Comment Re:Still making 32 bit? (Score 3, Informative) 641
Unless you have more than 3.5 GB of RAM
Unless you allocate more than 3.5 GB per process.
PAE has gotten around the 4 gig limit a long time ago.
Comment Re:Still making 32 bit? (Score 4, Interesting) 641
I agree. Nobody is selling 32-bit processors anymore.
Intel's Atom processor is 32-bit.
Linux can handle 32-bit applications on 64-bit OSes. Surely MS can do the same?
It's the proprietary drivers that make it hard for MS to do the same. In Linux the vast majority of drivers are maintained in source, so this isn't as much of a problem.
Submission + - RIAA vs Noor Alaujan, who's defending herself
newtley writes: "It's virtually unheard of for a judge to request an amicus brief. But in 2004 noted liberal activist judge Nancy Gertner did so in Capitol Records vs Noor Alaujan, with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center responding. Equally unusually, briefs were handed in by the Motion Picture Association of America and a group comprising musician and songwriters' societies. Now in the Alaujan case, judge Gertner has denied the RIAA demand for Summary Judgment, ruling it served notices to admit prematurely. "I've never had a situation like this before, where there are powerful plaintiffs and powerful lawyers on one side and then a whole slew of ordinary folks on the other side," said Gertner of other RIAA lawsuits at the time."
Submission + - SysAdmin/Developer Rivalry
DA-MAN writes: I've been a SysAdmin for about ten years now. During this time I have gone from working at a small organization to a much larger organization. I work hand in hand with developers to debug, find bottlenecks and in general assist. During this time I have never had any issues with developers, in fact one lead developer went to management and had me issued a monetary award for my "work" on his project. In the much larger organization, I am one of many sysadmins but I see that my peers also have good working relationships with the developers they work with. My question is, does the sysadmin/developer rivalry still exist? Has it gotten better in the past few months or am I and every sysadmin I've worked with "one of the good ones"?
Submission + - Why do people tolerate false advertising? (slashdot.org)
DA-MAN writes: "Why is it that we, in the US, tolerate deliberate false advertising? ISP's advertise unlimited use or don't advertise limits, yet they get away with it. Mobile carriers claim to give unlimited mobile to mobile, never stating that they really mean mobile to mobile within the same network. Why is it that we allow companies to redefine "unlimited" and so forth?"
Submission + - Does the media ever "get it right"?
DA-MAN writes: "When I was a young lad, I had a few stories written about me in various papers. These stories were about the Cisco Networking Academy, the "Digital Divide" and success stories. All of these stories portrayed me as a bum who made good after taking Cisco in High School. These stories were just plagued with factual errors about my life, they basically made me into a loser who lucked out, when in fact the Cisco Networking Academy had little to do with my life or career (I'm a system guy, not a network guy). Recently I saw the media paying attention to something I knew a lot about. I was a fan of a comedy radio show that was crucified nation wide for racism over a prank call. Many important facts were left out, details exaggerated and other details just plain falsified in the reporting of this story. I was just wondering if anyone else had similar experiences? Is this the norm or the exception?"
Submission + - Keith Olbermann a racist?
DA-MAN writes: "How come the same guy who rejoiced for the firing of Imus can get away with this? Isn't he the same guy who went after the "right wing" media for misspelling Barack Obama's name! Now he demeans Latino's of this country for cheap political shots at the Attorney General! So making fun of the Muslim name is taboo, but making fun of Latino's is okay? I believe the term racist is being thrown around far too easily these days. The media liberals who claim to be above this sort of thing are just as guilty as the rest. Yet they are the ones quick to throw stones at anyone who doesn't agree with their viewpoint. Comedy is not hate speech, and if you treat it as such expect to be called the racist as defined by you!"
Submission + - Asian group follies racism protest, called racists
DA-MAN writes: "A Radio Duo was suspended on April 23rd for a prank call to a chinese restaurant. The Organization of Chinese Americans lead this offensive, including a protest in front of CBS HQ on April 27th, asking for the firing of JV & Elvis. During this protest OCA passed out this flyer which equated the prank call to Hitler, the KKK and Nazi Germany. Now HIAS, the group which asked for the firing of CNN's Lou Dobbs is taking OCA's Nazi references to task, calling OCA a racist organization. Am I the only one that finds this whole thing ridiculous from the start? First satire is lost, now the special interest groups can't even agree."
Submission + - Asian Group Equates Prank Call to Nazi Germany
DA-MAN writes: "A group known as the Organization of Chinese Americans has called for the firing of two radio dj's in New York over a prank call. The prank call was to a Chinese restaurant using a computer generated voice during which they place an order for shrimp flied lice. Today they protested outside of CBS during which they passed out flyers equating said prank call to Hitler/KKK/Nazi Germany. Looks like comedy is no longer safe from attack, for you can be called a racist for a joke now. The OCA has called the DJ's racists against Asian's, ignoring such facts like one of the DJ's being married to Korean model Natasha Yi *NSFW*."
