Comment Re:power saving tip: disable the optical drive (Score 1) 907
Invent a language. With all due respect, Mr. Tolkien.
Comment Re:No pattern = a very good thing (Score 1) 432
Yes 671998030559713968361666935769 is prime.
Journal Journal: hello cralt, and avm.
How strange to encounter you fellows. Well met indeed, over a cold brew and some Monty Python one liners. Good to see you both, still alive and well.
Comment Re:Bring out your dead (Score 1) 695
I feel happy!
Comment windows 7 (Score 2, Informative) 345
Perhaps folks are comparing windows 7 to vista, rather than to xp. Vista, due to added "features" like DRM, was and is unusable to me. I have tried windows 7. Windows7 is also useless to me. The services and their dependencies are a complete cluster-fuck. For instance, if you turn off network services, you may no longer configure your network card. If you turn off cryptographic services, windows7 cannot phone home anymore, and tells you that it will be shutting down in ten minutes. Windows7 is vista sp2, and both are dogshit.
What used to be accessible in one or two clicks now takes three or four clicks to get to. This is improvement? This is smaller? Microsoft oughta buy up Damn Small Linux, roll up the directx API as a binary kernal module like nividia's driver, and start selling a usable OS again. Hell, I'd even give them money for that.
