Comment Get a grip already. (Score 1) 541
Seriously.
Comment Duplication of effort (Score 1) 123
How about a World Space Agency instead of this massive expenditure and duplication of effort.
Oh, right. That would make sense.
Comment Cause and effect (Score 1) 386
And the modification of a duplicate block will generate not only a copy-on-write fault but also a law suit by whoever owns the COW patent.
Comment Make the check payable to... (Score 1) 507
Send me that "measly" $7.8 million would ya? Since it's just a drop in the bucket...
Comment Turn the corner... (Score 1) 360
Start a consulting business removing viruses from folks' Windows boxes. That's what I did after I quit my job and pissed away my life's savings on an idea that only I thought was a good idea.
Comment Before you learned to speak (Score 1) 739
Slackware v0.0something around 1994. Stored on and ran off a 5.25" floppy on a 386-25 with 256K of RAM and a 40Mb disk. Or 192K/20Mb. It was 20 computers ago and hundreds of OSs ago. I ran it long enough to say "this sucks" and went back to my brand-X SVR4 install which was installed off of about 50 3.5" floppies.
I just upgraded my quad-core box with 4G RAM/500G Rust from Hardy to Jaunty yesterday from an ISO I downloaded.
Time warp...
Submission + - No such thing as bad (Microsoft) press
scanrate writes: "For a web site that so fervently supports Linux and Open Source, there seems to be no place to get more press about Microsoft than at Slashdot. For all of the good companies in the world that are developing open source solutions, often at great cost and for little return, Microsoft, in all its evil gets far more press than anyone else.
Is it time for us all to "embrace and extend" or should /. lower the threshold for promoting open source startups?"
Is it time for us all to "embrace and extend" or should
Submission + - SE Toolkit Replacement Released
jvs writes: "Rich Pettit, creator of the SE Toolkit has released the new modern replacement, XE Toolkit. Unlike the SE Toolkit (that only ran on Solaris), the XE Toolkit support MacOS X, Solaris SPARC, Linux x64, Solaris x64, Windows XP, FreeBSD, Windows 2003 Server and Linux x86 with support for AIX, HP-UX and Windows Vista to follow.
More info and downlaod details can be found at http://captivemetrics.com/XEToolkit.html"
More info and downlaod details can be found at http://captivemetrics.com/XEToolkit.html"
