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Comment: Re:Win 201x Server will have start menu (Score 1) 536

by Cid Highwind (#43664251) Attached to: Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8

or will a server product have metro interface, that will be slow as crap on remote desktop on slow nets.

One color plus white for each tile, no shadows or alpha blending or even bevel effects anywhere... Metro would probably be faster than "classic" Win2k style on a slow connection.

Comment: Re:Price, multitasking, mouse support (Score 1) 564

by Cid Highwind (#43595095) Attached to: BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying

And netbooks shipped with an operating system that supports tiled or overlapping windows,

...and a tiny, cheap trackpad that made trying to manage multiple windows absolutely fucking maddening. Take off the rose-tinted glasses, there was a "culture of using an external mouse" with netbooks because you one to navigate beyond the login screen!

Comment: Re:3.9 includes (Score 1) 112

by Cid Highwind (#43590525) Attached to: Linux 3.9 Released

I've always been skeptical of ZFS on Linux because it's not in the kernel tree, but now that btrfs has RAID 5 and 6 emulation I'm considering moving my big file shares volume from from XFS on dmraid to btrfs raid6.

Either way, there are some good reasons for breaking the filesystem/block layer barrier...

Comment: Re:For those About to Whine! (Score 1) 215

by Cid Highwind (#43350703) Attached to: Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland

Windows doesn't even enter into it. "Client-server" traditionally meant that the client ran on one user's local machine, and the server ran on a big multi-user remote system. In X11 nomenclature every user sits in front of his own individual "server", its unarguably backwards from standard usage.

Comment: Re:Huh? (Score 4, Insightful) 128

by Cid Highwind (#43281329) Attached to: PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones

How does stopping making & managing your own satellites and paying someone else to do it create jobs?

Well, the data is freely redistributable now. Heck, anyone with a good antenna and some simple software can decode GOES images at home. A private satellite operator on the other hand, would have to employ hundreds, maybe thousands of sales people, lawyers, license compliance auditors, DRM programmers, etc. to secure their profits.

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