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  1. Re:Jobs is a good businessman on Steve Jobs And Jeff Bezos Meet The Segway · · Score: 1

    Also his suggestion for Stanford was a good one, it would have possibly forestalled some of the knee-jerk reaction seen in places like San Francisco.

    Obviously you haven't walked in downtown San Francisco during anytime. It is quite busy, and there physically isn't any room for scooters. They can't operate on the sidewalks (lack of room), and they certainly aren't street legal. It was a no-brainer for SF to ban them. They are a hazard in high traffic pedestrian areas.

  2. Re:free money? on CD Price-Fixing Suit Ruling · · Score: 1

    Until you go to jail. See, you're not the multi-national, with several metric assloads of money.

  3. Re:free money? on CD Price-Fixing Suit Ruling · · Score: 1

    Yea, that's a good idea. Commit purgury against a group to use any and all means (legal and non-) to attack it's opponants.

  4. Re:its probably a result of on AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology · · Score: 1

    Ahh, differences are probably because I'm using OpenBSD, rather than Linux. That will explain the swapper and swap differences. I have at least 550M of swap avaliable on all of my machines, and except for KDE on FreeBSD (I won't run KDE on my OpenBSD boxes), my systems never touch swap.

    KDE3 is still a pig, any way you slice it. (These results are on my GF's machine (on FreeBSD), I use FVWM2 (on OpenBSD) personally.) It didn't stop when you closed the window, and it slowed the machine to a crawl when it was calculating the thumbnails.

  5. Re:its probably a result of on AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology · · Score: 1

    1) that is partially my point. top is not the end-all/be-all of system monitoring.

    2) poor/ide controllers use the CPU for access, so hitting swap will cause CPU usage. If you show system processes, you should see "swapper" (or something similar) floating around in there.

    3) `CPU states: 3.1% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 96.2% idle` If it has to jump from IRQ to IRQ, then there are a bunch of context switches, and depending on the quality of the drivers, and how many packets are moving across the PCI bus.

    4) that was a rant, because KDE was being a {memory,cpu} hog creating thumbnails while file browsing. Even when it was done creating the thumbnails, it still ate up CPU and ram. P3 1G and 768MB, still hit swap, and 100% CPU. A 5 second process took 7 hours while the thumbnails were futzing around (I started a 'make build' right before I went to bed, and when I woke up, it was still cleaning up /usr/obj. Killed the thumbnails (kill `ps aux | awk '/thumb/{print $2}/'`) and it finished kernel and world before I got to work (1 hour later)

    6) If I am using under x percentage of physical RAM, my system doesn't touch swap. At all. (I think x is 85% or 90%, but I could be wrong. All I know is that my laptop and other workstation have never touched swap (even while compiling world, and mozilla at the same time))

  6. Re:its probably a result of on AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology · · Score: 1

    What is the processor spending its time on? wait() for the storage to catch up? playing with swap? handling interrupt requests? creating fucking thumbnails?

    top will only show you some of the info you need.

    The CPU is rarely the bottleneck. 9/10 its the storeage, then the network. make sure you don't hit swap (I have swap for the sole purpose of a kernel dump after a panic. 1xRAM + 30M to make sure there is enough space.)

  7. Re:Thumbs on Why Johnny Can't Handwrite · · Score: 1

    /me triple clicks.

    Nope, I only see my background.

  8. Re:Cisco IOS ? on Is Linksys Violating The GPL? · · Score: 1

    no, dumbass. the license says YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT WITH IT. Including making a closed source derivitave. can you not read 5 paragraphs.......n/m, this is slashdot

  9. Re:What a pointless announcement, on FreeBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    How can the linux hardware support be so much better when freebsd is more stable?

  10. Re:Wait a minute...they can't do that! on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Russia does not reconize Copyrights.

  11. Re:Not purchase: license on DeCSS Arguments in CA Supreme Court Case · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it does say something about region 1 players. I'm at work, and can't check. I don't give a rat's ass anyways, I'll watch the movies wherever I am, and will mod all of my players to be region free.

  12. Re:Not purchase: license on DeCSS Arguments in CA Supreme Court Case · · Score: 1

    On the back of most of my DVD cases.

    "This DVD is licensed only for viewing in Canada, and the United States"

  13. Re:Is is legal ? on Coverage of the OpenBSD Hackathon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Outside the US, so the "Patriot Act" doesn't apply. Canada is a different country, eh.

  14. Re: slow news day in Canada on Coverage of the OpenBSD Hackathon · · Score: 1

    Which ports are broken? Which arch? We want them all to work, so please let us know.

  15. Re:This never would have happened on The Neverending Sex.com Story · · Score: 1

    I will say that Netowrk Solutions suprised me once in that I rang up as needed your DNS servers changed (not my domain so web interface didn't work). I thought that it would take ages to convince them. Loads of faxing etc. However rang up, got through to CS, said what I wanted to do and had it done 10 minutes. However I guess that I just got lucky that day.

  16. Re:um on Slashback: Hatred, Glass, Identification · · Score: 5, Funny

    Already mentioned the prostitutes.

  17. Re:Windows Hater Book, Entry 1 on Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online · · Score: 1

    Innovative like a sword in my face. GPL (and the associated zelotry) is a plauge on the earth.

    Before you say I'm pro-MS, STFU. I'm pro-BSD.

    A real OS, for real computers.

  18. Re:What is wrong with all you people? on Want Anime Network on Your Cable System? · · Score: 1

    Request the damn channel, and look at the option for "DirecTV". RTFA

  19. Re:Why not use OpenBSD? on Interview With The FreeBSD Core Team · · Score: 1

    /me looks for his cluestick.

    Only i386 wasn't ELF, all of the other archs were.

    And now i386 is ELF.

  20. Re:No the terrorists will just use a mac on More on OpenBSD Funding Saga · · Score: 1

    I use OpenBSD on a mac. Does that make me a terrorist?

  21. Re:Social Engineering is all but unstoppable on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I was your manager, I would fire you on the spot. How dare you. You know better than to pull a stunt like that. Change it to '1234', then do whatever you *had* to do on their login, then tell them the new password, and tell them to change it.

  22. Re:No basis in fact, 100% fiction on "Time-Traveler" Busted For Insider Trading · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nonono, you got the quote wrong: "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably tastes good with an orange sauce"

  23. Re:Is the randomization per machine, per build, et on OpenBSD Stomping On Buffer Overflows · · Score: 1

    Completely random, each function call.

  24. Re:Gimme! on Building a Town-Wide LAN? · · Score: 1

    300 baud? Here's a towel, dry behind your ears.

    I had two paper cups and a bit of string, and I yelled "one" or "zero" into it, and I liked it!

  25. Re:Billion-Dollar Claims? on Investigating the RIAA's Billion-Dollar Claims · · Score: 1

    A check? I thought you wanted *money*. Hell, I'll pay the whole thing off right now.