My introduction to Linux was on an Amiga with a 50mhz 68030 cpu, fpu, and 16mb ram expansion for a total 18mb. It could run an X server quite fine. Later moved over to the PC, but it was only my first steps with the Amiga version that confirmed Linux as the OS choice when I did. I remember the PPP How-To, and really appreciated that one in particular. Thankyou!

Britain is metric. We still order a pint of beer and our road signs and speed limits uses miles... but we are metric. My pants are still measured in inches, and most people would order construction materials by the inch and foot, even if the plans were drawn up in millimeters. I could tell you my tyre pressure in psi, but wouldn't be sure about the Kpa. Apart from that though, we are definitely metric.

A child with a shotgun would do more damage than the cockatoos. Our Telephone company used to keep complaining that our line had damage that looked like someone had shot it. Eventually they buried that particular line.

I think everyone who ever tried a bit of mining with any enthusiasm found their home a little warmer. 4 Gpus running flat out all day will keep a room warm. I heard some good stories about the uses for this heat a few years ago, but one guy on a forum I remember who tried to run a fairly large operation with several dozen gpus in his basement. He was using the heat produced to keep his house warm, but his method for redistributing the heat throughout the property was just to leave all the doors open. He was experiencing psu/gpu failures daily due to the temperature down there, which he said was so hot he could only go in for a few minutes at a time. Everyone was telling him he had to force some cool air in from outdoors and do something to move the hot air out, the whole time he was just cursing yet another hardware failure and not doing anything about the problem. He didn't even have any large fans anywhere in his basement to move the bulk of the air around, just the dozens of little fans whining away on the gpus, power supplies and cpus as they each slowly died from heat stroke.

They're just waiting, watching for a time when the universe might need them again.

36 seconds is fast whatever they are building, but it shouldn't take all night, or several days even for any of those above processors to compile a kernel... even the 486. When you roll your own kernel, you don't need to compile most of it. Not even as modules.

EthCore's Ethereum implementation is written in Rust anyway, I believe.

The great thing about the tracks just being played directly from the CD while playing the game was that you could leave any CD in the drive and it would play them instead. I substituted the Nine Inch Nails Quake CD for an imported version of Nine Inch Nails Further Down The Spiral, which worked even better as it actually made some levels seem even more scary and evil.

Real life farmer here. Maybe is the USA cows in pastures are a lie, but in the UK ours spend the summer out in the fields. It's cheaper to keep them in a pasture than in a barn. Also, we don't feed our cows antibiotics. Again, that's something they might do in the US, but in Europe antibiotics in cattle feeds have been banned for quite some time. We have some factory farms in the UK also, but nothing the size of many US herds. One farmer wanted to build an eight thousand head farm, but it made national news and there was massive public resistance. They do not want that sort of farm in the UK.

If you want to blame farmers for using such practises, blame yourself for looking for the cheapest food you can get. Supermarkets compete on prices. You wanted cheap food, you got cheap food. Now, you realise the price of that cheap food. The farmers were just giving people what they wanted, the cheapest food they could produce. Did you ever pick up an item at the supermarket and think that it was too cheap? When it comes to many quality foods, people should really stop asking themselves "Why is it so expensive?" and ask "Why is the other stuff so cheap?"

It's okay, you almost certainly won't get trapped on a single site for very long. No-one could last out more than three or four years I would guess. That would just be... depressing.

I don't think a bug, but I don't think removing this software is a bad thing. The software in a few cases hits the hardware for data, probably in a fairly low level way. If the behavior of windows has changed, there is the potential for damage. Using one of those apps listed, cpuz, I left my Win10 computer needing a hard reset a couple of times. I upgraded to a new version and it is fine, but would have appreciated a warning or something as if I had been doing anything important at the time I launched cpuz the first time, I could have lost information.

Or, maybe you are Icelandic, where they apparently call Iceland, Island.

I think you meant Ireland or maybe Iceland? Both fit the description...

Funny, at x-mas I had some friends over, and there was two of them using brand new Mac Book Pros but neither of them was running OSX. Linux was the desktop of choice, one also had Win8 but we ended up installing Win8 on the other one as well so we could play Elite Dangerous together. Those MBPs aren't so bad once you get a useful OS on them, I can certainly see why they are so popular.

I think Microsoft ban their consoles from Xbox-live if you're caught hacking the consoles or cheating online. That's another good idea, hurt the hackers by making their hardware worthless. Make people post their graphics / mobo / cpu serial numbers when selling on ebay for buyers to check against Steams banned hardware list.

Apologies for my previous typo, teach me to read my own posts.