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  1. Re:1 word: on Triple M.2 NVMe RAID-0 Testing Proves Latency Reductions · · Score: 1

    or a futile attempt to make Intellij IDEA run at usable speeds?

  2. Re:All about IOPS (not bandwidth) on Triple M.2 NVMe RAID-0 Testing Proves Latency Reductions · · Score: 2

    my experience too. the jump from disk to good quality sata ssd was noticeable. jump from sata ssd to raided pcie ssds felt like painting go-faster stripes on a car. it's nice to look at but in a blind test, i wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

  3. Re: Step 1 on NSA Hacker Chief Explains How To Keep Him Out of Your System (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ease up on that ganja or you'll soon claim they have legal basis for anal probing at all railway crossings.

  4. Re:Step 1 on NSA Hacker Chief Explains How To Keep Him Out of Your System (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the guy picks up a microphone and owns up to breaking constitutional rights, screwing with people's businesses and lives. the people, instead of arresting him, clap their hands and say it was a good talk. what the f**k? not even DMCA? let's all accept this lawless band of crooks, put them on a pedestal and call them elite corps

  5. Re:Nobody is buying email software anymore on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    mere thought of that java monstrosity makes me shiver. i spent 9 years administering that thing (among other things). upgrades were hellish nightmares. spam filter training never worked properly. it was power and memory hungry. it was horrible and got worse with each version.

    when i went for a manually configured postfix+dovecot+spamassassin and ejabberd, i felt it was more user/admin friendly. speedwise, it flew circles around any zimbra/exchange installation i had ever seen. ms office communications server/lync is/was/will always be an unreliable resource-hungry pile of crap compared to almost any other sip/xmpp server.

  6. opnonsense on FreeBSD-Powered Firewall Distro OPNsense 16.1 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    am i the only one who read it as opnonsense?

  7. Re:Amazing... on CERN Engineers Have To Identify and Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    patchsee cables aren't transparent. they have 2 strands of optic fibre running from one end to the other. you shine into one end, light comes out of the other (no need to even disconnect the cable). the longest patchsee cables i've seen were 30 metres. i don't think they make longer ones.

  8. Re:Amazing... on CERN Engineers Have To Identify and Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    i use patchsee cables. a bit more expensive but you'll NEVER disconnect the wrong cable again. you get a specially shaped torch which you shine at 1 end of the cable and the other end lights up. the torch has 2 modes - stable light and flashing.

    there are other brands (e.g. evo6, belden) doing similar things but they tend to be overpriced and overly complicated (cable with its own buttons and batteries in jack boot).

  9. Re:timing on AMD: It's Time To Open Up the GPU (gpuopen.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    this recent behaviour of AMD (vulkan, freesync, hbm, gpuopen, etc) reminds me of the last days of Sun Microsystems. they also opened up a lot of their stuff just before they went tits-up. i sincerely hope it's not what's happening with AMD now.

  10. will you walk around shopping malls with an open access point with a captive portal that redirects any url requests to a locally stored goatse picture? naughty naughty...

  11. Re:So? on To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot · · Score: 1

    i got mine 30 years ago and i'm nearing the completion of 1 side.

  12. Re:Zimply yooz Qwerty on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    my native language has alphabet consisting of 46 graphemes. i do fine with our standard qwerty (or more traditional qwertz) keyboard layout. the french alphabet has only 33 graphemes. what a bunch of whiny babies. they should watch my japanese colleague type (in kanji). now THAT is struggle.

    as somebody who used to frequently enter touchtyping competitions (in high school), my performance falls by mere 5% when i use the top row of keys too (number row, which in non english languages contains localised characters and requires Shift to write numbers). Using the top row is simply no big deal once you have the muscle memory. In fact, the biggest weakness of non-en layouts is the employment of right pinky. There are just too many keys for that little sucker. if i'd change anything, i'd probably stick a column of keys between t-y, g-h, v-b and b-n to ease up on the use of pinky. that would also curve the keyboard nicely.

