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  1. Re:Why 8.04? on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Isn't 9.10 the next LTS? IIRC, it's every 18 months, or three releases.

  2. Re:So why do I want plugins in my complier? on Plug-In Architecture On the Way For GCC · · Score: 1

    I heard a while back that they were planning to have the compiler working as a daemon. The internal representation of the code could be available to external tools, like the editor, allowing what you suggested and much more.

    Also, this data is keeped between compilations, potentially speeding-up.

  3. Re:great for patch work on Midnight Commander Development Revived · · Score: 1

    I'm a XTreeGold orfan, but I recently came across vifm, and I'm loving it.

  4. Re:In summary on RAM Disk Puts New Spin On the SSD · · Score: 1

    what's the difference from a tmpfs then?

  5. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    "But sloppy work by the contractors running the site saw all kinds of chemical and radioactive waste indiscriminately buried in pits underground over the 40 years Hanford was operational, earning it the accolade of the dirtiest place on Earth."
    Oh, great. :)

    should it be "Mysery Pits" then?

  6. Re:Damn! on No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says · · Score: 4, Insightful

    first (post from space) != (first post) from space.

  7. Re:Oldest sales trick in the book on No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says · · Score: 1

    so, the price is expected to rise?

  8. Re:reformat? on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I see.. but to get all the advantages you need a costly rewrite of all files:

    "All your existing files will continue using the old indirect mapping to map all the blocks of data. The online defrag tool will be able to migrate each one of those files to a extent format (using a ioctl that tells the filesystem to rewrite the file with the extent format; you can use it safely while you're using the filesystem normally)."

    source: http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4

  9. reformat? on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Converting an ext2 file system to ext3 takes a simple command, that runs instantly. It basically just add a flag that enable journaling.

    Will ext4 be so different that it will not be possible to convert without reformatting?
    That's would be a pain for the half-terabytes partitions we have today.

  10. Re:60 cups on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    Having never done LSD (or any other drug, for that matter....)

    so you never drank coffee? or beer? or smoked a cigarette? you never ate sugar? you never used a pain-killer?

  11. Re:Sun angle on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Or an motor to automatically follow the Sun position, not only through the year, but also through the day.

  12. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 4, Funny

    Extreme Tech, and they still can't put the article in a single page.

  13. Re:An Exemplary Article for Making Stock Picks! on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 1

    Sun goes under every day... .. just to rise again the next day.

  14. Re:AMD can't go down as that will give intel to mu on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 1

    It won't. Don't worry.

  15. Re:Git links on Git Adoption Soaring; Are There Good Migration Strategies? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The right way to do it, at the photo editing side, is to keep the original photo and define a file format for the edits. *Then* VCS would make sense for them.

  16. I stopped reading... on NVIDIA Offers 3D Glasses For the Masses · · Score: 1

    ...at "DirectX".

  17. Re:Just remember to.. on Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? · · Score: 1

    s/save/commit to your vcs/

  18. fix on NVIDIA GTX 295 Brings the Pain and Performance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NVIDIA, fix your linux drivers please.

    NVIDIA, open your linux drivers please.

  19. Re:LOLCode on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    with Fidel?

  20. Re:Damn on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 1

    you're not using the body anymore, so who cares what happens to it. But its gotta suck for your family.

    I must be genetically defective, or something.

    I care zero about a body of a dead person, even if it's a loved one. That, and I just can't manage to understand those who do. To me, a dead body is just meat and bones.

  21. Re:surprise? on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    more people die from football injuries every year than climbing

    Yeah, and more people die from crossing a street than from being electrocuted.

    That's a common mistake while manipulating numbers for statistics. There are A LOT more people playing football than climbing. The number is only relevant as a percentage.

  22. Re:Is there 64-bit support? on Slackware 12.2 Released · · Score: 1

    We should by Patrick a 64-bit machine.

  23. Re:PostScript on Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? · · Score: 1

    as a language, postscrit is ok for this purpose.

    but the lack of interactiveness kills most fun.

  24. Re:if your product is so useful on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 1

    WINE 1.0 is out. Only GNU HURD, a Mac Pro Mini, and Duke Nukem Forever to go !

    You forgot Perl 6.

  25. Re:I'll still avoid it on Python 3.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the biggest problem is not copying from external sources, but moving your own code around.

    of course the final code should get the right indentation anyway, but it's annoying to force the indentation when you just want to do a quick test.

    and I don't write messy code. on the contrary, I'm a perfectionist zealot when it comes to the details of code aesthetics. it's just that forcing it is a bad design decision.