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Comment Re:Why do we need processor speed? (Score 1) 78

Laptops are where I've noticed the biggest gaps between generations lately. Comparing a first gen i7 laptop to a third gen shows huge boosts in processor performance. On the desktop? I see no reason to replace my third gen i5 (if my motherboard hadn't died I'd be using an i7 920 right now too).

Comment Re:NetworkManager (Score 1) 164

On UNIX Systems I get quite the response too:

(Slashdot filters won't let me post the output from my IRIX system.  I get a " Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there." Fuck you Dice.)

-bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS new-host 5.10 Generic_147440-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500
bash-3.2$ bash -c "compgen -c | grep ^[A-Z] | sort"
CC
CCadmin
ControlPanel
DBMirror.pl
HtmlConverter
Mail
TIMEZONE
-bash-3.2$

Comment Re:Who will get (Score 3, Interesting) 360

The US won't defend Americans in the USA (how many unarmed black men were killed by cops this year? How many black men were lynched this year?), but will happily start a war to defend the Right of Japan to make profit in the USA.

Actually, the police kill more white people then black people.

Comment Re:I don't care what the user has at home (Score 1) 241

We cycle users systems on a 3-4 year basis. Do most of our users have home systems that are far more impressive? Yes, and some of our users have a server rack of their own equipment at home too. That i5 Dell laptop with 8GB RAM, encrypted HDD/SSD, AV, log monitoring and reporting, etc; isn't likely going to perform as fast as the six core w/HT i7 you're running at home with a RAID 0 of new SSDs and a GTX 770, but it works well enough to get the job done. If your users are still using 8 year old hardware, there are probably other issues at play too.

Comment Re:"cloud" = "someone else's computer" (Score 1) 241

If you're smart, you don't assume the cloud is secure, and you don't store anything that's sensitive there. But that assumes the people making decisions are smart. I'm not saying the cloud providers shouldn't care about security, on the contrary, since users should be watching for breaches they should be trying that much harder.

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