  13. Re: Victims should sue on Open-Source Ransomware Abused For the Second Time In Real-Life Infections (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    there's no such country! just ask MPAA/RIAA

  14. Re: So much for smart TVs on Intel Compute Stick Updated With Cherry Trail Atom, Tested (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    so like a samsung TV + samsung evolution kit? They release a new evolution kit every 1 - 2 years to give the TV support for newest cabling standards and codecs. (that's about all i know about it, so don't ask me additional questions)

    i think this is a step in the right direction; if it does what i'm hoping it does, i would no longer be afraid to buy an expensive TV. at the moment, i refuse to buy something that won't support standards common in 2 years. this gives one a path of upgradability.

  15. Docker actually makes things simpler!
    Since you understand virtualization, then think of docker as lightweight virtualization.

    how is adding stuff on top of LXC making things simpler? i followed docker from its inception and to me and my colleagues, they are the microsoft of os-level virtualisation.

  16. he looks just like Michael Moore but with more pixels

  17. Re:Contrast on 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    regarding shatner vs ford; what are you talking about? shatner is a vastly superior actor. he can pull off at least 5 faces. ford can do a neutral face and a stupid grin. nothing more.

    but then again, i am one of those people who think SW episodes 1, 2, 3 are superior to 4, 5, 6 in almost every aspect. so maybe it is i who has a skewed view of the world.

  18. you need to google teamviewer. it's the most widely spread backdoor in the world. (on gnu/linux it runs as a background daemon even if you don't manually turn it on. it does not (easily) let you disable the daemon and use it ad hoc. on OS X, you can't even uninstall it without leaving crap behind)

  19. wow on Connected Mirror Helps You Get Ready · · Score: 1

    this is addressing a truly 1st world problem i didn't even know existed. the ordeals women have to go through every day... fortunately, carrot skin seems to be back in fashion. just slap that on your face and you'll look the same everywhere.

  20. Re:He's not wrong on Hawking Says Scientific Progress Is Major Source of New Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    robot army only makes sense if only one side of the conflict has it. otherwise, it's easier to just start a big bonfire and start throwing bucketfuls of money into it. he who runs out of money first, loses.

  21. Re:how does it in any way an improvement? on Report: First Ubuntu Tablet To Be Unveiled At MWC 2016 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there's gnu/linux and there's googlecrap/linux. i, for one, want as many parts of my OS to be free as possible. i don't really care if my image editor is free or not but when it comes to my OS and communications apps, i want those open and free.

    btw, in android, aosp apps have 1/10 the functionality of their closed sourced googleapps versions. i know, because i'm paying the bitter price of freedom. i run cyanogenmod without any gapps, with fdroid and amazon as my software sources.

  22. Re:Stupid users on New Linux Trojan Can Spy on Users by Taking Screenshots and Recording Audio (drweb.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    but why did they make a new name for it? "teamviewer" is much easier to remember.

  23. Re:Bill Clinton has been described as a on How Procrastination Can Be Good For You (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    if the best he could come up with after his procrastination was: "i did not have sexual relations with that woman" I think i'll stop procrastinating and get on with stuff.

  24. Re:Just a laptop. on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    my wife's main computer is Thinkpad R60 which i've just realised must also be almost a decade old. last year i replaced hdd for ssd, changed battery and upgraded ram. the only problem i ever had with it was a rattling cpu fan. instead of buying a replacement fan, i bought a broken r60 from ebay and cannibalised it for spares.

    now that google is pushing VP9 on youtube and various streaming services are evaluating HEVC, it might soon be time for an upgrade. overall, i must say the initial larger investment in thinkpads has always paid off in longevity.

  25. Re:Just a laptop. on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    wow, that is exactly the same chassis as 600x. you must know what i'm talking about when i mention the keyboard. what do you do for batteries? once my original one died (after 7 years it still ran the laptop for about 50 minutes) i had to buy a chinese replacement from amazon. and then another, and another... the 1st one had even lower capacity than the old original, the 2nd one bulged up and hissed, 3rd one lasted a bit.

    after this laptop, i could never get used to one without a nipple. even my desktop now has a nipple keyboard (lenovo 55Y9091).