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  1. One of the greats. on Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A huge, huge loss.

  2. SignalVault on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    This. Tested and works. http://www.signal-vault.com/

  3. Re:One side of the story on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 0

    If I had mod points, I'd mod this comment down.

    Your choice of words and attitude disgust me.

  4. Dual 2560x1440 on AOC's 21:9 Format, 29" IPS Display Put To the Test At 2560x1080 · · Score: 1

    I just bought two 2560x1440 27" displays from monoprice. IPS, minimal backlight bleed, no dead or stuck pixels. Love 'em!

  5. Re:we ditched vmware for xenserver 2 years back... on XenServer 6.2 Is Now Fully Open Source · · Score: 1

    I've been using XenServer for five years (3 servers, 23 VM's, 5TB on iSCSI).

    I'm seriously considerring dumping it for KVM (Proxmox, specifically).

  6. WordStar on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that Wordstar was the 'one true editor'.

  7. And now RIM on Inside the Death of Palm and WebOS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The same thing is happening to Research In Motion.

  8. Backups on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    A little late to the party, but I'd say backups.

    You want access to your backups, no matter what the state of your virtualization infrastructure.

  9. WordStar on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 1

    WordStar 7.0d. Only way to go.

  10. Re:Looking expensive on Ask Slashdot: Is a Home Drone Feasible? · · Score: 1
  11. Not a Triangle. on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 5, Informative

    If it's a triangle, why does the video show and discuss a circular object with a 'tether' to the sun?

  12. Re:Netbooks on Linux Mint 12 to Blend GNOMEs 2 & 3 · · Score: 2

    iOS is for my phone or my tablet. Not my computer.

    Eventually, we'll want the same flexibility we've grown to enjoy on our computers, on our small devices. Then, iOS will not be acceptable anymore.

  13. Re:Less insane support? on Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster · · Score: 1

    We were quoted on two Gluster servers, replicated. The answer was 'no support on Ubuntu', we'd have to switch to their ISO install, and $8500/yr for support.

  14. History, apparently, repeats on Linux 3D Games Run Faster On PC-BSD · · Score: 1

    Didn't this happen when Linux started emulating Windows?

    "Games run faster in Linux/Wine(Cedega) than in Windows"

    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=681&num=2

    Why is everyone so shocked that an emulation layer can be faster now, when before it was "look at us, we're great?"

  15. CTRL Key on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    Please, please, please put the CTRL key back there, where it belongs.

    I remap my capslock to CTRL on every machine I use.

  16. iPad all the way on The DIY Car Computer vs. the iPad · · Score: 1

    I swapped out my carpc for an iPad. All I needed it for was music (mp3) and GPS. I love it. I modified a couple of cell phone mounts to hold the iPad, and it easily comes with me when I leave the car.

  17. Citrix XenServer on Recommendations For Home Virtualization? · · Score: 1

    I run XenServer from Citrix. They have a free version, and it just works.

  18. Re:Same way you get your kids interested in gaming on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    If that's the 'one true brace', then it's time to abandon it!

  19. Re:Same way you get your kids interested in gaming on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    Oh boy. When amateurs program...

    while(true)
    {
            printf("FUCK\n") ;
    }

    I'm sure you could put that into main().

  20. Re:This should be modded up on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I got a Drobo as well, the 4 drive USB/Firewire version.

    I had a RAID array die, and I needed something fast to save my data before the weekend was over. The Drobo worked.

    I'm now back on a Linux RAID system, and the Drobo is relegated to backups. Why? It's slow. Way slow. I wouldn't recommend for daily use.

  21. Zenith on Linux-Friendly, Internet-Enabled HDTVs? · · Score: 1

    Zenith (now owned by LG) also use Linux.

  22. Schools don't teach basics anymore on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    They should be taught SOMETHING. I recently saw a case where a new programmer was asked to add CR/LF to the end of his text strings. Well, when we saw the code, he had done exactly as asked. Each string had "CR/LF" (the string literal) added to the end.

  23. Re:XenServer worked for us on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    I agree, it is like apples and oranges, as is BSD Jails vs VMWare Server. However, the end result is similar enough to invite comparisons.

  24. Re:XenServer from Citrix -- eewww on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    I have to agree, the 'from Citrix' makes me queasy for a couple of reasons.

    1. I've had issues with Citrix products in the past
    2. Xen is the work of many people, not just Citrix.

    Issue 2 compensated for issue 1, and it was further assuaged by the performance of the VM's. Very nice. I was also nice that Citrix made XenServer free just as we were about to write a check.

  25. XenServer worked for us on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We had performance issues with VMWare Server as well, especially in the disk I/O area. Converting to XenServer from Citrix solved the issues for us. We have great speed, can virtualize other OS's, and management is significantly better.