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Comment DNS Problems (Score 1) 1231

by lavaforge on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @09:55PM (#29972356) Attached to: Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

Coming in late to the conversation, but what the hey.

The biggest thing I've noticed so far is that DNS lookup in the default install is CRAZY slow for me. I've read some posts about blacklisting the ip6 module or changing the name resolving order, but I'd rather not use a temporary workaround that's incompatible with whatever fix they eventually choose to implement. The bug is here, by the way: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/417757

Other than that, I've noticed instability in Flash, some general UI unresponsiveness, and a (now fixed) bug in the update manager that would throw up a kernel oops message.

It sure is pretty, though.

Comment Tagging the story? (Score 1) 118

by lavaforge on Monday August 31, 2009 @03:02PM (#29264679) Attached to: Robotic Mold

How do you put a "Shoggoth" tag onto a story? This sounds like something straight out of "At the Mountains of Madness".

Comment Wisdom (Score 2, Funny) 257

by lavaforge on Monday July 06, 2009 @04:33PM (#28599223) Attached to: 10 Business Lessons I Learned From Playing D&D

What other wisdom have you gained from your time sequestered with various RPGs?

No matter how clever the idea sounds, livestock never fixes anything.

Comment Re:smaller code size without copy& paste (Score 2, Interesting) 113

by lavaforge on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @11:42AM (#28543169) Attached to: The Incredible Shrinking Genome

Are we seeing the same tendency in other warm blooded creatures, such as birds?

Submission + - VHDL or Verilog? 3

Submitted by FlyByPC on Saturday May 30, 2009 @08:31PM

FlyByPC writes: We're in the first stages of designing a course in programmable devices at the university where I work. The course will most likely be centered around various small projects implemented on an FPGA dev board, using a Xilinx Spartan3-series FPGA. I have a bit of experience working with technologies from 7400-series chips (designing using schematics) to 8-bit microcontrollers to C/C++. FPGAs, though, are new to me (although they look very interesting.)

My question is, if you were an undergraduate student studying programmable devices (specifically, FPGAs), would you prefer the course be centered on VHDL, Verilog, a little of both, or something else entirely? (...or is this an eternal, undecidable holy-war question along the lines of ATI/nVidia, AMD/Intel, Coke/Pepsi, etc...?)

At this point, I've only seen a little of both languages, so I have no real preference. Any input, especially if you're using one or both in the field, would be very helpful. Thanks, and may all of your K-maps be glitch-free.

Submission + - New HDMI 1.4 spec set to confuse

Submitted by

thefickler

on Saturday May 30, 2009 @05:15PM

thefickler writes: "HDMI Licensing LLC, the company that determines the specifications of the HDMI standard, is set to release the HDMI 1.4 spec on 30 June. Unfortunately it could very well be the most confusing thing to ever happen to setting up a home theater. When the new cables are released, you're going to need to read the packaging very carefully because effectively there are now going to be five different versions of HDMI to choose from — HDMI Ethernet Channel, Audio Return Channel, 3D Over HDMI, 4K x2K Resolution Support and a new Automotive HDMI. At least we can't complain about consumer choice."

Comment Re:Helios Blog Entry Is Crap! (Score 1) 440

by lavaforge on Thursday January 29, 2009 @12:07PM (#26654225) Attached to: Teachers Need an Open Source Education

It's actually a 4th declension mass noun. Therefore the the plural is emphatically *not* viri.

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