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  1. Re:Something Linux has to leave behind... on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 1
    Wrong.

    If you want stability stick to a Linux distribution - Ubuntu LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux both have stable APIs with a 5 and a 7 year lifespan. Desktop users have no business compiling their own kernels anyway.

    The lack of a stable API allows Linux to move forward unhindered by old cruft.

  2. Re:Confused by the title on Huge Traffic On Wikipedia's Non-Profit Budget · · Score: 1

    I guess tt means thats there the budget is not necessarily scaled in the same way it might have been if they where a commercial company. In a commercial company more traffic means more money - not so for WP.

  3. Re:processing power on Head Tracking w/ the Wiimote · · Score: 4, Insightful
  4. Re:Article Does Not Make Much Sense on Thinking about Rails? Think Again · · Score: 1

    I tried to use Rails without learning Rails or Ruby and gave up

    He did hire bitsweat - which is a rails core committer. You are trolling, aren't you?
  5. Quick! on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone relicense it under the GPL!

  6. coral cache on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:Slashed? on Xbox 360 Price Drop Official · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot. What did you expect. :-P

  8. Re:ZFS on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 2, Informative
  9. Re:Old News??? on Palm to go Linux · · Score: 1

    How is the BeOS-based Palm Software OS different from vanilla PalmOS - found on the Palm TX? The TX is the last Palm to be shipped by Palm Inc and it has a really sucky OS. Its unstable, lacks multitasking and has a really crappy package management system.

  10. Use rdesktop on Do You Get a UNIX Workstation at Work? · · Score: 1

    I haven't had a windows-based desktop since '98. I've been using rdesktop to access a windows machine when IE4Linux doesn't cut it. Just go and talk someone into giving you an extra desktop - since you connect to it with RDP - you won't need an extra screen or keyboard. WinXP supports RDP out of the box and you can run rdesktop on most Unixes. Cut'n paste even works. Per.

  11. Re:So... on Novell Assents To "Windows Is Cheaper Than Linux" · · Score: 1
    Linux has a higher TCO, but is worth it.

    The T in TCO stands for total.

  12. Re:Barely "remote" on Remote Exploit Discovered for OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Some people would even consider this a local exploit. An exploit which requires root access on a machine on the local network is hardly, uhm, remote.

  13. Re:CentOS 5 on Red Hat Readies RHEL 5 for March 14 Launch · · Score: 1

    Can't you use CentoPlus with RHEL? I though Centos was supposed to be binary compatible with RHEL.

  14. Re:ReadyBoost on Inside the Windows Vista Kernel, Part 2 · · Score: 1

    Q: Won't this wear out the drive? A: Nope. We're aware of the lifecycle issues with flash drives and are smart about how and when we do our writes to the device. Our research shows that we will get at least 10+ years out of flash devices that we support. From http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02 /615199.aspx Besides - as the data is encrypted on its way to the flash memory - it should detect if incorrect data is read back.

  15. Re:Good! on Norway Outlaws iTunes · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    DRM'ed music is ~crap. You are allowed to buy crap. But crap that locks you into a certain vendor of crap is illegal - especially when the vendor have such a high market share. Thats the case.

  16. Re:New Microsoft Sql Server on MySQL Falcon Storage Engine Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    I've used MySQL with had ACID compliance, row-level locking, MVCC, foreign key and a multithreaded backend since 2001 - MySQL 3.23 w/InnoDB. Falcon adds no new features to MySQL.

  17. Re:It doesn't much matter.... on UK Lab Traces Polonium To Russian Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Of course she had zero influence - in Russia. Russia isn't exactly a real democracy and people that criticize the government are not given much attention by the state-controlled media.

    And yes, she was portrayed as a nutcase - by the same media. She still recieved a rather substantial amount of international awards for her work.

    It doesn't really matter what you think about FSB killing or not killing Litvinenko. What matters is that a lot of people believe Putin is willing and capable of instrumenting "wet jobs".

  18. Re:Protect Innovation on On Software Patent Lawsuits Against OSS · · Score: 1

    tux2 - an extension to the ext2 filesystem implementing features also found in WAFL was shot down by Netapp although there war undoubtfully prior art.

  19. Re:Cacti on Server Monitoring With Munin And Monit · · Score: 1

    Munin has close integration with Nagios. You can set thresholds in munin and connect it to Nagios and Nagios will alert you if the thresholds are broken. I have no idea how this is done with Cacti - but its dead simple with Munin.

  20. Re:Keep it simple. ext2 or fat32. on A Good Filesystem for Storing Large Binaries? · · Score: 1

    ext2/3 will use triple indirect adressing to reach blocks when the filesize reaches a few gigabytes. If performance is more important then stability I would go with a filesystem that supports extents - like reiserfs or jfs - both of which are resonably stable.

  21. Real world benchmarks? on Intel Lindenhurst Xeon DP Platform Discussion · · Score: 1

    Are there real world benchmarks of these things? All I see is a lot of Intel-bashing - which does not excite me much.

  22. Re:Same question I asked when it went beta: on MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use · · Score: 2, Informative

    Triggers and procedures are storage engine independant. BTW: in a lot of cases the InnoDB storeage engine is faster.

  23. Re:Wow, I wonder why nobody thought of that on Linspire To Run Windows Games · · Score: 1
    Hello?

    And you think spending 6 hours with some sort of computer game is not a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME?

    :-P

  24. Re:CPU alphabet soup and the demise of Apple on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 1
    But Intel does not make computers. They make processors. Its not their job to create a strong computer brand - thats IBM, HP and Dells job.

    Intel makes parts for computer producers - and they might actually have the brain-power to handle Intels alphabet soup.

  25. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 1

    How can something be theoretically more stable then something else?