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  1. Re:New X230tablet owner reporting on Are Lenovo's ThinkPads Getting Worse? · · Score: 1

    I don't have the tablet I do have a new x230.

    The good:

    • 2 mass storage devices WHOO! (mSATA and 2.5" sata) DM-Cache here I come (once I can buy BIG spinning rust 2.5" 7mm drives)
    • it's light and portable and this means it actually comes with me now.
    • adding bluetooth was straighforward (AWESOME manuals online)

    That said:

    • The touchpad is complete writeoff.
    • Ubuntu boots and runs fine in UEFI mode. sadly debian still doesn't but it works in legacy bios mode.
  2. Re:Marketing on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 2
  3. Re:Why not... on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Surprisingly Poor Security Policy on RSA Blames Nation State For Cyber Attack · · Score: 2

    FREE HAT! FREE HAT!

  5. Re:subjectivity on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1
  6. Re:backing on Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money · · Score: 1

    Gold is just a metal. It has no real intrinsic value. You can't eat it, live under it, and cloth in it. Everything else is just a means of common agreement that allows us to easily acquire the thing we need... and want.

    Gold has an ammount of intrisic value it's got some very nice electrical and mechanical properties, additionally people have clothed themselves in gold throughout history ref: http://info.goldavenue.com/Info_site/in_arts/in_civ/in_fash_overview.html

  7. How does this make my laptop ACPI work better. on Fruit Flies Hold the Key To Faster Computing · · Score: 1

    Inquiring minds want to know.

  8. Re:Solution: Use a proper protocol (aka ISO) on Got (Buffer) Bloat? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The difference is that you can write an smtp server by reading in strings line by line and treating them as commands, then watch the logs and kludge it until it seems to interoperate well enough. With the OSI way of doing things you have to wear a blue tie for a start then you have to print out all the interface definition documents and spread them out on your desk and write the software to the interface.

    man.. I want your desk if you can spread out all the iso interface definition documents on it and be able to read them

  9. Re:what it is on Got (Buffer) Bloat? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's about the downside of memory becoming cheap causing latency problems with congestion control mechinisms that rely on the endpoints being able to inform the sender when it's sending too fast.

    Jim Getty's research blog entry explains the problem in detail.

  10. Re:Why I use sudo on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    That works fine until you have 30 sysadmins... because you have 1500 systems in your environment.

    Really.. sudo su - is not appropriate in serious environments at scale that need to meet strong AAA and governance requirements.

  11. Re:We don't use sudo? on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    Nope.. only the fact you sudo su -'d was logged. nothing after that was.

    Sudo everything provides an actual audit trail to the actions taken by an admin. which is essential in environments where governance and acountability are required.

  12. I enjoyed it but. on Tron: Legacy — Too Much Imagination Required? · · Score: 1

    So I enjoyed Tron legacy but... there were a couple of problems in my opinion.

    It suffered for better technology rather than using the technology to tell a story they got sucked into we can so we should. in particular the whole cityscape inside the computer with neon was a tad cyber punk rather than being a otherworldly reflection of inside the system as the original tron was.

    Also the whole thing with the one remaining ISO was very Weird Science ie Inside the computer is a super hot smart chick if you could just get off your ass to go rescue her.

    Also When they break out of the grid there's this wasteland with no energy no light nada in the original tron regardless of where they go there's energy around.

    The house was also a big problem the idea that Flynn just gives up and goes all zen master is totally whack imho.

  13. Re:Whats the point of ultra low bitrate codecs? on Codec2 — an Open Source, Low-Bandwidth Voice Codec · · Score: 1

    Assuming just for a second that this isn't a horrible troll...

    Low bitrate have many useful applications. ethernet style bandwidth isn't availible everywhere and where it is availible low bitrate codecs allow you to have more conversations in the same connection

    so for example community telco you could use the wifi links to trunk 100's of calls instead of a couple of dozen. more efficient use of bandwidth for meaningful communications is a worthy goal.

  14. Serindipidy. on Codec2 — an Open Source, Low-Bandwidth Voice Codec · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As a newly licenced ham in a area where Dstar repeaters are everywhere (VK) and free software advocate I have recently become aware of the issues with Dstar and have been reading about this work so it's quite surreal to have it pop up on /. in the week where I get my licence. I havn't had a chance to read the Dstar specifications but am wondering if the voice codec is flagged in the dstar digital stream. and if it would be possible to create translating repeaters so dual output repeaters with differently coded data streams it'd take more spectrum but would also allow for a migration path (at least for repeater users?)

  15. Re:How is this news? on Mixed Signs On the State of IT Education · · Score: 1

    That's a facinating correlation. when I think about the team I'm in. the really good people do musical theatre or choirs. (including me ;) )

  16. Re:Job applicants have cookie-cutter knowledge on Mixed Signs On the State of IT Education · · Score: 1

    They can be useful if you make it more open ended and in determining someones thought processes for problem solving. ie given a problem you've got little hope of having an established answer for what would you do? Using google is often the right answer. (unless you're applying at a competing search company)

  17. Re:The future is now on What Is the Future of Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    I've met many many individuals in my life who are not capable of changing a tyre on a car let alone checking fluids on a car (oil, radiator, winscreen)

  18. Re:Frameworks are more important than language on Good Language Choice For School Programming Test? · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Autodesk will lose on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 1

    You clearly havn't been around here very long...

  20. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? on Large-Scale Mac Deployment? · · Score: 5, Informative

    With puppet of course.

  21. Re:Myths of Security? on The Myths of Security · · Score: 1

    Or worse yet. Some just write down the password in a place that's easy to find.

    Is that so bad a good password that's written down is far better against a network based attack than a poor password that's remembered?

    I often tell users to write their password on a postit and put it in their wallet imo that's safer than stored badly encrypted (think password protected excell spreadsheets) on a system thats on and network connected

  22. Re:Maybe you don't deserve any? on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    It depends what you mean by fixup.

    If it used to work.. but was broken when sendmail was re-installed that can be fixed within an hr or so.

    but if it's changing the function of a controled production system that's a major change that requires a CIP to be filled out. two appearances in front of CAB. and 30 days lead time

    I spend FAR more of my time doing paperwork than I do doing actual techwork.

  23. Re:Open Source Alternatives on Obama Appoints Non-Tech Guy As CTO · · Score: 1

    Right.. but at some point in asking for some non trivial ammount of resourcing to fix something you're going to need to identify and explain what change needs to be done.. what the risk that is being mitigated is. and what the probability of that risk eventuating is.

    IT suffers pretty badly from building Taj Mahals and misconstruing technical risk as business risk.

    "We need to fix this and it's going to cost us X if we don't" has to be based on established trust and faith that you've evaluated X correctly. you get there by proving it with data and reports (things IT also sucks at supprisingly hard)

    The biggest problem that IT is that people think "This is going to cost us X if we don't fix it."where in reality what's needed for decision making is "We should fix Y because there's a Z chance of costing X if we don't"

  24. Re:Reasonable and non-discriminatory.. on Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C · · Score: 1

    RAND isn't as reasonable or as non-discriminatory as most people seem to think

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_Non_Discriminatory_Licensing

    In particular RAND allows for per unit licencing costs for implementations which sounds the death knell for any free software implementation of a standard that is patent encumbered even if the patents are availible under a RAND scheme.

    The issue is that as free software is by definition redistributable you need to licence the patent for every potential user.

  25. Re:I don't understand. on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 1

    The c64 has had ethernet support for a number of years now.. see http://www.dunkels.com/adam/tfe/

    Additionally siginficant 3d work is done on c64 sytems including 3d dot plots and polygon rotation including shading.