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  1. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 2

    Being unable to SSH into my Ubuntu file server was usually the first indication that the automatic update went FUBAR. The black screen from the video card didn't help either.

  2. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu saw the built-in Nvidia video card on the desktop motherboard I was using at the time and installed the Nvidia drivers. Initial setup was fine. The automatic upgrades usually screwed things up.

    FreeNAS has the VGA-only driver for video output and works fine with the built-in AMD video card on the desktop motherboard that I'm currently using..

  3. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    People pay taxes. Non-multinational corporations pay taxes. Hence, they are all taxpayers.

    If you got crayons, I can draw a picture fore you.

  4. ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've been using ZFS with FreeNAS (BSD-based)on my file server for several years. However, I would never run Ubuntu on a file server even with ZFS. An automatic upgrade for the Nvidia video driver typically hosed the OS drive, forcing me to reinstall Unbuntu and setting up the file server all over again. Ran into that problem for several years before I switched over to the ZFS.

  5. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    I work for the taxpayers. Taxpayers are people, including corporations.

  6. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    I can neither confirm nor deny that I work the for the NSA. But I had worked for Google back in the day. The roasted duck and Mac & Cheese on Fridays was excellent.

  7. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    I do I.T. contract work for the government. So?

  8. Isn't it obvious? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 0

    If Google wants the data, it's probably because the NSA wants the data.

  9. Re:So Quantum Computing is real now? on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Finally we might get past the hype and see what can actually be delivered!

    Whether the cat is alive, dead or both?

  10. Re:I love it on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    If it was between one man and one woman, it wouldn't matter that much. If it was one man, one woman and eight of her friends, it opens up a huge can of worms. One of the women transferred to a college that was 150 miles away in the middle of the semester because the situation was too much for her. She was thoroughly messed for a long time afterward.

  11. Re:I know what Linus will say.... on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    "Use the fork, Matthew!"

  12. Re:I love it on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    "You can't produce a baby in a month by getting 9 women pregnant."

    I had a college roommate who had that dubious reputation. Nine pregnant girlfriends, all got abortions, all wanted his scalp when they discovered what he did as they were all friends. I was appalled. But I wanted his scalp because he got fired from his job, waited 30 days to tell me, and didn't have the rent. One thing to screw over your girlfriends, another thing to screw over your roommate.

  13. Re:I love it on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    A vanilla latte in the morning is a silver bullet.

  14. Re:Coolest hardware configuration... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    I had a SiS530 motherboard and a Cyrix 6x86 CPU. A going away present when I got laid off as a tester at a video game company in 1997. This was a lousy combo for video games. But worked quite as a Linux file server for several years.

  15. She doesn't seem to have a problem with a posting a rant about communications that seem to have literally nothing to do with her whatsoever.

    It's not usual for someone to wade into the middle of a mailing list thread that gone overboard to demand that everyone cool it. I once asked a question on the Python mailing list and someone took offense at my email address. I ignored that person and didn't respond back. Other people waded in and told him to STFU.

  16. Coolest hardware configuration... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Was an AMD K6-2 350Mhz, Nvidia TNT2 (desktop/video games) and Creative Labs 2 x Voodoo 2 SLI boards (video games) in the late 1990's. My roommates had Intel Pentiums 233MHz systems with lousy video cards. My system blew them out of the water when it came to playing Quake 2 in OpenGL mode. Once you saw OpenGL, you didn't want to go back to software rendering. This rig played a wide variety of video games no matter what the video card requirements were.

  17. Re:Promote longer life? Not so fast on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 1

    Like the neighbor dismantling three or four vending machines in his driveway each week? Or the neighbor building a new chicken coop in his driveway each week? None of those are in violation of county regulations. Separating metals and cleaning wood apparently was. Go figure.

  18. Re:Promote longer life? Not so fast on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 1

    My father retired at 59-1/2 years old. Mostly because his older brothers kicked the bucket after they turned 60. If he started his pension before he died at 60, my mother would have his pension for ten years. As it was, my mother died at 67 and my father died at 75.

  19. Re:Promote longer life? Not so fast on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 1

    You may very well live longer. Are you planning to live longer? Most people aren't planning to live longer than their parents and they don't have the resources to live such a long life.

  20. Re:Why those guys aren't retired anyway? on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon no one in America can afford to retire. With the baby boomers retiring and the tax base (young workers) shrinking over the next 20 years, Social Security and Medicare will consume 2/3 of the federal budgets. Taxes will have to go way up to keep all those baby boomers in a comfortable retirement and pay for everything else.

  21. Re:Promote longer life? Not so fast on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 2

    Overzealous bureaucrats have their place. I'm more pissed off at the busybody who filed an anonymous complaint, ruining a good thing that benefited the neighbors.

  22. Re:Promote longer life? Not so fast on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    People who are active in their later years are more likely to live longer. My father retired to a trailer park. He helped a neighbor save money on county dumping fees by breaking down old vending machines, recycling the metals and cleaning up the wood. He gave the wood to a neighbor who built chicken coops for sale. He made $50 per month from the metals he took to the recycling center. That lasted several years until someone complained to the county and a county inspector declared that he was running an illegal recycling operation. He died about six months later, having nothing better to do.

  23. Could be worse... on Vostochny Launch Building Built To the Wrong Size · · Score: 1

    A defense contractor welded a section of a British submarine upside down.

    http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-09/news/mn-814_1_nuclear-powered-submarines

  24. Re:data dump link on Stolen Patreon User Data Dumped On Internet · · Score: 1

    There are artists who use a pseudonym in public and their legal name for the account info. The only reason Richard Bachman got revealed as being the pseudonym of Stephen King was a bookstore clerk searching through the copyright registrations at the Library of Congress and found the name Stephen King accidentally included on a form for Richard Bachman.

  25. Sucks lemons... on Stolen Patreon User Data Dumped On Internet · · Score: 2

    That brand of Tequila never did anything for me after two or three shots.