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Comment Re:Virtualbox (Score 1) 279

by ppc_digger on Friday January 01, 2010 @09:24PM (#30618178) Attached to: Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise

You forget the most important part of Boot Camp: the BIOS emulation layer that allows Windows to boot.

Macs could dual-boot long before Boot Camp came along.

Comment Re:Virtualbox (Score 1) 279

by ppc_digger on Friday January 01, 2010 @09:23PM (#30618166) Attached to: Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise

It doesn't have to. Windows machines come with Windows drivers. Macs don't.

Comment Re:Heh (Score 1) 175

by ppc_digger on Friday January 01, 2010 @08:33PM (#30617610) Attached to: NASA Mars Rover Spirit May Move Forward By Spinning Its Wheels

You seem to forget that a human scientist can do in a day what a rover does in a year.

With a few nuclear reactors, a water recycling system and some vegetation, settlers can survive indefinitely.

Comment Re:Ext3 (Score 2, Informative) 484

by ppc_digger on Thursday December 24, 2009 @05:35PM (#30547096) Attached to: Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives?

It has at least two other issues: it doesn't support ext3 journaling (so ext3 is treated as ext2), and it can't fsck (and because it doesn't support ext3, it can't do a journal replay either), which means that it can't mount a dirty volume until it is mounted by Linux.

Comment Re:Cold fusion is by definition no energy source (Score 2, Informative) 479

by ppc_digger on Saturday November 21, 2009 @04:17PM (#30187328) Attached to: Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam?

"Cold fusion" doesn't mean cold enough to touch, it means cold compared to the sun, somewhere in the range of a modern nuclear reactor.

Comment Re:Black holes contribute to entropy ? (Score 1) 304

by ppc_digger on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:54PM (#29661909) Attached to: Universe Has 100x More Entropy Than We Thought

Blackholes don't block.

Actually, they do if you get close enough.

That's one deadlock you're not getting out of!

Comment Re:We just need an alternative to X (Score 1) 360

by ppc_digger on Saturday September 05, 2009 @05:50PM (#29326667) Attached to: Kernel 2.6.31 To Speed Up Linux Desktop

Every other modern system does it (Quartz, GDI+), and X's early competitors did it (NeWS comes to mind).
Putting widgets in the client (or even in a client library, such as QT or GTK) is unnecessary overhead, and results in inconsistent environments (think QT apps in GNOME).

Comment Re:We just need an alternative to X (Score 1) 360

by ppc_digger on Saturday September 05, 2009 @03:22PM (#29325249) Attached to: Kernel 2.6.31 To Speed Up Linux Desktop

What about widgets not being part of the server?

Comment Re:Looks promising (Score 1) 241

by ppc_digger on Saturday August 01, 2009 @09:17AM (#28908135) Attached to: A Short History of Btrfs

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought runtime linking wasn't covered by the GPL. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to use bash in OpenSolaris, as its libc is CDDLd.

Comment Re:Good for both! (Score 3, Insightful) 213

by ppc_digger on Friday July 24, 2009 @06:54PM (#28814155) Attached to: The Battle Between Purists and Pragmatists

I think that pressure from Gnome and the fundamentalists helped make Qt change their license to the LGPL.

No, it didn't. The license was changed to LGPL because Trolltech's profits are pennies for Nokia and they figured they'd rather see more commercial development for Qt.

Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 127

by ppc_digger on Friday May 01, 2009 @10:32AM (#27786777) Attached to: Windows 7 Launch Date Leaked — 23 Oct. 2009

Because it wasn't announced by Microsoft. It was leaked by Acer's European vice president.

Comment Re:Windows does what without a clean install? (Score 1) 420

by ppc_digger on Thursday April 09, 2009 @04:17PM (#27523713) Attached to: Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install

Anyone with a Gentoo system (especially a broken one) wouldn't find using dpkg a deal breaker.

Comment Re:Windows does what without a clean install? (Score 2, Informative) 420

by ppc_digger on Thursday April 09, 2009 @04:14PM (#27523685) Attached to: Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install

Not without the original files from the install CD. I can't count the number of times I've installed a Gentoo or a Debian system from within another distribution (and that includes pre-releases, unstable branches and even releases for other architectures).

Comment Re:Lag Time? (Score 0, Redundant) 106

by ppc_digger on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @08:22PM (#26806563) Attached to: Vim 7.2 Released

The editors were using emacs so it took a while to publish.

Comment Re:This seems abrupt (Score 1) 856

by ppc_digger on Saturday January 31, 2009 @05:31PM (#26679927) Attached to: Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate

Whoosh!

There, I fixed it for you.

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