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  1. Only /.ers on Slashdot Charity Buyers Donate Over $10,000 To the EFF · · Score: 1

    ...will pay for a DDoS attack of their own webservers. In any case, good work mates!

  2. Re:Amoxicillin-Potassium Clavulanate Combination on Using Old Medications to Defeat Tuberculosis · · Score: 1

    This combination has been used for several decades now. The combination goes under the generic name "Coamoxyclav". It's one of the common antibiotics prescribed for a sinus or a throat infection.

  3. Re:I wonder if the foundation... on Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro · · Score: 1

    Miro created his art. But he did not create his name, it has existed long before Miro (prior art).

  4. Re:sigh on IPhones Flooding Wireless LAN At Duke · · Score: 1

    You must have taken that protease enzyme they discovered at MIT recently.

  5. New 21st century Car... on Blood Protein Used to Split Water · · Score: 1

    gives 1000 miles per gallon (of blood).

  6. Re:Who's really surprised? on India Tops Target List For Spam · · Score: 1

    But I bet you'd never be one of those millions of graduates, with such language skills.

  7. Re:Biceps? on RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are injecting into the right hand, you fool. Not the left hand.

  8. Downloadable version on Indian Government Keen on Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Indian language CD (currently, Tamil only) can be downloaded from http://www.ildc.in/ - the website maintained by the government. But it's already slowed down, try after a few days. Most SW is available for both Linux and Windows.

  9. That's great on Indian Government Keen on Open Source · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As an Indian myself, one of the things that really plague users of Indian language versions of software is the non-standardized fonts and encodings. Most of them do not use UTF-8, and non-standard fonts are all over the place. This effort I think will promote the creators of software and content publishers to adhere to a standard, if the Govt initiatives gain a big userbase. Try visiting some Indian language websites, and you'll see what I mean. You need a custom font for every single website, it drives you crazy. I think the Govt efforts will encourage Indian language publishers (all 20+ languages) to adhere to standards like UTF-8.

  10. BOGOFREE on Nero Burning for Linux · · Score: 1

    It's free if you already bought a license for a Windows version. It asks the serial number of the one you bought already, to download the Linux version. So, it's not "Free-as-in-beer" free. It's just "buy-one-get-one" (BOGO)free. Kinda like BOGOMIPS :D

  11. Apple has a new name for this gadget on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: 1, Funny

    It will be called iVo

  12. If TFA gets slashdotted, these are his conclusions on Comparing MySQL Performance · · Score: 5, Informative

    Conclusion/final thoughts

    Both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 had the strongest showing overall for these tests, dominating just about every benchmark no matter the workload. Scalability for both kernels was also excellent with addition of an extra processor. In fact, I was surprised how well 2.4 had done, as I had somewhat expected 2.6 to show at least a noticeable, if slight, increase over 2.4. Instead, they took turns besting each other from test to test -- and in scalability -- for a fairly even overall showing.

    Solaris 10 had a very strong showing as well, having great speed as well as great scalability. I think the results show that Solaris 10 is a great platform for MySQL. Of course, I didn't have Super Smack results as I couldn't get Super Smack to port to Solaris (as detailed in the previous article), so bear that in mind.

    NetBSD 2.0 also had a very strong showing, although it was tarnished by two issues. One, MySQL on NetBSD 2.0 doesn't scale with the addition of CPUs. The results would seem to indicate that it might be wise to run a uniprocessor kernel even if two processors are available. The other issue was the poor I/O performance for the 10M row SysBench test. The SMP scalability issue is easy to understand since, to be fair, this is the first NetBSD release to support multiple processors. The I/O issue is more of a mystery, however.

    FreeBSD 5.3 did relatively well in both KSE and linuxthreads mode, although with all the work that's been done in the SMP and threading realms, I was a little disappointed with the results. Still, it seems that the native threading model for the production release of FreeBSD-5 is ready for prime time, and can replace the long-standing FreeBSD convention of using linuxthreads with MySQL.

    For FreeBSD 4.11, however, linuxthreads definitely helped with performance (and in many cases outperformed FreeBSD 5.3). With libc_r, performance lagged far behind linuxthreads for many tests, and there was little scalability. I would say it's highly advisable to build your FreeBSD 4.11 MySQL binary with linuxthreads.

