Comment Re:Yes we all know size is everything... (Score 1) 568
What is the puma going to do? Ask riddles and kill you if you're wrong? A classical predator would start of with nerds and handicapped people.
Comment Re:I still dont see the point (Score 1) 376
Debian is in effect raising BSD from the dead.
How do you think the number of kFreeBSD users compare to the number of people using otherBSD?
How do you envision this ratio will change over the years?
Comment Re:Cowboyneal option (Score 5, Funny) 310
cowboy nail
Comment Re:Privacy (Score 1) 1117
So, I shine my flashlight in your eyes. It's ok because you can buy sunglasses?
Only a moron would put up with needing a firewall to stop his school from spying on him.
Also, most people, morons or not, do not know what a firewall is.
But what is sadening is the mentality that lies behind such behavior. Not the annoyance of
defending any particular piece of freedom. The few people that are careful what they put up
with will be taken care of when all the others have gotten comfortable in the boiling water.
The man is turning up the heat I tell you.
Comment Privacy (Score 1) 1117
# We also have the ability to monitor any machine remotely...
You fucking what? Thats it, I hereby resign from society, good luck to you all
FreeBSD 6.4 Released 64
hmallett writes "FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, is now available. In addition to being hosted at many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."
The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279
Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."
GTA IV DLC Announced 49
Rockstar Games recently announced upcoming downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV, entitled The Lost and Damned. It's due out on February 17th, and it focuses on a member of a Liberty City biker gang, rather than Niko Bellic. Joystiq has some early screenshots. "In the original game, Niko crossed paths with The Lost several times. This time, Niko has only a bit part, [Rockstar's Dan Houser] says. 'The story is not directly impacted by decisions you took in the main game,' he says. But 'tons of details and mysteries from the main story get explained, so it will add a lot of color to the main story.'"
Submission + - Barcelona Bug More Serious Than Thought
An anonymous reader writes: The bug that's at issue in the shipping delays of AMD's new Barcelona and Phenom quad-core processors may be far more serious than anyone thought, according to InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe. He wrote a post on Friday where he guessed that the translation-lookaside buffer erratum which AMD said was at fault was actually the fairly minor erratum 122 in its current documentation, which has an easy workaround. Turns out the bug may actually be the far more serious, non-public erratum 298. The problem is that the BIOS level fix that's available results in a big performance penalty. Writes Wolfe's reader: " The patch, needed to avoid random crashes, results in [an approximately] 13% penalty to desktop apps and a huge penalty to virtualization. The penalty is so bad that no Tier 1 OEM will ship Barcelona servers until the B3 stepping in Q1." There is an OS fix with no performance hit, but the speculation is that OEMs don't want to be holding the bag for users who forget to implement it. Do you think AMD should do a recall, like Intel did for the infamous 1994 Pentium FDIV bug?
Submission + - C++ "the industrial-strength death trap"?
An anonymous reader writes: The C++ FQA Lite is a collection of frequently questioned answers about C++ that follows closely the structure of C++ FAQ. An example section on defective C++ covers major shortcomings in the language, and the author (who himself is extremely proficient in the most intricate details of C++) states: "I believe that for any new project, theres a much better language than C++." A damn good read while waiting for your zillion lines C++ project to compile.
Submission + - Nebraska State senator sues God (msn.com)
wanderingknight writes: State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he's trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody. Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terrorist threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20827350/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20827350/
Submission + - Real-time raytracing for PC games almost a reality (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: "Real-time raytracing has often been called the pinnacle for computer rendering for games but only recently has it been getting traction in the field. A German student, and now Intel employee, has been working on raytraced versions of the Quake 3 and Quake 4 game engines for years and is now using the power of Intel's development teams to push the technology further. With antialiasing implemented and anisotropic filtering close behind, they speculate that within two years the hardware will exist on the desktop to make "game quality" raytracing graphics a reality."
Submission + - Demystifying the process of porting C/C++ to Unix
An anonymous reader writes: Porting across two completely divergent systems, such ase Windows and UNIX, is never an easy task and, as such, it requires a lot of tweaking and patience. That said, with thoughtful planning the process can go very smoothly. The goal of this article us to demystify the process of porting a typical Visual C++ project in a Windows operating system to a g++ environment in Unix.
