Comment Boring Torrents (Score 3, Funny) 309
It must be exciting for them to monitor me downloading Fedora or openSUSE.
Comment Post-PC Era (Score 1) 565
Welcome to the Post-PC Era. Invented by Apple, designed in California, built in Shanghai.
Comment Smart kids (Score 0) 227
"Hey computers are fun and all, but I don't want to be an outsource monkey" Brilliant.
Comment Linus is not a good reference. (Score 0) 818
Linus is not a good reference. He left KDE for Gnome when KDE went from 3.x to 4.x. Now he's ranting about Gnome since they went from 2.x to 3.x. The guy simply doesn't like change. Next he'll move to XFCE, and then rant when they move from 4.x to 5.x.
Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It 273
An anonymous reader writes "Be careful mentioning Dr. Ann De Wees Allen. She's made it clear that she's trademarked her name and using it is 'illegal... without prior written permission.' She even lists out the names of offenders and shows you the cease-and-desist letter she sends them. And, especially don't copy any of the text on her website, because she's using a bit of javascript that will warn you 'Copyright Protect!' if you right click on a link."
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."
Comment Re:this wasn't my experience (Score 0) 311
Same here, I updated to IE8 from Windows Update as a Critical Update and it plainly asked if I wanted to make IE8 my default browser or keep my current default browser.
Comment 4GB RAM? (Score 0) 762
Do any of the people that I see complain daily about things not working in the 64 bit operating systems even have over 4GB of RAM installed that they need to access?
