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Husband, Step-dad to 2 sons, and human to 2 dogs. Private (albeit not current) Pilot, writer (suffering from Creative ADD), and interested in learning coding, metalcasting, and glass blowing (someday...)
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A Slashdot Skewed View of the IntarWeb
Thursday May 08, @03:20PM
So over on woot they are having a "wootoff" today. I looked through some of the blog entries, particularly for a refurbed Acer tower. The system's an Athlon64 with a 1GB of RAM, 160GB, HD and comes with Vista. Aside from the normal crap in such threads, the majority call it a bad deal because Vista performs so horribly on only a Gig. Maybe I missed it, but there was a grand total of 1 (one) comment which mentioned Linux.
If it was the /. crowd, most of the on-topic comments would relate to which version of Linux as opposed to simply that Ubuntu would run great on it.
Just interesting how I had expected the rest of the web to reflect Slashdot's predilictions simply because that's what I read most;-)
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Clueless. (Score:1)
My parents run a AMD64/2Gig RAM/500Gig HD with Ubuntu. Works great... Actually most of the RAM is "wasted" because I've never seen it go beyond 256Meg RAM ;-) My server was an AMD64/2Gig RAM/30Gig HD, and it used (wait for it) 63Meg RAM... Also works great, but it's a different market, I know.
If you consider what I find in dumpsters [slashdot.org].
As a professional IT person, I hear so much disinformation about opensource, about Linux, etc.... I just learnt to shut up. I don't want to go into the real life discussio
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I realized very long ago (Score:2)
Whatever my opinion, the consensus is frequently the opposite.
FTW
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My brother got his degree in Mathematics when he was 22. His PhD that is. I was talking to him once about Master of Orion. There were like 5 different races you could play on 5 different levels of difficulty. So he made a chart and went through to beat the game as each race at each level. After telling me this he mentioned that although the game said it was difficult to win on the hardest level, he thought it had been pretty easy and was
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Actually, he's right. The original MOO had some pretty funny bugs in it on the highest difficulty levels where the computer would build these massive fleets late in the game and then run away from you when your fleet was a hundredth their size. I would watch these 100k ship fleets come in, easily capable of flattening my pathetic defense fleets, and the first action they would take was to retreat. I think there were some signed versus unsigned integer bugs in the combat routine when it evaluated its odds.
No surprise to me (Score:2)
Over in the forums on deviantART, there are plenty of Windows / Mac / Linux zealots floating around, but by and large they stay in their own areas and don't go trolling into 'enemy' territory. (I should add that the admins over there are visible and accountable for their actions)
-MT.