Comment Re:Quite right (Score 1) 228
I knew it, yet I didn't know it.
Comment Re:Hague Convention? (Score 1) 782
Sorry, my mistake, I meant the St Petersburg Declaration.
"The Great Powers agreed to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the use of any explosive projectile of less weight than 400 grams (14 ounces avoirdupois) or one charged with fulminating or inflammable substances."
It's possible that these projectiles are over 400g in weight though.
Rich.
Comment Hague Convention? (Score 1) 782
I know the US doesn't care about such things any more, but don't these violate the Hague Convention on "exploding bullets"?
Running ZFS Natively On Linux Slower Than Btrfs 235
An anonymous reader writes "It's been known that ZFS is coming to Linux in the form of a native kernel module done by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and KQ Infotech. The ZFS module is still in closed testing on KQ infotech's side (but LLNL's ZFS code is publicly available), and now Phoronix has tried out the ZFS file-system on Linux and carried out some tests. ZFS on Linux via this native module is much faster than using ZFS-FUSE, but the Solaris file-system in most areas is not nearly as fast as EXT4, Btrfs, or XFS."
Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? 510
eldavojohn writes "So I noted that there was better support for my processor in the latest BIOS for my mainboard. After downloading the update, there was a .doc file containing flashing instructions. No matter, I have OpenOffice.org installed on this machine and just opened it up. And, as should be no surprise, there was an Oracle logo splash screen while OpenOffice.org 3.2 started up. At my job, I've had a less than favorable history with Oracle that I'm not going to get into — rather let's just say I never want anything to do with them again. Including installing any of their software on my machine. So I'm facing a dilemma. I've looked into the forked LIbreOffice but that's still in beta and I'm a little wary of depending on that. Has anyone used LibreOffice (it's installing as I type this) extensively? Does it handle complex Powerpoint files okay? Is there some alternative out there that I'm completely overlooking for open source? Can anyone convince me that there's no reason to fear the Oracle OpenOffice.org? Will it remain the de facto standard? Will it eventually lock me into a commitment with Oracle? If you get by without one of these heavyweight monster editors, what do you use and how do you handle doc, ppt, (etc.) extensions?"
Comment Relink static script (Score 1) 385
I wrote this script to relink a dynamically-linked program with as many equivalent static libraries as possible, with any unavailable static libraries left dynamic. I use it to ship a static version of libguestfs
Whether static binaries are a good idea, I'll leave that discussion up to others. I would say that dynamic linking should be preferred, but static linking and this script is quite useful in some circumstances.
Rich.
Comment Re:Why when we already have Ocaml? (Score 1) 212
Not quite sure why you've chosen to troll about F# here, but OCaml simply does not have the serious technical issues you say, and does have hundreds of libraries. It's used a lot by some very large companies, and in important areas like financial trading, aircraft code verification and virtualization.
Rich.
Comment Re:So .... (Score 1) 212
OCaml is used for all sorts of things in many companies and is very much ready for primetime.
F# is fine if you're using
Rich.
Comment Re:Breathe Deep... (Score 2, Insightful) 640
If it's like Mac OS X then it's still a step backwards because the native OS X apps cannot be run remotely (only X11 ones). That's removing a useful feature for no benefit (despite what people who don't know what they are talking about say, there is no performance penalty to network transparency, because locally it's all using shared memory).
Rich.
Comment Re:No it doesn't (Score 2, Informative) 384
KVM beats Xen on performance nowadays. Take a closer look at a recent version.
Comment Re:Linux, KVM and virt-tools (Score 1) 384
The home page might explain it a bit better, but basically virt tools is a loose collection of tools, and they mostly use libvirt so can manage almost anything, KVM, Xen, VMWare ESX, Linux containers, VirtualBox (I think), OpenVZ ...
Comment Linux, KVM and virt-tools (Score 1) 384
I've been writing a lot of documentation for Linux virt-tools here.
Rich.
Comment Pay back? (Score 4, Insightful) 264
Maybe he should pay back all the US tax dollars it cost to get him there in the first place? Then we can talk about publicity rights
Rich.
Comment They don't deserve recognition (Score 0, Troll) 238
It was kept a secret so it couldn't benefit humanity (and public key encryption has been an enormous benefit). I don't really care if it was their job, I have really very little time for the silly secrecy around the "security" services anyway. Most of what they do is policework, and the police aren't a state secret above the law.
Rich.
Comment Re:Help us steal from others! (Score 2, Funny) 175
That would be quite a feat, as stealing ideas is just not possible.
It is if I use my patented brain eraser on you!
