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Yeah, that's what happens when you don't trademark something. That was the original idea. It makes the name "organic" make more sense, several senses in fact:

Actually having a cyclical system is more "organic" by senses of the word which don't mean "on the USDA approved list" or "has a scary name"

"People still need it enough that we won't actually drive them away. Usually." What a ringing endorsement of a design philosophy.

I prefer "If you have any questions, you may direct them to that brick wall over there"

It's organic so long as everything you use is on the USDA organic list, because the USDA has control over the label now. It's not cyclical so it's not truly organic farming, but it's low-impact so who cares.

Athens is credited as the birthplace of democracy even though only racially privileged landowners even had a vote. Guess what.

AFAICT the cutoff for same-day service for most contracts is around two hours' travel. If it takes longer than that, you're just going on the calendar. If the item in question is extremely valuable, then that's not true at all, but we're just talking about PCs here, right? However fancy-pants.

If that daemon isn't a script, WTF. Because you could definitely do that with a very small shell script.

This is more or less what I mostly came to say — how's that for convoluted. But to wit: Who cares whose approach to swap is "better"? Swap is crap. Most of us don't need any. We've beat this horse well beyond death here on Slashdot repeatedly. RAM is stupid cheap now. There are a few things that people do with their PCs now that take more than 8GB of RAM, like high-res video streaming from the same PC on which they're gaming or doing live video stream manipulation or whatever it is they're doing, and no amount of swap will help you do those things. All swap does it make your system thrash before it crashes.

With that said, the way windows handles paging is crap. It only lets you make one swapfile per drive, and you can't swap directly to a partition; mkswap is a lot faster than mkfs, or even an ntfs quick format, let alone the real thing. If you want more paging on the same volume with linux, you just create another swapfile and swapon to it at a lower priority than your primary file. When you no longer need more paging, you swapoff the file and you can delete it. If you let Windows manage the length of the paging file, then if that ever actually happens, you just wind up with fragmentation and that will impact system performance while swapping, for real. It will also impact your ability to defrag, since the paging file can't be moved while it's in use. You have to remove it, reboot, defrag, enable it, and reboot, since pagedefrag doesn't work after Windows XP.

TL;DR: the best way to manage paging on Windows is to disable it for all volumes. The best way to manage paging on Linux is to not create a swap partition or file. It's better to crash sooner and reboot than to crash later and reboot... later.

No, but I see the fleets of black hire cars rolling around. Usually driving like asshats.

Dropping out of the Euro, or even the EU, wouldn't be a problem.

Turning to Putin for help, that would be a problem.

I have my smart phone in my pocket at the gym, and my 30 dollar mp3 player in my arm band.

Bluetooth headphones seem to either be wicked uncomfortable (plantronic backbeats) or exquisitely sensitive to sweat (Motorola). So it's nice being able to listen to music over corded headphones, and still have the smartphone available to do whatever in between sets.

Also the mp3 player just fucking 'works' on demand. Spotify seems to crash about 50% of the time and requires a reboot of the phone.

Also having the headphone jack come out, then having my phone broadcast my horrible taste of music over its speaker after accidentally touching the screen/volume buttons -- was embarrassing enough to ensure it happened just once :)

Putin can't afford to pay anything--Russia's broke too (if not quite as broke as Greece). But if they're stupid enough, the Greek government might not figure that out until it's too late.

The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

If you're remember aircraft carriers in old dubbed anime, you're probably remembering Robotech; the Macross had two aircraft carriers attached to it as arms.