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Comment Overhyped old news. (Score 1) 393

The original exploit release ALREADY acknowledges that in Linux, the root user can reconfigure MTRRs from userspace while Windows/OS X can't. The original authors also acknowledge that successful exploitation is highly platform and hardware dependent. However, under those OS'es the equivalent superuser (Administrator, root) can load a kernel module that does the exact same thing. So, I ask, what exactly is the news here? These guys managed to demonstrate an actual exploit on a particular motherboard? Ooh. Aah.

Comment Re:10 gigs? (Score 4, Interesting) 81

It's a natural tradeoff when every application is designed to be self-contained. This is the same issue Mac OS X faces with its .app bundles -- each app basically ships a /usr like prefix with all of its dependencies on top of the base OS X API's, and application startup times on cold cache pales to a shared-dependency approach.

Comment Re:Not quite... (Score 2, Funny) 43

However, non-trivial disk acivity (such as compiling a port) caused the OS to shit itself with geometry errors.

That's my experience too, even with VBox 2.1.2-VBox 2.1.4: Any nontrivially intense disk activity will panic/oops the kernel with disk controller related errors. Once or twice it even was triggered in the installation phase when I elected to install some ports from the second CD. And forget about SCSI controller emulation as a workaround -- that instantly dies on newfs.

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