Narkov - Slashdot User

Comment Re:They are likely grateful... (Score 1) 446

by Narkov on Monday December 06, 2010 @08:40PM (#34468050) Attached to: Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times

They are likely grateful that people are using their software rather than the superior (and free) Microsoft Security Essentials. (Yes, MS makes a piece of software that is superior in virtually every way to its competition. Hard to believe, but it's true.)

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Security Essentials isn't "free" for businesses with more than 10 PC's. The original owner of the Avast licence had 14 PC's so wouldn't qualify for Security Essentials.

Comment Kernel shared memory (Score 5, Informative) 129

by Narkov on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @12:08AM (#33212078) Attached to: Extreme Memory Oversubscription For VMs

The Linux kernel uses something called kernel shared memory (KSM) to achieve this with it's virtualization technology. LWN has a great article on it:

http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/

Comment Hrmmm (Score 4, Insightful) 200

by Narkov on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @05:31AM (#28345637) Attached to: Bing Gets Porn Domain To Filter Explicit Content

Is the reverse possible? I.e. explicit content only??!! :)

Comment More Uni money = more investment in research? (Score 1) 383

by Narkov on Sunday January 04, 2009 @06:10AM (#26318719) Attached to: Universities Patenting More Student Ideas

Aside from the obvious point-of-view that this is almost theft, doesn't this mean the University can afford to invest in more research and therefore invent more cool technologies?

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