Comment Re:Once again, a single measurement.... (Score 0) 158
That is fundamentally the same thing as FPS, unless there are some unstated assumptions that come along with this.
Comment Facebook (Score 1) 446
Facebook has made one of the largest pushes into this area. Has it worked? I'm not sure, just because I tend to prefer to not tie my various accounts to Facebook. I assume some people feel the same way, but I suspect the population at large likes this.
Comment Re:/bin/su isn't SUID?! (Score 3, Informative) 122
See Fedora's page for the same feature.
In short, there is a system now which gives programs certain capabilities based on tags set in the file system. With this, running as root is not needed for most things.
Comment Re:You're confused (Score 1) 300
Um... I'm not really following anything you're saying.
Kernel 2.4 supports LVM, he just isn't using it.
Comment Re:You're confused (Score 1) 300
I think you might have misread what he said.
ext3 file systems on regular partitions wouldn't be able to use LVM snapshots, because, well, they're not running on LVM volumes.
Comment Re:I use a virtual card. (Score 1) 120
Seriously, how can anyone on slashdot _not_ do this?
It's such a simple way to prevent these problems. My credit card companies let me set dollar limits and time limits on these virtual cards. You get to worry much less about fraud, as well as companies billing you when you no longer want them to.
Comment But is it really a blog? (Score 0, Redundant) 117
"Blog" was the short, cool way of saying "weblog".
Where's the web?
Comment Re:BeOS (Score 2, Interesting) 626
It may have been an axiom, but really, what did BeOS do (or want to do) that Linux doesn't do now?
The Linux OS has been scaled to thousands of CPUs. Sure, most applications don't benefit from multi-processors, but that'd be true in BeOS, too.
I'd honestly like to know if there is some design paradigm that was lost with BeOS that isn't around today.
Comment Re:gdrive.com (Score 4, Insightful) 342
Then how do you suppose that email sent to user@gmail.com gets to the Google account? Someone just kindly forwards it?
Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC 287
Ted Samson IW writes "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit did they crank on some artificial air conditioning. Intel did very little to address air-born contaminants and dust, and nothing at all to deal with fluctuating humidity. The result: a slightly higher failure rate — around 0.6 percent more — among the air-cooled servers compared to those in the company's main datacenter — and a potential savings of $2.87 million per year in a 10MW datacenter using free cooling over traditional cooling."
Submission + - Making NetBSD Multiboot-Compatible
jmmv writes: "The Multiboot Specification defines a protocol between boot loaders and operating systems' kernels with the basic aim to allow any compliant boot loader to launch any compliant OS. This simplifies the boot loader's tasks by reducing the amount of knowledge it must have of foreign OSes and, as a side effect, it also removes the burden of writing a custom boot loader for each OS. A while ago I modified the NetBSD's kernel to support this specification, which means that the upcoming 4.0 release will be easier to boot on any dual-boot system with Linux installed (assuming it uses GRUB). I've written an article, titled Making NetBSD Multiboot-Compatible, that provides an introduction to The Multiboot Specification and outlines the steps I took to adapt the NetBSD's kernel to follow it. This can give you enough interest and clues to modify your favourite operating system to also support this protocol."