    For all the time it took, I think the tests were worth it. I learned quite a bit about MySQL performance in general, and I'd like to again thank Peter Zaitsev for his methodology recommendations and input, as well as Jenny Chen from Sun for her input.

  13. Re:postgres on Comparing MySQL Performance · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you R the FA, which not many do these days, he says he didnt have the time though he planned to do both, so he did MySQL. This is mentioned in the first link, which was /.ed last week. The first link was Part 1 which explains the setup and procedure. Part 2 (second link) explains the results.

  14. Re:It's awesome... on Google Donating Bandwidth and Servers to Wikipedia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree with you. In spite of the risk of getting modded off-topic, let me tell you my personal story.

    I had a page about Gateway laptop, which Google removed from search results, probably after complaints from Gateway, one of their advertisers.

    The page did not even have anything biased or untrue, it just stated facts about some hardware bug with the particular laptop model. That's when I lost my trust in fairness of Google. My page went from the top 3 to invisible in search results for "gateway 200 arc". I used to get about 20 unique hits daily through Google before they removed it.

    I reported about the page gone AWOL from their results, and Google reinstated it in their search results. But it went AWOL again, and they never reinstated it, in spite of my three notifications to Google (using the "Dissatisfied? Help up improve") link at the bottom of their search results.

  15. Increased battery life for laptops too on Nanotech Brings Battery Life Extender for Mobiles · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The website says it increases the life of laptop batteries too. From http://www.batmax.com/products-laptop.php Extends the battery life from 30% up to 2X Offers more time for working, playing DVD's, CD's and gaming. Provides longer idle time. Accelerates the charging time up to 40%. Rejuvenates the current batteries / Restores the original performances. Prolongs the total battery life span with up to 30% longer lifetime (total charging cycles). Eliminates the battery "memory" effect. Protects the battery by regulating and filtering the incoming current. Saves money by delaying the need for purchasing new batteries. But I cannot find an order page with the Batmax for laptops

  16. Re:Holy COW, you went public! on Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand · · Score: 1

    That's Anand Lal Shimpi, you insensitve clod.

  17. Re:next version concerns on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 1

    It shouldnt be a big deal to add some privacy options like who can and cannot see your library and your profile (only those that I approve / anyone who are in my friends network / the world).

  18. What's the maximum attachment size? on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I need attachment size ~700MB for my, umm, "files" :D Then I can access my "files" from anywhere :D

  19. Re:censorship by obscurity on Does Google Censor Chinese News? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A sample size of 1 website doesn't mean anything. By the way, is your website popular, and linked from other sites, or did you submit it to Google? In any case, unless you take a random sample of several thousand websites and test if they are listed on Google, you cannot derive a meaningful conclusion. Are there any such studies that were done with published results?

  20. Back-up supplies on Soyuz Damage May Delay Space Station Trip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hmm, from the links, it seems they only have oxygen canisters that would last one month. But NASA says they are in no immediate danger. Commander Gennady Padalka is confident he can clear the blockage and get the machine running again, said NASA spokesman Rob Navias. In the meantime, Padalka took spare parts and installed them in a spare oxygen generator, which could serve as a replacement if necessary So they have an extra oxygen generator, but I wonder why they don't have something like a 'RAID' system of these devices, instead of swapping parts after one of them fails.

  21. Redundant equipment on Soyuz Damage May Delay Space Station Trip · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So, if the oxygen generator fails, they don't have redundant oxygen generators with a fail-over mechanism, to work uninterruptedly? Are they too huge that they have just one, and depend on reserve supplies? I hope they get the supplies soon. Perhaps, when China also launches their space vehicles, we will have more countries to rely on in case of space emergencies.

  22. Even better, and costs less... on Aural Heaven -- iPod And Analog · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...create an equalizer preset in iTunes (or Winamp or what have you) that mimics the distortion caused by tube amplifiers.

    1. Make equalizer preset
    2. Call it iTubes
    3. ???
    4. Profit.

  23. Re:Sorry... it's a dupe. Original is better. on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: -1, Troll

    In other news, Neurologits from Johns-Hopkins University have found that lack of sex can lead to dementia in computer geeks.

  24. Re:The fish on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ha ha, are you from USA? Sweden and Netherlands are not the same country.

  25. Re:Please.... on Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey · · Score: 0

    apropos?