they take PCI card, pump data across SATA cable to chipset and then through PCI to processor and memory? Does anyone else see any redundancies here?

    Now really, how many of potential users really need these to be attacheable from outside?

    Is it really so hard to make that board pretend to be just another SATA controller, pump the data across PCI only once and not waste the SATA connector?

  22. Re:AMD Opteron errata on 34 Design Flaws in 20 Days of Intel Core Duo · · Score: 1

    It may have something to do with Opteron having built-in memory controller (not a small/trivial chip by itself).

  23. The really interesting question is.. on Spielberg Bitten by DVD Encryption · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ..did it stop screeners of 'Munich' from appearing on trackers?

  24. Re:Should've just done it in Python/Ruby anyways on Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of "How About A Nice Cup Of Too Little Too Fucking Latte"?

  25. Re:Should've just done it in Python/Ruby anyways on Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x · · Score: 1

    Yup, when last needed it was very short and specialized localization of how long weekdaynames map to short ones. That's available from glibc (sortsof), but not everything that I needed.

    When I rewrote it for C# I just broke up the structure and used inline strings instead of real data. This then would be picked up by gettext (whatever C# is using).

    example: fluffydate, it's plugin for blosxom, so brevity and ease of distribution is needed. like NO required XML -files/associated perl modules. As few places to break as possible too. FWIW, perl's nested structures suck donkey balls big time as well, but at least it makes it possible without sticking shovel halfways down my ass.