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  1. Re:versioning on Tux3 File System Could Finally Make It Into the Mainline Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Tux3 does not need a cleaner. At the moment, Tux3 also does not have snapshots. When it does, it still won't need a cleaner, although snapshot delete will run in the background because many inodes may need to be updated. This only touches metadata, which is normally less than 1/100th of the volume so it should be OK: some activity after the snapshot delete, but otherwise, changes commit immediately to disk then the disk goes quiet.

  2. Re:Surprisingly Infrequent on Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide · · Score: 1

    This ranks right up there with Microsoft crashing the London Stock Exchange for a day. Shortly after, LSE announced they were switching to Linux, and a few months after that they did it, with great success.

  3. Huge vulnerability on Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide · · Score: 1

    Could this have shed light on a possibly huge vulnerability in large enterprise organizations that rely heavily on automated software deployment packages like SCCM?

    This is really about a huge vulnerability in large enterprise organizations that rely on Microsoft. Incidentally, Google Inc. is not one of them.

  4. Perks of remote work on You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene · · Score: 1

    Clearly, remote workers back in the flyover states have a surplus of girls.

  5. Re:Fix according to Apple is on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    "Nice little Samsung phone you have there, kid. Shame if your messages to iPhones all get lost."

    Why do I hear this in the voice of Joe Pesci?

    It seems that a made man from Apple had mod points.

  6. Re:Fix according to Apple is on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Nice little Samsung phone you have there, kid. Shame if your messages to iPhones all get lost."

  7. Re:KDE 3 on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 1

    Maybe kmail2 works tolerably well if you use it very lightly. It certainly does not work for me. Gets stuck all the time, duplicates mails, can't move mails between folders, etc etc.

  8. Re:KDE 3 on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 1

    Nice to hear your positive report, however it conflicts with my own experience where kmail2+akonadi failed in multiple ways so that it is unusable. Recent. Switched to trojita - features are missing, but it works.

  9. Re:KDE 3 on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 1

    Right, when kmail worked. Now after a years long running email fiasco, all hope of saving kmail2 and Akonadi must be abandoned, and never again make the mistake of thinking that a database backend works as well just just doing what needs to be done with ordinary filesystem operations.

  10. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    The good news about LG growth just keeps coming. Let me see, Apple losing share in the critical US market, losing share in high growth emerging markets, losing share in handsets and tablets too. Damn customers just do not respond properly to reality distortion any more, it's almost like they want value for their money. Where or where is that iWatch? Apple really needs a new straw to grasp at right about now.

  11. Re:So in other words, it will be just like Firewir on Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+? · · Score: 1

    Failing to provide a normal micro USB connector is a pratfall everybody but Tim Cook could see coming a mile away.

  12. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    LG sells 13 million smartphones during q4 up 54 percent

    Those days when Apple only sells 12 or 13 million handsets a quarter are on their way back, isn't that great? See, Tim Cook may wear the black turtleneck but he doesn't fill the shoes.

  13. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    I like comparing shrinking Apple with expanding Android, year over year or day over day, you name it. Did you hear that LG shipped 13 million handsets last quarter, up 54%? Great news.

  14. Just a formality on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 2

    Google traditionally copies all user feeback to the round file. They go through the motions getting user feedback to satisfy some well meaning internal guidelines, but in the end Google decides all questions by the colors on the powerpoint slides. Redesign of the news site is a classic example, tens of thousands of negative comments in multiple forums and nearly nothing good to say about it, in the end a few cosmetic tweaks were made but user feedback was overwhelmingly ignored. It still sucks. I expect pretty much the same with gmail. How about fixing things that actually matter, like not being able to right click and open a mail in a new browser tab?

  15. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    iPad sales slumped 16.1% YOY while Samsung tablet sales roared ahead by 32%

    Sitting back with popcorn for your idiot twisting on that one now.

  16. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    Don't whine to me, complain to ABI research if their numbers conflict with your delusions. Also, pay more attention to your quoting.

  17. Re:Legally correct decision with awful results on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 1

    I pray, in the name of developers everywhere, that Google wins. If not, our industry is screwed!

    More screwed, you mean.

  18. Re:Driver license incompatibility on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 1

    Oracle publishes a copylefted version of Java, but copyleft licenses aren't necessarily compatible with the non-free drivers needed to get a mass-market mobile computer booting.

    Rubbish. Drivers are linked into the Linux kernel, which is GPL. This is explicitly allowed.

  19. Re:Bye-Bye Java on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 1

    Java was always about ruling the universe in every possible way, embedded devices were just a way to get a foot in the door. As it turned out, Java is a horrible waste of hardware resources and so ended up mainly as an enabler for mediocre programmers, and a poster child for everything that is wrong with proprietary control of a common resource.

    Larry Page getting fixated on Java was a blunder, pure and simple. Only ego stands in the way of backing down from that and shifting the core of Android C++. I do not doubt that the Java strategy will be made to work even with Oracle's bad acting, but not putting plan B into effect is just dumb.

  20. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    17% growth for Apple... year on year, while the sequential decline is 14%, do you understand what that means? If your one-button IQ does not comprehend, then think "cliff, falling".

    ABI Research reports that Android once again dominated the Q1 2014 shipment numbers for smartphone advanced operating systems with *** 80% *** market share (including AOSP) of just under 300 million smartphones shipped in Q1 2014.

    Read and weep. Or bluster, it's up to you.

  21. Re:Emacs on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Can systemd send email?

  22. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    There thataboy, your trademark Apple toady obnoxious flows right back to you.

    Q1 2014 Smartphone OS Results: Android Dominates High Growth Developing Markets>Q1 2014 Smartphone OS Results: Android Dominates High Growth Developing Markets

    Isn't that sweet? Including the Android open source project, Android now has 80% of the worldwide smartphone market and sitll rising. Windows phones rising too, while iOS turned in a 14% decline from last quarter. Slip, slip slipping away. Your pals slipping away too, will you be the last astroturfer standing?

    Brilliant retort by the way, consistent with your one button IQ.

  23. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    Some Apple toady you are, don't care about Apple losing its grip on its home market, don't care about losing market share in general! Pathetic.

    Well I care, because you are a great source of amusement. Only... you seem to be petering out, can you please ramp up the obnoxiousness a little more?

  24. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    Ah, helpful of you to point out that iOS apps crash more often than Android apps. Of course my quote was for the US. You were entirely right to point out that in order to accomodate your one-button IQ I must specify that the numbers are for US, Apple's most important market. Don't you see Apple getting its ass handed to it in the US as an issue? And a global rise of 1.52% is "virtually flat" only in the mind of a slavering Apple toady. The Android global increase is starting from a base that has been up till now, considerably higher than the US. Looking forward to more of that "flat".

  25. Meanwhile... on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, Canadian moose pasture keeps getting more expensive.