Comment Re:Does anyone really know what time it is ? (Score 3, Funny) 475
You're old enough to remember editing in vi, right ?
Yes, at my age, 10 minutes ago is about the limits of what I can remember.
Comment Re:Elvish... (Score 1) 475
If that was true then the majority of Disney movies would be public domain.
Comment Re:RTFA (Score 1) 453
Years ago at an email company I wrote a module to retrieve email from Hotmail. I was able (with a coworker's help) to reverse engineer the cram-MD5 "backdoor" log-in that Outlook used. I do not remember ever running into a failed log-in check with that method.
Comment Re: Atkins (Score 1) 233
I had a similar experience, except I was I only vegetarian for about 4 months. I gained an inch a month on my waist during that time. I took the weight off as fast as I put it on after I went back to eating lots of meat. Also I realized how much my energy level had decreased during that time. My blood pressure went back down and I just plain felt better.
Comment Re:Then what file system should we all use? (Score 1) 459
Granted, you have to run FreeBSD or Solaris to access a ZFS pool locally.
I've been setting up servers using native ZFS on Linux for almost a year now. Previously I've used Nexenta (Debianized OpenSolaris) to get ZFS.
Comment Re:State Of Mind (Score 1) 532
I dont think I've ever met someone with a windows phone.
I have a Windows phone. Windows sucked really bad however so I put Android on it. I'm sure I count in the statistics for Microsoft and against Android.
Comment Re:Bring ZFS to linux! (Score 1) 155
It is on Linux: http://zfsonlinux.org/
I've been using Nexenta to get ZFS for about 5 years, however earlier this year I switched my new installs to Linux. ZFS on Linux has been working great for me and my clients. This is not to be confused with fuse ZFS.
Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 134
My experience with Cyrix chips was they crashed every 30 minutes no matter what OS you put on them.
Comment Energy requirements (Score 1) 170
It's a good thing that the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) stores more than a few zetabytes or we wouldn't be able to go swimming anymore.
Comment Cookbook (Score 1) 375
When I was about 16 my mom found my Anarchist Cookbook. She proclaimed "Son, I'm so proud of you! You have a cookbook!". True story.
PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use 154
donadony writes "Last Monday PC-BSD 8.0 was released. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop environment. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD much easier for desktop use. The 8.0 release includes support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64 and improvements in the USB subsystem. The PC-BSD team has also developed a friendly package manager system with a simple-to-use GUI tool (see the screenshots tour). For a full list of changes, refer to the changelog."
Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April 100
You can buy and sell actor or movie "stock" for virtual cash on the website Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). Starting in April the company plans on letting you turn those movie performance predictions into real dollars. HSX filed with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for approval as an active trading site in November 2008 and has just entered the final phase of regulatory review. Richard Jaycobs, president of HSX's parent company, said, "The number of people who visit movie theaters each year and form opinions about a film's success is in the tens of millions. We believe that's the reason the public response to this product has been very positive."
Comment Bookmarks are for sissies (Score 1) 521
I'm pretty upset that Firefox grinds to a halt at about 180 tabs on 64bit Linux. According to htop Firefox only uses about 20% of my RAM so that's not the problem. Tree style tabs is a must have for more than a handful of tabs, which is why I'm using Firefox. I think Opera is a better browser except for the [lack of] plugins. I'm trying a nightly of Firefox 3.1 and it looks like the artificial tab limit problem is better.
Feed Science Daily: Web Images Can Be Used To Add Realism To Edited Photos (sciencedaily.com)
Computer graphics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed systems for editing or altering photographs using segments of the millions of images available on the Web.
Submission + - Google Desktop for Linux released (blogspot.com)
FrankNFurter writes: "Today, Google released a native Linux version of their desktop search. Available are packages in the .rpm format (for RedHat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva) and .deb format (for Debian/Ubuntu), both only for the x86 architecture. Google Desktop for Linux offers the same search features as the Windows version, a quick search box, integration of Gmail and the indexing of man and info pages. Not yet available for Linux are gadgets."
