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Comment Re:The real question (Score 1) 453

Lets compare your Impala to my 1966 Cadillac Hearse
Length: 21.6 feet
Width: 8 feet
Height: about 6 feet
Weight: 6000 lbs.

It gets 11 mpg and is like driving your livingroom.

I'm making sure the kids have to come up with a new way to get around. Let THEM find a replacement for the oil economy. I'll help, but I'll also give them incentive too.

Comment Re:Misleading Headline (Score 1) 125

And it's surprisingly easy to do. Monitor the ingress/egress traffic, throw away everything but the first 130-odd bits of the TCP Header and you get surprisingly good compression on the data.

Several years ago, I took a SANS class on Snort. Evidently Sandia Labs captured every packet on the wire and kept the transaction info, indefinitely. It was roughly a DVD-R a week.

On th other end of the spectrum, I syslog all of the connection info from our firewalls. I rotate the logs daily, and compress them when they're 30 days old (gzip logs-03-*) So far this year, the enterprise logs are 43 Gb. And disks are cheap.

Comment Move 'em down the line (Score 1) 546

The 250 giggers are on the nas box holding backups, one 100 gig laptop drive replaced the 40 gig drive on the Apple TV, the other is holding a copy of Windows 7 so I didn't bork the Ubuntu drive on the media box...

The 512 mb sd cards, OTOH, pitch 'em. I can't believe I'm saying this, but half a gig just isn't enough space to do anything with...movies are 700 Mb, as are most distros. (I use unetbootin to get away from burning CD's when testing out new distros these days.)

That's the price of progress, I guess.

Now, count the number of mass storage devices you have, between phones, DVR's, game machines, MP3 players, etc.

Microsoft

Microsoft To Exit the Zune Business? 361

thefickler writes "According to Microsoft's quarterly filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Zune platform experienced a revenue drop of 54 percent, or $100 million. This compares to relatively healthy sales of the iPod, which were up 3 percent in the same period (though revenue did drop by 16 percent). Obviously, with the recent job cuts at Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, pundits are wondering how soon until the Zune also gets the chop. As one pundit wrote: 'Microsoft, by now, should be realizing that it's never going to be as "cool" as Apple, so why waste its time with the Zune where it has no competitive advantage?'"

Comment What it came with (Score 2, Informative) 272

I've got an AspireOne. I've had a BUNCH of different *ix's on it and ended up going back to Linpus (after using all that I'd learned on the other OS's to get it to do what I want.) Sure, it doesn't have wobbly windows, but it DOES have the latest Firefox, AND it returns dependably from sleep, has a working wifi switch, and boots in under 20 seconds. I found all I REALLY wanted in that form factor was FireFox 3 (F11 full screen is GREAT), and a shell. recompiling the Wifi drivers with every Ubuntu kernel update was getting to be a PITA.

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