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Comment Re:A 'get off my lawn' moment (Score 3, Funny) 238

...or even when the kernel wouldn't even self host and you still needed a running minix system...Kids these days don't know how good they have it.

Whippersnappers sans bootstrappers. Shameful.

Why... in my day my old man would smack me with an oak limb if I forgot to sync the filesystem three times before shutting down.

Comment Re:this is bad even for /. (Score 3, Informative) 180

"Many Ubuntu users, including me, have noticed that the latency of desktop operations got significantly larger around the time Gutsy was released, which coincides with the Completely Fair Scheduler and kernel upgrade from 2.6.18."

Uhh.. I didn't see anything in there about the Complete Fair Queuing - you just mentioned Completely Fair Scheduler, then kernel 2.6.18.

"Feisty had the 2.6.18 kernel and was quite responsive, so CFQ is in the clear. Gutsy featured 2.6.23 with CFS and was much slower which means it is a possible suspect."

This performance bug has been reported since 2.6.18.

Comment Complete Fair Queuing (Score 1) 180

This I/O scheduler was introduced as the default in 2.6.18 and available since 2.6.13. I wonder if that has something to do with it. I'm going to test it out on my home machines later today and have a look-see.

Supposedly it can be disabled and the AS scheduler can be used if you change it at runtime in /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler, or use the "elevator=as" boot option.

Comment Re:Now works for SonicWall, eh? (Score 1) 116

And when you get your annual renewal feature key - you'll go to type it in and submit it but it won't be able to authenticate the license key. So, you'll have to call SonicWall for a 100-character manual license key and sit on hold for forever listening to that damned SonicWall hold music.

Now I've got it stuck in my head.

Ta ta ta ta... ta ta ta ta... doo doo dee dooo dee doooo dee dooo... ta ta ta ta... ta ta ta ta... doo doo dee dooo dee doooo dee dooo... ta ta ta ta... ta ta ta ta...

Comment Re:It will come down to clock speed. (Score 1) 114

Except, it doesn't smoke any Intel Quad, at all.

Actually, it does. The i7 way outperforms the Phenoms - but I'm talking the old "Core" quad line.

You see, with the i7's - Intel actually got around to doing it right: true monolithic cores, and integrated memory controllers. AMD has been doing this for a while now. When you look at overall performance including memory access and peripheral/bus access - the Phenoms were ahead of the old Intel quads (which were just hacked-together dual core CPUs).

Unless you were comparing your OC'ed CPU to a stock Intel

I was.

It's kinda sad to see AMD's latest best offering that's 2 months old barely managing to compete with a 2 year old chip...

It's kind of sad to see a giant such as Intel following in AMD's architectural footsteps. Like I and others have said: "Intel works harder, AMD works smarter"

Comment Re:It will come down to clock speed. (Score 4, Informative) 114

You can get a good AM2+ motherboard for under $100. DDR2 is cheap, and the price point for these CPUS is looking pretty good.

My primary home machine is an AM2+ Phenom 9950 BE overclocked to 3.0GHz. The Phenoms are easily overclocked using stock cooling - I spent only $900 on this machine including a 9800 GTX GPU, 2GHz 1066mhz RAM, and a WD Raptor HDD - and this box hauls ass. It easily smokes most Intel quad boxes I've seen that cost several hundred more.

I'll always run Intel on servers and what not - but for a workstation/desktop you can't go wrong with AMD. Hell, now that I think about it - I've had more stability problems with Intel than I've had with AMD. I guess it's time to re-think my server platforms.

Comment Re:Scared, paranoid? (Score 1) 221

I have cell phones and wireless access points (which I keep FAR away from my pregnant wife and will keep away from the young man), I DEFINITELY deny using a microwave oven unless absolutely unavoidable (once a month?). No I do not have air purifiers and spray "kill 99% germs" shit all around the house, and better have my kids play with my dogs' shit other than operate a microwave oven, I think that wireless power is something I definitely something I want to keep away from: young souls, pregnant women and my testicles.

I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.

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