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Comment Re:Only a concept, will not be made (Score 2, Informative) 61

Well, it's like Google rolling out Gigabit broadband. They know that it's not going to work right now, the technology isn't there yet to do it in a way that is profitable.

This is in Tennessee:
http://chattanoogagig.com/

1gbps symmetric service for 350USD/month.
Split that with ten neighbors, and you almost beat the download speed (and absolutely crush the upload speed) of Comcast's best offering for far less than half their price.

Comment Re:Halo is About Multi-Player (Score 1) 191

I don't know about you, but my last 80286 didn't make it to 1990.

I had a Tandy 1000TL with a 20MB "Hard Card" (read: harddrive bolted on to an IDE expansion board) that made it past Y2K. I booted the fucker up after the turn of the millennium. There was nary a bug in sight. Midnight Rescue! and Castle ran without a hitch. :D

Comment Re:If it comes out and works well (Score 1) 273

*blink*

I spent the past five years working in a small (~25 developer) Windows XP Pro based software development house. Our file server was running Win2K3 Enterprise and was using a large (1TB, later upgraded to 10TB) hardware RAID 5 disk array. All of this equipment was sourced from Dell.

Once a month, we needed to call in an admin to bring down the server (and once every other month for someone's desktop machine) to delete files that were "screwed up". "Screwed up" means:
* Cannot delete, rename, read, or modify the file.
* The only tab available on the "File->Properties" dialog for the file in question is the "General" tab. (This means that the Sharing, Security, and Customize tabs shown here are not present.)

Note that *every* developer performed work as an unprivileged user. Noone on staff possessed an Administrator account, with the exception of the admins.

I've never *ever* seen this behaviour with *any* filesystem on Linux. I've abruptly pulled the plug on my home machines hundreds of times and never had *any* filesystem issues. (Not even with reiserfs V3. :D)

Comment Re:Interesting (Score 0) 187

Ever have a power outage while in the KDE? Good luck getting the DE back with your old preferences.

A) The loss of your preferences files is an issue with your filesystem, not KDE.
B) KDE 4.x is rock solid for me, despite multiple intentional power outages *and* running it all on btrfs.

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