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Comment The end of the world (Score 1) 378

by skovenborg on Monday May 30, 2011 @10:43AM (#36286558) Attached to: Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate

According to Linux there's an ancient Sumerian prophecy which imply that the moon will explode if they called it 3.0. I hope they decoded those old tablets wrong because this could mean the end of the world. See http://joebarr.sys-con.com/node/32801 question 3.

Submission + - Hotmail tops Gmail says study (typepad.com)

Submitted by doperative on Friday May 06, 2011 @04:56AM

doperative writes: The Which? testers like the 5GB of storage space offered by Hotmail and its interface:

"It actually feels like part of the operating system," they noted, and liked the way they could group messages into conversations. Advertising was unobtrusive and they thought the spam filter good. (Gmail offers more than 7GB for free.)

Journal Journal: Again: Superluminal Kaluza-Klein Charges Lose Their Effect.

Journal by mburns on Friday May 06, 2011 @04:08AM

Subluminal Kaluza-Kein charges are not polarized in an encounter with the superluminal variety as they are with other subluminals. So they see and change their path only in response to the difference of the red and blue fields instead of the sum of the magnitudes. This reduces the effect to the level of a gravitational interaction, twenty powers of ten smaller than the subluminal electrostatic interactions.

Comment Re:Honestly, these problems are solveable (Score 1) 885

by skovenborg on Tuesday May 20, 2008 @12:54PM (#23477916) Attached to: The Most Annoying Software Out There

Apple iTunes - Using open source music program "Amarok". Result? Software does not annoy (and works much better than iTunes as well).

For Linux, Agreed. But when is Amarok going to work in Windows or with people's iPods? Oh. Never ?? So what alternateive choice does a person using windows have ?

Amarok actually works fine with most ipods and a Windows version is coming soon.

Windows Update - Using Genuine Linux Distro "Ubuntu". Result? No licensing restrictions, no DRM, no repeated system restarts, no service packs to fix the previous service pack, that fixed the previous service pack, that fixed months old critical bugs.

No repeated system restarts, but none ? What about when your kernel is updated ? What about VMWare needing to be recompiled once you HAVE rebooted ?

Of course you're going to reboot your system once in a while but it happens less often in Linux and it doesn't bug you as much as Windows with annyoing popups stealing the focus.

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