Comment: Re:Elvish... (Score 1) 475
If that was true then the majority of Disney movies would be public domain.
Comment: Re:RTFA (Score 1) 453
Years ago at an email company I wrote a module to retrieve email from Hotmail. I was able (with a coworker's help) to reverse engineer the cram-MD5 "backdoor" log-in that Outlook used. I do not remember ever running into a failed log-in check with that method.
Comment: Re: Atkins (Score 1) 233
I had a similar experience, except I was I only vegetarian for about 4 months. I gained an inch a month on my waist during that time. I took the weight off as fast as I put it on after I went back to eating lots of meat. Also I realized how much my energy level had decreased during that time. My blood pressure went back down and I just plain felt better.
Comment: Re:Then what file system should we all use? (Score 1) 459
Granted, you have to run FreeBSD or Solaris to access a ZFS pool locally.
I've been setting up servers using native ZFS on Linux for almost a year now. Previously I've used Nexenta (Debianized OpenSolaris) to get ZFS.
Comment: Re:State Of Mind (Score 1) 532
I dont think I've ever met someone with a windows phone.
I have a Windows phone. Windows sucked really bad however so I put Android on it. I'm sure I count in the statistics for Microsoft and against Android.
Comment: Re:Bring ZFS to linux! (Score 1) 155
It is on Linux: http://zfsonlinux.org/
I've been using Nexenta to get ZFS for about 5 years, however earlier this year I switched my new installs to Linux. ZFS on Linux has been working great for me and my clients. This is not to be confused with fuse ZFS.
Comment: Re:And? (Score 1) 134
My experience with Cyrix chips was they crashed every 30 minutes no matter what OS you put on them.
Comment: Energy requirements (Score 1) 170
It's a good thing that the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) stores more than a few zetabytes or we wouldn't be able to go swimming anymore.
Comment: Cookbook (Score 1) 375
When I was about 16 my mom found my Anarchist Cookbook. She proclaimed "Son, I'm so proud of you! You have a cookbook!". True story.
PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use 154
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from the fresh-bits dept.
donadony writes "Last Monday PC-BSD 8.0 was released. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop environment. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD much easier for desktop use. The 8.0 release includes support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64 and improvements in the USB subsystem. The PC-BSD team has also developed a friendly package manager system with a simple-to-use GUI tool (see the screenshots tour). For a full list of changes, refer to the changelog."