That's just one interpretation, but yes, you are correct.

Ah yes, that's true. :)

ASCII and UTF-8 are both text encoding schemes, not document formats.

But Patch Tuesday is a channel which frequency is about 30 days.

You seem to be right, Alex. If one reads the MS bulletin carefully, one can see that this patch applies only to Windows Server editions.

Well, Patch Tuesday is the main channel, simple as that.

I remember them too. Legend of the Red Dragon II was fun.

Actually a lot of game servers were run by Internet Service Providers.

He certainly is a mysterious character.

Roland Piquepaille.

If we look at the article, the computer was taught only the specific algorithms to create a jigsaw puzzle arrangement or shuffle a deck of cards. Then the program just ran the data through it to create various optimal results. It didn't have capabilities to expand the concept of the trick, for example.

I think he can't contact you. As far as I know, there is no private message feature in Slashdot, and you don't disclose your e-mail address in your profile either. Just sayin'. :)

This is true. The blacklist is contained in drivers/ata/libata-core.c for anyone who wants to take a look at it.

To find it, in that file search for: static const struct ata_blacklist_entry ata_device_blacklist []

For SSDs with (queued) TRIM problems, that list seems to contain only Crucial/Micron M500/M550. There is a lot of other devices blacklisted for various reasons. Of course they aren't blacklisted completely but just some features are disabled in them.