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  1. Re:Next step... on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And then install the Linux distro of your choice, obviously.

  2. Re:Dedup is just a marketing word.... on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 1

    That's why you store the index on a SSD or 15k RAID.

  3. Re:OpenSolaris but not FreeBSD? on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 1

    You can also do dedup at the stream level. It's patented by Quantum and Data Domain has a license.
    Data streams are cut up into short strings and those strings are compressed and stored in a huge hash table. Doing the cutting-up in such a way as to get good results is the trick.

  4. Re:What a stupid question. on Are Engineers Natural Libertarians Or Technocrats? · · Score: 1

    Rational, as in "Bible-based"?

  5. Re:Pragmatism can be dangerous on Are Engineers Natural Libertarians Or Technocrats? · · Score: 1

    So you'd rather do Bible-based politics?

  6. What a stupid question. on Are Engineers Natural Libertarians Or Technocrats? · · Score: 2

    I prefer "Rational."

  7. Re:Refreshing on Chile Forbids Carriers From Selling Network-Locked Phones · · Score: 1

    I'm German and had enough after almost 40 years of German weather (SoCal now.)
    Other than that it's nice. If the US economy goes to shit I'll move back but right now it looks more like Europe is going to have some major problems in the next few years.
    They're also doing their share of censorship FWIW.

  8. Re:Refreshing on Chile Forbids Carriers From Selling Network-Locked Phones · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of smart politics in South America. Look at how Argentina got over its debt crisis - as opposed to the kicking-the-can-down-the-road in Europe.

  9. Re:Sorry but not impressed. on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    It's exactly the same as drag racing.

  10. Re:Understand why overclocking risks instability on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    Prime95/mprime's torture test cycles between in-cache "small FFT" and larger FFTs that need memory accesses, that's why it's such a great test.
    I keep wondering what supercapacitors could do for CPUs that are not far from using kilo amps.

  11. Re:LN2 cooling on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    You get far more powerful VRMs on higher end boards. A garden variety won't be able to supply to 200+ amps.

  12. Re:Underclocking on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer are down to 3 or 4W idle due to extensive clock and power gating. Experience has shown that slowing down a CPU with low idle power is counterproductive. You can undervolt modern CPUs at stock clock quite a bit though.

  13. Re:thats all you got? on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    Under my kind of load (compiling under Linux) it keeps up with the 2600K. Yes it's not a gamer's CPU... until game SW catches up.

  14. Re:Stoopid. on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    There have been reports about degraded or dead CPUs after overclocking but it only happens after severe overclocking/overvolting. Overclocked CPUs run stable for years as long as you keep it reasonable and keep the temperature down.

  15. Re:Stoopid. on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    My FX-8150 ran torture tests under Linux (mprime) at 4.2GHz on all cores just with improved cooling (Noctua NH-D14), without raising the voltage. With slightly higher voltage is does 4.5GHz flat out (all 8 cores, no turbo, no throttling.) I have ECC RAM and VT-d and for this kind of performance I'd have to pay at least $2k for motherboard plus Xeon/Opteron CPU as opposed to $500. Yes It took a couple hours of testing to figure out the limits of the system but it was fun.

  16. Re:Stoopid. on Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record · · Score: 1

    Dunno about furmark (never heard about it) but there's an equivalent to Prime95 called mprime, also on the mersenne download page. Same torture effect on the CPU AFAICT.

  17. Re:Come someone challenge this : on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    If your post had any capitalization I might have read it. As is it's only a wall of words. TL;DR.

  18. Ow, my ears! on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 0

    How about
    while true; do cat /dev/mem >/dev/audio; done
    ?

  19. Re:Yes please. on Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet · · Score: 1

    Don't forget you can stick one on the steering wheel.

  20. Re:Race to the bottom on Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet · · Score: 1

    All that bling (what you call polish) gets on my nerves. Setting "Windows Classic" is the first thing I've done since XP times. Gnome3 and Unity are too blingy for me too so I run XFCE.

  21. Re:The jack-boots they are a tromping on Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" · · Score: 1

    The US have been semi-fascist for a number of years so it just evolves.

  22. Re:Someone is missing a pixel on HP TouchPad Go: $99? · · Score: 2

    Imagine how cheaply they can buy the screens with up to 768 defective pixels.

  23. Re:Im in !! on HP TouchPad Go: $99? · · Score: 3, Informative

    ^ This.
    I fail to see how a tablet can't be a lot cheaper than a netbook:
    - Capacity touchscreen instead of keyboard
    - simple case instead of clamshell
    - Cheaper ARM CPU instead of Atom
    - smaller battery
    - No OS license
    That should easily amount to $50 less than a netbook.

  24. Re:Perfect Match on Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms · · Score: 1

    Yay, do it some more and the Italians can fix their deficit.

  25. Re:Probably not important... on Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Just a handful of PowerPoint files will skew the average quite a bit.