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  1. Re:The return of Linux on Eee? on ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    It's a pain anyway if you've gone through another month of updates anyway as you potentially have another set stacked on top of the prior one. By that time you need to do surgery with regedit.

  2. Re:The return of Linux on Eee? on ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks · · Score: 2

    You get rid of the backed up system updates via CCleaner (Advanced > Hotfix Uninstallers). But it won't remove the downloaded files so manual remove from %WINDIR%\softwaredistribution\download. I do this after every Patch Tuesday.

  3. Re:God enough on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Only applicable to data center and enterprise editions, not standard or web editions. The 4GB includes memory for applications and drivers so you either can have 2GB for apps + 2GB for kernel or 3GB/1GB using the /4GT switch. But it is a trade off if you have more than 1GB for the kernal. This dilemma is especially evident if you're using Terminal Services which will have performance issues if kernel space is less than 2GB. http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2004/02/19/the-4gb-windows-memory-limit-what-does-it-really-mean.aspx

  4. Re:God enough on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Actually recently XP-x64 is better supported because more people delayed migrating to Vista so they opted for XP. HP for instance has more XP x64 drivers for their newer machines although coverage is not 100%.

  5. Re:Hmmm, nope. on Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female · · Score: 1

    I like Stacy Keach myself since he's done quite a few PBS documentaries.

    I think it's interesting the original Star Trek series used a woman's voice for the majority of the computer voices but most, if not all the bad computer voices were male voices. The M5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer and ISS Enterprise's computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror,_Mirror_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) being ones I can quickly think of.

  6. Re:Android isn't for everyone on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    That's just passing the buck and not being accountable. The update issue is a usability problem for users who want to have the latest software.

  7. Re:Perhaps to one's surprise? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1
    My, what short memories people have. I admit it is too early to tell whether the 4S will be a success but many of the coverage I've heard or read expressed what a let down the introduction was.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-apple-asia-idUSTRE7940JQ20111005

    Rival smartphone makers could exploit a rare letdown by Apple in the launch of its new iPhone 4S model, which failed to wow fans, and grab a bigger share of the most lucrative part of the phone market.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/apple-iphone-4s-opens-door-competitors-analyst-210516885.html

    "It's certainly a disappointment given the fact that people were looking for a new iteration to be number 5 in this case," says David Garrity, principal at GVA Research.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204524604576610991978907616.html

    "Underwhelming is the word that hit me," said Endpoint Technologies Associates analyst Roger Kay.

    The letdown was echoed in the early performance of Apple's shares, which fell as much as 5% Tuesday and finished down 0.6% at $372.50 at 4 p.m. trading even as the broader market rose.

  8. Recreating subsets of Shakespeare on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 1

    So the virtual monkeys are recreating a subset of the work of Shakespeare not an entire work. And the Hadoop instance is splicing them together?

  9. Re:Price??? on Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive · · Score: 1

    From Anandtech http://www.anandtech.com/show/4863/the-samsung-ssd-830-review:

    "The Samsung SSD 830 will be available to consumers starting in mid October. Although Samsung isn't announcing pricing at this time, I've been told to expect the drive to be priced around where the SSD 470 is today."

  10. Re:What will happen when they die? on Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive · · Score: 1

    Predictable in theory but not necessarily in practice. When your metadata goes RO on you I think that's why some responses are in the area of a corrupt file system or a drive that is not recognized at all. The ones about partitions being corrupted is a much bigger issue. You would think one wouldn't normally mess with partition metadata.

    Probably the file systems and low level utilities need to be updated to take into account SSD-type failures.

  11. Re:Who uses that anyway? on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    UnxUtils hasn't been updated since 2003. I'm not sure when SUA has been updated but it can't be too far behind.

  12. Re:Well... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Yes, I use Noscript and have a very short whitelist. Many sites don't fully work. Some, like slashdot can work if you're logged in and choose the classic discussion settings. If you're not logged in you're forced to use the interactive settings, requiring JavaScript. It's the same if you're trying to surf using links/lynx.

    Your 100MHz example is probably using Linux and either some lightweight browser and you're comparing your 2600K running Vista and IE.

