d3matt - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:move IT / MIS to tech school / apprenticeship. (Score 1) 463

by d3matt on Saturday November 26, @05:05PM (#38176588) Attached to: China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay

the theory is what you get at school. the hands on is what you get starting at your first job. you have to have both...

Comment: Re:If you're an end user (Score 1) 224

by d3matt on Wednesday November 09, @09:11PM (#38007984) Attached to: Solaris 11 Released

solaris is terrible for distributed compiling

Comment: Re:Nothing to see here (Score 2) 224

by d3matt on Wednesday November 09, @09:09PM (#38007970) Attached to: Solaris 11 Released

Linux won't even boot on sun4u machines :(

Hasn't been updated in awhile, but https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/SPARC I've also had gentoo and ubuntu running on ultra 5 workstations...

Comment: Re:descent 3 (Score 1) 210

by d3matt on Thursday August 04 2011, @09:54PM (#36993540) Attached to: <em>Doom 3</em> Source Code To Be Released This Year

that would be awesome... there hasn't been a good space shooter in years!

Comment: descent 3 (Score 1) 210

by d3matt on Thursday August 04 2011, @05:34PM (#36991758) Attached to: <em>Doom 3</em> Source Code To Be Released This Year

source code anyone?

Comment: missing option? (Score 1) 300

by d3matt on Saturday July 30 2011, @12:25PM (#36933770) Attached to: Who is Your Favorite Avenger?

oh wait... wasn't Uma Thurman the "Cowboy Neil" option?!?

Comment: Re:However, (Score 1) 626

by d3matt on Sunday July 24 2011, @04:31PM (#36865158) Attached to: For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution

We in Texas know better then to spell "existence of" as "existeance"

Comment: Re:Tomato (Score 1) 319

by d3matt on Monday May 02 2011, @01:56PM (#36003020) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage?

I had no problem getting the my Fios account hooked up to a separate router... of course, I don't use the TV service...

Comment: Re:It's a bit more complex than this article... (Score 1) 159

by d3matt on Wednesday March 09 2011, @01:11PM (#35432872) Attached to: Pocket Wars and Cores

I was reading that the ARM chips support Big and Little endian. Is this selected by the OS or by the firmware? Also does this make a difference for compiled software, such as a binary for a Linux application?

It depends on which ARM... Older armv4, you could load a BE or LE kernel (your userland would have to match the kernel)... For newer versions, you're mostly stuck with LE.

Comment: Re:whats the news here? (Score 1) 159

by d3matt on Wednesday March 09 2011, @10:25AM (#35430150) Attached to: Pocket Wars and Cores

Intel sold the cheap end of the IXP and IOP line to Marvell... The fancier stuff went to a company called Netronome.