I'm currently working as a developer for a major player in the mobile industry. We're local admins on our windows boxes, but we're switching to Linux now, and are not given the ability to su our own linux boxes. :-(

since I am the REAL Flu?! ;)

The reason, is that the swedish law, is a local interpretation of en EU-directive. Thus - assuming that the swedish law is a correct interpretation of the EU-directive, similar acts would be illegal in the complete EU. According to arguments held by the court, anyone in the world is breaking swedish law, independent of their physical location, if they commit a crime on the internet, which is illegal in Sweden. Thus, google can be prosecuted in Sweden. Thus, if the verdict is confirmed in HÃgsta Domstolen, it does mean that google can be prosecuted in Sweden.

There is another possible difference as well: I am not 100% sure about Linux, but at least on Windows, getting 0% CPU usage is impossible.

At least on all computer's I've used, there's a multitude of small programs running, each of which seems to want do wakeup briefly every second or so. I don't know why - most of them probably just want's to realize there's nothing for them to do and goes back to wait mode again. However, each of these wakeups, are potentially causing cache-misses, memory swap-ins and outs.

This is not nessecarrily the fault of Windows itself, but the applications running on a normal Windows box. But the end result is the same - an "idle" Windows box excercises the memory more than it really would need to, just because of the behaviour of its applications.

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I surely hope he changes pants more than anything else... Otherwize, I guess he'll start stinking really soon... ;)