Comment Re:3k - 64cores + 54+GB of ram. (Score 1) 205
I'd love to see the full spec of those machines.
Comment Re:Fuck the king (Score 1) 449
Submission + - Remembering John Postel (jacquesmattheij.com)
KDan writes: "John Postel made significant contributions many of the key protocols and RFCs that power the internet (IP, TCP, etc). Of particular relevance today was his stance against US government control of the top-level domains: John Postel transfered the DNS root authority to non-governmental servers, but was overruled by Ira Magaziner, Clinton's science adviser, and forced to reverse the change.
In the current circumstances, this blog post is particularly relevant."
In the current circumstances, this blog post is particularly relevant."
Comment Re:Flawed Computer Models (Score 1) 673
You do realize there are more ways to get to London from Frankfurt? The ICE to Paris and then the tunnel would have probably worked. How long would you have been prepared to wait because you want to fly rather than use some other mechanism?
Comment Re:What about Flash games and other stuff? (Score 1) 328
I very much agree with you that flash should have died a long time ago, but how do you propose to transition ?
Video is not the only thing that flash does well, chat clients and such are also exclusively written in
flash if they have anywhere near decent performance.
Submission + - Saving Geocities.com, a tale of Bandwidth & St (reocities.com)
jacquesm writes: "For the last week I've been busy to stave off the inevitable, making sure that geocities lives on in a format as close as possible to the original. Despite some setbacks I think the project succeeded and that most of not all of geocities.com has been saved. It seems I now also have one of the worlds largest collections of animated gifs :)"
Comment surprise (Score 5, Informative) 376
physical access > digital security
Comment Re:9V != 18W (Score 1) 366
Have you ever tried lighting up a commercial grade solar panel with a 10W lightbulb ?
How much power did it produce ?
Comment Re:9V != 18W (Score 1) 366
please hand in your low uid.
Comment Re:Dark Tan? (Score 1) 964
it's fairly obvious from your remark that you've never been to Hungary.
Comment Re:OOh (Score 1) 803
so, how do you manage to upgrade a hard disk without a re-install ?
Comment Re:What MORON keeps tagging articles as HARDHACK? (Score 1) 185
and all those 'software simulators' are executed by hardware...
In the end, it doens't matter how many virtualization layers you've got you are programming to tell the *hardware* what to do
Comment Re:Horray! (Score 1) 71
Elon Musk is flying payloads while John Carmack is still playing games. Come on John, make us proud...
Comment Re:Germans still outperform Africans. (Score 1) 174
They can have my copy, I hacked their servers last week
Comment Re:Always wondered about this (Score 1) 205
Helpful of them provide the filenames of the sources...
