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  1. Re:Why the big deal about booting from it? on ZFS On Linux - It's Alive! · · Score: 1

    Strange, I remember clearly that I did lvextend then e2fsresize without any reboots on my ext3 root partition yesterday. But yes, zfs is cool and is atleast a coupple of years ahead in its combined features.

  2. Re:espresso in a bialetti mokka pot on What is Your Favorite Way to Make Coffee? · · Score: 1

    Upgrade to the Bialetti Brikka, its awsome. Actually, I think it beats a eur400+ espresso machine becuase you dont need a barista degreee to produce non foul coffee.

  3. Re:Now they are really screwed... on Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak · · Score: 1

    And with the foil which kind of obfusication, to you it just taken one of these free services of translator and translate it twice: once in Lang of foregin, and once postpones. The this things of munges raise enough.

  4. Re:Justification? on Fedora Legacy Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Fedora == RHEL Beta

  5. Re:Wow on Review of 12 Vulnerability Scanners · · Score: 1

    Get real! Fourteen years old, maybe even fifteen.

  6. Re:true (almost darwin) story... on Darwin Awards 2006 · · Score: 1

    Maybe he needs a GFCI for birthday, if he live that long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_devi ce

  7. mod parent insightful on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 1

    Since I still, from time to time, see brand new jaw dropping parts for the c64, I consider the statement true. Noone will ever bother to squeeze the last bit out of the ps3. C= COMMODORE C=

  8. Re:What's the big deal? on UK Wants To Ban Computer-Generated Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Relax, that law is only intended to frame dissidents. (and your suggestions for new laws will come later, when needed)

  9. Re:Which university is that? on Bjarne Stroustrup on the Problems With Programming · · Score: 1

    C first and then Pascal? That would be like teaching a kid to use the bicycle and then teach him to use the tricycle. Pascal has no use but to teach newbs an algol dialect.
    The right way teaching C to nonprogrammers is to teach pascal, and then progress to C when they have learned to write a 200 line program without syntax error.
    But C is not useful to fresh programmers, they need programming languages where thay can learn algorithms and data structures without shooting themselves in the foot all the time.

  10. Re:Grr - triwing screws on The Wii Disassembled · · Score: 1

    Its about preventing lusers from trying to fix their stuff (breaking), users compentent to fix are competent to open.

  11. Re:How it would go on Software Dev Cycle As Part of CS Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    My experience is not so sad, I suggest the following instead, I even scheduled in some time for reflection. A four part course, preferably spaced out over a full year with other courses inbetween, each part 1-4weeks.
    1.a Implement a small application (the product) requiring some tricky logic and some data management.
    1.b Seminar with presentation of product, lessons learned, and exact amount of time spent on subtasks.
    2.a New additional requirements to the product, some new data to manage, some extra requirements to logic.
    2.b Seminar with presentation of product, lessons learned, and exact amount of time spent on subtasks.
    3.a New partially conflicting requirements.
    3.b Seminar with presentation of product, lessons learned, and exact amount of time spent on subtasks.
    4.a Drasticly increased scalability requirements (atleast 1000 times more data) .
    4.b Seminar with presentation of product, lessons learned, and exact amount of time spent on subtasks.
    Grading only on fulfillment of requirements.

  12. Re:Forgot a big one on Software Dev Cycle As Part of CS Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    Agree, the db courses I took was the ones I valued most afterwards. Relational databases are a fantastic tool for learning many things that is cruical to understand in general programming (normalization, cutting (search) trees the fastest way, etc)

  13. Re:Standardize on one package manager - why? on Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack Responds · · Score: 1
    I'd like them to start working towards some common meta .spec file & standardized package naming (prerequisit).

    The goal would be that all flavours of packages could be generated with minimal manual work. The meta-.spec-file could be distributed in the tar-ball, it would even make it possible for users to try bleeding-edge cvs "release" without poluting their system with non packaged code.

  14. Re:Slashdot: yesterday's news for nerds on Pirate Party Launches Commercial Darknet · · Score: 1

    Its a feature of /. to let digg betatest the articles.

  15. Re:What tools? on How Do I Make Sense of Microsoft Access? · · Score: 1
    I actually think this is an insightful coment. The mess suggests poor judgement which in turn suggest poor judgment in the rest of the application. In that very likely case, a rebuild from requirements are probably the most efficient way to get a defect free system.

    What i mean is that the database is probably non-normalized, so any change might make the db inconsist. There are probably lots of functions on the leaf level with duplicated code, which ofcourse have slight differences to fix bugs due to previous mention non-normalization. I would also expect important compelx business logic to be split up arbitrary into lots of small parts each put into previous mentioned leaf functions, probably merged with other functionality in some genious attemt at premature optimization.

    You still want to understand the design and architecture of the project, or you will probably recreate many of the problems it had going to where it is now.

  16. Re:Yes. on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 1

    It might even be able to run a spam relay or a ddos zombie. Oh joy.

  17. Re:I guess it's not... on Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings? · · Score: 1

    If you got time for /. youre not playing enough.

  18. Re:NVidia is partway there on Could Graphics Drivers be Included on the Card? · · Score: 1
    Ofcourse they have to "recompile", unless you want to pay for the full api abstraction implemented in the gfx card, this is how it must be done.

    Think of the driver as a jit compiler, optimizing for your graphics card revision.

  19. Re:Silver Bullets works just fine on The Whiz of Silver Bullets · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why cant we use hypertext enabled laTeX for the web.

  20. Re:Old debate on High-level Languages and Speed · · Score: 1

    Thats pretty similar to the definition I use "Some old crap we still have to run since we havn't got the resources to port it."

  21. Re:The business uses of VMware are obvious... on VMware Releases Server 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Then you probably need to run the vm out of a truecrypt device, or get shocked by how fast they learn to operate a computer in unusual ways.

  22. Re:Um Europe on DHS to Send Widespread Alerts · · Score: 1

    No, thats a diffrent system. The operator sends some spams when your phone roams into its network for the first time, very annoying.

  23. The terrorists wins yet another easy battle on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1

    Ironically they dont have to plot any more, the gov seams to be fighting the battle for them.

  24. Its about time on Virus Trackers Find Malware With Google · · Score: 1

    After years of script kiddies auto hacking buggy web software via google its about time someone does some white hat stuff.

  25. Re:VFAT was introduced in 1995... on Linux/Mac/Windows File Name Friction · · Score: 1

    Its probably becuase thier most valued corporate customers still use old dos hacks and other stone age technologies in their computer set up & cloning scripts.