Comment Re:I think you're doing it wrong.. (Score 1) 389
I find Java a lot of fun.
Comment Mozy is good (Score 2, Informative) 611
Mozy is good - it's offsite backup with nice shell integration.
Sadly it's Windows only though :(
Comment Re:Am I the only one? (Score 1) 79
They probably worked out the costs if they sold >1M. They sold 100k, so never reached those economies of scale.
That's a shame, but at least they were thinking big. If they started out planning to sell 100k, they wouldn't have bothered.
I wish them luck in what they do next. Pleo is still unique.
Comment Re:Why pretend these are ordinary disks? (Score 1) 207
> and of course, having a filesystem and a special MTD driver for
> *every single SSD drive manufactured* when they change flash
> chips or tweak the controller, could get unwieldy.
Large numbers of flash chips can be supported by the MTD CFI drivers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Flash_Memory_Interface
Something similar could be done for SSDs too, except they've chosen HDD standards as they are a better fit.
Mike
Comment Re:Intel Atom 330 turns the tables though (Score 1) 130
Yeah, well Via's driver support for Linux is horrible, while the Intel Atom stuff just works perfectly with Ubuntu out of the box. That may have something to do with why Intel is preferred.
Comment serial interface (Score 1) 128
Shame the TCP/IP stack isn't on the microcontroller. Putting uIP on there, or grabbing bits from my stack (http://www.mcternan.co.uk/MAD/) would be awesome.
Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again 329
miller60 writes "Three undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea have failed within minutes of each other in an incident that is eerily similar to a series of cable cuts in the region in early 2008. The cable cuts are already causing serious service problems in the Middle East and Asia. See coverage at the Internet Storm Center, Data Center Knowledge and Bloomberg. The February 2008 cable cuts triggered rampant speculation about sabotage, but were later attributed to ships that dropped anchor in the wrong place."
FreeBSD Begins Switch to Subversion 120
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. At this point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. We have a replication system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on a continuous basis.
People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution network (including anoncvs, CVSup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be interrupted by our work-in-progress. We are committed to maintaining the existing CVS based distribution system for at least the support lifetime of all existing 'stable' branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made available in their usual CVS locations."
