User: Gerb

Re:Enjoy.

On: US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality

Geert Wilders, is that you?

Re:boo

On: Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards

Indeed, if I tick "Disable advertising" ("As our way of thanking you... etc") do I get rid of these stories too?

Re:Possible use:

On: Researchers Create Cheap, Flexible, Plastic Flash Memory

Nah, not necessary anymore: Bush and Cheney are gone.

Single precision

On: Five Nvidia CUDA-Enabled Apps Tested

You get the big speedup only if you're doing single precision floating point computations.

On the NVIDIA GTX 280 & 260, a multiprocessor has eight single-precision floating point ALUs (one per core) but only one double-precision ALU (shared by the eight cores). Thus, for applications whose execution time is dominated by floating point computations, switching from single-precision to double-precision will increase runtime by a factor of approximately eight.

A lot of my HPC customers do CFD with (1) double precision in (2) Fortran. 1 and 2 are not easy or fast with CUDA.

from 1 of those condescending Unix computer users:

On: Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details

Here's a nickel kid, get yourself a better computer.

(from Scott Adams, Dilbert)

Re:Does anyone even use this OS?

On: CentOS 5 Released

You can also do:

grub

grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda
grub> root (hd0,0) (if /boot is on the first partition)
grub> setup (hd0)

and then the exact same for /dev/sdb

Then both disks are bootable via grub. After that you won't have to mess with grub.conf again.

Compatability?

On: Windows Compatability on the Linux Desktop

Didn't anyone notice that it should be compatibility? Or is this something US-English?

Gerb

Phillips is not Philips

On: 40" OLED Television Revealed at SID

Could you please write the electronics firm "Philips" the right way? And not confuse it with the screwdriver type inventor called "Phillips" ?

Thanks.

Re:Doesn't carbon fibre burn?

On: Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT

You must be Gareth from The Office.

Gerb

Is this so special?

On: GeForce4 Ti 4200 Preview

Tom's hardware already reviewed this card on April the 9th. You can find it here.

Gerb

"Cash" for Linux

On: Accounting Systems on Linux?

There is a commercial accounting software package for the Netherlands, which runs perfectly on Linux. It's called "Cash". Check it out on www.cash.nl.

It is used quite widely in the NL.

Gerb

Lexmark, IBM are the best.

On: Super Durable Keyboards?

I got mine for 10 years now, and still working fine. Once in a while I put the key-caps in a washing machine and I'm good to go for a year or two again.

Gerb

Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD...

On: Alan Cox on a Chip

My guess is that it's that screensaver in Linux.

Gerb

What is www.gartergroup.com running?

On: Microsoft Says Windows More Reliable Than Sun

Most of the Pro-Microsoft stories come from Gartner Group. Let's check them out at www.netcraft.com: "www.gartnergroup.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/2.01 on Solaris " Is that not weird? Gerb