Comment Re:Bicycle (Score 1) 460
Indeed. The Brooks B17 saddle is a timeless classic, as close to perfect ergonomics as anything I've ever known.
Comment Re:Depends on the Filesystem I suppose (Score 1) 357
Ordered data is the ext3 default. Did you mean journalled data?
Comment Re:The thing that has made great superhero movies. (Score 1) 640
Err, the Dark Knight *was* PG-13 (IMDB).
Comment Re:25,000 Watts (Score 2, Informative) 348
No, watts are correct. The thing that's special about this battery isn't the capacity, it's the rapid charge/discharge.
Comment Re:time to port gnome! (Score 5, Informative) 828
Qt Designer is part of the core package, and is excellent.
Comment Re:Color is hard to do (Score 3, Insightful) 398
Correct. And e-ink displays (like the Kindle) would be subtractive displays.
Comment Re:Oh please. (Score 1) 264
Ordinary ECC will correct any single-bit error in a 64 bit word, and detect all 2 bit and most other errors. Chipkill ECC (same RAM, fancier memory controller) spread the codes across multiple words and is stronger still.
Average soft error rates for DRAM are about 1 bit flip/gigabyte/month (sea level up to about 10x that in Denver), mostly due to cosmic rays.
Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista 689
Anonymous writes "By now a lot has been reported on the new features and improvements in Ubuntu 8.10; it also looks like the OS is outperforming Vista in early benchmarking (Geekbench, boot times, etc.) At what point does this start to make a difference in the market place?" (And though there are lot of ways to benchmark computers, Ubuntu 8.10 with Compiz Fusion is certainly prettier on my Eee than the Windows XP that it came with.)
Hikers May Have Found Fossett Items 219
An Anonymous reader writes "CNN is reporting 'A weathered sweat shirt, cash and a pilot license with Fossett's name were found Tuesday near Mammoth Lakes, police Chief Randy Schienle said.' The license did not have a photo. '"We're not certain that it belongs to Steve Fossett, but it certainly has his name on the ID," Schienle said.'"
