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  1. Re:Here you go on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 1

    Buffalo finally resolved their patent issues and is back after a long hiatus. I have one of their whr-g300n wireless n routers. I've had it for a few months and sadly today it crapped out. dd-wrt is on it so no warranty for me either. Worked great until today.

  2. Re:I don't get it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Next Gen Smoke Signals have developed spread spectrum technology making throughput equivalent to a flock of pigeons and you don't have the latency. Only usable during daylight hours weather permitting.

  3. Re:I don't get it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    ...only if you want to blow out the SSD wear-limits.

    The early part of last decade called and they'd like their SSD stereotypes and generalizations returned.

  4. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    "linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)

    I love it!

  5. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go away troll, you didn't even bring a technical argument. Your philosophical statement is completely out of context and requires no rebuttal. Your complete idiocy did however.

  6. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your mom wasn't drunk, she's always ready to go.

  7. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    This ain't rock science Bub. Keeping the parameters on the stack is more better...that's all you need to remember since simple concepts like efficiency are beyond your comprehension.

  8. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    UNIX uses the standard C calling convention.

    I think I was a bit too harsh in my first post as Linux clearly has some advantages over MS-DOS. However the parameter passing is not one of them. Doing it that way requires an extra push and pop for every kernel call.

  9. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh another uber genius who thinks he knows what a double negative is. Enlighten us O wise one your definition of a double negative. I eagerly await your response.

    Mod parent +1 Formerly smug

  10. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1, Troll

    By that logic, neither is Linux and therefore invalidates the whole article (running *nix systems on a dime).

    You seems to think that statement shows some illogic but linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax. Its kernel uses the same system-call convention of passing parameters in registers MS-DOS does.

  11. Re:Article Contents on Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    Ah, that would be tricking them.

  12. Re:Damn you slashdot on Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware" · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's like squid, except better. A reverse proxy cache, and I'd guess the 503 is generated because all the back-ends are down. The link is present because that's Varnish's default configuration and /. admins haven't changed it. The real question is what is borking on the backend. My money is MySQL.

  13. Re:No they did not. on Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is not a double negative in the text you quote.

    There is no indication that not answering is an option.

    The previous sentence is not a double negative either.

  14. Re:Blacklist 'em on Chinese ISP Hijacks the Internet (Again) · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is infallible logic. Completely repudiated.

    I wish to subscribe your newsletter, hmmm?

  15. Re:Come to Verizon! on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    It's scary you made that assumption in the first place, it really is. But you were able to recognize your mistake so +1.

  16. Re:and this is new news why? on Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah idiot moderator, watch SNL!

  17. Re:Well.. on OpenNMS Celebrates 10 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, it does a lot, but it takes a lot to get it to do so.

    Sounds exactly like "enterprise-grade" to me.

    New code is not always up to par

    What? You mean in the development branch?

  18. Re:Huh? on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    What did you think my point was?
    FreeBSD:

    pkg_add -r nvidia-driver || portmaster -d x11/nvidia-driver

    it's just a heck of a lot easier to find it that way

    Um, depends on OS I guess.

    For FreeBSD

    cd /usr/ports || cd /usr/ports/x11
    make search key=nvidia

    and it'll show you ports with nvidia in description. Personally I find that significantly easier than certain various website navigation schemes.

    Of course with the nice ports tree hierarchy, locating applications is trivial with locate(1) or whereis(1)

    Debian is easy too, either aptitude search nvidia or apt-cache search nvidia. Maybe the same for you.

  19. Re:Huh? on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the OP was poking fun at the notion of having to install a web browser simply to install a driver.

  20. Re:This is new?! on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 1

    L3 cache existed long before the average consumer could afford a multi cpu system.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K6-III

    Your cpu vs core explanation is so distilled and poor it's no wonder you chose to post anonymously. There are all kinds of exceptions to the general points you make, and they occur so frequently across different designs there isn't much point in trying to come up with blanket statements. Unless you know the the specific hardware you're targeting, you have to assume multi-cpu, and let the hardware handle the rest.

    $sarcasm = "
    It's also interesting to hear these ingenious ideas about the os being a delegator of system resources instead of what is doing now. Also it great to see all these truly revolutionary ideas come from MS. The article also clears up any confusion about these proposed abstraction layers -- no other OS is doing it now. It's quite a feat for MS to propose yet another parallelism technique, perhaps next they'll be announcing a new web framework cause we're running dangerously low on them as well."

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpuset&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html
    http://wiki.freebsd.org/Hierarchical_Resource_Limits

  21. Re:The wise user will wait on Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    A Windows OS in an extended support phase is unsuitable is anything but a closed environment. Trying to frame it as a usable OS in normal small/medium office or home environment is simply ridiculous. Extended support life-cycles exist to help corporations plan, and for developers to base products on, not to judge if it's viable OS option.

    To reiterate, any useful support short of egregious security holes for XP has already ended, and same happened to 2000 5 years ago.

  22. Re:The wise user will wait on Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 1
  23. Re:USA! USA! USA! on French Bread Spiked With LSD In CIA Experiment · · Score: 1

    no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  24. Re:Emi on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    Tool has a remarkable ability to create musical palindromes.

  25. Re:Good and bad. MOD PARENT DOWN on Charles Nesson Ruled Jointly Liable To Pay RIAA · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea what indigent means? There are far more poor people than simply indigents. The level of ignorance some have on this topic is utterly amazing. These items are common knowledge and easily verifiable in whatever jurisdiction you happen to live in. Give your area jail a call, and ask them what the policy is for sitting out your fines. This what people who have a place to live but with no extra income need to do. It's a shame you can't take the time to verify it.

    Here's a couple of examples for you since you're too lazy to do it yourself.

    http://www.taylorcountytexas.org/ccl2faq3.html
    http://www.jacksonvillepd.org/Jail.htm

    I do hope you won't expect me to read to you as well.