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  1. Re:What? on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, it doesn't. I have an SGI Octane sitting at home that I ran into the issue of 'Now what do I do with it?' after I got it up and running. After a few ideas bounced around with my friends, I posted a screenshot of gmail in pine and said 'I figured it out! Email over SSH!'

    So really, I did it out of boredom.

  2. Re:What? on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I've got gmail connected to pine running on IRIX 6.5.

  3. Re:Check the ticket: she was doing 80 on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the cops in CA are anything like the MD/DC cops, PACE method means they get to make up whatever they want about how fast you were going.

  4. Re:OK but my Matrox is dual head on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Launched, Faster Than GeForce GTX 780 For Roughly $100 Less · · Score: 1

    Ummm...I wasn't aware there was an issue with multi-display at 70Hz. My Geforce 3 could drive 1 monitor at 150Hz (1024x768), I would think a modern card could do that on two...

  5. Re:But still sub-par Linux drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Launched, Faster Than GeForce GTX 780 For Roughly $100 Less · · Score: 1

    Au contraire, they work quite well once you install them. I have OpenCL running on both a HD 5770 and a 7750.

  6. Re:But still sub-par Linux drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Launched, Faster Than GeForce GTX 780 For Roughly $100 Less · · Score: 1

    You assume he's running Ubuntu. Ubuntu != Linux (And /. still doesn't support Unicode)

  7. Re:Biggest problem with Ubuntu: Upgrades on Ubuntu, Kubuntu 13.10 Unleashed · · Score: 2

    It's a much nicer interface then GNOME. I'd install Unity on Fedora if it worked.

  8. Re:(sniffs cautiously) on South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software · · Score: 2

    I'd tell them they should have submitted it as a PDF. Not like MS Office documents look the same computer to computer either.

  9. Re:Marketing Numbers on AMD's New Radeons Revisit Old Silicon, Enable Dormant Features · · Score: 2

    ATIs were sane for quite a while. In the Radeon X and HD series numbers were seven digits (ABCD), such as a Radeon HD 5770

    A: Generation name. A 7xxx card is newer then a 5xxx card
    B: Chip series. All chips in a generation with the same B number (x9xx) were based on the same GPU
    C: Performance level. A lower number was clocked slower then a higher one (so a 7750 was slower then a 7770). Exception: the x990 was a dual GPU chip
    D: Always 0

    So, to compare ATI cards, a x770 was slower then an (x+1)770 which was the newer gen, a x870 was faster then the (x+1)770 because it was a better chip to start (a first gen i5 is better then a second gen i3), and 7770 was clocked faster then the 7750.

  10. Re:This is simple numbers pumping on Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    If we're just comparing the NT kernel to the Linux kernel, then yes, I can make it boot with that constraint. Even give you a shell or a basic X session (in 20MB). But for Android? Don't know, I moved to an iPhone when the 5 came out - I like my phone to actually work, and my experience with Android made me not want a to buy another.

  11. Re: Or, alternatively on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 1

    I said she was a friend, not a girlfriend....

  12. Re: Or, alternatively on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 1

    Yes. Live just north of Baltimore. Previous job was a DOE contractor. Had a friend (female) that I used to see in Springfield, VA. Well versed in this area's traffic.

  13. Re: Or, alternatively on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 1

    I am referring to the DC and Baltimore beltways (495 and 695, respectively)

  14. Re:Or, alternatively on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 1

    I find that I get better MPG on I-95 than on I-495 or I-695.

  15. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    That's not true. It is the X Windows System, Version 11. It has gone through major revisions over the years, but somehow stopped in the 80s. Also, we somehow ended up with all X.org becoming the only X system people care about - other X servers (XFree86 and XSun, for example) seem to have faded out.

  16. Re:Qt wasn't free software on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    QT was 'free' at that point in time, with the stipulation that should it ever become non-free the last free version would be forever open.

  17. Re:Bring it on NVidia on AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date · · Score: 1

    So I take it you don't use VMware or Virtualbox either?

  18. Re:Bring it on NVidia on AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date · · Score: 1

    Except that it's not. I can install binary/'legacy' drivers for older cards in Windows (and nvidia-legacy in Linux) to get old cards to work that the open source drivers have dropped. I'll give you two examples - the Intel i8xx chipset and the nVidia Geforce 2 in my old laptop. I can install drivers in Windows for them (got the i8xx working in Windows 7), and the nvidia-legacy driver (last I checked) still covers the Geforce 2 in Linux.

  19. Re:You're wrong, at least for my use-case on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    That's due to issues with the win32 versions of X in my experience. I use an IBM 600E (Pentium 2 with 96MB RAM running Red Hat 9) as a remote X client to a lot of systems without issue (XDMCP to Solaris, IRIX, and Linux).

  20. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    I'm of the opinion that it was time for X12, not a replacement.

  21. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And the GNOME project was utterly redundant given the existence of KDE....

  22. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    For something lighter in the QT world, RazorQT is fantastic. I run Razor + KDE apps.

  23. Re:Bring it on NVidia on AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date · · Score: 0

    nVidia's drivers work great for me. I really don't care if they release it in the open as long as the binary driver keeps working (which has always been a better track record than fglrx, even if it has improved). Plus, nVidia releases a BSD and Solaris driver.

  24. Re:Where can I get this? on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    His first option was the Linux kernel.

  25. Re:Where can I get this? on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Nope still one. Linux kernel IS NOT GNU, even if it is 'blessed' by them.