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Comment Re:ReadyNAS (Score 1) 517

by Penguin's Advocate on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @01:13AM (#26142041) Attached to: SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput?

We have a couple of the 4TB ReadyNAS 1100's... 80MB/sec?!?!?!?!? How? What magic did you work to get that? The most we've been able to squeeze out of the things is ~30MB/s, which is in line with what most reviews have found. We've ended up just using them as on-line backups because they're too slow for active use. We've got them mounted via NFS to a linux box with 4TB of really fast RAID5 storage internally, and we just use rdiff-backup to sync the internal RAID daily. In terms of a speed comparison, the linux box (via an Intel PCIe quad gigE board) has no trouble pumping 350-400MB/s.

New Final Fantasy Game Coming To Wii and DS 61

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @08:43PM from the sharing-fantasies dept.

Eurogamer reports on some good news for fans of the Final Fantasy series: a new game is in development for the Nintendo Wii and DS systems. "It's said to be titled Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time. ... the game will apparently be playable on both machines at once, thanks to the spiffing new Pollux engine. So, while whoever is the best negotiator/fighter/Wii owner is playing on the big screen, another lucky adventurer can wade in on the DS, presumably following around and summoning Ifrit on their elder siblings. This harks back to the series' origins on DS, with the first CC game enjoying the relative splendour of Gamecube/GBA link-up play."

Comment Re:This is total FUD (Score 1) 1019

by Penguin's Advocate on Thursday July 17, 2008 @06:42PM (#24234987) Attached to: Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market

Crap! You're right. Man, this just isn't my day...

Comment Re:The Judge already ruled (Score 1) 134

by mellonhead on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @10:55AM (#23238100) Attached to: SCO v. Novell Goes to Trial Today In Utah

Mod this up, this is exactly what happened (August 2007).

MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs 413

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, 2007 @06:06PM from the new-tactic-in-open-sorcery dept.

vboulytchev writes "The folks at MySQL has quietly announced that it will no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball. It's been about a year since the split between the paid and free versions of the database project. The Enterprise Server code is still under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and as a result MySQL appears to be making it harder for non-customers to access the source code. 'One of the things that many users worry about is whether they're getting an inferior version of MySQL by using the Community version. Urlocker says that MySQL "wants to make sure the Community version is rock solid," but admitted that the company has introduced features into the Community edition of the software that "[weren't] as robust as we thought, and created some instabilities." Because of that, the company is revising its policies about when features go into the Community releases.'" Update: 08/10 04:56 GMT by CN :While it is slightly harder to get, the source isn't closed by any means, so I updated the title to reflect that.

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by mellonhead on Thursday April 19, 2007 @12:38AM

Journal Journal: Hilarious post re: the beige IT section theme...

Journal by mellonhead on Monday May 09, 2005 @05:50AM

Re:Old News Indeed (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on 09:39 PM -- Tuesday July 27 2004 (#9818444)

I dunno, it's kind of an achievement, "Radioactive Beige". Until now, no color scheme had ever acheived simultaneous DayGlo and Drab. By rights, it just shouldn't be possible. Yet there it is, making my eyes scream and my ears bleed. BEIGE BEIGE BEIGE BEIGE BEIGE.

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