Comment Re:So are all you people running 64bit or PAE? (Score 1) 543
8GB on a PAE kernel. I wanted to keep the same distro on all systems, my server is an elderly Athlon (i.e. 32 bit)
Comment 86 years? (Score 1) 333
That'll be one of these new-fangled schools. Oh, it's in the US, I guess goes for old over there.
Comment Re:Keep Calm and Carry On (Score 1) 804
America didn't give two shits so the rest of the world didn't say anything.
Oh they did, who do you think paid for all the explosives?
Comment Re:Only one line (Score 1) 391
Let me guess, a perl hacker.
Comment Hillman (Score 2) 300
Comment Re:First time (Score 2) 840
Budweiser (of the American variety) is not beer. It's corrupted water.
Comment Is that... (Score 1) 336
a metric or imperial sh!tload?
Comment Re:Certified incompetent... (Score 2) 444
Yeh, we're politicians like that here in the UK too...
Comment Re:Well done Nokia (Score 1) 95
Your decision to partner with Microsoft is as sage and wise as allowing your balls to be shaved by a mental patient.
with a chainsaw.
Comment Prior art (Score 1) 242
Glasssteel spell, see PHB.
Comment ancestry information.. (Score 5, Funny) 88
you're descended from a criminal.
Zynga and Blizzard Sued Over Game Patent 179
eldavojohn writes "Thinking about developing a game involving a 'database driven online distributed tournament system?' Well, you had better talk to Walker Digital or risk a lawsuit, because Walker Digital claims to have patented that 'invention' back in 2002. The patent in question has resulted in some legal matters for the makers of 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 and 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: World at War, Blur, Wolfenstein, DJ Hero 2, Golden Eye 007, World of Warcraft and its expansions, Mafia Wars, and many others.' Walker Digital (parent company of Priceline.com) said it's not sure how much damages are going to be, and requested that through discovery in the court. If you think Walker Digital is not a patent troll, check out their lawsuit from two months ago against Facebook for using privacy controls Walker Digital claims to have patented. It would seem that any online competitive game that uses a database to select and reward contestants in a tournament could potentially fall under this patent — of course, those with the deepest coffers will be cherrypicked first."
Linux 2.6.37 Released 135
diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."
IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347
aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."
Comment I take it... (Score 1) 53
that they've filled a patent for this technology?
