Slashdot Mirror


User: XanC

XanC's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,855
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,855

  1. That's right... on Seagate Announces 750GB Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Because "GiB" is stupid. GB means 2^30 bytes, and that's just the way it is.

  2. What? on Seagate Announces 750GB Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Lossless audio compression is just that -- lossless. There's no information thrown away, hearable or not.

  3. Correction on OS Virtualization Interview · · Score: 1

    The big server would still need to be x86 in that scenario.

  4. Yep on OS Virtualization Interview · · Score: 2, Informative
    That's basically the idea. A single machine can be running several different systems at once, and each one can have its own kernel, network settings, tuning for a particular task, whatever. You can set up the network however you want; you can even simulate subnets and routers and who knows what to try stuff out.

    Another big advantage is that the virtualization provides a common "hardware" layer. For example, every VMWare "machine" sees standard VMWare "hardware", no matter what kind of metal it's actually runnning on. Want to move your "server" from your Celeron desktop to a big RISC server? You don't even have to reboot it. (It'll be inaccessible while you transfer it, but there are ways around that too.)

  5. Linode on OS Virtualization Interview · · Score: 1

    You need to move to Linode.com, seriously. They don't have any of the problems you mention. It's all UML for now, although they have some Xen boxes in beta that you can get on.

  6. Price? on OS Virtualization Interview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For one. VMWare ESX is quite expensive, I understand.

  7. Circles within circles on Voice Recognition for a Techie? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't he need it to be written in order to write it?

  8. Re:Commercial viability on MySQL to Adopt Solid Storage Engine · · Score: 1
    Notice my conjunction between a) and b) was and, not or.

    MySQL's business model needs both.

  9. Commercial viability on MySQL to Adopt Solid Storage Engine · · Score: 1
    MySQL uses a dual-licensing scheme. It's GPL to anybody who is willing/able to comply with that license. Otherwise, you pay MySQL for a license.

    This means that every component MySQL uses must be a) GPL licensed, and b) produced by a company willing to sell commercial licenses through MySQL.

  10. Captain Ramius? on MySQL to Adopt Solid Storage Engine · · Score: 1

    Is that you?

  11. TNG 6x04 on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duh!

  12. Article Link on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Uhhhh.... on Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog' · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call having elections an ititiative of Al Gore. Besides, would you define "free and fair" as "keep recounting until the guy you want wins"?

  14. I control the player on Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die · · Score: 4, Insightful
    What exactly makes linux the better ( or worse ) platform for DVDs here?

    mplayer doesn't tell me "action not allowed" or that I must go through the menu. I put in the DVD and tell it to play Title 1. That's it.

    In Windows, (or on a "real" DVD player), it's watch a few ads, look at the FBI warning, wait for the damn animation to finish, push Play, wait for another damn animation....

  15. Re:Uhhhh.... on Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog' · · Score: 1

    Can you name an initiative of his that Marx wouldn't approve of?

  16. Re:certainly not on ARM Offers First Clockless Processor Core · · Score: 1

    Well, I was just quoting from kernel.org's frontpage on what the requirements of Linux are. They made it sound like the non-MMU versions weren't worth much.

  17. Re:certainly not on ARM Offers First Clockless Processor Core · · Score: 1

    Non-MMU Linuxes are of limited functionality, according to kernel.org.

  18. Something "New" on AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? · · Score: 1
    We don't need something new; we need something old. Decentralized power. Many small, independent states, in a collective agreement for free trade and mutual defense.

    The South understood the history of the great civilizations, and was determined to hold off the inevitable decline as long as possible, by clinging to the founding ideas. It didn't work, and the Yankees' revolution succeeded. We now have a federal government that rules instead of being ruled.

  19. Actually on ARM Offers First Clockless Processor Core · · Score: 1

    It requires a paged MMU and a port of GCC.

  20. Tried it once on AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of the states tried to leave the US once, and they US military occupied and subjugated that territory.

  21. Re:Perspective on Prof Denied Funds Over Evolution Evidence · · Score: 1

    I read some debunking of his stuff at some point, but I can't seem to find it just real quick at the moment. I'm sure you could dig some up.

  22. Re:Perspective on Prof Denied Funds Over Evolution Evidence · · Score: 2, Interesting
    My bad; I hadn't read it in long enough that I misunderstood you.

    But I don't think it's necessarily true that the physical creation of man and the spiritual creation of man are one and the same. Did every early hominid have a soul? Who knows. It's certainly possible that event took place 6,000 years ago, with Adam and Eve, where the chronicles begin.

    I'm a little rusty on this, but in Genesis, doesn't Cain run off and join "the others"? Seems to suggest that there were hominids already running around by the time A&E left the Garden.

  23. Re:Perspective on Prof Denied Funds Over Evolution Evidence · · Score: 1
    That's not what it's saying.

    The idea is that, as Einstein said, time passes differently depending on your point of view. It says that the Biblio is meant to be looking forward, and that if your perspective is that of a stationary observer at the big bang, seven literal days have passed. From our perspective on Earth, it's been however many billion years.

  24. Documentation! on Microsoft Launches Linux Labs Website · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it possible that MS could document the protocol, then we wouldn't have this problem?

  25. Perspective on Prof Denied Funds Over Evolution Evidence · · Score: 1
    I read somewhere that if you were (somehow) sitting where the Big Bang occured, and measured time from the moment that energy first coalesced into matter, from your perspective about seven days would have passed, while from our perspective looking back, it's however many billion years. Interesting article.

    Found it. Read it all if you have time, or scroll down to the last paragraph for the crux of it.