  13. Discussion on flashback on Famous Wildlife Photographer Busted For Using Stock Images · · Score: 2

    It redirects to https so Google translate won't work.

    http://www.flashback.org/t1641161

  14. Re: Middle of nowhere? on Critic Pans Apple's New Campus As a Retrograde Cocoon · · Score: 1

    Oh, so you just looked at a map. Have you ever been there in person?

    Where do you propose Apple build? They want to stay in Cupertino which is commendable for them as they could easily move to some state in no man's land. HP is getting rid of the site so it's a win-win for Apple, HP, and the city of Cupertino.

  15. Re:perhaps it's because their pages suck on Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO · · Score: 1

    Well Yahoo is also my oldest email account, too. But their latest incarnation sucks. They took away the option to use the legacy interface and the new version is dog slow bringing up a message. Sometimes their JS code causes messages to not load unless I log off and start over.

  16. Re:There will be a time... on Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet · · Score: 1
  17. Re:They've been practicing on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Dell and Apple got hit with the nVIDIA debacle, too. The problem with the nVIDIA settlement was more HP models were affected. I would be pissed to find my notebook has the same chip, symptoms, but I cannot make a claim.

  18. Re:Didn't see this one coming on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    I didn't know this. Reddit's thread has a reply from some employees at that division. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/jj9s9/google_buys_motorola_mobility/c2ckym2

  19. Re:When ideology surpasses basic mathematics on S&P's $2 Trillion Math Mistake · · Score: 1

    I agree. I wonder who is paying them to downgrade at this time?

  20. Re:I do think people under appreciate that on Comcast Launching $9.95 Low Income Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    You're comparing against the past. Compare against present availability to see how much the US is behind the times--all for the profit for telco and cable executives and shareholders. I wonder how your comparison for other countries today and when they had dial up or no internet access at all.

  21. Re:Unmitigated gall and greed on Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    Ralph McQuarrie painted/sketched the original designs. http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/c/ce/ST_Lightsaber.jpg

    But I agree Andrew Ainsworth's should be able to profit from his creations.

  22. Re:Simple on Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    Or just support ISPs that don't do this kind of bullshit. ISPs like Sonic.net. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/1gbps-fiber-for-70in-america-yup.ars. Their current customers have their 20Mbps Fusion product upgraded to 100/10 and 40Mbps bonded service upgraded to 1000/100 for the same price.

  23. Re:All browsers are consuming more memory. on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    FF 5 beta buildID 20110608151458

    Overview
                            Memory mapped:153,092,096
                            Memory in use:147,875,008

    The largest I can see that I think I could control are:

    storage/sqlite/pagecache 47,601,304
    storage/places.sqlite/Cache_Used 45,047,832

    FF 2 and 3 had an easy way to change the retention period but I guess they removed it for 4 and 5? http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries doesn't say if the history preferences are applicable to 4 and 5 anymore. I'm also using the portable version of beta 5 so the cache in Advanced > Network : Offline Storage, Limit cache to X MB of space is 0.

    Anyone know what to change that affect those two storage properties? I prefer maybe 30 days' worth of history.

  24. Deja vu from the Windows 8 demo on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 1

    So who stole split keyboard and swiping full screen apps and traditional apps from whom? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I http://www.apple.com/apple-events/wwdc-2011/ More was shown in the Apple replay and seems more refined than Microsoft's brief sneak peek.

  25. Re:I hopefully speak for lots of people when I say on Linux 3.0 Will Have Full Xen Support · · Score: 1

    My question is how soon could someone be able to use Xen and have dom0 autoboot into something like a Windows XP installation (running on the console) and can still manage VMs and manage them in the hypervisor? I would like to leverage a hypervisor for managing VMs on a system with a lot of memory and still want to use it as a workstation with native, or close-to-native graphics acceleration not login through remote desktop/VNC.

    The documentation for doing this is confusing and there appears to be a limitation to the graphics drivers that allow that. Last time I did the investigation it seems ATi drivers had some hurdles that prevents a smooth installation. The other requirement is VT-d but that's more easily taken care of by purchasing the right chipset and CPU.