Comment Re:"Negative Effects" (Score 1) 317
Obligatory Rice Boy Page.
LOL awesome shout-out to my old co-worker Bryan Hong would started that website. Good to see that it's a classic thread for riceboy absurdity!
Comment Re:Eve combat (Score 1) 101
To dumb it down it's basically world of warcraft but in space. What I mean by that is you're constantly button mashing while you watch your model ship circle around your target shooting at something. When eve players talk about "skill" they're talking about it in the same sense as WoW players do...
Hardly. In Eve you'll notice a lot of combat involves ships circling around each other in orbits whereas in WOW tournaments the arenas are close combat and involve line-of-sight tactics. Example
SK Gaming vs TSG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFo2yObhOS0 (HD video)
Comment Re:One simple word (Score 1) 393
Actually, fast is a relative term. Our local LAN workstations work fine with a Drobo as a shared active storage system for 1080p high-definition raw video projects which we all can edit from _simultaneously_. That's the key... there's enough throughput for multiple users to push heavy live data without hiccups, even in a bandwidth-hogging setup like workgroup video editing.
Comment Re:One simple word (Score 1) 393
Yep. We have a Drobo connected to one of our workstations via Firewire 800 and share the drive between our local users in this department using a simple gigabit ethernet switch. It's practically a no-brainer expandable, protected data solution that requires no IT assistance. We have ours formatted HFS+ (between macs) using a 16 TB volume size to maximize capacity. In the future if 16 TB isn't enough (LOL?) then we'll just chain another 16 TB Drobo to that from the other Firewire 800 port.
Patch the Linux Kernel Without Reboots 286
evanbro writes "ZDNet is reporting on ksplice, a system for applying patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting. ksplice requires no kernel modifications, just the source, the config files, and a patch. Author Jeff Arnold discusses the system in a technical overview paper (PDF). Ted Ts'o comments, 'Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a while. If you are a carrier in telephony and don't want downtime, this stuff is pure gold.'"
Update: 04/24 10:04 GMT by KD : Tomasz Chmielewsk writes on LKML that the idea seems to be patented by Microsoft.
