User: mecachis

Slashdot poll proposal

On: Afghanistan Bans Internet

I think that Slashdot should have a poll asking for retaliation actions against the Taliban regime. Suggestions:

• Hack the US army and nuke them
• Do a website with anti-taliban intelligentia
• Give money to the opposing army in the north
• Bomb the country with "Radios" (already proposed)
• Force our goverments to give asilum to Afganistan people

SPEC benchs have profiling activated

On: Can SSE-2 Save the Pentium 4?

I still believe that P4 is better for scientific applications, what SPECfp tries to analyze. Nevertheless, something must be considered.
Both, P4 and Athlon, use profiling to improve branch prediction. Clearly, P4 is more sensitive to this technology because the large pipeline.
In real world, nobody does profiling (sad but true). Without profiling the differences are closer.

Mistake

On: Red Hat DB = PostgreSQL - Confirmed

Currently PostgreSQL is better than MySQL, but this is changing. See the great MySQL improvements from
innodb.
Once this code is more stable it would give lots of image problems to postgres. Additionally, MySQL has a very clean code.

Let's fight back!

On: Microsoft EULA stokes crusade

Why not to create an extension to the GPL/BSD/LPGL... licenses so that they are free for everybody but for Microsoft?