4.2.2.1 works too!

Level3 is about 6ms faster on average, for me. (40ms vs 34ms)

Either way it's insanely fast, and I'd never switch away from my own resolver :x

Oh and in case anybody doesn't know yet:
4.2.2.{2..6} are Level3's public DNS servers.

Everybody missed the point that 8gbytes isn't average.
My calculations tell me that to have exactly 100,000 times less ram that the cat, you'd need to have just about 1 509.94944 megabytes RAM in your machine.

To me, this sounds quite average.

I wish I could mod you +1, bloody brilliant.

The article is of little use other than tell the general populace of Slashdot that FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 are right around the corner, and that we should be hyped. Also FreeBSD 8 is a little faster than FreeBSD 7.2 but a lot slower than Ubuntu Linux 9.10

I'm not surprised, however I do belong to the group that does not really care about relative performance to other OS's as performance is only one of the aspects from the vector of decisions we had to make to finally choose FreeBSD for mass-scale deployment.

Frustration Aliases 0.1

echo 'alias just=sudo' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'alias fucking="sh -c"' >> /root/.bashrc

# just fucking rm -rf /

IT Pro's are statistically insignificant, and their software use pattern is extremely predictable.

The point you raised is exactly the point of the stats - average joe's. *They* are the reason web developers (used to?) spent an extra 20% time breaking their CSS to be IE6 compatible.

They work together because skull crushing is easier when the crusher vs crushee ratio increases.

No matter how much we lie to ourselves and convince ourselves that our skull crushing is so absurdly sophisticated that it doesn't "count" as skull crushing, someone's still going to fucking own someones elses ass and crush their so-called skull if they don't get enough bananas.

Hu-mans are still primitive animals. All we have over the rest of the animal kingdom is the abstraction layer we call an "intellect" which is in place to distract us from the reality that we're participating in this fancy circus called life for exactly the same reason as stupid, skull crushing monkeys are: To eat and reproduce. Because we're wired to.

Now, I do agree with you that some time in the future, true civilized human beings that aren't just driven by instincts *might* develop here on earth - but so far I'm just gonna have to say that I admire your ability to hold such a positive outlook.

Computer games are very Zen, true.

You are all incorrect in assuming that legalese (should|can|does|will) make any sense from a technical point of view.

We have a tiny box with dual DVI output to power two flatscreen monitors at my office. Each screen has it's own web browser pointed to the content page they represent. Works like a charm.
Any web-capable OS should be fine for doing this. Spice it up with AJAX if you want to be really fancy and avoid the occasional refresh flicker.

This is the same guy who wrote an open letter to D-Link requesting them to stop abusing his NTP Server.

He's my personal internet hero.