Comment Re:Documentation is very lacking (Score 1) 769
Man pages are only semi-useful if you ALREADY KNOW WHAT COMMAND YOU NEED.
Try man -k
Comment So Just tunnel over HTTP (Score 2, Insightful) 343
Someone mentioned that they would be upset if their SSH sessions slow down. Well, just tunnel ssh over http
http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/
Comment Re:Ernie Ball (Score 0, Redundant) 371
Sure you can have lots of RAM for quite cheap, but most people won't ever need that much RAM.
Yeah no one will ever need that much RAM, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Comment Re:The Irony (Score 1) 148
way to answer my question. So as of now, only you are making these claims.
Comment Re:The Irony (Score 1) 148
well-known clueless fraud? Who has said that besides you?
Comment Kundra's Credentials (Score 4, Informative) 148
Kundra is at worst a fraud and at best someone who is clueless. Listen to some of the things this guy says.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
Comment Re:CFLAGS (Score 1) 391
From the man page:
-fdelete-null-pointer-checks
Use global dataflow analysis to identify and eliminate useless
checks for null pointers. The compiler assumes that dereferencing
a null pointer would have halted the program. If a pointer is
checked after it has already been dereferenced, it cannot be null.
In some environments, this assumption is not true, and programs can
safely dereference null pointers. Use
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks to disable this optimization for
programs which depend on that behavior.
Enabled at levels -O2, -O3, -Os.
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks to disable this optimization for
programs which depend on that behavior.
Enabled at levels -O2, -O3, -Os.
Comment Smart Radio Challenge (Score 2, Informative) 130
This year's Smart Radio Challenge is quite similar to this initiative
http://www.radiochallenge.org/09SampleProblem.html
Comment Re:Perfect for the computer lab (Score 1) 246
Yeah I really should have gone for the switchmode solution and saved a few microwatts. In my day sonny we were glad to have zeners. I had to walk all day in the snow....up hill...oh stuff it.
Do you really think a voltage regular only saves a microwatts compared a zener?
Comment Re:Perfect for the computer lab (Score 5, Informative) 246
You might need to build a dumb USB power supply for it though. How about a 9 volt battery, a resistor and a zener diode?
How about that's extremely inefficient. For an additional $0.50 you can get a voltage regular or DC-DC converter. Come on, I'm on the digital side of EE and I know better.
Submission + - Full Circle Magazine - Issue 24 - The two year ann (fullcirclemagazine.org) 1
mrmonday1 writes: Full Circle Magazine — the independent magazine for the Ubuntu community — is proud to announce the release of its two year anniversary, issue 24. And to celebrate their second birthday, issue 24 boats a more colourful layout and more pages. The 43 page PDF has articles on cron, programming in C, installing and configuring MAME and a new series of articles on Inkscape. You could also win one of three copies of Ubuntu Unleashed!
Comment This is true. (Score 1) 202
I posted a negative review on yelp and not it's not there unless I sign in. Here is the link:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/driscolls-package-store-inc-andover
Submission + - Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 in Benchmarks. (tuxradar.com)
twitter writes: "Recent and controversial benchmarks for Windows 7 leave an important question unanswered, "Is it faster than GNU/Linux?" Here, at last, is a benchmark that pits Ubuntu, Vista and Windows 7 against each other on the same modern hardware. From install time to GUI efficiency, Ubuntu beats Windows and is often twice as fast. Where Windows 7 is competitive, the difference is something the average user would not notice. The average GNU/Linux user is now getting better absolute performance from their computer as well as better value than the average Windows user."
Comment DRAM and SRAM (Score 1) 260
What's really important here is that the key would be kept in SRAM(CPU Cache), not DRAM(Memory). With DRAM the stored bit is stored in a capacitance and in SRAM the bit is stored in a latch(usually a D-type latch from what I understand). I would guess that it's harder to freeze SRAM and keep the bit in place.
Comment Re:iSeries is superior to a mainframe (Score 1) 361
are you aware that in 5 years system i will be dead (it's set to merge into system p) and system z will be rolling out z11?? I work at an IBM datacenter and system has the fewest amount of machines
